Sporcling

There is a website that I go to often when I am bored and it provides me with hours and hours of entertainment. Or it used to when it was still new to me. These days I have been through most of the content on there anyway and it merely provides me with about half an hour for each day that I have missed. This website is Sporcle.

Sporcle is a website that consists of hundreds if not thousands of quizzes on various topics ranging from history to science to religion and entertainment. There are audio quizzes, video quizzes, visual quizzes and plain straight quizzes. There are quizzes that ask you to pick up on whose laugh you hear and quizzes that ask you to guess lyrics without any hint as to what the song is. There are quizzes for days and I can guarantee you that no matter what your particular hobby or interest is, you will find a quiz that will relate to it.

In addition to the quizzes that are written by staff members, there are also quizzes written by members of the website and you can make your own quiz if you think there is a niche for it. There are also Daily Doses, and these are some of my favourite quizzes. Each day the staff provide four quizzes of set varieties for the members of the website to try. They are as follows:
Minute Morsel - you have one minute to answer between 5 and 10 questions from one of the staff quizzes. If these questions spark your interest, then a link is provided to the full quiz.
Missing Word - you are given a number of phrases with missing words. They could be move titles, song titles, book titles or they could just be common phrases that you may have heard, and you have a time limit to fill them in.
Mixed Word - you are given a number of jumbled letters to make words from. Often there is more than one word that can be made, but you are given a theme that you must stick to or else there is a common theme between the words that they are looking for. For example, the letters A-T-E-S can be made into a number of words including SEAT and EATS, but if the other answers are WEST, NORTH and SOUTH, you know that the answer that they are looking for is EAST.
Word Ladder - This is the newest category that the Sporcle gang have added to their Daily Dose, and it is certainly my favourite. You start off with one word of either four or five letters and change one letter according to the hint to get you to the bottom of the ladder. I often find these kinds of puzzles to be the most fun.

And so, if you are at home and bored and not sure what exactly you can do, why don't you head on down to Sporcle and see if you can find something to keep yourself entertained for awhile. I guarantee that if you look hard enough, you will.