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Quiz about Biography of a Quiz Writing Addict
Quiz about Biography of a Quiz Writing Addict

Biography of a Quiz Writing Addict


Some people are addicted to cigarettes. Others to alcohol. Me, I'm addicted to quiz writing on FunTrivia. Here's my biography, presented in add/drop-a-letter form.

A multiple-choice quiz by George95. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
George95
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
372,387
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
341
Question 1 of 10
1. All addictions need to start somewhere. As a FunTrivia newbie, I was almost lost amongst all the endless possibilities to write about, along with all the different challenges giving me more ideas.

You could say I felt like this eight-letter word when I started out, a word defined as somebody external to an event or group.

Answer: (Eight Letters (also a famous book))
Question 2 of 10
2. While writing my first quiz, I was worried that the questions were not up to the standard as some of the others I'd taken on the important website.

For the next word, drop a letter from the previous answer to get an adjective that means "celebrated for historic significance", and could be substituted for important in the preceding sentence.

Answer: (Seven Letters)
Question 3 of 10
3. After completing my first draft of my first quiz, I submitted it and waited anxiously to see if it would go online.

The process isn't that simple. My template must go through this six-letter word first before it can be placed online.

Answer: (Six Letters)
Question 4 of 10
4. In due time, my quiz was edited and returned saying that it was almost acceptable, but one question seemed to be an outlier, unrelated to the others.

Just like here, in order to keep the story going, here's a word that doesn't fit in the story. Don't blame me, blame the English language! This five letter word means "one who shows excessive love or affection".

Answer: (Five Letters)
Question 5 of 10
5. With one question needing replacement, I had to replace it with one that had a stronger connection. With the change made, it was back off to the queue!

What four-letter word can explain what I did to the question to make it fit in?

Answer: (4 Letters)
Question 6 of 10
6. My constant paranoia over my first quiz and my new question lead me to bring my quiz back to shift around my questions in my quiz to better fit the storyline. What if the quiz gets rejected again? What if the editor doesn't like my quiz? All sorts of silly questions worried me late at night.

ADD a letter from the last word to get the word which is what I adjusted, but can also mean an authoritative command.

Answer: (5 Letters)
Question 7 of 10
7. Success! All my fretting goes for nowt when my quiz is placed online. In the midst of my jubilation, I read a very pleasant compliment from another player who said they loved my quiz and hope I write more in the future.

Adding a letter from the previous word gets a word meaning someone that loves you.

Answer: (Six Letters)
Question 8 of 10
8. With my confidence through my roof and a stadium full of screaming fans (okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration there), the quiz factory that is me started up. Geography, General, History, one by one I conquered another category with a quiz. I built quite a collection of quizzes in my profile.

Add a letter from the previous word to get a word meaning someone who has a large collection (or collections).

Answer: (Seven Letters)
Question 9 of 10
9. When my imagination for potential quizzes began to wane, I wandered my way over to the author challenges and the Author's Lounge. The inspiration given there pushed me into categories and topics I never would have voluntarily gone to, and put new spins on subjects that interested me.

Adding another letter gets a word that means "the most dedicated, passionate members of a group", possibly describing me in the quiz writer's world.

Answer: (Eight Letters)
Question 10 of 10
10. While I'm not even close in terms of most quizzes written to some authors on the site, I thought this quiz would serve as a memoir to how I got started. This isn't the end of my quiz-writing career, and it'll go into my profile as just another one of my quizzes.

The memoir quiz won out over a book deal as none of the publishers seemed to respond to my emails (I wonder why?). Anyway, for this last question add a letter to get a specific kind of book with a flexible spine.

Answer: (Nine Letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. All addictions need to start somewhere. As a FunTrivia newbie, I was almost lost amongst all the endless possibilities to write about, along with all the different challenges giving me more ideas. You could say I felt like this eight-letter word when I started out, a word defined as somebody external to an event or group.

Answer: outsider

S.E. Hinton wrote the novel "The Outsiders" about two rival gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hinton wrote the book mostly at 16 and had it published at 18. The novel was published in 1967 and adapted onto the big screen in 1983.
2. While writing my first quiz, I was worried that the questions were not up to the standard as some of the others I'd taken on the important website. For the next word, drop a letter from the previous answer to get an adjective that means "celebrated for historic significance", and could be substituted for important in the preceding sentence.

