Rules
Terms of Use

Topic Options
#108810 - Tue Jan 15 2002 06:56 AM WorldWide
quogequox Offline
Prolific

Registered: Sat Sep 15 2001
Posts: 1050
Loc: Adelaide SA Australia      
I'd love to know how you define "world wide". One quiz under this heading involved one question about Columbia and the other nine about US based sports. Hardly world wide! Given that we have to put up with the ridiculous UScentric quality of questions in just about every other catagory it would be nice for world wide to mean just that.
_________________________
Never moon a werewolf.

Top
#108811 - Tue Jan 15 2002 08:31 AM Re: WorldWide
Exit10 Offline


Registered: Fri Sep 28 2001
Posts: 4253
Loc: Brisbane Queensland Australia
Hi quogequox

I'm not sure where you were looking, but in the category 'World' there are quite a few quizzes on the world plus there are links to 'world' sections in other categories such as geography, politics, religion, languages and literature. If in fact you were looking in 'world wide sports' there appear to be a few quizzes that aren't 'UScentric' either.

There are also a lot of other quizzes in most categories that cover all nationalities; history, brainteasers, education and just about everything else.

Granted, there is a higher proportion of US players on the site, however there are also a lot of other internationals as well who are creating quizzes all the time. In fact one of FunTrivia's most prolific quiz creators, thejazzkickazz, comes from the US and he creates quizzes on all topics in all categories worldwide. If you see the list of quizzes he has created then you will see what I mean.

I hope that this will point you in the right direction to find what you are looking for. I notice that your quizzes fall into a variety of categories which is great to see. Keep up the good work.

Cheers


Top
#108812 - Tue Jan 15 2002 09:12 AM Re: WorldWide
Bruyere Offline
Star Poster

Registered: Sat Feb 10 2001
Posts: 18899
Loc: California USA
Hi, Exit, you said it very well to your fellow countryman. And the creation of quizzes is spontaneous, there is no US, British or any country bias in the submission or acceptance of quizzes.
In my own quizzes, I myself try not to be too Americanocentric either, as that would be pretty silly of me, being more of a hybrid than anything else. But it isn't always easy.
One thing for certain is that I truly do not think the bias holds true here in the forums, but I don't believe you've posted very often here.
The people who've posted regularly here for the past months have, beyond a bit of good natured teasing and kidding around, shown amazing kindness towards their fellow English speaking members. If I have no idea what "no tipping" means on a roadside sign in the middle of the countryside in England then where else would I find an answer?
If I would like to know what Ayer's Rock is called in Alice Springs, where else would I go for an answer?

I was in your place at one time, as the press officer for an Australian sportsman and an Italian team and received posts from around the world and the Aussies assumed they were writing to other Aussies, the Italians the same and so on and so forth! The fans writing in assumed I was well aware of this or that in the Aussie sports' world, the British sportswriters were really really hard on me, and the Italians were wonderful but spoke very quickly as I translated simultaneously into English.
Lucky I'd visited your country and had Aussie friends prior to my job?

I think that though you have a point about the number of US sports quizzes, you still may create your own, labelling them specifically Australian, or whatever.

See you around,
Bruyere

_________________________
I was born under a wandering star.

Top
#108813 - Wed Jan 16 2002 12:28 AM Re: WorldWide
ladymacb29 Offline
Moderator

Registered: Wed Mar 15 2000
Posts: 16214
Loc: The Delta Quadrant
Ditto to what they said. We put up what is submitted to us. Perhaps because this site is in English, that's why we don't have a lot of German, Kenyan, Argentinian or Iraqi quizzes. We're not biased, we just work with what is given to us.
_________________________
"Without the darkness, how would we see the light?" ~ Tuvok

Editor for Television Category

Top
#108814 - Thu Jan 17 2002 07:29 AM Re: WorldWide
gtho4 Offline
Administrator

Registered: Sun Dec 26 1999
Posts: 54484
Loc: Sydney
oz downunder
.. the category was World Wide in Mixed Sports

quogequox,
have a look at it now, I think I've picked most of them up
gt

the Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase 4, the little ozzie screamer from the 1970s that still howls


Top
#108815 - Fri Jan 18 2002 02:03 PM Re: WorldWide
dolphineclipse Offline
Explorer

Registered: Fri Dec 21 2001
Posts: 71
Loc: England
I agree with Lady Macbeth. This site is American, I think, and written in English, so the majority of members are going to be from those two countries. But, other countries also use English as the norm, so there's a lot of them as well. Then there's a lot of other Europeans too.
Then, I would think that most of the quizzes will be American or related countries based.

Top

Moderator:  agony