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Do you know the name of the man who invented the World Wide Web?
Who was the first person in space - Alan Shepherd or John Glenn?
What business in Warsaw uses an instrument called a diopter?
(The answers are, in order, Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Shepherd and Grossnickle Eye Center.)
Chances are, most of the teams at Tuesday's Quiz Bowl, to benefit the Warsaw Education Foundation, knew the answers to these questions and more.
Thirty-one teams, from area businesses, organizations and schools gathered Tuesday in the Career Center gym at Warsaw Community High School to raise more than a total of $6,000 for the WEF. It was the sixth annual Quiz Bowl.
This year's winner was the team from Source One Insurance: Dave Baumgartner, Dan Copeland, Jim Harvuot, Carla Messmore and Diane Wulliman. Second place went to the "Boneheads": Dean Jansen, Toby Buck, Jean Northenor, Dane Miller and Steve Hollar. In third place was the team from Morning Optimists:
The WEF is a nonprofit organization that gives grants to schools and educators. The grants are intended to help fill the gap between state funding and monies necessary to finance cutting-edge or academically challenging programs.
WEF also sponsors such programs as Partners in Education, academic excellence recognition and EdCom.
