Samsung TV / game / WHOINVENTEDTHAT
REVIEW
whoinventedthat is trivia stripped of everything that makes trivia fun.
Another Aristomax Technologies submission to the Samsung Tizen store, this one a single-player invention-trivia quiz with no host, no party mode, and no reason to play it on a television.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 9, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
whoinventedthat
ARISTOMAX TECHNOLOGIES
OUR SCORE
4.0
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Trivia on a television is a co-viewing activity. The reason to put a quiz on the largest screen in the room is to make the screen the centre of a small social event — multiple players, a host voice, a scoreboard everyone can see, a moment of shared embarrassment when someone confidently picks the wrong answer. Trivia apps that ship to TV stores and do not implement any of that have misunderstood the assignment, and whoinventedthat is one of those apps.
The product is single-player. One person, one Samsung remote, one cursor crawling across a multiple-choice grid. The questions are about inventions and inventors, the facts where verifiable appear correct, and the underlying topic is a perfectly reasonable trivia subgenre. None of which addresses the structural issue: a single-player invention quiz on a phone is faster, easier, and better supplied with high-quality apps already. The TV adds nothing.
This is the second of three near-identical Aristomax Technologies submissions in this batch and the same pattern applies — no platform-specific design work, no editorial care, no reason to choose it over a phone alternative. For a Samsung TV owner browsing the store on a quiet evening, whoinventedthat is the install you scroll past.
Trivia is a social game. whoinventedthat is single-player on a TV remote, and you can feel the contradiction immediately.
FEATURES
whoinventedthat is a single-player trivia app from Aristomax Technologies, released to Samsung Tizen in April 2026. The format is a multiple-choice question stream on the topic of inventions and inventors — "who invented X" prompts with three or four candidate answers and a tally of correct responses across a session.
Played via the Samsung TV remote — directional pad to select, OK to confirm. The app does not appear to support multiple players, host-and-player split, second-screen joining via a phone, or any of the structural patterns that make TV trivia work as a co-viewing activity.
Free, with the same opaque monetization model as the developer's other Tizen submissions in this batch (ultimateIQtest, WordDetective). The lowercase no-space title is consistent with this developer's naming pattern.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Invention trivia is a real and pleasant subgenre of general-knowledge quizzes — the questions can be educational, surprising, and worth repeating at a dinner table. The underlying question bank, where the facts are correct, has the bones of a category that interested users could enjoy.
The app does not crash, the question stream advances, and the scoring tally functions. As bare-minimum criteria, those are met.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Single-player on a TV is the structural error. Trivia is a social game; the reason to put trivia on the largest screen in the room is to involve everyone in the room. whoinventedthat does the opposite — one person, one remote, one cursor — and at that point the phone is faster, more comfortable, and better in every measurable way.
The question bank shows signs of automated generation. The phrasing is repetitive, several questions in a typical session feel templated rather than written, and there is no editorial filtering for question quality. Real trivia apps have a host voice; this one has none.
No host mode, no party mode, no QR-code second-screen pairing, no team scoring. The product does not engage with any of the design patterns that have defined TV-trivia apps over the last decade. The most charitable reading is that this is a phone-trivia template recompiled for Tizen with no platform-specific design effort.
CONCLUSION
Skip this. If you want trivia on a TV with people in the room, the established multi-player trivia platforms exist and are worth their price. If you want single-player trivia, your phone is the right device for it. whoinventedthat fails the basic test of being designed for the screen it runs on.