|
|
2nd UK SCHOOLS QUIZ CHAMPIONSHIPS and
2nd UK SCHOOLS INTELLIGENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
|
 |
|
| |
All UK schools are invited to compete in the 2nd UK Schools Quiz and Intelligence championships. Both championships will take place during the Schools weekend of the 8th Mind Sports Olympiad in Manchester. The event is being hosted by UMIST and accommodation on campus is available for those pupils and parents/teachers who will need it.
The UK Schools Quiz Championships will take place on Saturday July 10th with a team championship to find the best quiz school in the country and an individual championship. The questions will be set by the British Quiz Association.
The UK Schools Intelligence Championships will be held on Sunday July 11th. There will be a team championship for school teams and an individual championship to find the country's most brilliant young genius.
EVERY SCHOOL MAY ENTER THE QUALIFYING STAGE OF THESE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
HOW TO QUALIFY
A qualifying competition can be organized in your own school on Thursday March 25th. No travel is necessary to qualify. 100 schools will qualify for the finals of the team Quiz championships and 100 for the team Intelligence Championship. A school may qualify for the finals of both events. The finals will take place during the Mind Sports Olympiad in Manchester.
500 individual pupils will qualify for the individual finals of the Quiz Championship and 500 for the Intelligence Championship.
A school may enter either or both of the Quiz and Intelligence championships, and within each of these disciplines a school may choose to enter either or both of the team and individual events.
To enter the Quiz event a school should send an e-mail to schoolsquiz@msoworld.com.
To enter the Intelligence event a school should send an e-mail to schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com.
If a school wishes to enter both disciplines it must send an e-mail to both addresses.
The information required in the e-mail is:
- Name of school
- Full postal address of school with postcode
- Telephone number of school
- Name and home telephone number of teacher who will be the MSO contact point
- E-mail address of school
HOW THE QUALIFICATION COMPETITIONS WORK
Each qualification test will last 1 hour. Every school may nominate up to 25 pupils to take part in each test. A pupil may take part in either or both of the disciplines so long as the total number for each test does not exceed 25. The entry fee for each discipline is £50 per school.
Schools that take part in the qualification competitions must provide at least one of its own teachers to act as its invigilator(s).
The questions for each qualification test will be e-mailed to the schools on the day before the tests (i.e. March 24th). All questions will be multiple choice.
Along with the questions the invigilator is sent a form that must be filled in with the name, date of birth and age in years and months of each of the school's candidates. The invigilator supervises the photocopying of the test questions, producing sufficient copies to have one per candidate and one for each invigilator. The invigilator retains possession of all copies until the time of the qualifying test, which should be as near to 11am as possible for the Quiz qualifier and as near to 2:30pm as possible for the Intelligence qualifier. No test may start later than 5pm.
All candidates will be given 1 hour to answer their test paper. At the end of this period all the papers are collected by the independent invigilator. At 6pm on the day of the tests the answers will be posted on our web site together with a "score form". The invigilator marks each of the candidates' test papers, signs the score forms and posts them to our office. The independent invigilator also sends us the details and scores of the top six pupils in each test by e-mail.
SAMPLE QUALIFICATION TEST QUESTIONS
Schools Intelligence Championships:
1. Last, Post, Office, Worker, ___, Line. Which animal could go in the blank?
a) Ant b) Bee c) Cat d) Dog
2. In a tall building, how many floors are there in total from Floor 27 to Floor 72 inclusive?
a) 45 floors b) 46 floors c) 55 floors d) 56 floors
3. You could mix two of these paint colours to obtain the third colour. The remaining unused colour is...?
a) Yellow b) Green c) Blue d) Orange
4. The number FIVE ends in the 5th letter of the alphabet. Which other whole number shares a similar property?
a) EIGHT b) TEN c) FOURTEEN d) TWENTY
5. Which whole number is twice as far away from 17 than it is from 38?
a) 59 b) 29 c) 24 d) -4
Correct answers:
1. b) to complete the word chain: Worker bee, Bee line
2. b) 72 - 27 + 1 = 46
3. d) Yellow + Blue = Green
4. c) because FOURTEEN ends with N, the 14th letter
5. a) 59-17=42 which is twice as much as 59-38=21. Note that the obvious answer of 31 isn't listed.
Schools Quiz Championships:
1. The musical based on ABBA songs was called what?
a) Mamma Mia b) Dancing Queen c) Thank You For The Music
2. What nationality is Grand Prix driver Eddie Irvine?
a) American b) Australian c) Irish
3. In computer terminology, what does the acronym 'DOS' stand for?
a) DOS operating system b) Data Operating System c) Disk Operating System
4. Grampian, Borders and Fife are all regions of which country?
a) Ireland b) Scotland c) Wales
5. How many arms does an octopus have?
a) Eight b) Six c) Four
Correct answers:
1. a) Mamma Mia
2. c) Irish
3. c) Disk Operating System
4. b) Scotland
5. a) Eight
SCHOOL TEAM QUALIFICATION
A school team's score is the total of its four best scoring candidates. The schools with the highest 100 team scores automatically qualify for the finals of the team championship. Any ties will be resolved on the basis of the average age of the four highest scoring candidates from each school - the youngest average age team(s) will qualify. A school that qualifies for the finals may send any four of its pupils to be its team.
