Open Trivia Database#

Over 4,000 trivia questions across 24 categories including Science, History, Sports, Geography, Entertainment, and more. Filter by difficulty (easy, medium, hard) and question type (multiple choice or true/false).

Tools#

• get_questions — Fetch trivia questions with optional category, difficulty, and type filters
• list_categories — All 24 trivia categories with their IDs
• get_category_stats — Question counts by difficulty for a specific category

Great for#

• Building a trivia game or quiz app
• "Quiz me on world history" — filter by category and difficulty
• Team-building icebreakers with random trivia
• Educational apps that gamify learning

Example: 5 medium-difficulty science questions#

bash

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/trivia/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_questions","arguments":{"amount":5,"category":17,"difficulty":"medium"}}}'

Each question includes the question text, correct answer, incorrect answers, category, and difficulty.

Popular category IDs#

CategoryIDGeneral Knowledge9Science & Nature17History23Geography22Sports21Computers18

MCP config#

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-trivia": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/trivia/mcp"]
    }
  }
}