Hello all!

Hope you all had a great Bank Holiday weekend…what did you all get up to?

Our colleague has returned safely and all in one piece from his recent 1 month trip to Mongolia for the Mongol Rally.  But please keep your eyes peeled for all the gossip, photos, blog entries from his trip which we will be posting over the next few days. There’s just too much!

FACTS OF THE WEEK

As always, you guys have been playing in your 1000’s and we’ve had some really good quizzes in of late. Will be expecting loads of X Factor and reality TV show ones too as the season has begun already!

Last week we had loads of plays on the following quizzes so here ya go…..

Fancy rocking out? Microphone in hand and doing the air guitar? Play ‘Do you know who these rockstars are?‘ by lukegough2000 who has had 262 plays.

For all you bookworms out there who we can find curled with a cuppa and a good read, play ‘How’s your book knowledge?‘ by kazzzzz79 who had 281 plays.

And Quiz of the week goes to LillyFlower2 who’s quiz ‘How well do you know your celebs?’ got 381 plays last week!

50 crowns coming your way LillyFlower2!

Our top player of the week goes to:

ltang who managed a whopping 132 played quizzes! 50 crowns are all yours…..

And as for you crazy lot, you’ve done well…. 27,767 quizzes have been played by you all! Glad to see you’re keeping busy

Remember…we’re everywhere! Find us on Facebook where you can keep up to date with all the Quizzes of the Day and Daily Hot Topic Quizzes AND follow us on Twitter for comps, announcements and loads more!!

Hi guys!

So can it really be true that yet another British Summer is over? Or are we all holding out for a little more sunshine?! Fingers crossed but I predict rain, rain and more rain over the next few weeks!

On a happier note, we’ve got some great news. You guys out there, ‘Mr and Mrs Know it all’s’  have managed to create just under 60,000 UGC questions since Triviala started! Thats LOADS! Give yourselves a pat on the back from us

If you’re a fan of our Facebook page (and if you’re not why not?! Do it NOW!) you will have noticed we have been advertising all our latest winners on our page… there have been so many lucky winners, it’s hard to keep up!

But now, when you win on Triviala, before you withdraw your prize you have the options to share your winnings with all your friends on Facebook and Twitter:

If that won’t make your mates jealous, I don’t know what will!

FACTS OF THE WEEK

Once again, loads of quizzes have been played over the last few days. But the champion UGC player this week goes to….

gandalf1516 who played a whopping 168 quizzes. Well done, 50 crowns coming your way today!

The top played quizzes this week is quite a mix of music, movies and georgraphy. Intrigued?

1ST PLACE: Ultimate Lead Singers by larsenb with 348 plays. 50 crowns on their way to you!

2ND PLACE: Twilight Saga Movies Quiz created by chazspiers had 297 plays this week.

3RD PLACE: What is my Capital? by leisss whose quiz got 276 plays.

CONGRATS guys, you’ve been working hard, adding more to your knowledge database and have racked up a HUGE …. 24,872 number of quizzes played this week!

Have a great weekend guys and get Tweeting, Facebooking and Quizzing!

Whilst we await the latest update from our team competing in the Mongol Rally, we’ve got lots more news, fun stats and facts to spoil you with!

We’ve got a FANTASTIC giveaway prize at the moment over on our Facebook page where you could be in with winning an unique, original Triviala t shirt. A huge amount of entries was seen in the last giveaway when the  lovely Johanna Sammut was lucky enough to win £50! So everyones in with a chance and with daily draws and Question of the Day winners, your chances are endless!

Check out the giveaway prize entry form here. A click of the mouse and you’ve entered!

If you haven’t already, please follow us on Twitter. On our Twitter page, we like to use it for all things possible. Be it letting you all know events, things to do and see at the weekend, congratulating our latest winners, sharing links to the fun and wacky and a way to answer any problems you might have with the site or any of our games.

So look out for our tweets tweeples!

Fun facts of the week:

Once again we’ve had a record number of quizzes played by you guys….in just a week you’ve played a whopping 23,610 quizzes! That’s HUGE!

