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October 2017 Recap – 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.

New Questions

Since the last monthly recap we added 449 new questions to the main Random Trivia Generator website. As of this post, we are sitting at 19,317 trivia questions.

I want to thank everyone who sent in questions.

New Quizzes and Rounds

A couple of rounds were published and I have a few more in the queue but I get lazy searching for images to use.

Stay tuned for even more questions next month.

Cars Trivia Round 2 – Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels! Matchbox! Toy car trivia!!!

OK, this is just a single round on toy cars, but it can easily become a bonus fun round that follows the lengthy car quiz from earlier this year…or be played in combination with any other round on this site.

  1. What color stripe did the first Hot Wheels cars had on their tires? – Red
  2. The most sought-after Hot Wheels car is based on which iconic 1960’s vehicle? – VW Bus, also referred to as VW Type 2
  3. What decade did Mattel introduce the use of rubber tires on some Hot Wheels models? – 1980s
  4. What were the original track “super chargers” modelled after? – Service stations
  5. To appeal to adult collectors, what series of Hot Wheels was created in the mid-1990s? – Treasure Hunt series
  6. What decade did Mattel acquire their largest Hot Wheels competitor, Matchbox? – 1990’s
  7. Which of the two main toy car brands, Hot Wheels and Matchbox, was created first? – Matchbox
  8. What unique aspect of its packaging was Matchbox named after? – Its match box-like packaging its first cars came in
  9. What did the creator of Hot Wheels had in common with the Barbie doll? – His wife created Barbie
  10. What was the color of the original racetracks you could buy for your brand new Hot Wheels toy? – Orange

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Sports Trivia Round 1

Hey sports enthusiasts! Enjoy the first of many RTG sports trivia rounds.

By popular demand, this is the first of many (I hope!) trivia rounds focused on sports! This one is made up of random questions, but I am working on a few rounds for specific sports. Enjoy!

  1. In rugby, what is the equivalent of a hockey face-off? – Scrum
  2. What sport is Tucker Dupree associated with? – Swimming
  3. The Oshawa Generals is a junior ice hockey team located in what country? – Canada
  4. How many successive Wimbledon titles did Bjorn Borg win? – 5
  5. Which years marked Bjorn Borg’s successive Wimbledon titles? – 1976 to 1980
  6. Who was known as the “Clown Prince” of basketball? – Meadowlark Lemon
  7. Which cricketer is known as “The Cat”? – Phil Tufnell
  8. What year was cricketer Phil Tufnell born? – 1966
  9. Who was the NBA’s most valuable player in 1976, 1977 and 1980? – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  10. Which Italian won the 1998 Tour de France bicycle race? – Marco Pantani

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Mobile Phones Trivia Round 1

Did you know that wireless telephony has been around for about 100 years now? Check what else you may not know about old mobile telephony with this trivia round.

I am on the market for a new cell phone so I thought it was the perfect time to do a round on mobile phones! For this first round, I dug deep…veeery deep into the history of mobile phones. I will get closer to the present day phones with subsequent rounds. Enjoy!

  1. Which country started testing wireless telephony for their military trains towards the end of World War I? – Germany
  2. What year did Bell Labs introduced a mobile service allowing customers to make calls from their automobiles? – 1946
  3. Which US company commercialized the Mobile Telephone Service standard in 1949? – AT&T
  4. The introduction of the Improved Mobile Telephone Service in 1965 eliminated the need for what component that was vital to many phone services at the time? – Operators
  5. What year was the first handheld mobile phone unveiled, kickstarting a communication revolution? – 1973
  6. What country was the first to deploy an automatic analogue cellular service to its customers in 1979? – Japan
  7. What was the first automatic analogue cellular service system commonly referred to as around the world? – 1G
  8. What year were consumers first able to buy a mobile phone, assuming they had a few thousand dollars to spare? – 1983
  9. Which company was responsible for introducing the first mobile phone and the first commercially available mobile phone? – Motorola
  10. What decade was the first text message sent through a commercially available mobile phone? – 1990s

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July 2017 Recap – Random Trivia Generator by the Numbers

Hello dear readers and fans of the Random Trivia Generator and welcome to another monthly update.

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.

New Questions

This month we added 235 new questions to the main Random Trivia Generator website. As of this post, we are sitting at 18,723 trivia questions.

I want to thank everyone who sent in questions. I haven’t processed them all, but this month I added more than 50 user-submited questions! There are about another 30 in the queue from this month, which I will get to over the next month.

New Quizzes and Rounds

I have been slacking off on this, but I did publish a quiz commemorating Canada’s 150th birthday and one for July 4th.

Stay tuned for even more questions next month.