Quiz

On Friday I accompanied 8 of our students who were participating in a quiz competition versus Mangochi Secondary School. This was, sadly, very similar to education day. The poor organization was, as usual, apparent immediately. We arrived with 8 students ready to participate, 4 form 1s and 4 form 2s, as we had been instructed. We were told that this was incorrect, we should only have brought 4 competitors. After we cut down our team the quiz got underway.

Despite the fact that the quiz was being recorded for national radio, all the questions were hand written on little slips of paper which were littered all over the "Quiz Master's" table. This led the "Quiz Master" to lose track of how many questions he asked. On more than one occasion, he attempted to end a round after not asking each team the same number of questions. Luckily, some of us were paying attention and were able to correct this error. We were also able to correct the wrong answers he said were correct, and the correct answers he said were wrong. Unfortunately we were not able to help the quiz master control the audience of students during the 2nd competition. During the quiz between Palmland and Joy (two other schools) he actually had to stop the competition, and kick almost the entire audience out of the hall. (Not our students. They behaved admirably.)

At any rate, despite the "Quiz Master" not having mastered much of anything, our kids were able to do well. Unfortunately, the other kids did even better. We lost by 2 points.

The picture above shows our quiz team and a few supporters getting ready to leave MCV.