reinventing the quiz

April 9, 2008 4:28 AM

Im producing a website for a client and they want a quiz on their site, but they dont want the ordinary multiple choice kind of thing. I cant seem to reinvent the genre by myself, so please hook me up with sites that display a novel approach to the quiz.
posted by FidelDonson to computers & internet (7 comments total)

SurveyMonkey.com is excellent for unusual quizzes and polls, etc.
posted by DarlingBri at 4:31 AM on April 9

Free response? Matching? Short answer? I suppose I'm not sure what you mean by 'quiz' here.
posted by LSK at 4:50 AM on April 9

Check out the Mental Floss blog -- they do a number of different quizzes. Some are multiple choice, some are matching, some are 'name # of X in # of minutes' type things. Their design tends to be a little poor -- I find the matching ones so hard to deal with that I usually skip them -- but their quizzes themselves are lots of fun.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:07 AM on April 9

Oh, I see - I mis-read your question. You're not asking how to administer an unconventional quiz, but how you might design one, yes? Sorry about that.

What Kind of X Are You? quizzes are quite popular. They can range from "Which Celebrity Super Star Are You?" to "Which Over Prescribed Anti-Depressant Are You?" and simply map a series of multiple choice answers to a stable of pre-determined possible answers.

It really depends on the client's area, though and how consumer-facing.
posted by DarlingBri at 6:32 AM on April 9

What kind of answers to they want to get from the test takers? Typed in text? That sounds very complicated to implement.
posted by gjc at 6:39 AM on April 9

This gallery might inspire you.

How about something like this? The complete explanation is here.
posted by clearlydemon at 7:14 AM on April 9

Questionaut from the BBC is probably the best online "quiz" I've ever seen.
posted by panic at 2:23 AM on April 10