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#201049 - Fri Sep 18 2009 03:41 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
jonnowales Prolific Registered: Mon Oct 30 2006 Posts: 1529 Loc: Swansea Wales UK	Quote: Nightmare is just amazing when it comes to sorting out all the "little niggles" in sports quizzes. I know literally nothing about practically any sport you could name and yet, with his expert help, freely given, I have managed to not only get several sports quizzes online, but actually have two of them "get the thumb". Nightmare was patience itself with me when I asked what I suspect were extremely odd questions, and given the time difference between us went "above and beyond the call of duty" to stop me saying anything that would make me look obviously silly I wrote the quizzes purely by research rather than knowledge I already had if that makes sense, so the facts were there, but it was definitely Night's help that turned them into readable, playable, and (I fondly hope) interesting quizzes. Nobody need 'fear' having a go at writing sports while he's on the job, if I can do it anyone can! Most definitely agree. Nightmare is a true sports enthusiast - even if it is cheerleading!
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#201050 - Fri Sep 18 2009 09:14 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
Lones78 Prolific Registered: Mon Apr 27 2009 Posts: 1498 Loc: Forrestfield Westernï¿½Austral...	I have also found Nightmare an excellent editor. He is extremely helpful and somehow manages to 'tell me off' in a way that doesnt make me feel like I am being naughty In relation to the football discussion, in Australia the only football is AFL (Australian Rules). But now we arent allowed to call soccer 'soccer', we have to call it 'football'. It gets extremely confusing. Then there are the two versions of rugby that get played here. Technically that is football as well but no-one in their right mind would try to confuse the situation by calling all 4 forms of football 'football'. sigh And Flopsy, if that tour is coming to Australia, we have hardly any ice so you can be pretty safe in the knowledge that what we call hockey over here is 'field hockey' _________________________ In the process of thinking up something deep and meaningful to have as a signature line...
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#201051 - Sat Sep 19 2009 08:16 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
LeoDaVinci Moderator Registered: Fri Mar 23 2001 Posts: 12578 Loc: Ontario Canada	Quote: 4 forms of football Only four? * Associated (soccer), of which I know that the indoor and field versions have slightly different rules. * Gridiron American rules * Gridiron Canadian rules * Aussie rules * Gaelic rules * Rugby * Rugby Union and those are just off the top of my head... _________________________ "La divina podestate, la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore." -------------------- Editor/Moderator/Awesome Guy
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#201052 - Sat Sep 19 2009 10:04 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
REDVIKING57 Participant Registered: Thu Apr 24 2008 Posts: 33 Loc: Leicester England UK	Quote: Quote: 4 forms of football Only four? * Associated (soccer), of which I know that the indoor and field versions have slightly different rules. * Gridiron American rules * Gridiron Canadian rules * Aussie rules * Gaelic rules * Rugby * Rugby Union and those are just off the top of my head... Yes,General,you forgot Table Football,Blow Football and Fantasy Football! LOL! Not to mention XBox,PSP,etc..... Interesting thing is,only ONE is played predominantly with the Foot/Feet! And only two use a proper foot BALL! _________________________ In A Time Of Universal Deceit,Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act - George Orwell.
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#201053 - Sat Sep 19 2009 10:38 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
flopsymopsy Administrator Registered: Sat May 17 2008 Posts: 5470 Loc: Northampton England UK	Quote: * Rugby * Rugby Union erm... doesn't Rugby = Rugby Union? Which is not the same thing as Rugby League... And where will we put Rugby Sevens if it becomes an Olympic sport? Quote: And Flopsy, if that tour is coming to Australia, we have hardly any ice so you can be pretty safe in the knowledge that what we call hockey over here is 'field hockey' I've been to Australia, Leonie. I was taken to the top of Mount Kosciuszko where my friends were ecstatic at the sight of snow... a patch about 8 feet square and six inches deep, and a very dirty brown colour where a lot of excited Aussies had walked all over it, LOL. _________________________ The Hubble Telescope has just picked up a sound from a fraction of a second before the Big Bang. The sound was "Uh oh".
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#201054 - Sat Sep 19 2009 10:50 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
REDVIKING57 Participant Registered: Thu Apr 24 2008 Posts: 33 Loc: Leicester England UK	Quote: Quote: And where will we put Rugby Sevens if it becomes an Olympic sport? Flopsy,being an ardent Football (soccer) fan,do you really want me to tell you where you can put Rugby Sevens? LOL! _________________________ In A Time Of Universal Deceit,Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act - George Orwell.
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#201055 - Sat Sep 19 2009 11:09 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
flopsymopsy Administrator Registered: Sat May 17 2008 Posts: 5470 Loc: Northampton England UK	Quote: Flopsy,being an ardent Football (soccer) fan,do you really want me to tell you where you can put Rugby Sevens? LOL! ROFL! Er... since you put it that way, not really! hahaha. Wot? Not a Tigers fan? Wow, so I can safely say "Go on the Saints!" and not get killed, hurrah! _________________________ The Hubble Telescope has just picked up a sound from a fraction of a second before the Big Bang. The sound was "Uh oh".
