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Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
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Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
To
Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at
World, and scattered throughout the
quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey,
James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple,
and John Isett,
Quiz-outs
and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S.
All quizzers are like grass, and all
their glory is like the flowers of the
field. Their scores wither and their
standings fall, but the word of the
Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This
is now our first letter to you. We have
written it as a reminder to stimulate
you to quizzing thinking. In the past
the quizmasters spoke to us at many
times and in various quizzes, but in
these last days they have spoken to
us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which
they appointed material of all quizzes,
and through which they made the questions.
So we will make every effort to see
that after your departure you will always
be able to know the happenings of World
2004.
By
faith, our dad, when called to drive
us to Cedarville, a place we would later
quiz at, agreed and went, even though
he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in Ohio, like
a stranger in a foreign state. He lived
in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy,
Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with
him of the same quizzing stress.
A
tournament was set up. In it's first
room were the scoreboard, the table,
and the quizzers' seats. This table
contained the quiz box, quiz Bible,
and the question packets. Behind the
table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our
coach said, "See I lay a team in
World, a chosen and precious team, and
the one who calls them correct will
never be put to shame." She also
says, "Today if you get a free
question, do not answer questionably
as was done in the round robins during
the time of quizzing in James Benson's
room, where Detroit and Iowa contested,
and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!"
And again, "Do not forget to say
something, for by so doing some people
have answered correctly without knowing
it."
Quizzers
that drink in the material often studying
on it and that produce correct answers
useful to their team receive the blessing
of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately
keep on jumping too fast after we have
received knowledge of the other team's
speed, no excuse for errors is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of a raging coach.
Mike
Miller was quizmaster of room number
one. He meets teams returning from defeat
by other teams and quizzes them, and
the quizzers give him an answer for
everything. Without prejudice or bias,
without beginning of days or end of
quizzes, like all the other officials
he remains a quizmaster forever. Just
think how great he is!
Who
were they who quizzed and dominated?
Was it not all those Detroit out on
Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we
do not see every team completely subject
to them. But we see Berrien Without
Excuse, although they are stronger and
more powerful than we, do not bring
shaky appeals against such teams in
the presence of the quizmasters. They
will be paid back for the harm they
have done. Their idea of pleasure is
to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day
after day every quizmaster sits and
performs his quizzing duties. Again
and again he offers the same questions,
and day after day every quizzer jumps
and performs their quizzing duties.
Again and again they offer the same
answers. But we have come to World,
to the ultimate tournament. We have
come to team upon team in joyful assembly.
Therefore since we are attending a tournament
that cannot be topped let us be thankful
and so quiz acceptably with reverence
and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming
passion.
Remember
those in the semi-finals as if you were
our fellow quizzer, and those in the
finals as if you yourself were suffering.
It still remains that some will enter
the finals, and some of those who formerly
have won tournaments cannot go in because
they are too old. Therefore since the
possibility of entering the finals still
stands, let us be careful that none
of us be found to have fallen short
of it.
And
what more shall we say? We do not have
time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine,
Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and
Berrien, who through studying, conquered
teams, administered answers and gained
olympic points. Who shut the mouths
of captains, quenched the fury of contests,
and escaped three nights of sleep!
But
do not forget this one thing dear friend:
with a quiz tournament, a day is like
a thousand years and a thousand years
are like a day.
Sleep
and calm nerves be yours in abundance
through the relaxation of retirement
and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S.
After the finals are over, let us leave
the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew,
not laying again the foundations of
John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts,
Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting
we will do so.
©
2004, Iowa Bible Quizzing, http://cnonline.net/~TheCookieJar/Quizzing-welcome.html
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
To
Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at
World, and scattered throughout the
quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey,
James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple,
and John Isett,
Quiz-outs
and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S.
All quizzers are like grass, and all
their glory is like the flowers of the
field. Their scores wither and their
standings fall, but the word of the
Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This
is now our first letter to you. We have
written it as a reminder to stimulate
you to quizzing thinking. In the past
the quizmasters spoke to us at many
times and in various quizzes, but in
these last days they have spoken to
us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which
they appointed material of all quizzes,
and through which they made the questions.
