Looking for some good trivia games to recommend for your students, the collection below has you covered. Trivia games are particularly effective in stimulating learners thinking and conceptual skills. Students can use them to test their knowledge, expand it and, in the process. acquire new cognitive competencies. There are actually tons of trivia games out there to use on different devices but the ones we recommend the most for iPad are the following:
1- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
‘Find out if you're SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER with the all-new trivia game inspired by the hit TV show! School your classmates in some lightning-fast one-on-one competition and ace your way to the 5th Grade Final Exam. Will you make the grade or will you drop out of school?’
2- Knowledge Trainer
‘Try out Trivia: Knowledge Trainer, the quiz app for smart people! Warm up your brain with 20 lessons and 200 high-quality, challenging questions…Each lesson tests your wits with 10 questions from 10 different categories. The difficulty level depends on you: get an answer right, you'll move up a level. A wrong answer leads to an easier question. You'll want to move up to improve your Knowledge Quotient, which is recalculated after every round.’
3- Trivia Crack
‘Let our friendly spinner wheel, Willy, select which questions you’ll answer from six different categories. Be the first to get the six crowns to win, but watch out for the rematch… some of its features include: Hundreds of thousands of exciting questions, You can create your own questions in the Factory, Over 20 game languages, Chat with your opponents, Collectable card collection.’
4- Heads Up!
‘From naming celebrities, to singing, to silly accents -- guess the word on the card that’s on your head from your friends' clues before the timer runs out!Play one of the many exciting categories, or create a category all your own…’
5- Sporcle
‘Sporcle brings the wildly popular and addictive trivia quiz website Sporcle.com to your iPhone/iPod touch and iPad! No matter what your interest -- be it sports, movies, television, music, geography, and more – you can find hours of trivia entertainment. The app downloads new quizzes every day – just launch the app to test your skills against Sporcle’s latest brain-teasing challenges.’
6- JEOPARDY! HD - America's Favorite Quiz Game
‘Test your knowledge with thousands of clues collected from the show’s very own writers. Hear Johnny Gilbert’s famous Jeopardy! introduction, step up to the podium and get ready for categories ranging from sports and pop culture to travel, world history and much more. Customize your own avatar in-game and use the interactive touch screen to write your name on the podium. Play quick games on the go in single player mode or challenge your family and friends via Local Wi-Fi or Pass and Play mode.’
