He plays Billy Bragg and a bit of Green Day, and I'm so bored of the USA

[venta]

It's Thursday! That's, like, practically Friday and thus sounds like a good time for a lyrics quiz.

Simple scoring system: one point for every correct song-title. You can go for extra credit and add the artist if you want, but it will only gain you honour and glory. Please note: correct title. There is a link between all the songs in the quiz, I'm sure you'll work it out.

Responses from my stringent beta-testing and product-development team (or ChrisC, as he's also known) suggest the quiz has come out rather more difficult than intended, but we'll give it a whirl...

[Poll #1834706]

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

You could always make them as polls people can't see the answers to...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I could, but that wouldn't meet criterion A above (ie "easy to look at if you want to").

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

But then it's not a quiz, just an honesty test. :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes :)

Back in the day when I appeared to have the time to collate results and produce score charts and so on I used to lock them to results-only-viewable-by-me. These days I figure I'm partly writing them for my amusement, and if people want to google all the answers and fill them in, I'll just let 'em.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Erm, which actually accidentally makes the point that all lyrics quizzes are honesty tests because, y''know, google.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Aren't they all?

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Really? How is that done?

Yesterday I posted an LJ cut saying 'I trust you NOT TO CLICK ON THIS' and then a poll for people to confess or lie about having clicked. Several people spotted a loophole: as soon as there were any comments, the poll results became visible to all.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about your poll because I didn't click on the link :)

Basically, start your poll like this:

<lj-poll whoview="none">

Values for whoview are none, friends and all. The default is all.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Viewing Poll Results:
See the Entry: Only LiveJournal users who can read the LiveJournal entry can view poll results.
Result Security: All (Everyone), Friends, and None (Only you).
Total Results: With any security level, the total results will be visible for all question types but Text entry.
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=69

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Er... I know I'm an academic and everything but I'm not getting this just now! Will return to it later...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah... I've just re-read this and think I may have missed your point originally. If you do a poll with a yes/no question and 16 people answer it, then everyone is always able to see that there are 11 noes and 5 yeses. Setting 'whoview' only affects whether people can see which people gave which answers.

I don't know how your poll is set up because I didn't click today's link either ;)