by John Nolan
February 7, 2012 in Interactive, Quizzes
Here’s a quick post, just to publish the audio round from last Friday night’s Gorthaganny National School quiz. As I said in my previous post, the theme was simple: each song features a number in its title. Teams had to identify the number in each case and enter it in to their swanky buzzer.
You can listen to the 10 tracks by clicking the ‘Read the rest….’ link.
by John Nolan
February 5, 2012 in Interactive, Quizzes
Here it is. The buzzer with which my team took part in last Friday night’s quiz in Ballyhaunis Golf Club.
The quiz was a fundraiser for Gorthaganny National School for, as the headmaster said at the end of the quiz, it’s now a case of “back to the ’80s” in the schools sector with fundraising events becoming common once again. The money raised at this event will go towards the purchase of the this very buzzer system. If it provides the school children with as much entertainment value as we got on Friday night, it will be money well spent.
The quiz itself was broken up into four sections: 40 trivia questions, 10 picture questions, 40 trivia questions and 10 music questions. The trivia questions were, as I predicted, just like questions on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, with four options. The picture round was funny but a tad easy, as each question showed a famous person and a professional look-a-like, with us having to enter A or B to identify who was the real deal. The music round showed off another of the buzzer’s modes. Each of the songs featured a number in the title and we had to type this number into the device.
On the whole, it was a very enjoyable quiz which is testament to the school staff who created it. The first 40 questions dragged on a bit as no time limit was enforced on the participants. However, after the interval, they did introduce a limit of 30 seconds on each question so they obviously had noticed the slow pace themselves.
