What Makes a Match Game Question

[kevin_standlee]

While I'm looking for more Match Game questions, what I don't need are trivia questions. Remember that a MG question doesn't have a single right answer. It has a fill-in-the-blank answer where there are lots of reasonable ways to answer it, many of them funny.

Example of a bad question: "Einstein said, 'God does not play ___ with the universe.'" This is a bad question because it's a real quote and has only one right answer: "dice."

A good question looks like this: "Einstein said, 'God does not play dice with the universe; however, he does play ___ with it.'" This has no particular answer, but lots of possibilities. (We've used this question in the past, and it will likely turn up again.)

Update, 23 June 1300: Turned comment moderation on here and on the other thread on which people have been posting questions. I'd prefer they be e-mailed to me (my lj handle @livejournal.com will work or you can LJ message me). I'll not clear posts with actual questions in them.

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, would a decent question be like:

'Aim for the flat-top' was advice given in regards to ...

'A wretched hive of scum and villainy' was used to describe ...

According to LoLcats the inernet is made of ... what?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

The first two sound like they've only got one answer, like trivia questions. The third might be reworkable. Remember that the questions need to be funny, too.

[trinsf.livejournal.com]

Could folks like email them? I didn't expect to see actual questions here, and I like to be surprised! *laugh*

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I would prefer questions to be e-mailed to me. (My LJ handle @livejournal.com will get to me.) I'd better turn comment-moderation on and moderate the ones posted above (and elsewhere).