1 travelpod.com
This travel blog stood out from the crowd when it added an excellent interactive geography quiz game a few years ago. It’s still the best on the net. To play it — and discover your “traveller IQ” in the process — go to travelpod.com/traveler-iq.
2 musicmini.com
Surprisingly, the web is not awash with music quizzes, which makes the enjoyable (if not much to look at) MusicMini a rare find. Listen to audio clips, identify the artist — a knowledge of obscure American pop helps — and, for a bonus point, name the song.
3 flixter.com
The film fan site has a “never-ending quiz” under the Fun & Games tab on its home page, based on thousands of picture questions uploaded by its users. You can save your score and see where you rank in the world — but be warned: after 10 minutes of play you’re unlikely to be even in the top 10m.
4 sporcle.com
It’s not going to win any prizes for design, but nonetheless Sporcle is one of the best of the online quiz sites, featuring hundreds of challenges in more than a dozen categories. A similarly tough, minimalist site is paulsquiz.com.
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5 freeonlinegames.co.uk
Among the hundreds of games on this site is an animated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: they have the music, “ask the audience” and so on, but you’re playing for 1m dollars, not pounds. And it’s not real. Deal or No Deal is on there too, though it’s not the same without Noel Edmonds.