About Trivia Mountain

What this is

Trivia Mountain is a daily quiz game. Every round is 15 multiple-choice questions arranged in ascending difficulty, worth progressively more as you climb — from 10 points at the bottom to 150 at the summit, for a perfect round of 500.

The twist is that wrong answers cost you. A miss subtracts exactly what a hit would have added, so guessing is never free. That one rule turns a straightforward quiz into a series of small decisions: is this worth answering, is it worth a skip, or is it time to bank what you have and walk away?

Why it exists

Most online trivia falls into one of two camps. Either it is padded out with ads and interstitials until the quiz itself is an afterthought, or it is a leaderboard grind that wants your email address before it will let you play a single question.

Trivia Mountain is an attempt at the simple version: open a page, answer 15 questions, find out how you did. There is no start screen and no account, no install, no timer and no newsletter — the first question is on screen the moment the page loads. Come back tomorrow and there is a new set waiting.

How the questions are made

A new set of 15 questions is generated and published automatically every day at approximately 04:00 UTC. Each set is written to a deliberate difficulty curve:

• Questions 1–5 should be gettable by most adults after a moment’s thought.
• Questions 6–8 need real general knowledge rather than a lucky guess.
• Questions 9–11 call for solid grounding in a particular subject, short of specialist expertise.
• Questions 12–14 are hard, and most players will be choosing between two plausible answers.
• Question 15 aims to be the “I should have known that” kind of hard, rather than pure obscurity.

Topics are spread across history, science, geography, sport, language, film, music, television, food and current events, with a hard cap on how many questions any single domain can contribute. Every set is also checked against the previous thirty days so the same answer does not reappear within a month, even reworded or asked from a different angle. All four options are written to be plausible, and question wording is filtered so it never gives the answer away.

To be transparent about the process: the questions are drafted with the help of a large language model, then filtered automatically against those rules before being published. We think the results are good, but this is not the same as line-by-line human fact-checking, and occasionally something slips through.

Accuracy and corrections

If you believe a question is factually wrong, ambiguous, or has more than one defensible answer, please tell us. Send the wording of the question and the date you played it to contact@triviamountain.com, or use the contact page. Reports like this are the main way the question set gets better, and they are genuinely welcome.

Who runs it

Trivia Mountain is an independently built and maintained site — not a company, not a network, and not a front for anything else. It is run by one person as a side project, which is why the game is deliberately small in scope and why replies to email are sometimes slower than they should be.

How the site is funded

The game is free and there is no paid tier. Running costs are covered by advertising displayed alongside the content. Adverts are supplied by third-party networks and are clearly distinguishable from the game itself; they never influence which questions appear or which answers are marked correct.

The privacy policy sets out exactly what data is and is not collected, including how advertising cookies work and how to opt out of personalised ads.

Start climbing

New to the game? The how to play page covers the full rules, the scoring table and a worked example of when to walk away. Otherwise, today’s 15 questions are waiting.