It’s not that you aren’t good at trivia, it’s that the trivia isn’t good for you. Check out this study published in NCBI. It shows that the people did better in trivia when they were asked questions they were actually interested in. Most trivia nights are all general knowledge, like school. When are we ever going to need to know when Napoleon wrote his first and only romance novel?!?! 1795, and it was titled ‘Clisson et Eugénie’, but that’s neither here nor there - I DIDN’T NEED TO KNOW THAT.

QE Trivia asks the questions you may not know all the answers to but at least you’ll be interested in them and you’ll be better off for it!

A multilevel structural equation model revealed that the positive relationship between pre-answer interest and memory was fully mediated by post-answer interest (i.e., interest in the questions’ answer). Confidence had both a direct and a mediated effect (over interest) on memory. These results provide a more fine-grained analysis of how interest can fuel learning.