FoxKids.com A Hit With Online Digi-Quiz!; More Than 74,000 Teams Test Their Trivia Skill At DigimonMovie.com.Entertainment Editors & Multimedia Writers LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2000 FoxKids.com today announced that in less than four weeks, more than 74,000 teams of kids have signed up to play in the "Extreme DigiQuiz" competition on DigimonMovie.com, the official Web site of "Digimon: The Movie" (due to release in theaters on October 6). "We know from experience that kids relish trivia, and the Extreme DigiQuiz gives them a lot to sink their teeth into," said Allison Ellis, vice president, content, for FoxKids.com. "This experience marries kids' passion for Digimon with the excitement and camaraderie ca·ma·ra·der·ie n. Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between or among friends; comradeship. [French, from camarade, comrade, from Old French, roommate; see comrade. of competing with a team of their friends, and that's a powerful combination. We're thrilled with their response so far, and can't wait to build on this success in the future." The Extreme DigiQuiz, which began on August 30, lets kids create five-person DigiTeams by using special DigiQuiz e-cards to spread the word and invite their friends to join them. Each week through October 13, a new set of 10 multiple-choice questions will be posted for the teams to answer in a chance to earn the highest cumulative score. The winning team will earn an exclusive Digimon backpack brimming brim n. 1. The rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin. 2. A projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat. 3. A border or an edge. See Synonyms at border. with tons of DigiStuff. The Extreme DigiQuiz was designed to challenge even the most knowledgeable Digimon fan, with questions drawn from a wide range of places Digimon can be found, including the television show, trading cards, Harper Collins books, merchandise, movie soundtrack and Web site and -- even a Dark Horse Comic Book comic book Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. and Fox Kids Magazine! For example:
-- In a recent Digimon episode, what did Ken's mother label
with her new label maker?
-- In the Dig-Battle game, how many extra points can you score
with Pokemon's special effects?
-- Which Digimon appears on the bottom of the Digimon dx
mini-skateboard toy with number 87 on it?
Not hard enough? To check out the challenge the kids of America face, go to www.foxkids.com/digiquiz. The winning team will be announced October 20, 2000. About the Movie Digi-mania invaded the U.S. in August 1999 when the animated children's series "Digimon: Digital Monsters" premiered on Fox Kids Network. Within three months, the show was catapulted quickly into a ratings and retail phenomenon. With its television and retail success, "Digimon" has digivolved into a motion picture, which Twentieth Century Fox will release in the U.S. on October 6. The Internet becomes a battlefield for the DigiDestined and their Digimon companions, as they embark on Verb 1. embark on - get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans their greatest adventure yet in "Digimon: The Movie." A powerful new Digimon hatches on the Internet and begins to consume data at an exponential 1. (mathematics) exponential - A function which raises some given constant (the "base") to the power of its argument. I.e. f x = b^x If no base is specified, e, the base of natural logarthims, is assumed. 2. rate. This Internet Digimon rapidly digivolves to its mega form, Diabormon, taking over worldwide communications in the process and while preparing to launch missiles from the U.S. to Japan. With time running out, only the combined efforts of a worldwide network of kids, plus a new mega-hero Digimon named Omegamon, stand in the way of global disaster. "Digimon: The Movie": It's one small step for mon, one giant leap for monkind! About FoxKids.com A leading Web site for kids ages 6-14, FoxKids.com is dedicated to empowering kids through an action-adventure environment. FoxKids.com is among the top 4 Web sites for kids with more than 1.2 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. (a) during the month of August. FoxKids.com features top-quality games, animated shorts, original content and interactivity with kids' favorite Fox Kids Network characters and TV shows. Applying cutting-edge technology and innovative content to its game and animation portfolio, FoxKids.com is a leader in online entertainment for kids. FoxKids.com Inc. is a Fox Family Worldwide company. It leverages the multi-platform offline kid holdings of its parent including the Fox Kids Network, 98 percent of U.S. homes 14 hours a week; Fox Family Channel, 76 million homes 63 hours a week; Fox Kids Club, the country's largest of its kind with more than 5 million members; Fox Kids Magazine, the most widely read children's publication in the country; and the Saban Entertainment weird family, presented in grotesque domesticity. [TV: Terrace, I, 29] See : Eccentricity , NASCAR Racers NASCAR Racers is an animated television series about two rival NASCAR racing teams, Team Fastex and Team Rexcor, competing against each other in the futuristic NASCAR Unlimited Division. and Angela Anaconda Angela Anaconda is a cutout animation cartoon from Canada that aired on the Fox Family Channel (now called ABC Family) in the U.S. It revolves around an eight-year-old girl named Angela who has wacky brothers, weird friends, and hates a fake-French girl named Nanette Manoir. . Find the company at FoxKids.com. (a) Media Metrix |
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