Unusually, I don't have any quizzes to run this week as generally companies are a bit entertainment fatigued after Christmas and the year really starts to kick in next week.
This gives a bit more time to work on other projects, such as making questions available to be downloaded from our site - www.quizquizquiz.biz - (watch that space) and restarting our weekly miniquiz on facebook and on our site, again, watch those spaces. No, not those ones, those...yes, those ones.
It is also a time to be doing the other major part of my job which is, of course, writing questions. High up on the list of things i get asked when people find out what I do is 'where do you get your questions from?', a question I have more trouble understanding and answering than you'd think. It almost slightly offends me, as if people are thinking that there is a central question centre i nick everything from, but more than that, i just think 'well, where do you think?' It's not exactly a limited field, making up questions from facts, is it? Billions of billions of billions of things have happened, and billions of those things have been accurately recorded - in my nearly 2 years at QuizQuizQuiz, I'd suppose I've written 10,000 odd...hardly pushing the boat out on the scope of human knowledge, is it? There's still plenty more in the pipeline, i'd hope...
It's a slightly facetious answer, I know, so to be fairer- i collect facts from everything i encounter in a week, i plough fairly scientifically through my memory, i search the internet, and i turn all those events into questions which i believe and hope bring out the most interesting parts of a fact, the part which will appeal to what people already know and what they'd like to know more of.
It's quite fun, it has increased, rather than dampened, my thirst for knowledge, and i am satisfied that there is a level of skill with which I, and my colleagues, carry it out that justifies our calling ourselves professionals in the field.
Having said all that, the reason i'm writing this blog now is that I spent an hour this morning trying to come up with questions and struggling to get beyond anything to which the answer wasn't Ryan Giggs, so I rather think i should tone down the self-satisfaction.
Who, along with Gary Speed, is the only player to score in every Premiership season?
Who, in the history of the Premiership, has 50% more assists than any other player?
Who is the only player to have played for the same club every season since the start of the premiership?
....it's a strange life....