Gilreath, '1992 College Bowl Spring Challenge', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v19n04 (February 1992)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 19 no. 4
February 1992
Gilreath, Charles L.
"1992 College Bowl Spring Challenge"


"Oh wow!  This is really nice," the young man remarked to his 
companion as they walked into the room for another round of 
competition in the College Bowl Spring Challenge.  Thus, with 
typical undergraduate talent for understatement, they passed 
judgment on the work of the 1992 College Bowl Committee.  
The members of the committee, headed by Claire Braxton of 
the library's Collection Management Department, handled the 
logistics of the day-long event, held February 8 on 
the second floor of the Erdahl-Cloyd Wing.  Armed with a vast 
quantity of comestibles donated by staff members from 
throughout the Libraries, the committee supplemented the 
competition's food for thought with a lavish spread of the 
tangible sort, which the students greatly appreciated.

During the competition, eighteen student teams challenged 
each other in answering questions covering everything from 
music history to spelling, from the laws of science to current 
events.  Try your hand, for example, at identifying the 
twentieth-century composer credited with development of the 
twelve-tone system of music, or try putting all of Woody 
Allen's movies in correct chronological order.

Although the Libraries did not field its own team for the 
competition, the team "Virtual Reality" drafted Library 
Technical Assistant Floyd Harris to play in the morning round, 
coming within five points of winning the single-elimination 
competition for established College Bowl teams.  Chris 
Alexander won the morning round when his single-member 
team defeated all other opponents.  In the afternoon, the 
competition consisted of a double-elimination round of 
intramural teams.  That competition was won by a team with 
the appropriate names of the "Eliminators."  By the time the 
contest ended at 5:30 p.m., both participants and committee 
members were exhausted, but everyone agreed that this had 
been a great way to spend a day at the library.