The Trans-Canada Championship Match is desperately looking for a backup moderator to run a game over the telephone to Vancouver and Toronto. The moderator can...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 14, 2004 6:08 pm
379
To the UWO alum who wrote that bonus on Canadian indie rock: I thank you whole-heartedly :-) Hanson SFU Quiz Bowl...
Are the results for the VETO tee-dot mirror going to be posted? I'm really interested in finding out about how the tournament back east went. Hanson SFU Quiz...
In the #5 and #6 match at the VETO mirror, Luke's team beat The Athenian TRASHedies 125-70 (Luke's team hit the final three tossups after the TRASHedies had...
Hello everyone, 6 teams participated in the VETO 2004 Toronto mirror and played a full round robin. Here are the standings after round robin (8 rounds...
Full team and individual stats will be posted within the next few days. Teams: * [FrSd] FARSIDE: Peter * [SFUJ] SFU Fake Junta: Hanson, Sarah, Victoria,...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 20, 2004 7:05 am
386
Full VETO results for Vancouver are on the web page: http://caql.org/results/veto04.html and for the Trans-Canada Championship Match: ...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 22, 2004 5:55 am
387
I hope this will spark some discussion. :) One of the prizes that we didn't have time to award at VETO was the one for "best question" as voted by players....
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 22, 2004 6:24 am
388
I would like to nominate Ottawa's tossup about the Dutch language, the one where the moderator spoke Dutch for most of the tossup. I thought that one was quite...
The Dutch tossup worked very nicely in Toronto, and apparently Dave was more fluent than me! However, I feel sorry for whoever was the poor moderator in ...
... about Hart ... throughout our ... question from the West ... I put some "Toronto-centric" questions in my pack. And I also had some questions with "Toronto...
... Haha, that probably would've been my favourite question (and appropriate too, since, IIRC, I was wearing a Pretty Girls Make Graves t-shirt at VETO). But...
... was more ... moderator in ... language... Yeah, that probably would've worked better as an audio question... ... about Hart ... throughout our ... question...
... the one where the moderator spoke Dutch for most of the tossup. I thought that one was quite clever and very much enjoyed it. (We were told afterwards in...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 23, 2004 6:37 am
394
... audio question... Sadly, my audio recording capabilities were limited. Perhaps what would have been better was a warning to the moderator that they may...
... Nothing wrong with that. A player who buzzes in on "insulin" has no grounds for complaining if previously given clues have already made "insulin" an...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 24, 2004 2:24 am
396
... Rules for student clubs? I didn't know one could reject any studemts from quizbowl. Just kidding, LOL. We should visit U of O so we can witness a...
For the two B2B packs from this year's VETO tournament, I count the following CanCon breakdown: B2B pack one * 9 tossups, including regional questions on: -...
Here is the roster from the VETO 2004 Toronto mirror: The Athenian Tragedies: Andy Saunders, Bruce, Mark Reg Hartt's Fan Club: Luke Chao, Jerome, Imelda N.,...
ok, some people seemed curious about this, so having played quiz games in both languages, I'll try to comment the last posts. ... studemts ... can ... around ...
Seems like no one has really nominated a favourite VETO questions yet. I would like to nominate the Oscar Wilde question which was not written by me. The...
... That tossup was in the second B2B packet. 3) Reacting to the news that her daughter's suitor smokes, she says, "I am glad to hear it. A man should always...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 27, 2004 6:25 am
402
... Wow, I never knew Génies en herbe existed beyond high school/CEGEP. I found the website for your 38-team "Paléogénies" tournament in Sherbrooke: ...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Jul 27, 2004 6:45 am
403
yeah, I should have added the links. strange format ? why ? Peter McCorquodale <petermc@...> wrote: ... Wow, I never knew Génies en herbe existed...
Hello, Thanks to a less restrictive student federation this year, the U of O Trivia Club can now welcome U of O graduate students as well as students from...
Welcome to another year of Canadian quiz bowl, For the third year in a row, the University of British Columbia will be hosting the B.C. Bowl, the annual...
Hey guys, I've posted some photos from our Toronto mirror for everyone to enjoy. The can be found in the Photos section under "VETO 2004 (Toronto mirror)". If...
OK here is the list of questions that have been suggested as "best question" from VETO. As you'll recall, Braintrust Games is giving a NoFrigginClue.com prize...
Peter McCorquodale
petermc@...
Aug 2, 2004 7:41 am
408
... Thanks to Andy, here is the tossup: From 1920 until his death in 1933 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. He was nicknamed "guts and...
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