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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superfan123 
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I have taken the title "When The Kiwis Storm Your Doorstep" for New Zealand! Reply #921. Jan 05 13, 7:08 PM |
| superfan123
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Oh, and it is a New Zealand Cuisine quiz. Is that acceptable? I remember playing Omani Dining on the Bus Ride before. Reply #922. Jan 05 13, 7:59 PM |
looney_tunes
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Anything that gives a sense of the place is acceptable, just make sure that it is accessible for players. Quizzes that are too obscure, while they may rate highly when taken by interested players when they first go online, tend to have their ranking plummet when the Bus visits - players who don't get their 5 right so they can score the country tend to rate viciously. Reply #923. Jan 05 13, 9:01 PM |
beergirllaura
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I will do a geography quiz on The Bahamas. Reply #924. Jan 05 13, 10:14 PM |
| looney_tunes
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I have to write a History quiz, so will be investigating the history of Micronesia for a while. Reply #925. Jan 07 13, 4:33 PM |
stuthehistoryguy
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I'm going to try to sneak something in on Estonia PDQ. Reply #926. Jan 07 13, 9:24 PM |
gracious1
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Is the list in the first post current? What about the attached document? Reply #927. Jan 15 13, 4:50 PM |
| looney_tunes
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The link in the header goes to a list of the current quizzes, which was last changed in April 2012. As I have noted before, something showing red there may or may not be in need of having a new quiz. Some of them have replacements ready to go, some are only red because they are old, but they are excellent and popular quizzes. That is why the list of countries in the header is there - you can see which countries have only the current quiz as a suitable one, so if you write a quiz for that country and it achieves a reasonable ranking (I'd love to have them all with sunnies, but am content to recommend anything in the top 50,000) yours will definitely be used. If you write for any other country, your quiz will need to beat the two that are already there. The list in the header gets updated to remove quizzes when new ones that will be used have been ranked. I'm at work right now, so cannot look up my spreadsheet to see what countries have candidates that have not yet been ranked. I know one of them is Barbados, there may be more. Russia? They would have been mentioned by their authors on this thread within the last few pages. I will be asking Terry to make a new rotation sometime soon - I am just waiting to see how the newest quizzes do when they get ranked before sending him the list of new ones to swap in. When I do that, I will post in this thread, so everyone will know that future submissions will not be used until the next rotation, which will be at least six months away (although they will be included and can count for Pangalactic). Reply #928. Jan 15 13, 5:23 PM |
| gracious1
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Okay, well, I hope I get my quizzes written before that time! Reply #929. Jan 16 13, 1:01 AM |
| gracious1
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Since you are telling me that the list at the top of the page is accurate, I am taking on Zambia. Reply #930. Jan 19 13, 9:15 PM |
| looney_tunes
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The latest batch of quizzes have been rotated in, so the link in the header now shows the quizzes more realistically than when we had nearly 30 of them ready to be replaced. The higher they are on that list, the easier it will be to write a quiz that outranks them. Kyle has updated the list of countries with no suitable second quiz - they're even easier to get a quiz that will be included as a rotation reserve, since they only need to be in roughly the top 50,000 or so. Of course, sunnies would be better, and it would be fantastic to see some double- or triple-digit rankings for these poor neglected countries. Bus Ride quizzes cont for the Pangalactic challenge, too. :) Reply #931. Jan 26 13, 1:41 AM |
| gracious1
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So which list should we be looking at for writing quizzes? The list of countries that is in the body of the post, or the list in the attached document? Reply #932. Jan 26 13, 2:16 AM |
| gracious1
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If it's the attached document, then I think I would like to write about Sweden, too, because I did say so a few weeks ago. Reply #933. Jan 26 13, 2:17 AM |
| looney_tunes
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Both lists are useful. The list in the header tells you which countries only have one quiz, the one currently in use. We want a second one for each country. The list in the link shows you the ones currently being used. Terry has set up code to make them show red if their rating is outside the top 25,000, or if they were written more than a few years ago. I wouldn't pay too much attention to those red tags, as the current quizzes are pretty good. Your goal is to write a quiz to replace the current one, either immediately or later on through the rotation process. If your quiz ranks better than the current one, it will be added at the next rotation. If there is a second quiz already available, you need to beat its ranking to be included as the rotation quiz. I watch all quizzes that come online, and note any that might be candidates for inclusion. When they get ranked, I can then decide whether they go on the list for the next rotation, or the reserves list, or aren't going to be used at this time. You don't actually have to choose from any list, they are just provided as guidance to help you write a quiz that is more likely to be included than if you choose a country that already has a number of excellent quizzes. Since the writing of the amazing Race last year, that would include Bhutan, which was the beneficiary of some excellent quizzes during one of the early challenges. Reply #934. Jan 26 13, 3:37 AM |
| superfan123
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The list has changed dramatically now... Ignore what I said about NZ. Reply #935. Jan 26 13, 1:48 PM |
| stuthehistoryguy
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Wow, Sweden's the low quiz! Jag ar Svensk! Gotta do something about that. Reply #936. Jan 26 13, 5:52 PM |
| gracious1
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Yes, that is why I claimed Sweden in the first place!!! Working on it now! :-) Reply #937. Jan 26 13, 6:01 PM |
| gracious1
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Question -- I understand that the quizzes don't have to be geography? Can they be about language? Reply #938. Jan 26 13, 6:05 PM |
| gracious1
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Is there a set of guidelines written somewhere about what kinds of quizzes are appropriate for the Bus Ride? Reply #939. Jan 26 13, 6:06 PM |
| stuthehistoryguy
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May the best one win, mate ;) Reply #940. Jan 26 13, 6:18 PM |
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