The free download of Stu’s Quiz Boxes includes the ability to include images or photos on any or all question panels! Probably the most common request received from Quiz Boxes game makers around the world has been – “Please include photos in your next version” – so that’s exactly what I did.
With Stu’s Quiz Boxes, you can choose to have an image by itself as the question, or have an image with a text question beside it as shown below:
An image/photo without question text
An image/photo with question text to the right
The inclusion of photos brings a whole new dimension to Stu’s Quiz Boxes. Here’s how you can create your own multimedia quiz:
1. You need to think about the type of questions you could ask that include a photo, image or diagram. Some examples include:
- A Movie Quiz (as described above)
- A “Parts” Identification Quiz
- Interpret that diagram
- Visual Puzzles Quiz
- A “Spot the Difference Quiz
2. As normal, put your 31 questions together into six categories with five questions in each (plus Quiz Boxes Breaker)
3. Type all your questions into a NEW Quiz File in the Quiz Boxes Question Editor
4. Save the new Quiz File into a folder of its own inside the quizzes folder, or elsewhere on your computer. Every JPG Quiz MUST be in its OWN folder! Name the folder appropriately, then open the folder and name your quiz appropriately.
5. Sizing your photos: Gather/make your appropriate image for each question. The images/photos must be prepared and named carefully. All images must be save in JPEG format. No other format is acceptable. Any image you use MUST have a MINIMUM height of 50 pixels and MAXIMUM height of 400 pixels. If your images are any taller than this, they will be automatically cropped to 400 pixels. The width of your images can vary from a minimum of 50 pixels to a maximum of 860 pixels. If you wish to include a text question with your image, the MAXIMUM width of your image should be 400 pixels. You should not type question text for any image greater than 400 pixels wide. For these wider images, just type a dot (.) for the question text. To assist with resizing and cropping your photos, I recommend the free and excellent Irfanview program for Windows.
6. Naming your photos: Rename each JPG file so that the first question ($200) in the first category is called J1-1.jpg, the second question in the first category is J1-2.jpg and so on until the last question ($1000) in the sixth category is called J6-5.jpg. The Quiz Boxes Breaker question image file must be called JFJ.jpg. In total, you should have 31 JPG files if you have an image with every question. Place all the needed JPG files into the same folder as the quiz (.txt) file.
7. If you’ve done this all correctly, run Quiz Boxes and test your JPG Quiz file by opening the quiz inside your newly created folder. All the images should just appear!
Sharing your JPG Multimedia Quiz Boxes Quiz:
Of course, if you’ve created a great new multimedia quiz, you’ll want to share it with the rest of the world! And I’m happy to host it here for you. All you have to do now is ZIP that folder you made and then email it to stu_hasicATyahoo.com (replace AT with @) as an attachment and I’ll add it to the list of quizzes at the site for others to download. If you send me your name, I’ll credit you for creating the JPG quiz as well. Please – NO inappropriate images- they will not get published.
How do you “zip” a folder? You can use WinZip that you have to pay for, or you can use 7-Zip for free! You basically run the program and select the folder you created and it will make a single zip file out of that folder and all its contents. When people download it from the Quiz Boxes site, they just unzip it into their QuizBoxes\Quizzes folder and it will be available for their use!
So what are you waiting for? Start making your own cool Quiz Boxes Multimedia JPG Quizzes! Tell us all about them below, or if you have any questions, just ask in the comments box at the bottom.
Stu first I must say excellent job…I’m having trouble with the images…I named it j1-1.jpg and when I pull up question 1 cat 1 for 200 no images appear…I have created the seperate folder as your instructions have detailed..but..I’m at a loss now..
disregard..I got it fixed
I like it when people can solve their own problems Chambonito!
Hope you like the new version.
Stu,
I am a Cubmaster for cub scouts and I just found your software today and have been playing with it. I see that you can add images to your questions, is there a way you can add images to your answers?
I have told a few other cub scouts pack about your great software and have hinted about making a donation to help you out.
daniel
Hi Daniel,
Donations are always welcome!
Unfortunately, you can’t add an image to the answer page – I assumed it would be difficult as a contestant to respond with an image, so I didn’t include it. If there is a need for it, I could possibly add it to my future updates wishlist.
Hello Stu,
Thank you for the quick response, the reason behind asking was that at a young age it is hard to answer the questions the way the real jeopardy works. This is why I have been using PP to ask question then they would give answers. Either way, you have done an incredible job at this beautiful software. Keep up the great work and again, thank you for answering the question so quickly.
