Quiz Bowl
Quiz Bowl is a trivia tournament held every year at CTY Lancaster. It is essentially the same thing as the College Bowl, a rather common high school competitive event which goes by various names depending on locality. This is a place to show your die hard nerdiness and trivia skillz. It is also known as the Quizbizzle Tournamizzle.
How it works
Quiz Bowl is a tournament involving teams of 4-7. Two teams compete at a time with only 4 team members in the game at any one moment. An RA reads questions, and one member of the team may buzz in to answer. Teams are not allowed to discuss the answer and once a team has answered, whether right or wrong, it may not buzz in again. Buzzing is usually either clapping or slapping something. Questions range on every topic in science, math, history, religion, grammar, technology etc. They are taken from past College Bowl Games. Quiz Bowl usually lasts three days during activity periods and the winner goes on to face the RAs and TAs (in 07.1, RAs and TAs had separate teams) at either Mandatory Fun or Quad Time.
Why Go?
Quiz Bowl is a great place to be proud of your nerdery if competing, or to watch in amazement at the nerdery of others. Many people enjoy watching friends or listening to question and silently answering them for their own merit. Usually, Adam Roush proctors a few of the games and will often discuss his knowledge of random things with the audience. It is oodles of fun.
Things we like | |
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Activities and Games | The Game · Silent Football · Acting Improv · Agreedball · Art of War · Basketball · Blammo · Four Square · Kill Murray/Save Murray · Malkavian Poking Game · Slackjaw · Pokey · The Really Game · Risk · Ultimate Frisbee · Varsity Catch · Wanna buy a duck? · SNAKES!!! · Quiz Bowl · Mandatory Fun |
Card Games | 1000 Blank White Cards · Egyptian Ratscrew · FLAAR · Illuminati · Kemps · Mao · Scum, Presidents, Speed Capitalism, or Chinese Poker · Scum: The Masquerade · Set · Scroggle |
Movies | Monty Python · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · The Princess Bride · Alice in Wonderland · Dark Side of Oz · Starcrash · Xanadu |
Books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Catch-22 · Ender's Game · Harry Potter |
Other | 42 · Boobtag · Couching · FNORD · Grass orgy · Phone-flipping · Rina · Three |