Anybody familiar with this site?

yes, Kevin Johnson's spizzquiz.net site went dormant in July of '04, and he gave up the domain name two years later. The conceit of his site was to take a legitimate news story and substitute an obscure word for a key word, and then make a quiz out of it -- it was quite a popular gimmick, but he went on to other things after about six years. (at that time Kevin was also a news writer at USA Today.)

here's a link to the surviving spizzquiz archives, courtesy of the wayback machine.

-joe (I have Kevin's Backwords t-shirt) friday

gimmick?! Sheesh, am I gullible! [smacking forehead e] (FTR: no, I don't believe everything I'm told; but it simply never occurs to me that somebody would do anything like that, without telling people what they're doing.)

>gullible

I think that, had you been a regular reader of the spizzquiz, it would not have escaped you that news writers don't use words like that!!

-joe (at least not often enough for a daily quiz) friday

edit: I think that if I culled the spizzerinctum archives I'd have enough material to keep wwftd going another year or so, without resorting to any other sources!

edit² - the backwords tee (note AWAD sale price -- but I doubt these are currently available)

edit³ - JFTR, I've probly used half a dozen really obscure words where Kevin's "citation" was the only recent usage I could find.

Thank you, M. [hug]