HANDS ON BUZZERS

• Quiz Bowl is a team competition in which students answer questions around a variety of academic subjects. Things like:

  • Literature! 📚

  • Mathematics! 📏➗✏️

  • Geography! 🌍

  • History! 🗺️

  • Pop Culture! 🎧🎥💻

We will practice building our knowledge daily using things like flashcards and team testing! Then, we will practice answering questions - all to prepare for a meet at the end of the Quarter!

Not sure if it's for you? Take a look at these sample Quiz Bowl Questions - if you can get them right, Quiz Bowl may be the elective for you!

Question 1: In this book, Elizabeth Lavenza is murdered by a creation of her adopted brother Victor. That creation from this book sees his reflection in a pool and realizes he is hideous, sending him into a murderous rage. For 10 points, name this book by Mary Shelley whose title character is the doctor, not the monster. 

Question 2: COMPUTATION: Russell is baking two batches of cookies and needs to get out his chocolate chips. One batch of cookies requires two-thirds of a cup of chocolate chips and the other batch requires three-fourths of a cup. How many total cups of chocolate chips does Russell need to make his cookies? 

Question 3: Crispus Attucks died in a 1770 “massacre” on this city’s King Street. Dozens of men wearing Mohawk costumes left a meeting at this city’s Old South Meeting House held by Samuel Adams and boarded three ships in this city’s harbor. For 10 points, name this city where a famous Tea Party occurred in 1773.