December 2019 Recap – The Random Trivia Generator by the Numbers

Hello dear readers and fans of the Random Trivia Generator and welcome to another monthly update. The purpose of these posts is to provide a peek behind the curtain and all the action that takes place to bring the tens to thousands of trivia questions to users. 

First off, we have not done one of these in about a year so many apologies. Personal lives have been busy with our daytime jobs, family, kids, learning new things, resting, and making small tweaks behind the curtain.

New Questions

Since the last monthly recap in November I added 208 new questions to the main Random Trivia Generator website. As of this post, the site is sitting at 20,408 trivia questions. Not that many in a year but the vast majority of our time was taken up by addressing various technical issues and making small tweaks to improve usability…all boring things that cannot be seen but are necessary to maintain the site and the database.

I want to thank everyone who sent in questions and corrections.

New Developments

We are still experimenting with the old site (Version 1.0) to see what works and slowly rolling out improvements to the current site (Version 2.0). Right now, you can dispute science questions directly by clicking on the actual question itself. A link appears at the bottom which takes you to a form where you can tell us why the question, or answer, could be incorrect. The form logs the question ID so there is no need to open your e-mail application, send us screenshots, or remember the exact question. Just let us know what could be wrong and we will fix it.

Stay tuned for even more questions next month.

New Functionality – Reporting Errors

We rolled out a new feature! You can now report errors by selecting that option through the main menu. This works on both mobile and desktop versions of the site. Once you select the option, please enter the question details and what you believe is incorrect about the question, or the answer. For bonus points, please include a screenshot to make sorting through over 20,000 questions a bit easier.

Improved reporting will be rolled out in the future.

Thanks and enjoy the site!

Canadian Thanksgiving 2019

A short trivia round on Canadian Thanksgiving. A few easy and a few hard questions to stump the family with.

1. What year marked the first annual celebration of Thanksgiving?

1879

2. When in October is Thanksgiving celebrated?

Second Monday

3. Which sports league holds games each Thanksgiving?

Canadian Football League

4. Which holidays do the United States observe on the same day as Thanksgiving?

Columbus Day and American Indigenous People’s Day

5. In which provinces is Thanksgiving not an official statutory holiday?

Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

6. Which former Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers hockey player celebrates his birthday on October 14?

Sylvain Lefebvre

7. What is Thanksgiving better known as in Quebec?

Action de grâce

8. What province often serves Jiggs’ Dinner instead of turkey?

Newfoundland

9. In 2000, Thanksgiving coincided with which safety-related week-long event?

Fire Prevention Week

10. On what day in 1957 did Queen Elizabeth II open the 23rd Canadian Parliament, making it the only parliament formally opened by the Queen of Canada?

October 14

Links Fixed

See the updates made to the Old Random Trivia Generator.

To those who still rely on the old Random Trivia Generator interface – links, tags and a few minor issues have been fixed. There were a number of deprecated extensions and functions that were finally updated and pages should work once again.

Tags are now available again, but only some questions are tagged. More are slowly being tagged.