INDIVIDUAL QUALIFICATION
The 500 highest scoring candidates automatically qualify for each of the finals of the individual championships. In many cases a qualifier for the individual championship will also be in a qualifying school team but our system ensures that individual candidates have the same opportunity to qualify, irrespective of whether or not their school qualifies for the team event.
NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS AND FINALISTS
A full list of finalists and their scores is now available. In addition all schools that qualify for the finals of the team championship and/or which have a pupil(s) who qualifies for the individual championship will be notified by e-mail and will be sent full details of the finals and how to apply for overnight student accommodation, which is located 2 minutes walk from the venue for the finals (the Renold Building at UMIST).
THE FINALS
The finals will take place at UMIST, located 5 minutes walk from Manchester Piccadilly station.
The Quiz Championship finals will be held on Saturday July 10th from 2pm to 4:30pm.
The Intelligence Championship finals will take place on Sunday July 11th from 2pm to 4:30pm.
The finals will each consist of three 30-minute papers, with breaks of 30 minutes between each paper.
PRIZES AND TITLES
All members of the top three school teams in the Quiz and Intelligence championships will receive MSO Gold, Silver or Bronze medals as appropriate. The winning school in each team championship will receive a trophy and the title: UK Schools Team Quiz Champions or UK Schools Team Intelligence Champions. The top three pupils in the individual championships will receive MSO Gold, Silver and Bronze medals as appropriate. The Gold medal pupils will be awarded the title: UK Schools Quiz Champion or UK Schools Intelligence Champion and will each be given a £1,000 scholarship when starting university or an alternative higher education establishment. Additional sponsored prizes will be awarded.
ENTRY FEES
The entry fee in the qualifying competitions for school teams is £50 (up to 25 pupils) for each championship. The entry fee for individual pupils whose schools do not enter the team championship is £10 per pupil. Qualifying schools will pay an additional £40 entry fee for the finals of the team event and £10 per pupil for the individual finals.
Further information about "Mind Sports for Schools" is available.
WHAT IS THE MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD?
In addition to the schools weekend (July 10th - 11th) pupils are invited to enter the many other championships taking place at the 8th Mind Sports Olympiad, from August 21st - 30th.
The Mind Sports Olympiad offers many opportunities for everyone to have fun and expand their minds. The event is an annual games and mental skills festival where the participants compete for Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, and for other prizes. In every tournament there are medals for the best "juniors" (aged under 19 on August 21st). There are also workshops - the "Brain Power Academy" - to teach learning skills: Mind Mapping, Speed Reading and Memory Skills.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUPILS
Our philosophy at the Mind Sports Olympiad is that "Anyone Can Enter", and that includes children. (Entry fees for juniors in our other tournaments are half those for adults.) We have had players as young as six. In 1999 a six-year-old boy played in a Bridge partnership with his father, in a tournament that included two World Champions. And in 2000 we brought a six-year-old Go prodigy from China - he travelled with his teacher and was strong enough to win £200 in prize money. But beginners are just as welcome as experts and we have sessions to teach games to those who do not know how to play them.
Another of our events which has massive educational potential is the Mental Calculations Championship at 2pm on Saturday 28th August. We expect this to grow into one of the biggest tournaments in the entire Olympiad. No pre-qualification is necessary.
WHAT OTHER GAMES AND SKILLS ARE THERE?
The competitors at the Mind Sports Olympiad play each other at a variety of well known strategy games, such as Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Scrabble, Othello and Go. In addition there are tournaments for a number of more recently invented games, which have achieved worldwide popularity, including Abalone, Continuo, Diplomacy, Lines of Action, Mastermind, Othello and Twixt. There are also tournaments for some of the best strategy games from Asia: Chinese Chess, Go and Shogi (Japanese Chess). All of these games require strategic and analytical skills.
We also hold several mental skills championships, including Creative Thinking, which tests the contestants' speed, flexibility and originality of thought. Speed Reading competitors are tested on an unpublished book to determine their average number of words read per minute and their percentage comprehension. The Mental Calculation championship finds the best at mental arithmetic. Memory Skills includes the ability to remember whole packs of playing cards, as many digits as possible of a long number, passages of text, etc.
For more detailed information please visit our web site, www.msoworld.com.
For general enquiries please e-mail entries@msoworld.com or telephone 01707 659080 (9am-9pm) or 07973 516718.
|
|
