Curio, the free general knowledge quiz

Curio is a free general knowledge quiz: 10 questions drawn from Wikipedia, 4 difficulty levels, world and national leaderboards, duels with friends and a music blind test.

A general knowledge quiz drawn from Wikipedia

Curio is a free general knowledge quiz for curious minds. Each game has 5 to 20 multiple-choice questions generated from articles of the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. You can start right away in Solo, with no account and no pressure, or create a free account to play Ranked, climb the leaderboard and collect cards.

There are ten topics: history, geography, science, nature, movies, sports, arts and literature, music, cars, manga and anime. You can pick a single one, mix several, go down to precise sub-topics such as “History: Middle Ages + Sport: Ligue 1”, or let chance decide with the Random topic. Curio is also available in French, with questions from the French Wikipedia.

Solo, Ranked, duels and multiplayer

Solo is for practice: you set the topics, the difficulty, the number of questions and their types. Ranked is the competitive mode, with an account: 10 questions of every type on the topic of your choice, a difficulty that follows your rank, and rank points (RP) to win or lose in every game, from Iron to Challenger.

Duels pit two players against each other live, with the same questions at the same time, in Roulette (4 rounds of 4 questions, topic drawn at random) or in Classic (you choose the settings). Multiplayer brings 2 to 12 players together in a room, joined with a 6-character code or a link: the fastest correct answer scores the most points.

Two other games sit alongside General knowledge. CurioGuesser asks you to pin places, battles or hometowns on a world map. The Blind test has you guess 30-second music clips provided by Deezer, which you can play by era, by music genre or by artist. They can also be played solo, in Ranked or with others.

Questions, difficulty and leaderboards

Curio picks Wikipedia articles and turns them into seven kinds of questions: mystery excerpt (the opening of an article with its title hidden), picture, year, timeline, creator, odd one out and country. To avoid topics nobody knows, it only keeps articles people actually read, measuring their daily views. The wrong answers are always of the same kind as the right one, Curio remembers what you have already seen so it does not ask you the same questions again, and every question links to its source article.

There are four difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. The higher the level, the fewer the clues and the tighter the timer, and points are multiplied by 1, 1.5, 2 or 3. A correct answer is worth 100 points, plus up to 50 bonus points for speed, and chaining correct answers triggers a streak bonus.

With a free account, the world leaderboard and, if you set your country, the national one rank players by RP, separately for General knowledge, Blind test and CurioGuesser. Every game also earns coins, XP for the season pass and, as soon as it has at least one correct answer, a booster of Wikipedia cards to collect, show off on your profile and trade on the market. Curio is free and funded by advertising, and you stay in control of ad personalisation.