As part of the "TQ Museum" project, I've added the questions for the first five Total Quizzes to the TQ archive on the main site. They can be found at:
Total Quiz ITotal Quiz IITotal Quiz IIITotal Quiz IVTotal Quiz VWhat is neat about the above TQ's is that they were held
before AE was founded! The above questions date back all they way to October 2001. The first TQ to be held in AE, when the quiz was moved there after its founding, was TQ VI.
It is interesting to compare the old and new style questions. Back in the old days, people weren't very good with search engines, so the questions were not written to be search engine resistant. If you were good with search engines and typing in keywords you could do pretty well.
The upcoming TQ onn
January 25 will present yet another change in style. For the first time, the names of question authors will no longer be displayed. (should be interesting!)
(To submit a question for the upcoming TQ, visit
http://www.allempires.com/TQ/submit_question.php)