Throughout the course, we will have 6 paper quiz bowls. These quiz bowl games will involve teams of students competing to answer questions about two papers covered in class that day.
The format of the paper quiz bowls will be as follows:
Two groups of students will give a brief 20-minute overview of their assigned paper (2 papers in total).
Afterward, all students in the class will be split into teams of 2-4 for a paper quiz bowl.
The top winning teams will receive small prizes.
Paper quiz bowls will be played with a buzzer system between teams of 2-4 players each. A moderator (me) will read questions to the players, who will try to score points for their team by buzzing first and responding with the correct answer.
The paper quiz bowl will consist of up to 16 questions of increasing difficulty: 4 easy questions (2 per paper), 4 medium questions (2 per paper), and 8 hard questions (2 per paper).
Each question will be given a minute. If no team can answer it in a minute, we will move to the next question.
Each team can buzz at any point while the question is being read (i.e., potentially interrupting the moderator). Once a buzzer is sounded, there needs to be an answer within 5 seconds. If the provided answer is wrong, the other team can confer for the remaining time and provide their final answer at the end of a minute.
Conferrals among team members are allowed.
The scoring will be done as follows:
Easy Questions: 2 points.
Medium Questions: 4 points.
Hard Questions: 6 points.