Re: Trivial Pursuit and Quizbowl

gmath51582 <*Gmath02s_at_gmath51582.yahoo.invalid*> · Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:42:24 -0000

As someone a kinda familiar with this situation I feel I must stick 
my two cents in also.  I personally see nothing wrong with the way 
that Mizzous new leadership wants to use the TP cards.  They are only 
going to be used for the first couple of practices to ease the 
unexperianced players into the format without hitting them with the 
diffculty of collegiate quiz bowl questions at the same time.  As 
someone just starting a quiz bowl team I know the difficulty in 
attracting new players and it sounds like a great idea to keep from 
scaring them away.
  ~Greg Matheny
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jason Mueller" <jcmpn7_at_m...> wrote:
> Is using Trivial Pursuit questions for quizbowl practices instead 
of 
> packets a good idea, because that's what the new leadership at 
Mizzou 
> wants to start out with, as they're still mad at me for starting 
last 
> year off with Moon Pie questions.
> 
> I oppose using Trivia Pursuit questions instead of packets for the 
> following reasons:
> 
> 1.  The canons of TP knowledge and QB knowledge do not have 
complete 
> overlap.  If you want to succeed at QB, study QB questions.
> 
> 2.  TP questions are poor preparation for tossups, as TP questions 
> are not pyrimidal.
> 
> 3.  Difficulty of TP questions are hit-and-miss, as some are 
> ridiculuosly easy and some are incredibly obscure.
> 
> Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
> 
> Jason Mueller