Kwanzoo

You could win one of several prizes, for our weekly and monthly (coming soon) contest winners. Rank yourself against others on the site, and see how you do. And soon we will also allow you to trade your points for merchandise give-aways.

Each Kwanzoo trivia channel brings together content around a specific area, such as movies & TV, or video games. Each channel has it's own community but you can have a presence on all the channels that interest you. You get ranked in the channel against fellow fans who share your interest for that area.

The leader board shows a snapshot view of the Top 100 Players in a Kwanzoo trivia channel. You can click on "Track Me" and see the 9 people around you along with your rank. If you click on "Friends" on the leader board, you will see how you rank against all of your friends.

Yes, there is a separate leader board for each trivia channel. If you are a movie fan, we doubt that you would want to rank yourself against someone who is a video game fan. By keeping rankings and leader board separate for each channel, Kwanzoo brings together fellow fans and enthusiasts in any area.

The main leader board in a trivia channel features the Top 100 Players. Select "All time" to see our Players who have scored the most in the channel since the channel went live. Select "This week" to see who's leading this week. The "Friends" tab shows how you rank against your friends. Regardless of your rank, click on "Track Me" to see the 9 people around you, along with your rank.

Absolutely! Switch your leader board selection to "This week" and see if you can be the top Player on our Weekly leader board. Now if you are die-hard fan, and have more time to spend, keep racking up points. And good luck making it to our "All time" Top 100 leader board!

Yes, just click on the "Track Me" link to find out your own rank, and that of the 9 Players around you.

Yes, just click on "Friends" on the leader board to see how you rank against your friends.

Click on a Player on the Leader board and you can access and click on an "Add to friends" link to add this Player as a friend. Make sure you have filled out the "About me" section of your profile, as well as your "Favorites". Anyone you want to friend you will want to know more about you before they do so.

If you know the user name, first name or last name of your friend, you can click on the "Friends" tab up on top and search for your friend. Filling out First and Last Name to your profile is optional. However, we would suggest you fill them out so it's easier for your friends to find you.

Would you like to meet and play against other die-hard fans who share your specific interests in movies, TV shows, video games and other areas? We make than really easy for you. You get to choose who you would accept as a friend. You can also remove someone as a friend anytime. We do not disclose your email address to anyone. We will soon have ways for you to message your friends on the site. You can also see which of your friends is online anytime.

Earn Player points by playing on the site. Contributor points (coming soon) are awarded for submitting content (also coming soon), referring new users to Kwanzoo, voting on questions by other Authors.

Play more questions on the site, by selecting the correct answer. Rapid-fire mode (with a 30 second time limit) will give you more points per question than the Lounge mode where you can take all the time you want to play.

Submit more content, refer more new Players (friends), or vote (with a thumbs up or down) on more questions as you play them on the site. We are always thinking of more ways you can contribute to growing our Kwanzoo community. We would welcome your suggestions via our feedback form here.

Topics are keywords that help classify and categorize a particular question. As you browse or search for a topic, we help you choose the next set of questions you want to play. e.g. you might want to play trivia on "Harry Potter" or maybe you're in the mood for some "Horror" movie trivia. Both "Harry Potter" and "Horror" are topics that you can search for and click to start playing.

Yes, we think of tags and topics as being the same. They both describe keywords on which a user can search or browse, and find trivia questions to play. When we open up the site to let you submit content, you will be able to "tag" the content so it can easily be searched and discovered by Players in many different ways. The site tracks the number of available questions for any topic. When a Player moves his/her "mouse" over a topic, the site displays the number of unplayed questions that are available to that Player for that particular topic on the site.

Well, that's the secret sauce that we cannot tell you a whole lot about! We do make sure that we serve up a nice mix of questions to keep you wanting to play more! And we also make sure we serve up questions by different authors who have contributed to a specific topic.

While playing, at any time, you can switch topics by browsing or searching at the top of the page. As soon as you select or click on a new topic, questions will be served up from that topic until that topic runs out of questions for you or you switch again. Also, as you play each question we show you related topics. This way you can switch to something related to your topic of interest with just one click.