So we will make every effort to see
that after your departure you will always
be able to know the happenings of World
2004.
By
faith, our dad, when called to drive
us to Cedarville, a place we would later
quiz at, agreed and went, even though
he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in Ohio, like
a stranger in a foreign state. He lived
in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy,
Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with
him of the same quizzing stress.
A
tournament was set up. In it's first
room were the scoreboard, the table,
and the quizzers' seats. This table
contained the quiz box, quiz Bible,
and the question packets. Behind the
table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our
coach said, "See I lay a team in
World, a chosen and precious team, and
the one who calls them correct will
never be put to shame." She also
says, "Today if you get a free
question, do not answer questionably
as was done in the round robins during
the time of quizzing in James Benson's
room, where Detroit and Iowa contested,
and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!"
And again, "Do not forget to say
something, for by so doing some people
have answered correctly without knowing
it."
Quizzers
that drink in the material often studying
on it and that produce correct answers
useful to their team receive the blessing
of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately
keep on jumping too fast after we have
received knowledge of the other team's
speed, no excuse for errors is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of a raging coach.
Mike
Miller was quizmaster of room number
one. He meets teams returning from defeat
by other teams and quizzes them, and
the quizzers give him an answer for
everything. Without prejudice or bias,
without beginning of days or end of
quizzes, like all the other officials
he remains a quizmaster forever. Just
think how great he is!
Who
were they who quizzed and dominated?
Was it not all those Detroit out on
Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we
do not see every team completely subject
to them. But we see Berrien Without
Excuse, although they are stronger and
more powerful than we, do not bring
shaky appeals against such teams in
the presence of the quizmasters. They
will be paid back for the harm they
have done. Their idea of pleasure is
to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day
after day every quizmaster sits and
performs his quizzing duties. Again
and again he offers the same questions,
and day after day every quizzer jumps
and performs their quizzing duties.
Again and again they offer the same
answers. But we have come to World,
to the ultimate tournament. We have
come to team upon team in joyful assembly.
Therefore since we are attending a tournament
that cannot be topped let us be thankful
and so quiz acceptably with reverence
and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming
passion.
Remember
those in the semi-finals as if you were
our fellow quizzer, and those in the
finals as if you yourself were suffering.
It still remains that some will enter
the finals, and some of those who formerly
have won tournaments cannot go in because
they are too old. Therefore since the
possibility of entering the finals still
stands, let us be careful that none
of us be found to have fallen short
of it.
And
what more shall we say? We do not have
time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine,
Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and
Berrien, who through studying, conquered
teams, administered answers and gained
olympic points. Who shut the mouths
of captains, quenched the fury of contests,
and escaped three nights of sleep!
But
do not forget this one thing dear friend:
with a quiz tournament, a day is like
a thousand years and a thousand years
are like a day.
Sleep
and calm nerves be yours in abundance
through the relaxation of retirement
and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S.
After the finals are over, let us leave
the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew,
not laying again the foundations of
John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts,
Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting
we will do so.
©
2004, Iowa Bible Quizzing, http://cnonline.net/~TheCookieJar/Quizzing-welcome.html
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
To
Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at
World, and scattered throughout the
quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey,
James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple,
and John Isett,
Quiz-outs
and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S.
All quizzers are like grass, and all
their glory is like the flowers of the
field. Their scores wither and their
standings fall, but the word of the
Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This
is now our first letter to you. We have
written it as a reminder to stimulate
you to quizzing thinking. In the past
the quizmasters spoke to us at many
times and in various quizzes, but in
these last days they have spoken to
us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which
they appointed material of all quizzes,
and through which they made the questions.
So we will make every effort to see
that after your departure you will always
be able to know the happenings of World
2004.
By
faith, our dad, when called to drive
us to Cedarville, a place we would later
quiz at, agreed and went, even though
he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in Ohio, like
a stranger in a foreign state. He lived
in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy,
Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with
him of the same quizzing stress.
