New Quiz Editor

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Last updated: Saturday July 13th, 2019

If you create a new quiz, you might notice that things look different.

We've made some pretty substantial changes to the quiz editor. Most of the changes happened behind the scenes, but here are a few of the new features:

You can now add a thumbnail image to a user quiz.

"Automatic" type-ins. By default, JetPunk recommended type-ins will be applied. This will improve a lot of the quizzes produced by inexperienced quizmakers.

Answer sorting.

Answer re-ordering. Re-ordering answers will no longer cause the quiz to be reset.

If you edit an old quiz, you might still get the old format for now. In the next few days, all the quizzes will be converted to the new format.

There will be bugs. Let me know if you find any!

-The Quizmaster

Level 70

Sep 6, 2018

The update I‘ve been waiting for! I simply love your work Dan! The site is getting better every day. (Plus, I absolutely love thumbnails! It‘ll be a lot of fun going through 1,000 quizzes adding a picture). Unbelievable, wow!

Level 70

Sep 6, 2018

I don‘t know if you consider it a bug, but when you use the < BR > command in an answer cell, you can already see that this cell is going to be bigger than usual. But it‘s definitely a bug that the "Let me know" link leads to Error 404: File Not Found (:

Level ∞

Sep 6, 2018

Haha, fixed the link.

Level 48

Sep 7, 2018

Thanks very much for fixing the Safari issues Quizmaster, all seems to fit nicely now, cheers! :o)

Level 86

Sep 7, 2018

I like the new type-in features. One thing I would like to see--and I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement--is an easy way to do type-ins for questions that have multiple possible answers. Even though there are default type-ins for "Germany" and "Hungary," there is no default type-in for "Germany and Hungary," or "Germany, Hungary," etc., and you have to type it in manually, which can be a bit of a pain if one or both of the answers involves a complex regex.

Level 70

Sep 8, 2018

Use Germany / Hungary, that works

Level 86

Sep 8, 2018

Sweet, thanks!

Level 86

Sep 11, 2018

Don't know if this is a bug or just my failure to understand instructions, but I can't get the reordering answers function to work in the new editor. I click and hold on a row, and the row turns pink, but then I can't move it anywhere.

Level ∞

Sep 12, 2018

Not sure. It works for me in all browsers, and I even just tested it in IE. When the row turns pink, keep the mouse button down, and then drag over a different row. That row will turn blue, which means you can drop the pink row there.

Level 86

Sep 13, 2018

Automatic type-ins produces some interesting results. I had the answer "machines," which it apparently interpreted as "MacHines," because it was suggesting I should also accept "McHines."

Level 59

Sep 14, 2018

Reordering answers doesn’t work too well on mobile. It just selects the text.

Level 59

Sep 20, 2018

This is really inconvient, especially considering the old editor worked just fine. I’d really like to see this fixed.

Level ∞

Sep 20, 2018

I'm not sure it can be fixed. The quiz editor was never intended to work on mobile.

Level 59

Sep 24, 2018

Aw, that’s too bad.

Level 55

Sep 15, 2018

Agree...the reordering doesn't seem to work on iPad.

Also, how does one customize the type-ins now? Can't seem to find it...

Level 86

Sep 15, 2018

Change mode from "Auto" to "Custom."

Level 55

Sep 15, 2018

Made a quiz called 'Countdown Words #1', but the default type-in won't permit the certain answers to display properly. For example, typing 'Parliament', fills in 'Par' and 'P', but 'Parliament' itself won't appear until after the third try. Have tried to fix with different settings, but doesn't seem to resolve it.

Level 55

Sep 20, 2018

Have to go with Insaniot. The editor worked great on mobile until the change...

Level 32

Sep 21, 2018

I haven't really uploaded a quiz since like March, but since then, the format has been drastically improved! I was wondering how the front page quizzes had these bullet points, and now I can make them myself. The quizzes are more organized, well thought out, and visually appealing.

Level 75

Sep 22, 2018

I'm trying to add a thumbnail to my new quiz. I cut and pasted the URL from Wikimedia but I keep getting a "Can't parse URL" message. What am I doing wrong? (Thanks for all you do, Dan.) I'm trying to remember to click on more ads to repay you.

Level 48

Sep 23, 2018

I think the thumbnail URL has to begin with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: and refer to a single image e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg to be accepted.

Whole category addresses (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) or anything that isn't from commons.wikimedia.org or commons.m.wikimedia.org (e.g. upload.wikimedia.org) will fail to parse. HTH

Level 38

Sep 23, 2018

How do we make quizzes with points?

Level 48

Sep 23, 2018

https://www.jetpunk.com/blog/how-to-make-your-quiz-eligible-for-points

Level 17

Jan 18, 2019

Is there a mobile IOS app for Jetpunk? If not that would be cool! Thanks for all the work you do to keep this website running. It is awesome!

Level ∞

May 7, 2019

Sorry, there's no mobile app.

Level 28

Sep 17, 2019

Is there a way to make all columns 'green' or needed to be answered?

Level 28

Sep 18, 2019

???

Level 28

Sep 23, 2019

Is there a way to make all columns green/needed to be answered in? I made a quiz and only 1 column is green

Level ∞

Sep 23, 2019

You can't have two answer columns. However, you can simulate that by doing the following:

In Step 2: Make a separate row for each answer

In Step 4: Choose manual mode. You can add/remove cells and put answers wherever you want on the grid. So you can put two answers in the same column here.

Best,

-Dan

Level 30

Apr 8, 2020

How do you make a quiz with multiple answer columns?

Level 56

Sep 11, 2020

Click "Add Column"

Level 71

Sep 25, 2020

How do you do the thing where there's an answer already filled in when the quiz starts?

Level 15

Jan 13, 2021

How do you make multiple answer boxes for one question?

Level 28

Oct 19, 2022

Can someone tell me how to add a bookmarklet to a quiz im creating and want to add the feature that, when one wrong answer is entered its quiz over and have to start again. It’s called a minefield quiz on some sites

Level 49

Jun 29, 2023

how do i update quizzes with new information? do i have to delete them?

Level 74

Jan 1, 2024

I was wondering this, I can't figure out how to edit my quizzes that are already live.