Trivia site!

[antizero]

I don't have a site for review (maybe finished in two weeks) but I wanted to ask some opinions anyway.

I'm building a trivia site, and each trivia quiz is going to have 20 questions.

Do you think all 20 questions should be on one page? Or should I break it up? One per page? Five per page (I have no idea how to do that)?

What are your thoughts? Thanks!

[(jj)]

Just my personal opinion here, but I would say no more than 5 per page and no less than 3 per page.

1 per page would make your users load 20 pages to take the quiz, and having them all on one page could get cluttered. Breaking them up into groups, but not causing the need to load too many pages, seems the wise thing to do.


Just my "For What It's Worth"

[muijefr]

intersperse the quizs among other site content so they will not appear to be tests but happy to have you opinion and if they are test then easier to digest in small bites.

[antizero]

Ah, but the trivia quizzes ARE the content...hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of quizzes stored in a searchable/browsable database, with user registration and score tracking to keep a running total of all your points (or you can just take the quizzes without signing up and it won't save your score).

:)

[muijefr]

the trivia quizzes ARE the content...hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of quizzes

Here's something to think about. The other day I posted an article about being able to get a free college education from MIT. 68 forum frequenters read the thread. 144 read a near thread about atomic-design getting a driver's permit. What does that have to do with hundreds and hundreds of quizzes. Well most of those 144 will be more interested in the results of the tests than taking the test. Watch Jay Leno some night when he does his little walk and talk, JayWalking. Notice the wonderful intellectual depth exhibited by the American population. In particular, the young Californians. Take a test. Where do you want it taken. I'm talking post dumb and they learn it from their teachers.
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there isn't too much intellectual going on with this site. It's all pop-culture film trivia

Sounds like you've got a groove and definitely the right subject matter. Be sure to have awards for various achievement levels. Perhaps a PhD in movie trivia. Is it not a wonderful world.

[antizero]

Appreciated, but there isn't too much intellectual going on with this site. It's all pop-culture film trivia. Each movie gets it's own quiz.

I've got a lot of 20-question quizzes already in the database, but I think I'm going to make the actual quizzes 10 questions, randomly selected from the 20 available in the database. I have a few unemployed friends who do little more than sit around and watch movies all day long, so they're more than happy to write the trivia for me (gives them an excuse to watch more movies). One of my guys DOES have a job, but it's in a movie rental store, so it's probably not going to keep him from watching movies all day long. I'm a huge movie buff myself, too. We tallied our DVD collections, and have decided we have somewhere around 750 unique titles between the four of us. There's another guy who might get onboard with this project, and he has nearly 400 titles himself (and the majority are abstract or independent films). That's a whole LOTTA movies we can write trivia for! Thank God for director commentaries and DVD special features!

And we wonder why we're always broke.