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Subject: The Pangalactic Sunnies Challenge

Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Mar 02 12

With Kyle's permission, I am going to launch an activity of my own, especially created for those of you who just never seem to have enough options to stretch your authoring skills to the limits and beyond.

At its heart, this is a new marathon quiz authoring race requiring a combination of speed, persistence, quality and variance. While you could win up to six badges(*) for finishing, those are standard awards you'll just happen to pick up on the way (unless you already have them). Essentially, you are thus competing for the love of authoring and for the bragging rights to have completed one of the most demanding authoring quests that will ever hit the site.

The race is open to every FT author and will run for as long as people wish to continue working on it. You can start the race at any time by signing up. Then, your goal is to write one sunglassed quiz per category, begun after the signup date (those you wrote before don't count). Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission). Report your finished works here once they have received their Sunnies to be added to the leaderboard. Finishers will be sorted by the time needed from signup to their 20th set of shades (so late starters will never be penalized). If anyone does this under a year, they're a master author, but anyone seeing this to the end will be a champion in their own right.

Oh yes, should you finish this and want to try again to improve your time, feel free to reenter. We'll keep your best time and your number of completions!

A few answers before you ask the corresponding questions:

  • In order not to penalize those who have taken an early jump at "Stepping Up XII", you *may* count a quiz you've done for that challenge even if you have already begun it. If you wish to do so, just notify me with your signup that you wish to retroactively sign up as of yesterday (March 1).
  • Quizzes written for The Amazing Trivia Race by those not yet arrived do count only if they are also author challenges and have been begun on March 1 or later.
  • If you still have to create a work in any other challenge or commission you entered before your signup date which you have never yet submitted to an editor, you CAN finish, submit and count it. This would be a good time to catch up on your commissions!
  • If you get an Editor's Choice on a quiz, it will qualify even if does not get actual Sunnies. This is also a great way to avoid the wait for ratings and shave several weeks off your score!
  • Once a quiz has been crosschecked and marked off on your grid, it does not matter whether it does retain its Sunny status later on. Once qualified, it remains qualified.
  • You are responsible for reporting your quizzes yourself in this thread once they do qualify (please provide a link for quick checking). It's best to check on Monday afternoon or Tuesday, that way you will always catch those newly awarded Sunnies early.
  • If you have added no new quizzes to your score for three months, your name will be dropped from the public listing of racers. However, you will remain in the internal database and once you do submit another qualifying quiz, you will be back in the list. This is just to weed out those who abandoned the game.
  • I will provide regular updates to the standings once the first quizzes start rolling in (which will obviously take 3-4 weeks). Kyle will be using his magical mod powers to add them to this post.
  • To make things easy for me, please do not link to your quizzes in this thread until they qualify.

    If you have any further questions, just ask away. Good luck!

    WesleyCrusher

    (*) The 5, 10, 15 categories, Cool Quizzes, Author Challenges and one badge from the "Author" series.

    Current Standings: link http://www.krath.org/pangalactic.png

    ***HALL OF FAME***

    Looney_Tunes has finished the Pangalactic course TWICE! First time it took 181 days, the second time 361 days. Incredible!

    Dcpddc478 has finished the Pangalactic course in the record time of 94 days! Amazing!
    Rossian has finished the course in 143 days.
    Reedy has finished the course in 150 days.
    Kyleisalive has finished the course in 242 days.
    Creedy has finished the course in 429 days.
    Gracious1 has finished the course in 272 days.
    Cellardoor has finished the course in 627 days.
    Suomy has finished the course in 396 days.
    WesleyCrusher has finished the course in 1,026 days.
    JanIQ has finished the course in 1,005 days.
    Pollucci19 has finished the course in 1,151 days.
    Fifiona81 has finished the course in 533 days.
    1nn1 has finished the course in 1,767 days.
    spanishliz has finished the course in 1,989 days.

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    reedy star


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    link https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Music/Social-Distancing-Rock-and-Roll-401490.html

    One for Music, written as a TRIC quiz.

    Reply #1741. Jun 01 20, 6:22 PM
    spanishliz


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    Does TRIC count for this? I didn't think it did, but would be glad to be told I'm wrong :)

    Reply #1742. Jun 01 20, 6:47 PM
    CmdrK star


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    You're not wrong, Liz. :)

    Reply #1743. Jun 01 20, 8:07 PM
    reedy star


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    Ah, yes. Should have (re)read the rules more carefully.

    Reply #1744. Jun 01 20, 8:53 PM
    AcrylicInk star


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    This Animals quiz got sunnies this week. It was written for the latest Globetrot challenge.

    link https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Animals/Kerala-Koala-401569.html

    Reply #1745. Jun 16 20, 3:10 AM
    AcrylicInk star


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    This Humanities quiz got sunnies.
    link https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Humanities/The-Art-of-Sports-402058.html

    And this Geography one.
    link https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Suriname-What-Can-You-See--401904.html

    Reply #1746. Jul 15 20, 2:02 PM
    AcrylicInk star


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    The geography one was written for the Bus Ride. Not sure if that counts.

    Reply #1747. Jul 15 20, 2:04 PM
    AcrylicInk star


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    If the Bus Ride one doesn't count, this Globetrot geography quiz got sunnies this week:
    link https://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?id=402172

    By my count I'm over halfway through now! Just 9 more to go.



    Reply #1748. Jul 24 20, 2:03 PM
    bernie73 star


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    Starting from October 07, 2018, I have sunny quizzes in the following categories:

    Entertainment: "Why Did the Chicken"
    History: "The Sun Never Sets on the Wars of the British"
    For Children: "DIamonds Aren't Forever"
    Literature: "Dystopian Fact or Fiction"
    Television: "Theme Songs From US Sitcoms (1970-1979):"
    Celebrities: "More Color Me Purple: Winners of the Purple Heart"

    Sorry if I've posted these before. This is as much to help me keep track as any other reason.


    Reply #1749. Jul 31 21, 5:44 AM
    JanIQ star


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    It seems I forgot to mention my Entertainment quiz.
    "Wet Entertainment for Empedocles" was written as part of QuiWriMo 2019 and still has sunnies.

    Reply #1750. Aug 06 21, 8:50 AM


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