That means you can read them aloud, paste them into a group chat, or drop them into a quiz of your own without reformatting anything.
Each category runs roughly easy to hard. Take the first three per colour for a family game after lunch; take the last three for people who arrive with a pen and a grudge.
The final two sections deal with the practical bit — how to actually play the wedge format over a call or in a Discord server when nobody owns the board.
Blue wedge: Geography
Answers in brackets, ordered easy to hard. Question one is the safety net: it sounds impossible and isn't.
- Which two countries are separated by the Strait of Gibraltar? (Spain and Morocco)
- Which African country is entirely surrounded by South Africa? (Lesotho)
- Lake Titicaca sits on the border of which two countries? (Peru and Bolivia)
- Which country has the longest coastline in the world? (Canada)
- Which is the only sea with no coastline? (the Sargasso Sea)
- Ankara is the capital of which country? (Turkey)
- Which Australian city is the nation's capital? (Canberra)
- Which country is crossed by both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn? (Brazil)
The last three catch people out because everyone assumes they already know them.
Pink wedge: Entertainment
Nothing here is from the last five minutes. The pink wedge has always mixed decades, and a set that's all recent releases just quizzes whoever watches the most television.
- What is Homer Simpson's middle name? (Jay)
- Which Fleetwood Mac album was released in 1977? (Rumours)
- Which film won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture? (Wings)
- Which sitcom was set in the Boston bar Cheers? (Cheers)
- Who played Michael Corleone in The Godfather? (Al Pacino)
- Which instrument did Ringo Starr play in the Beatles? (drums)
- Which Hitchcock film features the Bates Motel? (Psycho)
- Who directed Jaws? (Steven Spielberg)
Avoid anything with a moving answer — "highest-grossing film of all time" dates within months and produces an argument, not a question.
Entertainment is also where house rules matter most. Agree before question one whether a surname alone counts.
Yellow wedge: History
- Which English king had six wives? (Henry VIII)
- In which year did the Berlin Wall come down? (1989)
- Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? (Marie Curie)
- Which two countries fought the Hundred Years' War? (England and France)
- During whose Egyptian campaign was the Rosetta Stone found? (Napoleon's)
- Which treaty ended the First World War? (the Treaty of Versailles)
- Which city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire? (Constantinople)
- Roughly how long ago was the Great Pyramid of Giza built? (about four and a half thousand years — accept anything close)
That last one is deliberate. Dates for ancient events are ranges, and a good quizmaster says "roughly" rather than pretending the card is gospel.
Keep your hard questions about consequences rather than trivia for its own sake: which treaty ended which war beats which minor noble witnessed the signing.
Brown wedge: Arts & Literature
Brown is the wedge people get stuck on, so the first few here are winnable by anyone who went to school.
- Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? (William Shakespeare)
- Which novel opens "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"? (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- Who created the detective Hercule Poirot? (Agatha Christie)
- Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? (Michelangelo)
- Who wrote Things Fall Apart? (Chinua Achebe)
- Who wrote the play A Doll's House? (Henrik Ibsen)
- Who painted The Garden of Earthly Delights? (Hieronymus Bosch)
- Which Russian novelist wrote Crime and Punishment? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
First lines work brilliantly read aloud: the room recognises one a beat before anyone can name the book.
If your group is more visual than bookish, swap a painting question for a building — which city, which architect.
Green wedge: Science & Nature
- What is the collective noun for a group of crows? (a murder)
- Which is the largest organ of the human body? (the skin)
- Which blood type is the universal donor? (O negative)
- What is the only mammal capable of true flight? (the bat)
- Which gas do plants take in for photosynthesis? (carbon dioxide)
- Which planet is closest to the Sun? (Mercury)
- What is the chemical symbol for tungsten? (W)
- Which element has the atomic number 1? (hydrogen)
Skip anything that keeps changing — moons of Saturn, tallest building, fastest animal — and stick to settled facts.
