The Great Spring Creature Feature: Cryptotrivia!
Are you enjoying the competition so far? Are you so up on your cryptid factoids that you could start your own X-Files operation? Do you just love EyeWire? (Of course you do.) For a bit of fun amidst all your critter-tracking and cube-tracing, we will be giving trivia questions in chat from 11:00 AM on 3/22 thru 11:00 AM on 3/24, one question per hour, followed by a power hour from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM on 3/24, one question every two minutes. Show us what you know about neuroscience and cryptozoology alike!
Bonuses for each question:
1st to answer – 300 points
2nd to answer – 200 points
3rd to answer – 100 points
Swag: Based on bonuses accrued, the top 3 players will each win a copy of Sebastian Seung’s book Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.
As always, our quiz bot “inquizitor” will be administering all questions. To answer a question you have two options. You can simply type into chat your answer, but be wary as everyone else can see that response! If you’d like to be sneaky, you can also send a private message to the quiz bot by typing /msg inquizitor with your answer. All answers should be short answers rather than sentences. For example, if the question is “What color is the sky?” Your answer should read /msg inquizitor blue. *Not* /msg inquizitor The sky is the color blue. It might seem like a speed disadvantage to type out /msg inquizitor for each message, but fear not, simply hit the up arrow on your keyboard, and the /msg inquizitor private message prompt will appear again. See more about using chat commands here.
The bot will continue to receive answers until 3 correct guesses have been submitted, at which point it will display the correct answer in chat and lock out any new submissions. If fewer than three correct answers are submitted the bot will lock down after 2 minutes and move on to the next question. The bot will neither confirm nor deny whether any individual’s answer is correct, so be careful when typing yours out. If you think your answer is incorrect, you may continue to change it until the end of the guessing period, or until the bot has received three correct guesses. If you change a correct guess to an incorrect one before the bot has locked down you will not receive points for that guess.
