Do people rate down Buzz quizzes because they don't know the answers? Tuesday / 03.17.09 / 08:37PM / Joe / comments: 0
Kinda still on the Buzz thing here. Here's my posted quizzes so far:
Nothing too incredibly popular. Most of them are probably way too niche to attract a lot of attention anyway. What bugs me is the few with a crappy one-star rating. What the heck is that about? There is nothing factually inaccurate about them. There is nothing too easy about them. Those are the two areas I would dock a quiz... accuracy and being boring/too easy. Sure, if a quiz has stuff totally wrong, yeah, that's a one-starrable offense.
So this leads me to believe that people are willing to give a good quiz a lousy rating because it's too hard. But isn't that the point of trivia? It's not supposed to be stuff that everybody knows. Granted, nobody has taken the Mappy quiz, but let's take a look at it. You tell me if it's out of the realm of trivia acceptability.
Mappy sequel. Totally fair question. Most people are going to be more familiar with the Mappyland NES game, so that's the bait answer. The real answer is Hopping Mappy. Strange but true!
OK, this is sort of tough, but you can puzzle it out. Windows and GBA are obvious enough for anyone who's been paying attention, which leaves Palm and Sidekick. Sidekick, being the relatively rarer platform, should be the guess... and it's right.
Hey, isn't one of the points of trivia is that you learn stuff too?
Little East versus West here. If you know that Mappy is a Namco game, you might arrive at the right answer on your own. Otherwise, this may require that you've played one of the Japanese arcade ROMs.
OK, I'm being tough again. All four of these are Namco games, so you can't sniff out the glaring misfit on the list. The correct answer is Katamari Damacy, which is kind of a trick since there is a Mappy cameo (of sorts) in We Love Katamari.
Although I must admit that it was a tad crappy to put Katamari Damacy as the answer, because for all I know there is some kind of tiny Mappy cameo in there. Kind of a big game with a lot of junk in it.
I actually get this one wrong a lot. The answer is 4.
This one seems pretty easy to figure out, even if you haven't played the game. And if so, why are you taking this quiz? The answer makes sense, radio / tv / computer / painting / safe. Although you have to operate under the assumption that whatever is in the safe is more expensive than the Mona Lisa. I've always figured the safe contained Marcellus Wallace's soul.
I guess this is another learning question. The answer is the bottom one.
Hey, an NES question! The correct choice is Mapico.
So maybe I'm biased, but that is NOT a one-star quiz. That is hardcore Mappy trivia straight from the mountaintop. I don't dock the Buzz game points for constantly asking me to name members of En Vogue! |