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Worst Lightning Rounds
Worst Lightning Rounds
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.
Worst Lightning Rounds
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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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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Yes, that one. I severely chastised Jeff for that.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.
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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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.