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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

Now that's an idea to clutch at! I'm sure these ranks are artificial for some reason, but had previously seen new quizzes in the list with their rank set to 'new', and expected that to continue. I am currently working on a Disney challenge - A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes - so I will hold on to the dream of a record jump in rank! Along with the other authors whose quizzes are in the same position.

Reply #221. Apr 20 10, 12:54 AM

leith90

Keep us posted LT, I'd bee interested to hear what happenes once you get the required ratings. BTW, I can play a few for you, I don't play a lot of geography because it's not one of my best subjects. But I'll make an effort this time. :)

Reply #222. Apr 20 10, 1:05 AM

looney_tunes

ThurstAsh and KayceeKool also have quizzes in this anomalous position. Here's hoping that it will all get sorted after we get visited by the Bus Ride, and can get enough ratings to rejoin the normal pool!

Reply #223. Apr 20 10, 4:39 AM

ThurstAsh Has this happened to anyone else, my Madagascar quiz has only 16 ratings but has a ranking.

Reply #224. Apr 21 10, 5:53 AM

redwaldo

I'm working on the China quiz-it's the main civilisation.

Reply #225. Apr 21 10, 6:13 AM

looney_tunes

Thurstash, you and I and another author have new quizzes that seem to have acquired some kind of artificial ranking because they are part of the Bus Ride Challenge despite being new. Their numbers are bizarre! Read the last few pages of this thread, where I have been discussing it with others over the last 10 days. I think and hope they will straighten up when they reach the magic 20. But nobody really seems to know!

Reply #226. Apr 21 10, 6:44 AM

leith90

I tried to play the bus ride today but had a problem with the flash mode. When I clicke on "start quiz" it came up with a message saying that it couldn't support the interactive something or other. I tried a couple of times with no success. So when I went to the classic mode, it said I had already played and scored a goose egg. has anyone else ever had any problems like this?

Reply #227. Apr 21 10, 10:00 PM

looney_tunes

I once had flash mode problems when I got a new computer and didn't have all the right software in place. If you have changed anything, including your browser, that could explain it.

You always get a zero if you click flash mode and then do not submit, even if you try to back out immediately becasue you didn't mean to play flash mode. It's a pain.

Reply #228. Apr 21 10, 11:06 PM

guitargoddess

It's more of a pain though when you WANT to play in Flash, but it doesn't work, so have no choice but to back out and try html. It has happened to me before, but only on regular everyday quizzes, so I didn't mind getting the zero too much. Didn't happen to me on the Bus Ride yesterday.

Reply #229. Apr 22 10, 10:16 AM

glendathecat

Palau is submitted.

Reply #230. Apr 23 10, 12:37 PM

looney_tunes

Palau is online!

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Shaking-of-Palau-123-324414.html

Reply #231. Apr 25 10, 11:02 PM

looney_tunes

With today's re-ranking, two of the four 'ranked' quizzes listed in the 90,000s have reached 20 ratings, and are now in double-digits. Two remain at the top of the replacement list, but will presumably go where they belong when they achieve 20 ratings. Rate, people!

Meanwhile, if you're looking at the link to choose a quiz that you might want to replace, ignore those at the very top - unless they do get a 'real' ranking in that vicinity, they do NOT need replacing despite the red number in their ranking column.

Reply #232. Apr 26 10, 5:06 PM

LeoDaVinci

Here's Tonga!

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Tonga---An-Island-Monarchy-325083.html

Reply #233. Apr 29 10, 7:55 AM

salami_swami

There also was a Bosnia one online recently; does that count?

Reply #234. Apr 29 10, 8:23 AM

LeoDaVinci

I don't think Terry has updated the challenge in a while. Perhaps someone (ahem, looney) can organize a list with the links and send it off to whomever needs be, that way we can figure out which further quizzes need doing.

Reply #235. Apr 29 10, 9:14 AM

looney_tunes

It does, of course. But since the author didn't say anything here about it, and there is a quiz online (just a bit old and low-ranked), I left it to them to add it here if they wanted to. Here it is for consideration.

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/What-Do-You-Know-About-Bosnia-325483.html

Reply #236. Apr 29 10, 9:14 AM

looney_tunes

I don't know who to send it to - that's part of the reason I keep posting updates here, hoping that someone will notice that we have a bunch of replacements ready and do the right thing!

Here's my latest record of the quizzes that are shown as needing attention and what has been done about them:

Offline
Zimbabwe – looney_tunes online
Albania – abechstein volunteered; online from James25 and another!
Lesotho – looney_tunes online
Honduras – looney_tunes online
Kosovo – looney_tunes online
Vanuatu – looney_tunes online
Sao Tome and Principe – looney_tunes online
Palau – glendathcat online
Niger – PDAZ volunteered
Eritrea – geniusonwheels volunteered
Croatia – eburge volunteered

No Info
Saint Lucia – Looney_tunes online
Benin – Looney_tunes online
Maldives – cazza2902 online
Georgia – deunan online
Trinidad & Tobago – looney_tunes online
Tonga – LeoDaVinci online
Moldova – runaway_drive volunteered
Solomon Islands – guitargoddess volunteered
Iran
Cuba
Colombia
Sri Lanka


Low Rating &/or Old
Tanzania – adams627 online
Gabon – LeoDaVinci online
Nigeria – dsimpy online
Bosnia – online from murke
Ukraine – Jakeroo volunteered
Malawi
El Salvador
Netherlands
Somalia
Guatemala
Luxembourg
Cote d'Ivoire
Nicaragua
Cameroon
Dominica
San Marino
Syria

Reply #237. Apr 29 10, 9:17 AM

salami_swami

It'll take me a while to get it written, because I want to finish a few more first, but I'll take Sri Lanka.

Reply #238. Apr 29 10, 9:23 AM

salami_swami

I take that back... I don't want Sri Lanka.

Just out of curiosity... Why aren't some of the other quizzes not used... There are 4 Sri Lanka quizzes, one with a thumb, one fairly new, February 2010, plenty of Colombia quizzes... All of those listed, really. More than one that can be used. :-)

Reply #239. Apr 29 10, 9:31 AM

looney_tunes

I reckon Kyle should fix us up a Cuba quiz, possibly one with a pop culture slant for World rather than Geography. But he might have other ideas!

Reply #240. Apr 29 10, 1:34 PM

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