Sporcle for Android

The Android App For Sporcle Provides New Realm Of Mentally Stimulating Diversions

Procrastination has never been so fun with new trivia app for Android Enabled Smartphones

SEATTLE – December 15, 2010 – Sporcle today released their first ever Android app for mobile and handheld devices using the Android mobile operating system.

With the Android app Sporcle users now have access to hundreds of challenging trivia games they can play anytime and anywhere. Be it sports, movies, television, music, or geography– Sporcle’s entertaining quizzes will engage trivia fans of all ages.

The Android app automatically delivers Sporcle’s latest brain-engaging quizzes to Android enabled devices every time the app launches.

Sporcle’s new Android app also enables people to share their favorite quizzes with friends. Using Facebook Connect, people can now sign into Sporcle through Facebook and post favorite quizzes on their Facebook wall.

Sporcle’s Android app is an extension of Sporcle.com, a social gaming web site that offers over 130,000 short trivia and educational games. To date, these games have been played over 400 million times. Over 95% of the games on Sporcle are user-generated, created by people who use the site’s tools to generate quizzes that show off their knowledge and expertise.

Sporcle is currently the #1 iPhone trivia app, ahead of apps from such trivia giants as Jeopardy!, Trivial Pursuit, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, and is one of the App Store’s top 100 paid apps overall. Sporcle released a new version of its addictive iPhone trivia app on May 25, 2010.

Sporcle’s new Android app is available now through the Android Market for the introductory price of $1.99.

About Sporcle:

Sporcle is a social gaming company that offers short trivia and educational games through the Sporcle.com web site and a mobile app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Sporcle was founded in 2007, has been profitable since its inception, and has never raised venture funding. Sporcle is based in Seattle and San Francisco.

For more information, contact:
Ali Aydar, Sporcle
Click HERE to download screenshots of the app.

Nominate Sporcle for the Crunchies

The nominating process for Techrunch's 'Crunchie Awards' have started, and if you're a big fan of Sporcle it would definitely help us out if you traveled on over to their site and nominated us for 'Best Time Sink ' and 'Best Bootstrapped Startup' (or anything else you feel like).

It'd mean a lot to us over here at Sporcle to be nominated for one of these awards, so make sure to vote daily to get us right to the top.

DonorsChoose.org

You may have noticed the DonorsChoose box on our homepage the last couple of weeks and wonder what it's about. DonorsChoose is a website that allows donors to give directly to a classroom project in order for teachers to purchase classroom supplies.

If you go to our donation page at DonorsChoose.org, you can see the project requests that we've included. You can either choose to give to any of our pre-selected projects, or donate an amount of money that will be given to the most urgent project.

Please let us know at our feedback page if you have any questions or concerns.

Sporcle College Rankings have arrived

You might have noticed a new feature that popped up on Sporcle last night. While you've had the ability to add your school info to your profile for some time, we've decided to incorporate that data into a wonderfully complicated BCS-style ranking system. Check out the top 25 for the week here.

If you haven't yet added your college to your profile, it's pretty easy. When you're logged in, simply click on Settings, find the word 'School', click 'Edit', search for your school name, then click Submit.

As per usual, if there are any features or changes you'd like to see, please let us know via our Feedback page.

Controversial Answers: Roy G. Biv Edition

In our continuing series of blog posts that we hope fosters discussion on a few of our more controversial quizzes, we're tackling a deceptively simple quiz that has generated a lot of discussion: The Colors of the Rainbow.

The point of issue is that many people learned the acronym Roy G. Biv (or the more dramatic Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain) to describe the color spectrum. As you may notice, these include the first letters of seven colors. This group of colors is exactly how Isaac Newton first described them. Newton wanted to align the color wheel with musical notes, the known solar system (which is edging closer back to 7 as the years go on) and the days of the week. While this is a pretty great idea for fans of the number seven, it's not a terribly accurate one, as modern research has proven the color indigo is almost impossible to distinguish from either blue or purple.

In our quiz, we accept either indigo or blue for one of the answers as well as both purple and violet for another, so we're hoping to at least give you credit if your description of the color is accurate. In the future just remember the Sporcle mnemonic device: Richard of York Grew Bulbous Vegetables, and things will work out just fine.

All that being said, we're open to suggestions here, if you want a Roy G. Biv quiz to relive your elementary school days, shoot us a comment and let us know why.

Making Sporcle Even Better

You may have noticed that we had a little downtime last Saturday night, but as you can now see we updated the look and feel of Sporcle. (Look at that shading!) We've also recently updated our Editor's Picks page to a much more robust version. You can now click through and see all of the editor's picks from each category sorted by date, rating or number of game plays. This feature actually came directly from a user suggestion, so if you have a great idea for Sporcle, or you want to let us know what you think of the new changes, make sure and contact us at our feedback page.

A Scary Sporcle Halloween

As you may have noticed, Sporcle had some problems on Halloween. You may have experienced some strange issues where your quiz results were displaying improperly, or a quiz you attempted to play was out of order or garbled in some way. We believe our Halloween haunting has been solved, but if you see any further issue with a game you've played or created, please contact us immediately using our Feedback page.

Regards,
Sporcle