It’s funny. In high school I was on some sort of quiz bowl type team. I remember meeting up after school a number of times and practicing. We had a teacher that asked questions and a set of buzzers to try and mimic a real competition. The weird thing is that I don’t remember us ever competing against anyone. All I can remember is practicing. Has anyone else been on a quiz team and made it to an actual competition?
Yeah, I really can’t remeber anything I learned in school other then the basics. If you asked me how school changed me, I’d probably say, “Well, the idiots there changed my personality from nice guy who loves evreything to raging revenger.”
And when I say idiots, I pretty much mean evreyone there, students, staff, and people who I don’t know that aren’t part of the staff yet show up one day for some reason and are never seen again.
I remember being in junior high and being on a quiz game show locally. We had three contestants from each school. The three of us were split with knowledge; one kid studied the Korean war (me) another the 1st world war and the third the 2nd world war.
Me and the other kid ended up not really getting a word in edge wise because the third kid knew the answers to everything! @@
@calculusdude16– Wow, he sounds like this sergeant I used to work for. He always assumed I was lying to him, which I never did…till I knew he thought I was anyway, so I just didn’t care what I said to him. He frequently challenged me about medical appointments, especially leading up to my eye surgery. I’d had a morning appointment where the doctor dilated my eyes. “You should be able to come in. That wears off in an hour and a half. I know, My wife’s a nurse.” Uh, no, the doc told me 6-8 hours, and for me it generally runs more like 12. Anything medical, though, this guy was THE authority, because his wife was a bloody nurse. o.O
I was in a pelling B once. I remember two words of it quite clearly. Laboratory being the one that won me the competition spot. I felt so smart, knowing that perfect combination of letters that tripped up everyone else. I remember my friends complimenting my brains and showing appropriate levels of jealousy. I even remember my substitute begging me to let him go instead of me.
Clammy was the other word I specifically remember. It’s the word I crashed and burned on with only three other competitors left. Such a simple word, yes? Well, laboratory seemed simple at the time for everyone else, so I had to think about it. I over analyzed the word, asked for them to use it in a sentence, sound it out and even repeat it.
With three people left between me and a nifty new scooter with trick pegs and rear brakes… I tried to find that hidden letter that could possibly make sense of this word I have never – to my knowledge at the time – encountered. I spelled it C-L-A-M-N-Y, with the suspicious spelling of ‘Calm’ and similar hidden letter words running through my4th grader mind.
The next day in school, my under study, a boy named Daniel Katzikas – if he’s out there, I appologize for the misspell and want you to know that I still hate you – politely told me that I should have let him go in my place and he would have shared the scooter which he would have won. Nobody seemed to take my side in the principals office some twenty minutes later while he sat opposite me holding a tissue to his nose.
Am I still bitter over the crowning moment of shame and humiliation throughout my six years in Webster Elementary School? No, why do you ask?
Haha, no, I remember doing the practice and never the competition. I was actually pretty good at the game, too…
I’m in our school’s Knowledge Bowl. ^^ We never practice. XDD We just kinda wing it at every meet…Sometimes we do awesome, sometimes we’re like…last. But oh well, it’s amazing fun. We always imagine all these other teams studying on the way up to the meet, while we’re in the van watching Peter Pan on Liz’s DVD player, or laughing at Becky making a hula skirt and coconut bra for her pinky finger…
Double post…
I spotted other Knowledge Bowl comments. O_O It seems ours is a whole lot less serious than yours. XD With ours, every school in the district…or area, I haven’t quite figured it out, hosts a meet. If you can’t come, you don’t…there’s no real qualifier or anything. -shrug- BUT this year, if we can raise the money, our team’s going to DC. 8D
We had a shirt a few years back that read:
Top Ten reasons to Join Knowledge Bowl:
1: Free food.
2: Getting out of class.
3: Hanging with friends.
4: Free food.
5: Awesome teachers.
6: Free food.
7: Free food.
8: Free Food!
9: FREE FOOD!
10: FREE FOOD!!
XD I wish I was in HS that year…I loved those shirts.
Yeah, KB is more of a time to get out of class, go on 3 hour van rides to Safford and goof off with your friends the entire time. x3 Makes tons of awesome memories and inside jokes.
In Oklahoma, it’s called academic team. I competed at the high school and university level. The state regulates AT competitions and questions at the high school level, whereas college/university teams have 2 or 3 competing systems to participate in, and can participate in them all if they wish. NAQT and TRASH are the most popular; NAQT is the most serious of the organizations, and the questions require quite a lot of “expert” knowledge; TRASH, on the other hand, is mostly obscure pop/trash culture, and aims at total obscurity and/or unpopularity as the source of questions. It was really rather fun; I made my greatest friends there.
It’s been a couple years, but I was on the high school quiz bowl team. It was lots of fun, but being from idaho, where everything is small except the potatoes, it was underfunded. the twelve of us had fun though, driving for four hours for a half hour of competition was always fun.
my school(and its public) has a quiz team! im the best sophmore on it too! and its technically called academic challenge
Ah High School Bowl…I was on the team for a couple years. I don’t think we ever got past the first round, but it was a blast, because we were supposed to buy our own meals from any fast food joint, and we’d all whine “oh I don’t have enough money!” so we’d scrounge off our teacher. So we’d go, have fun on television, eat for free, and miss an entire day of school, which was rare. It was a big bonus too seeing as we went only four days a wekk, but we’d go for like 8 hours a day :/ …I really need to stop writing my life story on comments.
I’m currently on our work’s General Knowledge team. The first match against another company is in 2 weeks’ time and the expectations are on us because our work has won the local rounds and the reigonal tournament 10 years running.