Subject: Bus Ride Renewal Challenge
Posted by: Terry
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 have been around the world over ten times, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz currently used for the tour has a ranking that is roughly in the top third of all quizzes, so replacement is not an urgent matter, but we would still like to have new quizzes of a suitable quality to use as replacements, to provide a bit of diversity for those players who have played every day since the beginning, and who have probably memorised the answers to the current quizzes.
If you create a new quiz on a Bus Ride country, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it may be rotated in to provide a more diverse program. Should your quiz manage a higher ranking than the current entry, it could become the permanent fixture, waiting for a future challenger. 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!
This link will show you what the ranking is for each of our current country quizzes.
LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm
Posted by: Terry
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 have been around the world over ten times, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz currently used for the tour has a ranking that is roughly in the top third of all quizzes, so replacement is not an urgent matter, but we would still like to have new quizzes of a suitable quality to use as replacements, to provide a bit of diversity for those players who have played every day since the beginning, and who have probably memorised the answers to the current quizzes.
If you create a new quiz on a Bus Ride country, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it may be rotated in to provide a more diverse program. Should your quiz manage a higher ranking than the current entry, it could become the permanent fixture, waiting for a future challenger. 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!
This link will show you what the ranking is for each of our current country quizzes.
LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm
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LeoDaVinci
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Gabon is 50% done. Reply #121. Apr 02 10, 8:43 AM |
Jakeroo 
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Has anyone picked Ukraine as a "re-do"? If not, I'll volunteer for it. Reply #122. Apr 02 10, 10:51 AM |
looney_tunes
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Saint Lucia is online. Now I have to leave the Caribbean for my next one! http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Land-the-People-the-Light---Santa-Lucia-324564.html Reply #123. Apr 02 10, 2:16 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Terry's last list of highest priorities is repeated here, along with the names of authors who have claimed some of them to this point. The unclaimed ones from this list are clearly the highest priority, although we can, as has been said before, have multiple quizzes on the same country. Lesotho Gabon – LeoDaVinci Honduras Palau – glendathecat Zimbabwe Niger – PDAZ Georgia Ukraine – Jakeroo Saint Lucia – online from looney_tunes Moldova – runaway_drive Maldives – cazza2902 Nigeria – dsimpy Benin Eritrea – geniusonwheels Tanzania Albania – abechstein This afternoon I plan to whisk across the Atlantic, leaving the Caribbean in my wake, and start exploring Africa. Lesotho will be my first stop! Reply #124. Apr 02 10, 2:34 PM |
| Jakeroo
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Thanks for taking the time to make that list, looney : ) Reply #125. Apr 02 10, 8:29 PM |
| looney_tunes
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I needed to do it to get my priorities sorted - I plan to tackle a number of these countries in the next few days when I have the luxury of no work, and can spend an entire day just soaking up the atmosphere of a country and writing a quiz about it. It seemed sensible to share the results with everyone else! Lesotho has just been submitted, and I am about to start reading up on Zimbabwe, one of the minnows of international cricket. Reply #126. Apr 02 10, 10:09 PM |
Deunan
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May I have Georgia, please? I started reading about it and am fascinated. Reply #127. Apr 02 10, 10:25 PM |
adams627
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I'll do Tanzania- it seems like a pretty interesting place. Reply #128. Apr 03 10, 6:01 AM |
| adams627
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Not sure if this is the place to post this, but I'll go ahead anyway: Does anyone know why the Tanzania quiz on the bus rotation (by magicbadger I think) is being used instead of the one by Minch, which is ranked around 20000? I'll go ahead and write the quiz on Tanzania (there's still plenty of cool stuff to write about), but the one on the current list isn't the highest-ranked in the category, or even close to it. Reply #129. Apr 03 10, 6:13 AM |
dsimpy
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Nigeria's just been submitted. Reply #130. Apr 03 10, 7:44 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Zimbabwe has been submitted. Next renewal stop is Benin! Reply #131. Apr 03 10, 10:41 PM |
cazza2902
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Ok I have done my first draft of the Maldives. Will edit tomorrow and submit :) Reply #132. Apr 04 10, 1:02 AM |
| adams627
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Tanzania is up: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/A-Trip-to-Tanzania-324711.html Reply #133. Apr 04 10, 7:22 AM |
| looney_tunes
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On Terry's list of most urgent countries, only Honduras remains without a volunteer author at this point. Reply #134. Apr 04 10, 2:09 PM |
Redwallcrazy
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My sponsor Child lives there, but I don't think I'll take it. Reply #135. Apr 04 10, 7:51 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Benin has been submitted. I will wing my way back across the Atlantic and do some sightseeing in Honduras. Reply #136. Apr 04 10, 7:52 PM |
| cazza2902
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The Maldives has been submitted :) Reply #137. Apr 04 10, 9:18 PM |
| looney_tunes
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There's been a lot of movement, so I decided it was time to update the status of countries in need. These are the highest priority according to the link. I have broken them down into three categories of (as it seems to me) relative urgency. OFFLINE (2 new ones have joined this list) Trinidad & Tobago – looney_tunes online Honduras – looney_tunes claimed Palau – glendathcat claimed Zimbabwe – looney_tunes submitted Niger – PDAZ claimed Lesotho – looney_tunes submitted Albania – abechstein claimed Sao Tome and Principe Vanuatu NO INTERESTING INFO Georgia – deunan claimed Ukraine – Jakeroo claimed Saint Lucia – Looney_tunes online Moldova – runaway_drive claimed Maldives – cazza2902 submitted Benin – Looney_tunes submitted Eritrea – geniusonwheels claimed Iran Cuba Solomon Islands Colombia Sri Lanka Tonga LOW RANKING &/OR OLD Ukraine Nigeria – dsimpy submitted Tanzania – adams627 online Malawi Gabon – LeoDaVinci claimed El Salvador Netherlands Somalia Guatemala Luxembourg Cote d'Ivoire Bosnia Nicaragua Cameroon Dominica San Marino Syria (Terry made everything ranked under 25,000 red; I stopped my list at 50,000) I will try to keep my list up to date (for my own reference), and post it here at intervals so anyone who is looking for a country to adopt can use it as a guide. I have also checked for countries claimed and/or submitted on the Bus Ride chat board, too. Reply #138. Apr 05 10, 4:29 AM |
| guitargoddess
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I claimed Solomon Islands awhile ago :) well, not "claimed", anyone else can still do one, but so am I! :P Reply #139. Apr 05 10, 9:21 AM |
salami_swami
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Looney_tunes, how many have you claimed? ;-) Reply #140. Apr 05 10, 10:09 AM |
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