Honors Quiz Bowl Seeking Competitors
Registration for the 3rd annual Honors Quiz Bowl has opened and the most trivia-savvy honors program students are invited to participate! This is an excellent opportunity to compete against some of UT’s best and brightest students and to prove once and for all which honors program is the smartest! The Honors Quiz Bowl consists of three-person teams from each honors program competing against each other to answer professionally-written questions spanning almost every academic subject and cultural topic. Plan II (team “Plan 2 Destroy”) won last year’s tournament and will be attempting to defend its title.
The tournament will take place on Saturday, April 2nd from 2-3:30pm in the Student Activity Center. All honors program students who wish to participate must register by filling out the information form accessible at the URL below (registration deadline is this Friday, March 25th at 5pm)
2010 Tournament Results: 1st – Plan II, 2nd – LAH, 3rd (tie) – Dean’s Scholars, Business Honors
2009 Tournament Results: 1st – Business Honors, 2nd – Dean’s Scholars, 3rd (tie) LAH, Plan II
The following organizations have been invited to participate this year:
Liberal Arts Honors, Plan II, Business Honors, Engineering Honors, Dean Scholars, Health Science Honors, Senior Fellows, Humanities Honors, Turing Scholars, Junior Fellows and several departmental honors programs.
This year’s questions will include (but are not limited to) the following subjects: History, Current Events, Sports, Law, Geography, Business, Biology, Philosophy, Engineering, Astronomy, Math, Economics, Pop Culture, English Literature, World Literature, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Mythology, Music, and Art. [It is not expected for any one team to be proficient in every topic].
Please email any questions to ut.lahsc@gmail.com
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Liberal Arts Honors Student Council
The University of Texas at Austin