Catfishing.net: a daily trivia game that has nothing to do with that other thing

https://catfishing.net/

This one has become a favorite of mine. It's based on Wikipedia articles -- you're given a list of categories, from which you have to guess the article title. For example, you might be given American Presidents, founding father, American slaverholder, and Virginian, and the answer would be George Washington.

They range in difficulty and getting a question right where < 10% of people answered correctly is immensely gratifying. (This game already has paid dividends in other trivia contests for me, too, and I have greater retention of the facts I learn about than something like maptap.gg.)

I learned about this game a while ago but forgot about it for a while and coincidentally just started playing it again a couple of days ago. It's pretty fun. Might need to add it to My Daily Games (currently: Wordle, Connections, Cinematrix, MapTap.gg).

Got 7/10. Happy with that considering the ones I got wrong were largely VERY American things I wouldn't have guessed

I play this every day, I enjoy it though you feel very stupid when you miss one that you actually know

How often is it about American Things?

IME it isn't really though with user submissions involved things can shift. When I started playing I assumed it was UK-based, though I don't think that anymore.

It is anglo/euro/white/western-centric to some extent, likely mirroring or maybe bettering English-lang wikipedia's own content biases, but I'm largely okay with that since I learned from playing this for a while that I don't know some super obvious stuff about other parts of the world.

My personal complaints are that there is way too much videogame content and for a while there was too much internet culture/memes though that seems to have lessened a bit.

this game also made me consider posting "the names of historical ships" on the things you don't care about thread

Xp yes there do seem to be a high frequency of video game / animated film / Internet culture related questions in there, which is great for me but maybe not so much for others.

This is all great training for the pub quiz or when I one day get invited on some sort of Uni Challenge Amateur Edition

True, it's "geek culture" in general (plus STEM, though I can't complain about math and science questions...except that often they're the ones with like only 4 categories as clues). I just only bristle at it when it's things I'm not very geeky about lol. I did get the internet culture one correct today.

Having played a decent amount in the archives, I find the list of answers that you were among the best at pretty revealing. Mine are almost all from the humanities, so now it's interesting to see which humanities topics have crossed over into the average catfishing player's world.

There's also a young millennial/ older gen z feeling to it overall I think, which is interesting in abstract but annoying when I don't know anything about early 00s cartoons or w/e

sorry for barrage of posts. I've been playing this for months and have more thoughts than I realized!

A very cool aspect to this is clicking through to the article. For a while the #1 most clicked-through one was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing, which I was impressed by as very very few Americans know about that and informing people is a genuine public service.

yeah my archive best answers were mostly literature-based too (though erasing cookies wiped out my archives and now my best answers are nas and the neptunes lol). I have no clue on most of the video game questions, which I can see aren't a problem for most people playing this.

Just a heads up: I've taken to answering questions looking for Chinese people with their full names because the game has a defaults to last name = surname.

7/10 today... but yes in the world of fast moving non-monoculture, asking me to know a 2026 meme about a monkey is maybe stretching a bit far. would be better to lean on articles about things that have maybe had enough staying power in the public consciousness to be remembered a few years later

justice for harambe.

7/10. also missed the monkey.

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#739 - 4/10
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Not so great today

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#739 - 6/10
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should have gotten #2 but I unthinkingly entered "Melies brothers."

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#739 - 8/10 🎉
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an annoying thing is when I remember someone's first name but not their last (#1). otoh a bit of luck on #5: I thought "hmm a Sondheim musical about presidential assassins. maybe it's called Assassins lol? I think that fact must have actually been lurking in my memory somewhere, but still

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#739 - 6/10
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I really ought to have gotten q7 right.

