SAGES
SAGES (Spring Academic Game for Elementary Students) is a question set for elementary and early middle school tournaments, targeted at a 3rd through 6th grade level.
Born out of a writing effort for the 2015 Elementary Knowledge Bowl hosted by the Show-Me Conference in Missouri, SAGES originally consisted of ~450 pyramidal tossups with no bonuses. (The Knowledge Bowl site featured the questions in 9, twenty-tossup packets per grade level with some overlap between grades.) Each tossup question is roughly 3 lines long. During the spring of 2015, the questions were reformatted into a standard tossup-bonus format, with 10 packets of 20/20 and an extra 1/1 per packet for tiebreakers and replacements.
Distribution:
- 4/4 Language Arts & Literature
- 4/4 Social Studies (History & Civics)
- 4.5/4.5 Science
- 2.5/2.5 Mathematics (includes computation)
- 1.5/1.5 Religion & Mythology
- 1.5/1.5 Fine Arts
- 1/1 Geography
- 0.5/0.5 Current Events
- 0.5/0.5 General Knowledge/Miscellaneous
- 1/1 Pop Culture/Miscellaneous
Writers for the inaugural SAGES set in 2015:
- Head editor: Alex Dzurick
- Writers: David Dennis, Charles Hang, Sam Haynes, Ryan Kennedy, Jared Lockwood, Jack Miller, Luke Schuster, and members of the Washington MS & HS teams
- Jason Loy helped to edit the tournament into tossup-bonus format
Tournaments using the 2015 SAGES set:
- March 17, 2015 - Show-Me Conference Elementary Knowledge Bowl (Jefferson City, MO) - 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade competing separately
- June 1, 2015 - Darien Elementary Academic Challenge (Darien, CT) - 5th grade
- August 17-21, 2015 - Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES 'Quiz Bowl' Summer Camp (Carmel, NY)