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QUIZ(6) 			   Games Manual 			 QUIZ(6)

NAME
     quiz -- random knowledge tests

SYNOPSIS
     quiz [-t] [-i file] [question answer]

DESCRIPTION
     The  quiz	utility tests your knowledge of random facts.  It has a database
     of subjects from which you can choose.  With no  arguments,  quiz	displays
     the list of available subjects.

     The options are as follows:

     -t      Use  tutorial  mode,  in  which questions are repeated later if you
	     didn't get them right the first time, and new  questions  are  pre-
	     sented less frequently to help you learn the older ones.

     -i      Specify an alternate index file.

     Subjects are divided into categories.  You can pick any two categories from
     the  same	subject.  Quiz will ask questions from the first category and it
     expects answers from the second category.	For example, the command  ``quiz
     victim  killer'' asks questions which are the names of victims, and expects
     you to answer with the cause of their untimely demise, whereas the  command
     ``quiz killer victim'' works the other way around.

     If you get the answer wrong, quiz lets you try again.  To see the right an-
     swer, enter a blank line.

INDEX AND DATA FILE SYNTAX
     The  index  and data files have a similar syntax.	Lines in them consist of
     several categories separated by colons.  The categories are regular expres-
     sions formed using the following meta-characters:

	   pat|pat  alternate patterns
	   {pat}    optional pattern
	   [pat]    delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat

     In an index file, each line represents a subject.	The  first  category  in
     each subject is the pathname of the data file for the subject.  The remain-
     ing  categories  are regular expressions for the titles of each category in
     the subject.

     In data files, each line represents a question/answer set.   Each	category
     is the information for the question/answer for that category.

     The  backslash character (``\'') is used to quote syntactically significant
     characters, or at the end of a line to signify  that  a  continuation  line
     follows.

     If  either a question or its answer is empty, quiz will refrain from asking
     it.

FILES
     /usr/local/share/games/quiz.db  The default index and data files.

BUGS
     Quiz is pretty cynical about certain subjects.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	  May 31, 1993				 QUIZ(6)

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