Big things are happening for Rye High School’s Knowledge Bowl team. Ten amazing RHS students participated in the Knowledge Bowl Regionals this year where they took the honors of 1st in 2A and 2nd allaround in the recent contest.
Rye High School Mathematics Teacher Anna Jordan is the Knowledge Bowl Team sponsor. The members of the team are as follows:
Mason Henderson (Senior) A-Team; Amelia Burbidge (Junior) A-Team; Carter Milne (Junior) A-Team; Emily Whitley (Sophomore) A-Team; Mason Ford (Sophomore) A/B Team; Calvin Scisco (Sophomore) A/B Team; Cody Dodge (Freshmen) B Team; Carina Milne (Freshmen) B Team; Clara Chandler (Freshmen) B Team; Cole Brooks (Freshmen) A/B Team
The RHS team competes in the Arkansas Valley League. Their tournaments are held at Central High School every third Thursday of the month. The Regional Contest, where the team won the high honors mentioned above, was held on February 4 at CSU-Pueblo.
The team competed against teams from twelve other schools, including Pueblo West, Pueblo County, Central, Centennial, Lamar, Florence, Trinidad, East, Primero, and Custer County.
RHS Knowledge Bowl team certainly made their presence known. Their placings won the team a place in the Knowledge Bowl state finals in March.
Knowledge Bowl is a quizbased competition that tests players on a wide variety of academic subjects; science, literature, poetry, recent and ancient history, world mythologies, logic, math, astronomy, medicine, and more. The questions are intentionally difficult.
Knowledge Bowl usually involves teams of four to six students trying to answer questions in a written round, and several oral rounds. No team is eliminated in this event, and every team participates in every round.
Knowledge Bowl is a power competition in which team groupings are rearranged after each round on the basis of their total points accumulated. The written round is a multiplechoice exam of usually 40 multiple-choice questions with five possible answers listed. It is taken by each team as a whole and all members of the team may confer throughout the duration of the round.
Oral rounds consist of three sets of 15 questions, 45 in total. Teams may buzz in at any point during the question. However, they must then answer with whatever information has been given them. If a team buzzes in before the question is read in its entirety, the reader will reread the question for the other team(s), provided they have not yet buzzed in themselves. The teams are called on in the order that they register on the game computer. Each team in a round has one designated spokesperson.
The spokesperson is the only person who is allowed to answer during the 15 second time limit. The spokesperson has the ability to defer their answer to another person on their team as long as they do so before the 15 second time limit. The winner is the team with the greatest number of points at the end of the meet.
The state tournament takes place annually in March. RHS is a 2A state qualifier due to their outstanding performance at Regionals and will be competing online on March 14 and 15.
Historically, Rye High performs well at Knowledge Bowl meets.