Daily Archives: March 7, 2012

Honors Quiz Bowl Seeking Competitors

Registration for the 4th 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 trivia questions spanning almost every academic subject and cultural topic. Plan II/Engineering Honors won last year’s tournament.

The tournament will take place on Saturday, March 31st in Mezes. All honors program students who wish to participate must register by filling out the information form accessible at the URL below (registration deadline is Friday, March 23rd at 5pm)

http://tinyurl.com/UTQuizBowl

Please email any questions to the LAH Student Council at jamie.hill@utexas.edu or nolan.oldham@utexas.edu

2011 Tournament Results: 1st – Plan II/Engineering Honors, 2nd – Dean’s Scholars
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].

Texas Quidditch

How would you like to see 70 Quidditch teams play right in your back yard?

Last year Texas Quidditch placed 9th overall in New York at the World Cup. We think we can make it #1 if we get the World Cup moved to Dallas (we’re even talking to someone to have it held in the Cotton Bowl). All you have to do is like this page and pass it on!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=619085916#!/pages/Bring-the-Quidditch-World-Cup-to-Dallas/169530873158494