How We Write and Fact-Check Trivia

Trivia is a category where wrong information spreads easily. A bad answer in a bar quiz starts an argument. A bad answer on a website gets copied into a hundred other quizzes. We would rather publish less and be right.

This page explains how we research, write and correct what we publish, so you can judge whether to trust it.

Who writes this

Everything in the Trivia Warehouse resource center is written or reviewed by people who work in trivia — writing questions, running games and supplying the hosts and venues who do. We are not a general content site that added a trivia section.

Where an article draws on our own operating experience, we say so directly and describe the situation rather than making a vague appeal to authority.

How we handle facts

Trivia answers

• Any factual claim used as a trivia answer is checked against a primary or well-established reference before publication.
• We avoid questions whose answer depends on a single unverified source.
• We avoid questions with defensible alternate answers. If a question can be argued, it is a bad question, not a clever one.
• Answers that change over time — records, populations, office holders, box office totals — are dated in the article.

Advice and business information

• Prices, product recommendations and equipment specifications are checked at time of writing and dated.
• We do not restate legal, tax or insurance requirements as if they apply everywhere. Rules vary by state, county and venue, and we say so.
• Nothing here is legal or financial advice. For contracts, licensing and insurance, talk to someone qualified in your jurisdiction.

Sources and citation

When an article relies on outside information, we link to the source. We prefer primary sources — the organization, the manufacturer, the agency, the published study — over aggregator sites that repackage other people's work.

Where we cannot verify a widely repeated claim, we either leave it out or state plainly that it is commonly repeated and unconfirmed.

Updates and corrections

• Articles show when they were published and when they were last reviewed.
• Guides that reference prices, products or seasonal information are reviewed on a recurring schedule.
• When we correct a factual error, we fix the article rather than quietly deleting it, and we note material corrections.

Products and commercial content

Trivia Warehouse sells trivia supplies, and our guides sometimes recommend our own products. We handle that directly:

• We tell you when a recommendation is our own product.
• We recommend products we would actually use for the job described, and we name alternatives where a different product is a better fit.
• We do not write articles whose only purpose is to sell something. If a guide is not useful to someone who buys nothing, it does not go up.

How we use AI

We use AI tools for research support, outlining and editing. We do not publish machine-generated articles as-is. A person with trivia experience is responsible for the accuracy, judgment and examples in every article, and every factual claim is verified independently of whatever tool helped draft it.

What we will not publish

• Questions or content that rely on stereotypes about a group of people.
• Trivia lifted from another company's question sets.
• Outdated pricing, discontinued products or defunct services presented as current.
• Padding. If a topic is answered in six hundred words, it gets six hundred words.

Questions about any of this: info@triviawarehouse.com.