90s Skate Punk Trivia
Test your knowledge of 90s skate punk — the bands, albums, labels and skate culture — solo or as a group, with a global scoreboard.
The shuffle is doing more work than it looks
Counting where the correct option sits in each of the 305 questions as written, before the page reorders them:
| Slot | Questions | An even spread would be |
|---|---|---|
| A | 295 | 76 |
| B | 8 | 76 |
| C | 1 | 76 |
| D | 1 | 76 |
That is a chi-square of 837 against a 5% threshold of 7.81 — not a near miss. The first handful of questions vary their answer position and every one after index 64 puts it first, which is what writing a question answer-first and adding distractors afterwards looks like from the outside.
None of it reaches a player, because the page shuffles the four options before drawing them. It is worth being precise about how much that shuffle is doing: without it, tapping the first option every time would score 96.7%. The shuffle is not a nicety, it is the integrity of the quiz.
But shuffling cannot fix a length tell
Reordering options changes where they are, not how long they are. Of the 278 questions with a single longest option, the correct answer is that option 113 times — 40.6% against the 25% chance would give, which is 6.0 standard errors from even.
| Guessing strategy | Expected score |
|---|---|
| at random | 25% |
| always the longest option | 41% |
| always the shortest option | 15% |
Correct answers average 14.0 characters and wrong ones 11.4. Someone who knows nothing whatsoever about 90s skate punk and always taps the longest option beats random guessing by half again, and no amount of shuffling changes it.
The cause is ordinary and hard to avoid. A real answer is a specific thing with a specific name — Fat Wreck Chords, Punk in Drublic — and plausible wrong answers tend to be shorter and more generic. Removing the tell means padding every distractor to match, which is more work per question than writing the question was. Worth knowing if you are building a quiz of your own, and worth resisting if you are playing this one.
Everything else about the bank checks out
| Check | Questions passing |
|---|---|
| exactly four options | 305 of 305 |
| no repeated option | 305 of 305 |
| answer index in range | 305 of 305 |
| carries a follow-up fact | 305 of 305 |
All four, for every question in the bank. No question repeats an option, every answer index points at something real, and every one carries a follow-up fact rather than just marking you right or wrong. The structural work is sound; the two biases above are about how the questions were written, not how they are stored.
How to use
- Pick a question count and start.
- Play solo, or pass one device around a group.
- Read the fact attached to each answer.
- Submit a score to the global board if you want to.
Frequently asked questions
What era does this cover?
Broadly the 1990s explosion, when skate punk moved from a regional scene onto mainstream radio — the labels, the records and the culture around it. The questions cover the bands that defined it rather than only the ones that charted.
Are the questions checked?
Yes, against sources before inclusion, and corrections get made. Release dates and line-up details are exactly the sort of thing that circulate in slightly wrong versions, so anything contested is worth reporting through the contact page.
How does the group mode work?
One device is passed around and each player answers their own questions, with scores tracked separately. Everyone answers the same number, which is what makes the comparison fair — a scoreboard where players answered different counts is not measuring the same thing.
How does the global scoreboard rank ties?
By time, using each player's own thinking time rather than the whole table's session, so a six-player round does not disadvantage the winner. Boards are kept separately per question count, since a perfect five out of five is not comparable to eight out of twenty.
Is my name stored anywhere?
Only if you submit a score, in which case the name and score you chose are published on the board. Nothing else about you is recorded, and playing without submitting sends nothing at all.
Why this genre specifically?
Because it is a well-defined scene with a strong body of shared reference points, which is what makes for good trivia. A quiz needs a community that argues about the details, and this one has one.
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