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- Tue May 08, 2007 3:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acceptable question answer
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8691
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: online practice
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2062
- Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What constutes good quiz bowl?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15005
I respectfully submit the argument that video games are legitimate quiz bowl information not only because they are some of the most important works in the history of the universe (anyone who has played Half-Life 2, Civ 4, or Galaga will certainly agree with me) and some of them deal with the most i...
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Tournament?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3585
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Tournament?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3585
Online Tournament?
Given the hostility toward :chip: I've seen on this site, I almost hesitate to ask, but how do you guys feel about the QuizNet format, and, if it were up to you, how would you run an online Quiz Bowl tournament? Just to kick things off, QuizNet seems to me to place too much emphasis on typing skills...
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Swiss pair 10 rounds of prelims and finish on time
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3130
The benefits to a quiz bowl tournament include: --Fairer, more interesting matches for teams. --Somewhat lessened possibility for blowouts. --Alleviate issues caused by bracketing based on team strength. There are, naturally, some drawbacks: --More questions required to run alternating brackets. --...
- Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl class
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13913
First, I don't see how a quiz bowl class prevents any student from taking advanced classes (AP, IB, etc.). Lee, I think the point is that many schools offer grade point incentives for taking advanced or AP classes. I don't know this from experience, but I believe some schools also have enough advan...
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22162
- Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22162
Why don't you just use your finger rather than your thumb on the handheld then? Well, as I said I preferred to use my paired index and middle finger. That combo feels awkward on the handheld signalling devices. I guess I could have held it with one hand and tapped it with my other hand, but I also ...
- Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Do you like Grammar?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17341
Nonsense. The entire purpose of proscribing a grammar is in the fact that people using grammars that they've made-up (by whatever means) will and, indeed, frequently do have difficulties communicating with others who ostensibly speak the same language that they do; a situation that you erroneously ...
- Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354957
Funny answer
Some of you oldsters may have seen this one on the NAC intro trailer some years back. The question started something along the lines of "Her facelift had a pricetag of $70 million..." I buzzed in at that point and said "Elizabeth Taylor". The correct answer was, of course, "...
- Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Do you like Grammar?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17341
- Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Do you like Grammar?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17341
Grammar?
Native speakers of any language don't automatically learn grammar, and it's really not worth it to spend school time teaching grammar (IMO). Language evolves, from proto-Indo-European to Anglo-Saxon to middle English to modern English to 1337, and I guarantee you that the general populace has rarel...
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Coaches' Corner
- Replies: 90
- Views: 47231
Here, tossups are worth 10 (w/o negs) and PLEASE MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I SPEAK NEITHER LATIN NOR ENGLISH (which bounceback) are worth up to 20 each. If Team A is up by 5, and Team B goes in early and misses, Team A benefits by not getting the tossup and finishing the game because if Team A gets th...
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Coaches' Corner
- Replies: 90
- Views: 47231
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13962
dangerous/sinful
Well, there certainly is a subtext in Christian theology that the pursuit of knowledge is sinful...look at the Garden of Eden story. Eating from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a sin. This mindset has manifested throughout Christian history, notably in the pre-Age of Reason church quas...
- Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Right answers that are counted wrong...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13603
According to the rule as stated (Harmless or inadvertent embellishment of responses will not be penalized, so long as the embellishment does not make the response wrong) the Magellan answer would be counted wrong because it DOES make the response wrong with regards to the question being asked... &qu...
- Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13962
Why Quiz Bowl?
I am a new Quiz Bowl coach and I think Quiz Bowl has some great academic and social benefits for high school kids: Reinforcing knowledge connections and quick recall, inspiring learning about new things, and encouranging socialization. What are some other examples of ways high school students benefi...
- Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22162
tabletop vs. handheld
On the "same muscles to activate" argument... In high school I always activated tabletop buzzers with my paired index and middle fingers rather than my thumb. Thumbing it just seemed awkward to me, and I feel like my fingers have a better reaction time than my thumb, generally. Even in my ...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math...Illinois and elsewhere
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24720
Computational Math vs. Writing
Tegan wrote: Now this I found to be a very convincing argument against including computation. If you include that skill, then why not writing? Because math questions *usually* lend themselves to concrete, easily judged answers, while essays don't. [There's a reason very few math questions ask you t...
- Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournaments in West Texas?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1933
Tournaments in West Texas?
I'm a new teacher trying to start a Quiz Bowl team and looking for tournaments in West Texas. We're in Big Spring, between Midland/Odessa; Sweetwater/Abilene; Lubbock; and San Angelo. There was apparently an Academic Challenge tournament until this year at an Abilene TV station (KTXS) but it has bee...