A
tournament was set up. In it's first
room were the scoreboard, the table,
and the quizzers' seats. This table
contained the quiz box, quiz Bible,
and the question packets. Behind the
table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our
coach said, "See I lay a team in
World, a chosen and precious team, and
the one who calls them correct will
never be put to shame." She also
says, "Today if you get a free
question, do not answer questionably
as was done in the round robins during
the time of quizzing in James Benson's
room, where Detroit and Iowa contested,
and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!"
And again, "Do not forget to say
something, for by so doing some people
have answered correctly without knowing
it."
Quizzers
that drink in the material often studying
on it and that produce correct answers
useful to their team receive the blessing
of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately
keep on jumping too fast after we have
received knowledge of the other team's
speed, no excuse for errors is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of a raging coach.
Mike
Miller was quizmaster of room number
one. He meets teams returning from defeat
by other teams and quizzes them, and
the quizzers give him an answer for
everything. Without prejudice or bias,
without beginning of days or end of
quizzes, like all the other officials
he remains a quizmaster forever. Just
think how great he is!
Who
were they who quizzed and dominated?
Was it not all those Detroit out on
Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we
do not see every team completely subject
to them. But we see Berrien Without
Excuse, although they are stronger and
more powerful than we, do not bring
shaky appeals against such teams in
the presence of the quizmasters. They
will be paid back for the harm they
have done. Their idea of pleasure is
to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day
after day every quizmaster sits and
performs his quizzing duties. Again
and again he offers the same questions,
and day after day every quizzer jumps
and performs their quizzing duties.
Again and again they offer the same
answers. But we have come to World,
to the ultimate tournament. We have
come to team upon team in joyful assembly.
Therefore since we are attending a tournament
that cannot be topped let us be thankful
and so quiz acceptably with reverence
and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming
passion.
Remember
those in the semi-finals as if you were
our fellow quizzer, and those in the
finals as if you yourself were suffering.
It still remains that some will enter
the finals, and some of those who formerly
have won tournaments cannot go in because
they are too old. Therefore since the
possibility of entering the finals still
stands, let us be careful that none
of us be found to have fallen short
of it.
And
what more shall we say? We do not have
time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine,
Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and
Berrien, who through studying, conquered
teams, administered answers and gained
olympic points. Who shut the mouths
of captains, quenched the fury of contests,
and escaped three nights of sleep!
But
do not forget this one thing dear friend:
with a quiz tournament, a day is like
a thousand years and a thousand years
are like a day.
Sleep
and calm nerves be yours in abundance
through the relaxation of retirement
and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S.
After the finals are over, let us leave
the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew,
not laying again the foundations of
John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts,
Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting
we will do so.
©
2004, Iowa Bible Quizzing, http://cnonline.net/~TheCookieJar/Quizzing-welcome.html
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
To
Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at
World, and scattered throughout the
quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey,
James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple,
and John Isett,
Quiz-outs
and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S.
All quizzers are like grass, and all
their glory is like the flowers of the
field. Their scores wither and their
standings fall, but the word of the
Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This
is now our first letter to you. We have
written it as a reminder to stimulate
you to quizzing thinking. In the past
the quizmasters spoke to us at many
times and in various quizzes, but in
these last days they have spoken to
us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which
they appointed material of all quizzes,
and through which they made the questions.
So we will make every effort to see
that after your departure you will always
be able to know the happenings of World
2004.
By
faith, our dad, when called to drive
us to Cedarville, a place we would later
quiz at, agreed and went, even though
he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in Ohio, like
a stranger in a foreign state. He lived
in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy,
Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with
him of the same quizzing stress.
A
tournament was set up. In it's first
room were the scoreboard, the table,
and the quizzers' seats. This table
contained the quiz box, quiz Bible,
and the question packets. Behind the
table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our
coach said, "See I lay a team in
World, a chosen and precious team, and
the one who calls them correct will
never be put to shame." She also
says, "Today if you get a free
question, do not answer questionably
as was done in the round robins during
the time of quizzing in James Benson's
room, where Detroit and Iowa contested,
and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!"
And again, "Do not forget to say
something, for by so doing some people
have answered correctly without knowing
it."
