Matt Richards

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It is 2018, and the people gather to take a phone in a real-time quiz app, where Players can win real cash.

Two years later, and in the Hq Trivia has gone bankrupt and shut down, to drink his moderators and swearing in of The Last live broadcast.

The Last game of the price was only $5 (£3. 83) - and this came from the pocket of host Matt Richards .

This price was divided by the 523 viewers.

It is a Far Cry from the app, the flowering time, when prices could reach $ 300,000 (£214,000) and Dwayne 'The Rock ' Johnson was a guest presenter on the 15-minute show.

Hq Trivia was free to download and play for free. A live Moderator will ask 12 multiple-choice, and who answers them all correct will win part of The Game , the prize money would ask.

A live chat during The Game , and the moderators messages from Players , the during the daily live broadcasts read.

Hq Trivia had, at its peak, More Than 2 million Players

It is estimated That in February 2018, at the same time.

During his life gave away $6 million (£4. 6 million) in cash prizes.

But on Friday, 14. February 2020, HQ, Trivia shut down, after the money from.

investors pulled their money out of the app and a plan for a new buyer to rescue The Company fell in The Last minute.

What happens in the HQ Quiz is The Last show?

were drunk and the presenters, Matt Richards and Anna Roisman, to close during last week's broadcast, and not to Hold Back your feelings on the app.

"Why are we shut down? I don't know it. Ask our investors. What do I do with my Aquarium? I think our investors ran out of money," Matt said during The Show .

"Someone hire me! I'm talented," said Anna.

Matt said, he'd opened two shots of tequila and the couple have a huge bottle of champagne, which he said was not saved, when the app reached 3 million Players .

Sharon Carpenter was one of the presenters on the Hq Trivia , if it was the most popular

In the year 2018 it is then-host Sharon Carpenter told Newsbeat she believed the Hq Trivia and its format was "The Future of Television - it is The Future of broadcasting".

"It's the same reason why people love live TV, but you can take wherever you are," She Said .

"You never know how The Game comes to an end - and I think there's this element of fear not to miss. "

'We wanted to blow up to,'

The app was founded by Colin Kroll and Rus Yusupvo - the people who founded the now-defunct video-sharing app Vine.

"We have never stopped experimenting with video technology," Rus told a news beat in 2018.

"With the HQ, we wanted to mix and to Break Out of these forms of classic Television .

"We thought, if they could, The Levels of production and broadcast directly to the people mobile phones and the content even more interactive and social - That we can transform in fact, this Into Something we could use daily. "

Colin Kroll in December 2018.

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Source of news: bbc.com