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The options are the possible answers that the examinee can choose from, with the correct answer called the key and the incorrect answers called distractors. [4] Only one answer may be keyed as correct. This contrasts with multiple response items in which more than one answer may be keyed as correct.
During the show, correct answers scored two points, wrong answers scored nothing, and one point was given to an answer which was "quite right", or partly correct. Recurring themes in the series included "Sad Questions", relating to morbid topics and accompanied by sad music. The quiz was split into the following rounds:
In most quiz bowl competitions, players and coaches may protest the moderator's decision if they believe their answer was incorrectly rejected, or an opponent's answer was incorrectly accepted. [3] Invalid protests or unnecessary protests can result in additional loss of points or an expulsion from the game.
The last remaining contestant chooses one category from a board of six and is asked a multiple-choice question with six answer options. A correct answer awards £1,000 and allows the contestant to "cash trap" one opponent, eliminating them from play for the rest of the round, but a miss results in the contestant being cash trapped instead.
In developing the participatory anthropic principle (PAP), which is an interpretation of quantum mechanics, theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler used a variant on twenty questions, called surprise twenty questions, [3] to show how the questions we choose to ask about the universe may dictate the answers we get. In this variant, the ...
The Mega Quiz. The questions take the form of Buzz making a statement and players use the blue and orange buttons to say if the statement is fact or fiction. General Knowledge - New to Buzz! You select your subject and everyone answers a question on it. Top Rank - Players put the answers in the correct order as fast as they can!
The answer to the first question is 2 / 3 , as is shown correctly by the "simple" solutions. But the answer to the second question is now different: the conditional probability the car is behind door 1 or door 2 given the host has opened door 3 (the door on the right) is 1 / 2 .
The game is played for a top prize of $25,000. The contestant answers higher-or-lower pricing questions about four items, one at a time. Each correct answer earns a punch on a 5-by-10 punchboard. The contestant punches holes into the appropriate number of spaces on the board, each of which contains a slip of paper with an amount of money ...