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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jonnowales 
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Not so long in the end Acrylic! :) Reply #1261. Jun 14 20, 2:52 PM |
AcrylicInk
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My Suriname quiz got sunnies. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Suriname-What-Can-You-See--401904.html Reply #1262. Jul 15 20, 2:07 PM |
looney_tunes
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And it got rotated in on 11 July. We are getting quite a spate of new options, and if it gets sunnies I am trying to add it. There is one country for which the last rotation has not been visited yet, so the latest addition has to wait (several months) before I can see how well the first was received. It seems to me appropriate to leave each rotated quiz in for at least two visits (unless it absolutely tanks after the first one, meaning that the tourists didn't think it was appropriate, for some reason), which takes about a year. After two visits, I plan to check again, and see if the previous quiz is ranked higher that the new one, and possibly rotate again. That is sort of the point of having multiple good quizzes for each country - even if one is ranked in three digits, and the other barely scrapes sunnies - to give variety to those hardy souls who play every day. Reply #1263. Jul 16 20, 1:40 AM |
Matthew_07
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I will write a photo quiz on Mongolia for TRIC Z. :) Reply #1264. Aug 08 20, 11:53 PM |
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Here's my quiz on Mongolia: https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Mongolia---Land-of-the-Eternal-Blue-Sky-402712.html Reply #1265. Oct 22 20, 9:49 PM |
| Matthew_07
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I will try Belize next. :) Reply #1266. Oct 23 20, 7:11 PM |
| Matthew_07
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Here's my Belize quiz. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Belize---Hidden-Jewel-of-Central-America-403443.html Attempting the less-known Southeast Asian country, Timor-Leste, next. :) Reply #1267. Oct 31 20, 7:48 PM |
| Matthew_07
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My Timor-Leste quiz is finally here: https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Timor-Leste---Land-of-the-Sleeping-Crocodile-403525.html I will attempt the Solomon Islands next. :) Reply #1268. Jan 26 21, 6:37 PM |
1nn1
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The current Bus Ride Malta quiz is rated at 20214. I wrote a Malta quiz in 2020 with the presumptuous title of "Bus Ride around Malta" which is rated at 12276 at the present time. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Bus-Ride-Around-Malta-400597.htmlReply #1269. Jan 27 21, 4:51 AM |
| Matthew_07
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The Solomon Islands is now online. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Solomon-Islands---Gem-of-the-South-Pacific-Ocean-404494.html Trying Somalia next. Reply #1270. Jan 29 21, 12:48 PM |
| Matthew_07
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Somalia is now online. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Somalia---A-Semi-Arid-Land-in-the-Horn-of-Africa-404517.html Trying Malawi next. Reply #1271. Jan 30 21, 10:05 PM |
| Matthew_07
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Malawi photo quiz is now online. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Malawi---The-Warm-Heart-of-Africa-404538.html Attempting Sierra Leone next for TRIC Z. Reply #1272. Feb 09 21, 9:03 AM |
| Matthew_07
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Sierra Leone is now online. https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Sierra-Leone---The-Athens-of-West-Africa-404622.html Trying Eritrea next. Reply #1273. Feb 13 21, 8:17 AM |
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Eritrea quiz: https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Eritrea---Land-of-the-Sea-404652.html Writing a photo quiz on Madagascar, next. Reply #1274. Feb 26 21, 12:32 AM |
gracious1
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I tried clicking on the link to see what quizzes needed done for this, and I got the message "Access denied". Reply #1275. Apr 28 21, 1:16 AM |
kyleisalive
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Countries with the lowest ratings and oldest quizzes currently include Reply #1276. Apr 28 21, 1:23 AM |
| looney_tunes
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Don't aim for Sao Tome - I have a much higher-rated one in the background, the current one was just rotated in for variety. Same applies to Cape Verde and Krygyzstan. Reply #1277. Apr 28 21, 4:27 AM |
| looney_tunes
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Just bumped this up because I have finished going through the current quizzes and my list of possible replacements to give them all star ratings instead of numbers. It is so much clearer in the spreadsheet, without having to use conditional formatting to identify quizzes with ranking in various ranges, and how a proposed quiz compares to the current quiz and the listed reserve. It's now bedtime, so I am not ready to make statements about what the state of play is about countries needing new quizzes. but can make the general statement that every country has at least one quiz available that is rated silver or better. (If you remember the first round of quizzes, you will realize what an improvement this is!) My plan for now is to replace quizzes that have been there for a long time (I don't remember when the Bus Ride started, but my earliest replacements were made in October of 2011) with new quizzes that are no more than one star level below the current one. Ideally, they would be the same or higher, but in the interest of getting some fresh stuff in there for the people who play the Bus Ride quiz every day, I am not holding that as a hard line. Tomorrow I plan to organise a list of the countries for which you would have the best chance of making it to the tour. Remember, it doesn't have to be Geography - History and General Knowledge Mixed Countries are both well represented on the tour. I thought it is timely to remind people of this for tow reasons: 1) The Rainbow Minis can be lifted if one of these is a useful category for your; 2) We have some new quiz formats that could allow a whole new take. Reply #1278. Jan 14 22, 4:46 AM |
LeoDaVinci
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I'm happy to take Sao Tome if you like. Reply #1279. Jan 14 22, 8:31 AM |
| LeoDaVinci
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Whoops, just noticed the above post. I'll aim elsewhere... Reply #1280. Jan 14 22, 8:49 AM |
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