Several threads mentioned we have a lot of new participants both amateur and pro. This made me decide to make one more try promoting a page I really enjoyed making and that I thought was worthwhile but went over like a lead balloon. I did not post an answer key to the quiz and I do not have one (I wonder what I would score by now?) . I made this quiz as an attempt to defeat search engine superstars. Trivia is not what it once was now that we ave Google. Search enginesare 100% improved in the four years since I did this so the quiz might need polishing to make it test coin skills and not computer skills. Those with time to waste are invited to look: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/quiz.html One of the six photos on which question were based: I received very few answers and zero attempts at the optional challenge to write another question of the type. This sort of thing is fun only to me.
Thanks I have a History degree, and currently getting back into numismatics. I am a Cent CRH, but recently bought a few ancients i have been learning to clean, and identify (Thanks for your input on those threads ) . I am fluent and proficient in "on line" research. Combining knowledge of these two facets, I accept your challenge. I am currently swamped, so this will be a nightly en-devour. I love this kind of stuff, it sure beats the mind draining tv.
Boy, that's a tough quiz. Without yet resorting to Google or books-- and I probably won't do so later-- I could only answer five of the first two sets. I'll resume the quiz this evening.
When I was in college a professor explained that his test was 'open book' but that the book would not help. The reason was that the answers that would get credit involved making connections between facts rather than reciting them. My desire is to make a quiz that can not be answered by Google skills alone. I know I can't beat Google but I will go down swinging.
Hmmm, I recall viewing this quiz a while back, but found it a bit tough and decided i needed lots of free time to give it the attention it deserved... Well, now that I've exhausted any resemblance of a coin budget, it seems I do have more than enough time for the next 4 to 6 weeks...So, I'll give it a whirl-----Lord knows I could use more than a little improvement in the skills required to successfully tackle even a few of the questions.
Is it telling of my collecting interests I quickly got every question in group 2, but I really have no idea on most group one questions? Btw, you don't have a coin to go with the last question on group 2? They aren't that scarce.
Perhaps that is telling of my interests. They aren't that cheap even if not scarce. I discover a typo in that question but am away from home and can't fix it now. Sorry.
The only trouble I had with group 1 was the size of the image, and having to squint my poor eyes at the screen to make out the mint marks.
Problems like this come from screen size. I said above there was a typo in group 2 but I was wrong. On the small screen on my netbook 'I' looked like T but on the larger screen at home the correct I was clear. There comes a time in all our lives that tetartemorions become difficult. May we all collect well into our years when all we can read are aes grave.
I have an easier quiz on my page: http://esty.ancients.info/unique/unique.html It shows reverses of Roman coins and asks you to identify the emperor on the other side. Click the image to find the coin's complete description.
I guess I need to study up some more. My score was 10 correct, 12 incorrect. Where did I put my dunce cap?
Nice quiz Warren. The one type I really like that was not on there, (and I think would make a fabulous addition), would be the Emesa stone reverse type of Elagabalus. I don't own the imperial denarius, but have a really pretty bronze from Aelia Capitolina.
Hey med, lend me your gold Elagabalus and I'll photograph it and put it into the quiz. I might be a bit slow in returning it, though.
