This is a good idea but I have two gripes with this:
1. India is going to surpass China in population probably within the next month so that statement should be changed.
2. How do I know what word should be changed? For example, for the Nunavut question, I could change Nunavut to Yukon--OR, I could change smallest to largest, and it would still make sense. Maybe add a caveat that the words that need to be changed are all proper nouns/countries, or something along those lines.
I agree with JWatson24 that the concept of the quiz is a little too loose at the moment. As another example, you could replace "cocoa" with something like "coffee" and get a true fact: The world's largest producer of coffee is Brazil. Also, some of these require changing multiple words, not just one ("The United States", "New Guinea"). Maybe you could restructure the questions so that the very last word is the one that needs changed in every question? Or they could be underlined? The alternative is writing questions where there is really only one word that can be changed to make a fact but that sounds pretty difficult to create...
With the whole India China situation, you can't tell which country actually has more people unless you counted the almost 3 billion people in those countries. I would change it to something else entirely.
It says one word away from being correct. What if you don't need to replace a word? I could just add "not" to all of these and ace the quiz.
Jokes aside, you should really add some better explanation on what kind of answer the quiz aims for, it took me a while to get the first answer right, because I was trying a lot of different words that would make the sentence correct.
Yeah, I tried “Russians” to replace “Time Zones” and it didn’t work! Seriously, though, I think the quiz is generally pretty straightforward for what it is going for. Otherwise you might as well just ask, “What’s the most populous country in the world?” rather than giving it in the guise of a fact. So good job!
A bit of critique: I would try to steer away from having two Russias and South Sudan shouldn't be accepted for Sudan. As it is, I was able to get a few two-in-ones. Another way to fix this would be adding yellow box.
1. India is going to surpass China in population probably within the next month so that statement should be changed.
2. How do I know what word should be changed? For example, for the Nunavut question, I could change Nunavut to Yukon--OR, I could change smallest to largest, and it would still make sense. Maybe add a caveat that the words that need to be changed are all proper nouns/countries, or something along those lines.
2. Thanks for the suggestion, it has since been implemented.
Jokes aside, you should really add some better explanation on what kind of answer the quiz aims for, it took me a while to get the first answer right, because I was trying a lot of different words that would make the sentence correct.
Edit: Territory not province. My bad. Should probably change that question though, it’s really confusing.
But this is a good idea for a quiz.
Australia could be replaced with New South Wales.
Fun quiz idea!