Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
basically, an activity in which you use a buzzer system like the one above to answer academic/trivia questions.
So, who has done it?
have you ever participated in a quiz team?
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basically, an activity in which you use a buzzer system like the one above to answer academic/trivia questions.
So, who has done it?
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Never participated in one, so I coulnt tell.
jeps
Arcadefire
ive played trivia games, but never on a team.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Yes, a mathematics one. My team lost because the coach felt that I had to be rotated off to give other team members a chance.
azzaman333
meh
I prefer real sports.
ShannonCT
Deity
I did college-bowl/quiz-bowl my last two years of high school and my first year of university. During my senior year of high school, I was captain of my school team and was on the all-county team.
Some of the grad students on my university team were ridiculously knowledgable.
Some of the grad students on my university team were ridiculously knowledgable.
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
do you remember what format the activities were? (CBI, NAQT, ACF, etc.)
azzaman333 said:
nobody is forcing anyone to choose
brennan
Argumentative Brit
Buzzer system?
I do the odd pub quiz with some friends.
I do the odd pub quiz with some friends.
I am A Team co-captain of a very highly ranked high school quiz bowl team. Right now we're getting ready for the Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness at GMU from the 14th to the 16th. For learning, the random article idea is not really a good one. Just get old question sets from NAQT or PACE and practice with those, because there is a "canon" that question writers generally draw from. Some tournaments do use the random article on Wiki to get question ideas, but that's ********.
I was an alternate for my high school team my senior year. I wasn't able to make the full time commitment, so I was brought in for a few important events a year, and my job was to answer the religion and sports questions (since our team was almost all atheist, and couldn't care less about sports). We won our conference, and I didn't go to the district competition, because of another commitment.
Looking back, I'm not really sure how it was legal for me to participate.
Looking back, I'm not really sure how it was legal for me to participate.
I was on a church quiz team when I was in junior high. Didn't have the ones you press with a finger, though. The seats had the trigger device sitting on them and if we stood up, it buzzed. Frankly I would have preferred pressing a button with a trigger.
I was going to say our A team (I'm on the B team - 1st alternative for A) would be the highest on these boards, but it looks like someone from TJ is here.
We're 25th in the nation.
ShannonCT
Deity
At university, it was "College Bowl".
In high school, I don't know what the format was called. Each match took place between half the teams in the county (so maybe 6 teams in a room), and consisted of 3 rounds of 20 questions each. The team that won the county just got a trophy and bragging rights. The administrators of the competition took the best players from the county and sent them to compete as a team in the state competition. This was 14-15 years ago, in Florida, so I don't know if Florida is on the same format now.
We're gonna beat you in football on Saturday.I was going to say our A team (I'm on the B team - 1st alternative for A) would be the highest on these boards, but it looks like someone from TJ is here.
holy king
Deity
you mean like on tv? 
Aramazd
Deity
I did Science Bowl in High School.
GinandTonic
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Nothing like a tough pub quiz to get the ego in check.
Chris85
Emperor
I did Quiz Bowl in my last 2 years of high school. We usually finished somewhere in the middle of the pack in the rankings.
North King
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Yes. We're far enough out in the middle of nowhere that our chances of going to a national tournament are essentially nil (we simply don't have the money). We're a pretty decent team, though, all in all.