The 3rd most popular quiz of the week goes to:

You DO see that everyday by Stubey who’s quiz has been played 335 times.

The Twilight Quiz, which never seems to leave the top 10, created by BabyRH was played 514 times

And staying at the TOP SPOT is gillcotswold’s quiz Are you Smarter than a 10 year old which was played 581 times!

Another 50 crowns coming you way Gilly!

Player of the week, playing 215 quizzes last week is:

zahid-ali-talpu… congrats 50 crowns are in your account!

Well done to all our winners, players and fans for staying quizzical! You can’t lose

So we’ve had our first update from our colleagues doing the Mongol Rally Race! Good to hear they’re all safe and sound and making good progress.

So check out their blog and some FANTASTIC pictures…jealous much?!

Day 1:

24-07-2010 to 26-07-2010- England to Czech Repubic

“After months of preparation team Mongol Madness sets off from London on the 2010 Mongol Rally! Getting an early start we leave London at 7am headed for Goodwood Circuit and the first thing we notice is that the ‘Check Engine’ has just turned on.

Our ambitious early morning departure pays off and we’re the first team to arrive at the Mongol Rally Launch Party! In fact we beat the marshalls there. Once the other rallyers finally arrived we had a chance to check out the ‘competition’.

What impressed were the 50 fire engines and ambulances planning to make the journey too providing rescue services to the citizens of Mongolia. What didn’t impress us were the number of people not adhering to the ’spirit of the rally’ rule and showing up in cars with 2.4L turbo diesels and 4×4’s.

Following our kick-off lap we depart Goodwood, in our fresh Suzuki Alto 1061 cc’s of raw power and fully decked out in all in the colours and sporting the logo of our sponsor Triviala. The next stop is up on the deck of the ferry leaving Dover. We snap some pics of the white cliffs and say goodbye to Great Britain, country number one sorted with many, many more to go.

We arrive at Dunkirk and head out through France into Belgium and due to some poor navigation work do a full extra lap of Brussels before finding our way out to Liege (which is spelled Luik on the local Flemish signs) and onwards towards Germany.

Pushing 2am we hit Cologne with the navigation team passed out in the passenger seats; a fitting end to Day 1.

Day 2:

After a long day of driving on Day 1 we allowed ourselves a leisurely drive over the Rhine, past Frankfurt and down into Bavaria, with Nurenberg being today’s destination.

Looking forward to pork knuckles and Paulaner we set out only to find everything in Germany is closed on Sundays. Breakfast for the second day in a row is eaten at the roadside. As we close in on Bavaria we discuss the famous Nurenberg Ring racetrack and decide that we should check out the Porsches and Ferraris hitting the circuit. So, before we hit the streets of the old town we decide to head out to the Nurenberg Ring. We receive some advice about it’s whereabouts and venture out to the approximate location, but something seems off. We are now at the steps of Hitler’s massive old parade grounds. The steps and buildings remain in place, unpreserved from their former condition . Grass and weeds grow over the steps as kids skateboard along the paths leading up to and in front of the old parade grounds.

Still in search of the racetrack we ask some locals if we’re in the right place… apparently we are but this still doesn’t look right. A campy German on roller blades comes up and after a short discussion we learn that the Nurenberg Ring we’re looking for isn’t actually in Nurenberg but about 300km away and more accurately it’s not even called the Nurenberg Ring, it’s the Nurberg Ring. Typical!

When asked what we’re doing in this little car with stickers all over it we explain to him the rally, the charity, the route… to this he responds “I’m zo proud of you. Zo proud. But you are crazy. But I’m proud of you. But you guys are crazy”.

On the way back we detour through Jacobsplatz and snap some pictures with the car and find a nice place to have our first meal of the trip not purchased from a petrol station.

Day 3:

Thanks to a relatively short drive today to the Czech Republic we finally we have some time to sort out some pressing issues. Our car stereo has been broken since day one and so we head off to sort out a replacement. A hundred euros and a massive treasure hunt later we once again have tunes delivered from a professionally installed stereo and we’re on the road. Breakfast consists of some much needed fresh fruit but once again is eaten on the road as we’re already a bit behind schedule.

