Here's the description of New Scientist Quiz in the Nokia Store:
Well now you can really put your knowledge to the test with the fantastic weekly New Scientist quiz app. Designed to push your mind to its scientific limits you will need to answer against the clock.
Which is pretty accurate, though a little minimalist. Much like the application itself.
Here's the set-up: it's more or less assumed that you read each week's New Scientist magazine and this little game accompanies each issue, with the quiz pulling out ten factoids from the issue to check how much you remembered from the articles. Each week, there's a new paper issue and a new online quiz, accessible through this dedicated application.
Splash screen, which always loads the latest issue's cover; and online high score tables
Spelling out availability; and getting stuck into the quiz proper - you have thirty seconds to answer each question (presumably short enough that you haven't got time to break out the paper version of the magazine and look up the answers!)
At the end of the brief quiz, your score is made up from correct answers and (in theory) the time taken to pick each - though my 'rounded to a hundred' score of 700 didn't seemed to include any factor for time. Maybe I was too slow and you only get bonuses for sub-10 second answers?
The thing is, there are only ten questions, the quiz is over in about three minutes and then there's the wait until next Friday. Despite the whole concept being a great idea, the implementation is all very underwhelming. Which might be OK for a freebie, designed to give publicity to the commercial magazine. But it feels a bit feeble to expect people to pay to play for something which essentially is promoting a magazine that you also have to pay for.
Still, at £1, this may still pique your curiosity - the questions are certainly well picked - I was able to answer quite a few even without picking up the magazine, so maybe the game stands alone after all?