Developer/Publisher: Four Door Lemon
Genre: Trivia
Price: $2.99 (On Sale as of Publication for $0.99!)
Acquired: Promo Code via Developer
Verdict: If you want a trivia game on your iPhone, look no further.
Pros: Interface works great, variety of questions, online high scores, multiplayer options, localized for different regions
Cons: No online multiplayer…that’s pretty much it. Not much to complain about.

QuizQuizQuiz is a fairly basic idea – it’s a trivia quiz game, on your iPhone. You try to choose the correct answer out of the 4 available, and you have lifelines (a la Who Wants To Be A Millionare) to help you answer them if you get stuck. The gameplay itself is fairly simple, as it’s just a multiple choice quiz, but thankfully the interface is clean, efficient, and works well.

QuizQuizQuiz has several different modes – there’s the quick play Beat the Clock mode, where you choose your difficulty and time limit, and you try to answer as many questions as you can in your selected time limit. The real meat of single-player play is the QuizMaster mode, where you can only miss 3 questions maximum before your game is over. If you have friends, then there are 2 hotseat multiplayer modes available for you – Challenge mode where both players get identical questions and try to keep playing through their 3 lives, and whoever has the highest score (the quicker you answer, the more points you get) at the end wins. Passaround works in much the same way, except that each player gets a random question from the selected category.

All these modes don’t mean a thing if it isn’t any fun (if you expected me to go with the rhyming “if it ain’t got that swing,” then know that I live to violate your expecations and break your heart), but QuizQuizQuiz is indeed fun. The game is superbly localized for the US market (as Jen noted in her preview, this is an issue with some trivia games) as well as the UK one, so no matter where you’re from, the questions will make sense to you. Well, they’ll make sense in that you won’t be getting questions about things like obscure New Zealand television when the most interaction with New Zealand you’ve ever had was that you bought a copy or two of BurnBall. The default Intermediate difficulty is a reasonable challenge to where you can play for a few questions with the occasional brain-stumper, but the higher difficulties will make you put the brain into “brain-teaser.” There’s a nice variety of categories as well, from ones requiring knowledge of far-off places, to far geekier pursuits like computer software, and 21st century video games (which I ace regularly, of course).

There’s not really a lot of bad to say about QuizQuizQuiz – there’s a lot of questions, the game is well-done and fun to play, multiplayer options are present, and there’s even online high score leaderboards via Agon. This game sets the bar for trivia games on the iPhone, and there’s not much to complain about unless you really, really, really hate trivia. Otherwise, it’s hard not to recommend this game.