October 2024 Quiz Released.

[OzEclipse]

app.php/quiz/play/19

Each quiz takes me many hours to compose each month, coming up with new questions, researching answers, composing tempting alternative answers. Next, I use the quiz creation tool to do the the mark up. If you disagree with a question or answer, you are welcome to raise anything with me at any time discretely via PM.

However, I ask that, during the month the quiz is actively being played, that members please: -
______a) don't post spoilers indicating the nature or content of questions or answers
______b) don't post claims that answers are wrong.

The answers are checked and such claims are usually wrong usually because the entrant misinterprets the question or is recalling out of date information. Any such messages will be deleted as soon as I see them. To post spoilers for others because you've finished playing is just selfish. I am more than happy for you to post those very same comments on the forum and discuss them openly after everyone has played and the quiz has closed at the end of the month at which time I'll also post my comments explaining all the answers.

The indication that the quiz has closed is when I post the results histogram usually early the next month.

app.php/quiz/play/19

Every time a member initiates a play of the quiz, even if they don't answer any questions, I receive a full page showing all the questions, answers and scores. Your first attempt will be the score that counts, not the highest score achieved.



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[OzEclipse]

Apologies, I set the quiz notification to timed release but forgot to take the "still editing" out of the description when I finished.

All good to go now.
Joe

[DaveZ]

Some challenging questions in there for me. A couple I should have known but second guessed myself. Good quiz

[Mike Q]

8 i knew and guessed well on two. Another good quiz.

[Graeme1858]

Another excellent quiz!

I guessed one and did some mental arithmetic on another!

Cheers Joe.

[Gfamily]

1 guess came good, but 1 I thought I knew was incorrect
Good Quiz.

[helicon]

Only missed one or 90%. Really fun quiz Joe, thanks!

[Mike Q]

Another excellent quiz!

I guessed one and did some mental arithmetic on another!

Cheers Joe.

I tried the math and decided to just go with a guess.

[SparWeb]

Whew! I think I am 30% smarter this month that I was last month!
Thank you

[pixelsaurus]

9 out of 10. One had me completely stumped. Good quiz. Cheers.

[AntennaGuy]

Oops. After some thought, right at the last question, I went back a few to change an answer, then skipped rapidly back to the end (by hitting "next" a few times), only to discover after submission that my later answers had been apparently reset to something else. But, even if that hadn't happened, I still would have missed some legitimately and still wouldn't be in the top-finishing group. Thanks for the quiz. I'll be more careful going back and forth on the pages next time; no need to change the code, I should have paid more attention to what was on the screens when I went forward again.

[sdbodin]

Rats 9/10, as usual, skim read the question and checked the first good one without finishing the rest of the choices, my bad!!


Great quiz, fun as always,
Steve

[OzEclipse]

Oops. After some thought, right at the last question, I went back a few to change an answer, then skipped rapidly back to the end (by hitting "next" a few times), only to discover after submission that my later answers had been apparently reset to something else. But, even if that hadn't happened, I still would have missed some legitimately and still wouldn't be in the top-finishing group. Thanks for the quiz. I'll be more careful going back and forth on the pages next time; no need to change the code, I should have paid more attention to what was on the screens when I went forward again.

I think, once you go back, you have to re-answer everything as you go forward again otherwise it's as if you haven't answered them at all.
Cheers
Joe

[Mike Q]

Rats 9/10, as usual, skim read the question and checked the first good one without finishing the rest of the choices, my bad!!


Great quiz, fun as always,
Steve

I always read the question twice then read all the answers, then back to the question. This is why it takes me twice as long to do the quiz and keeps me from skimming across the questions and answers. Sometimes it actually works.

[OzEclipse]

Rats 9/10, as usual, skim read the question and checked the first good one without finishing the rest of the choices, my bad!!


Great quiz, fun as always,
Steve

I always read the question twice then read all the answers, then back to the question. This is why it takes me twice as long to do the quiz and keeps me from skimming across the questions and answers. Sometimes it actually works.

And why I stopped ranking winners by how quickly they complete the quiz.
Joe