Subject: Bus Ride Renewal Challenge
Posted by: Terry
Date: Mar 16 10
While the replacement of low-ranked quizzes is a continuing goal, preparation of extra quizzes to introduce variety for the tourists is also important now that the Bus Ride is well-established. Some tourists have been around the world over ten times, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz currently used for the tour has a ranking that is roughly in the top third of all quizzes, so replacement is not an urgent matter, but we would still like to have new quizzes of a suitable quality to use as replacements, to provide a bit of diversity for those players who have played every day since the beginning, and who have probably memorised the answers to the current quizzes.
If you create a new quiz on a Bus Ride country, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it may be rotated in to provide a more diverse program. Should your quiz manage a higher ranking than the current entry, it could become the permanent fixture, waiting for a future challenger. As an added bonus, we have modified the ratings system to give all quizzes in our rotation a ratings bump.
Feel free to use this thread to also "claim" a country so that you don't duplicate someone else's effort, and make sure to follow along with our later posts and updates to make sure that everything is in order. We look forward to seeing what you can come up with!
This link will show you what the ranking is for each of our current country quizzes.
LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm
Posted by: Terry
Date: Mar 16 10
While the replacement of low-ranked quizzes is a continuing goal, preparation of extra quizzes to introduce variety for the tourists is also important now that the Bus Ride is well-established. Some tourists have been around the world over ten times, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz currently used for the tour has a ranking that is roughly in the top third of all quizzes, so replacement is not an urgent matter, but we would still like to have new quizzes of a suitable quality to use as replacements, to provide a bit of diversity for those players who have played every day since the beginning, and who have probably memorised the answers to the current quizzes.
If you create a new quiz on a Bus Ride country, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it may be rotated in to provide a more diverse program. Should your quiz manage a higher ranking than the current entry, it could become the permanent fixture, waiting for a future challenger. As an added bonus, we have modified the ratings system to give all quizzes in our rotation a ratings bump.
Feel free to use this thread to also "claim" a country so that you don't duplicate someone else's effort, and make sure to follow along with our later posts and updates to make sure that everything is in order. We look forward to seeing what you can come up with!
This link will show you what the ranking is for each of our current country quizzes.
LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm
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agony
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Marc, I've only ever had problems with selecting a category when using IE (using someone else's computer when I was away from home last week). Back home with Firefox, everything works perfectly. It seems to be mostly an IE issue. The quick work-around would be to create your template in the category that you plan to keep the quiz in. Reply #1021. Jun 14 13, 9:07 AM |
gracious1 
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While I'm waiting for Guinea-Bissau to go online, I will attempt to write another quiz, but I'm not sure when it will go online because I can only submit one quiz at a time. Reply #1022. Jun 14 13, 9:55 AM |
looney_tunes
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Gracious1, would you like to let us know what country you are working on, so nobody else chooses it when they could have chosen one which has nothing in progress? There is no rush on getting quizzes done, the project has been running for several years, but it is a courtesy to others to both post your intentions here, and to let us know if you change your mind and are no longer planning to write the quiz. Reply #1023. Jun 14 13, 5:10 PM |
kyleisalive
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As a note: In regards to the Bus Ride, claiming is completely informal. In my view, there is no 'claiming'. We want multiples of quizzes and the list at the top comprises the most dire cases (if dire can be the term for it). I don't see the point in stressing over time constraints in a Lounge Activity we've been doing for four years and will continue to do indefinitely. :p This is one of the few challenges here people don't really need to claim. Don't stress. :) Reply #1024. Jun 14 13, 5:20 PM |
| gracious1
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It's Mauritius. It's finished, written out completely in text file. I just can't submit it for editing yet. It may be a couple of weeks before I can do so because of other quiz commitments. Or, if things are checked quickly, it could be a matter of days. It is hard to predict. Reply #1025. Jun 14 13, 6:47 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Cool location. :) Reply #1026. Jun 14 13, 6:55 PM |
EnglishJedi
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Here is the link to my recent Guinea-Bissau quiz if anyone is interested: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/República-da-Guiné-Bissau-360485.html M Reply #1027. Jun 14 13, 9:33 PM |
| gracious1
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Looks like the Sierra Leone quiz went online already. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/General/Sierra-Leone-Home-of-All-Stars-360073.html Reply #1028. Jun 14 13, 10:35 PM |
zippolover
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and now it is offline...Hokey Kokey anyone? Reply #1029. Jun 15 13, 4:22 AM |
| EnglishJedi
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That one isn't my Sierra Leone quiz. I just finished and submitted the one that I posted above that I was writing. Reply #1030. Jun 16 13, 5:00 AM |
| EnglishJedi
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Can anyone help solve the problem I am having with getting through the Quiz creation stages? I can create a quiz by going to the category and clicking 'Create a Quiz' from there. However, if I go to Create a Quiz from my profile or the home page, I then click the 'Select a Category' button and it sends me to the top level of the Animals category with no options available from there. I have a brand new computer running Windows 7 and a new version of IE. It worked ok for a few days but now this has happened. Any ideas? Thanks Marc (Posting this in the A-I-A forum too) Reply #1031. Jun 16 13, 5:04 AM |
| looney_tunes
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I posted a response there, for what it's worth. Reply #1032. Jun 16 13, 5:18 AM |
| zippolover
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=free%20firefox%20download&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp Reply #1033. Jun 16 13, 7:06 AM |
tazman6619
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This belongs here: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Republic-of-Sierra-Leone-360516.html Reply #1034. Jun 16 13, 10:57 AM |
| gracious1
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((That one isn't my Sierra Leone quiz. I just finished and submitted the one that I posted above that I was writing.)) Oh, I see now! But that doesn't explain why it went offline. Reply #1035. Jun 16 13, 11:38 AM |
| gracious1
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English Jedi maybe you should post that stuff in the Quiz Writing Q & A forum. Reply #1036. Jun 16 13, 11:39 AM |
| kyleisalive
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Re: "Oh, I see now! But that doesn't explain why it went offline." Probably for a correction. Reply #1037. Jun 16 13, 12:02 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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Think this is the link to the Sierra Leone quiz which is now online and available. Thanks guys M Reply #1038. Jun 16 13, 6:03 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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Think this is the link to the Sierra Leone quiz which is now online and available. Thanks guys http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Republic-of-Sierra-Leone-360516.html M Reply #1039. Jun 16 13, 6:04 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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I'll do Comoros next M Reply #1040. Jun 17 13, 10:40 PM |
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