Frequently Asked Questions

Related to the Inner Dragon Quiz


  • Hey, I found a site that's hosting a quiz exactly like yours! What do these clowns think they're doing?
    To date there are EXACTLY TWO authorized mirrors for this Quiz. They may be found at Planet AD'n'D and Dragons Must Be Here. All other quizzes that use the same text, result images, or banners as mine are maintained by thieves and unscrupulous usurpers. If you find such a quiz, I'd really appreciate an email with its URL. Thanks!

  • "I took the quiz but did not get a color. Did I do something wrong?"

    You've done nothing wrong. Try entering your responses again, and retrying the button. If neither of those works, try refreshing the entire page, or visiting my Quiz again at another time. Be advised that America Online web browsers do not like the coding for my Quiz. So if you're using AOL you might not be able to get a color at all. Sorry about that.

  • What happened to the hit counters on your Quiz page?
    This is question does not have a happy answer. I'm sorry to say that GeoCities only keeps site statistics for 23 months before purging the data from their servers. As a result, on New Year's Day 2004 I lost the hit data from the first month of this Quiz's life (Feb 2002). That means all my totals were suddenly thousands of hits short of where they should have been. For example, the main page magically lost over 40,000 hits. After some thought, I decided to remove the counters because I had no way of recovering my hit data from February 2002. I appologize for any disappointment this change has caused, but I thought it better to report no hit data rather than report tragically low numbers. I can tell you, however, that my Quiz directory passed through 1.5 MILLION hits late in 2003, and the Quiz page itself recently broke 500,000 unique visitors.

  • Why do Platinum and Chromatic dragons get mentioned in your results pages but don't appear as results themselves?

    To answer that, here's a little explanation on what those two dragon types are: THE Platinum dragon is the King of All Dragons. S/He is a unique entity, and there is only one - ever. As you can imagine, that means Platinums rather stick out a bit. Chromatic dragons are not a color at all, they are a type. They're a really, really nasty hybrid of all the evil elements of every true dragon color. You don't wanna mess with one. Luckily for you, they are ridiculously rare. Granted, there's more than one at a time, but they're awfully hard to find. Anyway, as you can likely guess because these two dragon types really aren't colors at all, and because they are so rare, adding them to my Quiz would lead to either REALLY obvious answers or ruining the purpose of my Quiz altogether. Hence, no Platinum or Chromatic dragons.

  • Why won't you add new colors to your Quiz when I've already asked you nicely to do so, possibly even twice? What about Purple, Silver, Orange, or - oh, I don't know - Magenta!?

    Hey, if you REALLY want me to think about adding a new color to my Quiz, please send me some sort of details about what makes that color unique. If your case is strong enough I just might rebuild the Quiz - as I did for Tan and Silver dragons. But if you just want any old color in there and you won't give me a reason why, be prepared to get shut down.

  • "Where are you getting your source material on dragons?"

    The source materials for my dragon information come from my experience in Dungeons & Dragons and AD&D, as well as a wonderful, wonderful website made by Illiana the Gold Dragon. You can find a link to her page from my Quiz page... It's at the bottom. Thank you, Illiana (if you read this)!

  • "Do you know any [other quiz] sites i can look at?"

    Well, probably the easiest thing to do is go to a search site like Yahoo.com or Google.com and type in "online quiz." But failing that, I can give you a few of the bigger/better ones here. Of course, gotta do a little shameless promoting first:

    Those should tide you over for days to come.

  • "Can you please email me the code to your quiz?"

    My Quiz code is free for any of you to hack apart and rebuild so long as you give me some credit for being your source. However, that does not mean I am going to go around giving out copies to anyone who comes knocking on my inbox. If you really want to make your own quiz but can't figure out how to get to my code, I strongly suggest that you use one of the many free quiz-hosting websites that are out there.

  • "im a yellow dragon... my girlfriend is a green... do we coexist?"

    Hmm. There's just some emails I get that make me stare at the screen for a minute. Then I smile and write something intelligent, like this:
    ~> No quiz can provide certainty on matters of the heart. You will work well together if you respect and cherish one another, and if your karma wills it. Best of luck.

  • "...I am a copper dragon and that suits me fine. But I've gone through the quiz a bunch of times and have gotten the following colors: ... My boyfriend told me about most of the dragons and I used that to figure out all of them, but I just wanted to know if that is all that there is possible."

