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I like the way I broke it down in the last post, so, let’s go round by round again.
Quick Ten: “Capital of Delaware?” – Dover. Up 50-40 after this round
Toss-Up 1: I knew that question on the abortion part of it; I don’t think Kevin gets it until they tell you the country west of England. Up 130-40.
Pop Quiz 1: The letters are t-h-e. Kevin gets a math question(!) – theorem. Knows the 8th letter of the greek alphabet – theta. Knows a place where there are performances – theatre. HOLY COW HE WENT 3 FOR 3!!!! Good timing too since we didn’t do so well here; score is 190-90.
Toss-Up 2: It’s just not fair sometimes; the toss-up leads into Pacific Northwest geography! That’s a clean sweep…Mayank just keeps turning to Kevin. 260-140 at halftime.
Toss-Up 3: The boy is on a roll! A tennis question….Kevin gets “Wimbledon” to head into the bonus. Knows his hanging-chads too, “2000”. I’m not sure how many more of the answers he knew in this round; I don’t think very much, but, that’s how cool this group is, there’s a broad range of knowledge up there. Game is essentially over at this point, 420-140.
Pop Quiz 2: The letters are v-e-r. Didn’t get ‘verify’. Gave too much of an answer with ‘vertice’…should have been ‘vertex’. Didn’t get ‘verb’. Oh well…just when it seemed like he was on top of this! 470-190
Toss-Up 4: Late on another Somalia question! Glad he finally got one of these right later in the year….And here is the Harrison Ford question we in the audience couldn’t believe the kids didn’t get. And shocked they missed the classical music question. 490-200.
Lightning Round: You can see Kevin trying to hit the buzzer a lot here, but, he only buzzed in once, he knew that Maracaibo was in Venezuela. 560-210 final against a good team; Haslett finished fourth in their division of that Honors College Quiz thingie a month ago. Two episodes left; they are both on next week as the season concludes.
