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Hello Fairground!
Some of you may have seen a slightly cryptic post the other day in the General Chat Thread, and I hope those that did have been having sleepless nights waiting to see what the reveal is! So rejoice, you can finally shut your eyes and catch up on your nightly visits to the Dreamland, as the day for the big announcement has arrived! (Obviously, wait until you've read this before you fall asleep, silly!)
The Fiction Fairground Quiz will, for the time being, be a monthly quiz that will incorporate all aspects of current story life, and these are the basics: Users from around the Fairground will submit one question each relating to one of their stories. Ten questions in total will be made into the quiz and this will be posted. Everyone that did not have a question accepted or never submitted one will then be able to take part. Over a maximum of two weeks, users will read through these stories to find the answers, and when they believe they have 10 correct answers, they will PM it to me or whoever the moderator in charge for that month is. Whoever is the first person to get all 10 questions correct will win the honour of having one of their stories made into the next Fic of the Month.
Now, time to expand:
- The questions will be formatted like this: "In The First Warriors, which legendary Pokemon do Giovanni and Charlotte discuss during their meeting?" The questions can vary in difficulty, but try to make it so that the quiz-participants will simply have to read the story to find the answer and don't need to write an essay long answer or question the philosophy of your story or anything!
- Try and restrict your questions to somewhere between the first and third chapters of your stories, though this will depend on the length of said chapters and how early the answer appears. (ie, if you have really long chapters, making people read to the third is a bit greedy, but if the answer is halfway through the second chapter, that is all right). You can give an answer that will require reading the latest chapter, but for this instance you must specify which chapter number (In Chapter Fifty Two of Eight Easy Steps, which Celadon icon is the main setting for the chapter?).
- PM me your question along with the answer and where to find it: these won't be published but it is for me to double check the answer and so I can use it to mark the quizzes.
- The competition will end when someone correctly gets all 10 correct. If no one has been the time the two weeks are up, whoever has submitted the most correct answers will instead win. I will double check with the other moderators about being able to submit your answers again.
- You cannot take part if your question makes it into the quiz, and if your question is accepted one month you won't get any accepted the next month.
Largely, this is a fun way to promote reading throughout the Workshop: the more you have already read, the more of an advantage you will have going into the quiz! Everyone is able to take part, even the moderators that are not already involved (except this month, they will know why). So it is time for everyone to submit their questions, whether it be for the quiz or about the quiz if something needs clarification (post those ones in the thread). I will give you until Tuesday NZT to submit, as if you are interested it should not take longer than that, and then we can kick things off! Hopefully we have a brand new monthly tradition in the making!
Some of you may have seen a slightly cryptic post the other day in the General Chat Thread, and I hope those that did have been having sleepless nights waiting to see what the reveal is! So rejoice, you can finally shut your eyes and catch up on your nightly visits to the Dreamland, as the day for the big announcement has arrived! (Obviously, wait until you've read this before you fall asleep, silly!)
The Fiction Fairground Quiz will, for the time being, be a monthly quiz that will incorporate all aspects of current story life, and these are the basics: Users from around the Fairground will submit one question each relating to one of their stories. Ten questions in total will be made into the quiz and this will be posted. Everyone that did not have a question accepted or never submitted one will then be able to take part. Over a maximum of two weeks, users will read through these stories to find the answers, and when they believe they have 10 correct answers, they will PM it to me or whoever the moderator in charge for that month is. Whoever is the first person to get all 10 questions correct will win the honour of having one of their stories made into the next Fic of the Month.
Now, time to expand:
- The questions will be formatted like this: "In The First Warriors, which legendary Pokemon do Giovanni and Charlotte discuss during their meeting?" The questions can vary in difficulty, but try to make it so that the quiz-participants will simply have to read the story to find the answer and don't need to write an essay long answer or question the philosophy of your story or anything!
- Try and restrict your questions to somewhere between the first and third chapters of your stories, though this will depend on the length of said chapters and how early the answer appears. (ie, if you have really long chapters, making people read to the third is a bit greedy, but if the answer is halfway through the second chapter, that is all right). You can give an answer that will require reading the latest chapter, but for this instance you must specify which chapter number (In Chapter Fifty Two of Eight Easy Steps, which Celadon icon is the main setting for the chapter?).
- PM me your question along with the answer and where to find it: these won't be published but it is for me to double check the answer and so I can use it to mark the quizzes.
- The competition will end when someone correctly gets all 10 correct. If no one has been the time the two weeks are up, whoever has submitted the most correct answers will instead win. I will double check with the other moderators about being able to submit your answers again.
- You cannot take part if your question makes it into the quiz, and if your question is accepted one month you won't get any accepted the next month.
Largely, this is a fun way to promote reading throughout the Workshop: the more you have already read, the more of an advantage you will have going into the quiz! Everyone is able to take part, even the moderators that are not already involved (except this month, they will know why). So it is time for everyone to submit their questions, whether it be for the quiz or about the quiz if something needs clarification (post those ones in the thread). I will give you until Tuesday NZT to submit, as if you are interested it should not take longer than that, and then we can kick things off! Hopefully we have a brand new monthly tradition in the making!
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