Jerome:
I can see that the nearly -40 Celsius temperatures in Edmonton have not
slowed your capacity for mischief-making! Great site, and I am going
back to study at the feet of the master (Russ) before I try again!
Ron Tebo
Tsk tsk indeed!
Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>
> Well, up here it's so cold that you have to yell when you're outside or
> your voice freezes in the air before it gets to the other person. Really!
>
> Fortunately, we have an excellent Internet infrastructure up here so those
> of us not watching curling, or curling up somehow, get to spend many
> mis-directed hours surfing the 'Net, and on my last outing I came across
> an old Rootes Group Trivia program written by Russell Maddock down where
> it's MUCH warmer. He had a note about someone resurrecting the program in
> something more than old Basic, so...
>
> http://rgtrivia.bss.ab.ca
>
> was born after a couple evenings' work, and some corrections by Russell.
> There is the original database of 100 questions, and could be extended
> pretty infinitely. You can do a test on 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 questions,
> have them marked (with correct answers shown after) and save your score
> for people to see.
>
> Now that there's a database, we could extend the quiz beyond the original
> 100 questions. I can provide login access to add to the database to a
> couple or three people that wanted to take some time to make a decent
> project of it. I don't want to do more than maintain the operating parts,
> which is good, because I'm sure there are a few of you out there that know
> way more than I ever will.
>
> This is the old place I'm going to advertise, so that I don't get whumped
> with traffic. Feel free to tell someone from another List if you want.
>
> Enjoy.
>
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