Trivia API

The Trivia API provides random trivia questions and answers from a large database. Topics include science, literature, philosophy and more.

/v1/trivia GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/trivia

Returns a random trivia question and answer. Free users have access to 100 trivia questions - premium users have access to over 100,000 trivia questions.


Parameters

  • category  optional premium

    Category of trivia. The possible values are:

    artliterature
    language
    sciencenature
    general
    fooddrink
    peopleplaces
    geography
    historyholidays
    entertainment
    toysgames
    music
    mathematics
    religionmythology
    sportsleisure
  • limit  optional premium

    How many results to return. Must be between 1 and 30. Default is 1.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request Live Demo!

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/trivia

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [ { "category": "music", "question": "Who Was The Midnight Rider", "answer": "Paul Davidson" } ]

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/trivia?category=music" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.