HQ Trivia: the gameshow app that's an online smash

Up to 2m people play the general knowledge quiz each day - and celebs are lining up to host it

Imagine the intellectual and social pressure of a pub quiz, then multiply it by more than 2 million people.

Every day, at 3pm and 9pm sharp, an army of teenagers, students, pensioners and office workers stop what they are doing, whip out their smartphones and fire up an app to take part in a new online craze called HQ Trivia, the pub quiz brought kicking and screaming into the smartphone era.