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Quiz questions and fun facts

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Helicon can provide a wide range of content, guaranteed to add interest to your project or online offering and to keep your audience coming back for more. Use any of the following resources to create tailor-made games and enticing activities, or to refresh your Web site on a frequent basis. Stacks of information for the young at heart!

Quizzes

Quizzes and word games challenge, entertain, and entice your audience to return.

Over 28,000 questions to choose from, covering a wide range of topics. Select a large set of questions by subject and/or difficulty level – sticky content tailor-made to match the interests of your user!

Types of quiz games include:

  • word quiz – questions about the meanings of English words.
  • who said what? – questions on famous quotations.
  • popular quiz – topics include pop music, film, and sport.
  • multimedia quiz – questions based around illustrations, photographs, and audio clips.
  • children's quiz – select questions with language, content, and difficulty level designed specifically for children.

Also available is a set of over 1,500 GCSE quiz questions, specifically designed for GCSE study and revision.

All questions are coded by subject and difficulty level, and each question can be supplied with three wrong 'distractor' answers for a multiple-choice option.

If you require quiz engine software to drive complex interactive games, please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Amazing facts

Did you know...

  • ... that the Paraguayan flag is the only flag that is not identical on both sides?
  • ... that one species of mollusc uses magnetism to find its way home?
  • ... that Mozart once borrowed a tune whistled by a starling for one of his piano concertos?

Over 450 fascinating snippets of information cover a wide range of topics. Perfect 'soundbites' for your Web site or project, amazing facts tantalize and entertain your audience, as well as drawing them into further information on your site.

Refresh the content on your Web site on a daily basis with a 'fact of the day', or have a fact generated at random for each page, adding interest to your site as users explore.

Memory joggers

Catchy content, memory joggers intrigue, educate, and entertain your audience.

Memory joggers cover a variety of topics, from the colours of the rainbow to the correct sequence of geological periods and how to remember Henry VIII's six wives.

Perfect as daily updated online content, or as short, lively 'soundbites', memory joggers work well in conjunction with Helicon's range of word games and fun facts.

On This Day

Instant refresher content for your Web site or electronic project!

Short, enticing details about hundreds of events, births, and deaths that happened on this day in history. Important and fun anniversaries are noted.

See for yourself how Helicon's sticky content can be used on a Web site!


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