Specifically, we're looking for questions about characters college aged or
below, from stories published from 1956-1986 (essentially the Silver Age and
Pre-Crisis). For example, Superboy, Supergirl, the Legion of Super-Heroes,
Robin, Teen Titans, Spider-Man, Human Torch, the original X-Men and Kitty
Pryde, etc.. If you send in a Legion question, we request that you also
send in at least one non-Legion question for each Legion question, as we
don't want an excessively Legion dominated set of questions.
There are two types of questions in the match, toss-ups and bonuses. You
should mark your questions with what type you think they are. Toss-ups can
only be answered by individuals, while the full team can consult on the
latter. The latter can thus (and should) be both harder and perhaps a bit
more complex in terms of a correct answer. In general, questions requiring
more than one answer ("Name seven of the villains who appeared in the story
about Reed and Sue's wedding") should be bonuses, not toss-ups. Ideally, I
think 90% of toss-ups should be answered correctly, while around 50-70% of
bonuses should.
Questions should not ask for issue numbers (they can be included in the
question, but try for more descriptive set-ups than just "Who was the
villain in Forbush-Man #3?") or creators. We're interested in story
content. Also, unless it was fairly memorable, please don't write questions
on the order of "In Superboy #158, Lex Luthor revealed a particular fondness
for what Martian dessert?" where this was never mentioned again outside of
that one panel.
For a record of 2003's match, including all questions and whether and who
answered them correctly, see:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=bfira3%24nqt%241%40panix2.panix.com
I'll just note that ones I think were probably too easy were Tossup #10,
Bonus #11, and Bonus #13. Ones I think were probably too hard were Tossups
2, 8, and 20.
Finally, if possible, try to add a bit of style to the questions, so they're
not of very basic forms like "What's the Top's real name?" "Who fought
Forbush-Man in Forbush-Man #1?", etc. I like Tossups 3 and 14 from the 2003
match in this regard.
Questions should be sent to hal_...@yahoo.com
The match'll be Sunday the 27th, 2:30, in Room 4.
Thanks,
Tom Galloway
tyg t...@panix.com
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>Specifically, we're looking for questions about characters college aged or
>below,
...What? You don't have a trivia question file to go with your
infamous .sig file? Tsk.
[shakes head at the irony]
OM
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Shakes head at the stupidity of suggesting that someone playing in the match
should supply questions for it.
Also shakes head at OM's now 20+ year obsession towards me.
>Also shakes head at OM's now 20+ year obsession towards me.
...Yeah, well, in your case, we know which head you're shaking.
>--Yes, the .sig has changed
...Aw. Did Tyg lose his precious little .sig database? Tsk.
>Shakes head at the stupidity of suggesting that someone playing in the match
>should supply questions for it.
...On the other hand, it does have one wonder why those running said
match aren't making this request themselves.