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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looney_tunes
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Unfortunately, some Bus Ride players automatically rate downwards anything that strays from the formulaic 'look it up on the Wikipedia link'. I still offer the alternative interesting quiz, and will only withdraw it from the rotation if player response takes it out of the top half of quizzes. There is sometimes pain associated with prominence. Reply #1161. Dec 24 13, 3:45 AM |
| looney_tunes
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Kyrgyzstan and Kosovo wouldn't mind getting an alliterative title if someone wanted to invite them to the Pot Luck party. Reply #1162. Jan 31 14, 6:47 PM |
MiraJane
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Oh, L_T, what an excellent idea! How about adding in North Korea? (says a nonquiz writer who has never been on the Bus.) Reply #1163. Jan 31 14, 9:22 PM |
kyleisalive
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I've always wanted to write an NK quiz but someone always beats me. Maybe tomorrow. :) Reply #1164. Jan 31 14, 9:53 PM |
| looney_tunes
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I am working on a Kosovan Kaleidoscope - found the pictures,but will leave writing until tomorrow morning when my brain is fresher. Reply #1165. Feb 01 14, 1:52 AM |
ProtoPorygon
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I have a Moldova quiz on the backburner Reply #1166. Feb 03 14, 8:09 AM |
adam36 
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I am in the mood for some ego bashing, so will try and write an alliterative Kyrgyzstan quiz for the Bus Ride that does not solely rely on the Wiki formula. I have as a tentative title of "Krazy bout Kyrgyzstan". Let the bashing begin. Reply #1167. Feb 03 14, 9:34 AM |
reedy
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Here's a quiz on Nauru... hopefully it will do well enough to get a look at for the Bus Ride. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Nauru---Pleasant-Island-366132.html Reply #1168. Feb 11 14, 3:15 PM |
| adam36
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Here is my quiz on Kyrgyzstan that hopefully will do well enough to merit bus ride consideration in the future. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Krazy-Kool-Kyrgyzstan-365982.html Reply #1169. Feb 12 14, 2:35 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Just bumping this back to the first page while choosing a country for my next Ascension Quest quiz. Moldova it will be, unless things go awry. Reply #1170. Mar 18 14, 2:36 AM |
Creedy
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Maybe, with all the horror in the world at present, the bus rides should be changed to tank rides :( Reply #1171. Mar 18 14, 8:40 AM |
Oidioid32123
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Would it be possible for the editors to string together the best 10 single questions about a country and ask people to submit single questions about those countries? Reply #1172. Mar 18 14, 1:49 PM |
| kyleisalive
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It's not possible for us to accrue any single questions together. Not sure I'd ever want to either. Single questions are meant to be stand-alone, and just clumping them together would make a really choppy quiz in my opinion. Definitely can't believe we'd have ten different, unique questions on each country either. Reply #1173. Mar 18 14, 2:22 PM |
| Oidioid32123
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http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=367093 I made a San Marino quiz in case you want to replace it, LT Reply #1174. Apr 04 14, 6:03 PM |
| looney_tunes
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I had already noted it, and will check to see how it ranks in a few weeks. My lust for potential Bus Ride quizzes is boundless. :) Reply #1175. Apr 04 14, 8:38 PM |
| Oidioid32123
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Cool! Reply #1176. Apr 05 14, 6:02 PM |
| Oidioid32123
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How well would it have to rank for you to consider it? Reply #1177. Apr 05 14, 6:07 PM |
| looney_tunes
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There is about to be a major rotation (probably in the next few weeks) that will see the currently top-ranked quiz for each country on the tour. We currently have some second-place options in there for variety. My ideal goal would be to rotate quizzes for about a third of the countries each cycle, but we simply don't have enough quality reserves to make that viable yet. I am currently in the process of checking all current quizzes and all current reserves to make sure I have the latest rankings for comparison with new quizzes. New quizzes that rank higher than the reserve will take its place, and be rotated into the tour for the following cycle. Numbers are not set in concrete, because the rankings change each week. Nevertheless, looking at the list via the link in the header to this thread, you can see that few of the quizzes are not in the top 30,000 (and some of those are shortly going to move to reserve status). Reply #1178. Apr 05 14, 10:24 PM |
VegemiteKid
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I'm attempting a Greek renewal :) Reply #1179. May 13 14, 7:26 PM |
Kankurette
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My best mate is from Belize. I'm really tempted to do a quiz for that country now. Reply #1180. May 14 14, 12:00 PM |
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