Newsmeister: A Daily News Trivia Quiz

Read the News. Play the Game. Learn Something New.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	Free	Tim Holmgren	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Newsmeister: A Daily News Trivia Quiz Screenshot on iOS

NEWSMEISTER: Daily News Trivia Quiz tests your knowledge of current events that truly are...current. The content of NEWSMEISTER trivia is refreshed daily so each game poses 16 questions and answers which reflect the present state of the world around you. You won’t encounter old, recycled questions while using this app.

Categories include:

U.S. News
World News
Sports
History (On this day)
Entertainment
Science
Literature

It's Challenging

NEWSMEISTER isn’t trying to stump you with esoteric trivia; the game is designed for people like you. People who are interested in current events. People who engage in the latest social and political discourse. People whose awareness extends beyond their immediate world. You don't need a Ph.D from Harvard or MIT. Just follow the news!

It's Quick

NEWSMEISTER is a quick game. At roughly three minutes long, it’s a great way to occupy yourself during a quick bus or subway ride, or while taking a coffee break. We like to think of NEWSMEISTER as short, but substantial news trivia.

It's Social

How do you stack up against other NEWSMEISTER players? NEWSMEISTER shows daily leaderboards that list high scores and other interesting data from the previous day. See how you fare and compare your score to that of your friends or people who live in the same city or state.

Reviews

Nice app
Sergey Levchuk

Really good and useful news quiz! Well done!

Great way to keep up with the news
katesgoodthoughts

Playing this game encourages me to keep up to date with what’s going on in the world. It’s a fun way to test one’s knowledge.

Great app
Jaccksplace

I play daily. Love the app. Download it and play against your friends.

Healthy mind
senior whiz

Using Newsmeister helps to keep my mind active. Being an older adult, it does a great benefit to have a way to stimulate one’s brain and Newsmeister is by far one of the best apps to use.

Challenging
slayer703

This is a great trivia game. Some questions do seem very hard but most come from common news sources. Great way to learn and pass the time. I like that to see where I rank every day!

Trivia buffs unite
guptanT

Love challenging my friends to this game! Newsmeister keeps us current on top stories around the globe. Best way end my day. Highly recommend.

4/18/18 STILL Won’t accept wifi as net connection
Bonito apps

UPDATE 4/19/2018: I thought all the great changes have been made this time after the 2/2 update that would reject Wi-Fi as an Internet connection, and I didn’t mind there was now only 12 questions on the re-design, but as soon as I got to the last screen (playing as a guest) that said “invite friends” and “good job”, I back arrowed to return and the same old pop-up came up that said “check your Internet connection” of which I knew I had because I just played the game and it was over Wi-Fi. I haven’t tried it signing in with an account, so it may or may not do that if you create an account, but it shouldn’t force you to create one just to get rid of this false error message it was designed to splash at you! It seems that the app is still trying to get you to connect to the phone tower, and hence the phone’s information, and tries to tell you that you have no Internet connection while over Wi-Fi when you truly do have an Internet connection. Hopefully this is an OVERSIGHT while redesigning the app again, and if it isn’t fixed in the very near future and it’s happening to YOU, you’ll know it was intentionally put there for a reason you may not like. (Slightly older update below that was before the 4/18/18 app redesign.) Update/Response: I DID update and try it, and it’s a crappy update. First, that incessant pop up in everyone’s face everywhere you turn asking you to register or sign in that will apparently happen 179 more times as a guest until you DO register/connect is something new and quite annoying. That’s some way to treat a “guest.“ You should be handing out awards to any user who puts up with that 179 times. Second, users should try going into the general settings and fiddling with that, because using the sliders to deselect items they don’t want, such as inviting friends or receiving notifications from you, results in the inability to use the app with those features selected in the off position if they are using Wi-Fi! You instantly get a pop-up that says “check your Internet connection” because they want you on the phone connection and won’t accept your Wi-Fi connection that doesn’t permit access to the information on your phone in the same way the mobile connection does. Apparently, the information you’re sucking out of peoples devices is so important to you that you don’t permit them to fully use it over Wi-Fi that blocks the direct phone connection UNLESS they agree to (over Wi-Fi) receive notifications and all the other things on the list. Users should try out what I’m saying… Go to General settings, and slide all those sliders that are disguised as actual options to the left, and you will see you will not even be able to save those changes If you are on a Wi-Fi connection. Also, and I’m not sure anyone would really complain about this if they’re ambitious to the point of not wanting to challenge themselves and are operating on pure greed, but chopping the game in half to only eight questions and still keeping the same number of 3X “Bonus points” on the board sort of dilutes the “yay, I found the bonus” experience if 50% of the squares are giving you a bonus (now it’s more of a “damn, this one wasn’t a bonus but odds are the next one will be“ experience). Third, I believe the full-page ads at the end of the game (which will now double if you want to stick around to play 32 questions) are a little bit overdoing it considering there’s an ad banner on the app the whole time as well. Lastly, checking out the leaderboards shows that “Newsmeister” is the Global Leader. (Seriously????????) What kind of a user is going to embrace a leaderboard system when they know they will never get to the top slot of #1 unless they can figure out if it’s even possible to knock the developer out of that slot? C’mon, that’s like the scoutmaster entering his own organized cubscouts pinewood derby every year with his perfectly built homemade car and always taking home the first place trophy, then handing out the rest of the awards to the kids. It’s also a little laughable as to how you can even accomplish that 1st place feat when you’re the ones putting the questions and answers in the app in the first place. PRIOR REVIEW: I decided not to update, so right in the MIDDLE of my game today, they designed one of the “questions“ to be a hopefully forced update! The “question” part of it at the top said the app will not be supported after Feb 4 if I don’t update, And then all the answers at the bottom were “update now” so that if I wanted to continue my game, I had to click on the button that automatically updated that app right in the middle of my game. That kind of in-your-face arrogance will not be rewarded and the app is being deleted. PS: Nobody likes the now newly designed truncated 8-question little crappy app, as you can see from all the comments, so who knows what you were thinking when you decided to make this a mini three-minute game Instead of a halfway decent trivia game. Sometimes developers need to know when to leave well enough alone.