1.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Jim R. Oldroyd at The Instruction Set. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)quiz.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 32.\" $FreeBSD: src/games/quiz/quiz.6,v 1.3.2.1 2000/12/08 13:40:05 ru Exp $ 33.\" 34.Dd May 31, 1993 35.Dt QUIZ 6 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm quiz 39.Nd random knowledge tests 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl t 43.Op Fl i Ar file 44.Op Ar question answer 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility tests your knowledge of random facts. 49It has a database of subjects from which you can choose. 50With no arguments, 51.Nm 52displays the list of available subjects. 53.Pp 54The options are as follows: 55.Bl -tag -width indent 56.It Fl t 57Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get 58them right the first time, and new questions are presented less frequently 59to help you learn the older ones. 60.It Fl i 61Specify an alternate index file. 62.El 63.Pp 64Subjects are divided into categories. 65You can pick any two categories from the same subject. 66.Nm Quiz 67will ask questions from the first category and it expects answers from 68the second category. 69For example, the command ``quiz victim killer'' asks questions which are 70the names of victims, and expects you to answer with the cause of their 71untimely demise, whereas the command ``quiz killer victim'' works the 72other way around. 73.Pp 74If you get the answer wrong, 75.Nm 76lets you try again. 77To see the right answer, enter a blank line. 78.Sh INDEX AND DATA FILE SYNTAX 79The index and data files have a similar syntax. 80Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons. 81The categories are regular expressions formed using the following 82meta-characters: 83.Pp 84.Bl -tag -width "pat|pat" -compact -offset indent 85.It pat|pat 86alternate patterns 87.It {pat} 88optional pattern 89.It [pat] 90delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat 91.El 92.Pp 93In an index file, each line represents a subject. 94The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for 95the subject. 96The remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each 97category in the subject. 98.Pp 99In data files, each line represents a question/answer set. 100Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category. 101.Pp 102The backslash character (``\e'') is used to quote syntactically significant 103characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation line 104follows. 105.Pp 106If either a question or its answer is empty, 107.Nm 108will refrain from asking it. 109.Sh FILES 110.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/quiz.db -compact 111.It Pa /usr/share/games/quiz.db 112The default index and data files. 113.El 114.Sh BUGS 115.Nm Quiz 116is pretty cynical about certain subjects. 117