Le Quiz de Quaregnon
265 sourced questions on Quaregnon, the Borinage and the Borain dialect
A quiz about Quaregnon, "the city of the Charter and the Fox", the Borinage region, the Borain dialect and Belgium. It has three levels, from "Tourist" to "Born-and-bred Quaregnonnais", four themes you can switch on or off, and each answer links to the source it came from. Play alone or with others, each on your own phone, with a four-letter room code; it uses no library at all, against a backdrop of slag heaps, a pit headframe and rows of miners' houses drawn in SVG behind photos of the town.
What shines
- 265 questions (82 on Belgium, 65 on Quaregnon, 61 on Borain, 57 on the Borinage), each with a source you can click once the answer is revealed
- Multiplayer without an SDK: Firebase spoken over plain HTTP (PUT/PATCH) and followed live through EventSource, with the same leaderboard on every phone
- 5,892 automated checks, including a tool that measures, in a real browser, the audio amplitude actually produced
- Photo licenses checked both ways: every credited photo exists, and every photo shown is credited
- Vector scenery of the Borinage (flat-topped slag heaps, headframe, a row of miners' houses) and a Q drawn after the town's logo
How to use it
Choose your level, themes and length (5 to 25 questions), then "Play solo" or open a room and share the four-letter code
Made with
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript (vanilla)
- SVG
- Firebase Realtime Database (API REST + EventSource, sans SDK)
- Web Audio API
- Node.js (scripts de vérification)
- Playwright (partie à deux simulée)