DC Bowl?

• From: Durham_Devil
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:01:45 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SPR20P.00009RISD.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

I'm throwing out a bone here, and I hope people
get a feeler one way or the other.

At my
house, I've found a copy of 700+ questions on DC trivia.
Now, I know that not all of them are askable to the
general populace, but there are enough (Cabinet history,
Presidential triviata, embassy row, Washington sports, etc.)
that I will try to make a singles tournament out of
it. The trick is, should I bother?

I would
like to know who out there would be interested in
playing in an all-D.C.-related singles tournament that I
would hold in conjunction with some tournament during
the year, or on its own over winter break. The entry
fee would be on par with other singles tournaments
($10 or so, IIRC) and I'd try to find D.C.-related
prizes for everyone (stuff like "Enemy of the State" or
"DC Cab", both of which were filmed in DC, or maybe
some Capitals/United merchandise).

Tournament
questions would be rapid-fire (a lot of one-sentence
stuff), and would definitely be history/trash subset
skewed. I'd try to get as much variety as possible (some
math computations for example). Anyway, if interested,
respond to me at Durham_Devil_at_... and I'll check my
email a week from today when I return to Duke, book in
hand.

Andy Goss