Article 4ZGF0 HQ Trivia hosts final drunken quiz after investors pull plug: 'My dogs are going to starve!'

HQ Trivia hosts final drunken quiz after investors pull plug: 'My dogs are going to starve!'

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Naaman Zhou
from Technology | The Guardian on (#4ZGF0)

The app sensation has drawn millions of players and awarded $6m in prize money

Online quiz app HQ Trivia, which at its peak was played by more than 2 million people a day, has hosted its last game - with inebriated hosts awarding a total prize pool of only US$5.

Described as a "final drunken hurrah", the app's last broadcast was watched by 28,000 people after the company told employees last Friday it would shut down due to lack of funding.

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