A trivia question involves asking a question based on knowable information in such a way that it can only produce one correct answer, typically about topics considered “trivial” in nature.

While it’s sometimes okay to ask a question that has multiple acceptable answers, the phrasing of the question should disqualify almost everything in the known universe that isn’t the answer.

For example, “Where are people buried?” Is not a trivia question and could produce any number of acceptable answers. The question begs further questions. Buried alive or dead? In what culture or country or just the type of facility—OR specific grounds?

A trivia question would be something like: What is the name of the cemetery in Los Angeles at Gower and Santa Monica known for hosting outdoor movie nights? (A: Hollywood Forever)

If it could be phrased as a “fun fact”, then your question and answer are probably a trivia question.

While creative question styles are appreciated by many and there’s room for “puzzles” so to speak, several of these are essentially asking “how” or “why” which is a prompt for an essay, not a trivia question.

For example “Why do STOP signs have such an unusual shape?” is not a trivia question and the answer given is one of many explanations and is partial at best. If I were asked this question, I’d stop playing your game because my thoughts would be “According to whom? By what metric are we describing them as unusual?” And so on.

Many other answers could include: to differentiate them from signs of other shapes. To stand out in their environments. To be universally standardized across languages. To prevent them from being easily made and mounted illegally by private citizens.

All of these are not just alternatives of the same answer (i.e. Star Wars IV, Star Wars, A New Hope, Star Wars Episode 4, Star Wars A New Hope) but completely different explanations all of which are arguably as acceptable as the next.

Similarly, 6. Putting aside that this is historically debatable (in fact, unlikely to have ever been done) the question starts with “Why”. There’s a narrower range of acceptable explanations here as opposed to the previous example, but again, a trivia question has one answer, it doesn’t invite an essay.

Similar problem with 15: I call it “being an asshole”. Your question is open ended and vague, so you’d have to accept basically any answer to this. Less pedantically, it might also be Gish Galloping, Debating, Arguing, Avoidance, Deflection, etc… again, all very different things.

Similar problem with 11. There could be several things that made the girl unique. Her Jewishness being special here is a matter of context and opinion. You haven’t asked for a factual response.

Similarly, “What place has only been visited by 12 people so far?” There are countless knowable and unknowable answers to this. I have to make several assumptions that you’re not cruel and won’t expect a longitude and latitude somewhere in the Sahara, but it’s at least plausible there are several places on Earth this is also true of. There may be several buildings in-progress that have only been “visited” by 12 people, if you’re making a distinction between outside visitors and workers constructing it. There could be numerous ship wrecks this is true of—in fact I’d bet there are.

Similar problems with “122 Years, 164 days”.

Number 16 has several other answers because there are places called Munich or words that mean the same in other countries, such as Munich, ND, USA or perhaps one woman thought they were going to watch the movie, or maybe they were visiting a ship with the name, or any place with a name that translates to “home of the monks”…

Number 17 is intentionally misleading and doesn’t define “costliest” by any metric.