Quizzers
that drink in the material often studying
on it and that produce correct answers
useful to their team receive the blessing
of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately
keep on jumping too fast after we have
received knowledge of the other team's
speed, no excuse for errors is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of a raging coach.
Mike
Miller was quizmaster of room number
one. He meets teams returning from defeat
by other teams and quizzes them, and
the quizzers give him an answer for
everything. Without prejudice or bias,
without beginning of days or end of
quizzes, like all the other officials
he remains a quizmaster forever. Just
think how great he is!
Who
were they who quizzed and dominated?
Was it not all those Detroit out on
Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we
do not see every team completely subject
to them. But we see Berrien Without
Excuse, although they are stronger and
more powerful than we, do not bring
shaky appeals against such teams in
the presence of the quizmasters. They
will be paid back for the harm they
have done. Their idea of pleasure is
to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day
after day every quizmaster sits and
performs his quizzing duties. Again
and again he offers the same questions,
and day after day every quizzer jumps
and performs their quizzing duties.
Again and again they offer the same
answers. But we have come to World,
to the ultimate tournament. We have
come to team upon team in joyful assembly.
Therefore since we are attending a tournament
that cannot be topped let us be thankful
and so quiz acceptably with reverence
and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming
passion.
Remember
those in the semi-finals as if you were
our fellow quizzer, and those in the
finals as if you yourself were suffering.
It still remains that some will enter
the finals, and some of those who formerly
have won tournaments cannot go in because
they are too old. Therefore since the
possibility of entering the finals still
stands, let us be careful that none
of us be found to have fallen short
of it.
And
what more shall we say? We do not have
time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine,
Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and
Berrien, who through studying, conquered
teams, administered answers and gained
olympic points. Who shut the mouths
of captains, quenched the fury of contests,
and escaped three nights of sleep!
But
do not forget this one thing dear friend:
with a quiz tournament, a day is like
a thousand years and a thousand years
are like a day.
Sleep
and calm nerves be yours in abundance
through the relaxation of retirement
and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S.
After the finals are over, let us leave
the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew,
not laying again the foundations of
John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts,
Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting
we will do so.
©
2004, Iowa Bible Quizzing, http://cnonline.net/~TheCookieJar/Quizzing-welcome.html
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
To
Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at
World, and scattered throughout the
quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey,
James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple,
and John Isett,
Quiz-outs
and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S.
All quizzers are like grass, and all
their glory is like the flowers of the
field. Their scores wither and their
standings fall, but the word of the
Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This
is now our first letter to you. We have
written it as a reminder to stimulate
you to quizzing thinking. In the past
the quizmasters spoke to us at many
times and in various quizzes, but in
these last days they have spoken to
us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which
they appointed material of all quizzes,
and through which they made the questions.
So we will make every effort to see
that after your departure you will always
be able to know the happenings of World
2004.
By
faith, our dad, when called to drive
us to Cedarville, a place we would later
quiz at, agreed and went, even though
he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in Ohio, like
a stranger in a foreign state. He lived
in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy,
Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with
him of the same quizzing stress.
A
tournament was set up. In it's first
room were the scoreboard, the table,
and the quizzers' seats. This table
contained the quiz box, quiz Bible,
and the question packets. Behind the
table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our
coach said, "See I lay a team in
World, a chosen and precious team, and
the one who calls them correct will
never be put to shame." She also
says, "Today if you get a free
question, do not answer questionably
as was done in the round robins during
the time of quizzing in James Benson's
room, where Detroit and Iowa contested,
and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!"
And again, "Do not forget to say
something, for by so doing some people
have answered correctly without knowing
it."
Quizzers
that drink in the material often studying
on it and that produce correct answers
useful to their team receive the blessing
of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately
keep on jumping too fast after we have
received knowledge of the other team's
speed, no excuse for errors is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of a raging coach.
Mike
Miller was quizmaster of room number
one. He meets teams returning from defeat
by other teams and quizzes them, and
the quizzers give him an answer for
everything. Without prejudice or bias,
without beginning of days or end of
quizzes, like all the other officials
he remains a quizmaster forever. Just
think how great he is!
