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This challenge also awards 250 FunTrivia points.


The Challenge:

 For the "Daily Games" challenge, you have probably already played the New Question Game. If not, we strongly recommend you do that first before attempting this challenge.

The New Question Game is a part of our initiative to keep the questions on the site fresh and dynamic, especially for the hourly and daily games. It is the first test of fire for new questions submitted by the membership. Before a question gets there, however, it will have to be written and undergo a review process.

In this challenge, we want to guide you through the process of writing a trivia question - the same process you can later use to write and contribute entire quizzes. As this may be a bit overwhelming for a new player, feel free to ask the leaders and older members of your team for some assistance. They'll gladly help you.

Before you create a question or quiz, you should know the rules. For the Question Quest, these rules can be found in the Question Writing FAQ. Read through them at your leisure before you proceed.

The anatomy of a basic multiple choice question consists of five parts:
  1. The question or quiz topic
  2. The question text itself
  3. The correct answer
  4. Exactly three wrong answers
  5. Additional interesting information
.
All five parts are mandatory.

Let's start the question creation process on the Question Quest posting page. I will walk through building a sample question, and it is best if you follow along, entering the data of your own question idea while reading the tutorial.

First, I will need a topic. For the sake of this example, I will want to create a question about the sun. The sun is studied in astronomy, so it goes under Sci/Tech. I'll thus select this. (You, of course, select the topic of the question you want to ask.)

Next, I need to think about the question itself. My first idea was to ask "In spectral analysis what type of star is the sun?", but when I submit this question, it shows me that someone else has asked exactly the same thing already. So I'll back up and try something new. Let's try "After hydrogen, which is the second most abundant element in the sun?", a question which easily passes muster. However, I consider it too hard as written (most players won't know this), so I go back once more and revise it to "After hydrogen, which is the second most abundant element in the sun? (The element is named after the Greek name for the sun.)" - this gives the player a second way to know the answer. (You should enter your own question now and proceed past the review stage)

So, now I can go forward and get a new form. My information so far is displayed and I can edit it (for example when I spot a typo). I now need to enter the correct answer (Helium) and three wrong ones (let's choose Oxygen, Iron and Chlorine). It does not matter which order I enter the wrong answers in, the game will randomly shuffle them anyway.

When choosing your wrong answers, consider the difficulty level you want to achieve. I have used quite plausible wrong answers, so my question will likely come out average to tough in difficulty. Had I wanted to make it easier, I could have used Astatine, Francium and Einsteinium as the wrong alternatives. (Enter your correct and wrong answers now).

The final step in the process is to provide some interesting information related to the question and its answer, so I should write something about the sun or about Helium now. Since I don't want to just bore people with the mass, distance and temperature of the sun, I'll say something about Helium: "Helium is the only chemical element that was discovered outside the Earth before being discovered on Earth. Pierre Janssen, a French astronomer, spotted it in the spectral analysis of a solar eclipse in 1866; the first discovery on Earth was in 1903 in a natural gas field." This is long enough to be interesting, tells several facts, but it's not too long either.
(Now go and enter your own interesting information. Make sure you get spelling and grammar right. Remember this is only displayed when the player has already answered, so you can spoil the answer, but please don't just repeat it - add something new).

So, that's my question. Now I can read through everything once more and hit submit. (You should submit your question now, too.) The question will enter a queue and when a FunTrivia editor working the topic of my question gets to it, they will review it. They may approve it and send it to the New Question Game unchanged, they may make small changes (for example if you misspelled something) before sending it on or they may reject the question if you made a more severe mistake. Don't take a rejection personally - fix the problem if possible or think of a new question and then resubmit your changed work.

You can follow the fate of your question here until it gets accepted or rejected. If it gets accepted, you have solved the challenge and your reward will appear. At some time, the question will get played in the New Question Game.

At that point, it will appear in the list of your rated questions. The stats reflect the opinions of the players - you want to have a difficulty between 55% and 95% (higher numbers mean easier questions) and a user rating of good or excellent (the number in parentheses is 0.2 or greater). If both are met, bravo! You have just created something new on FunTrivia and your question is now ready for play in hourly and daily games. If you missed these numbers, your question will still be used as long (in a game matching its difficulty) as the user rating is at least average (positive or exactly zero). Negative-rating questions are discarded.

Requirements:

 Awarded to a player who gets one question accepted in Question Quest.

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