About FaveIQ

FaveIQ is a website of quick quiz games about Afrobeats and African music. Play the daily Fan Five without signing up. Add your email and you get 19 more games on artists like Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tems and Rema, and on the wider culture, from Fela's Afrobeat and highlife to jùjú, fuji and the music of Ghana. Every answer comes with its fact and its source, so you learn something whether you get it right or not.

What can you play?

• The Fan Five: five questions a day, 15 seconds each, the same five for everyone. A new one starts at midnight, Lagos time, and you don't need an account. Play today's Fan Five.
• Your Workout: five games a day, picked for the artists you follow and the skills you're training.
• The Jukebox: any game, any artist or Culture pack, any time.
• Fanbase Wars: pick a fanbase and play for it. Each week runs Monday to Sunday, Lagos time, and fanbases compete on their most active members' average.
• Challenge a friend: send your Fan Five and see who knows more.

The 19 games

• Higher or Lower (on artists): Two songs, one bigger number. Keep going until you miss.
• Timeline (on artists and Culture packs): Put five releases or moments in order, oldest first.
• Feature Finder (on artists and Culture packs): Who's on the song? Eight quick picks in a minute.
• Album Match (on artists and Culture packs): Which album is the song on? Eight quick picks in a minute.
• Peak Pick (on artists): Where did it peak? Pick the chart position.
• Tour Guide (on artists and Culture packs): Venues, cities and festivals. Six questions in a minute.
• Which Came First (on artists and Culture packs): Two moments, one came first. Keep going until you miss.
• Roots Run (on Culture packs): Eight quick questions from one pack in a minute.
• The Envelope (on Culture packs): A ceremony, a year, a category. Pick the winner from the real nominees.
• Beat or Beats? (on Culture packs): One act at a time: which sound is it known for? Ten quick cards.
• Odd One Out (on artists and Culture packs): Four items and a rule. Spot the one that breaks it.
• Pidgin Decoder (on Culture packs): A word from song titles or fan talk. Pick what it means.
• Link Up (on artists and Culture packs): Two songs, one artist on both. Who links them?
• Bookends (on artists and Culture packs): Which track opens the album, and which one closes it?
• Label Tree (on artists and Culture packs): Who signed whom, and when? Five quick picks.
• Sample Hunt (on artists and Culture packs): Which record did they flip? Five quick picks.
• Behind the Beat (on artists and Culture packs): Who produced it? Six quick picks in a minute.
• Title Talk (on artists and Culture packs): What does the title mean? Six quick picks in a minute.
• Big Stage (on artists and Culture packs): Finals, ceremonies and soundtracks. Five questions in a minute.

Which artists are on FaveIQ?

Every artist with a page on FaveIQ has their own games and their own Fan IQ. They include Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, Tems, Rema, Asake, Tyla and Ayra Starr. See them all on the Artists page.

What do the Culture packs cover?

Culture packs go beyond one artist, into the music around them: Fela and Afrobeat, highlife, jùjú, fuji and apala, the music of Ghana, Nigerian pop before Afrobeats, awards, real names, labels and producers, samples and what song titles mean.

How do scores work?

• Fan IQ: one for each artist you play, from 0 to 100, built from five skills: Charts, Eras, Collabs, Numbers and Live. A radar shows where you're strongest.
• Culture IQ: from the Culture games, built from four skills: Roots, Scenes, Industry and Awards.
• Afrobeats IQ: once you've answered at least 10 rated questions on each of three artists, it's the average of your Fan IQs, weighted by how many questions you've answered on each artist.
• Scores rise and fall with what you know. Each comes with a level, lowest first: Fresh Ears, Tuned In, Real Fan, Day One, Sabi and Agba. They're working names we're testing with fans.

Where do the questions come from?

Every question is built from facts we have checked, and every fact has a source you can open.

• A fact counts as checked when one primary source shows it, such as an official chart, a certification register or an awards ceremony's own site, or when two secondary sources from different publishers agree.
• Different publishers means a different name, a different site and a different family of sites: a Wikipedia page and its Wikidata item count as one publisher.
• Some facts always need two independent sources: an artist's genre, facts about a genre, a birth name, a band's line-up, a label signing and what a title means.
• Culture questions need two independent sources for every fact they use, except awards, where a primary source on the ceremony's own website is enough.
• A source that gives a different answer is kept on record but never counts, and Culture questions never use a fact the sources disagree on.
• A source has to be a page a reader can open and check: a chart site's internal data feed doesn't count. Nor does TimesLIVE, which turns away the tools we use to check facts.

The sources cited most include Apple Music, Wikipedia, TurnTable's charts and certifications, the Official Charts Company, The Headies, MusicBrainz and the Recording Academy, and certification bodies such as the RIAA, the BPI and Music Canada.

How is each question checked?

• An editor checks every question as a player will see it before it goes live.
• After you answer, you see the fact behind the question and its source.
• Spot a mistake? Tap “Report a problem” after you answer. When three players with accounts report a question, it leaves play until an editor has checked it again.

Questions people ask

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Contact

FaveIQ is run by Emmanuel Ukpaka. Ideas, corrections or press: team@faveiq.com. See also the Terms of use and Privacy.