Animal and body questions land better with mixed ages than physics does, which is why the chemistry sits at the end. And every green round wants one "oh, of course" answer: the bat question is that one.
Orange wedge: Sports & Leisure
Orange isn't just football. It covers games, hobbies and pastimes too, which is what keeps the non-sporty player in the room.
- How many players are on a netball team? (seven)
- How many squares are there on a chessboard? (64)
- How many tiles does each player start with in Scrabble? (seven)
- What surface is Wimbledon played on? (grass)
- How many points is the black ball worth in snooker? (seven)
- Which country hosted the first FIFA World Cup? (Uruguay)
- What is the highest possible three-dart checkout in darts? (170)
- In which sport would you perform a Fosbury flop? (high jump)
Sport questions age fast. Keep records and current champions out of your set entirely, or check them the morning of the quiz.
How to play the wedge format online
You don't need the board. You need six categories and a way to decide who answers what.
The simplest version. Six rounds, one per colour, everyone answers every question. Get a question right and you earn that wedge; first player holding all six wins. A video call, this page and a pen will run it.
Instead of dice. Use a random number generator for one to six, or let each player pick their own category — with the rule that you can't pick a colour you already hold. Choosing is quicker and cuts the dead turns that make the board game drag.
For the "answer right, go again" feel, finish in sudden death: one question at a time, wrong answer and you're out.
If you'd rather not read aloud all night, a live platform handles scoring. On Trivialism you pick from around 90 topics, choose Classic, Speed or Sudden Death, and share a room code — guests join in a browser, no account, no download. Discord servers can run it through the bot, or as an Activity in a voice channel so everyone sees the same question while talking over each other.
Scoring, difficulty and settling arguments
Settle three things before question one: are you marking spelling, does a surname alone count, and is the host's ruling final? Write them down. It stops the third-round row.
Pitch each colour as three easy, three medium, two hard. Mixed groups collapse when every question is aimed at the person who reads Wikipedia for pleasure.
Half points for a near miss — right war, wrong year — keeps quieter players in it, and beats flat right-or-wrong.
Six questions per category is plenty for pairs. A full six-wedge race for four wants 40 to 50 in reserve.
For practice between quiz nights, Trivialism publishes a themed Quiz of the Day with a leaderboard, streaks and an archive — and you can host a free live quiz when everyone's back round the table.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use the questions from my own Trivial Pursuit set in an online quiz?
For a private game with friends, yes — reading cards down a video call is no different from reading them across a table. Keep it there, though. Card text is somebody's copyrighted work, so don't paste it into a published quiz pack, a public stream or a blog post. If your quiz is going out to strangers, write your own questions or use a bank that's licensed for it.
How many questions do I need for a full game of wedge-style trivia?
Six per colour — 36 in total — will see two players through a wedge race comfortably. Four players chasing all six wedges burn through questions much faster, so keep 40 to 50 in reserve across the six subjects. Add two or three spares per category as tie-breakers, and always over-prepare the two subjects your group is strongest in: those rounds end quickest.
Which edition do the six wedge colours come from?
This set isn't pinned to a particular edition — it uses the six-subject line-up that most people picture when they think of the wedges: Geography, Entertainment, History, Art and Literature, Science and Nature, and Sport and leisure (Apps on Google Play). Colour-to-subject pairings and the exact wording of category names vary between printings, so if your box says something slightly different, go with your box.
How do you handle dice rolls and board movement over a video call?
Skip the board entirely. Movement exists to decide which category you get, so decide it directly: use a random number generator set to one to six, or let each player choose their own colour with the rule that you can't pick a wedge you already hold. Choosing is faster and removes the dead turns. If you like the ceremony, roll a real die on camera.
What do you do when two players shout the answer at the same time?
Agree the rule before question one and let the host's call be final — that's the whole fix. The cleanest version is to stop shouting altogether: have players type answers into the chat and let the timestamps decide, or nominate one speaker per team. Playing on a platform sidesteps it, since everyone answers privately on their own screen and Speed mode settles the order for you.