Daniel
I cant get my images to come up on my jeopardy game.
i went through all the images and made sure they were like ‘J1-1.jpg’
and its still not working.
i have no idea what im doing wrong.
Hi Olivia. OK, so you have your question file (the .txt file) in a folder of its own? And INSIDE that same folder you have your j1-1.jpg, j3-5.jpg etc files?
Then when you open the quiz and play it, are you saying the image doesn’t appear when you click the $200 button in Category 1 or the $1000 button in Category 3? Certainly should work if you ensure this has been done. Let me know if you are still stuck.
Hey Stu! I’m very close to finishing my first project. I’ve noticed something odd when I put an image onto a question space. The words next to it are in a BLACK, instead of WHITE like the rest of the questions and answers. Also, other quizzes that I have downloaded from your site that have pictures seem to be in the same format. Or is that just the way it supposed to be. Can you advise me? BTW, the pictures are 72 resolution and they show up great! Thanks for a great program! I’m really enjoying using it!
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Yopu have some strange colour scheme setup in Windows. Right-click on the Desktop, go to Display Properties, Go to the Appearance tab and change colours to Windows Default and check the question panel again.
Yep, that was it. How weird! Thanks for the solution to fix those colors.
Another question: My laptop can send a video signal out to a second monitor. Is there a way to have the game show up on that second monitor, or will it only show on the primary monitor? I got it to work, but I had to make my laptop screen #2 and the external #1. Thanks Stu!
Kevin
Yes, that’s the only way to do dual monitors Kevin. It expects to run on the primary monitor only. Glad you sorted the other problem.
Need picture help! I have done everything: put the .txt file inside its own folder, and included the pictures (named J1-1.jpg, J1-2.jpg, etc) inside the same folder….to no avail! I downloaded some other multimedia rounds and haven’t found any difference between my files and theirs…Help please!
Lost,
Micah
Hi Micah. Please zip the folder and email it to me for checking.
Hi Micah. Thanks for sending your quiz folder. Your files were names J1-1.jpg.jpg / J1-2.jpg.jpg etc. You need to remove the extra .jpg in the names and all will be well.
Hi Stu.
Your jeopardy is excellent. However, I woulf like to know how to do images in the answers. I did the images in the questions, but I don’t know how to get them in the answers…!!!
Thanks.
Peter
Sorry Peter, can’t be done at this stage. Possibly next release.
Ok Stu.
I really do love the game though. It is very helpful.
I would like to know if there is anyway I can paste and image that I created in word to a question. I teach 3rd grade and we do a lot of dictionary work. I would love to put a picture of a dictionary entry. I don’t know how to create it as a jpg file. If not, can we add it to the wish list?
It’s very simple to save your image as a JPG Veronica.
Firstly, download and install Irfanview from http://irfanview.com – it’s completely free. It’s a simple photo viewer and editor.
Next, open Word, open your document with the image, right-click on the image and choose COPY. Now open Irfanview and press Ctrl-V to paste your image. It will appear in Irfanview. You need to resize it according to the instructions above. You can Crop it by drawing a box around the relevant parts of the picture and choosing Edit…Crop Selection. You can resize it specifically by choosing Image…Resize/Resample and spcifying the size you need.
In the end, when you’re happy with it, choose File…Save as… and set the file type as JPEG, name it Jx-y as appropriate for the category and question and put it in your folder where the question file is.
Hope that helps. MS Word is not a photo editor and importing from Word is not an option.
Hi! Is there any way to change the image that is the backdrop for the catagories and values?
Hi Dianne, Do you mean this? http://quizboxes.com/2009/02/15/create-your-own-custom-skins-the-easy-way/
Hi I’m trying to add pictures to my questions. And when I click on them in the program it shows Runtime error ‘6′ overflow. I’ve edited the pics and it keeps doing that. Anything I should look at?
Hi Jon,
What do you mean when you say “when I click on them”? You mean when you click on the image? Or when you click on the box that have the question with the image behind it?
What did you name the image file exactly? Is the image file a JPG image or is it some other type and you renamed it as JPG (that’s not a good idea).
Can you test it on another PC? Have never seen this error with the program.
It occurs when I have started the program and when I click on the quiz box. So the clue which is a picture clue it shows that error.
I’ve been running it from my portable hard drive. It works now on my desktop. But when I was using a laptop it didn’t work.
Thanks for a great program. Ity really helps my groups lesson plan a lot.