Crappy Trivia Quiz

On friends.warnerbros.com there is a trivia quiz, which good as it was, is never, ever updated. It has had the same 5 questions for months.

This is pissing me off.

Is there a better one on the web somewhere?

In article , "Buckcherry" wrote:

Try http://members.xoom.com/lorenzrau/quiz1.htm and http://members.xoom.com/lorenzrau/quiz2.htm

it has lots of typos (are there *no* spell checkers on Windoze?) but some questions are quite tough, and it is a *LOT* bigger.

Tennant

LOL ohh, there are spell checkers.... teaching people to actually USE them is the big problem.

Shaz "Turkey's burnt, potatoes are ruined, potatoes are ruined, potatoes are ruined." http://zap.to/ERweb (ER Multimedia) http://members.xoom.com/shaz915/ERcreative/FAQ http://members.xoom.com/shaz915/GellerBing http://members.xoom.com/FriendsQuote

In article , [email] (TOW Shaz) wrote:

I can see why people can't be bothered in a casual forum, but when publishing to the world on a website, you'd think they'd take more care.

Tennant

yeah, you would THINK....

Shaz "Turkey's burnt, potatoes are ruined, potatoes are ruined, potatoes are ruined." http://zap.to/ERweb (ER Multimedia) http://members.xoom.com/shaz915/ERcreative/FAQ http://members.xoom.com/shaz915/GellerBing http://members.xoom.com/FriendsQuote

Buckcherry wrote in message news:8aondn$ikc$[email]...

Just a shameless publicity stunt for my site, but go to:

http://www.steinfamily.demon.co.uk/trivfriend.html/

It's got three levels, and I made most of the questions up myself.

In article , "Sam Stein" wrote:

If you don't mind a few comments Samantha, I've just tried out the first level of your quiz, which was quite enjoyable, neatly laid out, free from typos, and had well considered questions. :)

However, white text on a pale grey background is not very easy to read, the SCORE button didn't work (but the CLEAR button does), and when I tried to go onto the next level it said "403 Forbidden. You do not have permission to get URL '/trivfriend.html/trivfriend2.html' from this server." :(

Tennant

Tennant Stuart wrote in message news:[email]...

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Well, it's not meant to be grey! There's meant to be a very dark background - believe me if it was even remotely uncomfortable to read, my brother would have noticed long before! :) But I have had a bit of trouble uploading to the server recently, so I may have inadvertantly deleted something! (Yes, I do realise that would be a pretty stupid thing to do!)

About the actual code, what browser are you using? I use Netscape, and it works. I've even tried Internet Explorer and it works! Maybe it was just a temporary fault with demon?

In article , "Sam Stein" wrote:

I've been checking out your HTML. First of all the reason the SCORE button didn't work was because I had toggled off Javascript while visiting a badly written site. However, your HTML should have noticed this & coped. The best way of doing this involves calling a separate routine, which of course has the additional benefit of preventing simple cheating by peeking at the code.

Secondly your desired dark background was absent due to the same problem as not being able to pass on to the next level - "403 Forbidden. You do not have permission to get URL '/trivfriend.html/bluelightning001.jpg' from this server. Please refer to http://www.homepages.demon.co.uk/errors/403.html for a list of possible causes for this error."

There are many more browsers than Netscape & Internet Explorer! Good HTML works on all compliant platforms. You need to check out the forbidden access problem which is causing these 403 error codes.

I'm not picking out faults, apart from a few HTML bugs you have written a very nice quiz.

Tennant

Tennant Stuart wrote in message news:[email]...

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Sure, but I would be seriously worried if anyone was so concerned about getting an answer wrong that they had to look at the source code! Anyway, how can I find out how to call a seperate routine?

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Well, I went there, and it didn't help a bit! I'll re-upload the trivia pages and the background, just in case there is a problem there, but other than that I can't seem to find what's wrong. I'll keep trying though. :).

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I know there are loads more browsers, but Netscape & IE are the most common ones that visitors to my site use. And as for good html, well I'm not the best person to turn to. I picked it up from various sites and books, and now I have a big jumble of code in my brain which comes out as rather dodgy html!

In article , "Sam Stein" wrote:

I've just had another little play with your HTML, and to make your nice background come up, (black marbled with blue), all I had to do was change

BACKGROUND="bluelightning001.jpg"

        - to -

BACKGROUND="http://www.steinfamily.demon.co.uk/bluelightning001.jpg"

A similar modification fixed the links to parts 2 & 3 and back home.

Tennant

In article , Tennant Stuart wrote:

Now your quiz is working Samantha, I've tried it out, and found it to be most enjoyable! It's one of the best I've done, with only the huge but typoed Lorenzrau quiz being in the same league - thanks for the fun!

Tennant, (who scored 15, 13, & 14)

Tennant Stuart wrote:

I just went to it Tennant and the background didnt come in I had to hightlight to see it..from netscape ~Act

In article , Activia wrote:

I should have made it clear, Activia, that fixing my local copy of Samantha's quiz only made it work for *me* - Samantha would have to fix the version on her site to affect the rest of the world.

Tennant

Oh for the days of TTT (The Tuesday Teaser) on Friday and the real prizes it had.

J