Varying
subjects, paper, and using your brain. What do you know that includes these
three things?
Knowledge Bowl is definitely something that deserves our attention.
The Knowledge Bowl team works hard during both their meets and practices. They
stay after school on Thursdays to practice. Mr. Dobberpuhl and Mr. Wels attend
and help the students during practices. The Knowledge Bowl teams have attended one
meet (January 21st) and placed first and fourth in it. If you assume that they
get to use calculators during these meets, then you are wrong. I asked junior
Nick Jones who told me that they are not allowed any electronics during these
meets. In fact, the only thing that could be possibly allowed are digital
watches. Five regular season meets are planned and post season competitions
include sub-regional, regional, and state meets. In addition, MVL competes in
the Tomahawk Conference Knowledge Bowl Meet in February.
Perhaps you are curious
to know what the meets are like. A typical meet begins with a sixty-question
written round. Five-member teams collaborate on answering these multiple choice
questions. Based on the scores of the written round, the teams are ranked for
the following four oral rounds. Each oral round is made up of forty-five questions read
to a group of three teams, which compete for the right to answer. One point is
given for each correct answer. After each round of forty-five questions, the
teams are ranked, and the next round places the teams with the closest scores
in the same room. Sub-regional, regional, and state meets have five oral rounds
instead of four. So now that you have more insight on Knowledge Bowl, maybe
you’ll become a little more interested in attending a meet or joining them
yourself!
