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Trivia and quiz nights
For trivia and general knowledge you learn capitals, authors, inventions and dates by heart. You meet them again at quiz nights and in TV game shows, and Lumi asks them back until the answer comes without effort.
How to turn this subject into cards
Make one card per fact, one piece of information per question, in the families that come up most, capitals, authors, inventions, dates, science and geography. Word the question the way it would be asked at a quiz night or on a TV game show. The trap is reading general knowledge lists and believing you retain them, when a fact you have never had to pull from memory does not come under pressure. Lumi asks it back until it comes on its own. Testing yourself makes you remember longer than rereading (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006), and spacing your revision extends the effect further (Cepeda et al., 2006).
What you need to know by heart
- Capitals of countries, continent by continent.
- Authors and their famous works.
- Inventions and their inventors.
- Dates of major events in history.
- Rivers, summits and geography landmarks.
How Lumi helps you remember it
You teach your cards to Lumi, capitals, authors, inventions, dates. It forgets over time, like you do, then quizzes you right before you would forget. As quiz night approaches, the Mist settles over what you know less well and Lumi asks that first. You arrive able to pull the answer fast, not only to recognise it once it is said.
Example cards
Three cards the way you would write them, with the answer Lumi expects.
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa.
Who wrote Don Quixote?
Miguel de Cervantes.
What is the longest river in France?
The Loire.
Example card
Try it, Lumi turns it into fill in the blank questions in your browser.
Trivia and quiz nights · teach this card to Lumi
The capital of Australia is Canberra. Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables. Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type printing in Europe. World War II ended in 1945.
Lumi’s question
The capital of Australia is _____.
Pick the missing word
Answer right to light Lumi up
Its lamp fades when a fact slips away.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I prepare for a quiz night?
- Pick the families that come up most, capitals, authors, inventions, dates, and put one fact per card. Lumi asks them back at spaced intervals (Cepeda et al., 2006).
- Which topics should I put on cards first?
- Start with what comes up often and what you miss. Every mistake on a quiz night becomes a card.
- Is Lumi enough for a TV game show?
- It helps you fix the facts you choose to learn. Speed and composure are built by playing.
Read next
Sources
- Roediger, Karpicke (2006). Test-enhanced learning. Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3). doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x
- Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted, Rohrer (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks. A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3). doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354
Teach this to Lumi
Give Lumi your trivia and quiz nights notes, it gives them back as questions at the right moment.