Quiz #7
The Second Quiz of the Day in Dr. Knapp's Room.
Michigan vs. Kentucky vs. Indiana

This quiz can easily be split up into three segments.

Segment one—Kentucky Domination.
Kentucky has a marvelous team that occassionally decides they will answer several questions in a row and then does so.  It reminded me a little of "The Wave" done at Football games.  Chair 3, chair 1, chair 3, chair 5, chair 1, chair 2, Chair 1, and Chair 4 were on a team wide mission for the perfect quiz, when Indiana called a time out to distract them from such a mission.  At this time, Coach Massengale told her team that perfection was not required and if they slowed down, the two other teams would have a chance to do something.  After the first timeout, we moved into the second segment of this quiz.

Score after 8 questions, 0-160-0 (pretty bland)

Segment Two—"Even" Quizzing
Do not let the word "even" deceive you.  Kentucky was still far and away the best team, but they slowed down enough to allow Michigan to finally get up first.  They were so excited that the quizzer almost forgot to answer, but he did at about nine and a half seconds and, as drawn up by his coach in the timeout, it was correct, and they sailed away to a 20-point (and seemingly unsurmountable) lead against Indiana.  This lead was all the more impressive, when two questions later, chair 3 got another 20-point question and they had 40 points.  (Nevermind the fact that Kentucky chair 1 got question #10 in between).  Kentucky #1 decided to finish out her awesome quiz by getting questions 12 and 13, quizzing out without blemish and just looking overall like a fantastic quizzer.  After chairs 5 and 3 chipped in with a couple correct, the domination had reached its zenith and after a timeout, Coach Massengale, learning that slower jumping was not enough to secure a solid competition for the middle win by the other two teams, decided to eliminate jumping as a strategy and called it off altogether.  After the second timeout, we moved into the third segment of this quiz.

Score after 15 questions, 40-260-0 (not quite as bland)

Segment Three—Kentucky learning to hold down pads that weren't going to jump on their own.
Question 16, attempt 1-An error by both teams, so Kentucky reluctantly answers the free-be.
Question 16, attempt 2-An error by both teams, so Kentucky reluctantly answers the free-be.
Question 16, attempt 3-Indiana is finally on the board (well, really, they just made up for their two errors, so they were back at 0, but that put them in solid contention for the middle win, where Michigan was currently sitting with 20 points).
Question 17, attempt 1-An error by both teams, so Kentucky reluctantly answers the free-be.
(Anyone else noticing a pattern?  I think Indiana noticed that Kentucky was no longer trying at this point and actually slowed down enough to no longer try to beat Kentucky up.  It was really a watershed moment with faces in awe at this point).

This realization allowed Indiana to get three questions at a slower pace and, amazingly, answer all three questions correctly.  This gave them a commanding 50-10 lead over Michigan with one question to go, so they decided to sit down.  Michigan, realizing that their dreams of a win in this quiz were over, got question #20, took their 30 points, and prayed for brighter days.


Score after 20 questions, 30-290-50 (mercifully over)