Lauren Gambino is host of HQ Sports.
Lauren Gambino is host of HQ Sports.
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HQ Trivia takes its savage questions to sports fans

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

In just 11 months, HQ Trivia has amassed a big following, with as many as 2.38 million simultaneous players vying for cash prizes ranging from $5,000 to $400,000. And now the New York company has launched HQ Sports, a spinoff trivia game aimed at sports fans on iOS and Android.

In short order, the game has created a new form of entertainment that keeps fans coming back, and its audience size is starting to matter to advertisers like Nike, Nickelodeon, NBC’s The Voice, and Warner Bros.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.