What sort of quizzes do you like the best? Lately I've been doing quizzes where I'll have for the answers actors from the same show and you have to pick which one of them was in this certain show..

But I need new ideas!

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"Never have so many suffered so much so so few could
be so happy." -Major Frank Burns

I like quizzes that are really original, not just rehashing the same old facts. Clever gets big points with me. I like quizzes with good explanations.

Since I haven't owned a TV in almost 20 years and have no desire to do so, I personally don't like TV. But that's just me.

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Cris Waller
CrisW@ix.netcom.com

Kind of a spinoff of crisw's statement. I want quizzes that are challenging (but extremely accurate). I want to come away from a quiz having more knowledge than I did before taking it - and I want to be sure that my new knowledge can be trusted.

This goes along with crisw's statement, because the only really challenging ones are the ones that are original. If someone's done it before you, I don't learn anything new from you.

Agreed completely with Linda-- I want a quiz I learn something from (which is why I'm usually drawn to those rated tough or harder).

As to the kind of quiz, subjectmatterwise... well, honestly, anything can work, and there's no real formula. Depends way too much on my mood. Clever ways of phrasing questions and a sense of humor will go a long, long way with me. In fact, there's one quiz I remember with great fondness from a while back that I'd have to say is the best I've taken (of 2700 or so, I think I'm up to now...). It's about polar bears, which isn't exactly the world's most interesting topic, IMO, but the person who write the quiz presented the facts to us in a kind of "one day in the life of Mr. Polar Bear" scenario, and I was enchanted. I must still be, since I remember it.

R

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Thanks. I wasn't sure if people liked the harder ones because, well, they're hard. I think I'll go back and do some literature ones.

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"Never have so many suffered so much so so few could
be so happy." -Major Frank Burns

Hi all...great topic here. But I have some questions. I've prepared some quizzes that I thought were just fascinating, only to see them rarely played. Most of my quizzes get rated as 'tough' or 'difficult'; these categories would attract me as a player. But most players select those in the 'Simple' 'Easy' and 'Average' genre, at least according to the 'Top Rated Quizzes'
list. Personally, I enjoy the challenge of preparing a tough quiz, 'cause I learn in the preparation process. My favorite field is the 'additional information' field; I find it even more interesting to fully explain the answer. Oh, yeah, I said I had some questions. OK...do we gear the quizzes to the preferences of our players? I'd really hate to have to begin preparing 'Simple' quizzes (though I realize that they have their place). Or do we continue to prepare the 'tough' and 'difficult' quizzes that are either ignored by, or serve as a source of annoyance to, our players?

Well, I've been doing a variety. I noticed most of my quizzes were a 'hard' average to tough, so I made a couple easy ones for people who were knew to the subjects I had made the others in. I usually play the average quizzes, unless it's an area I know a lot about.

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"Never have so many suffered so much so so few could
be so happy." -Major Frank Burns

I like quizzes on topics- I have never -ever heard about...e.g. the Origin of Xhosa...or the Statics of Heraclitus...can you do something like that?