Safety Quiz
I've got a project that I'm looking for help with. The Atlanta Bicycle Campaign has a bicycle safety quiz that has gotten bewhiskered over the years and I thought it might be fun to spruce it up.
I'm planning a multiple choice quiz, internet-enabled with different levels by age. There are lots of good sources for questions and correct answers, but I'd like to turn up the humor and thought-provocation knobs with some of the incorrect answers.
An example will help illustrate what I'm after:
Q: When riding on a trail, what should you do when you see walkers in front of you?
The correct answer is rather dull:
A: Let them know you are behind them and then pass on their left.
Example incorrect answer:
A: Try to go between them without knocking their coffee or their cell phone.
This incorrect answer probably sounds pretty good for the 6 year old, so perhaps this would be suitable for a higher level. The following incorrect answer suggested by my daughter is easier for the younger rider to cross off the candidate list:
A: Run over them.
A few more answers:
A: Yell really loud in case they are listening to their iPod.
A: Pass in whatever open space you can find even if it means going off the trail and damaging a flower bed.
I'll be posting a few more questions and some teaser answers over the next few days. The tag "safety-quiz" ties them together.
I'm interested to hear your answers in the comments.
Labels: safety-quiz
posted by Jett @ 6:07 PM
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I used to teach at the local community college, and I found it difficult to write multiple choice tests, because the wrong answers had to be clearly wrong to the student who studied, but plausible to the unprepared.
Yes Dan, the question writing was a little tedious until I started thinking about silly ways to look at a serious subject. Keeping a kid's perspective in mind has helped put the fun back into it.
I found this post which refers to the inattentive pedestrians as zombies. Fertile soil for growing some answers.
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