Junior QuizNet (Tuesday)

Tuesday say yet another close and exciting Junior QuizNet match. Hawken (OH) took the lead with a solo shot: "To tell if a lump of iron is from a meteorite, measure the amount of this element in it. Terrestrial iron contains less than 3% of it, while iron in meteorites always has more than 4% of it. Name this other common ferro-magnetic metal." (Ans. Nickel) Miller (GA) took the lead on a math calculation solo shot. Hawken re-took the lead on another calculation problem. A solo shot on this Geography question put Miller back in the lead: "Which of these countries does not border the Persian Gulf: Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, or Yemen?" (Ans. Yemen) Hawken scored another solo shot on this math question: "There are two rabbits in a field (one male, one female). Each day the number of rabbits doubles. It will take 40 days for the field to be totally covered with rabbits. What day will it be 1/4 filled?" (Ans. 38th) That put Hawken back in the lead yet again. But Miller led once again after this one: "Famous ones in Washington include the National the Corcoran and the Freer. What are we talking about?" (Ans. Art galleries) Miller out-dueled Hawken by a score of 270-265 for their second win. However, it must be noted that Hawken lost two 5-point scores during the game, after they pointed out a couple of scoring errors in which they should not have been awarded points. Their honesty cost them the game, but their good sportsmanship is greatly appreciated!

High School QuizNet ...

Wednesday

On Wednesday, Horace Greeley (NY) sailed to their fourth victory, with a 115-point advantage over second-place Central Bucks East (PA).

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.

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