Spring Knowledge Masters Open (KMO) Results

pakman044 · Post by **pakman044** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:12 pm

Thomas Jefferson won the KMO (again) with a score of 1824 (196 correct answers out of a total 200).

I've listed the top 10 below; full results are available of course at http://www.greatauk.com/kmoh.pdf . This year's mean score was 1172.

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                           Score Correct
1. Thomas Jefferson   (VA) 1824  196
2. Montgomery Blair   (MD) 1798  195
3. Lakeside           (WA) 1753  194
4. State College      (PA) 1752  195
5. Clear Lake         (TX) 1751  191
6. St. Thomas Academy (MN) 1747  194
7. Emmaus             (PA) 1715  192
8. Walton             (GA) 1714  192
9. Raleigh Charter    (NC) 1692  195
10 Hanover            (NH) 1686  196

Patrick King

Edit--more fun with formatting

Irreligion in Bangladesh · Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:41 pm

Is anyone else having problems loading the page? I can't get Adobe to work on it.

jrbarry · Post by **jrbarry** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:48 pm

My teams did the KMO for many years, from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. At some point I realized I was MAKING them do it and they did not care for it at all. We have more competitions than we can attend to anyway, so stopping the KMO ended up not being a big deal for us.

I had not thought about it for a few years until I saw this post.

Chris Frankel · Post by **Chris Frankel** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:41 pm

styxman wrote:Is anyone else having problems loading the page? I can't get Adobe to work on it.

I think it's just Adobe Acrobat sucking. I finally dumped it for some random freeware pdf reader a few weeks ago, and I no longer have to wait 30948320948 hours to load one.

quiz4life · Post by **quiz4life** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:14 am

What are the general thoughts on why KMO has dropping particpation?

We love the KMO. We enjoy the whole team working together rather than against each other. I order pizza and drinks we have fun. I enjoy how the team encourages their quiz mates. The format allows some of the not-as-strong-players to answer/concur more often than buzzer formats. There are many positives aspects of "The Great Auk"

Sadly we did not play that well this match we should have easily scored in the 1600's. Overall given the understandable American focus of many of the questions, we are pleased. See you at the Chicago tournaments!
Michael Harvey-coach
Shanghai American School
Shanghai, China

solonqb · Post by **solonqb** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:41 am

Holy crap, you guys are coming there all the way from Shanghai? Which one are you going to?

Irreligion in Bangladesh · Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:39 am

Yeah, I finally rebooted and loaded up with everything off, and got it to work.

quiz4life · Post by **quiz4life** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:15 am

Yes, we are coming in from Shanghai. Some of you may have read the "Newbie team needs help" topic, that would be us. We will be at NAQT and Questions Unlimited. We have done fairly well at the KMO. So we thought we would try this out. Both tournament directors were kind enough to let us play. We are inexperienced and young-but not bad. Having two tournaments in Chicago helped me and the parents persuade the principal. Plus the direct flight, albeit a long one, to Chicago makes things easier. I just hope the jet lag does not kill us.

Michael Harvey-coach
Shanghai American School
Shanghai, China

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:35 pm

Congrats to TJ yet again.

Kannan · Post by **Kannan** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:49 pm

To quote Lil Wayne...

Go TJ, yeah that's my TJ
Go TJ, yeah that's my TJ