Trivia that puts your brain to the test with language arts, history and geography!



Product Information

Are you a Zoog genius?  Power up your computer and get ready for a wild ride through the Zeether with all your Zoog Disney friends in Zoog Genius: Language Arts, History and Geography.  It's the CD-ROM game for kids ages 9-12 that turns your PC into a twisted educational game show and makes you and your friends the stars!  Features hundreds of rapid-fire, multiple-choice questions, based on curriculum supplied by renowned educational experts McREL.

Skills Learned:

Language Arts

• Skills, strategies, stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing
• Grammar, spelling and mechanics of composition
• Level appropriate vocabulary in speech

History

• Significant people, events, problems and ideas
• Democratic values
• Causes/nature of movements of people
• Social and economic effects of scientific and technological discoveries and their discoverers/inventors
• Attributes and developments of world societies

Geography

• Uses of maps, globes and other geographic tools and technologies
• Physical process that shape patterns on the Earth's surface
• Characteristics of ecosystems on the Earth's surface
• Impacts of humans actions on the physical environment
• Patterns and networks of economic interdependence of Earth's surface

Product Features:

• Fast-paced, twisted quiz show style questions.
• One and two player game action that lets you match wits against your friends.
• Three levels of difficulty for all of you braniancs.
• Fun trivia based on match, science and technology that will put your brain to the test.
• ZeeBase custom question tool with text-to-speech technology that allows you to create your own questions and e-mail them to your friends.
• Curriculum supplied by renowned educational specialists, McREL.

Additional Features:

Fascinating Factoids
Factoids from Adventures "Weird Yet True" column.

Cooperative Game Play
In a two-player game, if you and a friend both select the category for your next round of questions, your Z.Q. points value increase in the next round.

Collect Z.Q. Points and Earn the Title of "Genius"!
Your Z.Q. Points are tracked, so each game you play gets you closer to the ultimate goal of becoming a Zoog Genius!  And the game actually grows as you play!  When you reach special milestones, new questions in the ZeeBase database are unlocked.

Download Additional Questions Packs Online!
For all you brainiacs that crave new Zoog Genius questions, you can download additional questions packs at the Zoog Web site (requires existing Internet connection).

Create Your Own Questions
Using the ZeeBase, you can create and save your own questions! Enter custom quizzes, add questions from school subjects or just create some crazy brainteasers.  With text-to-speech technology, the questions you enter will actually be read aloud during game play!

Windows Requirements:

• Windows 95, 98, Me, XP 
• Pentium Class Processor 166MHz or faster
• 32MB of RAM
• 80MB free hard drive space
• 8X Speed CD-ROM Drive
• 16-bit DirectX compatible sound card
• 640x480, 16-bit DirectX compatible video card
• Optional: Java compatible Web Browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator versions 4.0 or later

Macintosh Requirements:

• OS 8.6 through OS X (In Classic mode)
• G3 processor 233MHz or faster
• 64MB of RAM
• 80MB free hard drive space
• 8X Speed CD-ROM drive
• 640x480, thousands of colors video display
• Optional: Java compatible Web Browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator versions 4.0 or later)