The Weirdest Quiz Categories We've Ever Made

Most of Quizzy is exactly what you'd expect: capitals, dinosaurs, movie trivia, the periodic table. Reasonable. Educational. The kind of thing a teacher would approve of. And then there's the other drawer — the one full of quizzes that started as a joke in a brainstorm and somehow became fan favorites. These are the ones where someone asked "wait, is that allowed?" and the answer was "honestly, why not."

Here are five of the strangest, most oddly specific quizzes we've ever published — and a quick defense of why each one deserves to exist.

1. IKEA Product or Norse God?

This is the platonic ideal of a weird quiz. IKEA names its furniture after Swedish places, names, and words. Norse mythology is full of guttural, vowel-heavy deities. Put "Fjällbo," "Hörnan," and "Mánagarmr" in a lineup and good luck. Is it a bookcase or a wolf that devours the moon? Our IKEA or Norse God quiz will humble anyone who thinks they know their Vikings. Most people score worse than a coin flip, which is genuinely impressive given there are only two options. Dare to try it? →

The cruelty of this format is that the real answer always feels fake and the fake answer always feels real. That's not a bug. That's the entire point.

2. Country or Cheese?

You'd think this would be easy. It is not. There are countries that sound like artisanal dairy and cheeses named after places you swear you've seen on a map. "Edam" is a town in the Netherlands and a cheese. "Comté" is a cheese and sounds like a small European principality. The Country or Cheese quiz exploits every one of these overlaps with surgical precision. It's the quiz that makes you realize how much of geography is just vibes. Think you can taste the difference? →

3. Survive Quicksand

Quicksand was supposed to be a way bigger problem in our adult lives, based on how much screen time it got in the cartoons. Our Survive Quicksand quiz is part of a whole "survive the scenario" series, and it's secretly one of the most useful weird quizzes we have. Spoiler that might save your life one day: thrashing makes you sink faster, and you actually float in quicksand because it's denser than water. The quiz walks you through the real physics in the most dramatic way possible. Could you make it out? Find out →

4. Anime Character or Greek God?

Anime loves a dramatic, multi-syllable name with cosmic energy. So did the ancient Greeks. The overlap is bigger than you'd think — both worlds are full of beings with lightning powers, tragic backstories, and names that end in vowels. The Anime or Greek God quiz asks you to sort the Olympians from the shonen protagonists, and it turns out Zeus and a spiky-haired warrior have suspiciously similar PR. It's the rare quiz that's somehow both a mythology test and an anime test at the same time. Test your dual fandom →

5. Hurricane or Pop Star?

Hurricanes get human first names. So do, well, pop stars. Drop "Florence," "Katrina," or "Sandy" in front of someone and watch them hesitate — is that a chart-topper or a Category 4 about to make landfall? The Hurricane or Pop Star quiz lives in this perfect little gap of ambiguity, and once you start playing you'll never read a weather report the same way again. Can you tell the storm from the singer? →

Why the Weird Ones Hit Different

There's a real reason these quizzes outperform their serious cousins. A normal trivia question puts you on the spot with a blank page — "name the capital of Kazakhstan" — and if you don't know, you feel a small flicker of shame. The "this or that" format deletes that feeling entirely. It's always 50/50, so even total ignorance feels like a fair fight. You're not failing; you're gambling. And gambling is fun.

They also reveal the strange seams in how we name things. IKEA and Vikings, hurricanes and pop stars, cheese and countries — these collisions only exist because humans keep reaching into the same small bag of euphonious sounds. The weird quizzes are accidentally a study in linguistics, marketing, and meteorology all at once.

The Honorable Mentions Drawer

We couldn't fit them all, but the weird drawer runs deep. There's Whisky or Rock Band (Glenfiddich vs. some guys with guitars), Pokémon or Skincare Product (the beauty aisle is wilder than you think), and the genuinely chaotic Would You Rather: Survival Edition, which forces impossible choices like "fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses" but with actual life-or-death stakes. None of these should work. All of them do.

The lesson, ten years of quiz-making in: the more specific and unhinged the premise, the more people want to play it. So we keep making them.