1.\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" 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.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 8.\" 9.\" @(#)quiz.6 6.3 (Berkeley) 11/10/91 10.\" 11.Dd 12.Dt QUIZ 6 13.Os 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm quiz 16.Nd random knowledge tests 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18.Nm quiz 19.Op Fl t 20.Op Fl i Ar file 21.Op Ar question answer 22.Sh DESCRIPTION 23The 24.Nm quiz 25utility tests your knowledge of random facts. 26It has a database of subjects from which you can choose. 27With no arguments, 28.Nm quiz 29displays the list of available subjects. 30.Pp 31The options are as follows: 32.Bl -tag -width indent 33.It Fl t 34Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get 35them right the first time, and new questions are presented less frequently 36to help you learn the older ones. 37.It Fl i 38Specify an alternate index file. 39.El 40.Pp 41Subjects are divided into categories. 42You can pick any two categories from the same subject. 43.Nm Quiz 44will ask questions from the first category and it expects answers from 45the second category. 46For example, the command ``quiz victim killer'' asks questions which are 47the names of victims, and expects you to answer with the cause of their 48untimely demise, whereas the command ``quiz killer victim'' works the 49other way around. 50.Pp 51If you get the answer wrong, 52.Nm quiz 53lets you try again. 54To see the right answer, enter a blank line. 55.Sh "Index and Data File Syntax" 56The index and data files have a similar syntax. 57Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons. 58The categories are regular expressions formed using the following 59meta-characters: 60.sp 61.Bl -tag -width "pat|pat" -compact -offset indent 62.It pat|pat 63alternate patterns 64.It {pat} 65optional pattern 66.It [pat] 67delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat 68.El 69.Pp 70In an index file, each line represents a subject. 71The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for 72the subject. 73The remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each 74category in the subject. 75.Pp 76In data files, each line represents a question/answer set. 77Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category. 78.Pp 79The backslash character (``\e'') is used to quote syntactically significant 80characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation line 81follows. 82.Pp 83If either a question or its answer is empty, 84.Nm quiz 85will refrain from asking it. 86.Sh FILES 87.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/quiz.db -compact 88.It Pa /usr/share/games/quiz.db 89The default index and data files. 90.El 91.Sh BUGS 92.Nm Quiz 93is pretty cynical about certain subjects. 94