> As far as the mistakes go...I didn't know about Caxton/Claxton, and I didn't catch upon any > other errors in the questions and answers (noticed the judges were very forgiving on > pronunciation at least twice, with Versailles and Kiliminjaro). So you can lump me with > Shawn in being ignorant :) For the most part, the questions, IMO, were decent for players of > that age. Well, the Caxton/Claxton thing wasn't terribly important for the game, since it was put there as a wrong answer in a multiple choice. [They were going for Gutenburg.] There were other problems, though, with a number of vaguely written questions, and one case in which a kid was counted wrong for identifying the Greek god of the sun as Apollo. [And not only was that question _not_ multiple choice, but it meant a free point to his opponent in a head-to-head round in which they were racing to a mere five.] Then there were the gratuitous changes of format in every round, which ranged from one actually equitable format (in the first round, in which all fifty kids answered the same set of questions) to a truly horrendous one (in the fourth round, which whittled the pack from three to two). The fifth round, a modified spelling bee format, was interesting, though. K. M. Wilcox During the "go out there and say something to prove you're smart" bit at the beginning, who else wanted to see some kid say something like "I'm from Wherever, CA, and I can recite all the dialogue from every episode of 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'."?
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