Who
were they who quizzed and dominated?
Was it not all those Detroit out on
Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we
do not see every team completely subject
to them. But we see Berrien Without
Excuse, although they are stronger and
more powerful than we, do not bring
shaky appeals against such teams in
the presence of the quizmasters. They
will be paid back for the harm they
have done. Their idea of pleasure is
to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day
after day every quizmaster sits and
performs his quizzing duties. Again
and again he offers the same questions,
and day after day every quizzer jumps
and performs their quizzing duties.
Again and again they offer the same
answers. But we have come to World,
to the ultimate tournament. We have
come to team upon team in joyful assembly.
Therefore since we are attending a tournament
that cannot be topped let us be thankful
and so quiz acceptably with reverence
and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming
passion.
Remember
those in the semi-finals as if you were
our fellow quizzer, and those in the
finals as if you yourself were suffering.
It still remains that some will enter
the finals, and some of those who formerly
have won tournaments cannot go in because
they are too old. Therefore since the
possibility of entering the finals still
stands, let us be careful that none
of us be found to have fallen short
of it.
And
what more shall we say? We do not have
time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine,
Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and
Berrien, who through studying, conquered
teams, administered answers and gained
olympic points. Who shut the mouths
of captains, quenched the fury of contests,
and escaped three nights of sleep!
But
do not forget this one thing dear friend:
with a quiz tournament, a day is like
a thousand years and a thousand years
are like a day.
Sleep
and calm nerves be yours in abundance
through the relaxation of retirement
and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S.
After the finals are over, let us leave
the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew,
not laying again the foundations of
John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts,
Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting
we will do so.
©
2004, Iowa Bible Quizzing, http://cnonline.net/~TheCookieJar/Quizzing-welcome.html
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
To
Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at
World, and scattered throughout the
quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey,
James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple,
and John Isett,
Quiz-outs
and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S.
All quizzers are like grass, and all
their glory is like the flowers of the
field. Their scores wither and their
standings fall, but the word of the
Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This
is now our first letter to you. We have
written it as a reminder to stimulate
you to quizzing thinking. In the past
the quizmasters spoke to us at many
times and in various quizzes, but in
these last days they have spoken to
us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which
they appointed material of all quizzes,
and through which they made the questions.
So we will make every effort to see
that after your departure you will always
be able to know the happenings of World
2004.
By
faith, our dad, when called to drive
us to Cedarville, a place we would later
quiz at, agreed and went, even though
he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in Ohio, like
a stranger in a foreign state. He lived
in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy,
Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with
him of the same quizzing stress.
A
tournament was set up. In it's first
room were the scoreboard, the table,
and the quizzers' seats. This table
contained the quiz box, quiz Bible,
and the question packets. Behind the
table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our
coach said, "See I lay a team in
World, a chosen and precious team, and
the one who calls them correct will
never be put to shame." She also
says, "Today if you get a free
question, do not answer questionably
as was done in the round robins during
the time of quizzing in James Benson's
room, where Detroit and Iowa contested,
and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!"
And again, "Do not forget to say
something, for by so doing some people
have answered correctly without knowing
it."
Quizzers
that drink in the material often studying
on it and that produce correct answers
useful to their team receive the blessing
of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately
keep on jumping too fast after we have
received knowledge of the other team's
speed, no excuse for errors is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of a raging coach.
Mike
Miller was quizmaster of room number
one. He meets teams returning from defeat
by other teams and quizzes them, and
the quizzers give him an answer for
everything. Without prejudice or bias,
without beginning of days or end of
quizzes, like all the other officials
he remains a quizmaster forever. Just
think how great he is!
Who
were they who quizzed and dominated?
Was it not all those Detroit out on
Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we
do not see every team completely subject
to them. But we see Berrien Without
Excuse, although they are stronger and
more powerful than we, do not bring
shaky appeals against such teams in
the presence of the quizmasters. They
will be paid back for the harm they
have done. Their idea of pleasure is
to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day
after day every quizmaster sits and
performs his quizzing duties. Again
and again he offers the same questions,
and day after day every quizzer jumps
and performs their quizzing duties.
