Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Quiz Bowl Terms!?

I found. A list. Of quiz bowl terms. If you are in quiz bowl and are reading this, I would urge you to assimilate these terms into your ever day q.b. vernacular.

Cadbury's Creme Egg: a good, well-crafted question.

Clubbing baby seals: Playing teams far below your level, e.g. Berkeley going up against a sophomore high school team.

Cult of Speed: belief that moderators, esp. in timed tournaments, should read as fast as possible and that the more questions read in a round, the better. Also, see Samantha M.

Dark Side: the evil aspect of the Force; knowledge acquired solely through studying for quiz bowl

Go, go Gadget: a phrase uttered to conjure up helpful spirits to answer a question

Gogol, Nikolay Vasilyevich: A Russian playwright and author whose full name was required at the 2001 Riverside tournament; overzealous underlining by packet writers

Gunfighter reflexes: quality or skill demonstrable by being the first to hit the buzzer when an easy clue reveals the answer to everyone at once. A person with gunfighter reflexes is a gunfighter and a question where everyone slaps their buzzers is a gunfight.

Knee-Jerk: someone who pays no attention to the question but only buzzes because of a single word or phrase, e.g. saying Erasmus when hearing the word "folly"

Ride the Pony: a strategy for achieving some points on a bonus where the team has no idea on the actual components, but has a general idea. Problems emerge when: 1)the answer is correct, forcing the team to come up with another answer, and 2) none of the answers are the chosen "pony," causing extreme consternation.

Using the Force: correctly answering a question through apparent pure luck, blind instinct, or supernatural intuition without any real knowledge.

And for the record, I was trying to find a witty quote to put on our teams' shirts. All suggestions appreciated.

4 comments:

Samantha said...

I do love the cult of speed. I'm a member. And I happen to be a high priest...

Bianka Rose said...

Do you guys have jackets or witty T-shirts, Samantha?
It's AWESOME, Michelle.

Samantha said...

We have a new back of t-shirt slogan.
It's fantastic.
Also...word verification:nacks

Samantha said...

Knowledge is power
power corrupts
study hard
be evil