Quiz Bowl

The Skarzs · January 25, 2014, 01:21:19 AM

Good job!

Gonff the Mousethief · January 24, 2015, 04:06:37 AM

Revive!

Quiz Bowl is back at my school! We have our first Tournament tomorrow, so wish us luck!

Wot, wot! · January 24, 2015, 05:58:47 AM

Good luck, Gonff! I'm sure you all will do awesome

Gonff the Mousethief · January 24, 2015, 06:03:43 AM

Thank you for the support Wot!

Wot, wot! · January 24, 2015, 06:09:25 AM

Of corse

Gonff the Mousethief · January 24, 2015, 11:55:50 PM

Well, we won first! Took us more than 12 hours, but we pulled it off!!

Wot, wot! · January 25, 2015, 12:03:56 AM

Wow!! That's awesome! Congrats!!!

Gonff the Mousethief · March 20, 2015, 03:31:59 AM

I've been meaning to update this. Well, we got first in district, and first at state, so now we are moving on to Nationals which will be held in Chicago! Can't wait!

Skyblade · March 20, 2015, 03:35:38 AM

Soo late, but...that's super cool, Gonff!

And certainly impressive. Work hard - you'll be epic as usual.

Quote from: Dawnwing on January 24, 2014, 03:09:21 PM
Good luck, Gonff!

Quote from: Skyblade on January 23, 2014, 09:50:01 PM
What's quiz bowl? I'm guessing from these posts that it's a challenge in which you answer a bunch of random questions, maybe in a time limit, but I don't know exactly.
Yeah, pretty much. Two teams of students are read a question (can be anything - history, science, current events, drama/musicals, spelling, literature, random trivia, etc), and they press a buzzer to get a chance to answer the question and earn points.

The rules probably vary by region, but in mine here's how it works. There's two teams with 4 playing at a time. The question is read, and whoever buzzes in gets the chance to answer. If they get it right, they earn 12 points and get 2-4 bonus questions for a total of up to 12 more points (and the entire team can work together on those but the captain has to be the one to say the answer). The match is 20 minutes long if I remember correctly. If someone buzzes in before the question is finished being read, they stop reading at that point and cannot repeat it or finish and the person has to just answer. If they get it wrong after buzzing in early, the team will get double points if they get it right.

Ohh! Thank you. I've done competitions like this before, then, just centered around different categories.

I did one recently in which we read a list of books beforehand and then answered trivia about them. And I'm going to state for one about technology!

Gonff the Mousethief · March 25, 2015, 04:14:13 PM

Wow Madam Blade! That sounds exciting! Excel and win!

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