Step One: Watch the National History Bee. This one actually isn't that bad. The questions were relatively easy. The hardest part was listening to Al Roker's lame puns.
Step Two: Watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Not only have I never heard of most of the words but I can't for the life of me understand why they even exist.
Step Three: Watch the National Geographic Bee. After watching this competition I now doubt which planet I live on.
To feel completely and thoroughly stupid, watch all three in the same week.
And now I will sit in the corner, drool, and try to come to terms with the fact that I am totally ignorant.
Step four: watch some of these games that didn't make it to TV. This is the largest high school all-subject national quizbowl tournament, held this past weekend in Atlanta.
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I recommend match 23.
Anony: I'll have to check it out ... when I've recovered from the other three bees.
DeleteI love watching Scripps Spelling Bee because I know most of the words right... A large percentage of the words they use have French roots so I'm good!
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Gv: Every time they said it was French in origen I thought you would get this one. Weird that knowing a foreign language (for Americans, that is) would make it easier to spell words in the English language.
DeleteI've never watched Bees. I've always been too busy playing videogames and telling myself how incredibly SMART I am. :D
ReplyDeleteMiss McC: That's one way to do it :-D
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