13 November 2006
Kiwi Prof Quizzes Kids
There is great excitement in our school as our two teams prepare for the Oxford Heat of the Kids' Lit Quiz tomorrow, at the White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre, Audlett Drive, Abingdon, 1.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. This is the fourth year that the quiz has been brought over to this country by quizmaster Professor Wayne Mills, Senior Lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand.
There will be 32 teams of four students from Years 7 & 8 who will be battling their wits answering questions about books and literature: 100 questions in 10 rounds, with prizes of books after each round. The winning team will win book tokens and a place in the National Final on 4th December which will take place at The Seven Stories, Newcastle. The team winning the National Final will be invited to travel out to New Zealand to compete with teams from around the world for the World Title.
There will be several well known authors and illustrators present, including Mark Robson, Helena Pielichaty, Joanna Harrison and Stephen Cole. Sponsorship has been given by Serco Aerospace from Benson, Oxford University Press have provided the book prizes.
This will be a great afternoon of lively competition, and it is also a hugely exciting spectator sport. There will be some between-round questions and book token prizes for the grown-ups too! It is always a very entertaining and fun occasion and everyone present marvels at the young students' breadth of knowledge.
I'm one of the co-organisers of the Oxford Heat. The three of us organising it are all volunteers, but we agree that it is such a fantastic event that it deserves wider recognition in the UK. In New Zealand the Final is shown live on television!
Wayne Mills will be interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford Breakfast Show on Tuesday morning and we are hoping that this will help raise the profile of the KLQ.
There will be 32 teams of four students from Years 7 & 8 who will be battling their wits answering questions about books and literature: 100 questions in 10 rounds, with prizes of books after each round. The winning team will win book tokens and a place in the National Final on 4th December which will take place at The Seven Stories, Newcastle. The team winning the National Final will be invited to travel out to New Zealand to compete with teams from around the world for the World Title.
There will be several well known authors and illustrators present, including Mark Robson, Helena Pielichaty, Joanna Harrison and Stephen Cole. Sponsorship has been given by Serco Aerospace from Benson, Oxford University Press have provided the book prizes.
This will be a great afternoon of lively competition, and it is also a hugely exciting spectator sport. There will be some between-round questions and book token prizes for the grown-ups too! It is always a very entertaining and fun occasion and everyone present marvels at the young students' breadth of knowledge.
I'm one of the co-organisers of the Oxford Heat. The three of us organising it are all volunteers, but we agree that it is such a fantastic event that it deserves wider recognition in the UK. In New Zealand the Final is shown live on television!
Wayne Mills will be interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford Breakfast Show on Tuesday morning and we are hoping that this will help raise the profile of the KLQ.
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