Quizooly: original quizzes, with the story behind each one

Quizooly is a quiz site that writes things down. Under every quiz there is a piece of writing explaining where the idea came from and what the research, the history or the folklore behind it really says. Some of that is cheerful trivia. Some of it corrects the quiz itself, which is the part we enjoy most.

The quizzes sit in six areas. Personality covers traits and archetypes, and the gap between a validated inventory and a game. Love handles crushes, friendship and the research on how people actually pair up. Brain holds the puzzles, the memory tests and the logic traps. Pop culture looks at music, film, fandom and the way trends get named after the fact. Gaming covers design, history and player habits. Fun is where the novelty quizzes live.

None of it measures anything. These are not psychometric instruments, they cannot diagnose, and when a title says ninety-nine per cent of people fail, that is fairground barking rather than a statistic. What they are good for is a couple of minutes of thinking about yourself, a disagreement with a friend about who got the better answer, and picking up something odd and true on the way past. The longer pieces on the blog go deeper into the same territory.