Searching For Answers.
Maybe you'll breeze through some categories because you have a particular interest in them and know quite a lot about it. Even so, there'll come a time when you'll be stumped. It will be necessary to use a google search box or another search engine and this is not cheating. We expect you to search for the answers, it's part of the game!
Complete Trivia has a sample quiz to try out so you can see exactly what the game is like when you subscribe. Use the blue link above to go to the site and then look on the page for the Visitors box on the left - click the golden oval. This brings up the console screen where you can enter your answers and check if you are right. If you don't want to answer one question hit the pass button and it will pass you to the next question.
Notice that warning message? That's just in case you forget that passing means you cannot come back to the question. The quiz is linear and once you've passed, you have no further chance to answer that question.
Taking some of the first questions that come up, I'll briefly run you through how it works.
Arts Category: Sample quiz.
1. What is the name of the white clay used in making porcelain?
I didn't know so I tried a search for 'white clay porcelain' with little result but that a white clay is used. Then I tried using the keywords "white clay porcelain name". By adding the word 'name' the new search page had two results on it which gave me the name 'kaolin' which is the right answer.
2. Which four Charles Dickens titles had three word titles?
You cannot put the question in and expect the search engine to just spit out the right answer. You need to tell it what you want to find. It's unlikely that anyone will have calculated which are the three word titles but its highly likely that a title list of Charles Dicken's work has been displayed. You could go to wikipedia or a book site but a simple search with the keywords "list titles charles dickens" will brings you a link to a list and then you can work out which titles are needed to answer this question.
Sports Category: Sample Quiz
1. What were the three animals chosen as mascots for the Sydney Olympic Games and what were their names?
This is a six part question. Perhaps you remember or perhaps you might guess that one of them was a platypus. Enter platypus in one of the answer boxes and you'll get an 'excellent', because it's right. Maybe you guess with 'emu' but you'll get 'try again' for that because it is wrong. If you guess 'ekidna' and can't spell, you'll get a 'not quite' because the four letters 'idna' are right, this can help a lot sometimes. When you spell it correctly as 'echidna' you'll get your 'excellent'.
Two down and four to go. You might guess and try kangaroo and koala but then you just can't think of a third and you still have to find the mascot's names and you don't know. A search for 'Sydney Olympic Mascots' will help you easily find the answers.
Pot Luck Category: Sample Quiz
1.Which movie starred Koo Stark, Charles Gray, Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Meatloaf, Nell Campbell, Richard O'Brien and Susan Sarandon together?
Rather than typing in all the names, I just entered 'Koo Stark, Susan Sarandon, Meatloaf, movie' . The 'movie' keyword tells the search engine the type of thing you're looking for. If you're searching a lyric add 'lyric', if you are looking for an author try adding 'author', it narrows the search a little.
On the first page of my search 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' came up. To save time typing I put in 'Rocky' to check. When the 'not quite' comes up I enter the rest of the title for an 'excellent'. An alternative to this would be to go to IMDB and research with their search box just their movie database.
Science Category: Sample Quiz
1.Which two elements on the periodic table of elements have names which begin with the letter 'O'?
Well oxygen came to mind but nothing else so I searched for 'periodic table' and an image result came up. Scanning the pictured table for O, I find Om for Osmium. You could easily look up the periodic table in an encyclopedia or a science text.
2. Who is this?
A picture of a violinist is on the screen. Menuhin comes to mind, so I try it but a 'try again' results. Of course, the picture is in Science! The man has wild white hair like Einstein so I enter 'einstein' and get a 'not quite'. I enter 'Albert Einstein' for the 'excellent'. If the white hair hadn't given me an association with Einsteinthough - I could have just done a search for 'scientist violinist'. When I tried this in google the third entry mentions that Einstein had a violin.
Other Ways to Search
The Quiz demands that you search. There are too many questions for you to know everything. It's nice to take five and let your memory kick in sometimes but often, the memory wasn't there in the first place. As you play your ability to word a keyword phrase will improve and you will reach a result more easily.
Don't forget you can also do an image search with google by clicking on the image link above the searchbox. Your results will only be as good as the keywords entered by yourself and by the person who placed the picture on the web, but often this is enough. Sometimes you might need to search with a more general category keyword and then browse the results. Vary and add to and delete your keywords to change your results pages and find your answers.
As an example, you might have a picture of Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Starry Night." and be asked for the artist's name or for the title of the painting. Seeing it is a picture of stars in a night sky, you might start with an image search with 'stars'. You might have chosen 'night'.
If you add in the keyword 'painting' so your search keywords read 'stars painting' then you might get a slightly better result. If you chose 'painting night' you'll find it on the second page as 'night' is in it's title. If you'd gone all out with 'painting night stars,' you wouldn't be able to miss it. Finally if you only know it's an 'impressionist painting' you'll find it on page 5.
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