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Topic: 2012 Olympic Challenge - COMPLETE

Posted by: kyleisalive

Subject: 2012 Olympic Challenge - COMPLETE
Date: Jul 01 12

With the Olympics running their course in London very shortly and the arrival of several tickets in certain members' real-life mailboxes (lucky bums) it only makes sense to commemorate the event and begin our anniversary month with a challenge looking at several different Summer Olympic events.

...I mean that in a quiz-writing way, and if you know the challenges, you know we're doing the opposite of 'just looking at sports'.

For this challenge, you'll need to choose one of the following sports and use the event name (in its entirety) in a title of your own creation. For example, you could choose 'Polo' and write a quiz called 'Marco Polo's Adventures' or you could choose 'Swimming' and write 'Swimming with the Fishes'. There are ten events listed below, but you can find more by checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games#List_of_Olympic_sports
We need sixteen quizzes to finish the challenge and your quiz can not be submitted to Sports.

Remember to pay attention to all necessary category guidelines and make sure you're in the most specific category possible.

Much thanks to Aussiedrongo for the challenge idea.

Good luck and let the games begin!

Quizzes Completed:
Cricket - Coachpauly - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Storia-di-un-Burattino-and-Collodis-Cricket-351017.html
Diving - Aussiedrongo - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Bucketlist-Alternatives-to-Skydiving-330073.html
Sailing - Habitsowner - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/People/Sailing---over-the-briny-and-not-so-briny-351256.html
Shooting - Looney_Tunes - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/VideoGames/Shooting-Games-351299.html
Swimming - Dcpddc478 - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Humanities/Swimming-With-Sea-Monsters-351013.html
Polo - Christinap - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/World/Polo-The-Mint-With-The-Hole-351016.html
Boxing - Creedy - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/BrainTeasers/Boxing-With-Words-351019.html
Golf - Linkan - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Entertainment/Golfing-Around-in-Entertainment-351260.html
Tennis - Adams627 - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Tennis-for-Bookworms-351074.html
Wrestling - Tiffanyram - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Entertainment/Wrestling-the-Krakens-of-Entertainment-351067.html
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Archery - Salami_Swami - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Entertainment/Archery-Done-It-351035.html
Cycling - Cellardoor - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/SciTech/Cycling-Through-Life-351018.html
Hurdles - Pollucci19 - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Music/Jumping-Hurdles-A-Look-At-African-Pop-351098.html
Tug of War - Rossian - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Tug-of-War-351168.html
Track - Kyleisalive - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Track-the-Events-of-the-2000s-351187.html
Equestrian - Plodd - http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/BrainTeasers/A-Little-Equestrian-Horseplay-351196.html



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salami_swami

This quiz is practically writing itself. I am quite enjoying the research, and I love the idea (I've been wanting to write a quiz about the topic [though not in whodunit form] so this was the perfect excuse to finally do it)...

I hope the editor likes it as much as I am liking it now. :P My biggest concern is stand-alone-ability, since it's a whodunit, I am somewhat linking the questions (but it does seem to be answerable alone, too, so it should be good.


Anyway, long story remaining long, I'm about halfway done and should submit later today. :)

Reply #21. Jul 02 12, 2:06 PM

salami_swami

Archery has been submitted. Let's hope the quiz is accepted without corrections.

In the Entertainment Whodunit category; let's hope this was the right place to put it. :P There were only 3 quizzes in the category, so I wasn't entirely sure it belonged here. I was going to put it in general whodunit, but the questions are COMPLETELY entertainment themed, so we'll see.

Reply #22. Jul 02 12, 3:15 PM

pollucci19

I know where you're coming from SS ... I've had an idea for the quiz I'm working on for a couple of years now but never got off my butt to do anything about it ... now that I've started th research, am throuoghly enjoying it and wonder why it's taken so long

Reply #23. Jul 02 12, 5:04 PM

shuehorn

I'm going to have to give up on my golf claim. The ideas I've been trying just haven't worked out. Sory.

Reply #24. Jul 03 12, 7:41 AM

salami_swami

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Entertainment/Archery-Done-It-351035.htm

Reply #25. Jul 03 12, 10:16 PM

kyleisalive

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Storia-di-un-Burattino-and-Collodis-Cricket-351017.html

The Cricket has hopped in too thanks to Coachpauly. :)

Reply #26. Jul 04 12, 1:13 AM

coachpauly

Thank you Kyle and thank you also to Looney for major quick editing :)

Reply #27. Jul 04 12, 2:28 AM

adams627 Mine's in the literature queue now.

Reply #28. Jul 05 12, 3:10 PM

salami_swami

Adams + literature + challenge title = Top 25 and thumb.


;) No pressure.

Reply #29. Jul 05 12, 3:21 PM

adams627 Thanks, though that won't happen on this one! For a quiz on two things that I really enjoy, tennis and literature, I'm not too satisfied with the end product. Honestly, I'm just hoping to go through without any corrections, since my last two submissions have brought red letters to my mailbox (luckily, both on very minor things, but still).

Well, here's hoping for Mr. Federer to come through tomorrow anyway and prove Mr. Wallace correct (take the quiz if you don't catch the allusion :) )

Reply #30. Jul 05 12, 3:54 PM

salami_swami

I'll take the quiz for sure when it comes online....


And, if your thumbs are anything like my two thumbed quizzes, you'll get one even though you aren't happy with the result. It seems that my worst rated quizzes are the ones that I think "ooh, this one's great, it's going to be rated so high, maybe get a thumb..."

One quiz I didn't like too much; it was a lot of work, my first team quiz. It couldn't be submitted to mixed so I had to shuffle around questions and make it alphabetics; without getting any new questions. It was torture, and I was glad to get it over with. It ended up getting a thumb. My other thumbed quiz was completely unexpected, and I thought it was just another average quiz. But apparently, agony felt differently. ;)


So, if you're like me, you'll get the thumb. :P


Of course, every quiz you write is dynamite and deserving of a thumb, so me, personally; I would not be at all surprised to see one. ;)

Reply #31. Jul 05 12, 3:58 PM

kyleisalive

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Tug-of-War-351168.html

Rossian's is online!

Reply #32. Jul 06 12, 4:33 PM

rossian

The ever present Kyle has beaten me to it - again!

Reply #33. Jul 06 12, 4:43 PM

kyleisalive

I'll take Track-- Track applying to both the Athletics events and the Cycling events (though only the latter is recognized as 'Track', apparently, because the distances count as the names for the running track events). :p

Reply #34. Jul 06 12, 6:52 PM

salami_swami

Such an easy one, Kyle. ;-)

Reply #35. Jul 06 12, 8:02 PM

kyleisalive

Well, it depends on where you take it. I'm going with History; it's not my strong suit.

Reply #36. Jul 06 12, 8:05 PM

kyleisalive

Queued up!

Reply #37. Jul 06 12, 11:59 PM

rossian

I struggled with mine in History, too. It's not one of my best topics, even though my children are fond of pointing out that I've seen a lot of it.

Reply #38. Jul 07 12, 12:46 AM

Plodd

I will take equestrian please :)

Reply #39. Jul 07 12, 2:23 AM

rossian

This looks very much like Kyle's contribution to me:

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Track-the-Events-of-the-2000s-351187.html

Reply #40. Jul 07 12, 9:00 AM

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