[Cider Jim]

Bob, we ate $400 worth of Hellas crab cakes: it was like heaven in my mouth!

http://www.cateringmaryland.net/entrees.html

[Purple Haize]

Bob, we ate $400 worth of Hellas crab cakes: it was like heaven in my mouth!

http://www.cateringmaryland.net/entrees.html

Big budget the Quiz Bowl team has!

[Cider Jim]

LU's Quiz Bowl teams scored 7 wins at UVa today:

LU 170, VCU 165
LU 230, VA Tech 90
LU 320, W&L 0 (forfeit)
LU jv 260, VCU 85
LU jv 195, VCU 75
LU novice 230, LU jv 170
LU novice 290, VCU 40

[Cider Jim]

The Big South Conference Quiz Bowl tournament will be held a week from today at Gardner-Webb University, with 9 teams competing:

1. Campbell University (New to Conference)
2. Coastal Carolina University
3. Gardner-Webb University
4. High Point University
5. Liberty University
6. Longwood University (New to Conference)
7. Presbyterian College
8. Radford University
9. Winthrop University

Liberty, of course, is the defending conference champion (6 out of the past 7 years), going undefeated in conference play the last 2 years, and here is our starting lineup:

Jake Rogers--captain (senior software engineering major), Appomattox, VA
Kaity Shondelmyer (sophomore biochemistry major), Avonmore, PA
Jon Bateman (sophomore social science major), Peoria, IL
Doug Stephens (freshman English major), Wade, NC
Greta Hanks (freshman music/Spanish major), Garner, NC

[Cider Jim]

Big South Conference CHAMPIONS! Another 6-0 undefeated season in conference:
Liberty over Presbyterian, 235-115
Liberty over Longwood, 150-75
Liberty over High Point, 130-20
Liberty over Winthrop, 465-40
Liberty over Coastal, 150-80
Liberty over Gardner-Webb, 170-100

And here was our favorite question of the tournament:
"He cited the Terri Schiavo case as part of America's 'death syndrome,' amd blamed 'abortionists,' feminists, the ACLU, and others for September 11. The Supreme Court case ruled against this man in his suit of Larry Flint's Hustler magazine. In his hometown he founded Lynchburg Christian Academy and hosted the Old Time Gospel Hour at Thomas Road Baptist Church. For 10 points--name that founder of the Moral Majority."

[Sly Fox]

Surely someone protested that question.

Congrats on yet another domination of the Big South!

[BJWilliams]

You are running out of room for all these trophies Cider...Im sure some of the other coaches wonder how you keep finding all these kids so you can dominate like you have

[Cider Jim]

BJ, a great story that I just learned this weekend is that our freshman captain (a National Merit Finalist) had both Liberty and Gardner-Webb on his short list of potential colleges, but LU offered him more academic and Honors Program scholarships, so he chose us over the other Baptist school from his home state of North Carolina.

The Quiz Bowl coach at Gardner-Webb recognized him as "the one that got away" and came to LU.

[alabama24]

...so we chose us over the other Baptist school from his home state of North Carolina.

I think you need a break from the Quiz Bowl. You are slipping.

[Sly Fox]

Big ups to CJ and the team for continuing the flat out dominance of the Big South little brothers. I'm anxious to see what they can do as they make moves toward Nationals.

[Cider Jim]

Yea, the competition gets a little stiffer in two weeks at the NAQTs in Knoxville:

http://www.naqt.com/registration/field. ... nt_id=4751

•Alabama C
•Davidson A
•Davidson B
•Kentucky (In Process)
•Liberty A
•Liberty B
•Louisville C
•North Carolina

•North Greenville A
•North Greenville B
•Roanoke
•South Carolina B
•Vanderbilt (In Process)
•Virginia Tech B
•Virginia Tech C
•Western Kentucky

[Sly Fox]

Wow, North Greenville has even moved onto Quiz Bowl in their efforts to duplicate an LU South.

[Cider Jim]

Last year, Liberty beat North Greenville, 295-75.

[logic]

We have confirmed 5 new Quiz Bowl recruits for the fall semester, all of whom are National Merit Finalists who boast an average SAT of 1400. This promises to be our best recruiting year yet.

Freshmen Team
1. Abigail Brubaker--NMF English major from Leola, PA (literature, drama, pop culture, music)
2. Aaron Hultstrand--NMF Math major for Bismark, ND (math, history, science, literature, sports)
3. Greta Hanks--NMF music/Spanish major from Garner, NC (music, history, geography, literature)
4. Doug Stevens--NMF undecided major from Wade, NC (literature, history, & religion)
5. Gabrielle Killough--NMF English major from Montgomery, AL (literature, philosophy, pop culture)

Historically, our weakest areas have been music, drama, geography, and pop culture, so this freshman class should immediately be challenging our two varsity teams for playing time.

Not missing much here. Pop culture of any considerable taste died when American Bandstand was moved to LA from Philadelphia in 1964. Someone should have seen that one coming!

At any rate, congrats to LU Quizbowl once again!

[Purple Haize]

Obviously Star Search, Soul Train and Solid Gold escaped your memory.

[Cider Jim]

Great concluding quote by Doug Stephens, our former novice captain recently promoted to the varsity squad, on the importance of Quiz Bowl:

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=77819

[Purple Haize]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2012/st ... nected-ped
Care to comment on being mentioned as among 'the others' named in this article?

[Cider Jim]

Liberty scored 9 Quiz Bowl wins at the NAQT Sectionals today at the University of Tennessee:

LU over South Carolina, 190-80
LU over Auburn, 290-65
LU over High Point, 385-130
LU over Virginia Tech, 340-60
LU over Kentucky, 300-70
LU (B) over High Point, 220-130
LU (B) over Davidson, 245-145
LU (B) over Virginia Tech, 255-135
LU (B) over North Greenville, 220-85

[Sly Fox]

Fantastic! Thanks for passing on the scores yesterday which I was pushing out on Twitter.

[BJWilliams]

Here's hoping we get an invite to nationals...

[Cider Jim]

Our Liberty Quiz Bowl team finished 42nd in the country out of 120 teams; in comparisoin, Longwood finished 2nd in the Big South but ended up at 116 nationally.

http://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values ... up_id=1029

[flamehunter]

Congrats CJ! Coach deserves a big raise and contract extension!!

[Cider Jim]

We've just confirmed the date for our Faculty Quiz Bowl Scrimmage!

If you want to see our 7-time Big South Champion varsity team take on a team of LU's distinguished professors, come to DeMoss 4047 this Thursday, March 7th, at 6:30.

Later in the semester, on March 29, we will have our last on-campus tournament of the year--against the Alumni team.

[Cider Jim]

Faculty team confirmed for tomorrow evening:

1. Dr. Harris--Director of the M.A. program in English
2. Prof. Bell--English professor from the College of General Studies
3. Dr. Smith--seminary professor
4. Mr. Weaver--LU librarian

[Cider Jim]

The three games were much closer this year that what they have been in the past, but the varsity and JV teams still took 2 out of 3 from the faculty team on Thursday night in our annual Faculty Scrimmage:

Game 1: faculty 425, varsity 375
Game 2, JV team 270, faculty 260
Game 3: varsity 525, faculty 335

In the first game (that we should have won), we lost on a science question that even I knew!