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Music Pop Quiz: Online Guess-The-Song Game

Israel Nicolas — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:01:48 +0000

Guess-The-Song is a game in which someone hums a tune while the other guesses what song it is. This game also has a knack for showing your musical tastes. If you like to play online, you should check out Music Pop Quiz, a website that lets you play guess-the-song.

Music Pop Quiz starts with you choosing the genre of songs for your quiz. You can choose from 10 genres including Pop, Alternative/Indie, Hip-Hop/Rap, Folk, Dance, and Jazz. Once the questions loads, a tune will play, and you have to answer the question “Who is this song performed by?“. You have 30 seconds to answer the question and if you guessed wrong, you lose one of your seven lives. Your aim is to get the most number of questions right until all your lives are used up.

Music Pop Quiz is a cool timewaster for radio and mp3 heads. This is also a good test for your musical knowledge and about the kind of music that you like.

Features:

Free, simple app.
Guess the song.
Choose from different genre quizzes.
Go through harder levels and difficulty.
Similar Tools: MusicBuff, and TunesIQ.

Check out Music Pop Quiz @ http://musicpopquiz.com/quiz/play/pop

FinancialHealth: See How Healthy Your Finances Are

TehseenBaweja — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:01:44 +0000

We all run around all day trying to earn money, save it or paying it off. But how do we know how we are doing when it comes to financial health? FinancialHealth is a simple quiz created by CNN that lets you see how you are doing when it comes to debt, house payments, insurance, investments and emergency savings.

Just enter your age and some financial information then the tool will compare it to accepted standards and let you know how you are doing. For example, if your debt payments are less than 36% of your annual gross income, you are in a good position. It also looks at things like portfolio diversification and company stock. If you are doing poorly in a particular area, it will give you additional information.

Features:

Check your financial health with a simple quiz.
Covers topics like debt, house payment, investments and more.
No registration required.
Similar tools: WhereMyMoneyGoes, VisualEconomics, TaxACT, and CalcMoolator.

Visit FinancialHealth @ http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/financialhealth/index.html [Via LifeHacker]

Bhoogolvidya: Take A Geography Quiz Online

MOin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:01:17 +0000

How good is your knowledge of geography? Do you think you can play a friendly game that tests your geographical knowledge of the world? If yes, then head on over to a site called Bhoogolvidya.

Bhoogolvidya is an entertaining browser-based game that scores you on the number of questions correctly answered. Questions are related to geography of the world. You start by specifying a geographic region in the world and then answer the subsequent questions. Questions are multiple-choice and you can get hints for them, if you want. Next to your score, the highest score is shown to give you that extra bit of motivation.

For geography enthusiasts, this is a must-bookmark website.

Features:

Test your knowledge of geography.
Test is presented as a game.
You can select a specific region of the world to be quizzed on.
The highest score is recorded and shown.
Also read related articles:
Check out Bhoogolvidya @ bhoogolvidya.appspot.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

FamousObjectsFromClassicMovies: Guess Famous Objects From Movies

MOin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:01:24 +0000

Are you a movie buff? Do you think you can identify objects that were shown in famous movies? If yes, then you can test your abilities on a site called “Famous Objects From Classic Movies”.

“Famous Objects From Classic Movies” is a simple and fun website that does exactly what its name says: it shows you an object from a famous movie and then asks you to name the movie. The site keeps a score of the objects you guess right and wrong. Overall, this simple game is a must-play for all movie fans.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Tests your knowledge of classic movies.
You name the classic movie the shown object belongs to..
A score is kept and displayed.
Similar tools: Subzin and MovieRecipes.
Also read related articles:

Check out FamousObjectsFromClassicMovies @ www.famousobjectsfromclassicmovies.com (via Swiss Miss) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

5FactsAboutMe: Find Out How Well Your Friends Know You

MOin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:01:48 +0000

How well do your friends really know you? You can never be sure unless you distribute a questionnaire testing your friends knowledge of you. “5 Facts About Me” lets you do this in a very simple way.

5 Facts About Me is a free to use website that presents your friends with 5 facts about you. Your friends need to choose whether or not those facts are true or false. You can type in your own facts after creating an account on the site or connecting your Twitter or Facebook account. You get a public URL for your facts that can be shared on online social networks. Friends can easily take the 5-facts quiz and get their score.

Their score too, can be shared on social networks letting everybody know how well they know you.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Integrates with Twitter and Facebook.
Lets you ask your friends 5 true/false questions about you.
Helps determine how well your friends know you.
Similar tool: Facto, BeenAsked and ToAnswer.
Also read related article: 6 Twitter Web Apps to Ask Questions From a Twitter Crowd.

Check out “5 Facts About Me” @ www.5factsabout.me (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Facto: Share random facts about yourself & get your friendsâ€™ reactions

MOin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:01:12 +0000

Do you want to start sharing random facts about yourself with friends? If yes, then you should check out a site solely dedicated to this purpose called Facto.

