Scholastic Bowl

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Overview

    Scholastic Bowl is like something that you would see on a TV game show. Trivia questions are asked of two teams and they race to  be the first to answer them. The teams have to answer different categories of questions. There are five people on a team, and one of them is the captain. The captain answers the bonus questions (more on that later). People who are not currently playing sit out until a time out is called and they are substituted into the game. The coaches this year are Ms. Foreman  and Mrs. Grandt.

Here is a schedule of meets:

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Rules

    Scholastic Bowl is a very simple sport, but the rules seem complicated when you try to explain them. Each school has a team of five people, the other people on the team sit on the side lines until they are substituted in. One of the players is the captain. The captain sits in the middle and answers the bonus questions. Anyone can answer the toss-ups. To answer the questions, you get these nifty little buzzers and you can push the red button to "buzz in".

Here are the main rules:

• No talking during and between questions except for bonuses.

• When you "buzz in", you have to wait for the moderator to call on you.

  • Violation of this rule results in half of the points deducted if the answer is correct.

• Once a team's score reaches over three hundred, the team has won the game.

• Toss-ups are worth 10 points and the contestants are given 15 seconds to answer, unless it is math, in which 30 seconds are given.

• The bonuses are worth 20 points total with multiple parts, and the teams are given 30 seconds to answer.

• The captain answers this question and the team is allowed to converse to answer these.

• After the team gets a toss-up correct they are allowed to attempt to answer the bonus question before the other team.

For more specific rules, here is the official list from the NAQT (National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC) website: http://www.naqt.com/rules.html

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Coaches

    The two coaches this year are Ms. Foreman and Mrs. Grandt. Ms. Foreman has been the coach for awhile. Two years ago Mrs. Dooms, a 6th grade Literature, Language Arts, and Standard Math teacher was a coach. Last year Mrs. Kershner was a coach, she taught Pre-Algebra. This year Mrs. Grandt  will be a coach. She teaches 6th grade Social Studies and Science. And the returning veteran, Ms. Foreman, who has stayed on the team for seven years, so she knows what she is doing. She teaches Math, Science, and Social Studies to 6th graders. Here are some links to their homepages:

Ms. Foreman || Mrs. Grandt

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Requirements

There are not very many requirements so if you want to join nothing is stopping you. You will learn many random facts that you will never use in real life but will enrich your brain. Any of the random facts you know can be useless for your regular life but will be helpful in this sport. Here are the requirements.

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