In the 20th century, the term random data came to infer data that is valuable solely for responding to test questions. An ideal random data question is one that at first stumps the audience, yet the appropriate response therefore sounds recognizable once uncovered (in any case the inquiry would be considered either excessively natural, or so new and dark as to be unanswerable and not as engaging).
In the sixties, understudies started to casually exchange questions and replies about the mainstream society of their childhood. The principal archived naming of this easygoing game as random data was at Columbia University. A phase challenge held at Columbia was the primary event where the diversion was formalized. In 1965, four Columbia understudies showed up on the TV show "I've Got a Secret" and contended in a random data challenge with the show's ordinary specialists. A much-exposed First Annual Ivy League-Seven Sisters Trivia Contest was held at Columbia a similar semester. By 1966, different grounds had initiated random data bowls, while schools, for example, Williams College and Lawrence University started radio challenges which proceed right up 'til today. As such, the classified type of the redirection turned into an establishment.
In the mid 1980s, "Questions and answers" turned into a famous question and answer contest. This is a prepackaged game where progress is dictated by a player's capacity to answer general information and mainstream society questions. In North America, the game's fame topped in 1984, a year in which more than 20 million games were sold. The rights to the game were authorized to Parker Brothers (presently Hasbro) in 1988, after at first being turned somewhere around the Virgin Group. In 2008, Hasbro purchased out the rights in full, for US$80 million. Starting at 2004, almost 88 million games had been sold in 26 nations and 17 dialects.
The huge achievement of "Questions and answers" prompted the re-dispatch of "Risk!", resuscitating a test show classification that had been lethargic since the test show outrages of the 1950s. The American TV telecaster ABC had an unexpected hit with "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", an import of a fruitful British test design which dispatched another rush of interest in random data. In both the UK and Canada, the test design has delighted in nonstop accomplishment since the 1950s, immaculate by the embarrassments that hounded the American configuration.