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...other contestants on Monday—whom Hicks said were “overly aggressive” and “extremely annoying”—were a high school teacher who teaches Quiz Bowl in the summer and a translator for the State Department...
...October. It will be drizzling and disgusting later today, but for now it’s still crisp and cool. For someone who is usually asleep for another six hours, Cambridge before dawn is kind of exciting. For the Army MSIIIs, or juniors, who have to fill out a quiz on military tactics for homework, it is routine. The van ride to MIT, where ROTC classes for all three services take place, is a chance to hastily fill in their answers. “ROTC homework is basically an academic bottom feeder,” one cadet explains...
That first year of college, I constantly quiz people on where they went to high school, what it was like and what they thought of it. I hoard anecdotes about single-sex boarding schools, Manhattan prep schools, magnet schools, even the occasional unsung public school. No one’s even heard of Waldorf Schools...
Having out-muscled Harvard’s other Quiz Kids, Boulerice and Fayanju were ready to rumble. But before they could begin, Boulerice paused to ask Fayanju if he knew where the Trevi Fountain was. “Rome,” Fayanju casually answered. Now it was personal...
Nevertheless, Boulerice proved no match for the almighty Fayanju, who easily won, 2-0. Learning to accept defeat may be hard for Harvard’s quiz kids, but at least they have their prize earnings to comfort them. “I used some of it,” Boulerice says, “to go see the Trevi Fountain...