mc2fool wrote:Rhyd6 wrote:Bumped into one of the chaps who takes part in the Tuesday online quiz I run and he asked that I expand my question base to include his subjects...
LOL! So he wants more questions that he's very likely to know the answers to and other contestants aren't, eh?
I'd think very carefully about acquiescing to that request if I were you, as you risk getting a flood of other requests for "specialist subject" questions if you do!
Like a lot of folk, we've been doing a few quizzes with family and friends over the lockdown periods. Through trial and error we've come to understand where to pitch questions - or at least somewhat understand.
Initially we'd write questions which we personally found interesting or enlightening. Turned out that these questions weren't questions, but were essentially "Interesting facts that nobody knows". Nobody scored points and everyone felt a bit thick.
Then we started writing questions that we knew would appeal to specific contestants. Car questions for father in law. Gardening questions for mother in law. Reptile questions for me, etc. Predictably, I was the only person who knew that cobra venom is predominantly a neurotoxin and not a hemotoxin.
From there we decided to do things a little differently. We developed some 50/50 questions, the most popular of which was the 'Cheese or Service Station' series, which we admittedly acquired from our mate Paz. This went down a storm. (Questions and answers below.)
The questions I posed above I thought kinda hang on the topics requested, but could also be called general knowledge or current affairs, giving the non-specialist contestants a fighting chance, while not handing it on a plate to the MMA/Metal fan. (If we'd asked who won the recent McGregor/Poirier fight, only they would nail that one.)
I love stuff like this because it tests my ability as a writer to create content for a specific audience. It's the difference between a good, successful writer with a reputation, and an average 'content-mill' writer who churns out generic guff.
Cheese or service station?
Questions
41) Dovedale
42) Baldock
43) Rivington
44) Duddleswell
45) Hereford Hop
46) Tibshelf
47) Golden Cross
48) Cotherstone
49) Pease pottage
50) Knutsford
Answers
41) Cheese - a full-fat semi-soft blue-veined cheese made from cow's milk. It is from
the Peak District of Great Britain.
42) Service station - A1(M) Hertfordshire
43) Service station - M61 Lancashire
44) Cheese - hard creamy cheese with a nutty flavour
45) Cheese - firm cheese with a rind of toasted hops
46) Service station - M1 Derbyshire
47) Cheese - soft white goat's milk cheese made from the milk of hay-fed goats, it receives a
light dusting of charcoal.
48) Cheese
49) Service station - M23 West Sussex
50) Service station - M6 Cheshire