Our own Trivia competition.

Redbelly98

At http://my.funtrivia.com/private/board.cfm?tid=87626 :
We could try that. To space out the sci/tech days, perhaps World Trivia could be moved to Monday, and have sci/tech on Sun-Tue-Thu.

Out of curiosity, what are the choices? Besides the obvious bias toward sci/tech, I like the Fun Trivia days as well.

The current schedule is

What do others think? (I shouldn't be the only voice in changing the categories.)

Integral

Redbelly,
I like your suggestions, and if no one objects, will implement them.

The list of topics include,
Animals (1 level)
celebrities
general knowledge (6 levels)
geography (3 levels)
history (3 level)
hobbies (1 level)
literature (2 levels)
movies (3 levels)
music (3 levels)
people (2 levels)
religion (3 levels)
sci/tech (3 levels)
sports (4 levels)
world (5 levels)

One issue is the number of questions, the default mixed bag has 100000 questions, some of the levels have less then 1000. I try to pick categories with several thousand questions, even then there seems to be lots of repeats. The smaller and easier categories turn into speed contests. Since I am slow, I tend to avoid those.

Do we want a speed demon day? Some of you are getting pretty fast now, I would be fine with it if that is what you want.
some of these have multiple levels

Chi Meson

Gorsh, lemme think about that.....

Chi Meson

Thought about it.

Yup.

Redbelly98

And it only took you 44,760 seconds

Wow, there are a lot of topics. Another option would be to switch 1 or 2 of them around 3 or 4 weeks, but keeping at least 2 sci/tech quizzes each week. Of course, that is extra work for you Integral, so feel free to ignore this suggestion.

It may be that people are pretty okay with whatever you decide.

Integral

It is not all that hard to change topics. With the smaller question sets it would be a very good idea to just run them for a few weeks. Not a problem.

Redbelly98

The current mix of topics seems reasonable. I know some days leave me thinking "What the ___?", but it shouldn't be lots of people getting 10's all the time.

Redbelly98

It might be worth changing some topics for August. I have nothing against the current list, I'm thinking more for the sake of variety.

I'd be for keeping the two Sci & Tech quizzes, since we're mostly Sci & Tech people in here.

Kurdt

Some are too easy and its just a test of speed. Some of us are chronicly slow. I support a rotation.

Integral

I also suffer from a slow click. Personally I do not like the speed tests but some people enjoy that so I have kept one on the schedual.

I agree that it is time for a change, will see what I can come up with. I am very dissapointed in the lack of a true history catagory, when I have tried them they are called humanities and simply do not have the questions I want.

maverick_starstrider

I am sure it's been talked about somewhere in this ginormous thread so my apologies if this is a repeat but do people here know about www.sporcle.com?

Redbelly98

I'm the same way. But the FunTrivia Mix is often a speed quiz as well, so with General Knowledge - Easier we had up to 3 of these in a single week.

Just noticed the new schedule. Thanks Integral!

hypatia

Still fun, thanks Integral.

Jasongreat

I guess I should have read further into this thread than Trivia in the first post, here i've been using my mouse pad on my laptop.

Chi Meson

OK.

It's Thursday. I check into the Trivia game. Lo and behold, Integral, my nemesis, has tanked. Last time this happened, I missed that day. But not today, no not today.

I planned my strategy...

wait to the last moment, wait until the kids are all asleep and everything is quiet,

wait for everyone else to play and see how fast I need to go, or whether I can take my time and score higher. It's a careful decision.

Anyway, I need to take my son to his swimming lesson and he can't find his Crocs. I get up, and help him with his things and get his swim bag all ready, and I turn back to put the computer to sleep and...

BENNY IS PLAYING THE QUIZ!

Benny is four, and he knows how to play internet games. He hit the start button and was halfway through answering the questions and a full minute into the game!

"YAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Benny! Benny! GEt away from there! You've ruined me! YOU'VE RUINED MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

QUickly, no knowing how many seconds have gone by, I fix all the answers I can, in total panic. Arg! Arg! Arg! I hit submit, Three wrong!

Still, edged out Integral.

Integral

:))

Chi,
That had me laughing harder than I have in a long time. Thanks for sharing.

I can't promise that I will give you another chance like that, so guess you will just have to settle for #2 again.

(What happened to all of our smileys?)

Redbelly98

Look on the bright side Chi. Thanks to your son, I got my first win in 2 months.