The sky unleashes a torrent of rain down upon us as we say ‘chapeau’ to Nurenberg. We hit the Autobahn to find that not only is it raining outside but also INSIDE the car! Indeed our ‘custom’ roofrack which thus far has served us well has now turned on us and is providing the rain with enough of a gap to allow the weather to rain down us. We are getting soaked but cleverly devise a contraption to divert the water away from our heads and harmlessly to the floor.

Approaching Pilzen in the Czech Republic we get off the motorway and take the back roads in the direction of Klenova Castle and the Czech-Out rally meet-up.

Amongst the splendour of Klenova Castle we enjoy the complementary food and entertainment. The Czechs know how to throw a party and the festivities included fire spinners, live bands and a massive DJ tent.

The next few days will include some of our longest driving trips of the journey as we intend to reach the eastern border of Turkey by day number 8.

So watch this space for the next installment!

Hi guys. So it’s officially the start of the summer holidays (well that’s because the kids have broken up from school!) so what are all your plans?

Let’s hope our month bout of sunshine hasn’t come to an end…we’ve still got August!

As you are all aware, one of our Triviala colleagues is currently en route to Mongolia competing in the Mongol Rally. And it’s all for charity of course, Christina Noble Children’s Foundation to be exact. Triviala are our teams main sponsor so keep your eyes peeled for regular updates about the boys, the car, their location and generally how they are getting on on their trip of a lifetime!

So it’s been a while and we’ve had LOADS of quizzes being submitted. We can see you’re all still a fan of the Daily Hot Topic feature and Coin a Word on Facebook is fast becoming a top game with the number of users sky rocketing daily. So if you haven’t seen what all the fuss is about, get playing it now!

Fancy earning yourself an extra 100 crowns??

It’s simple. All you need to do is leave your Triviala username on our Facebook page, Coin a Word’s wall and on the wall for QuizWiz and you’ll get yourself loads of crowns. So get Facebooking!

Here are some summer stats for you guys:

We’ve had heaps of quizzes recently and it seems you guys are really getting into your ‘old school education’ and general knowledge so check this out!

3rd most played quiz of the week: Word Quiz (harder this time) by KeleeyMoz with 298 plays

2nd most played quiz of the week: Ultimate Lead Singers created by larsenb managed 312 plays

MOST played quiz of the week: Are you Smarter than a 10 year old? by gillycotwolds had a whopping 342 plays!

50 crowns coming your way Gilly!!

Our top UGC quiz player of this weekgoes to:

bookgranny1 who has played a HUGE 122 quizzes this week! Well done…

50 crowns are on their way to you bookgranny1!

And now for the big one, all you guys deserve a pat on the back as this week you have been excellent…playing a MASSIVE 22,432 quizzes!

Talk about being know it alls

Ok guys, that’s it for this week. Hope you all have a great weekend and fingers crossed it’s a hot one!

Hi there,

We are ‘MONGOL MADNESS’ and we’re soon to embark on a 20,000km journey from London to Mongolia in nothing more than a tiny 1 litre Suzuki Alto.

That’s right, this slightly ridiculous journey crossing a multitude of countries that most people haven’t heard of, let alone want to set foot in is all in the aid of charity!

Starting from London on the 24th July 2010 we plan to arrive in Ulaan Baatar on the 22nd August while raising money for a great charity called; Christina Noble Children’s Foundation Limited. (www.cncf.org)

3 guys, piloting 1000cc’s of raw power will cross 20 odd countries, the likes of which include Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Borat’s famous homeland, Kazakhstan. If that’s not enough there are 3 deserts and 5 mountain ranges trying to stop us from reaching the finish line in what most grannies would use to go to the shop and back!

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the team at Triviala for giving us a substantial contribution towards our trip and charity. It has really made our job easier by getting behind us and our charity. We hope to send through the few updates and photos along the way to share our experiences.

