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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| Terry
Head Honcho 
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Ok, I have replaced the list above with a dynamic list that will automatically update as changes are made and as quizzes are swapped out. This is real-time information: http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm Reply #21. Mar 16 10, 5:05 PM |
salami_swami 
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Are you sure you weren't missing 4? I don't see Suriname, either. Reply #22. Mar 16 10, 5:05 PM |
| salami_swami
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So now, simply by making a quiz, it will be taken off the list, or what? Reply #23. Mar 16 10, 5:07 PM |
| salami_swami
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So those in red need replacing, so I would assume anything below 25,000 is ok. ;-) How do we know when something has been claimed? Will it be bold, will it be red, or will we have to check this thread for claimed quizzes every time? Reply #24. Mar 16 10, 5:11 PM |
| salami_swami
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I also see you want any quiz over 7 years old updated, too? Those dates seem to be in red as well. Reply #25. Mar 16 10, 5:11 PM |
| Terry
Head Honcho
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That list is just potential candidates. That means, if you create a quiz on one of those topics and post it here, if you can out-rate the current candidate or if your quiz is clearly better (i.e. has interesting info where the old one doesn't), your quiz will replace the current one on the list. Reply #26. Mar 16 10, 5:14 PM |
guitargoddess
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A new Monaco quiz just went online very recently: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Mini-Monaco-323659.html And if a 9 for 10 quiz is considered appropriate for the bus ride, this one is fairly highly rated and is a bit newer: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/9-for-10---Norway-175981.html Reply #27. Mar 16 10, 5:30 PM |
EmmaF2008
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Looking at a list of countries I have, the list seems to be missing Kazakhstan, Morocco and Kosovo, although the last is a disputed country/territory. Reply #28. Mar 16 10, 5:32 PM |
| bucknallbabe
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I'll take Liberia - lived there for a couple of years so I should be able to do something with it. Reply #29. Mar 16 10, 5:32 PM |
| salami_swami
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If we added disputed territories, I could also add Somaliland, Ceuta, Mayotte, Melilla, Saint Helena, and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. :-) So no, I don't think Kosovo counts. ;-) Reply #30. Mar 16 10, 5:40 PM |
| Terry
Head Honcho
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Just added a flag that says whether the current quiz has extra info or not. Any old quiz without extrainfo will be replaced immediately by ANY new quiz. Reply #31. Mar 16 10, 5:45 PM |
glendathecat
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What about Sealand? :) Reply #32. Mar 16 10, 5:45 PM |
| guitargoddess
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Kosovo is like the 196th country, depending on whether you recognise it or not. The difference between Kosovo and Somaliland, for example, is that NO country recognises Somaliland independence, but many countries do recognize Kosovo's independence, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The 195 figure includes only countries that are indisputably countries. Reply #33. Mar 16 10, 5:49 PM |
| salami_swami
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If I'm allowed, I would like to take both Lesotho AND Uganda... If not, I'll put Lesotho back and take Uganda for now. :-) Reply #34. Mar 16 10, 5:59 PM |
BxBarracuda
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If I am reading the list of Bus Ride quizzes and their current status right, some of the quizzes which have already been part of the Bus Ride are currently offline. In regards to those quizzes which only need extra info fixes and nothing else. Would you ever allow other site members to add interesting info to quizzes which are based on good questions, but lack only the interesting information? The Bus Ride is great Terry, thanks for adding it and puting the extra time into it to upgrade the quizzes for each country. Reply #35. Mar 16 10, 6:07 PM |
| salami_swami
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That's a good idea, BXB, kind of like a "gift" to those authors, maybe who are no longer online.... Add II FOR them, but keep the quiz online, because it has good questions... I like the idea. :-) Reply #36. Mar 16 10, 6:12 PM |
WesleyCrusher
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I've just written one for Turkey, hope it will pass editing quickly. Reply #37. Mar 16 10, 7:41 PM |
kyleisalive
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I'm not going to update the post up top on this one as I want to encourage more than one quiz for the countries listed. I think it's great to see people claiming countries for now to make sure we cover 'em all though. Definitely a good long-term goal. :) Reply #38. Mar 16 10, 9:18 PM |
| Terry
Head Honcho
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Yep, feel free to have more than one quiz per country. Highest rated quiz for each one wins the spot on the tour! So if you guys want to compete, that sounds like a fun competition in itself :) Reply #39. Mar 16 10, 9:34 PM |
| Anton
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I smell a new author badge coming soon. :D Reply #40. Mar 16 10, 9:36 PM |
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