What you propose and what many say is very simlar to what Merlin was suggesting originally.
3. Plant, Animal and Human Biology. In Merlin's suggestion he suggested adding Medical to Nature and Anatomy so it would have read Nature, Anatomy and Medical. I had already put medical questions in with Nature and Anatomy as diseases were naturally connected or questions about blood broups etc. I think adding too many words to a category could become confusing.
11. Food and Cooking. Months ago when I suggested categories i would have chosen Food and Drink. I don't disagree with changing the name of the category as it would help. We included drink because many questions were about various Alcaholic and non-alcoholic drinks. We had questions about Coctails, coca-cola and many other drinks. We were more concerned about making the categories right than the names hence leaving things as they were.
13. Hobbies The problem is there is limited questions in this category and that is why we wanted to merge this category as already stated.
- Television and meadia you said (questions that don't fit into any other categories) do you mean what we would have called Pot Luck, Misalanious, General knowledge or best of the rest.
- Culture and Traditions
As you say this subject at the moment is covered in Traditions and beliefs. You say you wanted to see more questions covering other peoples Traditions, clothes etc. Some of the clothing questions have been put in arts and creation but their are questions about clothing warn aroun the world. This could mean that some of those questions would have to be moved too. While on the subject of moving you would also have to move Disney Films to Cinema as they came under Cartoons.
I would have loved to have validated more questions that were from foreign languages. The problem is some of the questions have been unreasonable. How can I validate a question like How do you say the blind man wants an egg in language X? It is nice to learn some other languages but questions cannot be too complicated. I have added questions I have on Ways of saying Happy Christmas, questions on Various colours, Days of the week or months of the year. Other members of the team have said simlar things so it is not just mmy opinion on the team.
In many ways what we have in the quiz depends on what you send. If you think the quiz lacks in certain areas then why not solve the problem yourself by sending questions where you think we are coming up short! If you think 99 should be 77 then you have to write on the forum and Aminiel will decide if he wants to change the name or not. If you think we should have questions on various traditions then why not send in the questions! If they are good quiz questions that will be of an interest to people and not just one particular country/group then they will be in the quiz.
Balasana, Cristina and Nina have all said there is not enough questions about other peoples culture in the quiz. This may be true but as validators we can only validate the questions we have been sent. In many ways what we have in the quiz depends on what you send. If you think the quiz lacks in certain areas then why not solve the problem yourself by sending questions where you think we are coming up short! If you think 99 should be 77 then you have to write on the forum and Aminiel will decide if he wants to change the name or not. If you think we should have questions on various traditions then why not send in the questions! If they are good quiz questions that will be of an interest to people and not just one particular country/group then they will be in the quiz.