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[threemonkeys]

It was the Phoenix quiz tonight. As usual when I set a quiz, I worried that my questions would be too easy. As usual, things were a bit on the hard side. One of the harder questions was the following - I suspect my flist might do a bit better with it:

Name the Australian magazine which espouses the following reasons for existing:
• Because not enough humorous SF & Fantasy gets into print
• Because SF can be printed AND entertaining at the same time
• Because it's not the size of the sword, it's where you stick it
• Because too many 'light-hearted, un-serious' stories are rejected
• Because first-time authors have a hell of a time getting into print

Afterwards, there was a bit of discussion about the way a quiz can be used as a way of informing people as well as testing them. I got "that sounds interesting" comments about this question and I know some people took note of the url that I gave them with the answer. More interest than I have ever got from telling people about ASIM actually. So who wants to be in next year's quiz?

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

By trying to answer a question, they arpticipated which meant they were already linked to the answer.

You know, if you did a spec fic quiz, we could delineate who knows whom and what by people's asnswers. It would be a very good way of finding out just what makes up cliques :).

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

With this particular audience, you could pick the cliques just by looking at the team makeups before the quiz started.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

You can't do that so much here - there's overlap. ASIM and CSFG, for instance, have common members. Or do I mean members in common? I'll let them answer that :)

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Phoenix has a lot of common members too :-)

[littenz.livejournal.com]

Quiz participants would need to have read, and read widely, for that sort of quiz to work.

I'm still working on getting my unread past book buying excesses down to under a hundred titles (which includes 16 Gardner Dozois "year's best").

And I took part in Phoenix quiz - I was in the team that seriously needed a life.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

If you read spec fic you *have* a life: it's just a very intense and theoretical one. Unless of coruse I also need a life :).