Are You Ready to Test Your Trivia Skills and Win Prizes?

[Integral]

http://my.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=87626" quiz for all of you who like this sort of thing.

This is 10 timed questions. You get 100 points for each correct answer and lose 1pt for each second. The more people the better, so I am hoping we can get a good contingent playing with regularity.

 

[Mk]

I got nine fun bucks. Are we going to use those for anything?

 

[Integral]

They are pretty useless, poke around the site there are some "trophies" you can buy.

 

[hypatia]

That was fun, and easy. Ca'mon everybody give it a try!

 

[Integral]

Yeah, what Hypatia said!

I can change the question sets, will set up some days as Tech/science questions. The trouble is that they are smaller question sets, so you get a significant number of repeats. There will be a new quiz every day, so come back tomorrow and try again.

 

[cristo]

Hmmm.. I'll do better tomorrow

 

[Andre]

Okay I did the test, two wrong.

Suppose that the quiz involved the question: Which Dutch actress died of breast cancer in 2001 after refusing medical help, turning to the woowoo's, how many Americans would have it right? But there is nobody over age 15 in Holland that would have had the answer wrong. But they would also probably have spelled "batting average" wrong.

Just a heads up that there are global questions and local questions.

 

[hypatia]

Oh I did bad today, but I am having a very bad day all across the board.

 

[arildno]

I beat hypatia, cristo is another matter.

 

[BobG]

Oh I did bad today, but I am having a very bad day all across the board.

You did better than Chi_Meson.

At least I did better than hypatia! Yess!

So you start with 1000 points and lose 100 for each wrong answer, plus a point for each second. I should have tried going faster. In fact, I should have read Integral's original post more thoroughly. Doh!

I wonder if everyone missed the same question.

 

[Kurdt]

Well I'm annoyed, I'd like to be at the top.

 

[arildno]

Well I'm annoyed, I'd like to be at the top.

You're on top of me (and hypatia).
That's nice, isn't it?

 

[Kurdt]

I suppose that'll have to do arildno.

 

[Chi Meson]

You did better than Chi_Meson.

I felt bad for dominating the first contest so thoroughly and soundly and completely and entirely and unequivocally. So, I deliberately decided to suck on the second one. Now, everyone who's tried has done better AND worse than I.

 

[Kurdt]

Aww did I miss the first?

 

[Integral]

There is a pretty wide variety of questions, some of them are barely trivia, like that ones that are nearly self referential ie "what do you do if you see a question you don't like".

I am going to be adjusting the question set to tailor them to our site. Look for some changes in the next few days.


The more the merrier so give it a whirl, it is painless and takes a few minutes.

As a side note, I have been participating in a similar quiz on Anandtech, winning times there are usually less then 40sec!

You can use the keyboard, Tab moves to the next question, up and down arrows select the answer.

Keep playing!

 

[BobG]

Wooa for lisab! She got all 10!

 

[tribdog]

I always run into a problem with this kind of test because I usually win and everyone I beat gets upset because they've labeled me as "dumb ol' tribdog"
I just want to come out and say don't feel bad because I've crushed you. there is no shame in being beaten so thoroughly. Just remember that at least you are in good company and will never be lonely in that oh so large group of my mental inferiors.

Edit: There's no such thing as a dumb question, just dumb people.

 

[Kurdt]

If I wasn't so damned slow for some reason. I thought I went pretty fast.

 

[tribdog]

wow, only nine people playing? I'm just posting right now so that it shows up as a new post and someone else notices it

 

[lisab]

I'm sunk on any question relating to movies, actors, musicals...I litterally could not care less about such things, but they're always such a big part of trivia games.

 

[BobG]

Woohoo! I won yesterday!

I'm doing the moonwalk, baby! And posting without any typpppppp

 

[arildno]

I won! Almostly!



(what can I buy for my fun bucks?)

 

[cristo]

I'm winning one, finally!

 

[Kurdt]

Argh! I read so damned slow. Its not fair.

 

[Chi Meson]

I'm winning one, finally!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
:grumpy pirate:

 

[Kurdt]

Damn my poor reading skills once again.

