millionaire94
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Post by millionaire94 on Nov 8, 2010 9:52:19 GMT -5
In the"Millionaire: Magic Moments and More" there's a Behind the Scenes segment in which they show a typical day of filming. They specifically show the computer with the database, and it seems that the category of that question is "ENTERTAINMENT" and the sub-category, "Theater".
Does anyone know or can figure out what more categories and sub-categories do the question writers use to organise questions? I'll find any input helpful, because I'm starting to make the question database for my VB6 program, which replicates the player and host screen, along with a controller module to control the outcome of the game.
Thank you in advance! -m94
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Post by leimeisei on Nov 8, 2010 15:11:47 GMT -5
No clue. I'm sure that's all changed since that video was filmed long ago. You could probably just write up your own categorization tree and use it, so we could say ENTERTAINMENT with subcats Theater, Music, Television, Arts, Cinema, etc..
Heck, our board could collaborate on this and develop a universal standard!
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RyanZ
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Post by RyanZ on Nov 9, 2010 18:08:26 GMT -5
The only problem I see here (unless I'm completely misreading this) is questions with "unique" category names: take "Kitty Kitty" for example, which was a question category for yesterday's contestant. How would we deal with those?
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Post by leimeisei on Nov 9, 2010 22:59:38 GMT -5
From what I can gather, they use two different schemes on Millionaire: each question has a "Display category" that they use on TV, but they also classify using the standardized categories, so its easy for them to stack a variety of types of questions.
So "Kitty Kitty" might've been the on-tv category, but internally they may have categorized it as "ANIMALS" > "Pets" or something like that (I don't know what the question was about lol)
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