Students to compete in trivia contest
Quiz Bowl winners to advance to regional tournament in Wichita
Teams will test their trivia knowledge in the Quiz Bowl on Friday in the Kansas Union at 9 a.m.
By Jeff Deters
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Chad Davis and his five-member team, Sects Sects Sects, will test their trivia knowledge when they compete in the College Bowl on Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The College Bowl is a nationwide trivia tournament in which each participating university holds a tournament and the top team from each university advances to regional competition. If the team competes well in regionals, it could then advance to the nationwide final round.
Teams wanting to compete in Saturday’s event can register for $10 at the Student Union Activities Box Office on the fourth level of the Kansas Union until 5 p.m. Friday. At the event, participants will get free shirts, pizza and other items. In addition, members of the winning team will receive medals and an all-expense-paid trip to the regional competition on Feb. 22-23 at Wichita State University.
Rob Schabel, Kansas City, Mo., senior and SUA games coordinator, said there was room for 16 teams in the round-robin tournament and each team must have four members, though a fifth member could play as an alternate.
Davis, Overland Park junior, and his team won the College Bowl at the University two years in a row. The team competed in regionals last year at the University of Missouri and competed the previous year at Kansas State. Davis said his team didn’t practice for the event. He said the biggest advantage was having experience from participating the past two years. He also said the questions at the College Bowl could vary in difficulty.
“It can go from one question, which is very simple to the next question being about something that I’ve never even heard of,” he said.
Davis said he wasn’t expecting his team to win the tournament this weekend because each year the competition had proven to be equally tough.
Phillip Wrigley, Lawrence senior, has competed on Davis’ team since 2005. He said that while the team enjoyed winning and advancing to regionals, the members weren’t overly concerned with their performance at regionals.
“We usually end up about midrange in the end, because the other schools send their inhuman answer machines who defeat us pretty easily,” Wrigley said.
Wrigley added that even if students were not serious about winning the tournament, they could still have fun and maybe learn something as well.
“It really is just a fun game,” he said. “Go spend the day with your friends being as nerdy as you can be.”
Edited by Rachel Bock
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