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Quiz-Making: Some Hints

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QuizMaking Some Hints game quiz
"So, you've read the guidelines, taken several quizzes and want your own quizzes to be good. Here are some hints. (Most of the examples are based closely on quizzes actually submitted in Quizzyland). Have fun!"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Consider a quiz on Anne Frank, the Jewish teenage girl who kept a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam in World War II. Which of the following is most relevant and helpful as Interesting Information?
    That the house where she hid is now a museum and is open to the public
    That you think Amsterdam is very beautiful
    That you visited Amsterdam in 2008
    That Australia should have accepted more refugees from Nazi Germany


2. Your quiz includes a question on what you believe to be an extremely rare phobia. Over fifty people have taken the quiz, and nobody has got that particular question right. If you are a fair person with an enquiring mind, what do you do?
    Chuckle gleefully to yourself at the difficulty of the question
    Check whether this phobia actually exists
    Shrug your shoulders and do nothing
    Express horror at the sheer ignorance of those who have taken your quiz


3. In a quiz on German nouns you ask for the German for 'heart' and simply give as the answer the German word 'Herz'. Why is this less than helpful?
    All of these
    People need to know the plural
    German has grammatical genders and people need to know the gender
    People need to know that there is an irregularity in the declension in the singular


4. You ask when the nineteenth-century French Romantic poet and novelist Victor Hugo was born and in your multiple-choice question you give four dates in 1802. In which of these quizzes might this make sense?
    The Life of Victor Hugo
    French Literature in the Nineteenth Century
    European Literature, 1790-1880
    General Knowledge


5. You feel strongly that Oliver Cromwell is underrated and has been much maligned. You want to 'rehabilitate' him and set the record straight in a quiz. In view of the requirement that quizzes must be factual, what do you do?
    Focus on his positive achievements
    Label his worst actions such as massacres in Ireland 'good'
    Abandon your plans for any quiz on the subject
    Deny his most dubious actions altogether


6. Your quiz asks for the nickname of a particular king and your answer is 'The Maiden'. Why should you add a note?
    It's a requirement in Quizzyland
    For all of these reasons
    Without a note players will be bewildered
    Players will otherwise be none the wiser after answering the question


7. Multiple choice questions should contain at least one distractor. What does this term mean?
    An irritating incorrect option
    A laughably bad answer
    An amusing incorrect answer
    An answer that is tempting but incorrect


8. A good quiz-maker, like a good author, tries to imagine how the quiz will look to the audience. In particular, one needs to empathize with people taking the quiz; one needs to try to see things from their point of view. In a quiz on European mottos there is a question asking whether the Habsburg motto 'AEIOU' was a riddle, and your correct answer is: 'It was and was not a riddle.' Which of the following describes the weakness of this type of question and answer *most precisely*?
    The answer doesn't make sense
    To answer correctly you need to read the quizmaker's mind
    It requires a good knowledge of several languages
    It's just silly


9. Many of those who create quizzes do no or very little research. In the case of a quiz, which of these best describes the minimum research necessary?
    One has to take a quick glance at a website
    One has to have some understanding of the subject matter
    One should carry on till one gets bored
    One needs to be a real expert on the subject and ready to write a dissertation


10. So, you are ready to submit your quiz. You want the quiz to be a success, so what have you done?
    All of these
    Tried hard to look at the quiz from the point of view of people taking it
    Done enough research to understand the topic of your quiz
    Provided informative, impersonal notes


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Compiled Jun 13 13