I always statr with a list of the rounds. The round title may have very little to do with the content of the questions
for instance the quiz I'm running at 4pm for my colleagues has these rounds
Killer or Coder (10 questions)
Quiz Link (6 questions)
In Sequence (6 questions)
Famous Queens (6 questions)
The music round(10 questions)
Tech True Or False (6 questions)
Quiz Chain (6 questions)
Where is Kazakhstan? (6 questions)
General Knowledge (10 questions)
Alrighty. This is happening on Wednesday.
Your hosts are:
@NBT: Quizmaster.
@RogerMoore: Zoom-master.
@Cougar: Uh, I've lost track, incumbent gobshite? Maitre'D mebbe.
The quiz will be played via myquiz.org so you might want to have two separate devices for the chat and the quiz, and check that you can load the site ahead of time. You can sign up via various methods but you don't need to and can just play by entering the game code on the front page.
The running order is thus:
We will post a Zoom link for the chat channel on the forum at 7:30pm. Oh yeah, go install Zoom too and test that it works. Choice of video / audio / text / lurking is up to you, no kink chat shaming.
The game code for the quiz will be dropped into the Zoom group at 7:40.
The same code will be posted on the forum at 7:55. So, active participants get first dibs on slots, after that it's open season.
Quiz starts at 8:00. After that you'll have missed earlier questions and won't score for those but you can still join later.
There is a hard limit of 50 on the quiz. If we hit that I will be absolutely astounded (from the comments here I'm hoping for half that) but should that happen and you're blocked out you can still join the chat thanks to RM's generously loaned paid-for Zoom account.
Everyone is welcome on the chat at any time, but I'd ask that if you don't get a quiz slot then shut the hell up please don't be disruptive until it's finished. If it does turn messy then we might have to mute everyone, so if that happens then don't take it personally as we'll likely do it across the board.
The quiz will run for an amount of time, finger in the air maybe an hour, NBT reckons half that but I think he's being optimistic. After that we'll hang out and talk the toot until everyone falls over.
Disclaimer as I said at the start, in my head this is very much a proof of concept. If it crashes and burns then at least we tried, if it works then I / we / others might try and do it again. But that's a conversation for afterwards.
Swatting up on Disney film as I type! 😉
RM.
Swotting.
Christ, are we actually doing this?
#SuddenCatastrophicConfidenceFailure
There is a hard limit of 50 on the quiz.
Will be quite the zoom call if loads of people turn up. 🙂
You say that - this is one of the quizzes I've previously run (so can't run again, there are participants in the STW quiz who've seen it)
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Ok, final prep is finished and the quiz is ready. It comprises 12 rounds of 5 multiple choice questions each. The rounds are:
- St Patricks Day
- Geography
- Travel
- Art
- Mythbusters
- History
- Literature
- Landmarks
- Food
- Board Games
- Film
- General Knowledge
I can give you a heads-up that this quiz will be hosted on the online platform https://myquiz.org/ . Future quizzes may also use this as it's a handy platform - while you can play without needing to register, it's free to create an account and I've had no spam or anything from them in the months I've been using it.
Once the quiz starts, it will run automatically. You will have 18 seconds to read and answer the question, then 12 seconds to understand why you got it wrong and what the right answer was 😀
This means that the quiz will take 30 minutes to run (18+12 = 30 seconds, * 60 questions = 30 minutes). Scores are kept automatically and you can see the leaderboard to see how you're doing. As @cougar says you don't have to join the zoom call to participate in the quiz (or you can join and lurk with no camera / mike) but those on the zoom call will get an early heads up on the access code for the quiz.
You may wish to bring a sociable beverage. Personally, I will be supporting the fine local business Howard Town Brewery of Glossop
See you this time tomorrow, folks!
Is it too late to register interest? Meant to post last week.
Not at all. I mean, not that it'll make any difference at this point. See my post a few up.
We're going to post the Zoom link tomorrow, then post the quiz link in Zoom, them post the quiz link in public. If you want to participate in the quiz then you just need to be one of the first fifty to enter the app (and I'll be both astonished and deliriously happy if we get half that).
If you want to just talk bollocks on Zoom post-quiz then we no longer have a hard limit here thanks to RM, so folk can drop in and out of that as they please. Or you can drop in during, even.
Afternoon bump, zoom link and quiz link will be posted up later.
Quick recap so you don't have to trawl through the thread:
zoom link goes up 19.30 (ish). You don't have to have your camera / mike on if you just want to lurk, but that's part of the joy
quiz link will go up in zoom chat about 19.40, so zoomers can get themselves set up. There's a hard limit of 50 on the quiz itself but it's unlikely we'll get that many
quiz link will be posted here in the forum about 19.55
qiuz will start at 8pm and once running will last half an hour
after that you can stay as long as you like and we cam all drink beer and talk bollocks.
It's all free to enter and use, just turn up and enjoy.
quiz link will be posted here in the forum about 19.55
I know it's splitting hairs but shall we say 7:50? Then it's a 'thing' every ten minutes and makes my CDO happy.
Shortly before the start I'll create a new thread and request this one be closed, then the connection details etc are in the OP rather than lost between preamble and, uh, postamble.
Good call, on both counts
Ah damn, I'm double booked tonight. Hope I may be able to join the post quiz bantz. I'm sure you'll miss me. 😁
That's a shame @tthew.
for those who are turning up, what's the dress code? Are we going full black tie or just evening suit?
or is it "I've still got half my breakfast down the front of my onesie, I'll just turn the camera off"?
😀 😉
Riding kit. Show off your helmet.
"Clothed" would be preferred.
Oh,
As above, I'm going to start a new thread with connection details, ideally around 7:20 but I'm extremely time-poor so it might not be on the nose. So if you're monitoring this thread for updates, you'll miss it.
or is it “I’ve still got half my breakfast down the front of my onesie, I’ll just turn the camera off”?
I'm about to have the fastest shower in the world as I currently look like Frank out of Shameless.