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#201056 - Sat Sep 19 2009 11:28 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
REDVIKING57 Participant Registered: Thu Apr 24 2008 Posts: 33 Loc: Leicester England UK	SHHHH! Bob (RMG) might hear you! He might set his avatar on you! LOL! _________________________ In A Time Of Universal Deceit,Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act - George Orwell.
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#201057 - Sat Sep 19 2009 02:21 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
flopsymopsy Administrator Registered: Sat May 17 2008 Posts: 5470 Loc: Northampton England UK	Pfft! I'm not afraid of an avatar whatever it is... goes to look at RMG's avatar gulp Jolly good team, the Leicester Tigers. _________________________ The Hubble Telescope has just picked up a sound from a fraction of a second before the Big Bang. The sound was "Uh oh".
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#201058 - Sat Sep 19 2009 04:47 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
Jakeroo Multiloquent Registered: Sat Aug 30 2008 Posts: 2064 Loc: Alberta Canada	is there some possible way we could get back "on topic" here? lol
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#201059 - Sat Sep 19 2009 05:23 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
flopsymopsy Administrator Registered: Sat May 17 2008 Posts: 5470 Loc: Northampton England UK	Oh. Okay. Let's talk about why Television questions are so difficult to answer from the other side of an ocean/globe. I'd say that's the category with some of the most problematic cultural assumptions - and I'm sure it works in many directions. For example, a question such as "which dog-owning granny from Full House won a daytime Emmy for her nursing duties in General Hospital" is a double whammy for me... I can't watch those programmes, they're just not shown here, so I have no idea what Full House is about, who's in it, what role they played... and ditto for General Hospital plus who is this Emmy when she's at home? Actually I do sort of know the answer to the Emmy bit but only vaguely, she doesn't travel. In the same way, I wouldn't expect an American to know "Which hapless mechanic from Eastenders developed twinkletoes on Strictly Come Dancing 2009". However, I suspect, hope, that a British quiz writer would know that Americans wouldn't understand the assumption within the question, ie who plays a mechanic in Eastenders, whereas I don't think Americans realise how little of their television is seen outside the US. And I would also expect a British quizwriter to know that Strictly has another name outside the UK and what it is... but perhaps I'm assuming too much there, lol. Anyway, these are not problems when I'm doing a quiz on a specific show... but they are problems in the hourlies and the GC because there's no time to figure out the many layers of assumptions being made. So has that stirred the pot enough? _________________________ The Hubble Telescope has just picked up a sound from a fraction of a second before the Big Bang. The sound was "Uh oh".
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#201060 - Sat Sep 19 2009 06:06 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
BxBarracuda Forum Champion Registered: Wed Sep 05 2007 Posts: 5117 Loc: Bronx Newï¿½Yorkï¿½USAï¿½ï¿...	We do understand Flopsy, but I think it goes more to quiz writers sometimes thinking their favorite shows are watched by everyone. I dread the Sports and Television categories the most when playing hardcore, and I watch a decent amount of American T.V. and follow a decent amount of American Sports.
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#201061 - Sat Sep 19 2009 06:32 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
PDAZ Mainstay Registered: Sat Aug 02 2008 Posts: 505 Loc: Arizona USA	Very guilty about the TV thing. I find it surprising when recent American shows are known overseas (like "How I Met Your Mother"), but I tend to take it for granted that people are familiar with the older US shows. I'm still trying to digest the fact that "The Brady Bunch" isn't internationally-known. You're missing out on the sibling order psychology of "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia"!
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#201062 - Sat Sep 19 2009 06:52 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
lesley153 Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 07 2007 Posts: 737 Loc: Bedford England UK	Quote: So has that stirred the pot enough? Beautifully, actually - the best bit of pot-stirring I've read this month. And it explains perfectly, and articulately, why I open so many TV quizzes and then promptly close them again. Questions like "Who had a cup of coffee with George Clooney's character in episode 8, series 82, of ER?" are about as answerable as "Who just missed being 73rd draft for XYZ in 1942?" when you don't even understand what the draft system is about. _________________________ I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. ~ Richard Greenberg
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#201063 - Sat Sep 19 2009 08:47 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
Jar Multiloquent Registered: Wed Apr 11 2001 Posts: 4224 Loc: Texas USA	Quote: are about as answerable as "Who just missed being 73rd draft for XYZ in 1942?" when you don't even understand what the draft system is about. The draft is no longer done. It was active when we were involved with Viet Nam. The US Government drafted men when they turned 18 years into the military. Is there any other kind of draft? Well, outside beer/lager? Like you, I just close sports questions, even the easy quizzes. It really irritates me when I see "here's an easy one!" and I've absolutely no clue what it is about. Television shows after 1965 get the same treatment. My problem is that having lived in Spain for 3 years there are television shows I've never even heard of. Someone recently asked me if I would be going to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium (also known as Jerry's World). Why in the world would I go see a sporting event when I don't even like American Football! And answer a question about it? In my dreams! So, being American, I have no clue as to the answers to American sports questions. Hmmm, maybe I should make some questions about sewing and see if Nightmare can answer them! _________________________ If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. -Dale Carnegie
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#201064 - Sat Sep 19 2009 09:54 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
Nightmare Multiloquent Registered: Wed Jun 06 2001 Posts: 4515 Loc: Texas USA	Quote: Hmmm, maybe I should make some questions about sewing and see if Nightmare can answer them! Nightmare has neither made or allowed a single question such as the draft pick described. 1)It is too ambiguous and frivolous, and 2)Most college questions are not allowed because they have the least global value in Question Quest. If the question is plucked by the system from a quiz, then point your finger at the system. And btw, I'm working on a huge paneled bed quilt with only one side left to line stitch. _________________________ Staff Editor ****** Your quiz score is not important. What you learned from the quiz is!
