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Cynthia Thomas Reher is a veterinarian in Bellevue, WashingtonSource: Cynthia Thomas ReherWhere did the actor Steve McQueen live as a child? Does brackish water have more freshwater than saltwater?If you can correctly answer questions like these, you might be done with your student loans sooner than you expected.Some 400,000 people have registered with Givling, a trivia app that is helping people pay off their student debt, said Seth Beard, Givling's chief marketing officer. People are tested in pop culture, history, geography, math, chemistry and more. Users play rounds of trivia on teams of three and prizes are given out weekly.The company was founded around four years ago, but it's taken off over the last year, Beard said. More than 5,000 people have won prizes on the app, he said,...

Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the HQ Trivia app and Vine, has been found dead in his New York apartment. Mr Kroll, 35, was discovered by police who were called to his lower Manhattan home by the tech entrepreneur's girlfriend soon after midnight on Sunday.She had been unable to raise him on the phone and asked officers to carry out a welfare check.When police arrived at his apartment on Spring Street near the Soho district, they found him unconscious and unresponsive on his bed.Celebrity website TMZ said there was "drug paraphernalia nearby", and that he had died of an apparent overdose. Image: Colin Kroll (r) and business partner Rus Yusupov at the 2014 Variety Breakthrough of the Year Awards He was pronounced dead a...

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HQ Trivia co-founder found dead at 35