 

[tribdog]

Mine's going to be tough to beat today

 

[arildno]

Correcting for my language handicap, I am the moral winner today!

 

[Chi Meson]

Mine's going to be tough to beat today

Oh yeah?


edit:

yeah, I guess.

 

[Moonbear]

I finally signed up. Fun! I just need to avoid the questions about computers. They slow me down and I get them wrong anyway.

 

[cristo]

I finally signed up. Fun! I just need to avoid the questions about computers. They slow me down and I get them wrong anyway.

At least you had several biology questions to make up for it!

 

[Moonbear]

At least you had several biology questions to make up for it!

Yep! They were all easy ones though.

Spoiler

For example, you don't even need to know all the parts of the small intestine in order to get that question right, because the colon was only last in one of them.

My students WISH I'd write questions that easy for them.

 

[Chi Meson]

Hey hey hey hey hey!

Spoiler alert!

Talk about today's quiz TOMORROW!

 

[cristo]

Hey hey hey hey hey!

Spoiler alert!

Talk about today's quiz TOMORROW!

Good point. I'll put some spoiler tags around the part of Moonbear's post giving away the answer in case she doesn't notice this. (Hopefully she won't mind!)

 

[Integral]

I am pretty disappointed in the History category, that will be changed for next week. Perhaps another Sci/tech day?

I will be experimenting with different question categories as we go. Some of them do not have a lot of questions so you get a pretty high rate of repeats.

I tend to like harder questions to make it less of a race and more knowledge based. I the other quiz I participate in there are days when you have to finish is less then 60s to get in the top 10!

Enjoy.

 

[Chi Meson]

Warriors!

Come out and play-ee-ay!

 

[Kurdt]

I was quick today but my wireless cut out

 

[tribdog]

I was quick today but my wireless cut out

of course it did.

 

[Chi Meson]

OW!

OW! no WAY! TRIB! No... you can't... NO!

OW! Jeez!~

 

[Chi Meson]

I think I'm going to take a few days off. Maybe cool down a bit. Let the others catch up and all. I need to lie down.

 

[lisab]

Seems like every time I play, I lose standing. Even though today I got 9/10...

Tomorrow's theme - World: Europe.

Uh-oh, us North Americans better hunker down!

 

[Integral]

Notice that the number of points awarded the top player corresponds to the number of players that day. The more people that play, the more points you get. I am hoping to get some more people involved.

Do you think it would help to unsticky the thread to let it float in the active theads?

 

[Moonbear]

I think I'd completely forget this thread if it was not stickied. Not that I remember with it sticked either.

Sorry about the spoiler earlier. Grumpy about today's bio questions though (they sure do seem heavily weighted toward bio, don't they?) I lost time staring at one question because none of the answers was really right. I guessed right which one the writer thought was the right answer, but sometimes knowing too much doesn't help with questions like these.

 

[Moonbear]

I tend to like harder questions to make it less of a race and more knowledge based. I the other quiz I participate in there are days when you have to finish is less then 60s to get in the top 10!

I played this type of quiz with another group, and that was always the problem there too. I can't even get in the 60s if I click randomly without reading the question! I don't know how people can scroll and click so fast.

 

[Integral]

I simply do not understand how you can finish one of these in less then 40s. In my other quiz the top 6 10s were under 40s!

I am thinking part of it is just having seen most of the questions before. It is surprising how many repeats there are.

 

[lisab]

Definately keep it stickied.

 

[Chi Meson]

I simply do not understand how you can finish one of these in less then 40s. In my other quiz the top 6 10s were under 40s!

I am thinking part of it is just having seen most of the questions before. It is surprising how many repeats there are.

Two words:

Sock puppet.

 

[tribdog]

Something's screwed up with today's game. it says I've already played. It is carrying over the 9 people who played yesterday.

 

[neutrino]

Something's screwed up with today's game. it says I've already played. It is carrying over the 9 people who played yesterday.

Yes. Same here. However, when I created a new account, I was able to open today's (World Europe) quiz.