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Sporcleling 

The act of playing Sporcle on sporcle.com, often when one should be working or paying attention in class...WARNING! EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE!
Teacher: "Why didn't you finish your homework last night?"

Student: "I was up till 3am sporcleling...IT'S AN ADDICTION!"
Sporcleling by Peep91 May 17, 2009
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sporcle effect 

An effect particular to people who frequently play quiz games on sporcle.com, whereupon they easily remember obscure facts but forget glaringly obvious ones.
Oh this is great, the Sporcle Effect in full form here. I remembered Kyrgyzstan and Papua New Guinea, but not the friggin' UK!
sporcle effect by segacs July 9, 2010

Sporcle-itis 

A disease that is quickly spreading across nerds around the world. It is crucially important to know the causes and symptoms so you don't suffer the same fate:

Cause: Discovering sporcle, a trivia website that quizzes you on basically everything. Very fun, but also quickly addicting.

Symptoms: You may have sporcle-itis if you have experienced any of these symptoms:

- Loss of sleep by trying to get a perfect score on a quiz

- Overheating of your computer due to an excess of time spent on it

- Lack of motivation to do anything social, as it may cut in to your sporcle time

- Loss of color to the skin due to lack of time outside

If you or a loved one is experiencing any of these symptoms, please go to sporcle.com now to satisfy your needs.
Billy: Hey LeShawn, come to my party this weekend. There's gonna be a ton of hot babes there!

LeShawn: Party? Weekend? NO!! That means I'm not at my computer, and not trying to get all of the top 100 movie characters of all time on Sporcle! <Crawls back into basement>

Billy: Damn, he's got some major sporcle-itis.
A trivia website that has quizzes in all subjects: sports, geography, television, and more. The user types possible answers in a box and once he/she gets a correct answer it shows up on the quiz.

WARNING: Known to be very addictive and can cause massive sleep deprivation. Sporcle-itis is known as the stage of addiction to sporcle.
Joe: Hey dude, are you alright?
John: I'm fine, I'm just incredibly tired. I spent all last night trying to get a perfect score on Countries of the World on Sporcle.
Joe: Dude, I just did that a couple of days ago!
Sporcle by Sporcle-Addict July 6, 2009

Sporcle Effect 

When one person is on Sporcle.com (often at school or in a workplace) everyone in a ten-foot radius becomes instantly distracted and joins them in the Sporcle quiz.
"Man, I have this math test in 2 hours, I really need to study!... wait... is that sporcle? FSM! THE ANSWER IS FSM!"
-3 hours later-
"wow... i totally flunked that test... DAMN YOU SPORCLE EFFECT!"
standing 69 position
Billy and I decided to sporcle tonight.
sporcle by Josh Endy August 2, 2011
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