And the winner is...music trivia!

• Can users submit questions? - Sure, but probably best if the editorial staff weeds through them. Might be a nice touch to show who submitted a question, if it is a user-submitted one. The one problem here would be if there are real prizes that can be earned (Marketplace credits, etc.) then user submitted questions provide a strong temptation for cheating the system. The flipside would be that editor-only questions would require a pretty deep staff out there in Redmond... I hope you have a large contingent of Zune staff with knowledge of bluegrass, electronica, country (and western!), swing, hair metal, death metal, prog rock... blah blah blah!
  
• Do we need editors to approve them? - Yes, both to screen out inappropriate questions, as well as inappropriately lame questions.
  
• Should we do genre- or decade-based quizzes? - Both. Genre should probably be extended to themes, kind of game-show Jeopardy-esque categories with cheesy names. Maybe one quiz would have remote getaways as a theme, and an answer might be something like Islands in the Stream.
  
• Are there different types of questions - for example, ones where you listen to a song clip, view an album cover, or is it just trivia (i.e. what is the best-selling album of all time?) - I think it probably needs to be as little of the plain-ol trivia as possible, since that is a little overdone and answers are just too easy to find on the Internet. If it's regular trivia, you're going to need some mighty cryptic questions. I like the album art idea, I doubt there is an online repository of all the details in every album cover and even a dedicated searcher is not going to look at every album cover... you need to know your covers to get that one!
  
• Are questions multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true-false, a combination of all of them? - Combination of all
  
• Is there a hierarchy of quizzes - for example, I may be a specialist in electronica only, and not know a thing about rock. So we could have genre-based quizzes and then general quizzes, and the more you complete the higher level you attain?
  
• How many questions should be in a quiz? How often do we need to add new questions? Who adds them? - 10 is a nice round number. Maybe weekly updates? I think an endless stream of quizzes would be cool, but damn, that's a lot of clever questions somebody has to create! I think it makes the most sense for the editorial staff to update the quizzes, with the possibility of picking from user-submitted questions.
  
• Can users create their own quizzes on their own profile pages about whatever they want? - Sure, but will these count into our score if quiz results translate into some kind of ranking? I can envision some lame quizzes (but also some good ones!)

• Can users submit questions?
• Do we need editors to approve them?
• Should we do genre- or decade-based quizzes?
• Are there different types of questions - for example, ones where you listen to a song clip, view an album cover, or is it just trivia (i.e. what is the best-selling album of all time?)
• Are questions multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true-false, a combination of all of them?
• Is there a hierarchy of quizzes - for example, I may be a specialist in electronica only, and not know a thing about rock. So we could have genre-based quizzes and then general quizzes, and the more you complete the higher level you attain?
• How many questions should be in a quiz? How often do we need to add new questions? Who adds them?
• Can users create their own quizzes on their own profile pages about whatever they want?
  
  
  1. Yes, I believe that would be enjoyable
  2. Possibly. If we have a lot of moderators, that might be easiest.
  3. All of them!!
  4. I think that a "choose type of game" kind of deal would be cool. Kinda like a Step 1. Go Into Game, Step 2. Go To Question Select, Step 3. Start Game
  5.Yeah, that sounds good.
  6. I think it should be a sort of never-ending quiz, with each time you complete a question another random one of that genre is selected and you have to answer it. Whether right or wrong, you'll hopefully never get two of the same questions.
  7. Answered Above
  8. Yeah, that would be awesome!
  
  
  

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. I think that more people need to get a Zune o_o

Thanks everyone for the awesome suggestions - both for a game idea for The Social and for other requests (you can continue to submit other requests in the Wishlist forums!).

Based on the poll and your comments, music trivia seems to have risen to the top. So let's go with that. Our next step is to figure out what exactly music trivia means.

Questions to answer:

• Can users submit questions?
• Do we need editors to approve them?
• Should we do genre- or decade-based quizzes?
• Are there different types of questions - for example, ones where you listen to a song clip, view an album cover, or is it just trivia (i.e. what is the best-selling album of all time?)
• Are questions multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true-false, a combination of all of them?
• Is there a hierarchy of quizzes - for example, I may be a specialist in electronica only, and not know a thing about rock. So we could have genre-based quizzes and then general quizzes, and the more you complete the higher level you attain?
• How many questions should be in a quiz? How often do we need to add new questions? Who adds them?
• Can users create their own quizzes on their own profile pages about whatever they want?

I'm sure there are more questions to discuss; let's start with these and let you guys imagine what music trivia ought to be like. Remember that music trivia is available all over the web at various sites; we're looking for unique angles on the concept.

And finally, don't forget the legal stuff:

-- You must abide by our Code of Conduct.

-- Any ideas you submit are fair game for Zune to use, per our Terms of Use.

So, keep those ideas and comments coming!

Oh, and btw: I've locked the older threads to keep the comments in here; please stay on topic. Your ideas about things other than music trivia belong here, in the wishlist forums for software, device, marketplace, and social.

Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.