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Andreth
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| Ellbee wrote: | I just found the quizzes, what fun! I love it, though the Timelines one kicked my butt. I may have to finish the Silm now, just so I can take more quizzes. 
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Sorry, Mora and I are pretty HoMe and Silm-oriented, I think, and the quizzes are kind of lopsided right now. We're working on more LotR-based ones, so it'll be balanced out soon. But I'm glad to hear you like them...and grab a bottle of aspirin and keep plugging away at the Silm!
Oh, and Bitten Buggy, don't feel too bad about your score on the Quotes quiz - I bit the dust on that one, too, and had to make educated guesses on most of the Timeline quiz, too. That Mora sure comes up with some killer quizzes.  |
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Viv
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe a geography quiz? E.g., Which of the following places is furthest south? a. Rivendell b. Angmar c. Bree d. The Lonely Mountain (okay, so you could make an easier one)
Or..... Rivendell is called the Last Homely House because it is the high-elven realm that is furthest ________. |
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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Viv (and any others),
Feel free to send us in your quiz stuff!! We'll format it and put it up with full creds!
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Thuriniel
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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I had such a great time taking some of the quizzes ... a couple of them were more difficult than I expected and were a painful reminder of how much I still need to learn  ! (I knew that Aragorn had many names ... but not so many!)
So, congratulations to those who have been working on putting these quizzes up ... they are absolutely fun!
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Andreth
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | Maybe a geography quiz? E.g., Which of the following places is furthest south? a. Rivendell b. Angmar c. Bree d. The Lonely Mountain (okay, so you could make an easier one)
Or..... Rivendell is called the Last Homely House because it is the high-elven realm that is furthest ________. |
That sounds good. I'd been thinking about splitting quizzes up into people, places and things, but wasn't quite sure what to use for the places and things. Thought I'd start off with Minas Tirith and the Shire, but after that I'm blank. And I like the idea about using stories on the web site, too. If there's some specific ones you can think of, Viv, send them to us. |
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Viv
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if this is what Varda is referring to or not, but I've run across a slightly awkward moment in the quizzes.... I went through that Quotes one, enjoyed it, got my score, and clicked out of the screen that displayed my item-by-item results.
Then I thought about it and wanted to look up one of those quotes, because I thought it might be interesting fic-wise.... unfortunately when I pressed the Back button on my browser, I couldn't get to the quiz items. Fnark.
I think this is all intentional -- right Robbie? -- so folks can't take the quiz, copy the items, and then give them to someone else to look up before they take the quiz. However, the current system doesn't really preclude that brand of cheating (if that was somone's purpose, they could just copy the questions on the item-by-item quiz results page). However, it does prevent folks who've taken the quiz from reviewing which questions they got wrong and trying to use that as a learning experience.
Again, I'm not sure things need to be changed. But durn, I wish I'd copied down that quote before the page went away forever.  |
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Viv - well spotted That one got me too! I was convinced i was a retard until Robbo explained that the Back facility is disabled.
There is a list at the end of your quiz which results the answers you gave against the ones that are correct. It should be telling you the full question with the correct answer ticked in green. Thats supposed to be so you can see exactly where you went wrong.
Again, its no bother to let you retake the quiz at any time if you got messed up through not understanding how it works.
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Andreth
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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All righty then..... moving on...
Viv, what you're saying makes sense and it's a good idea. We'll have to wait and see if Rob has any magic tricks he can pull out of his sleeve to make that work. To be able to go back in and look at your own quiz again would be useful.
Just on a side note that's not directed at anyone in particular, we did have to delay opening the quiz section because of the bandwidth problem and only recently got the go ahead. We have to work within the spectrum of what can and can't be done with the section, and there are limitations. It's supposed to be just a simple quiz section to go in and have fun with when you get the notion to. But we'll do our best to accommodate where we can.
So I hope everyone continues to enjoy the section and we should have some new quizzes up in the next day or two. Thanks! |
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Robbie
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| Varda wrote: | | This is an acknowledgement of defeat and a statement of fact. "I'll just let this rest" is there because I decided this wasn't worth my time. "because" was meant to explain why I'm dropping the subject. |
OK - we'll end it there.
We LOVE feedback and HELPFUL criticism, good or bad. But when, Varda, you leave a sour note in the forums, it's time to shut up. You've said your stuff, we've given you our answer.
You've created a sour mood, you've managed to annoy not just the main admins, but now Andreth and Morlanqua as well. You make us look like mean, cold-hearted bastards when all we do is give our money and time to run this site, whilst you whinge and moan about the way we run it.
Even some of your reviews are a little blunter that could be written - you offer helpful advice but really, really need to think about your presentation.
I just hope that you have not frightened anyone else off from posting to this forum, offering suggestions etc. It's here for FUN.
Now, how about offering some friendly chat?
(N.B. If you want to reply - do it by PM. This forum is for everybody, and we don't want to see it soured by the odd individual. If the tone on the forum goes any lower, we might as well pull that too!)
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Varda
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| OK. Sorry. I'll just keep quiet then. |
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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*pushes Mora back into thead*
"Why do i have to come back in here?"
"Cause you are expendable - do it!"
*cough cough*
Hello!
New suggestions are needed for the quiz section....
Woohoo! Im over here! Come on, tell widdle Morakins what else we can get up?
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Ania
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*Ambles on* Okay, this in gonna sound really blatent and probably stupid, but I don't think there's a 'Two Towers Movie' quiz, or am I just blind? (probably the latter is more likely) By the way, these this page is so much fun, keep up the great work! (Even when you get 3 on the Elladan/Elrohir quiz  ) |
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Andreth
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| Ania wrote: | | *Ambles on* Okay, this in gonna sound really blatent and probably stupid, but I don't think there's a 'Two Towers Movie' quiz, or am I just blind? (probably the latter is more likely) By the way, these this page is so much fun, keep up the great work! (Even when you get 3 on the Elladan/Elrohir quiz ) |
There is one in the works, along with a Two Towers for Book Fans movie quiz, but I haven't gotten them finished yet. Will have them finished in the next few days. Would have already had them finished if I wasn't such a lazy sack.....
Am also working on a language quiz, Great Loves, Great Battles, and actually got the Food and Drink quiz finished. Maybe there's hope for me yet.
But thank you! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying them. |
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NancyBrooke
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I just want to publically acknowledge my spectacularly bad performance on the Food & Drink Quiz! I tanked! Wow! ... 1/10 I think? ... paybacks for the "World of Men" quiz I guess. Whew! Well, it was fun, anyway.
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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*sniggers* Named and Shamed, Nancy Doll! Poor petal.
You want that score reset for another go?
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