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Trivia

Quiz-bowl archives, playable trivia, and useless-but-pleasing knowledge.

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

A home for the quiz-bowl projects and trivia rabbit holes that don't fit anywhere else. Archives of shows I've followed, games I've built, and every tournament I've played — win, loss, or bad-beat.

Projects

Fan page · Portland

High Five Academic Challenge

Sixteen years of history from Portland's long-running high school quiz show, in one place.

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Playable · Quiz bowl

Kick Sean's butt at trivia

A quick browser round to see if you can outrun the clue. Buzz early if you're feeling it, wait if you're not.

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Personal archive

Sean's trivia career

Every tournament, every finish, every honest bad-beat — a running log of quiz-bowl outings from high school to today.

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In progress

Game · Quiz bowl

Trivia Quiz-Bowl Game

A modernized, mobile-friendly successor to the old AwardSpace tossup game — CSV-editable question bank, tolerant answer matching, typewriter clue reveal, 20-second buzzer.

In the works
Dataset · Quiz bowl

NAQT datasets & study tracker

Collegiate quiz-bowl participation cleaned into 529 canonical institutions, an ICT-only championship view, and a distribution-driven study tracker with browser-saved progress.

In the works

A short list of the trivia sites, quiz-show archives, and reference works I still find myself opening in 2026 — plus a few that are gone, preserved here in archived form.

Quiz bowl & academic

Question databases & practice

Stats & data tools

Game shows & archives

Reference works

Defunct, but worth remembering