JetPunk
 JetPunk's logo | |
Type of site | Quizzes, Trivia |
|---|---|
| Available in | English Arabic Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Japanese Russian Serbian Simplified Chinese Spanish Norwegian Polish Portuguese Swedish Turkish |
| Owner | H Brothers, Inc. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |  15,632 (May 2020[update])[1] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Copyrighted |
JetPunk is a trivia website that allows users to take quizzes on a range of subjects. JetPunk was originally created as an online travel website, launched in 2006.[2] In 2008, H Brothers, Inc. turned JetPunk into an online trivia website. Users can play and create quizzes on the website. The company's headquarters are located in Seattle.[3]
JetPunk.com receives over 1,500,000 visitors a month, contributing above 30,000,000 page views per month.[4]
Quizzes[edit]
Quizzes on JetPunk require the user to name all of the items within a given subject, or select a correct answer given a clue.[5][6][7]
Players can play quizzes with a timer, or choose to play untimed. Quizzes come in five game types: Text, Picture, Multiple Choice, Tile Select, and Map Quiz. [8] To date, the most popular quiz on JetPunk is "Countries of the World Quiz", created by user Quizmaster, which has been played over 18 million times.[9][10][11]
Levels[edit]
Users who have an account level up as they play featured quizzes - quizzes which were or will be put on the website's front page.[12]
Quizzes can be featured by Dan Hostetler, owner of JetPunk, or Stewart. When a quiz is featured, users can earn a maximum of 5 points from it, based on a number of factors, such as percentage correct, or percentile compared between others.[12]
Leveling up is currently possible in 8 of the languages offered by JetPunk, including English.
Categories[edit]
The trivia on JetPunk fall into 7 main categories: Geography, History, English Language, Sports, Movie, Music, and Television. Geography is the largest quiz category by number of quizzes.
Since 2008, JetPunk users have taken over 420 million quizzes and the website receives approximately 800,000 page views every day.[3]
Badges[edit]
JetPunk currently has a total of 31 badges that require users to obtain a certain score on selected quizzes. Badges relate to a specific topic, such as flags or video games.
List of all JetPunk badges in alphabetical order:
196, Border, British, China, Cities, Country Trivia, Flag, France, Generalissimo, Germany, History, Island, Italy, Language, Math Wizard, Movie Maven, Music, One Minute, Picture, Population, Puzzle, Random Geography, Satellite, Scientist, Spain, USA, U.S. State Trivia, Video Games, Welcome, Words, World Capitals.[13]
Nomination[edit]
Most quizzes on JetPunk are not featured. However, people are able to nominate their favorite quizzes. Quizzes with most nominations will most likely become featured. The Quizmaster features between 1-3 quizzes every Monday by this method. Also, Quizmaster's quiz are featured by default.[14]
Limit[edit]
Only users above level 15 can nominate, and a user could nominate 10 quizzes a week. Also, a user cannot nominate a quiz twice.
Languages[edit]
There are 10 featured languages, and 13 non-featured languages on JetPunk.[note 1]
| Language | Available for points | With featured quizzes | Available for normal quizzes |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Finnish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Arabic | No | Yes | Yes |
| Croatian | No | No | Yes |
| Czech | No | No | Yes |
| Danish | No | Yes | Yes |
| Greek | No | No | Yes |
| Hungarian | No | No | Yes |
| Japanese | No | No | Yes |
| Norwegian | No | No | Yes |
| Russian | No | No | Yes |
| Serbian | No | Yes | Yes |
| Simplified Chinese[note 2] | No | No | Yes |
| Swedish | No | No | Yes |
| Turkish | No | No | Yes |
"Countries of the World Quiz" has been translated into 55 languages.[note 3]
Traffic[edit]
As of May 2021[update], the United States leads the world in JetPunk traffic at 27.4%.[15] The United Kingdom is second at 15.8%, Australia is third at 4.8%, Canada is fourth at 4.6%, and France is fifth at 4.2%.
Membership[edit]
Registering on the website is optional and free and by creating an account, one can create quizzes, have their stats tracked, earn accomplishment badges, comment, and rate quizzes.
Premium membership is also available. It unlocks a few more functions such as Quiz Analytics.[16]
Philanthropy[edit]
On November 8th, 2019, JetPunk partnered with Trees for the Future. JetPunk donates 5% of their revenue to Trees for the Future, which helps people in Africa plant forest gardens.[17][18]
A counter of trees planted is placed at the top of the JetPunk homepage, below the quizzes taken counter. As of November 2021[update], a total of over 280,000 trees have been planted.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Featured languages are languages where a user can gain points.
- ↑ Some Traditional Chinese quizzes are posted there.
- ↑ Since Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese are the same language, there are 56 languages.
References[edit]
- ↑ "JetPunk.com Site Info". alexa.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ↑ "The History of JetPunk.com". web.archive.org.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "About JetPunk.com". www.jetpunk.com.
- ↑ "John Hostetler's data about JetPunk". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ↑ Leatherman, Benjamin (2020-04-27). "Everything You Need to Know About the Jeopardy! Anytime Test". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ↑ "50 idées d'activités non alcoolisées". tonpetitlook.com. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ↑ "Οι καλύτερες ιστοσελίδες για online κουίζ". in2life.gr. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ↑ "The Basics of Making a Quiz". reddit.com.
- ↑ "Countries of the World Quiz". www.jetpunk.com. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Forget Mensa, this trivia club is even tougher to break into". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ↑ "Teamplay #78: Das spielt die Redaktion". NplusX. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 ""Explain Points". jetpunk.com.
- ↑ jetpunk.com https://www.jetpunk.com/users/stewart/blog/the-depths-of-jetpunk-badges. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Nominated Quizzes". jetpunk.com.
- ↑ "SimilarWeb JetPunk Data". www.similarweb.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ↑ "JetPunk Membership". jetpunk.com.
- ↑ "A New Tree Planting Partner". www.jetpunk.com. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ↑ "JetPunk-Sponsors-Trees for the Future". Retrieved 2021-03-28.
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