Contents
NEWSQUEST

Taking the NewsQuest Quiz

All About NewsQuest

How To Play NewsQuest

Hints On Playing NewsQuest

Using Search With NewsQuest

Using The Word List


NewsQuest Intro
All About NewsQuest

NewsQuest challenges your knowledge of people and events in the news.

Each quiz consists of a series of 20 questions drawn from articles in TIME Magazine from 1989 through 1992.

Getting the answers to the questions right is only part of the challenge. Your ultimate goal for each quiz is to identify the author of a TIME Magazine quotation, which is revealed letter by letter in the "Quote" box at the bottom of the screen. Every incorrect answer takes letters away.

You have to answer at least four questions correctly before you get a chance to identify the person quoted.

You have only one chance to get the name right. If you try and fail, the game ends.

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How To Play NewsQuest


How To Play NewsQuest

1.	Begin NewsQuest by selecting NewsQuest from the Contents Screen of the TIME ALMANAC.

2.	Each game consists of 20 questions from TIME Magazine.

3.	First, select the section of the magazine from which you would like your first question. You have five choices--

Nation

World

Business

People

Back Of The Book

4.	Type the answer to the question in the space provided. To erase an answer (one letter at a time), press [BACKSPACE] or [DELETE].

5.	Press [ENTER]. (To skip an answer, just press [ENTER] without typing anything first.)

6.	If you answer the question correctly, you go on to the next question.

7.	If you answer incorrectly, the program will offer you a hint.

8.	If you accept the hint, you can try filling in the blank again. (If you get the answer wrong, you proceed to a multiple choice question.)

9.	If you do not choose the hint, you will go directly to the multiple choice question. If you get the multiple choice question wrong, the program reveals the correct answer, and you go on to a new question.

10.	After you have answered four questions correctly, all subsequent questions will include a new option -- Identify Quote.

11.	Choose Identify Quote if you are ready to name the person quoted. But keep in mind -- you only get one chance to identify the person. If you try and fail, the game ends!

12.	Type the name of the person quoted in the space provided.

13.	Each game contains 20 questions. When you've seen them all, you have to try naming the author of the quotation.

14.	At the end of every NewsQuest game, you have the option of playing another game or returning to the TIME ALMANAC Contents Screen.

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Hints

Using Search To Help You Find The Answers


Hints
Hints On Playing NewsQuest

The Search function can be very helpful! By using specific search words from the question or quotation, you can sometimes narrow your Search down to just one article. Following the trail of search words through the article will lead you to the answer or the actual quote and the identity of the speaker! Use Find under EDIT on the Menu Bar to find all the occurrences of your search words within the article(s).

Each question includes the issue date of TIME from which it was taken. When conducting a Search, keep in mind that you will find the answer to your question in an article from that particular issue of the magazine.

Use the Word List in Search to look up the spelling of an answer.

If you're not sure of the author of the quote's identity, try to reveal more letters in the quotation. This is usually the best strategy.

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Using Search (to find the answers)

The "Find" Function

The Word List


Using Search
Using Search With NewsQuest

One way to make NewsQuest more fun and interesting, and to improve your search skills at the same time, is to search the TIME articles using key words that appear in the question or quote. Using specific search words, you can narrow the Search to just a few or even a single TIME article. Following the trail of search words through the article will lead you to the answer or the actual quote and the identity of the speaker.

To Use Search

1.	Select Search from FILE on the Menu Bar or click on the magnifying glass button in the Toolbar.

2.	Type your search words in the search word box. You may enter as many words as you like, separating each with a space.

3.	After you have entered the search words you want, click on the OK button or press [ENTER].

4.	If you are satisfied with the number of entries you have found, you can open one by clicking on its title or using the [Up/Down] arrow keys to highlight the entry and pressing [ENTER].

5.	Selecting a title takes you to the first place where a search word appears in that entry. The word will appear highlighted. Use Find (under EDIT on the Menu Bar) to find other occurrences of your search words.

6.	Press [ESC] to return to the Search dialog where you can enter new search words or return to NewsQuest.

7.	Return to your NewsQuest question by pressing [ESC] to go to the Contents Screen and then selecting NewsQuest, or by pressing [CTRL]+[ESC] and selecting NewsQuest from the Task List.

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Find

Using The Word List

Hints On Using Search


Using Word List
Using The Word List

The Word List contains every word that occurs in the contents of the TIME ALMANAC.  When you type a word in the Search form, Word List automatically displays the alphabetically closest word.

Because of the way NewsQuest processes answers, you must spell words and names the same way they are spelled in the TIME ALMANAC. Some words can be spelled several ways (e.g., "color" and "colour," "theater" and "theatre," etc.). When in doubt, try to look up all versions in the Word List. This feature is particularly helpful when you are trying to spell difficult names or places.

To Use The Word List

1.	Press [TAB] or click on the Word List box.

2.	To replace your search word with a word from the Word List, use the [Up/Down] or [PgUp/PgDn] arrows on the keyboard or use the mouse to scroll through the Word List until the word you want is highlighted. The program will automatically replace the word you typed with the highlighted word.

3.	Return to the search word line by pressing [SHIFT]+[TAB] (or click there with the mouse) to make your selection.

4.	Press [ESC] to leave the Word List without choosing a new search word.

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Hints On Playing NewsQuest

Using Search


Search Hints
Hints On Using Search

The more search words you use, the more accurate your Search will be in finding exactly the article you are looking for.

If the entries don't include the issue of TIME Magazine that you are looking for, you can change the search words and repeat the process until you find what you want.

In Search lists, the titles of all the articles will appear first, in chronological order with the most recent issue first.

If your Search resulted in no entries, you should review your search words and check them against the Word List.

If the words you entered are too vague or general, Search may yield a much greater number of entries than you want to look through. In that case, you can try new, more descriptive search words.

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Using The Word List

NewsQuest Hints


Menu Bar definition
The Menu Bar

The Menu Bar appears at the top of the screen and provides access to all the features of the program. Many Menu Bar entries can be accessed through the Toolbar.


Tool Bar definition
The Toolbar

The Toolbar appears as a series of graphical buttons below the Menu Bar and provides easy mouse access to the most commonly used Menu Bar functions. To select a Toolbar button, click on it once with the left mouse button.


Find

The "Find" command allows you to search for specific words within an article. (If you want to search for specific words within all articles, use the SEARCH function instead.) Find can limit its search to be case sensitive or insensitive or limited to the whole word.

1.	Select "Find" from the EDIT drop-down menu on the Menu Bar.

2.	Type the word you would like to find in the "Find What" box.

3.	Select the FIND NEXT button to find the first occurrence of that word in the open article.

4.	Continue selecting FIND NEXT to advance through all occurrences of your search word in that article

5.	CANCEL to escape from the Find function.


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