Eight 7th graders from Notre Dame’s middle division scored well today in the 2015 Thinking Cap Middle School Quiz Bowl, which is sponsored by the National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC, based in Shawnee, Kansas.
Seventh graders Valerie Nowosielski, Maria Donato, Michael Keoleian, James Chabot, Devarshi Mukherji, Ethan Kocheril, Rachel Rook and Amishi Mahajan participated in quiz event, which is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity with questions that include current events, sports and popular culture.
On Saturday, Notre Dame Prep's Quiz Bowl team A earned the Catholic High School League's Tournament Championship, which was held at Novi Detroit Catholic Central. NAQT organizes the premier middle school, high school and college quiz bowl championships in North America. NAQT was founded in 1996 by former players and coaches from across the country.
Notre Dame Middle School Quiz Bowl results:
Total questions: 100
Total points: 1150
No. of questions answered correctly: 92
Percentage of questions answered correctly: 92
No. of questions answered correctly on first try: 73
About the Middle School Quiz Bowl
At the middle school level, quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for which players attend periodic practices and then represent their school at tournaments. Those tournaments may be based on the school’s athletic conference, school district, county, or state; they may also be open to all comers.
Quiz bowl questions range over the entire spectrum of the middle school curriculum and also include a certain amount of current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Quiz bowl can reinforce classroom lessons and also encourage players to go beyond their assignments to master other areas as well.
What specifically is a quiz bowl?
Quiz bowl is a game in which two teams compete head-to-head to answer questions from all areas of knowledge including history, literature, science, fine arts, current events, sports, and popular culture.
The defining feature of quiz bowl is the use of a “buzzer system” (or, more formally, a “lockout device”) that lets players interrupt the reading of a question when they know the answer. That element adds a dimension of confidence, anticipation, and rapid recall to what is primarily a game about knowing facts. Those “tossup” questions are answered individually, but doing so earns one’s team a chance at a multipart “bonus” question. Bonus questions are worth more points and allow collaboration, but are generally more difficult.
Organized quiz bowl competitions are available in most states and at most grade levels; it is particularly popular at the high school and college level, though middle school, elementary school, and community college events exist as well.
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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.