>>For me, chasing the Michigan Class B
crown won't be the exciting part. I
>>mean,
every year the friendly people at Knowledge Master
choose one
>>noun, and the definition of that
word is the basis for at least three
questions
>>that year. Last year, amusingly at times, it was
"diuretic." The year
before,
>>"plurality."
>Do they still have questions like this one,
>which IIRC, I answered in the 1994 Class C >finals:
"FTP, define and spell 'contingency'"?
I don't
think I've ever had to define anything, but a couple
years ago there was a spate of "rhyming" questions, as
in, "Name the word which rhymes with X and is defined
as Y." Those were pretty bad. I still also dislike
the brute computation questions (like finding the
volume of 1.3 mol gas at STP) at a tournament where
pencil and paper are strictly disallowed. Talk about
annoying, especially since I love math.
-- Nate