Re: question

• From: ttumc_webmaster <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:19:47 -0000
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I saw part of Calvin's performance on TV--very impressive! Congrats 
to him.  I think it's probably not too soon to think about attending 
the University of South Florida in a couple years! <G>

To get started in Quiz Bowl, you should visit the Maize Pages for a 
lot of good info: http://www.umich.edu/~uac/mac/maize/index.html

There are occasionally "open" tournaments that accept exhibition 
teams from all quarters.  Typically, however, your sons would 
represent their school or equivalent (for example, in Pinellas 
County, FL, there is a home school coalition called HEAT that 
competes in sports and other competitions versus the neighboring 
public and private schools) in a quiz competition.  Matt Weiner has a 
good page on H.S. tournaments at: http://www.hsquizbowl.org.  There 
are also various competitions for elementary or J.H. teams, but I'm 
not too familiar with them.  I believe they are mostly localized 
events (i.e., county or statewide).  Here are a couple I know of: 
http://www.greatauk.com/KMO.html and 
http://www.newsbowl.com/newsbowl/index.html.

P.S. I didn't know the answer to Calvin's winning question, but I 
probably could have guessed from the place name:
"Winning question: Lop Nur, a marshy depression at the east end of 
the Tarim Basin, is a nuclear test site for which country? 
Answer: China"

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "puritanone" <info_at_p...> wrote:
> I am new to this list.  I was wanting to find out which quiz bowls 
> those on this list might recommend for my 2 sons aged 12 and 10.  
My 
> younger son (Calvin) recently won the National Geographic Bee, and 
we 
> were wanting to find some other academic competitions that might be 
> suitable  for him and his brother (D. Parnell).  Both are home 
> schooled.
> 
> Thank you so much for your assistance and advice in this matter.
> 
> - J. Parnell McCarter
>   Grand Rapids, Michigan
>   www.puritans.net