Warsaw Teachers Win Quiz Bowl
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
For the fourth year in a row, Harvey Miller, former general manager of WRSW, stepped up to the microphone and delivered 75 questions to Quiz Bowl participants.
Four Warsaw Community High School teachers and their principal took the top honors, answering 59 of the 75 questions correctly.
R. R. Donnelley & Sons sponsored the winning team of Pam Chastain, Dan Kuhn, John Snyder, Jennifer Brumfield and Joe Conlon. The team of teachers won last year, too, sponsored by Reinholt's Town Square Furniture. Educators also took first place in 2000.
The Community Quiz Bowl drew 29 five-member teams, each paying $150 to participate in the Warsaw Community Foundation for Public Education fund-raiser.
In second place was the Grossnickle Eye Center team, with 55 points (they placed third in 2002), and Source One Insurance received the third-place plaque for answering 54 questions correctly. Grossnickle placed third in 2002 and Source One was second in 2001.
In fourth place were the teams for the city of Warsaw, Hand Industries and R.R. Donnelley's second group; Lakeview Middle School, Medtronic Sofamor Danek and Zimmer tied for fifth place; and the Bowen Center and DePuy were sixth.
Three categories offered 25 questions about: events and people of the 20th century; academics - geography, math, literature and science; and fun - sports, music, holidays and advertising.
Here are a few examples: The thickest layer of the Earth is called the: A. core, B. crust, C. lava D. mantle. The answer is D. mantle.
The periodic table lists elements according to: A. atomic number; B. charge; C. mass and D. order of discovery. The answer is A.
The math questions were the story type. Teams also were asked in which decade plastics were invented, which U.S. president threw out the first baseball during a game and which popular deodorant kept one "cool, calm and collected."
The Career Center Gym rang with joyous sounds when questions were answered correctly and filled with moans when answers escaped everyone.
The foundation funds a mini-grant program for classroom projects, provides career education by linking students and local businesses and recognizes the academic excellence of ninth- through 12th-graders who received straight A's throughout the school year.
Other teams were: ABC Industries, Bowen Center, Cardinal Center, Warsaw/Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce, Dekko Heating Technologies, Edward Jones Investments, Explorer Van, Grace College*, Kosciusko Community Hospital, Lake City Bank, Miller's Merry Manor, Mutual Federal Savings Bank, Ramada Plaza Hotel, St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Times-Union, Tri Kappa, WCHS business department*, Warsaw Community Public Library* and the Warsaw Women's Center.
* Denotes sponsored team. [[In-content Ad]]
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For the fourth year in a row, Harvey Miller, former general manager of WRSW, stepped up to the microphone and delivered 75 questions to Quiz Bowl participants.
Four Warsaw Community High School teachers and their principal took the top honors, answering 59 of the 75 questions correctly.
R. R. Donnelley & Sons sponsored the winning team of Pam Chastain, Dan Kuhn, John Snyder, Jennifer Brumfield and Joe Conlon. The team of teachers won last year, too, sponsored by Reinholt's Town Square Furniture. Educators also took first place in 2000.
The Community Quiz Bowl drew 29 five-member teams, each paying $150 to participate in the Warsaw Community Foundation for Public Education fund-raiser.
In second place was the Grossnickle Eye Center team, with 55 points (they placed third in 2002), and Source One Insurance received the third-place plaque for answering 54 questions correctly. Grossnickle placed third in 2002 and Source One was second in 2001.
In fourth place were the teams for the city of Warsaw, Hand Industries and R.R. Donnelley's second group; Lakeview Middle School, Medtronic Sofamor Danek and Zimmer tied for fifth place; and the Bowen Center and DePuy were sixth.
Three categories offered 25 questions about: events and people of the 20th century; academics - geography, math, literature and science; and fun - sports, music, holidays and advertising.
Here are a few examples: The thickest layer of the Earth is called the: A. core, B. crust, C. lava D. mantle. The answer is D. mantle.
The periodic table lists elements according to: A. atomic number; B. charge; C. mass and D. order of discovery. The answer is A.
The math questions were the story type. Teams also were asked in which decade plastics were invented, which U.S. president threw out the first baseball during a game and which popular deodorant kept one "cool, calm and collected."
The Career Center Gym rang with joyous sounds when questions were answered correctly and filled with moans when answers escaped everyone.
The foundation funds a mini-grant program for classroom projects, provides career education by linking students and local businesses and recognizes the academic excellence of ninth- through 12th-graders who received straight A's throughout the school year.
Other teams were: ABC Industries, Bowen Center, Cardinal Center, Warsaw/Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce, Dekko Heating Technologies, Edward Jones Investments, Explorer Van, Grace College*, Kosciusko Community Hospital, Lake City Bank, Miller's Merry Manor, Mutual Federal Savings Bank, Ramada Plaza Hotel, St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Times-Union, Tri Kappa, WCHS business department*, Warsaw Community Public Library* and the Warsaw Women's Center.
* Denotes sponsored team. [[In-content Ad]]