Theme Tune Quiz
From TedTycoon.co.uk
Theme Tune Quiz or TTQ is a board game application written in C# in the summer of 2008, with minor and major updates to the present. The program is a quiz generator and player intended for theme tunes where it plays random theme tunes from it's theme tune bank for the players to guess. It is used by me and my family to play quizzes using a bank of theme tunes all recorded or copied from different sources, it roughly now has 1000 tracks from shows, films, adverts and games that my family generally know. Although TTQ can be released, our theme tune collection cannot be due to copyright laws, so you must collect and add your own tunes.
The Windows Media Player .NET control is used to play the tracks although modifications had to be made to cover up the answer and to add a bar indicating what part of the track is played.
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Theme Tune Bank
TTQ has a form containing a grid control which shows all the tunes in the bank. Here you can add and remove tunes from and to the bank. You can also edit the titles, song names and what part of the tune is played when the question is asked. You can also preview / play the tunes to either check if its okay or to do your own 'shout out' quiz.
Generating Quizzes
Quizzes can be generated by going on to New Quiz on the main menu and then selecting how many tunes you would like from each category. TTQ will then select random tunes from each category accordingly and create a quiz file which is then saved. You can also set how long each track is played for, for example you can either have 30 seconds or 2 seconds of playing the tune to make the quiz harder. The quiz can then be played by clicking Play Quiz and selecting the quiz file. There is then a button called print answer sheet where it will generate a HTML page of a grid where all the answers can be written. It had boxes for scoring, team name and song name for questions that had a bonus point for it.
Answering Quizzes
When the quiz has been played you can then click on Answer Quiz on the main menu which will be the same as the Play Quiz form only it will show you the answers when you play the tunes. Print answer sheet will also print the answer sheet with the answers already written into the boxes.
Number Pronouncer
Number Pronouncer was a side project to TTQ where the track number is read out by the computer so that players know what question is being played without the players having to look at the screen. It was also to allow the quiz to be played without a quiz controller. In the summer of 2010 I implemented it into TTQ making it fully automated.
Fast Answer
Fast Answer is a small game mode I implemented at the same time as implementing the number pronouncer in the summer of 2010. It can be played by one person alone or by multiple people collaborating. Fast Answer will go through randomly selected tracks and play them. The player then has to guess them as fast as they can by clicking 'KNOW IT' when they know that it is. If they don't know it then they can click the 'DUNNO' button. After clicking 'KNOW IT', the track stops and cannot be played again until an answer has been guessed. The answer can be quickly typed into a combobox which highlights the closest match for quick mistyped answering. After being answered or not answered the track will then continue playing showing it's theme and song name. When the player wishes to stop, a result screen is shown with average answering times and how many the player guessed correctly.
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