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Question credits

Showtime uses questions contributed by the community at Open Trivia Database, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

The original question text has been decoded, filtered for family play and grouped into multiple-choice packs. Question content is shared under the same licence. Community-written questions can contain mistakes; source links appear when each answer is revealed. The original Adults Only questions were written for Showtime using official drink, culture and health sources, and are also shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. They are non-graphic and explicitly selected; Surprise me never uses them.

Original question research

A further 3754 questions were written for Showtime from reference facts, with a mix of Easy, Medium and Hard difficulty. These are new prompts and answer choices, rather than copied questions from commercial quiz banks. Their wording is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0; that licence does not relicense the referenced articles or imply an endorsement by their publishers.

Specialist packs are explicitly selected in the lobby or solo practice; Surprise me uses only the general-interest packs. The sources below are examples for each pack. Each question links to its own reference after the answer reveal. Difficulty is an editorial assessment of familiarity and specialist detail, rather than a measured player-success rate.

Fonts: Bungee and DM Sans, via Google Fonts. Functional icons: Lucide. Pack illustrations: IconPark by ByteDance, under Apache 2.0. The local SVGs use Showtime’s palette and stroke sizes; see the artwork notice.

Nickname filtering uses an adapted English vocabulary from LDNOOBW / Shutterstock under CC BY 4.0, with local name-specific matching and evasion handling.

In Fastest Finger First, the first correct answer to reach the room server wins. Your connection can affect a close finish. Each player gets one guess, and the correct answer stays private until the reveal.

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