Skin: Independence Day

4 04 2009
Title: U.S. Independence Day
Created by: Stu Hasic
Description: A great skin for U.S. schools to commemorate U.S. Independence Day in July.
Suitable For: Any U.S.A. specific quizzes
Instructions: All skins are self-extracting installers. Click the Download link below and you will be taken to MediaFire from where you can download the file and save to your Desktop or another folder on your computer. Then run the downloaded installer file and tell it to install into your QuizBoxes\Skins folder.

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Quiz: World War II

4 04 2009
Title: World War II
Author: Kathy Beck, Mauldin Middle School – South Carolina, U.S.A.
Description: A Social Studies/Modern History quiz covering the biggest war of the 20th Century. 
Suitable For: Children aged 12+
Instructions: All downloadable quizzes are ZIP files. Right-click the Download link below and choose Save Target As…, and save to your Desktop or another folder on your computer. You must then open the downloaded ZIP file and copy (extract) the quiz files into your Jeopardy\Quizzes folder.

 

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Categories : history, quizzes, Social Studies, U.S. Politics, War

Quiz: Algebra for Middle School

31 03 2009

Title: Algebra for Middle School
Author: Debbie Kimber – GRC Penshurst Girls Campus, Australia
Description: An Algebra quiz aimed at early to mid-high school students
Suitable For: Children aged 12+
Instructions: All downloadable quizzes are ZIP files. Right-click the Download link below and choose Save Target As…, and save to your Desktop or another folder on your computer. You must then open the downloaded ZIP file and copy (extract) the quiz files into your Jeopardy\Quizzes folder.

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School Jeopardy Tournament via Video Conference

21 03 2009

The Sydney Region of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training in Australia has been running a fantastic Jeopardy Tournament comprising 32 schools across the entire state via Video Conference! A recent State Government initiative to install a “Connected Classroom” into every school by the end of 2010 is making possible exciting opportunities that would otherwise simply not be imaginable.

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Quiz: U.S. Government Review

1 03 2009
Title: U.S. Government Review
Author: Jessica Parthemore – Beavercreek, Ohio, United States
Description: This quiz is a capstone to the U.S. government unit and is geared for 5th grade students in the United States (specifically Ohio).
Suitable For: Children aged 10+
Instructions: All downloadable quizzes are ZIP files. Right-click the Download link below and choose Save Target As…, and save to your Desktop or another folder on your computer. You must then open the downloaded ZIP file and copy (extract) the quiz files into your Jeopardy\Quizzes folder.

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Categories : politics, quizzes, school, U.S. Politics

Quiz: High School Geometry – Volume

1 03 2009

Title: High School Geometry – Volume
Author: Jill French – Carlisle High School, Ohio, USA
Description: Jill created this revision quiz for her high school geometry class after studying volume of prisms, cylinder, cones, pyramids, and spheres. Also covers the surface area of spheres
Suitable For: High School Geometry
Instructions: All downloadable quizzes are ZIP files. Click the Download link below to access this quiz from MediaFire (164KB in size) then save to your Desktop or another folder on your computer. You must then open the downloaded ZIP file and copy (extract) both Quiz folders into your Jeopardy\Quizzes folder. Then open the quiz file with Stu’s Double Jeopardy! PLEASE NOTE: If MediaFire is blocked at your site, you will need to download this quiz using a computer at an alternative site.

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Create Your Own Custom Skins: The EASY Way

15 02 2009

For those who like to dabble with digital images, Stu’s Quiz Boxes offers the exciting feature of having a total makeover done by you, the user. And it’s ridiculously simple to do now – just follow this step-by-step guide.

So, what do you need to make a Stu’s Quiz Boxes Skin? Basically, it’s just a folder that contains just three JPEG images named a specific way and formatted to specific sizes. If you can do that, you’ve made yourself a new skin. You can use any photo editing tool to produce the necessary image files – from top-of-the-line Adobe Photoshop to any number of free tools like PhotoFiltre or The GIMP.

Quiz Boxes skins you create should preferably follow some kind of theme. Sure, you can have a whole bunch of random images that make up your Jeopardy game, but what’s the point?  So, let’s go through the images that you’ll need to create to make your own skins -

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