Catfishing.net: a daily trivia game that has nothing to do with that other thing

https://catfishing.net/

This one has become a favorite of mine. It's based on Wikipedia articles -- you're given a list of categories, from which you have to guess the article title. For example, you might be given American Presidents, founding father, American slaverholder, and Virginian, and the answer would be George Washington.

They range in difficulty and getting a question right where < 10% of people answered correctly is immensely gratifying. (This game already has paid dividends in other trivia contests for me, too, and I have greater retention of the facts I learn about than something like maptap.gg.)

I learned about this game a while ago but forgot about it for a while and coincidentally just started playing it again a couple of days ago. It's pretty fun. Might need to add it to My Daily Games (currently: Wordle, Connections, Cinematrix, MapTap.gg).

Got 7/10. Happy with that considering the ones I got wrong were largely VERY American things I wouldn't have guessed

I play this every day, I enjoy it though you feel very stupid when you miss one that you actually know

How often is it about American Things?

IME it isn't really though with user submissions involved things can shift. When I started playing I assumed it was UK-based, though I don't think that anymore.

It is anglo/euro/white/western-centric to some extent, likely mirroring or maybe bettering English-lang wikipedia's own content biases, but I'm largely okay with that since I learned from playing this for a while that I don't know some super obvious stuff about other parts of the world.

My personal complaints are that there is way too much videogame content and for a while there was too much internet culture/memes though that seems to have lessened a bit.

this game also made me consider posting "the names of historical ships" on the things you don't care about thread

Xp yes there do seem to be a high frequency of video game / animated film / Internet culture related questions in there, which is great for me but maybe not so much for others.

This is all great training for the pub quiz or when I one day get invited on some sort of Uni Challenge Amateur Edition

True, it's "geek culture" in general (plus STEM, though I can't complain about math and science questions...except that often they're the ones with like only 4 categories as clues). I just only bristle at it when it's things I'm not very geeky about lol. I did get the internet culture one correct today.

Having played a decent amount in the archives, I find the list of answers that you were among the best at pretty revealing. Mine are almost all from the humanities, so now it's interesting to see which humanities topics have crossed over into the average catfishing player's world.

There's also a young millennial/ older gen z feeling to it overall I think, which is interesting in abstract but annoying when I don't know anything about early 00s cartoons or w/e

sorry for barrage of posts. I've been playing this for months and have more thoughts than I realized!

A very cool aspect to this is clicking through to the article. For a while the #1 most clicked-through one was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing, which I was impressed by as very very few Americans know about that and informing people is a genuine public service.

yeah my archive best answers were mostly literature-based too (though erasing cookies wiped out my archives and now my best answers are nas and the neptunes lol). I have no clue on most of the video game questions, which I can see aren't a problem for most people playing this.