I have been using the quiz of late and added a few more questions, and sorted one or two more bugs out.
As a keen quiz player, and attending a number of pub style quizes, I opted to produce a simple programme to take away the ‘management/overhead’ of the game.
Yes, you can ask questions from a book, but it’s nicer if the questions are organised for you, blank answer papers can be printed ready, an inbuilt timer is available and even better if audio is available.
This system uses an access database (back end, you don't need access to run the prgoram) with a delphi front end, to provide an editable list of questions with answers, on an editable range of subjects including audio from a wav file.
The system collects questions for a variable number of rounds of a variable number of questions (max 10 rounds of 10 questions).
The system allows printing of the list of questions (just in case), and (blank) answer sheets.
A simple score card is available with a calculate and sort facility.
To run the quiz..
1. Click on SetUp Data, check the questions, subjects, teams, and Options.
2. Click on Setup Quiz.
Generate the questions, print the questions, print the answer sheets and hand outs.
Exit setup.
3. Play the quiz, the system starts at round 1 question 1, and continues displaying the questions until the last question of the round.
The questions are then repeated displaying the answers.
At the end of each round the score sheet is displayed for the team scores to be entered, the calculate and sort buttons mean that the progress can be easily given.
Like all our software it is written in Borland's Delphi and needs no special installation. Just run a stand alone executable (needs the question data in the same folder).
Download the zip file, it comes with a manual and an example set of questions.
