Trivia Generator API

About the Trivia Generator API

Each request delivers a question prompt, an array of multiple-choice choices, the verified answer, and the assigned category. Free plans draw questions from the general category, while paid plans can target categories like literature, history, and science-technology. A secondary lookup endpoint supplies the full list of available categories.

What people use it for

Community Chatbot Games

Discord and Slack bots fetch random questions with answer options to run automated trivia rounds during community gaming sessions.

Classroom Warmup Quizzes

Teachers display quick multiple-choice questions on digital whiteboards to start class periods with low-stakes general knowledge challenges.

Digital Signage Displays

Venues rotate fresh trivia prompts and answer choices across waiting room monitors to keep visitors entertained while in line.

Team Icebreaker Rounds

Meeting hosts pull instant questions across diverse topics to run quick warmup competitions at the start of company gatherings.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON

Default REST response

XML

Markup format

YAML

Human-readable

CSV

Tabular export

Beta

GraphQL

Query language

New

MCP

For AI agents

Request parameters — GET /v1/trivia

Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.

Optional

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/trivia?category=general" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Response — GET /v1/trivia

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "question": "Is the Pink Cadillac the trademark of Mary Kay beauty products?",
    "answer": "Yes",
    "options": [
      "A Yes",
      "B No"
    ],
    "category": "general"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

What a call costs — 2 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend

Drop an interactive Trivia Generator form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.

Changelog — Trivia Generator API

Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.

Currently v1