How to make Stu’s Quiz Boxes dance for you:
- What’s Stu’s Quiz Boxes?
- Print this Quiz Boxes Flyer and Hand it Around
- The History of Stu’s Quiz Boxes
- Stu’s Quiz Boxes: The Video
- Create Your Own Quizzes: Step-by-Step
- Quiz Making: A Whole Class Activity
- An Excel Template for Creating Quizzes
- Creating Quiz Boxes Quizzes through Critical Thinking
- Include Images in Your Quizzes – Step by Step
- Make an MP3 Quiz Boxes Game: Step-by-Step
- Share Your New Quiz Boxes Quiz with the World!
- Create Your Own Skins: The EASY Way
Other Historical Announcements about Stu’s Quiz Boxes:
i’m a teacher trying to learn new tricks (technology)
Hope you learn some new ones with Jeopardy, Nellie!
This is a great program. I noted however that when you have a daily double question, the maximum bid is $9999 despite the instructions stating you could bid more.
Many thanks again for this versatile tool which can be used both for fun and or teaching.
Hi Ces!
Thanks for letting me know that. It’s not common that someone gets over $10K in my one-round of Jeopardy, but I suppose it’s possible. I’ve updated the program to correct this. Version 3.201 and later with allow for Daily Double wagers of up to $99,999. Just download the update file from the Downloads page.
Glad you like the program.
Hi and tx soooo much… what a blast we are having with your tool. I am actually make a family trivia game for next Christmas!!!!
My issue:
when i put in the answer or question, some of the words are being cut off…. any thing i can do about his or am i just typing to many words in the required area?
Hi Paddy,
Jeopardy allows pretty long questions and answers, but they aren’t unlimited! Brevity is a good thing.
Glad you like it.
hey there,
i’m from germany and i like your jeopardy-version!
i’ve one question: is it possible to add a category so that i have maybe 7 or 8 ?
greetings
Hi Hans.
It’s based on the standard Jeopardy game which is six categories – and while I do allow you to go smaller to four or even two categories, you can’t go up.
30 questions is a good duration. I’m pleased you like it.
Stu~
Excellent product! Thank you for sharing.
Question: Can you jump to Final Jeopardy at any time or do you have to go through all the questions?
Thank you!
Hi Todd,
To get to Final Jeopardy, you have to go through ALL the questions. That’s why they call it Final Jeopardy.
But, unique to my version, you can choose to play a shorter game before you get to Final Jeopardy – http://jeopardygame.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/jeopardy-v31-introducing-the-quickie/
Dar Stu,
Thanks very much – great software. I am creating a quiz for our non-profit ski club (located at Snoqualmie Pass, WA) as a way to teach new members club history and facts and for entertainment and fun for older members (like me).
Regards, Dev DuRuz
Issaquah, WA
Hey,
Is there a way to get jeopardy on my vbulletin? Looks awesome and would be a great way to help people out if I could get in on there some how.
Thanks,
Eric
Really not sure what you mean by this Eric. vBulletin is forum software – unless it’s also something else that I don’t know about. Please fill me in with more details.
Thanks for the response. Basically I have a joomla website and vbulletin. I’d like to get this jeopardy game on my website to help my friends with there certifications. Although I have a website, I know next to nothing about all this stuff. LOL! Just came across your Jeopardy game and wondering if I can somehow get it on my website so my members can learn from it.
Thanks,
Eric
Hi Eric. Stu’s Double Jeopardy is a Windows-only application. What you probably want is a web-based product to work in your forum. Here’s one that’s not too bad at all: http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/
on mine it will not go full screen and i am doing a project For school and i need it full-screen
Hi Daniel,
Set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768. It will be almost full screen. That is the best you can do.
This is a very nice rendition of the game, with easy to use tools to adjust it. It does have two basic flaws (that most people can work around).
1) It’s fixed in position on the screen so you can’t move it around.
2) It does not resize or fill the whole screen.
Oh sure you can go to screen size 1024 x 768 and it looks close to full screen. But anyone with eyes can see it’s not quite there. Amazingly people focus on that. I used it for a team building event and some fun Jeopardy with each team. And several people commented on how nice the tool was and then suggested I expand it to fill the screen or at least center it better. Sigh.
