Quiz Bowl Questions

Who lost the first match, and was bumped into the loser's bracket?

Who was the only freshman playing on any team?

Who was the captain of the team, and was told, "Dude, you're a monster!"

Where did you get YOUR coat?

What do the team coaches talk about?

Who's nickname, when they don't know his name, is "Mr. Google?"

Can you imagine solving these kinds of math problems in ten seconds?

What happens when everybody else leaves to catch their bus?

Who was the team's highest scorer this year?

Who won seven matches in a row in an amazing come back to win the Ohio Valley Academic Quiz Bowl Competition?

Who are the only siblings to ever play together in tournament competition?

Favorite odd question of the day: 

Described as an "explosion in a shingle factory," who painted "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. II"? (Duchamp)

Favorite Tanner question of the day (he just wrote about this last week):

Which star constellation contains two of the ten brightest stars in the sky, depicting a mythical hunter? (Orion)

Favorite "newly learned" fact of the day: Lexington, Kentucky was named after Lexington, Massachusetts, and formed the day the revolutionary war began. (The question asked for the date.)

Favorite "how did you know that" question:

What is the name of the piece recognizable for its frantic pace with nearly uninterrupted runs of chromatic sixteenth notes detailing the activities of insects? (Flight of the Bumblebee)

Favorite "where did she get that" moment:

Coherently synthesized by Aristotle but now an obsolete body of thought on the ordinary formation of living organisms from nonliving things, is called what? (Spontaneous generation)

Spontaneous generation, decisively dispelled during the 19th century by the experiments of Louis Pasteur, was replaced by the idea of life from life, which is called what? Spontaneous combustion!

 (No, sweetheart, it's biogenesis.)