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Purdue students prepare to
compete in College Bowl
By Dave Stephens
Staff
Writer
"Come with your A game or
don't come at all."
That's the message Jeff Klemens,
a senior in the School of Agriculture, wants his competitors to hear
before they compete this weekend.
"Tell them to come with the
good stuff," said Klemens jokingly, "Or don't come at all."
But Klemens isn't competing
in football, basketball or soccer. He's competing in College Bowl, a
national question-and-answer game that will send a team from Purdue
to compete with other universities from across the country.
"It's kind of set up like
Jeopardy but with teams of four people," said Tara Brink, a junior in
the School of Health Sciences. "The questions can be about anything
— history, science, popular culture; it's pretty miscellaneous."
Klemens, who is part of a
team called C Squared, has helped his team get ready for competition
by answering questions on the College Bowl Web site and by playing Trivial
Pursuit.
"We really haven't prepared
that much," said Klemens, "I just saw a flier in front of the Union
and thought that it would be fun."
Klemens, who participated
in a similar program called High Q in high school, isn't putting a lot
of emphasis on winning this weekend.
"We have a decent chance
of winning. We have a good team with some really smart people. I hope
we can win a couple of rounds, and if we go all the way, it'd be really
cool," Klemens said.
Each game is played by two
teams and is separated into two halves. Teams score points by asking
toss-up questions, which are worth 10 points, and bonus questions, worth
20 to 30 points. To qualify for a bonus question, a team must buzz in
and answer a toss-up question. The team with the most points at the
end of the game gets to move to the next round. Final round winners
will have the opportunity to go to a regional competition in Valparaiso.
People are encouraged to
come out and cheer on teams as they compete at 9 a.m. this Saturday.
"Last year a lot of people
showed up to cheer on their friends or for the different organizations
that formed teams," said Brink.
Purdue Student Union Board,
which sponsors the competition, will provide the entry fee to Regionals
for the winners and University Bookstore will provide T-shirts for the
winners.
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