QuizML- FAQ and background



I've been asked about QuizML a lot this week. More than the rest of
year, actually. So I've put together a combined FAQ and
commentary.


QuizML, as the name suggests, is a markup language to describe quiz
questions in a structured manner. A typical question would appear thus:



<question difficulty="3">
<q>Who was the guitarist in Queen?</q>
<a id="2"/>
<opt>Freddie Mercury</opt>
<opt>Brian May</opt>
<opt>John Deacon</opt>
<opt>Roger Taylor</opt>
</question>


As you can see the format is straight forward, providing an arbitrary number
of multiple choice answers, the correct one, and a dificulty level. These are all
wrapped up in a top-level element,


<quiz-questions topic="music">


and supplemented with head information such as the quiz name, its license, and so on.


The benefit of structure data is that it's easy to then produce a suitable output for
your application, or quiz night. I have written XSLT (translation stylesheets) to convert
a QuizML file into:


Here is a Free Quiz of the Day using the interactive
HTML page.


I have also supplied some quizes under the CC attribution license, so anyone may use them
in TV, radio, and computer quiz games, provided they credit me on-screen (or on-air in the
case of radio and podcasts) as a question setter. If you don't want to credit me, then you
can email me and we'll discuss an alternative license.


The current quizes available are:



The current status of this project can be found at the QuizML main page.