Quiz Team beats St. Ursula

Sorry for the delay; I’ve had trouble finding time to blog. Tuesday afternoon, the St. X Quiz Team played St. Ursula Academy on two levels:

• The Varsity team chose to be team B again, in its usual humility. After maintaining an average four-point lead throughout most of the team questions, the Varsity team pulled ahead to a 32-point lead during the Alphabet Round. By the end of the Lightning Round, the team finished the game 79–29.

• The Junior Varsity team dominated the game, finishing the game 73–34. I answered two questions correctly:

  What British colony passed the Acts of Toleration?

  (Answer)

  What Frenchman, considered to be the father of modern philosophy, asked “Why?” as a child so much that…

  (Answer)

  Unfortunately, I also got this easy question wrong:

  In what state lies the geographic center of the continental United States?

  (Answer)

  I inadvertently thought that the reader asked what state was the geographic center of North America, which is, as I answered, North Dakota.

The GCAL takes a break for the holiday season. Our next game is against Roger Bacon on January 6^th.