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JetPunk
Type of site
Quizzes & Trivia
Available inEnglish
French
Spanish
Dutch
Italian
German
Finnish
Portuguese
Polish
Founded2008
Country of originUnited States
OwnerH Brothers Inc.
URLwww.jetpunk.com[1]
Launched20 March 2008; 16 years ago (2008-03-20)
Current statusOnline

JetPunk is an online trivia and quizzing website. The service offers a variety of quizzes in different topics, such as geography, history, science, literature, and music.[2][3] The site offers quizzes in a variety of languages, including but not limited to: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, Finnish, Portuguese, and Polish.[4] JetPunk has its headquarters in Seattle.

History

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The website was established on 20 March 2008[5][6] and was created by brothers John and Daniel Hostetler (H Brothers Incorporated).[7] When it was first established, the website was originally a travel agency-like website and its purpose was to search for airline flights, and afterwards the creators added a search feature for hotels. By September 2008, the website began to display quizzes, beginning with a quiz that required one to name all 196 countries of the world.[8][9][10] By the end of the year, the quizzes began branching out into other genres. In 2009, the website's design had changed, and JetPunk had its first major change in the beginning of 2011 when it allowed users to create their own quizzes. The quizzes became the primary feature and the JetPunk fish was introduced as the website's logo. The number of quizzes taken grew steadily, eventually reaching 5 million pageviews in 2012.[11]

Website

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The website offers many different features. Its mascot is a pufferfish that was originally named Ike, but is commonly referred to as Jeppy the JetPunk Fish, or Jeppy for short. Around Christmas, the logo at the top of the site changes to Jeppy wearing a Santa hat.

Gameplay

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The SVG map used for JetPunk's most popular quiz, Countries of the World

Users have the ability to take a quiz timed or untimed

Quiz types on JetPunk
Quiz type Description
Text The quiztaker is given a grid. The grid may be empty, or may contain hints, questions or other information. The quiztaker must type in a certain number of answers, which will then appear on the grid.
Picture The quiztaker is shown a certain number of pictures and must type in a certain number of answers based on the pictures.
Click The quiztaker is shown a hint, and must click the correct option(s) from a list of options, based on the hint given.
Click map The quiztaker is given a map and a list of options (such as countries or U.S. states). The quiz sequentially highlights parts of the map, and the quiztaker must select the option that matches what is highlighted on the map.
Multiple choice The quiztaker is given a set of questions, each of which has multiple answer choices. The quiztaker must choose the correct answer choice for each question.
Tile select The quiztaker is given a prompt and a set of tiles. They must select all the tiles that match the prompt and leave all other tiles unselected.

The site enables users to play both featured and non-featured quizzes. Featured quizzes allow a user to gain points on JetPunk. Up to 5 points can be earned from each featured quiz; the number of points gained is based on the user's score on the quiz, or their percentile among other quiztakers, whichever is higher.

Percentile % Correct Points
>95 100% 5
75-95 90% 4
60-75 80% 3
50-60 65% 2
25-50 50% 1
<25 <50% 0

The user's "JetPunk level" will increase upon reaching certain point thresholds.[2][12] Users are required to reach minimum levels to perform certain actions on the website. For example, since October 2021, one must be at least level 40 and be on the website for at least six months to be able to create blog posts.[13] Featured quizzes must be taken timed in order for points to be gained.[12]

Contrastingly, non-featured quizzes do not allow for users to gain points or increase their level on the website. Users can also make quizzes, which may be featured by Dan Hostetler, the JetPunk Quizmaster, or via user nominations. The site currently contains hundreds of thousands of quizzes, including over 20,000 geography quizzes.[14] Getting certain scores on specific quizzes will get users badges, and there are currently 33 different badges on the site that users can earn.[15]

In addition to geography quizzes, JetPunk caters to a large audience of various pop culture communities through various quiz documenting information about popular franchises. Pokémon is one such franchise, containing popular quizzes regarding the various characters and types with many takes across multiple languages.[16]

The website also has other features, such as blogs and charts or the JetPunk Word Search, along with other minigames.

The JetPunk Word Search offered a new word search puzzle every day from 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2023.[17] It was then discontinued for two months. On 1 April 2023, the minigame was brought back to the website, with all previous daily puzzles made available.[18]

The gameplay and level features are similar to sites such as Sporcle, which it is commonly compared to.[19][20]

Other Major Features

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Besides quizzes, JetPunk also offers blogs and charts. Blogs allow users to post content with text and images and share it with the community. Blogging has declined since 2021.[21] Charts allow users to make a customized chart with input data to share on the site.[22] After playing a quiz, users will get to see an Interesting Fact or Interesting Quote that has been randomly selected.[23] These are accessible through the Data and Charts tab. On sports quizzes, there are Baseball Facts and Basketball Facts. In early 2024, JetPunk tried a Word of the Day feature, which instead of Interesting Facts a word showed every day. This has since been removed. The site has a Streak feature, which users can extend every day by getting a certain number of questions right on a featured quiz.[24] JetPunk also offers Nominations and Spotlights. Users can nominate about 10 quizzes a week.[25] Every week, the quiz with the most nominations will be featured. Spotlight Awards are given to users at high levels. They can pick an unfeatured quiz to spotlight on the front page.[26]

Social networking

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The website has a large array of interactive functionality for inter-user networking, such as being able to leave comments on a certain quiz, rating quizzes, making and "liking" blog posts, and replying to other users, similar to features that would be found on a traditional social media site.[27] The site also allows users to "friend" each other to easily compare scores on quizzes.

