[1] QuizUp was a multiplayer game where one user competes against another in seven rounds of timed multiple-choice questions of various topics.

[6] Five days later, on 5 October 2015, it was announced that British channel ITV had also acquired the rights to their own game show version.

[9] In September 2016, as a result of NBC cancelling their show, QuizUp's creator, Plain Vanilla, laid off all of their employees and announced a plan to sell the app before the end of 2016.

On 24 March 2021, QuizUp's servers were taken offline and the application and web service became inaccessible, after several hours of delay.

[15] Users also could choose to sign into QuizUp with an email address and not connect with a social media site.

[2] In each of the six normal rounds, the same question was given to each player with ten seconds to choose an answer out of the four responses provided.