Phishy Chat
Network::#Trivia
Play Chat trivia alone or in two
teams, with unlimited numbers of players!
Where Does #Trivia
Live?
#Trivia is a channel on IRC.PHISHY.NET, check out the PHISHY
Chat web site for
details of servers and other channels!
What do I need to
play ?
All you need to do is join the
channel #Trivia and type !trivia this will either start a new
game or tell you WHERE a game is in progress. When you start a
game all the TriviaAddicts on the network will be alerted to the
start of a game, so you never know WHO will join in! Whenever you
play, either in a team, or solo, your score is automagically
updated if you're registered with the
'bot.
Trivia Commands
Trivia has some interesting
functions and command,all but the start command (!trivia) are
prefixed with ## (to let the
'bot know you are talking to
it!)
| Command |
Function |
| !trivia [rounds] |
Starts a new match, you
can use [rounds] to specify the number of points needed
to win! So typing !trivia 10 starts a match with 10
points needed to win. |
| ## help |
Displays command and
options (the 'bot will MSG you with the help screen to
minimise channel disruption!) |
| ## join team 1 |
By typing this command you
will join team 1 |
| ## join team 2 |
By typing this command you
will join (yup, you guessed!) team 2 |
| ## show teams |
Shows who's on which team! |
| ## team <name> |
Sets the name of the team
the user is on to <name> Much more fun to name your
teams! |
| ## set <category> |
Changes the question set
to <category>, The list of valid categories is
shown below! |
| ## show question |
Re-display the current
question to the channel |
| ## show points |
Displays the points of
each team |
| ## rounds |
Displays the number of
rounds needed to win a match |
| ## quit |
Aborts the current game
without a result |
Question
Categories
These are the categories currently
available, more will be added soon!
| Category |
Questions |
Question type |
| General |
5466 |
General knowledge, with a
slight slant towards the UK, makes a change from all the
USA biased question sets! :) |
| Babylon5 |
491 |
Babylon 5, some are easy,
some are REALLY tough! You need to be a REAL fan to get
some of these! |
| Bob |
33 |
As BigMac's usual answer
to questions he doesn't know is ## Bob, here's a category
all about Bob! |
| Death |
236 |
Death, Suicide, Dying
words, they're all here in Death! |
| Harder |
3330 |
Harder general knowledge,
with a UK bias! |
| SFF-1 |
195 |
Star Wars, Star Trek, and
the Discworld books. MORE questions for these categories
please!! |
Registering
with DiceBot
To register with DiceBot type /msg DiceBot hello
Then set a password with /msg DiceBot pass <password>
Trivia Addict?
After registering with DiceBot type /msg DiceBot ADDICT <password> ON
and DiceBot will send
you a notice any time someone starts a Trivia game on the
network!
Question Sets
Want to submit questions?
GREAT!!! The more questions the
better! Submit
single questions or complete lists by e-mail for lists of questions the preferred format
is a Word for Windows table, with the question, the answer, and
if you're feeling really helpful, a "match" for the
answer. The answer matches are in lower case and are generally
the key parts of the answer, see examples below......
| What is Dublin's most
famous theatre called? |
Abbey Theatre |
abbey* |
| In the song, 'I danced
with a man, who danced with a girl who danced with...'
whom? |
The Prince of Wales |
*prince *wales |
| Why did Catherine McTavish
make Wimbledon history in 1979? |
First woman umpire |
*woman *umpire |
|