Are you in the mood to kick back, relax, and play along live with your friends around you? Or you are all alone, and want some downtime from home work? Are you at work, bored out of your skin? Looking to chill during your lunch break, but don't want to crank your brain cells too much? Try our Lounge mode. Take all the time you want to answer our questions. Shout out the answer to your buddies, and see who gets it right!

Want to get on top of the leader board on any of Kwanzoo's trivia channels? You will need to get more questions correct than wrong. You will also want to rack up your points faster than anyone else. The Rapid-fire play mode can help. You get 30 seconds to answer, and get 4 times the points that you get for Lounge mode, per question.

No. You get to play questions once and only once. You get credit for answering a question just once.

"eliminate 2!" and "answer stats" help you find the right answer but at a cost - you make 1/5th the points that you would if you didn't use them. Click on "eliminate2!" to remove two wrong answer choices. Click on "answer stats" to find out how others answered this same question. You can then decide whether to rely on the collective intelligence of other Players, or go with your own answer.

As you answer a trivia question on a specific topic, the "Related topics" block will show other topics that are related to the one you have selected. Imagine you are playing on a movie, and you could switch to play on the movie's genre (such as "comedy" or "horror"), director, actors in the movie, characters in the movie. We think this is a fun way to discover new topics. It kind of mirrors how we all like to find out more or get challenged on what we know!

Well, that's more secret sauce for you guys! We have an automatic way to track relationships between questions (and the tags or topics into which a question falls) as well as other questions and topics on the site. What this means for you as a Player is the fun of constantly finding something new to play on, as you play! Sounds pretty cool?

Yes you can now submit your own trivia questions. Add or link your photo to the question. Upload a photo from your own computer, or link a photo from your favorite photo sharing site (we have native support for Photo bucket built-in). You can also create a list of tags (or topic keywords) that Players can use to play your question.

Absolutely. One of our writers has put together her Top 10 tips for writing great trivia questions. It makes for a fun read. We hope it helps you come up with some cool trivia questions.

Click on your "My Trivia" tab after login. You will be able to see the status of all of your trivia submissions, from "Pending Approval" (questions waiting for our staff to review) to "Published" (questions live on the site).

When you submit trivia questions on Kwanzoo, we review them first, before they get published. That way we can make sure only quality content gets served to our Players, and they have a fun experience playing. You earn contributor points as soon as your trivia question gets published. It will get added to your contributor point total and will get tracked on your profile, and in the Top Contributors leaded board (coming soon).

We are still formulating the points that you will earn. But rest assured that you will earn contributor points for ALL questions you submit, from your very first question.

Not yet. But we are considering other content that Kwanzoo community members might enjoy from each of our members. Maybe links to web pages on topics on Kwanzoo? Or photos on Kwanzoo topics that you'd like to share with the community? Do you have ideas for us here? Please click here and send us your suggestions.

No, Kwanzoo does not support gambling in any form. Gambling represents game(s) of chance. Kwanzoo trivia games require that you know a little bit about the topics that you play on. Our games are based on skill and knowledge.

You need to be 13 years old or higher. If you are not, then Kwanzoo is not for you. Please cancel your account immediately, or ask a parent or guardian to cancel the account for you.

Click on "Report this question" and let us know. We will take the question out of the active pool.

We have tried to make Kwanzoo a safe place. We have checks in place so mature content is not served to Players who are under 17 years of age. If you ever feel unsafe on our site, notice anything that makes you uncomfortable, please let us know at support@kwanzoo.com. We take all such matters very seriously.

We're working on creating a new profile page for you that'll help you showcase your talents and interests and enable you to communicate with others on the site. This is coming soon. So, uploading a photo that is at least 200x200 pixels would ensure that you don't have to upload it again when we unveil the new page.

Well, shame on you! Remember, as you look at yourself in the mirror every day, that little voice in your head will go, "Well....you did not really earn those points and rank, did you?". And that's gonna get harder and harder for you to live with. Remember, nothing in life (and certainly not a prize that you win playing trivia games) is really worth going over to the dark side.....