December 2022 TSS Astro Quiz
In all these quizzes, text answers are case sensitive. I minimise the number of text answers and make most multiple choice and I try to allow for different ways people might express an answer. I allow for people to type all uppercase, all lowercase or capitalise the first letter only. No other combinations. eg if the answer is Rigel, you can answer RIGEL, rigel or Rigel but not mixed caps like RiGel.
I try not to have multiple word text answers to say identify a celestial object, eg an answer like, "The Orion Nebula," as words or designations, can have a stack of combinations - The Great Nebula in Orion, The Orion Nebula, Orion Nebula then multiple all of these with multiple upper/lower case combinations then add
NGC and
Messier designations with spaces, hyphens etc. To cover all possibilities even with just three case types + designations could end up having 20 or more possible forms of correct answers that have to be set. If you put an uppercase letter in the middle of the word it will be wrong and I can't cover all those permutations.
I originally said that I was going to do a themed quiz on Einstein, Black Holes, Relativity etc.
My thanks to
@notFritzArgelander who proof read the Einstein quiz for me and pointed out quite a few problematic or ambiguous questions that will take some time to research and rewrite or replace with . Basically my memory & understanding of the special and general relativity units I took during my 3rd year Physics degree need a remedial refresher course.
So to finish the year, I've done this more general Christmas Quiz instead.
https://tinyurl.com/mujmkv5b
The Einstein quiz will return next year after I take remedial relativity classes
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PS. When I first posted this announcement, I had not yet read of nFA's sad passing. I read the post immediately after posting this. Like many of you, I am saddened to hear of his passing and will miss his humour and vast knowledge. I now realise that he gave me his critique of the Einstein Quiz just over a week before he passed away
RIP not Fritz Argelander. We will miss you.
When I do fix the Einstein Quiz, it will, appropriately, be dedicated to his memory.
Joe
Amateur astronomer since 1978
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