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#740 - 7/10
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Studying paid off for q10.

woo hoo

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#740 - 9/10 🎉
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explain to me how the kinsey scale is an "introduction" wtf

i'm like how am i supposed to know the name of the introduction to one of kinsey's books and then it's just the most obvious name of the general concept

I think that's just wiki category-speak for when something was introduced. see also "YEAR establishments"

not that the category system doesn't have its flaws. for a while it felt like 50% of the people questions were tagged with "[NATIONALITY] anti-communists"; someone must have been obsessively zealous about adding that to biographical entries

what would wikipedia be without zealots and pedants

otm. I decided to make an effort to find it charming

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#741 - 7/10
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#741 - 9/10 🎉
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I think I would have been good at this 20 years ago but I've let my brain get mushy on general knowledge. 4 today, 4 or 5 yesterday.

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#743 - 7/10
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JFC at q7.

yeah I read a series of increasingly shocking articles after clicking through on that one

Today was tough. I'm not posting my score

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#743 - 8/10 🎉
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got the number (totally) wrong on #7

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#744 - 8/10 🎉
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full disclosure: yesterday I answered "tiger" instead of "lion" for #1 and was so annoyed with myself, I gave up on the day.

had the wrong movie by the right guy which is annoying

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#744 - 8/10 🎉
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yesterday I answered leopard for #1, extremely annoying. today I would have had 9/10 but I referred to #1 by only her first name, I thought she has achieved mononym status

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#744 - 9/10 🎉
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Hot diggity dog! (Sorry military history knowers, I will never be one of you)

In most trivia games, one-name answers are only accepted if the mononyms have some official standing, like Madonna or Cher. Names like Kendrick or Ariana usually are pretty clear in casual conversations, but aren't enough in trivia contests.

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#744 - 7/10
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Rude to Greta Gerwig

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#744 - 9/10 🎉
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#745 - 8/10 🎉
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Surprised at how old q7 is!

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#745 - 7/10
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Had the wrong final word for Q10 :(

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#745 - 7/10
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#745 - 8.5/10 🎉
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My answer to 5 was obviously correct (I said Flanderize), only my confusion about FM album release dates kept me from perfect score

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#746 - 9/10 🎉
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Day to day, I've noticed that Q7 tends to be interesting to me in some way, and today was along the lines of, "It'd be funny if this was Jesus," and then I kept on reading the categories and it WAS Jesus.

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#746 - 7/10
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Probably should've gotten #3 but would never have gotten #5 or #9.

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#746 - 7.5/10
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My bad experience with "Flanderize" vs. "Flanderization" yesterday made me second guess on #3 and change "Olmecs" to "Olmec Empire"

boo

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#747 - 5/10
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Same exact score as you. Today was a hard one. Probably wouldn't have gotten #8 except someone was talking about it recently.

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#747 - 6/10
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I always feel better about this game when the wrong answers are things I've never heard of

Otm. The converse is when your own brain betrays you, an infinitely more infuriating feeling.

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#747 - 8/10 🎉
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#748 - 7/10
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feel like I might have been able to guess the ones I missed, but only if I'd spent more time thinking about them

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#748 - 7/10
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#748 - 6/10
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Hard one for me today!

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#748 - 7/10
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Y'all got #8 but didn't get #4??? wow.

I guessed Octavia Butler for #8 🤦

born in 1972, tho

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#749 - 7/10
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#749 - 6/10
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#749 - 5/10
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tough one, dumb miss on #2

Giving this a go

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#749 - 6/10
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thought it was going to be a bad day for me, but I turned it around

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#750 - 7/10
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#750 - 7/10
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i'm not sure if I'm going to like this game but it's worth trying for a few days

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#750 - 7/10
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Impressed with folks who got #9.

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#751 - 7/10
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#751 - 5/10
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Stepped on so many rakes today.

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#751 - 6/10
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This is good for me

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#751 - 6/10
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Astounded I got question 6 right. It was a total and utter guess

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#751 - 10/10 🎉
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not sure I've ever got over 7 before

Wowzer!

nice work!

Sean is the cat emperor!

now deposed

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#752 - 4/10
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#752 - 6/10
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Kind of stunned I got #8 right, I'd heard of it and knew what it was about but the title was a shot in the dark.

