Trivia game and system
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1. A trivia entertainment system comprising:
- a computing device,a host display,a viewer display,a computer-readable medium,a library of media elements comprising musical and/or video recordings that are each associated with a plurality of attributes, said library being stored on the computer-readable medium,a media player for playing the recording according to selection by a host or a predetermined playlist,a database comprising trivia records each associated with one or more attributes, said database being stored on the computer-readable medium,with the computing deviceproviding a graphical user interface controllable by a host on the host display,having access to the library and the database, being programmed to match attributes of the recordings with attributes of the trivia records to provide a plurality of trivia catalogs to the graphical user interface, andbeing programmed to respond to the graphical user interface to display a portion of the trivia on the viewer display,wherein the graphical user interfaceprovides integration with the media player to retrieve and display the attributes of the recording on the host display,exhibits the plurality of trivia catalogs, andprovides for host-selection of a trivia item from the plurality of trivia catalogs to display on the viewer display.
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Abstract
An embodiment of the invention is a trivia entertainment system providing for free association of recordings and trivia through a free form hosted selection process.
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1. A trivia entertainment system comprising:
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a computing device, a host display, a viewer display, a computer-readable medium, a library of media elements comprising musical and/or video recordings that are each associated with a plurality of attributes, said library being stored on the computer-readable medium, a media player for playing the recording according to selection by a host or a predetermined playlist, a database comprising trivia records each associated with one or more attributes, said database being stored on the computer-readable medium, with the computing device providing a graphical user interface controllable by a host on the host display, having access to the library and the database, being programmed to match attributes of the recordings with attributes of the trivia records to provide a plurality of trivia catalogs to the graphical user interface, and being programmed to respond to the graphical user interface to display a portion of the trivia on the viewer display, wherein the graphical user interface provides integration with the media player to retrieve and display the attributes of the recording on the host display, exhibits the plurality of trivia catalogs, and provides for host-selection of a trivia item from the plurality of trivia catalogs to display on the viewer display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of playing a hosted game with viewers that interact with a viewer display comprising:
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providing an entertainment system that comprises a computing device, a host display, a viewer display, a computer-readable medium, a library of media elements comprising musical and/or video recordings that are each associated with attributes, said library being stored on the computer-readable medium, a media player, a database comprising trivia records each associated with one or more attributes, said database being stored on the computer-readable medium, and a host graphical user interface controllable on the host display, selecting the recording for playing by a host or a predetermined playlist, with the system retrieving and displaying a plurality of attributes of the host-selected recording in the graphical user interface, matching, with the computing device, attributes of the recording with attributes of the trivia records to provide a plurality of trivia catalogs to display in the graphical user interface, and selecting at least one of the trivia items from at least one of the trivia catalogs via the graphical user interface to direct the controller to display the at least one selected trivia item on the viewer display. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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