Second Quiz - Self-study
First published: Friday January 3rd, 2025
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Flashing my way to spaced repetition
When Jetpunk added the Playlists feature, it really boosted my ability to self-study (for pub trivia, mostly). I'm able to arrange some of my subject matter for the trivia subjects I'm working and come up with a schedule to visit and revisit them when necessary.
For example, I would really like to have common trivia sequences like the Periodic Table and U.S. Presidents down cold, and those quizzes help me do that. They don't test the sequential nature of the questions and answers directly--which is fine. I don't want a yellow box on those quizzes; but as a challenge, I do try to complete them in sequence as a self-challenge, which helps the list be navigable and reveals some trivia about the items. I do something similar with, for example, studying the states of India, by trying to complete it from north to south or in a spiral, so I can place the list of facts in a sequential context.
After mastering those sequences, I wanted to add some others, starting with Shakespeare's plays. I liked working with the existing quiz, which puts them in alphabetical order, and that's fine. But I wanted to add some more sequencing data so I could also be learning something about the rough order of the plays and their types, similar to the party and term information that forms the hints of the U.S. President's Quiz.
That's why I created Shakespeare Plays in Chronological Order, with Hints. Basically to fulfill my desire to have a more natural ordering and classification for the plays. Maybe someone else will find it useful or diverting, too!
I mean, who doesn't do cotW by continent or us states east to west
Umm... South Africa... Spain... Kyrgyzstan