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#752 - 5/10
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I'm familiar with the subject of #8 but couldn't remember the exact title.

It's infuriating when I know the answer and then change my mind at last minute only to find it was my first thought all along. Happened twice today

Number 8 was one of them. I knew it and then somehow chickened into a different answer

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#753 - 7/10
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It told me I was wrong for no 9 when I put McMurdo Station instead of McMurdo Base. It also told me I was wrong for no 10 when I put Plan 9 rather than the full Plan 9 From Outer Space. So I marked both as close enough.

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#753 - 8/10 🎉
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Best in a while, I'm very good at knowing the concept but not remembering the right word or phrase e.g. appeasement the other day.

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#753 - 8/10 🎉
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Quite a few of my niche interests in this one

Thought I was going for a clean sweep then the wheels came off the bus.
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#753 - 7/10
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#753 - 6/10
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Started off strong, ended mid. I've read 7 but too long ago too remember it in any detail, heard of 8 and kinda got close if you squint, and over thought 9. 5 was a forehead slap moment, "So that's what it means!"

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#754 - 5/10
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The fact that I managed to correctly guess #5 (spelled wrong but got the "did you mean...?" pop-up) makes me feel better for biffing #9 (entered a surname starting with the same letter because I wasn't thinking hard enough).

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#754 - 6/10
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Week of mid for me.

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#754 - 3/10
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this one was absolutely not in my wheelhouse

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#755 - 6/10
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two I hadn't heard of, two I couldn't find

always seem to get 6/10

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#755 - 6/10
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#755 - 8/10 🎉
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Very annoyed at 9, which didn't accept my guess of Lockerbie (while Lockerbie bombing was), then to see that The Nicks was accepted for q10.

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#755 - 8/10 🎉
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with respect to no. 9, I noticed that Lockerbie was one of the categories. I went with "Lockerbie bombing" but wasn't sure it would count; glad it did.

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#755 - 4/10
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Yeah this game is not playing to my strengths. I should have had one more point but I blanked on the actual name

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#756 - 6/10
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never heard of the OMD song, just guessed at a related name

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#756 - 6/10
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two I hadn't heard of, two I couldn't find

― sous-vide summer camp (seandalai), Saturday, 18 July 2026 12:30 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

same again

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#756 - 4/10
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Oof. At least I got #8 right, which has a 3% get rate.

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#756 - 7/10
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I got 2 but then changed my mind when I saw mau5trap

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#756 - 7/10
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#757 - 9/10 🎉
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#757 - 7/10
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probably should've gotten #9 but assumed it was something I'd never heard of

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#757 - 5.5/10
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I put Petronas for no. 1 and it marked it as wrong. So I marked it close enough

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#757 - 8/10 🎉
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Look at all of us olds getting #10.

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#757 - 8/10 🎉
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same as jaymc on #9

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#757 - 8/10 🎉
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#758 - 7/10
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Maybe I would have got the first three if I wasn't so tired, but maybe I wouldn't

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#758 - 6/10
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I should have gotten two more right. I don't take enough time sometimes

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#758 - 6/10
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Same. I thought "marine biologist, won't be that woman so I won't bother to remember her name". It was her.

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#758 - 7/10
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I was afraid that this would be another disaster of a day but thankfully after the first 4, the questions never dropped below 20%. And TIL that Will Smith is a minority owner of the 76ers.

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#758 - 6/10
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TIL that there's no novel titled The Portrait of Dorian Gray, but they accepted it anyway

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#759 - 5/10
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#760 - 9/10 🎉
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#760 - 7/10
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Pretty easy today, cannot believe I didn't get 6, was thrown by the "1987 neologisms" part. And a bit shocked that only 10% got number 8.

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#760 - 7/10
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#760 - 7/10
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Brain fart right off the bat with #1, where I entered even pillars of Islam. I marked it right when the game asked me if I meant wisdom.

7/10, got all the ones that were over 50%

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#760 - 7/10
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Should have got the last one as well