A polished Windows desktop trivia game built with WPF and .NET 8, powered by the The Trivia Api API.
| Menu | Quiz |
|---|---|
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- 10 categories to choose from: Music, Sport & Leisure, Film & TV, Arts & Literature, History, Society & Culture, Science, Geography, Food & Drink, and General Knowledge
- 3 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard
- Instant answer feedback — correct answers highlight green, wrong answers highlight red and reveal the correct one
- Live score tracking — earn 10 points for every correct answer
- Seamless question flow — fetches 50 questions upfront, then silently pre-fetches the next batch in the background so you never wait
- Single-file executable — no installer, no dependencies, just run it
Grab the latest release from the Releases page and run Trivia.exe — no installation required.
Prerequisites
git clone git@github.com:DavidKelemen-hub/Trivia.git
cd trivia
dotnet runPublish as a single executable
dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64The output will be in bin/Release/net8.0-windows/publish/.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| UI Framework | WPF (.NET 8) |
| Architecture | MVVM |
| Dependency Injection | Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection |
| Behaviors | Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf |
| Data Source | The Trivia API |
Trivia/
├── Interfaces/ # Service and ViewModel contracts
├── Models/
│ └── Domain Models/ # Question, quiz data models
├── Services/
│ ├── ApiService # Fetches questions from Open Trivia DB
│ ├── ProcessingService# Decodes and prepares question data
│ └── Navigation/ # NavigationService (IServiceProvider-based)
├── ViewModels/
│ ├── WelcomeViewModel # Category & difficulty selection (transient)
│ └── MainViewModel # Active quiz logic & scoring (transient)
├── Views/
│ ├── MainWindow # Shell window
│ ├── WelcomeView # Start screen
│ └── MainView # Quiz screen
└── Resources/
└── Images/
Questions are sourced from the The Trivia API, a free community-maintained trivia API. The app fetches 50 questions per session based on the selected category and difficulty, then pre-fetches the next batch transparently in the background when the last question is reached.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.