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Midwest Summer Spectacular (MASS) 2025

Mark your calendar for the Midwest Area Summer Spectacular on Friday, June 20th at Falls Baptist Church. We strongly encourage you to seriously consider this exciting Bible quizzing event! Last year, we were thrilled that 45 teams participated! Quizzers from several states, including South Carolina, Illinois, and Wisconsin quizzed in the tournament. The Summer Spectacular is a tremendous way to

Cullen Baggett

February 2025 Rankings

Following CI 2025, here are the rankings: *() indicates number of 1st place votes Other receiving votes: Lutrell/Pilgrims, SC 6, Community, SC 3

Cullen Baggett

CAST 2025

The California Annual Spectacular Tournament (CAST) will be held on Saturday, June 14, at Bethel Baptist Church in Carson, CA. Bethel Baptist Church 1361 Carson St Carson, CA $30 per team Covers entire book of James To Sign up, Click here! Tournament contact: allisoncastner@myfbs.org Sign-up deadline (hard): June 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM

Cullen Baggett

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Bobby Smith

Perhaps the most individually dynamic quizzer of the 2010s, Bobby truly was unstoppable. The 2013 Hillsdale team he led seemed to always grab leads very early in the quiz off of Bobby’s answers and then maintain or expand those leads as the competition tried to crawl back…

Cullen Baggett

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Cat Smith

Cat Smith first stepped into the world of Bible Quizzing in 2008, a choice that would go on to shape her high school years and her life thereafter. Cat and her brother Bobby established themselves as one of the greatest sibling duos in Bible Quiz history.

Cullen Baggett

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How God Used Bible Quizzing in My Family

In April 2006, I was a happily married man with four children. We were members of Faith Baptist Church in Taylors, SC and our church had an incredible Bible quiz program for seventh through twelfth graders…

Michael Balka

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Throwback: Ski Day at CI

During my 7+ years as part of the Athens Christian Bible Quiz team, we were blessed with our fair share of success on the quiz chairs. I could write a small stack of articles highlighting some of our team’s nail-biting victories…

Dalton Croy

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George Wood

George Wood has been a part of the Bible Quiz community for nearly forty years. Shortly after moving his family from the hills of his beloved Tennessee, George began his Bible Quiz journey as a parent of a 7th grader and a 9th grader…

Cullen Baggett

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CAST 2024 Review

The California Annual Spectacular Tournament was the largest West Coast spectacular tournament since pre-COVID years—27 teams altogether. Brother Ralph Yuvienco of Bethel Baptist Carson hosted the tournament…

Allison Castner

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The Africa Report: What Happened in Nigeria

When Micah told me about the possibility of starting Bible quizzing in Nigeria, I was so excited about it because of the love that I have for getting to guide Africans to memorize God’s Word…

Godwill Penn

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GAQSS Signup 2024

We are pleased to announce that sign-ups for the 14th annual Greenville Area Quizzing Summer Spectacular to be held July 13 at Faith Baptist Church in Taylors, SC are now open. After fielding our first full tournament last year we anticipate a full field…

Cullen Baggett

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Open-Book Bible Quizzing

At face value, this idea defeats the purpose of Bible quizzing. Maybe that’s why I had never thought of doing it until one of my students asked me to quiz her with her book open…

Micah Folkers

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A Coach’s Perspective of Athens 2016

You’ll have to forgive me if I sound a bit emotional, but I’ve got a whole lot of feelings bound up inside me on this one. In fact, unless you have experience with the topic, you’ll likely wonder if I’ve gone a bit crazy when you read this…

David Poston

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Throwback: Athens 2016

Recently, someone asked me who I thought was the best team I’d ever personally seen quiz. After thinking for just a few seconds I answered them.  I’ll try to share my rationale for the answer I gave that person…

Cullen Baggett

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The “Rule of 140”

One hundred forty, why is that number significant? Is it the code to some secret passage leading to treasure behind Mount Rushmore or in a Mayan pyramid? With confidence (though not 100% confidence), I can rule that out. For Bible quizzing, 140 is actually very relevant…

Cullen Baggett

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Coach Castner’s Top 3

After multiple years of struggling to recruit, train, and retain quizzers, the Lord has shown me a few techniques to give them an edge and to motivate them to excellence…

Allison Castner

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From the Mind of a Bible Quizzer

I will never forget the first year I started Bible quizzing. The association in which I quizzed only allowed those sixth grade and up to compete. My dad, however, started me on memorizing the book of Matthew in fourth grade…

Carson Ziemer

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April CQA Tournament

After the first tournament in Cameroon, some more churches were interested in joining the CQA, but didn’t know what to do. In the days following, I spent six weeks traveling around the country, encouraging these quizzers…

Godwill Penn