Nine categories of hand-written quiz questions

omequiz has nine categories: general knowledge, science, history, sports, entertainment, geography, technology, art and Türkenquiz. You pick up to three for a round, which is the mechanism that keeps a game fair — pair a category everyone knows with a specialist one, and the person who dominates sport is suddenly out of their depth on art.

Each category has its own page with sample questions and a description of how it plays. The point of nine rather than fifty is that every one is actually maintained: the questions are written and checked, not scraped from a public trivia dump where a third of the answers are wrong.

There are over 200 questions in the base pool, and each exists in a German and an English version — written out in both languages, not machine-translated from one. When you switch language the questions switch with you, so a German quiz night reads naturally in German rather than in translated-English.

The questions are tagged easy, medium or hard, and a round mixes all three on purpose. A set where everything is hard is discouraging; a set where everything is easy is dull. The spread is what keeps a group with different strengths in the game.

The wrong options in a question are where it is really made. Obvious distractors make a question a giveaway; good ones are things a reasonable person might believe. The best questions are the ones where the obvious answer is the trap — a newborn has more bones than an adult, not fewer.

That is a deliberate editorial line rather than an accident of volume, and it is the reason the pool is a few hundred careful questions instead of tens of thousands of filler ones.

The nine categories are the floor, not the ceiling. The quiz editor lets you write your own questions and publish them, so the catalogue grows with the community — a quiz about a course, a fandom or your friend group is often the most fun of all. Published quizzes are reviewed before they go public.