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Topic: Bus Ride Renewal Challenge

Posted by: Terry

Subject: Bus Ride Renewal Challenge
Date: Mar 16 10

While the replacement of low-ranked quizzes is a continuing goal, preparation of extra quizzes to introduce variety for the tourists is also important now that the Bus Ride is well-established. Some tourists are on their third tour, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz at the moment (in the cycle), aside from a few that have already had a volunteer for a new quiz, is Dominica, around 31,000, which is roughly in the top third of all quizzes.

The following list shows the quizzes in the current rotation in need of an additional quiz:

Angola, Belize, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Moldova, Mozambique, Nauru, North Korea, Palau, Republic of Congo, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Swaziland, Syria, The Bahamas, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Zambia

If you create a new quiz on one of the preceding countries, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it will be removed from the listing for this project and placed into the cycle for future rides.

As an added bonus, we have modified the ratings system to give all quizzes in our rotation a ratings bump.

Feel free to use this thread to also "claim" a country so that you don't duplicate someone else's effort and make sure to follow along with our later posts and updates to make sure that everything is in order. We look forward to seeing what you can come up with!

LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm



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LeoDaVinci

Gabon is 50% done.

Reply #121. Apr 02 10, 8:43 AM

Jakeroo

Has anyone picked Ukraine as a "re-do"? If not, I'll volunteer for it.

Reply #122. Apr 02 10, 10:51 AM

looney_tunes

Saint Lucia is online. Now I have to leave the Caribbean for my next one!

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Land-the-People-the-Light---Santa-Lucia-324564.html

Reply #123. Apr 02 10, 2:16 PM

looney_tunes

Terry's last list of highest priorities is repeated here, along with the names of authors who have claimed some of them to this point. The unclaimed ones from this list are clearly the highest priority, although we can, as has been said before, have multiple quizzes on the same country.

Lesotho
Gabon – LeoDaVinci
Honduras
Palau – glendathecat
Zimbabwe
Niger – PDAZ
Georgia
Ukraine – Jakeroo
Saint Lucia – online from looney_tunes
Moldova – runaway_drive
Maldives – cazza2902
Nigeria – dsimpy
Benin
Eritrea – geniusonwheels
Tanzania
Albania – abechstein

This afternoon I plan to whisk across the Atlantic, leaving the Caribbean in my wake, and start exploring Africa. Lesotho will be my first stop!

Reply #124. Apr 02 10, 2:34 PM

Jakeroo

Thanks for taking the time to make that list, looney : )

Reply #125. Apr 02 10, 8:29 PM

looney_tunes

I needed to do it to get my priorities sorted - I plan to tackle a number of these countries in the next few days when I have the luxury of no work, and can spend an entire day just soaking up the atmosphere of a country and writing a quiz about it. It seemed sensible to share the results with everyone else!

Lesotho has just been submitted, and I am about to start reading up on Zimbabwe, one of the minnows of international cricket.

Reply #126. Apr 02 10, 10:09 PM

Deunan

May I have Georgia, please?

I started reading about it and am fascinated.

Reply #127. Apr 02 10, 10:25 PM

adams627 I'll do Tanzania- it seems like a pretty interesting place.

Reply #128. Apr 03 10, 6:01 AM

adams627 Not sure if this is the place to post this, but I'll go ahead anyway: Does anyone know why the Tanzania quiz on the bus rotation (by magicbadger I think) is being used instead of the one by Minch, which is ranked around 20000? I'll go ahead and write the quiz on Tanzania (there's still plenty of cool stuff to write about), but the one on the current list isn't the highest-ranked in the category, or even close to it.

Reply #129. Apr 03 10, 6:13 AM

dsimpy

Nigeria's just been submitted.

Reply #130. Apr 03 10, 7:44 PM

looney_tunes

Zimbabwe has been submitted. Next renewal stop is Benin!

Reply #131. Apr 03 10, 10:41 PM

cazza2902

Ok I have done my first draft of the Maldives. Will edit tomorrow and submit :)

Reply #132. Apr 04 10, 1:02 AM

adams627 Tanzania is up: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/A-Trip-to-Tanzania-324711.html

Reply #133. Apr 04 10, 7:22 AM

looney_tunes

On Terry's list of most urgent countries, only Honduras remains without a volunteer author at this point.

Reply #134. Apr 04 10, 2:09 PM

Redwallcrazy My sponsor Child lives there, but I don't think I'll take it.

Reply #135. Apr 04 10, 7:51 PM

looney_tunes

Benin has been submitted. I will wing my way back across the Atlantic and do some sightseeing in Honduras.

Reply #136. Apr 04 10, 7:52 PM

cazza2902

The Maldives has been submitted :)

Reply #137. Apr 04 10, 9:18 PM

looney_tunes

There's been a lot of movement, so I decided it was time to update the status of countries in need. These are the highest priority according to the link. I have broken them down into three categories of (as it seems to me) relative urgency.

OFFLINE (2 new ones have joined this list)
Trinidad & Tobago – looney_tunes online
Honduras – looney_tunes claimed
Palau – glendathcat claimed
Zimbabwe – looney_tunes submitted
Niger – PDAZ claimed
Lesotho – looney_tunes submitted
Albania – abechstein claimed
Sao Tome and Principe
Vanuatu

NO INTERESTING INFO
Georgia – deunan claimed
Ukraine – Jakeroo claimed
Saint Lucia – Looney_tunes online
Moldova – runaway_drive claimed
Maldives – cazza2902 submitted
Benin – Looney_tunes submitted
Eritrea – geniusonwheels claimed
Iran
Cuba
Solomon Islands
Colombia
Sri Lanka
Tonga

LOW RANKING &/OR OLD
Ukraine
Nigeria – dsimpy submitted
Tanzania – adams627 online
Malawi
Gabon – LeoDaVinci claimed
El Salvador
Netherlands
Somalia
Guatemala
Luxembourg
Cote d'Ivoire
Bosnia
Nicaragua
Cameroon
Dominica
San Marino
Syria
(Terry made everything ranked under 25,000 red; I stopped my list at 50,000)

I will try to keep my list up to date (for my own reference), and post it here at intervals so anyone who is looking for a country to adopt can use it as a guide. I have also checked for countries claimed and/or submitted on the Bus Ride chat board, too.

Reply #138. Apr 05 10, 4:29 AM

guitargoddess

I claimed Solomon Islands awhile ago :)

well, not "claimed", anyone else can still do one, but so am I! :P

Reply #139. Apr 05 10, 9:21 AM

salami_swami

Looney_tunes, how many have you claimed? ;-)

Reply #140. Apr 05 10, 10:09 AM

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