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What question submissions are rejected?

Our editors reserve the right to reject questions that they feel are inappropriate for use in our games. Here are the major causes for rejection:

1. Questions that are FAR too obscure or BORING.

    Our goal is for easy to intermediate questions to be written, because these can be used in the widest variety of our games, and can be answered by the largest audience of people.

    That said, we do let difficult questions though if they are interesting. However, a question that an editor believes is both extremely difficult AND boring will be rejected.

    Example: "Who won Biggest Loser Season 3?"

    This question is difficult because it is from a specific U.S. TV show AND it is boring. Most people don't LEARN anything from this question if they get it wrong. It is meaningless to most people, and does not deserve a spot in our game.

    Another example: "What color shirt was Fred wearing when he was driving to work in the movie "Office World" "?

    The number of people who really care about this question or its answer is minimal. I don't. My wife doesn't. The editor you submit it to probably doesn't. It won't make it through. We simply don't want to burden "new question game" players with questions that we believe will fail from the get go.

2. Questions that are ambiguous.

    If you are writing about a TV show, please state the name of the TV show in the question. If it is about a sport, name the sport. A good trivia question is concise but contains all of the information someone needs to know to answer it.

    Example: "What player scored the most runs in 2003?" is ambiguous. What sport is it referring to?

    Example 2: "Who played Spock?" is ambiguous. So is "Who played Spock in Star Trek?" (TV or movie?). So is "Who played Spock in the Star Trek movie?" (which one?). Instead use, "Who played Spock in the 2009 movie, "Star Trek"?"

3. Questions that are duplicates.

    If the question has already been asked by another FunTrivia player or in a quiz, we will reject it. There are ways that you can take a question and make it fresh though through a little creativity.

4. Questions that are very similar to what you have just submitted:

    Please make sure that if you submit more than one question in a short period of time that they all be completely different, preferably on different topics.

    If you submit a question "What does R stand for in the rainbow acronym, ROYGBIV?" followed by "What does O stand for in the rainbow...", etc, etc, we will reject all but one of your submissions.

    Please do not find a niche topic and then ask 10 questions on that topic in one evening. Feel free to return to a topic after a few weeks, but variety is key!

5. Lack of interesting info.

    We request that every question contain a bit of "interesting information" in the provided field to give players some more insight or information about the topic at hand. Try to find a related fun fact about the answer to help entertain or teach.

    Anything more than 3 sentences is probably overkill and may be truncated by the editor. We thank you for your enthusiasm, but we don't want players presented with essays either!

    Questions with little to no interesting information filled out will be turned back.

6. Questions that are time dependent.

    When we accept a question, we want to make sure that it can remain unmodified for years -- hopefully decades -- and stay fresh.

    The question "Who is the president of the United States?" very well could go stale in 4 years.

    The question "What is the name of John Grisham's latest novel?" will go stale the next time he writes a novel. The question "How many New York marathons have there been?" will go stale next year.

    Any question starting off as "Who is currently..." is likely time-dependent too.

    In general, ask yourself this question before you submit: "If I am asked this question in the year 2020, will the answer still be the same?"

    Questions like this are immediately rejected.

The accepting / denying of questions is inherently subjective. There will be times when your question gets rejected and you don't agree with the editor. That is just how things are, because we need to weed out material that we don't believe has a chance of our players enjoying.