If you’d also like to support the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation please visit this site to donate. http://www.justgiving.com/Scott-O-Donnell

We hope all of you will keep popping back to follow our progress on what I’m sure will be a mishap fuelled adventure.

Below are a few pics of us getting the car ready for launch this Saturday.

Thanks,
Scott, Ben and Jason

Exciting news!

Triviala’s most popular game is now finally on available to play on the biggest social networking site Facebook. Play against all your friends, see who can make it to the top of the leader board and watch your scores soar sky high!

For all you quick thinkers, chatterboxes and those who have a way with words then this game is DEFINITELY for you!

We’ve got 2 great modes for you to play in AND they are both multiplayer. So if you fancy playing on your own or seeing who’s the Coin A Word champ amongst your friends, the choice is all yours.

Classic mode: make as many 3 lettered or more words as you can using the random letters provided. There’s bonuses to be had so keep a look out!

Coin Link mode: using the grid of random letters, try and link as many letters as possible to make words within the allotted time. Just remember the letter have to be touch in order for it to work. They can be in any direction so keep your eyes peeled and get creative!

Play it here now!

As you all know, we are no longer offering the £500 Jackpot prize but one of our very last winners has sent us in a cracking picture of herself and winning cheque…. so well done to Kathy Davey (snowdrop).

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and stay tuned for loads more surprises yet to come on Triviala!

On Thursday July 1st, Canada turned 143 years old and Triviala was there to celebrate!

Triviala is proud to have been a sponsor of this year’s Canada Day celebration. We spent the entire day recognizing Canada’s birthday at Trafalgar Square. In between the street hockey, sets of street performers, and bands, Canada Day host and Triviala’s very own Wade McElwain got to test the enormous crowds on their knowledge of Canada. Questions included every aspect of Canadian life, from geography to poutine, and participants ranged from young children to adults.

We were really happy to see how involved everyone was, and only regretted not being able to include everyone in our competitions!
Congratulations to the winners of our live versions of Faceoff, who won tickets to Cirque du Soleil, and to all the participants of our quick rounds of trivia who earned themselves a snazzy Canada Day tee shirt, sponsored by Triviala.

Stay tuned for more events sponsored by Triviala for a chance to win some fantastic prizes. And for those of you who could not join us at Trafalgar Square to celebrate all things Canada, here are some great pictures!

Triviala would like to congratulate both of our World Cup Daily football shirt winners, Yvonne14 and Cmoran!

Triviala has been really getting into the World Cup spirit. We have been celebrating this sacred month by giving away one free international jersey of the winner’s choice in a draw at the end of each week. To enter, all you have to do is play our challenging World Cup Daily Quiz and make sure that you are updated on the recent happenings of the tournament. So far, Triviala has given away two international jerseys to the winners of our Daily World Cup Quiz. If you haven’t been playing, or you just haven’t been lucky yet, no worries! Triviala will be doing three more draws in the coming weeks, so make sure you give yourself a chance to win, and keep entering the draw!

We are looking forward to our next draw, which will be at the end of the week, and can’t wait to congratulate the new winner.

So get playing and good luck, everyone!

Now on 19th June, while you lazy lot were playing on Triviala be it new game FaceOff or just racking up more and more knowledge from our whole heap of UGC quizzes, one of the Triviala team Jennifer Fourie took part in the Sumorun in London’s Battersea Park to raise money for the fantastic charity Gemin-i.

Yep, you heard right, the Sumorun! The basic premise was run around the park (whic works out about 5km/3 miles) in a fabulous inflatable sumo suit! Sounds fun right?! It happens annually and the park looks after the Japanese Peace Padgoda so a picturesque setting if there ever was one.

Triviala were proud sponsors of the event too and so here’s a little look at how our very own Jennifer got on…

Jennifer managed to run the course with much success, finishing only 9 minutes after the leader AND to top it all off she was part of setting a new world record for the most number of sumo runners….so even history was made!

We’d like to say a big congrats to Jennifer and to all who took part as it was for such a great cause. We were proud sponsors and hope we’ve encouraged you all to maybe take part in next years Sumorun. (And better yet, you get to keep the outfit!)