Comments on: #498 - Buzz

By: LV

LV — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:06:44 +0000

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! @@

By: trevor

trevor — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:37:52 +0000

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.

By: Buxton

Buxton — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:10:05 +0000

Yeah, I was in one, 4 man teams, we lost every game even one that had only one guy because the rest of his team got sick.

By: LadyLuck1337

LadyLuck1337 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:09:46 +0000

I was on the Reach for the Top team in highschool. I was the only girl on the team and I was the only person with any knowledge of European History. It came in very handy. To this day though I still remember the only question I got wrong. “What is the name of a large, Australian burrowing bird?” I had no clue but it was one of those questions that I had to answer for a bonus so I had to say something. “ummmm… The Giant Australian Burrowing Bird???….” That wasn’t it. It was the burrowing owl. We did win regionals and appeared on T.V. against a team from Toronto. We lost by 10 points.

By: Von Krieger

Von Krieger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:09:11 +0000

I was on the Knowledge Bowl team at our high school for two years. My senior year we went to state, after having taken first and second in our region’s qualifying tournaments.

Our stock answer was “The Dali Lama.”

We only took second because somehow one team’s coach was somehow giving them the answers when she read the questions.

It was rather obvious when they would buzz in to answer after three words, none of them a noun. “In the year 1964…” *BUZZ* and so on.

By: Althalus

Althalus — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:22:04 +0000

I was on my high school quizbowl team. We got second place in the national championships in 2006. Everyone thought we were a private school filled with geniuses. Then they showed up at our school and saw the trucks hawling away asbestos.

By: calculusdude16

calculusdude16 — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:26:59 +0000

My most memorable quiz bowl experience was when the coach of the team we were competing against - he was a stereotypical rabid high school football coach - ended up disputing a question: “And I know what I’m talking about because MY MOTHER IS A JEWELER!”

By: Marion Delgado

Marion Delgado — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:28:19 +0000

My HS, a small and not that good school, won state and came close to winning another time when I was on the team. In Wisconsin.

By: Buckeroo

Buckeroo — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:56:50 +0000

Oh, do I remember Quiz Bowl. I got some odd looks one time for correctly answering a question about Charles Manson with great enthusiasm.

Our teams didn’t really practice, but the first year we had it in my conference, all of the schools were playing it wrong, so though my school had the best record, we didn’t get to go to state. The following year, we did not have the best record. Not as a team, anyway, but I got at least some personal vindication by winning the solo tournament for the conference at the end of the year. Yes, by one point.

The best part of that time was making fake name cards for each other. We were the only team that did this, and it seemed to irritate the teams we beat, so my “Butch” got stolen once. Other name cards had such gems as “Disco Stu” and “Russell the Love Muscle.”

By: Sigil VII

Sigil VII — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:22:02 +0000

Also, I learned that, even though it may work for Guatemala and Mexico, the formula of adding ‘City’ to a country’s name doesn’t always create the name of the state capital. “America City” got me a lot of dirty looks.