Kids' Lit. Quiz Results

The sun was shining as the SAM Kids' Lit. Team left the school, heading toward Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School, the site of the first heat in this year's Kids' Lit. Quiz Canadian competition. There were two teams competing and three other team members who would be watching and cheering from the sidelines. We arrived at the competition and were ushered in to the gym where the teams were shown to their tables.  The rest of us took our seats in the audience and waited for the competition to begin.

The Quiz Master, Wayne Mills, traveled to Toronto from Aukland, New Zealand.  As usual, he prepared more than 100 questions for this competition.  As he pointed out at the beginning of the competition, he doesn't write a question about a book unless he's read the book himself.  That's a lot of reading!



There were ten rounds of ten questions.  The categories, this year, were: Beverages, Birds, Brothers and Sisters, Constructions, Fables, Fish, Ghosts, Illness, Legends and Non-Fiction. The teams only learned what the categories were when they sat down at their respective tables just before the competition began.  Each team had to quickly decide which category they felt would do the best in, because that category could then be chosen as the one round they would double their score.  Team A chose to double their score in the  Brothers and Sisters round, and Team B chose the Fables round.

The afternoon passed quickly as the Quizmaster hurled questions at the teams as well as the audience.  Yes, at the end of each round, Wayne had a question for people in the audience.  The first person to answer the question was given a $5.00 gift card for the awesome bookstore Mabel's Fables. Also, speaking of prizes, each person on the team that scored highest in each round was given a book.  I am pleased to announce that both the SAM teams scored highest in one of the rounds.  And, if that wasn't enough, in between rounds, the Quizmaster had,  for the competitors, special questions that he took from last year's World Championship.  The first student to correctly answer these questions won $5.00, cash!  Two of our SAM students were happy recipients of this prize.

At the end of the afternoon the SAM teams did very well.

Team A scored 72.5 / 110 to finish in 7th place.

Team B scored 74.5 / 110 to finish in 6th place.











I am very proud of all the Kids' Lit Quiz team members.  They came out to train every week and in the end they did very well.

Special thanks to Mrs. Gassi for supporting the team and helping to drive us to the competition.