Guerns, Guerneyans or Guerners? HQ Trivia features Guernsey

Thursday 02 August 2018

A trending quiz app, which pits tens or even hundreds of thousands of people against each other in a trivial pursuit style quiz every day, featured a question about a potential nickname for islanders earlier today.

HQ Trivia has taken the app world by storm in recent months, as a free quiz app that runs live 12 question quizzes twice a day where the most intelligent entrants have the opportunity to win a cut of a money prize pool.

During today's 15:00 quiz, it asked: "People from the Channel Island of Guernsey are sometimes known as what? Guerns, Guerneyans, or Guerners?"

The question was featured as a "savage question", and saw more than 10,000 players attempt to answer it, who had already managed to get through the first handful of questions. But still only around 3,000 got the island themed question right. 

While HQ Trivia's app is free to download and its quizzes are free to enter, you can only get a chance of winning the money if you get every question right with no mistakes, and it is notoriously difficult with only 10 seconds on each round.

Normally players who do make it through, however, share a cut of between  £100 and £10,000 with all of the other winners, but the company has also put on special events, for example to mark the royal wedding earlier this year it held a special quiz with royal-centric questions, and a much larger prize pool.

Operating as a live quiz, with a presenter, it has also featured a number of celebrity guest hosts to accompany these events, featuring a quiz in the USA with Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson and a $300,000 prize.