Again and again they offer the same
answers. But we have come to World,
to the ultimate tournament. We have
come to team upon team in joyful assembly.
Therefore since we are attending a tournament
that cannot be topped let us be thankful
and so quiz acceptably with reverence
and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming
passion.
Remember
those in the semi-finals as if you were
our fellow quizzer, and those in the
finals as if you yourself were suffering.
It still remains that some will enter
the finals, and some of those who formerly
have won tournaments cannot go in because
they are too old. Therefore since the
possibility of entering the finals still
stands, let us be careful that none
of us be found to have fallen short
of it.
And
what more shall we say? We do not have
time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine,
Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and
Berrien, who through studying, conquered
teams, administered answers and gained
olympic points. Who shut the mouths
of captains, quenched the fury of contests,
and escaped three nights of sleep!
But
do not forget this one thing dear friend:
with a quiz tournament, a day is like
a thousand years and a thousand years
are like a day.
Sleep
and calm nerves be yours in abundance
through the relaxation of retirement
and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S.
After the finals are over, let us leave
the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew,
not laying again the foundations of
John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts,
Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting
we will do so.
©
2004, Iowa Bible Quizzing, http://cnonline.net/~TheCookieJar/Quizzing-welcome.html
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Dave
Gaebler, a retired quizzer,
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
Letters
Read at WBQA Finals
Thank you to the Iowa
Quizzers for sharing
your wisdom with us!
2004
WBQA Finals Results
WBQA
Finals Message Board
Next
Year's Plans
To Iowa Obsolete and Aging, strangers at World, and scattered throughout the quiz rooms of Mike Miller, Chris Frey, James Benson, Gary Goetz, Andy Dalrymple, and John Isett,
Quiz-outs and victories be yours in abundance.
If
there had been nothing wrong with our
finish last year, no place would have
been sought for another. But the coach
said, "This is the covenant I will
make with the team of Iowa after that
time: I will put Hebrews in their minds
and write Peter on their hearts. No
longer will a quizzer teach his neighbor,
or a teammate her sister, saying 'Know
the material,' because they will all
know it, from the least of them to the
greatest. For I will forgive their errors,
and will remember their fouls no more."
To the captains among you I appeal as
a former captain: Be shepherds of the
team that is under your care, serving
as defenders, not because you must,
but because you are willing, as your
coach wants you to be. Every captain
is selected from among his teammates
and is appointed to represent them in
matters related to the quizmaster-to
offer contests and rebuttals. He is
able to deal gently with those whose
answers are ignorant and are going astray,
since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he has to offer defenses
for his own answers, as well as for
the answers of his team. No one takes
this stress upon himself; he must be
called by his coach, just as the co-captain
is.
Therefore prepare your minds for action;
be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can answer correctly. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reference for
your teammate's quote. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear
pronunciation, so that those who speak
against your answers may be ashamed.
You call on a quizmaster who judges
each man's work impartially. But once
he says, "The quizmaster has ruled
and will not change his mind,"
if you continue to argue, you will be
rejected. You will bring about no change
of mind, though you seek it with tears.
Now there have been many captains, since
age prevented them from continuing in
office. For once one turns twenty, it
is declared: "You are retired forever,
in the order of Sarah Mally." Be
on your guard. Your adversary Berrien
prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for teams to devour. Resist them, standing
firm in the standings, because you know
that your fellow quizzers throughout
the tournament are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.
Therefore strengthen your feeble necks
and weak knees. Make level pads for
your seat. For in just a very little
while, he who is jumping will jump and
will not delay. Do not be carried away
by all kinds of strange quoting. It
is good for our score to be strengthened
by bonuses, not by wrong answers, which
are of no value to those who give them.
