College quiz game
makes UNL debut
Campus tournament on Saturday
By Aimee Green '
Staff writer
The first floor of the Nebraska
Union will seem like an episode of
“Jeopardy!” to anyone who enters it
on Saturday - only with UNL stu
dents for contestants and no Alex
Trebek.
The College Quiz Bowl will begin
at 10:30 a.m. Saturday and continue
throughout the day as teams of
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents compete for the chance to be in
the final round.
The Quiz Bowl - now in its 22nd
year nationwide - is taking place at
UNL for the first time. Although
more than 300 higher education insti
tutions participate every year, UNL is
joining in for the first time.
UNL began its participation after
two students - freshman Andy Warta
and junior Lucas Sabalka - took their
idea to hold a College Quiz Bowl to
Student Involvement last fall. Both
had been in quiz bowls in high school.
With the help of Student
Involvement Director Marilyn
Bugenhagen and Project Assistant
Mary Beth Carstens, Warta and
Sabalka wrote a proposal and a bud
get to run the bowl.
Because both students planned on
participating as contestants, they
stopped their planning involvement
in January.
The Quiz Bowl will consist of
five rounds. Each round will have
seven-minute halves with a three
minute break in the middle. Twenty
teams of four players will compete for
the chance to move on to the next
round.
Teams score points by answering
toss-up and bonus questions on topics
such as history, literature, sports and
current events.
Carstens said the Quiz Bowl is
academically focused but has an out
of-classroom atmosphere.
“It’s kind of the college experi
ence all rolled into one,” Carstens
said.
The bowl will run in a single
elimination format until two teams
are left for the final round.
Four students not on the winning
team will be chosen to join the victors
in preparing for the regional competi
tion. Five of those eight will be cho
sen to go to the competition at
Wichita State University in Kansas
on Feb. 19 and 20.
The winning team at the regional
competition - which includes schools
from Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma
and Kansas - will go to the national
competition at the University of
Florida in Gainesville, Fla., in April.
Norman Simon, one of three var
sity squad coaches and a UNL
physics professor, participated in the
original College Bowl series on CBS
in 1959.
When he heard UNL was starting
its own team, he immediately called
to offer himself as a coach.
“It’s fun to play,” he said. “I like
the intellectual stimulation it offers.”
All rounds will be open to specta
tors. The final round - which will
receive television coverage from
KLKN-TV (Channel 8) - begins at 3
p.m. in the Crib.
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