Answer: storied

A storey/story (British vs American English) is also terms for a level of a building. An unofficial unit of measurement has been coined a "storey", and measures in at 10 feet (3 meters), the typical length between floor and ceiling. That measurement allows tall, non-traditional buildings (like the CN Tower in Toronto or Eiffel Tower in Paris) to be converted into story heights.
3. After completing my first draft of my first quiz, I submitted it and waited anxiously to see if it would go online. The process isn't that simple. My template must go through this six-letter word first before it can be placed online.

Answer: editor

Thank you to all the volunteer editors for all the hard work they do and for putting up with all my garbage!

With the digital revolution, editors don't necessarily have to be humans anymore. Editors have been developed as software and on the Internet to edit all forms of documents, not just text, but photos, programming code, or audio!
4. In due time, my quiz was edited and returned saying that it was almost acceptable, but one question seemed to be an outlier, unrelated to the others. Just like here, in order to keep the story going, here's a word that doesn't fit in the story. Don't blame me, blame the English language! This five letter word means "one who shows excessive love or affection".

Answer: doter

In French, the word "doter" is a verb meaning "to endow".
5. With one question needing replacement, I had to replace it with one that had a stronger connection. With the change made, it was back off to the queue! What four-letter word can explain what I did to the question to make it fit in?

Answer: redo

Redo is also a function found on computers. If you wish to undo an undo, or make something reappear after removing it by pressing "undo", Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z on Windows and Command+Shift+Z on a Mac are the shortcuts to access the redo function.
6. My constant paranoia over my first quiz and my new question lead me to bring my quiz back to shift around my questions in my quiz to better fit the storyline. What if the quiz gets rejected again? What if the editor doesn't like my quiz? All sorts of silly questions worried me late at night. ADD a letter from the last word to get the word which is what I adjusted, but can also mean an authoritative command.

Answer: order

An order could also be an award or honour awarded by governments to citizens for bravery or other deeds. Order is an important term in science, especially in biology as order is a taxonomic rank between class and family.
7. Success! All my fretting goes for nowt when my quiz is placed online. In the midst of my jubilation, I read a very pleasant compliment from another player who said they loved my quiz and hope I write more in the future. Adding a letter from the previous word gets a word meaning someone that loves you.

Answer: adorer

In French, adorer is the French verb meaning "to adore". The verb has to be conjugated to fit with various nouns or pronouns, so rarely appears in literature written as "adorer".
8. With my confidence through my roof and a stadium full of screaming fans (okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration there), the quiz factory that is me started up. Geography, General, History, one by one I conquered another category with a quiz. I built quite a collection of quizzes in my profile. Add a letter from the previous word to get a word meaning someone who has a large collection (or collections).

Answer: hoarder

A&E ran a six season show called "Hoarders" where cleaning specialists and psychiatrists helped hoarders clean out their home and gain their lives back. When the show premiered in 2009, it was the most watched show in A&E history.
9. When my imagination for potential quizzes began to wane, I wandered my way over to the author challenges and the Author's Lounge. The inspiration given there pushed me into categories and topics I never would have voluntarily gone to, and put new spins on subjects that interested me. Adding another letter gets a word that means "the most dedicated, passionate members of a group", possibly describing me in the quiz writer's world.

Answer: hardcore

Hardcore can have other meanings on FunTrivia - you can participate in the hardcore version of the Global Challenge. In that game, your selection of possible games per set is limited to only a specific few categories and a minimum score needs to be met for any advancement points.
10. While I'm not even close in terms of most quizzes written to some authors on the site, I thought this quiz would serve as a memoir to how I got started. This isn't the end of my quiz-writing career, and it'll go into my profile as just another one of my quizzes. The memoir quiz won out over a book deal as none of the publishers seemed to respond to my emails (I wonder why?). Anyway, for this last question add a letter to get a specific kind of book with a flexible spine.

Answer: hardcover

Hardcover books tend to cost more than their paperback counterparts due to the complex spine that allows the book to stay open. Academic books and non-fiction books tend to be printed in hardcover, while fiction books are printed often just in paperback.
Source: Author George95

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