    I have to admit that this email surprised me a little. If you want to know about all the dragon colors, you don't have to try to get each result through the Quiz. The bottom of every results page has a listing of every possible dragon color. There are NO hidden colors. As for "out-smarting" my Quiz and getting any color you like at your own will, I guess that seems to defeat both the purpose of my Quiz and its entertainment value. *shrug* But maybe that's just me.

  • "In your test, blue is water, which I think that is wrong. White is for water, blue is for thunder, copper is for [acid]. Or at least [that's the way dragons are classified] in Krynn. Maybe it's different in AD&D rules."

    Krynn uses a totally different classification system than any of the following: Dungeons & Dragons, Anglo-Saxon mythology, or Gaelic mythology. I chose the D&D scheme because it is most approachable for the demographic groups that would tend to try an online quiz like mine. Sorry I couldn't be totally accomodating, but some conflicts were inevitable.

  • When did the Inner Dragon Online Quiz pass the 1,000,000 directory hits barrier?

    My Quiz directory's counter hit 1,000,000 sometime between the night of 16Feb03 and the evening of 18Feb03. I can't be exactly sure because I wasn't watching the thing every moment. My estimation of "17Feb03" as posted on the version 4 quiz page is from looking briefly at the visitor stats from the past day or two. If you're curious, the quiz PAGE itself will turn over 1,000,000 hits sometime early in the year 2005. That is, assuming the vistation statistics remain roughly on par with those of the last month or two.

  • "I just wanted to let you know that I tried your dragon quiz many times and I always get red dragon. ... I just wanted to let you know about this. Its probably nothing [but I don't see myself as a Red.]"

    My Quiz has been extensively beta-tested to ensure that it's HTML and Java encoding are working properly. If you retake my Quiz over and over and keep turning up the same answer, it's probably because your personality really does match that particular color. If you honestly feel you're not that color, then try going back to the Quiz page and picking responses that are more true to who you are. And if you're still not satisfied with your result just bear in mind that my Quiz is intended for entertainment purposes only and not to dictate an absolute truth about every visitor.

  • "[How about adding] a picture for which dragon you are to your results pages?"

    As of 10 August 2003, your wish has come true! After months of prodding from Quiz-takers and a whole bunch of hours fighting with picture editing software, the images have arrived. Each dragon color now has its very own results image. And with a little support from an Australian buddy of mine, you can even display your image for the world to see. All you have to do is copy the text in the box from any results page and post it online. Your abbreviated result and its corresponding image will be instantly displayed on your website or online diary.

  • So who is hosting all these results images? Obviously it's not GeoCities.
    Anyone wishing to express their personal gratitude for the remote hosting and access of my results images should direct their kind remarks to the LiveJournal user Bed. Note: The images from the dmbh.org mirror are hosted by Dragons Must Be Here.

  • What, if any, awards has the Inner Dragon Online Quiz received?
    My Quiz is a Dragons Must Be Here Award Winner. The award was presented in July 2003. Its trophy image appears at the bottom of this page.

    Credits:
    Remote results image hosting provided by Bed.
    The majority of the dragon info provided by Illiana the Gold Dragon.
    All the Tan Dragon info and ideas courtesy of Drucht Mahjin.
    The Silver Dragon suggestion and info were from SunSong.
    Quiz mirrors hosted by Adam of DMBH and Cole E. Austin.
    Quiz conceptualized, designed, created, and maintained by Seeking_Insight.
    You can email the Quiz Author, Check out his website, or Jump to his Live Journal.
    Public interest notes:
    - The Quiz page averages about 540 hits per day and 13,950 hits each month.
    - In January 2004 the Inner Dragon Online Quiz greeted its 500,000th visitor!
    - The Quiz directory logged its one-millionth hit on 17 February 2003.
    - Thank you to everyone who's helped make my Quiz such an impressive success.
    		 Quiz set up 05Feb02.
    Version 2 online 07Feb02.
    Version 3 online 05Jun02.
    Version 4 online 18Feb03.
    Version 5 online 10Aug03.
    Version 6 online 13Aug03.

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    If you're looking for more dragon-related stuff, check out Lady Ranea's Lair.


    This page created 05Apr02. Last updated 18Dec04.