So please, take this wonderful creation and tweak it a bit to improve it so it can move around on the screen and can resize. Beyond that, it’s probably the best version I’ve seen floating around.
Yes Ken, that is on the cards for the next release. Glad you like it otherwise.
How do you make the jeopardy game board take up the whole screen. Right now it only takes up part of the screen and you can see all my shortcuts behind it, which will be a distraction/annoyance to many students. Thanks!
Hi Jen. At present, you should be running your display at 1024×768. Then the board will be *almost* full screen, but some of the background will still be visible. The next version will fix that, due later in the year.
Love the template. Is there a way to save a classes game that is halfway completed for the next day and retain the score, and questions not answered?
Thanks
Hi Barbara, At present, no. But it’s a good idea. I’ll add it to the wishlist.
I want to uninstall this and I can’t find it on my add remove programs.
Hi MS. There is no uninstall because Stu’s Double Jeopardy never gets installed in the first place – it’s a portable application, so all you need to do is delete the Jeopardy folder, wherever you placed it.
Hey, love the program. Just wondering if you can make it full screen because I use it with a projector and smartboard and full screen would make it so much more real.
Hi Jordan. Set your screen resolution to 1024×768 and the board will fill MOST of the screen. A new version will be released shortly which will blackout the rest of the desktop.
Is there any way I can embed a mov or avi file to each question?
Hi Ernie. At present, movie files are not supported.
how do you change the values form points to dollars?
Hi James. You don’t. Quiz Boxes is NOT Jeopardy. I have always been uncomfortable with the gambling connotation of the Daily Double and Final Jeopardy using money, especially when the game is used in schools. Quiz Boxes is points only and it won’t be changed.
Hi Stu. Quizbox is great. What file name should I use if I want to include an audio clue in the Final Quiz Breaker question? Actually, what I want to do is have it play the Final Jeopardy theme music as the countdown for the question.
thanks,
Charles
Disregard my question about the MP3 Quizbreaker question. I found the info in the instructions (missed it the first two times in my read through). Awesome application!!! Keep us posted on the video playback enhancement!
how do I get the pictures off that are already on the quiz boxes? and the audio?
Hi Jen N. Your question is a little hard to understand. What do you mean by “get them off”? You don’t want the picture (or the audio), but just want the text? Work backwards from the instructions for how to put them there in the first place. Check the list of instructions at the top of this page.
yeah see i looked at the instructions and it was hard for me to understand. the thing is, is that i didn’t put these images or audio there in the first place. they were automatically there and having nothing to do with my questions. i was just wondering if there is an easier way.
thanks
OK, if you are opening a quiz file from the quizzes folder where there are other quiz files, there should not be ANY jpg or mp3 files in that folder. Feel free to delete those files. Anyone who makes quizzes with photos or sounds in them should be placing those files and just their quiz file into a spearate folder, appropriately named. Delete the jpg and mp3 files from the quizzes folder and your problem will go away. But you’ll also break someone else’s quiz who save their multimedia quiz in the wrong location – a valuable lesson will be learned.
Hi There,
Is there anyway that you can print off the questions and answers for each quizz?
Cheers
Hi Peter, At present, the Print function has not been enabled. It will be added in a future release. To print your quiz, you can simply open the J-quizfile.txt file you made with Windows Notepad accessory and choose File…Print.
I am having problems with displaying the game, I do not see the players names and $ values so I am able to select them…what am i doing wrong??? I see a white border on bottom and right edges of the game and each box..i am using 1440×900 HELP
Hi Frank. Normally your screen resolution should be set to 1024 x 768. I’m guessing you have Large Fonts turned on in Windows display settings. Click on the Display tab, then Advanced and change it to Small Fonts.
Hi Stu,
Is there any way to load video (.avi) clips into the questions?
Hi Tomiet, At present, there is no support for videos being part of the questions (this is a free program, remember?
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I cant wait to play the game with my seventh graders
Is there any way to set a time limit on how long to allow the students to answer the question? I put the students in groups and give them small white boards. I want to give them about 45 seconds to respond. Is there a built in timer or any way other than my watch to time them?
A timer function will be included in v5, due for release later in the year.