Me and my relatives/friends like quiz games.
But the lack of languages beside English and French hinders my friends/family from playing this with me, so I must pass.

I agree. One misses more languages to play in such as German, Italian and Spanish. In my case, I also enjoy the quiz games. I haven't seen a game of this genre on PC and GOG for a long time. Congratulations, GOG! Thank you!

What's especially baffling about this release is that both, the development team, and the publishing team, are situated in Germany, and are part of Austrian's THQ Nordic.

So, at least one more version done in German shouldn't have been too hard to do.

I think I saw one of the topics is US geography, so that's a hard pass for me... I wouldn't have taken issue with some global geography questions, but meh (not a big fan of geography in general anyway).

P.S.: Ok, apparently there IS a world geography topic as well: https://images.gog-statics.com/94a34b94d467ae7ff027ffce1dbff1537dd97f80c3c20640cfcb45d0baa11f1a.jpg

Guess I'll have to stick to The Weakest Link :P.

Perhaps the problem is that they standardise the product for the international market where English is the predominant language. I have seen releases from non-English speaking countries in English as the only language available for play. Maybe soon they will add more languages to play in. I really hope so! :)

Yeah, well...that's always an issue with (computer) quizzes.

I mean, if I'd try to play my old Trivial Pursuit edition from the 80s with someone born in the 90s or 00s...they couldn't answer most of the "time/decade related" questions, either.

The same goes in huge parts for me, if the questions are about modern movie and/or popstars, etc.
Some of these people, I've never even heard the names of. ;) Here on GOG?
Has often to do with different right holders for the different languages.
But in this case, that shouldn't matter (I assume).

Edit: typo

What a stupid ass concept for a quiz game...

Or perhaps it's because they were developing it for MGM and the U.S. and CDN markets. :-)

Maybe.

Being US-centric is a hard pass for me here too.

Better if we would get JDKJ... Blame the creators of the TV-show the game is based upon and that was exported to various countries.
Not to speak about the many TV shows with a related concept.

It's actually an interesting concept. I had watched a few episodes of the french show, which was presented by an old stand-up comedian who's very good with kids, and I think it works on two levels : each generation tends to learn more than the former ones at similar ages, and more importantly we tend to forget a LOT of school material once it ceased to be helpful to our fields of work/interest. So it's fun to put kids with fresh school material in head versus adults with foggy memories of that material.

But... I don't think the concept can translate well into a computer game.

> Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Have my doubts cause I play chess with 5 yo Magnus Carlsen (simulated, of course) and I win from time to time.

I watched this TV show a long time ago, it's pretty dumb. It mainly takes advantage of the fact that grade schoolers have a bunch of useless knowledge crammed into their heads that they'll forget in their 20' because it serves no purpose for 99.9% of the population. If for some reason you ever need to know it or remember some trivial thing, well we have the Internet now don't we?

There are psychological theories (citation needed) that accumulation of knowledge could lead to making otherwise unthinkable relations, somewhat similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic > "... transition from quantity to quality".
The mind is a mysterious thing and a grain of knowledge could trip it into an odd(and beneficial) direction. Not much different from an artificial machine-learned entity producing unexpected results when fed with an input of tiny delta.