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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, 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, 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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salami_swami

Unless, Looney, YOU can do it so it's online before, or shortly after, anyway, Kyle gets back... As yet another treat for him. We all know you're talented enough to do it. ;-) Heehee. *runs into the darkness*

Reply #241. Apr 29 10, 3:07 PM

looney_tunes

I actually thought I might give the Geography editors a break and do some of the other stuff from commissions and challenges that look enticing, but have been a lower priority than trying to give every country an online quiz. What's left now may not be great quizzes, but they are quizzes! And at the rate that replacements are happening, it's not worth rushing to provide anything better.

Reply #242. Apr 29 10, 3:32 PM

salami_swami

Replacements are happening so fast 'cuz of you, Looney. ;-) Haha.

Reply #243. Apr 29 10, 5:56 PM

looney_tunes

Here's a nice new quiz from stuthehistoryguy on the history of Kenya, one of the countries shown as having an old quiz that could do with replacement.

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz.cfm?qid=325781

Reply #244. May 01 10, 8:22 PM

looney_tunes

Janetgool;s quiz on Israel is only offline temporarily - the visit from the bus raised a few corrections needed, and since it is an archived quiz she had to pass it to the editors. it will be back shortly, and is a highly-ranked quiz, so doesn't really need replacing despite being red right now.

Reply #245. May 02 10, 1:40 AM

pmarney

I have not found many that need updating and find most of them educational, if youdon't know an answer you can research it and learn something new as you go along

Reply #246. May 02 10, 2:13 AM

Snowman

Will the bus ride use History quizzes or just Geography ones?

Reply #247. May 02 10, 2:26 AM

looney_tunes

Terry has said History, Geography, World - as long as it is about the country, well-written, interesting and informative. (Somewhere back early on in either this thread or the one on the Bus Ride board, in response to that exact question.)

Reply #248. May 02 10, 4:27 AM

Snowman

OK. That could make it easier for me (Geography was never my strongest subject).

Reply #249. May 02 10, 5:04 AM

adams627 Just posting here to say that I'm working on a Cuba quiz as part of the Agatha Christie Challenge, so anyone looking for a country to do doesn't pick that one. Although I'm sure there's plenty of island for the two of us:)

Reply #250. May 02 10, 5:46 PM

Terry

Updated using all links to this point!

http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm

WOW, can't believe you guys have added so much. Thanks so much -- the next trip around the world will be fantastic.

Here's the new priority list for anyone looking to write more!

Niger
Eritrea
Sri Lanka
Ukraine
Moldova
El Salvador
Malawi
The Netherlands
Somalia
Iran
Solomon Islands

Reply #251. May 03 10, 11:15 AM

Rowena8482

I'll take The Solomon Islands - not sure how long it will take me though, it's by way of procrastinating to take it lol, am putting off working on the two invertebrate ones :-S

Reply #252. May 03 10, 11:25 AM

Deunan

I'll do the Ukraine.

This is so much fun. It's also an excellent way to learn about places to visit when I win the lottery.

Reply #253. May 03 10, 11:35 AM

guitargoddess

I've already got 5 questions written on Solomon Islands, Rowena, but feel free to challenge my quiz :P Which probably won't be done for a little while

Reply #254. May 03 10, 11:53 AM

runaway_drive

Moldova, I take it.

Reply #255. May 03 10, 1:43 PM

looney_tunes

The list says that it has 192 entries. Here are links for the 3 missing from the promised 195.

Morocco
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/9-for-10---Morocco-173412.html
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Mahgreb-Mania-183625.html

Kazakhstan
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Kazakhstan-323687.html

Kosovo (new)
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Exploring-Kosovo-325298.html

Reply #256. May 03 10, 1:44 PM

looney_tunes

And, to save scrolling back through all the earlier entries, here's a list of people who have volunteered to look after the countries now listed as most in need of a new quiz. Of course, duplication is allowed, but if you don't have a particular reason for wanting a country that has already been adopted, you might consider writing for one of the neglected ones!

Niger – PDAZ volunteered
Eritrea – geniusonwheels volunteered
Croatia – eburge volunteered
Moldova – runaway_drive volunteered
Solomon Islands – guitargoddess volunteered (and Rowena8482)
Cuba – adam627 volunteeresb
Ukraine – Jakeroo volunteered (and Deunan)
El Salvador
Malawi
The Netherlands
Somalia
Iran

Reply #257. May 03 10, 1:52 PM

Deunan

Oh, sorry. I didn't know Jakeroo had selected the Ukraine. I shall bow out.

Reply #258. May 03 10, 1:56 PM

Deunan

Unless someone has already selected The Netherlands, I would like to leap over to that neglected area.

Permission to leap?

Reply #259. May 03 10, 1:58 PM

looney_tunes

Permission granted.

I would like to point out that my summaries are not meant to be prescriptive or to be telling anyone what to do - just a service so we all know who has planned what.

Reply #260. May 03 10, 2:37 PM

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