One-Hit Wonders
A trivia night board by Trinko Trivia on Trinko Trivia, run 2 times. Free.
Songs the whole table knows by acts nobody remembers, for ages ten to seventy. Baby Shark to YMCA: the kids' earworms, the movie and advert songs, the dance crazes, which decade, and where the singers came from.
What you are getting
- 5 × 5, 25 questions, about 45 minutes of play, 3 all-play boosts, 1 wheel square, and a Final with wagers.
- Categories: Songs Every Kid Knows, Movies and Adverts, Do the Dance, Which Decade, Home Country.
- Squares worth 100, 200, 300, 400, 500.
- The board on the TV, a buzzer on every phone, scores that add themselves up. Nothing to install and no accounts for the players.
- Free: take it and run it tonight.
A taste of every category
The easiest square in each category, with its answer.
- Songs Every Kid Knows for 100: Baby Shark became the most-viewed video in YouTube history in 2020. Which children's brand, the one with the pink fox, made the version that holds the record. — Pinkfong
- Movies and Adverts for 100: Ray Parker Jr.'s 1984 number one is the theme to a film about four New Yorkers who trap spooks for a living. The film and the song share a name. Say it. — Ghostbusters
- Do the Dance for 100: Village People's 1978 disco hit, the one a wedding crowd spells out with its arms. — YMCA
- Which Decade for 100: Riptide, the ukulele song that made Vance Joy a name in America. Which decade. — 2010s
- Home Country for 100: Gangnam Style, 2012, with its invisible-horse dance. Which country is the singer from. — South Korea
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