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#201065 - Sun Sep 20 2009 01:31 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
bucknallbabe Forum Adept Registered: Thu Oct 30 2008 Posts: 137 Loc: Bedfordshire England UK	I love the phrase "global value" - that's really what we have been talking about. If the Global Challenge, which invites players from all over the world to compete against each other, is to appeal to those players, then the question pool should consist of questions with high rather than low "global value". I think what a lot of us have been saying is that many of the questions on US Sports in the pool are at the lower end of the scale.
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#201066 - Sun Sep 20 2009 05:37 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
flopsymopsy Administrator Registered: Sat May 17 2008 Posts: 5470 Loc: Northampton England UK	Quote: I'm still trying to digest the fact that "The Brady Bunch" isn't internationally-known. You're missing out on the sibling order psychology of "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia"! I'm not going to tell you what I just had a question about in the GC or what the answer was but thanks so much. LOL! _________________________ The Hubble Telescope has just picked up a sound from a fraction of a second before the Big Bang. The sound was "Uh oh".
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#201067 - Sun Sep 20 2009 09:04 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38004 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	Yes, please keep it on topic in this thread since it is an anchored thread and intended to answer various questions. _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#201068 - Sun Sep 20 2009 10:41 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
Midget40 Forum Champion Registered: Mon Oct 27 2008 Posts: 7618 Loc: Perth Western Australia	This is my first time playing hardcore and sports is killing me. It keeps coming up and I've hardly ever qualifyed in it up to level six - I dread the higher divisions. I'm hopeless on sport from any country but I can at least learn from some questions and get them right if they come up again but I haven't found a way to remember all the statistics questions and jersey numbers and don't think I ever will. My personal pet hate though is being asked where people I've never heard of (and have no idea what sport they even play) went to college among a list of colleges that I've probably never heard of. Don't know why but that ones always irked me.
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#201069 - Sun Sep 20 2009 11:01 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
wayman71 Forum Adept Registered: Wed Jul 23 2008 Posts: 140 Loc: Hamler Ohio USA	Quote: Most college questions are not allowed because they have the least global value And I, for one, thank you for that! _________________________ "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges
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#553775 - Sun Sep 26 2010 04:01 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
Rowena8482 Prolific Registered: Mon Mar 12 2007 Posts: 1408 Loc: Hartlepool Durham England UK	I just gave up on the "Globalisation of my Quizzes" thing when I got a message complaining that a quiz with 4 US, 1 Canadian, and one Secretary General of the U.N was too British and the people in it weren't well enough known outside "UK circles". (Of the remaining 4 Qs, 3 were Brits and one was Australian.... sighhhhhhhhh) Is there anything more American than The Jacksons and Baywatch? Someone point me at it if there is _________________________ It is better to open your eyes and say you do not understand, than to close your eyes and say you do not believe.
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#553796 - Sun Sep 26 2010 08:19 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
BxBarracuda Forum Champion Registered: Wed Sep 05 2007 Posts: 5117 Loc: Bronx Newï¿½Yorkï¿½USAï¿½ï¿...	I would first and foremost consider the source of the note. I hope the Jacksons and Baywatch aren't considered typical of America, but I guess I shouldn't be suprised if that is how America is viewed around the world.
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#553835 - Sun Sep 26 2010 11:42 AM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
JanIQ Mainstay Registered: Thu Jul 09 2009 Posts: 911 Loc: Antwerp Belgium	When I write my quizzes, I tend to focus on more than my home country (Belgium). Otherwise my quizzes would all be rated poorly. _________________________ I dreamt of spending a day riding a stallion. It was a nightmare.
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#553873 - Sun Sep 26 2010 05:43 PM Re: "Americacentricity" of quizzes
tezza1551 Enthusiast Registered: Tue Feb 05 2008 Posts: 439 Loc: Western Australia	Most of my quizzes have focussed on my home state of Western Australia, and I would hope that people would try them in the same spirit that I try the American or UK based quizzes - to learn something. Having said that, I would not attempt an American or UK based sports or TV quiz, as I have no interest in either topic in ANY country. _________________________ “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!”
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