The Tweet Quiz - How it Works and FAQs

How Does The Tweet Quiz Work?

The Short Answer

Every hour, we ask a quiz question on our Twitter site.
Other Twitter users can reply to our question with an answer and the first ten answers to be received will score points.

The Long Answer

We split our days into 25 hours.
There are 25 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month and 12 months in a year.
Every hour, we ask a quiz question on our Twitter site.
These questions can be about any subject. Some questions most people will know. Others will be more specialised knowledge and so may require a couple of seconds of internet research. All will be perfectly answerable by everyone.

Any Twitter user can reply to our question with an answer. The answer must be very specificly correct (i.e. no misspellings) and it must include @thetweetquiz to be picked up by our system.
The first ten answers to be received will score points and points are assigned as follows:
1st - 12 points
2nd - 10 points
3rd - 8 points
4th - 7 points
5th - 6 points
6th - 5 points
7th - 4 points
8th - 3 points
9th - 2 points
10th - 1 points

We will only accept your first answer so don't try answering lots of times

We will keep looking for correct answers for ten minutes. We will publish the answer and the points as soon as we receive 10 correct answers.

We keep a track of all points scored and leaderboards for days, weeks and months can be viewed on this website. An all-time leaderboard is also presented.

The quiz answers we present are final and set in stone.

FAQs

Why do you have 25 hours in a day? I thought there were only 24

As Twitter is a global website, we shift the start and end of the day to different timezones across the month to make it fair.

I had the answer right but didn't get any points. Why is this?

Your answer must match our answer EXACTLY to be counted as correct (although they are not case senstive). However, our questions are designed so that it is clear what we are looking for.

Your website showed that I answered in the same time as someone else but they were placed above me. Why was this?

We don't use times when placing the answers. Every answer tweet is given a unique id. These ids are sequential which means the lower the id, the earlier the Tweet. This is how we allocate points to the answers.

What happens if a mistake is made? Will you recalculate the points?

If we make a mistake, we will of course be devastated. However, we are unlikely to correct errors and recalcualte results. It is only for fun after all.

Why do you only ask a question once an hour?

Firstly, this quiz is designed so that people don't need to take much time out of their day to still be able to compete to get the highest points for the day. Secondly, we don't have the capacity to come up with many more. Thirdly, an hourly question leads more to a sense of anticipation. To maybe misquoute slighty the 90s UK Sitcom Men Behaving Badly, 'If there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits' (although they weren't actually talking about buscuits).

Are there any prizes?

The only prize is that of immense satisfaction with oneself for being in the top 10 answers or for getting the most points for the day or week etc. That's all you could ever want from a fun quiz.