CNN is making a documentary about the fall of HQ Trivia

Which of these has greenlit a documentary about ?

• Netflix

• CNN

• Quibi

If you read the headline and correctly chose CNN, congratulations! You’ve won some internet points, I guess.

An untitled documentary about the trivia app that everyone seemed to be playing a few years ago is scheduled for a 2023 release. It’s based on a podcast by The Ringer called Boom/Bust: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia. As  reports, CNN has lined up a director, Salima Koroma (Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street). 

HQ Trivia, which was built by the creators of Vine, and it initially ran two live trivia games per day. The concept was pretty simple. Answer several questions correctly in a row and you’d split the prize pot. Along with the chance to win cash through a mobile app, charismatic main host Scott Rogowsky helped turn HQ Trivia into a phenomenon. At one point, were playing the game simultaneously.

The good times didn’t last, however. Co-founder Colin Kroll in 2018, while Rogowsky departed in 2019 to . The app in early 2020 and shut down, though it thanks to the help of an anonymous investor.

HQ Trivia is still around, though it now runs just one game per week. had a commendable 21,000 players. However, at $1,500, the prize was a far cry from the $300,000 the app when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was a guest host.

It also emerged during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation that Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico is moving to CNN. The docuseries was initially a CNN+ exclusive, but the high-profile streaming service was killed less than a month after its debut.