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Only Connect Quiz Book
/0 Comments/in Only Connect, TV Quiz Shows /by Jack Waley-CohenOnly Connect: The Official Quiz Book has just been published. As you may know, Jack and David from QuizQuizQuiz are the Question Editors for Only Connect, and have put together the book, complete with brilliant introductions from Victoria Coren Mitchell. It’s packed full of question from the show, and includes plenty of brand new material […]
Too True?
/1 Comment/in Quiz Questions, Writing Quizzes /by David McGaugheyJust a quick thought. Can you put too much effort into making sure a question satisfies everyone in its lack of ambiguity? People want quiz questions to be perfectly clear with perfectly unambiguous answers, and rightly so, but it can sometimes be a little muddier than that. Just as an example, if you watch Only […]
First Hand Experience of Question Difficulty
/0 Comments/in Quiz Questions, Running Quizzes, TV Quiz Shows, Writing Quizzes /by David McGaugheyThis is a follow-up to the last post – I want to expand on how the different aspects of our work fit together. (These two strands are hosted quiz nights and quiz question writing for TV shows, games, iPhone apps etc.) Those have always been the two main areas of our business – over the years […]
Questions about Ed Balls
/0 Comments/in News, Quiz Events, TV Quiz Shows, Writing Quizzes /by David McGaugheyWhen a blog falls silent, it’s usually either a good or bad sign. Thankfully, in this case, it’s the former. We’ve been BusyBusyBusy rather than QuietQuietQuiet (sorry, that’s terrible …). I’ve been writing, rather than hosting, a lot – almost exclusively. in fact. This blog has had three main purposes since it began – 1. […]