#trivia

ARE YOU GOOD AT TRIVIA?

DO YOU LIKE COMPETING AGAINST OTHERS DIRECTLY IN A COMPETITION OF FINAL FANTASY KNOWLEDGE?

THINK YOU CAN BEAT MIKE "NERDFINGERS" THOMAS NAMING THE ELEMENTS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE?

THEN #TRIVIA IS FOR YOU!

For the uninitiated, #trivia is a separate channel on the chat server. If you're not too good at chat-related things in general, once you're in the chatroom you only need to type "/join #trivia" to participate. For those who remember the OLD #trivia, this is pretty much the same bot Jebus used to run, with some historic scores carried over and all of the themes we could find, plus others.

It's available 24/7! Yes, that means NOW! AND it's automated.

So, if you're a fan of chat, come on in and try it out! If you've never used the chat, use it as an excuse to try out chat! If you're in the middle, you still need to play #trivia damnit.

THEMES

Currently, themes are as follows:
80s
80sFilm
80sTV
Art/Lit
Baseball
Capitals
CCross
CTrigger
Currencies
Elements
Entertainment
EoFF
EoFFScramble
FamilyGuy
Farscape
FF7
FFI-VI
FFScramble
FFT
FFVII-X
GenBlazer
GenChrono
GenDW
GenFF
Gengaming
GenRE
GenXeno
Geography
Harry Potter
History
Movies
Music
NetSlang
Phobias
Pokemon
QuickMath

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Originally Posted by QuickMath

It's a fast-paced theme based around small math problems. Additions/Subtractions range between 1-1 and 99-99, Multiplication between 1x1 and 50x99, and division between 1/1 and 99/99 (whole number answers only). Best played with a group!

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Quotes
Sci/Nature
Scramble
ScramblePlus
ScramblePro
Simpsons
SNES
Sports
Sports/Leisure
Square-Music
StargateSG1
Startrek
TheBeatles
TV
WoT
Xenogears

(Additionally, there's the generic trivia containing nearly 230,000 questions.)

Don't see any themes you like? Make your own! In a plain-text editor of your choice, make a .txt file with each question on a new line. The format is as follows: "Question?*Answer*Alternate Answer".

For example, if you made a line such as "What is one plus one?*Two*2", The question would appear as "What is one plus one?", the 'official' answer (for hints, etc.) would be "Two", but 2 would also be an accepted answer.

If you feel like contributing, but don't want to make a new theme? That's fine, too! A lot of these existing themes are pretty sparse and could use some love. Jiro, for example, has volunteered to copy edit what amounts to a buttload of questions.

If you do make a theme, you'll need to get it to me somehow so I can add it to the bot. That's as simple as adding it as an attachment to a post in this thread, or as complicated as hosting it elsewhere on a site like dropbox or something, I don't know. Notifying me thought a PM afterwards would be handy, since then I'll know to check it out. Conversely, if you want to try adding some questions to a theme I'll happily send you the current file to ammend.

I am terrible at trivia and the only reason I would enter that room is to make the current worst player feel better about no longer being the current worst player.

WELCOME TO BUZZ

I love #trivia. WildRaubtier is a hero. KRABMEAT

Looks like one Loony_BoB just submitted a theme based around EoFF itself! Also he's too lazy to ask for help in this thread, having make about 120 questions and getting bored.

So help him out, that the circlejerk can be complete.

totally just dunked you and rantzien at FFI-VI

SPIRTS OF TERRA

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Originally Posted by Jiro Jaggins

SPIRTS OF TERRA

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lol. Saw that today. Everyone typed Spirits of Terra like 5x each before someone got Spirts. XD

I use to frequent the hell out of #trivia before I disappeared from chat for 6 months. We should schedule times to play! It would be really awesome to lose to most of you.

Towns has submitted another self-indulgent EoFF-based theme, this time based on unscrambling members' usernames.

Sure was fun trying to get it to actually work :I

Suspicions confirmd: I am terrible at trivia.

Non, you're just terrible.

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Originally Posted by WildRaubtier

Non, you're just terrible.

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QFT

You two are terrible :aimmad:

Not quoted for lies and slander

Lots of new themes today:

FFScramble
ScramblePlus
Art/Lit
Entertainment
Geography
History
Sports/Leisure
Sci/Nature

That brings the number of themes up to 49 and the total number of questions available to 350,000.

Come into #eoff on monday night to give the trivia a shot! :)

smurfing more questions to copy edit you kent geddit it's a smurfing pseudo homophone for what you are :argh:

TRIVIAAAA! Everybody should join trivia every once in a while! It's super fun! It's okay if you're not a fast typer or you think others will be much better at it than you, or whatever's keeping you from joining! Just join and see for yourself! :love:

Sometimes I sneak into trivia when no one is around so I can have a high succession of win.

Never works. Either somebody comes in or I just can't answer in time.

My favorite trivia game is "We just did this round 20 minutes ago so lets see who can type in the memorized answer the fastest".

trivia happened in chat. I came into the round 10 points behind Loony BoB. Beat him. Official trivia king right here. See you all next monday to defend my crown

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Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart

Sometimes I sneak into trivia when no one is around so I can have a high succession of win.

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This is kind of tragic, ever since I disabled the streak records.

maybe I'll try out #trivia for the first time tonight.

Wild, what does it take to add a new category?

Some elbow grease, notepad and following the directions in the second post.

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The format is as follows: "Question?*Answer*Alternate Answer".

For example, if you made a line such as "What is one plus one?*Two*2", The question would appear as "What is one plus one?", the 'official' answer (for hints, etc.) would be "Two", but 2 would also be an accepted answer.

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Originally Posted by WildRaubtier

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Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart

Sometimes I sneak into trivia when no one is around so I can have a high succession of win.

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This is kind of tragic, ever since I disabled the streak records.

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I'm glad I haven't done it in a while. What a waste of time that would be...:laughing:

Final exams for the semester coming up, so now is obviously the best time to work on my poor trivia bot even though no one loves him anymore!

-ScramblePlus is now ScramblePro. It awards points differently to everything else now, due to being utterly ridiculous.
-ScramblePlus is still there, but it ought to use words that people have actually heard of.
-NetSlang added. l33t.
-The number of questions in Elements has been trebled.

In the known issues department (I have one of these now), the number of themes is too large to be displayed all at once using the !themes command, so the last two (WoT, Xenogears) are cut off. They're still there and playable. though. Soft work-around implemented!

Not -new-, but so far unannounced in this thread:

QuickMath
It's a fast-paced theme based around small math problems. Additions/Subtractions range between 1-1 and 99-99, Multiplication between 1x1 and 50x99, and division between 1/1 and 99/99 (whole number answers only). Best played with a group!

Cool.

I've not even played #trivia yet. I probably should.

I try to love !trivia but fricken Meredy always ruins my fun

IT WAS BROKEN

BUT I FIXED IT

I GUESS

go play nerds

i'm trying but nobody wants to play with me!

New theme! Cryptic! With clues shamelessly plagiarised from these puzzle books I'm doing.

138 Q's so far. More as I actually solve them.