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Worst Lightning Rounds

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MissCae
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What are the worst lightning rounds everyone has heard during a quiz bowl match? Before I was on the team, Savannah got a bones of the head lightning round at nationals that is still talked about. I can't remember any really bad ones, only the times when the other team had the insanely easy one and we had the insanely hard one.

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Well... how about Literary Pairs for a title... and then have the questions be: given a male title, give the female counterpart... #1 King? --- Queen... are you kidding me?--- 2003 State JV Semifinal. Anyway another I'll never forget is a holiday/dates round at Liberty beginning with New Years and going in order through Christmas... we lost to Truman of all teams... that was a bad day.

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DavidH wrote: Anyway another I'll never forget is a holiday/dates round at Liberty beginning with New Years and going in order through Christmas... we lost to Truman of all teams... that was a bad day.
Yes, that one. I severely chastised Jeff for that.

As for me, I can't recall any we had, except that stupid choice we made at Savannah (or was it Lee's Scummit North), where we picked 9/11 songs instead of third parties. Nice idea, Howie.

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Once again, that's not happening this year. Do you remember if you took math terms (given a formula, name what it finds) or short stories (name the author)?

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We took short stories I think. Anyway we didn't have Kim and Will didn't know lit as well as he does now so it didn't work out very well.

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Post by MoundCityBMW...T »

We chose Home Ec at Platte County last year. We were playing Savannah and we were winning at the half but after our 1/10 performance on the lightning round we ended up getting smoked 550 to 190.

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