Music Quiz!
Feb. 24th, 2015 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaThe usual organisers of the Redemption Music Quiz couldn't make it! I hated the idea of not having the quiz, so I volunteered as tribute! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tlanti agreed to be my incomparable compere, so the quiz was on! Fortunately, we also had Morag - the team's usual scorer - keeping score for us!
A week isn't a lot of time to create a quiz. I need to get the music. I need to trim it, test it and in the case of one round reverse it, slow it down or speed it up (and then pitch shift it back to audibility). Am really pleased I did a last minute check of the questions. Question 9 was completely wrong!
I put on my cat herding ears to get everyone organised. I can't overstate how good the Tech Crew are. They're awesome. "So, I want microphones and I want to be able to play audio from my mp3 player". No problem at all. A bit of tweaking and a sample tune and all was working.
So round 1 started. Name the show, name the composer. Quite an easy one. Although a little hard for me to prepare. I just have no idea how well known the composers of these tunes are. Getting difficulty balance right is hard work.
Round 2 - the mangled music round. I enjoyed creating this one. It did leave me with an earworm of the Buck Rogers theme, played backwards. Started with three tunes played slowly. Followed up with three tunes played ultra quickly. Finally three tunes played backwards. Cock-ups on my part - 2001 is still too recognisable at 500% speed. That question was way too easy! Issue 2 - I thought I'd gone for the Voyager theme. The team guessed DS9. They were right. I was wrong. Ooops. Should have given them a bonus point there actually. At this point the audience was winning. Probably because I gave them the first shot rather than the other teams.
Round 3 - the picture round. Didn't work as well as I was hoping and took way too long to prepare. I probably should have left this one out, except I rather liked the idea of throwing in Star Fleet, with the Brian May connection, and also having a picture of Suzanne Collins for the Hanging Tree song from Mockingjay. She was indeed the lyricist since the song is taken straight from the book. I think the problem here was I was trying to duplicate someone else's round. Also I didn't consider that there could be two answers to a question. The team gave a perfectly valid answer so I gave them a bonus point.
I started Round 4 with a question to the audience. It seemed appropriate to make this a question for the audience to guess a theme tune before introducing the round. They correctly guessed "Only Connect". I think I may have made it a bit easy since they saw the link after two questions but that's fine.
Round 5 was just a quick(ish) fire one. No buzzers so if the team got it wrong, the next team had a shot. As expected,lemming_man's team completely wiped the floor with the others.
It's actually quite surprising how intense it can be. There's a lot of pressure getting things going. I am so glad I had my host and her incomparable enthusiasm and excellent dancing. I really wish I'd had a run through with her beforehand. She did excellently but it would have been easier on her.I later realised I accidentally missed out one of the sign-ups. I apologised about that later but she was okay with it, so all good.
If I do this again, will bring chocolates or something to hand out to audience members for getting questions right. Still not sure if throwing the questions to the audience was a good idea. It is good to keep them involved and does mean that there's no need to pick which team to give a shot to.
Glad I did it but I'm more than happy to hand the reins back to Christine and Michael for the next event!
tlanti agreed to be my incomparable compere, so the quiz was on! Fortunately, we also had Morag - the team's usual scorer - keeping score for us!A week isn't a lot of time to create a quiz. I need to get the music. I need to trim it, test it and in the case of one round reverse it, slow it down or speed it up (and then pitch shift it back to audibility). Am really pleased I did a last minute check of the questions. Question 9 was completely wrong!
I put on my cat herding ears to get everyone organised. I can't overstate how good the Tech Crew are. They're awesome. "So, I want microphones and I want to be able to play audio from my mp3 player". No problem at all. A bit of tweaking and a sample tune and all was working.
So round 1 started. Name the show, name the composer. Quite an easy one. Although a little hard for me to prepare. I just have no idea how well known the composers of these tunes are. Getting difficulty balance right is hard work.
Round 2 - the mangled music round. I enjoyed creating this one. It did leave me with an earworm of the Buck Rogers theme, played backwards. Started with three tunes played slowly. Followed up with three tunes played ultra quickly. Finally three tunes played backwards. Cock-ups on my part - 2001 is still too recognisable at 500% speed. That question was way too easy! Issue 2 - I thought I'd gone for the Voyager theme. The team guessed DS9. They were right. I was wrong. Ooops. Should have given them a bonus point there actually. At this point the audience was winning. Probably because I gave them the first shot rather than the other teams.
Round 3 - the picture round. Didn't work as well as I was hoping and took way too long to prepare. I probably should have left this one out, except I rather liked the idea of throwing in Star Fleet, with the Brian May connection, and also having a picture of Suzanne Collins for the Hanging Tree song from Mockingjay. She was indeed the lyricist since the song is taken straight from the book. I think the problem here was I was trying to duplicate someone else's round. Also I didn't consider that there could be two answers to a question. The team gave a perfectly valid answer so I gave them a bonus point.
I started Round 4 with a question to the audience. It seemed appropriate to make this a question for the audience to guess a theme tune before introducing the round. They correctly guessed "Only Connect". I think I may have made it a bit easy since they saw the link after two questions but that's fine.
Round 5 was just a quick(ish) fire one. No buzzers so if the team got it wrong, the next team had a shot. As expected,
lemming_man's team completely wiped the floor with the others.It's actually quite surprising how intense it can be. There's a lot of pressure getting things going. I am so glad I had my host and her incomparable enthusiasm and excellent dancing. I really wish I'd had a run through with her beforehand. She did excellently but it would have been easier on her.I later realised I accidentally missed out one of the sign-ups. I apologised about that later but she was okay with it, so all good.
If I do this again, will bring chocolates or something to hand out to audience members for getting questions right. Still not sure if throwing the questions to the audience was a good idea. It is good to keep them involved and does mean that there's no need to pick which team to give a shot to.
Glad I did it but I'm more than happy to hand the reins back to Christine and Michael for the next event!
