How to play the GK Quiz

A race is the way to play against the bot or a friend online.

1. The card counts in, three, two, one, and your clock starts.
2. A question goes up. Tap an option on the card, or its letter under the card. Skip it if you do not know.
3. The card shows straight away whether you were right, and which option was. Then the next question comes up.
4. When both of you have answered the last question or run out of time, the one with more points wins.

Each of you works down the list at your own pace, so neither waits for the other. Online, your own clock starts when your phone has counted in, so a slow connection costs you nothing.

Tap the option you think is right. It counts the moment you tap it, and there is no taking it back. Your choice lights up red if it was wrong, and the right one lights up green either way.

A right answer is a point. A wrong answer takes a point away. Skipping, or passing at the buzzer, is worth nothing either way.

So a blind guess among four loses you half a point on average, and a guess between two you are torn over breaks even. Answer what you know, and skip what you do not. A score can go below nought.

There are over four hundred, in four kinds:

• Nepal: its mountains, rivers, lakes, districts and seven provinces, its history from the Licchavis to the republic, its festivals, food, music and national symbols.
• Science: the body, plants and animals, the planets, light and sound, units, elements and numbers.
• The world: oceans and continents, capitals and money, famous places, and dates from history that everybody learns.
• Sport: the rules of the games Nepal plays, Sagarmatha's climbers, the Olympics and the World Cups, and Nepal's own grounds.

Each question is easy, medium or hard. On the game page you choose a level and a kind, or everything. If a kind runs short of questions at the level you chose, the nearest level fills in.

Only facts that are settled are asked: no question about who holds an office today, or a record that will be broken. If you think a question is wrong, send it to us as feedback, and it will be taken out and put right.

In a race, whoever has more points when both are done wins. Level on points, the one who used less of their clock wins. Level on both is a draw.

Each of you has eight seconds for every question on the list, counted together: ten questions are a minute and twenty seconds, and you can spend them as you like. Finishing early is fine, and the time you save wins a tie.

At the buzzer the first to the target wins. If the list runs out first, the most points wins. Online, a player who leaves and does not come back loses the race to the one who stayed.

The card in the middle shows the question and its four options, both scores and the clock. The rule under the scores shortens as your time runs, and it turns red for the last ten seconds.

The four keys at the foot of the screen carry the options' letters, A, B, C and D in English and क, ख, ग and घ in Nepali, with Skip under them. On a computer, 1 to 4 or A to D answer and S skips.

When a game ends, the sheet shows how you did at each kind of question and lists the ones you missed with their right answers.

Watch mode sets two bots playing each other.

• Read all four options before you tap. Two of them are often easy to rule out.
• Skip when you are down to three you cannot tell apart. Guessing among three loses a third of a point on average.
• Guess when you are down to two and lean towards one. That is worth more than a skip.
• Read the answers to the ones you missed at the end of each game. The same questions come round again.

Everything on the game page, before you press Play.

Race

The way to play where each player gets the same list and a clock of their own, and the most points wins.

Buzzer

The way to play where one question goes up for both, and the first right answer takes it.

Card

The card on the table with the question, its four options, the scores and the clock on it.

Skip or pass

Leaving a question unanswered. It costs no points, only the time.

Crossed out

At the buzzer, an option somebody chose wrongly. Nobody may choose it again for that question.

Sāmānya gyān

General knowledge, as Nepal's schools, quiz shows and Lok Sewa papers call it.