World Quizzing Championships Sat June 3

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Taking place across the globe on Saturday June 3rd are the World Quizzing Championships (after a 5 year hiatus where I played, I am back as one of the writers)

If you don't see one in your area and can identify a trustworthy person to be an independent proctor this can be setup at a local library, conference room, park shelter, etc - any where people can sit and write for a couple of hours.  PM me for details - the quiz is translated into about 14 languages each year.

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Taking place across the globe on Saturday June 3rd are the World Quizzing Championships (after a 5 year hiatus where I played, I am back as one of the writers)

If you don't see one in your area and can identify a trustworthy person to be an independent proctor this can be setup at a local library, conference room, park shelter, etc - any where people can sit and write for a couple of hours.  PM me for details - the quiz is translated into about 14 languages each year.

More about this can be gleaned at worldquizzing.com

It would be great to proclaim a Talossan Champion to go along with all the other national champions.  Not only that but there could be a Talossan Category Champion for the categories of Culture, Entertainment, History, Lifestyle, Media, Science, Sport, and World.

The quiz allows 1 hour for each half of 4 categories (typically 2 of the academic and 2 of the popular culture ones) each category has 30 questions, there will be 240 total questions.  Allow an additional 15 minutes for marking - people typically swap papers while the proctor reads the answers, so the total would be about 2.5 hours (although if all at a particular venue agree they can shorten the time per half). Here are all the rules and there are sample questions here

This is a difficult quiz, with a great variety of temporal and geographical balance.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

I would love to participate but I am not available that day.