[committee] [unisfa-committee] Quiz Night

[Davyd Madeley]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:51:13AM +0800, Scott Young wrote:
> >  Will here. Just a thought, what kind of questions are they? Cause depending
> > on the topic, i'd be game to join in, however i may just be useless.
> 
> In the past, there have been questions of a more general nature (like
> you might expect to find at any quiz night), plus a few questions
> targeted towards UniSFAns, UCCans, and some general Cameron Hall
> questions.

I recommend avoiding too many UCC/UniSFA/Cameron Hall questions if
you intend to pitch the quiz night at a wider audience. It makes
those people who are not from Cameron Hall kind of irate.

Personally I recommend a mixture of general (think Trivial Pursuit),
pop culture and technical questions.

Good topics include: general sport, geography, politics, history,
movies, popular music, popular art, general science.

Bad topics include: questions about animes no one has ever seen,
anything that requires a "fan" level of knowledge about something
(e.g. names of episodes of a TV show).

Additionally, you've got to avoid gimme questions.

The line can sometimes be hard to determine, but I think this is an
illustrative example:

"In the TV show Futurama, what does the robot Bender use as his
power source?" -- too easy, most tables will answer this question correctly

"In the TV show Futurama, name the three episodes which feature a
man in a purple hat standing behind a palm tree." -- too hard, who knows this?

"In the United States, what is the capital city of Washington state?"
   -- answerable, but requires you to know something

"Name the state capitals of Australia"
   -- answerable, but there is a trick

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Davyd Madeley

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