A new daily country series on FP?

Submitted by baptistegorce on September 23, 2024
Do you remember, back in 2020, when we had a country quiz on FP on a daily basis? Of course they were not the most original quizzes on the site but I like two main things in such a process.

First, of course, having a quiz daily routine was super fun. I don't need such a thing to visit my favourite website each day but I like the idea of having something to learn every day about a wide and interesting subject.

Then, I like the exhaustivity of such a list. 196/198 is a good number. It covers more than half of the year and you know that it will end one day. Such a series about cities, for example, would surely be very interesting, but it would be I think less satisfying without a true clear end.

I was wondering if some other JetPunkers were thinking the same about that. And if you had ideas of series which could be used for such a thing if it happened again in the future. Countries by Picture, Countries True or False? or even Countries that Beat quiz series of course come first to my mind, but I guess there are plenty of other possibilitiies.

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Level 59
Sep 23, 2024
There's no likes for now on threads so I'll post here to say that I agree.

Also, I think it could also be differently shaped, with for example every week a day full of quizzes on a specific country on the frontpage, with as you say for example country by picture, the already-made country quizzes, biggest cities by country... It could last longer but, on the other side I think there wouldn't be 196 countries to represent here (how are you supposed to find 5 quizzes that could be featured about Nauru? please baptiste don't answer me)

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Level 57
Sep 23, 2024
Haha! Yeah, that's a good idea.

An alternative with cities could be "Which City in [Country]?". But yeah, with cities, not all countries would be possible, sure.

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Level ∞
Sep 23, 2024
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2024
I like it
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Level 59
Sep 24, 2024
That's great, thanks :D
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Level 75
Sep 23, 2024
I like the idea of a daily routine (that's why i enjoy taking the Daily challenge). Country by picture quizzes could be perfect imo for a new round.

Btw Country that beat is not my cup of tea -no offense 😅

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Level 57
Sep 23, 2024
Yeah, I actually agree with you. I like the concept a lot (really?) but I feel like it would be boring at such a frequency, since in the end, all these quizzes are "the same" (i.e. the final result isn't actually that linked to the particularities of the concerned country).

Countries by Picture would imho be the most relevant option, yeah.

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Level 81
Sep 23, 2024
I'm working on a U.S. county quizzes series. It's not daily (though it will be, eventually), and it certainly won't be featured, but it was inspired by the series.
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Level ∞
Sep 23, 2024
How about a daily city quiz?

Although I'm not sure how much people would love day 200: Chittagong.

In 2022, we featured a different "holiday" every day for the whole year.

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Level 63
Sep 23, 2024
I remember that! That was fun. There were some pretty weird... """holidays"""
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Level ∞
Sep 23, 2024
We scraped the bottom of the barrel pretty hard.
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2024
I'm all for that
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Level 57
Sep 24, 2024
Yeah, I remember that as well. It was fun too but that's true that some of them were.... unexpectable, let's say.

Cities could be cool as well. Of course it would last less time but it would be great too!

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Level 75
Sep 24, 2024
Here's an idea:

With a six-month series, and quizzes 5 days a week => about 130 quizzes.

Series such as "City quizzes", "Capital City Trivia" or "City by Picture" could be suitable, with enough diversity without falling into redundancy or far-fetched things.

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Level 81
Sep 24, 2024
Capital city trivia could be fun.
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Level 75
Sep 24, 2024
I would love a Chittagong being on daily quiz
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Level 55
Sep 26, 2024
I'd love to see Chittagong on the fyp! But I hope for another daily series on the fyp. But I don't think it'd get translated to every single language :) what I think QM would love to see. (Tell me if I'm wrong).
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Level 78
Sep 24, 2024
I remember you mentioning this idea the other day, and I feel like I would enjoy it. As nice as the Daily Trivia might be, a daily quiz would also be fun, especially if it follows a certain theme (like about each country as you suggested or about cities as I've seen suggested or perhaps other things).

I also agree with the point you bring up about length. Just around 200 or so is a nice length that doesn't feel too incredibly long

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Level 57
Sep 24, 2024
Glad you agree!

Yeah, that's a length I like too. I remember that some users were a little bit bored at the very end of the country series but overall I think that's a great experiment.