Even though I speak like this, dear
friends, I am confident of better things
in your case-things that accompany the
finals. The preliminaries are only a
shadow of the finals that are coming,
not the realities themselves. For this
reason they can never, by the same questions
repeated endlessly day after day, make
champions of those who draw near to
quiz. We have come to quiz in the finals
if we hold firmly till the end the winning
streak we had at first. Therefore, dear
friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not
be carried away by errors and fall from
your secure position. Be all the more
eager to make your trophies and ribbons
sure. For if you do these things, you
will never fall, and you will receive
a rich welcome into the awards ceremony.
Brothers, I urge you to bear with my
word of exhortation, for I have written
you only a short letter.
Greet all your coaches and all the quizzers.
Those from Iowa send you their greetings.
Grace be with you all.
P.S. All quizzers are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. Their scores wither and their standings fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.
June, 2004
Dear Dave,
This is now our first letter to you. We have written it as a reminder to stimulate you to quizzing thinking. In the past the quizmasters spoke to us at many times and in various quizzes, but in these last days they have spoken to us in Hebrews and 1&2 Peter, which they appointed material of all quizzes, and through which they made the questions. So we will make every effort to see that after your departure you will always be able to know the happenings of World 2004.
By faith, our dad, when called to drive us to Cedarville, a place we would later quiz at, agreed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in Ohio, like a stranger in a foreign state. He lived in motels, as did Elizabeth and Amy, Evelyn and Edward, who were heirs with him of the same quizzing stress.
A tournament was set up. In it's first room were the scoreboard, the table, and the quizzers' seats. This table contained the quiz box, quiz Bible, and the question packets. Behind the table were the quizmaster and scorekeeper.
Our coach said, "See I lay a team in World, a chosen and precious team, and the one who calls them correct will never be put to shame." She also says, "Today if you get a free question, do not answer questionably as was done in the round robins during the time of quizzing in James Benson's room, where Detroit and Iowa contested, and for fifteen minutes saw him deliberate!" And again, "Do not forget to say something, for by so doing some people have answered correctly without knowing it."
Quizzers that drink in the material often studying on it and that produce correct answers useful to their team receive the blessing of the quizmaster. But if we deliberately keep on jumping too fast after we have received knowledge of the other team's speed, no excuse for errors is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of a raging coach.
Mike Miller was quizmaster of room number one. He meets teams returning from defeat by other teams and quizzes them, and the quizzers give him an answer for everything. Without prejudice or bias, without beginning of days or end of quizzes, like all the other officials he remains a quizmaster forever. Just think how great he is!
Who were they who quizzed and dominated? Was it not all those Detroit out on Obsolete and Aging? Yet at present we do not see every team completely subject to them. But we see Berrien Without Excuse, although they are stronger and more powerful than we, do not bring shaky appeals against such teams in the presence of the quizmasters. They will be paid back for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to cream the rest of us in broad daylight!
Day after day every quizmaster sits and performs his quizzing duties. Again and again he offers the same questions, and day after day every quizzer jumps and performs their quizzing duties. Again and again they offer the same answers. But we have come to World, to the ultimate tournament. We have come to team upon team in joyful assembly. Therefore since we are attending a tournament that cannot be topped let us be thankful and so quiz acceptably with reverence and awe, for our quizzing is a consuming passion.
Remember those in the semi-finals as if you were our fellow quizzer, and those in the finals as if you yourself were suffering. It still remains that some will enter the finals, and some of those who formerly have won tournaments cannot go in because they are too old. Therefore since the possibility of entering the finals still stands, let us be careful that none of us be found to have fallen short of it.
And what more shall we say? We do not have time to tell about Detroit, Idaho, Maine, Cedine, Pittsburg, Ohio, Shenango, and Berrien, who through studying, conquered teams, administered answers and gained olympic points. Who shut the mouths of captains, quenched the fury of contests, and escaped three nights of sleep!
But do not forget this one thing dear friend: with a quiz tournament, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day.
Sleep and calm nerves be yours in abundance through the relaxation of retirement and the joy of being twenty-one.
Your
former teammates,
Iowa Obsolete and Aging
P.S. After the finals are over, let us leave the book of Hebrews and go on to Matthew, not laying again the foundations of John, or of Corinthians, Luke, Acts, Galatians, or Romans. And God permitting we will do so.
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