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Dear LM_NETTERS, It seems I am not the only one interested in making a board! A HIT has been requested, so I have attempted to compile the sources I have been sent. Someone even set me a HIT he received a while back- but some of those good ideas can be found here. I do not remember if it is here, but there is a "Worthless Word of the Day" site at http://home.nyc.rr.com/wwftd that is fun, and the Oxford Reference link (it is down there somewhere) and www.greatauk.com I highly recommend for 7-12. Have Fun! --Kim Thatcher I used to have a trivia contest. For inspiration, I would page through the World Almanac. I also looked up the month in World Book for interesting facts. Of course, the answers to these questions - what is December's flower? Name a famous jazz musician born on Dec. 6, etc can be found in a number of sources. I also asked questions about the library - name 2 science magazines available in this library, where do you exit during a fire drill if you are in the library?, tell me the name of a painting by Jacob Lawrence ( I have a poster of "The Library" on display) It was weekly - turn in your answer sheet by the end of lunch on Friday. I would do a little drawing out of all the correct answers and announce it at the end of Friday. Small prizes - pencils,"fun" candy bars. You might try buying a version of trivial pursuit. Some are available at garage sales. Special versions are available at Wal-Mart. Then you would have tons to pick and choose from. Hi. I do a weekly trivia for students and staff that consists of ten questions. When I began doing this last year, I was using questions from Xrefer. They send me a weekly thematic quiz (subscribe @ http://www.xrefer.com/news/index.jsp?m=23). What I discovered, however, is that the kids could somehow find all the answers to the quiz even though xrefer is a subscription database to which we do not subscribe. Once I discovered this, I started mixing the questions up. At first from different xrefer quizzes and then I started adding questions from other sources because it still seemed too easy to find the answers. I use questions from several sources now. Some come from radio broadcasts I hear or news that I read; some come from a book I purchased from Scholastic, Family Flip Quiz, isbn 1842361600, some from Michael Feldman's whad'ya know? radio quiz, http://notmuch.com/Show/ and some from trivia sites I find via Google. I wish the databases would create these kinds of questions and use them for training and teaching materials! I will say that despite my best efforts to encourage database use, the students and staff are very successful finding the answers to the questions via the internet. I suppose I could require that they list the database they used to find the answer for each question, but I am pleased with the level of participation and if I can improve their search engine skills maybe all value to the exercise is not lost! I give small prizes to one weekly winner chosen from among all the correct entries. **************************************** When I worked at the high school, my library assistant made up trivia questions for the month of February. My recommendation would be to pick a theme per week or month. Good luck! Have you tried Knowledge Master's website (http://www.greatauk.com)? You can sign up to have a trivia question e-mailed to you every day if you'd like (and they even remind you to shut down for summer ;-). We do this by email for Upper School students and all faculty/staff (we are a PK-12 school, but I am in the Upper School Library). * Students must answer in person, and faculty/staff may answer by email. * Any resource is allowed, as are multiple guesses! * We collect names of those who answer correctly all day (until the library closes at 5). This procedure makes sure we aren't favoring those who have first period free! * The next morning, we put the names in two cups (students and faculty/staff) and draw a daily winner from each. * At the end of each month we put the names of all the daily winners (again, two drawings) and draw a winner for the month. These people get a $5 gift certificate to the local ice cream shop. Finding Trivia: We find trivia questions everywhere– the news, movies, books about fun facts, quotations (who said?), birth dates (born 300 years ago today, I invented...) Be sure to conduct a search for the answer yourself! Once in a while a question/answer is difficult to find, incorrect, or the answer you have is only a partial answer. We are very flexible-- if they can show us where they found an alternate answer (and it answers the question) we accept it. * You can get the Oxford Reference Fact of the Day by subscribing here: http://oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day-subscribe.html * Knowledge Master Question of the Day: subscribe here http://greatauk.com/qodsubscribe.html * Mental Floss library has lots of fun facts that can be turned into trivia questions http://www.mentalfloss.com/library_by_subject.htm * Trivia Cafe: this site is not as finely-tuned as it once was, so check the answers! http://www.triviacafe.com/ * Trivia Collections; again, you need to turn most of these facts into questions http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/ Director of Information Center (and p/t French teacher) The Knox School 541 Long Beach Rd. Saint James, NY 11780 www.knoxschool.org alt. e-mail: kthatcher@knoxschool.org He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero Dogs have masters, cats have staff- Sneaky Pie Brown -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------