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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EnglishJedi 
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Don't you think you should check with the Estonians first? Reply #1061. Jun 25 13, 12:03 PM |
1nn1
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I am descended from convicts so that establishes my credentials as an Australian. However going back further with my family tree, besides an English history, I have Irish background (explains why I am a catholic) and an Estonian one though in the 16th century it was called the Duchy of Livonia in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I still have family there whom I have visited. I believe I am credentialed enough to write a quiz on same I trust this makes me eligible to write a quiz on my forebears? Reply #1062. Jun 25 13, 7:22 PM |
looney_tunes
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I believe the comment was intended to suggest that you were planning to claim (and rule) the country of Estonia, not that there is any reason why you should not write a quiz on it. Some of the highest-ranked quizzes on the Bus ride were written by people with no qualifications or credentials at all, just an interest in learning more about a specific country and sharing what they found with others. I hope you manage to work the fact that it was the Duchy of Livonia in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into your quiz somehow! Reply #1063. Jun 25 13, 8:57 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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Indeed. Sorry. Just my warped sense of humour :) Marc Reply #1064. Jun 25 13, 11:21 PM |
zippolover
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I must have a warped sense of humour too :) Reply #1065. Jun 26 13, 2:27 AM |
| 1nn1
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OK, point taken. I re-read my first post and understand the levity. I should have said, "claim Estonia as a country to write a quiz about". My apologies if I came across as defensive. I am proud of my heritage as a English/Irish/Estonian/convict. Especially the latter :-) I will incorporate the history component in the quiz Reply #1066. Jun 26 13, 3:01 PM |
Buddy1
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There was nothing wrong with what you said in your first post. Reply #1067. Jun 26 13, 3:48 PM |
gracious1
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My Mauritius quiz just went live! Up next is Burkina Faso. Although actually I'm inclined to write another quiz about Mauritius, just about the wildlife. Amazing place! http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Mauritius-Land-of-the-Dodo-360748.html Reply #1068. Jun 26 13, 5:25 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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We seem to banging through these African countries now. I'll take BURUNDI next in the vague hope that I might eventually remember the name of the capital, or at least work out how to pronounce it M Reply #1069. Jun 27 13, 4:23 PM |
| gracious1
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I'm almost finished with Ougadougou /Burkina Faso. But I'm wondering, are Bus Ride quizzes restricted to 10 questions? Reply #1070. Jun 27 13, 7:02 PM |
kyleisalive
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Nope, but they are typically more palatable to authors. Chile is queued. Reply #1071. Jun 27 13, 7:04 PM |
| looney_tunes
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If you want good ratings when the tourists hit town, I strongly recommend writing ten questions unless you are doing something like the current Canada quiz, which has a question for each FT category, so there is a good reason for having 20 questions. Most Bus Ride players just want to get half of them right without too much effort, and learn a fact or two along the way. They don't want too much on the plate, or they get indigestion. Reply #1072. Jun 27 13, 8:32 PM |
agony
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Ah, that's why that quiz suddenly got so many plays! I came home from a day out of town to see half the site playing my old Canada quiz, and wondered. Reply #1073. Jun 27 13, 9:04 PM |
| kyleisalive
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http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Kyles-Crazy-Chilean-Carpool-360378.html Onward to Chile! Reply #1074. Jun 30 13, 12:21 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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Burundi now has a second quiz: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/The-Republic-of-Burundi--360855.html Marc Reply #1075. Jul 02 13, 2:41 AM |
pennie1478
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The Germany quiz is online http://www.funtrivia.com/submitquiz.cfm?quiz=360816 Reply #1076. Jul 04 13, 11:31 AM |
rossian
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That link didn't work for me - maybe this will be better: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Oh-The-Places-Youll-Go--360816.html Reply #1077. Jul 04 13, 1:06 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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Let me give Africa a breather and take a shot at CZECH REPUBLIC Marc Reply #1078. Jul 05 13, 5:28 AM |
| EnglishJedi
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I'm also working on a quiz about the MARSHALL ISLANDS from the Bus Ride list at the top to save anyone duplicating that. M Reply #1079. Jul 08 13, 9:12 PM |
suomy
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That's one for Liberia in the queue. Hopefully it has the right balance of questions. Reply #1080. Jul 09 13, 5:22 AM |
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