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Post edited 10:12 pm - April 17, 2009 by D.JThomas
Post edited 10:13 pm - April 17, 2009 by D.JThomas

        Having quizzed for 10 years I have many memories from all the tournaments I've attended during that time period.  Some are funny and are still able to make me smile and laugh (even if at the time it did not seem that way); while other experiences cause me to wince even at the thought of them. 

        So the goal of this topic is to have quizzers (current and past), along with their coaches, or anyone else who has been involved in the Bible Quiz Ministry, to share some of those, lets call them: “more interesting”, moments with us.  That we also may laugh or cry with you; and, maybe, learn a little of why people are willing to pour hours upon hours of time in studying and are willing to keep coming back after being smashed by another team (I understand the latter one very well).

        Although I do not have the time to write out any of my own memories at this moment, I will post them as soon as I have a little free time to do so (tests and exams require work for some odd reason).

May the Lord bless you and keep you while you walk in this sinful world.

David Thomas.

        A word of caution:  Since we are commanded as Christians to seek after righteousness and to think on such things as are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, virtuous, praiseworthy, and of good report, please make sure that your posts are in accordance with these standards.

At SQANIT this year, my team and I were quizzing against Old Paths and KY.

David Posten was the quiz master.

He decided to do practice questions. He said, “Jump on the number 6.”

Then he said a whole lot of #s which weren't 6. Then he said, “OK, question #6.”

I was the only one that jumped.

David said, “Good Job. Now get your light off.”

I politely pointed out that he hadn't reset the quiz box.

He replied, “Watch your mouth, Missy.”

Glory! How dare you try to make me look bad like that? Just kidding.

There are so many good quiz stories I think of. Like Matt West getting pulled over twice in one night for speeding on the way to Denver (with a van full of quizzers and myself).

But the one that is beyond classic: During one PQA quiz, my teammate Russell Martin stood to answer this question: “Who is the son of God?” His answer: “The Devil”

After the room stopped laughing, he (serious as a heart attack) tried to explain that he was right cause the Pharisees had said that Jesus was the Devil.  Too funny!

Faith,

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, but I believe it. We fight more than anybody I know.  If there's a topic that can be debated, we'll find it! That was probably the same year that he got pulled over twice. I was sleeping in the back row of the van and woke up when the van stopped. Looked out the back window to see blue lights. When I woke up a few hours later, I said “Can y'all believe I dreamed that Matt got pulled over again! Ha Ha” Everyone said, “He DID get pulled over again.” Lots of laughs!

By the way, for those of you who did not memorize this year, the correct answer for that question is myrh or however you spell it.

Um…..one of my funniest tournament memories was from CI in 2006ish. Our second team was quizzing in Division 2 and I'm pretty sure the passage was Matthew. There was this guy and girl on that team that FOUGHT all the time about quizzing and life in general…..they literally hated each others guts. Oh and let me mention that the girl is a COMPLETE BLONDE and the guy was always making fun of her. Okay. So in this one particular quiz, Mr. Valentine asked “According to Matt. 8:1, What…..?” and one of the other teams stood and said “the multitude” and it was incorrect. Well on the tossup question, the girl from our second team stood and said….”the multitude.”As she sat down she looked at the boy and said…”I don't think that was right.” And he said “DUH!! THAT'S WHAT THEY JUST SAID!!” and they fought the rest of the trip. And he made fun of her for like a year over it. LOL. Well back in February those two got married. Hahaha when I asked them about that situation after the wedding they both acted like it never happened they were all googoo eyed and I was expecting a CAT FIGHT on their wedding day. Oh well. It was funny anyway.

Post edited 6:49 pm - April 20, 2009 by D.JThomas
Post edited 8:15 pm - April 20, 2009 by D.JThomas

You had to bring that up, now didn't you Faith? (I had succeeded in forgetting it… oh well)

Aye, that did indeed occur, I was so happy at having figured out the initial question (all we had to go on was “Whom do ye…”) that I obviously did not take enough time to make sure my teammates had the correct answer.   And it was definitely my fault since my other teammate had thought I said the exact same thing.

Sometimes you wish you had a time machine to go back and fix your mistakes, well that is one of them and I would also like to fix the one I messed up in the Parsippany finals last year…  Same idea, same problem… (”Stachys”…  We almost lost because of that one).

While we are on the subject of “Amsterdam Bloopers” I might as well add this one, which I believe happened last October at Mr. West's tournament in West Virginia.

 The question was either a quote or a finish from Mark 9:50. David Thomas got the jump and quoted it perfectly, except for the fact that he said savour (rewind to Matthew) instead of saltness. The mistake itself wasn't very funny, (especially because he was on one of our Heritage Mission teams!) but his face when he got called wrong was so priceless! I thought his features would permanently fuse in that position! Anyway, that is one of my favorite memories from this quiz year. Wish you all could have seen it. Sorry David.

@ Grace,

This is not fair, first Faith gets me with one, than Grace…  Is it Glory's turn now?  (I just hope they won't find one for each member of the family).

I thought about mentioning that one, but it is a little hard to explain what was so funny about it since I could not see my own face…  Although, I can still remember the shock I felt when he called me wrong (I “knew” that I had quoted the verse perfectly).

Have a great night everyone; God bless.

David Thomas.

YES! Thanks, Gace, for mentioning that!

That was one of the funniest things I have ever seen David do.

Well, since we Lofgren Lassies are still on an Amsterdam kick, here goes nuthin'.

I thought of another mistake that David made in Parsippany.

I think it was a quote, and it was Mark 14.

I think it was multiple verses. David jumped and said the wrongs ones, (I guess that's another example of his hearing loss)  

Then he looked sososososo confused when Grace jumped and got it correct!

It's simply amazing how he can make those odd expressions.