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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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looney_tunes

And one for Honduras, the final one from my holiday production line.

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Honduras-Free-Sovereign-and-Independent-324842.html

Reply #161. Apr 07 10, 7:07 PM

LeoDaVinci

Am I the volunteer?

Reply #162. Apr 07 10, 7:23 PM

LeoDaVinci

Also, still not on the list or taken:
Kosovo
Morocco
Kazakhstan

However, there are two "Congo"s listed. Which is which?

Reply #163. Apr 07 10, 8:26 PM

looney_tunes

Kazakhstan has been claimed on the thread inside the Bus Ride board. In fact, it may already have been done - my full list is at home.

Reply #164. Apr 07 10, 9:03 PM

looney_tunes

Both Congos are from PDAZ, and were written within days of each other. She would know which is which, but I would be confident that they are one of each!

Reply #165. Apr 07 10, 9:11 PM

looney_tunes

A quiz on Kazakhstan is online. I don't know why I don't see any listing for it in Terry's post (which, when I tried to count the countries on screen, came up about 25 short).

There are three quizzes on Morocco available, so presumably one of them is in the pack somewhere.

Checking on Kosovo has led me to a query - I can only find a UN list (on their website) listing members in 2006, when they were 192 in number. Can anyone tell me who the last three members are? One of them may be Kosovo, which is not on the UN list.

Here's a link to the list I could find. If anyone can identify who is missing, it will be easier for me to see which countries are not on the list posted at the top of this board, and see if I can in fact find a quiz on each of them.

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/org1469.doc.htm

Reply #166. Apr 08 10, 3:59 AM

looney_tunes

Okay, I've just gone through a comparison of the countries on Terry's list and the 192 UN members.

Morocco and Kazakhstan are not listed by Terry, but there is at least one quiz for each available. If they are not included, they easily can be.

Morocco candidates:
1) 9 for 10 is helpful, fair amount of FITB, moderate info, 2004
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/9-for-10---Morocco-173412.html

2) cultural/historical focus, moderate info, 2004
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Mahgreb-Mania-183625.html

3) not much info, questions include stale population iquery, 2002
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Know-more-about-Morocco-97302.html

Candidate for Kazakhstan, online last week:
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Kazakhstan-323687.html

Taiwan and Vatican City are not UN members, but there is a quiz for each of them. Adding that to the 'official' 192 would give me a total of 194, still one short of the 195 that has been bandied about.

Reply #167. Apr 08 10, 5:06 AM

LeoDaVinci

Using an abacus, a spool of thread, a rapier, and some duct tape I have managed to determine the following:

Terry's list has 192 countries.
It's missing Kosovo, Morocco and Kazakhstan.
The UN is usually wrong and ought not be listened to anyway, however, their list is missing Taiwan, the Vatican, and Kosovo.
This brings both lists up to 195.

Reply #168. Apr 08 10, 8:04 AM

Snowman

That sounds like a very big abacus

Reply #169. Apr 08 10, 9:37 AM

salami_swami

I wonder what the duct tape and string was for?

Reply #170. Apr 08 10, 9:49 AM

dsimpy

My Nigeria quiz has just gone online:

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Nigeria-Economic-Beacon-of-West-Africa-324735.html

Reply #171. Apr 08 10, 1:23 PM

looney_tunes

You would have thought that the UN would at least know who belongs, even if they can't do much about making them all get along with each other!

I have added Kosovo to my list with a bullet - there does not seem to be any quiz on Kosovo on the site, despite the 195 target having been declared. If anyone does know where one is, please post a link here!

The other two countries missing from the list in the link at the top of this thread have already had links posted above.

The other country with no quiz online at the moment is Sao Tome and Principe.

Reply #172. Apr 08 10, 1:45 PM

looney_tunes

Salami, duct tape and string fixes ANYTHING. But it is an awkward look for a laptop.

Reply #173. Apr 08 10, 1:46 PM

dsimpy

The discrepancy over the UN's '195 countries' missing out Kosovo, Taiwan and the Vatican isn't entirely the UN's fault. Kosovo's and Taiwan's status as countries isn't universally accepted by many other countries (and therefore by the UN) for reasons largely of political expediency (namely relations with Serbia and China), and the Vatican City maintains its own ambivalence by delegating its international relations to The Holy See (a separate but closely linked entity!).

So it could be argued that Funtrivia and the Bus Ride are breaking new ground in international diplomacy by including them. Oooh-er!

Reply #174. Apr 08 10, 3:31 PM

looney_tunes

I believe Kosovo is in a similar positon to Taiwan, but if we need it to live up to our 195-day promise, we need it! Always happy to be at the cutting edge of international politics.

Reply #175. Apr 08 10, 4:28 PM

Rowena8482

And just to give Looney a sleepless night.. I offer you Abkhazia :-D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia
(There are a couple of others like this too, I found some when I researched my Wakhan Corridor and "Best of Times" quizzes)

Reply #176. Apr 08 10, 5:00 PM

looney_tunes

When the Bus Ride changes to 196, I'll worry about who to add! Actually, somebody must have decided which are the current 195 countries in order to have declared the original challenge completed. I only wanted to know the 195th on the list, and make sure it has a quiz online. Maybe we need another category for disputed entities - Sealand has a quiz, and I am planning on on Hutt River. I'm sure there are plenty of other spots that could be added!

Reply #177. Apr 08 10, 6:36 PM

LeoDaVinci

We'll see after today what Kyrgyzstan will be counted as... :P

Reply #178. Apr 08 10, 6:56 PM

looney_tunes

A new Maldives quiz in online.

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Maldives--The-Island-Kingdom-324736.html

Reply #179. Apr 08 10, 7:27 PM

Rowena8482

The original "getting the whole world online" thing was geniusonwheels Looney :-)

Reply #180. Apr 09 10, 2:48 AM

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