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Quiz bowl

02/28/04 | by [mail] | Categories: family/personal

This morning Sara and I served as judge/reader at the Adrian hosted 6th grade Quiz Bowl Tournament. I read science questions in one of the rooms and Sara was a judge in another, settling disputes about answers. One question that was debated a bit in both rooms was in the category of Astronomy. The answer was on the page as "Polaris," but contestants in both rooms answered "the North Star." I thought it sounded good, but the judges ruled it incorrect. What do you think? Congratulations to Adrian, the first place team. Archie came in second. It was a fun morning.

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4 comments

Going from past quiz bowl experiences, if they meant for North Star to be an acceptable answer, they would have put it on the page.


Cole [Visitor]• 02/28/04 @ 22:50

Ok, here are some others. A math answer was 50% and someone said ‘half.’ Right or wrong? Another math answer was ‘90 degree angle,’ and someone said, ‘right angle.’ Right or wrong?


Danny [Visitor] • http://danny.brendoman.com• 02/29/04 @ 19:14

Those should both be correct, just because they are so similar.
Polaris and North Star and normally interchanged ya know.


Cole [Visitor]• 03/01/04 @ 16:57

I think a good dose of reason an dcommon sense needs to go into those. Like the entrance of synonyms into the competition.


Henry [Visitor] • http://honzo.brendoman.com• 03/01/04 @ 21:37


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