Can the answers be wrong?

Occasionally. Questions are submitted by volunteers, so some may be outdated or ambiguous. The answer shown is only what the database records.

What do the difficulty levels mean?

Each question is labelled easy, medium or hard in the database. These are labels attached to the question, so a hard one can feel easier than an easy one.

Who runs the Open Trivia Database?

The site is created and maintained by Pixeltail Games LLC and offered for free, with questions contributed by its users.

Trivia Board Screensaver

The Trivia Board screensaver shows real multiple-choice questions from the community-built Open Trivia Database, key-less. The question sits on screen long enough to think about, then the answer is revealed. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.

How the Trivia Board screensaver works

The saver reads the Open Trivia Database directly in your browser — no key and no account.

Real multiple-choice questions from the community-built Open Trivia Database, key-less.

It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.

Colours can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.

Inside the Open Trivia Database

The Open Trivia Database is a free, user-contributed bank of quiz questions that anyone can browse or add to through its submission page. The site is created and maintained by Pixeltail Games LLC, and its content is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Questions span categories such as General Knowledge, Science & Nature, History, Geography, Sports, Mythology and several entertainment groups including Film, Books and Video Games.

Each question carries a category, a difficulty of easy, medium or hard, and a type, either multiple choice or true/false. Submitted questions have a status of pending, verified or rejected, and the database keeps counts for each. By default the service returns text with HTML character codes, so the saver has to decode symbols such as quotation marks and ampersands before display; the API also offers URL and Base64 encodings.

Because the entries are volunteer-written, a database like this can contain mistakes, ambiguous wording and questions whose answers have changed since they were written. Treat a reveal as the database’s answer, not a final authority. The pause before the answer appears is a design choice so the question can be considered.

A worked example

Real multiple-choice questions from the community-built Open Trivia Database, key-less. The question sits on screen long enough to think about, then the answer is revealed.

Settings & tips

Accent and Background recolour the display.
Data comes straight from the Open Trivia Database in your browser.
Press ESC to leave fullscreen.

Frequently asked questions

Is this real data?: Yes — it comes from the Open Trivia Database and is refreshed on a schedule.
Is a key needed?: No. This source is fully key-less.
Is it free?: Yes — free, no download, in your browser.
Can the answers be wrong?: Occasionally. Questions are submitted by volunteers, so some may be outdated or ambiguous. The answer shown is only what the database records.
What do the difficulty levels mean?: Each question is labelled easy, medium or hard in the database. These are labels attached to the question, so a hard one can feel easier than an easy one.
Who runs the Open Trivia Database?: The site is created and maintained by Pixeltail Games LLC and offered for free, with questions contributed by its users.

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