scholars (academic) bowl

[pigtails]

ok, so in our area scholar's bowl quads start next week and i'm trying to cram as many random facts in my head as i can. does anyone know a good way to remember all the constitutional amendments? or presidents and basically all government stuff in general. Also, i was wondering if anyone else in the KC area is on a team going to quads so i could keep an eye out for em.

[Mike_V]

Take AP Government. It's quite sad I know what the "Necessary and Proper" clause is.

[caitc]

haha, last year in quiz bowl I wasn't consistent enough to be the player for a certain subject each match, so I was in most of the time. My famous answers included, epithelial tissue, "Shake Your Bootie," and KC and the Sunshine Band. And maybe the ninth amendment.

[Seth]

Oooh! Oooh! I wrote a little thingy to help me remember these... sadly though, I have no clue where it is. Let's see if I can remember a couple...

13 = abolition of slavery = unlucky for slaveowners
17 = congressional pay = twisted congressmen all love to go to NC-17 movies

Hmmm... I shall have to look for my sheet!

[BoBayles]

Not related to any of the original questions, but for the math calculations, I've found that memorizing (so you don't have to go through it in your head/ on paper) various divisions of 360 is helpful on quite a few questions (we invariably have "convert to radians" at some point in a match)...
1*360, 2*180, 3*120, 4*90, 5*72, 6*60, 8*45, 9*40, 10*36, 12*30, 15*24, 18*20... Quite a few... now you know why the ancients decided that there'd be 360 degrees in a circle... it divides into a bunch of numbers evenly. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_194a.html
If I think of any of the other stuff I have written down (I lost my paper, damnit...), I'll post that.

[Polarris Delsan]

hehe, we made alot of those mneumonics in Gov class.
8 is a twisted 0, it was cruely or unusually punished.
<FALSE STATEMENT>both 18 and 21 changed the voting reqs, and the voting ages were 21, then 18.</FALSE STATEMENT>
22 is for two terms for presidents. (two 2s, get it?)

I dun remember the others

This post has been edited by Polarris Delsan on Feb 11 2003, 09:54 PM

[BoBayles]

18 and 21 are alcohol amendments, not voting age, for the record. I don't think voting is intoxicating... well, maybe to some people. I remember them in order, but I don't have in clever rhymes or mnemonics or nmemonics, or however that's spelled.

[Polarris Delsan]

Well crap then. I guess they didn't help me remember them

[pigtails]

i think i am not made for memorizing things. i made presidents flashcards, and by the time i was done going through the set a few times i had succeeded in learning 3 or 4 and unlearning everything i had down before that. it was sad, i missed lincoln and kennedy AND clinton. (dont' ask how, i don't have the slightest idea). some day we'll have to develop the ability to learn through osmosis so i can just fall asleep on the history book and wake up smarter

[Polarris Delsan]

lol, seriously.
When a president question comes along, do what I do. Put down your buzzer.

[BoBayles]

For some reason what I make a point to study for academic/ quiz/ scholar bowl never stays with me, but what I read/ study for school or for my own curiosity always comes to my mind at the right moment in a meet. Other random trivia drives me nuts sometimes, when I know I know the answer, but can't spit it out... I couldn't think of who "wrote" the Hardy Boys mysteries the other day, after my grandmother forcibly made me read those for like 7 years.
We won our meet last night; I was 2nd highest scorer! Our first guy is GOOD. He knows everything. And #3 is also a former Scholar, who does well, too.

[Seth]

Heh I saw Frank Kelso at like two different scholars' bowl tourneys! I guess we're in the same area...

[Polarris Delsan]

hehe, I'm always second on our team. That doesn't mean, however, that I answer very many questions. Our team is mostly led by our genious senior, who also happens to be a 2001 MSA Alum.

[Katy McG]

Any one going to the Marshall Academic team meet march 8th? thats my school! but i won't get to be there im going to a debate thing, not sure what it is though i think districts or something...if your there tell a marshallite to let me know!

[pigtails]

today our team got interviewed for the school broadcast (Patriot Vision...yeah. that original.) we were excited, as this meant that someone in the school realized we had a team. For the interview Hunter answered the question "how did you get into/ try out for scholars bowl?" with a long detailed answer that involved hot dog eating, the 100 situps in 100 seconds test, a couple laps around the building and a fastest finger competition, among other bizarre things. the reporter actually believed him. I begin now to understand why a) Hunter's interviews never make it onto the program the reporters generally shun us and c) things are always more interesting when Hunter is around.