Junior QuizNet (Tuesday)

Defending champions Oak Mountain Academy (GA) led at the start of the final period. After correctly matching these Presidents -- Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson -- with these states of which they once served as governor -- New Jersey, New York, Virginia. (Ans. Jefferson -- Virginia, Roosevelt -- New York, Wilson -- New Jersey), Fredonia (NY) trailed Oak Mountain Academy by only 5. Oak Mountain Academy increased their lead again to 20 after a current events question: "Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as Chemical Ali, was executed for crimes against humanity last week. What was his relation to Saddam Hussein?" (Ans. Cousin) Fredonia, looking for their first QuizNet win ever, moved into a tie for the lead after naming the only war to end on the same day that the U.S. draft ended. (Ans. Vietnam War) Fredonia took the lead after this one: "The outfit in the Navy known as the Seals is often described as the toughest group in the U.S. military. What three words are abbreviated as Seals in the name for this group of commandoes? (Ans. Sea, Air, Land). Oak Mountain tied it up again after another current events query: "Toyota's reputation for quality took another hit when the company decided to halt production and sales of several of its top-selling models after a fault emerged that could have potentially fatal consequences. The company had issued an earlier recall over the same issue. What is it?" (Ans. Gas pedals could stick, causing unintended acceleration.) At the final bell, Oak Mountain and Fredonia were tied at 280. The first-ever overtime game in Junior QuizNet history! The second tiebreaker decided the game: "Thanks to a surge in smart phone usage, it's now available away from home, is showing a big profit and is seen as a potential threat to SiriusXM satellite radio. I'm talking about what online music service, named for a character from Greek mythology?" Fredonia knew the answer (Pandora) and won their first QuizNet victory ever in dramatic fashion.

High School QuizNet ...

Wednesday

With a sweep of the ANCIENT ROME category, John Cooper (TX) came to within 10 points of Horace Greeley's (NY) lead. Greeley took a 25-point lead into the following period and, as they so often have done, dominated the field in "Stump the Experts." Their margin of victory over second-place John Cooper was 420-320.

Thursday

Connecting to QuizNet. One computer per team may be connected to the QuizNet chatroom.
Connect your Java-enabled computer to the chatroom by clicking HERE. On the popup screen just type in a Nickname (name of your school) and a Channel Key (password) and click "connect".
Note: Please connect by the above means, as we are no longer providing customer support for mIRC.

Try QuizNet for Free!

For schools that have never played QuizNet (and for prospective competitors) only, we will be conducting free exhibition games: for high school teams Wednesday Jan. 20, 3:30 Eastern time; and for middle grade teams Tuesday Jan. 19, 3:30 Eastern. Join us and be prepared to play. The exhibition game is free, but limited to the first 20 teams to pre-register, which may be done by emailing the following information to QUnlimited@comcast.net: coach name, school name, city & state, date on which you'd like to play (Jan. 19 for middle schools; Jan. 20 for high schools). It is crucial that you and your school's computer specialist resolve any filter/firewall issues that may prevent your team from connecting to our channel, and this should be before the first match.

Register for our Winter 2010 QuizNet tournament.