Open-trivia-database

Open database of questions and answers

License

Facts are fact, we can't license that. If you use this work, please cite this repository and add a link to it in your work.

Format

All files correspond to a category. The files are lists of JSON objects like:

{
  "category_id" : "CATEGORY NAME",
  "lang" : "en",
  "question" : "Question text",
  "answer" : 0,
  "tags":["CATEGORY_NAME", "TAG1", "TAGN"],
  "answers": [
    "answer 0",
    "answer 1",
    "answer n",
  ],
  "source" : "http://example.com"
}

Valid question

A question is considered "valid" when:

• It has more than 1 answers
• Have a "good" answer
• Have a link to the source (explanation of the answer)
• Have one or more tags

Category and tags

What between categories and tags ?

• A question can have multiple tags
• The category is the tag that best defines the question.

Tags and category should be an ENGLISH_SINGULAR_UPPERCASED_STRING to be used as index (for translations or whatever).

File organisation

• All "todo" folders contain non-finished files.
• "need_review" folders contains questions with some answers but need validation
• Validated questions are in the language root folder:

en:
  todo/            <- New questions
    history.json
  staging/         <- Incomplete questions with answers
    history.json
  history.json     <- Complete history questions

Participating:

If you want to participate to this project, you're welcome. Please, follow these simple guidlines:

• A question should be written on ONE line only (we have big files here...)
• New questions should be written at the end of the file.
• New questions should have a source.
• Take a good care about the text you write (typos, casing, etc... : no "Every Word In Uppercase" or other fancy styles)

Special thanks:

Thanks to 007craft who created the original database on this reddit thread.