Funny isn’t it? Your whole life you go through school absolutely hating exams, but then as soon as people get out all they seem to want to do is do things like Buzzfeed quizzes, pub quizzes or general knowledge quizzes – and they’re essentially just exams, aren’t they? Entering a quiz is a lot more...
Legend has it that the word quiz was only invented due to a bet made by a wealthy Dublin theatre owner, in which he claimed he could invent a nonsense word and have the whole city know it by the very next day. Whether this really happened or not is still up for debate, however there is no denying th...
Most of us are kind of blind to this, but there are genuinely people out there who manage to make a living by winning gazillions of paid and free to enter online competitions each year.
They go by the name of compers, and have collectively proven just how thrilling and lucrative the world of thin...
At Winzum you might have guessed that we love competitions, but we also have a soft spot for quizzes too, and not just the kind you can find down the pub! Let’s be honest here; everybody loves a quiz, and they have done since the 19th century (you can read more about the history here [a brief histo...