Each day, guess ten Wikipedia articles based on the categories that they’re in. For example, here are the clues for an entry from a couple days ago:
1979 disasters in the United States | 1979 in the environment | 1979 in Pennsylvania | Radiation accidents and incidents | 1979 industrial disasters | March 1979 in the United States | Civilian nuclear power accidents | Disasters in Pennsylvania | Environment of Pennsylvania | INES Level 5 accidents | History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania | Nuclear accidents and incidents in the United States | Nuclear history of the United States | Presidency of Jimmy Carter | Susquehanna River
Because it’s from Wikipedia, the topics can be almost anything. It’s a fun general knowledge trivia game, and like any good daily challenge game, it has a shareable emoji score. Here’s mine for today’s quiz:
#624 - 5/10
(The cats are the ones I got right, the fish are the ones I got wrong)
Fun game! In most cases, the answer seemed obvious where I knew anything about the subject; I had one I-have-no-clue and one dang-should-have-known-it.
#624 - 8/10
Example from today: Members of the Manson family; people pardoned by Gerald Ford; say no more, that’s gotta be
I only got Elba because of the “Prison Islands” category. Good ol’ Napoleon
On the Jakarta one, I thought, “Ok, it’s the capital of Indonesia. What city is that? Jakarta? Or is it Manila? I always get those two mixed up.” and then I guessed Manila.
That last one is “Close Enough,” which I wouldn’t have thought was worth even a half point. I guessed “no idea” on the last one, and that was Close Enough to:
Spoiler
Nick Kyrgios (tennis player)
(btw I am having some difficulty not answering Jeopardy-style, e.g. “Who is Lizzie Borden?” I wonder where that would get you in the scoring.)
I think you misunderstood that. You get to decide for yourself if a guess is close enough. The “Close enough” button appears when you make a guess that doesn’t match the title. If you don’t think your guess was close enough, you click the “Next” button.
Huh. So if the answer is George Michael and I guess George Harrison, I can just decide “oh yeah, I get them mixed up all the time” and call it close enough?
Yeah, it’s the honor system. It’s not like there’s a prize to be won by getting the highest score, and even if there was, half a point is unlikely to make a big difference. But it’s more fun if you don’t do that, and the game statistics show that most people don’t.
Fun game. The more I played the worse I seemed to do, but was always on the right side of the stats, so that was pretty cool. I was kinda stoked when I nailed one for a 7!
I mixed up Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Mellon. I forgot that the university was named after two people.
And for the third one, I thought, “It must be someone associated with the Meiji Restoration, but I don’t know the names of any people involved.” Oops.
Oh, and for a blur spoiler, in the editor, there’s a plus button that opens a menu of options. Blur spoiler is at the bottom of that. You can also just type “[spoiler]content[/spoiler]”
Same issue with me. I didnt know (or at least didn’t remember) that the Meiji Restoration was named after the actual person. I thought it was a descriptive term.