Facto is a free to use website that lets you share facts about yourself with friends. All you do is create an account with the site and start sharing. All your shared facts can be seen in your dashboard. Links to each individual fact can be obtained and shared on any social network you use.

When your friends visit the link to the fact, they read the fact and then vote on it using the following buttons: Knew That, Didn’t Know That, Me Too!, Awesome, Whoa, Weird!, Boring, and No Way.

You can log into your Facto account anytime to see how many votes each fact received.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Lets you share random facts about yourself with friends.
Provides individual shareable URLs for each fact.
Friends can provide their reactions via clicking on buttons available on each fact page.
You can check the votes for each of your shared facts.
Similar tools: BeenAsked and ToAnswer.
Also read related article: 6 Twitter Web Apps to Ask Questions From a Twitter Crowd.

Check out Facto @ www.facto.me (via Mashable) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

HowMutch: Find How Much People Will Pay For A Certain Product Or Dare

Umar — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:09:42 +0000

Are you trying to check how much customers will be willing to pay for a product or company deal you are about to launch? For this, you could form lengthy internet forms and deploy them. Or, more conveniently, you could use HowMutch.

HowMutch is a free to use web service that asks people a simple question: “How much would you pay for X?” Mostly X will be things used by companies and upcoming products. But the X can be anything: a product, a dare, and activity. For example, “How much would someone have to pay you to lick a subway pole?” Once you enter your amount, it is matched with other responses to the same question and a comparison of your price versus the median price is shown.

The service is quite simple and offers a free alternative to the kind of research companies usually pay for. To post a question, all you have to do is link your Facebook account to the site.

Key Features:

A user friendly website
Asks how much would you pay for a certain product or dare
Compares your response with the median price
Lets you post your own questions

Check out HowMutch @ www.howmutch.com via TechCrunch (By Umar from TechCityInc)

OneExtraLap: Easy Social Quizzing Website

Sharninder — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:01:08 +0000

So you think your geography knowledge is better than your friends? Why not take a quiz to find out? And you don’t even have to use Facebook and its dubious quizzing applications anymore. Taking a quiz is fun only if you’re competing with someone and OneExtraLap lets you do exactly that.

OneExtraLap is a social quizzing website that lets you create and take quizzes with your friends and earn brownie points for winning. You’re rewarded with points and badges, foursquare style, and if you want you can even post your results to Twitter to let all of your followers know and also invite them in for a game (or two).

If you don’t want to create your own quiz, you can just take the ones created by other users. You’ll still be able to earn points and and maybe even get featured on the homepage, if you’re good!

Features:

Simple and free to use Quizzing service. Minimalistic interface.
You can play quizzes created by others or create your own quizzes and invite others to play.
Integrates with Twitter and Facebook.
Social nature of the service brings out the best in each player and encourages competition.
Similar tools: Faveone.

Check out OneExtraLap @ www.oneextralap.com

Zoho Challenge: Free Web Based Test Creation Software

abhijeet — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:01:24 +0000

Zoho Challenge is a new tool that was added recently to Zoho’s impressive suite of online office tools. It is a web based test creation software that can help teachers, private tutors, schools, coaching centers and other similar organizations to easily create a comprehensive online test for students, interview candidates and employees. You could create a test from scratch or modify an existing test to include new questions and patterns.

The tool lets you organize questions into question banks, add random questions and sections, set up various types of questions like multiple choice, true or false, and more, set up evaluation preferences and other test format related settings. Overall, it’s quite a feature rich tool to create online tests quickly. Plus, it’s free too which makes it all the more attractive.

Features

Online test creation software.
Useful for schools, coaching centers, organizations.
Easy to use. Create or modify tests, organize questions etc.
Also decide the type of test and other settings.
Similar tools: ClassMarker.

Check out Zoho Challenge @ www.challenge.zoho.com (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Faveone: Fun ‘This Or That’ Quiz Website

MOin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:01:03 +0000

Are you looking for a simple entertaining website? If yes, then go pay Faveone a visit. It is a simple to use website that can engage users for long periods of time. It gives its visitors a question to answer. Each question has only two options. The questions are often funny and the cumulative result of visitors is shown for the question’s overall answer.

An example of a humorous question is “Do you prefer bacon or Kevin Bacon?” This question has the pictures of bacon and Kevin Bacon side-by-side which somehow adds to the humorous effect. Visitors can create their own questions too; monitoring the popularity of a question you create on the site is a lot of fun. Moreover you can share questions on your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Features:

Fun website with this or that questions.
Limitless amusement.
Visitors can create their questions too.
Can be linked to Facebook and Twitter.

Check out Faveone @ www.faveone.com (by MOin from WP Skinner)