Trivia Question Skill

Overview

Each request delivers a question prompt, an array of multiple-choice choices, the verified answer, and the assigned category. Free plans draw questions from the general category, while paid plans can target categories like literature, history, and science-technology. A secondary lookup endpoint supplies the full list of available categories.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as TriviaQuestionSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "TriviaQuestionSkill",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`category`OptionalPremium	string	The category of the trivia question `animalsbrain-teaserscelebritiesentertainmentfor-kidsgeneralgeographyhistory`+14 default general

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "question": "Is the Pink Cadillac the trademark of Mary Kay beauty products?",
    "answer": "Yes",
    "options": [
      "A Yes",
      "B No"
    ],
    "category": "general"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`question`	string	`Is the Pink Cadillac the trademark of Mary Kay beauty products?`	The trivia question text to be answered
`answer`	string	`Yes`	The correct answer to the trivia question
`options`	array	`["A Yes","B No"]`	Array of answer choices including correct and incorrect options
`category`	string	`general`	The category classification for this trivia question

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Community Chatbot Games: Discord and Slack bots fetch random questions with answer options to run automated trivia rounds during community gaming sessions.
Classroom Warmup Quizzes: Teachers display quick multiple-choice questions on digital whiteboards to start class periods with low-stakes general knowledge challenges.
Digital Signage Displays: Venues rotate fresh trivia prompts and answer choices across waiting room monitors to keep visitors entertained while in line.
Team Icebreaker Rounds: Meeting hosts pull instant questions across diverse topics to run quick warmup competitions at the start of company gatherings.