Membership

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Only users of the site are allowed to create quizzes and acquire badges for playing certain ones, although basic registration is free. Users can also acquire a JetPunk Premium membership that allows access to certain features of the site, such as Quiz Analytics, as well as the removal of ads on the site.[28]

Popularity

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As of August 2024, the website's quizzes have been played over 1 billion times. The site's most popular quiz, the "Countries of the World Quiz", has been played over 35 million times.[29] The site has also been mentioned in the Hindustan Times as a "great trivia hotspot",[30] and some of its geography quizzes have been featured in various YouTube videos, including one by British YouTuber GeoWizard.[31]

TikTok has become a popular spot for sharing JetPunk, in which many people will upload timelapsed videos of themselves completing JetPunk quizzes for their audiences, typically of quizzes where one "fills in" a map with their answers. The JetPunk tag on TikTok has over 46 million views as of May 2023.[32]

Languages

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Initially, JetPunk was only available in English, but after a few years of existence as a quiz website, more and more languages became usable. Available languages can be classified on a feature hierarchy, from the ones who have a fully dedicated section (9 languages) to those who only have an officialised "Countries of the World" quiz (over 60).[33]

Featured languages are not selected on the basis of the number of speakers in the world, but according to the activity of each language on the site itself. This is why only four of the seven languages considered as "big" or "regional" by David Graddol[34] have a dedicated section on JetPunk. Finnish is the latest language which got featured, on 10 May 2021. In 2022, the non-featured language with the most users was Russian, representing about 1.5% of the accounts on the site.[35]

JetPunk languages
Languages Dedicated section Dedicated page(s) Featured "Countries of the World" quiz "Countries of the World" quiz
Afrikaans No No No Yes
Albanian No No No Yes
Arabic No Yes Yes Yes
Azerbaijani No No No Yes
Bengali No No No Yes
Bulgarian No Yes No Yes
Catalan No No No Yes
Chinese (simplified) No No No Yes
Chinese (traditional) No No No Yes
Croatian No Yes No Yes
Czech No Yes No Yes
Danish No Yes Yes Yes
Dutch Yes Yes Yes Yes
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
Esperanto No No No Yes
Estonian No Yes No Yes
Finnish Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes Yes
Galician No No No Yes
Georgian No No No Yes
German Yes Yes Yes Yes
Greek No Yes No Yes
Hebrew No No No Yes
Hindi No No No Yes
Hungarian No Yes No Yes
Icelandic No No No Yes
Indonesian No No No Yes
Irish No No No Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes Yes
Japanese No Yes No Yes
Korean No No No Yes
Latin No No No Yes
Latvian No No No Yes
Lithuanian No No No Yes
Luxembourgish No No No Yes
Maltese No No No Yes
Maori No No No Yes
Nepali No No No Yes
Norwegian No Yes No Yes
Persian No No No Yes
Picard No No No Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Romanian No No No Yes
Romansh No No No Yes
Russian No Yes No Yes
Samoan No No No Yes
Serbian No Yes Yes Yes
Slovak No No No Yes
Slovenian No No No Yes
Sorbian No No No Yes
Spanish Yes Yes Yes Yes
Swedish No Yes No Yes
Tagalog No No No Yes
Telugu No Yes No Yes
Thai No No No Yes
Turkish No Yes No Yes
Ukrainian No No No Yes
Urdu No No No Yes
Uzbek No No No Yes
Venetian No Yes No Yes
Vietnamese No No No Yes
Welsh No No No Yes
Yiddish No No No Yes

Philanthropy

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JetPunk donates 5% of their revenue for planting trees.[36][37] Until 2022, the site used to have a counter at the top of their homepage that showcases an estimation on how many trees have been planted, based on funds contributed. Currently, the counter is not continuously updated. In the past, JetPunk has partnered with Arbor Day Foundation in order to plant trees. Since November 8, 2019, they have partnered with a non-profit organization called Trees for the Future. Since then, they have planted over 500,000 trees.[38]

Analytics

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As of May 2023, JetPunk ranks No. 71 in the list of most visited gaming websites in the United States.[39] 19.39% of the site's users are from the United States, with 10.46% from the United Kingdom, and 9.79% from France, respectively. Furthermore, a majority of JetPunk users come from the western world.[40][41] The website also gets about 1.5 million pageviews daily, equaling approximately 547.5 million pageviews annually.[7] According to the official website, over 733.5 million quizzes have been taken.[4]

JetPunk Shop

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After months of development, the JetPunk Shop became live and visible to the public on the 29 June 2023.[42] The shop sells JetPunk-related merchandise like clothing, accessories and stickers. The products are not mass-produced, meaning that they are made after a customer purchases one online.[43] The website itself is powered by Shopify. The JetPunk Shop closes at the end of 2024.

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