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- ✓Over 11,000 questions available with one simple request
- ✓Customise your query, including category and difficulty
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Get quiz questions with a single request
Simply send a GET request to https://the-trivia-api.com/v2/questions to get started!
fetch('https://the-trivia-api.com/v2/questions')
[
{
"category": "history",
"id": "63989c195c9a75021f310480",
"correctAnswer": "Absolute Monarchy",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Democracy",
"Constitutional Monarchy",
"Parliamentary Democracy"
],
"question": {
"text": "What kind of government dominated most of Europe during the 17th century?"
},
"tags": [
"history",
"1600s",
"europe"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "medium",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "society_and_culture",
"id": "622a1c357cc59eab6f94fd14",
"correctAnswer": "Karl Marx",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Ludwig Wittgenstein",
"Socrates",
"Friedrich Nietzsche"
],
"question": {
"text": "Which philosopher famously said 'Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people'?"
},
"tags": [
"philosophy",
"quotes",
"society_and_culture"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "hard",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "film_and_tv",
"id": "622a1c347cc59eab6f94f8df",
"correctAnswer": "Dennis Hopper",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Kevin Spacey",
"James Stewart",
"Robert Mitchum"
],
"question": {
"text": "Which actor played the role of Frank Booth in Blue Velvet?"
},
"tags": [
"people",
"acting",
"film",
"film_and_tv"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "hard",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "arts_and_literature",
"id": "63afff982d1dcedfbb654568",
"correctAnswer": "The Tempest",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Othello",
"A Midsummer Night's Dream",
"Romeo and Juliet"
],
"question": {
"text": "In which of Shakespeare's plays does the character 'Prospero' appear?"
},
"tags": [
"arts_and_literature",
"shakespeare",
"theater",
"fictitious_characters"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "hard",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "music",
"id": "622a1c387cc59eab6f950b46",
"correctAnswer": "The Velvet Underground",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Alice in Chains",
"Marilyn Manson",
"Fall Out Boy"
],
"question": {
"text": "Which band includes 'Nico'?"
},
"tags": [
"music"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "hard",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "food_and_drink",
"id": "622a1c367cc59eab6f9502dc",
"correctAnswer": "Gin ",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Rum",
"Vodka",
"Avocaat"
],
"question": {
"text": "The Term 'Dutch Courage' Originally Came From The Consumption Of Which Drinkt?"
},
"tags": [
"food_and_drink"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "medium",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "history",
"id": "639ae2bb929b90846f2fc8b1",
"correctAnswer": "Harald Hardrada",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Ragnar Lothbrok",
"Ivar the Boneless",
"Sweyn Forkbeard"
],
"question": {
"text": "What is the name of the legendary Viking warrior who fought in the Battle of Stamford Bridge?"
},
"tags": [
"history",
"vikings",
"uk"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "medium",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "society_and_culture",
"id": "622a1c3b7cc59eab6f951712",
"correctAnswer": "Pantomime",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Colosseum",
"Theatrical",
"Cabaret"
],
"question": {
"text": "Which word comes from a Greek word meaning 'imitator of all'?"
},
"tags": [
"society_and_culture",
"words",
"language"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "hard",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "society_and_culture",
"id": "622a1c3a7cc59eab6f9511b1",
"correctAnswer": "Eris",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"Razr",
"Mercury",
"Zeus"
],
"question": {
"text": "Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Discordia?"
},
"tags": [
"ancient_greece",
"mythology",
"society_and_culture"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "hard",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
},
{
"category": "science",
"id": "622a1c377cc59eab6f95047a",
"correctAnswer": "heat",
"incorrectAnswers": [
"the future",
"the future",
"a neologism for the Pilates method, a system of physical exercise"
],
"question": {
"text": "What is Thermology the study of?"
},
"tags": [
"science"
],
"type": "text_choice",
"difficulty": "easy",
"regions": [],
"isNiche": false
}
]
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FAQs
What is The Trivia API?
The Trivia API is an API that provides multiple choice quiz questions across a range of categories. It is designed to let developers build quiz apps without needing to manage a large database of questions. For paying subscribers there is also additional functionality:
- Create sessions so that users don't receive duplicate questions
- Image questions
- Translate all questions into other languages, including French, Hindi, Spanish, Dutch & Turkish.
- Create quizzes so that you can give the same questions to different users.
The API is under active development; new questions and features are being added all the time!
How do I get questions from the API?
To get started, simply send a GET request to https://the-trivia-api.com/v2/questions. You can also filter the questions by a number of parameters. For full information see our documentation.
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The API and all data returned from it are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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This means that the API and the questions it returns are free for noncommercial use. If you have somewhere suitable in your app, then please credit the API somewhere discreet - we love having our hard work shared!
If you would like to use the API commercially or would like to use some of the API's advanced features, this is offered as a paid subscription.
Where do the questions come from?
The questions come from a range of sources:
- User submissions
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- Large Language Models backed by ground truth
- Scripts to scrape and build questions from information on public websites.
All questions are reviewed before being made available through the API.