TOPICS
There are three General Categories in each language from which questions will be drawn: Geography, Culture, and Language. Each category is divided into five sub categories. The list of sub-topics for each language can be found below. Questions will be level appropriate and will reflect information and topics contained in mainstream secondary language texts.
TEAMS
Each school may enter two teams for each language offered at that school (FR / GR / SP / JAPN): One team will be comprised of year I and year II students, the other of Year III, IV, and or AP students. Distribution of students will be as evenly balanced between the years as possible.
Each team will have six active members and two alternates, who will participate only in the event of a tie or a no-show. The names of the team members and alternates will be submitted by the deadline indicated in the registration materials. Students not listed on the application will not play.
PLAY
Each match consists of 12 questions selected randomly from the three question categories. Each question is worth five points if the designated player answers it without consulting, or three points after consulting with team mates. At the end of the match, the team with the most points wins.
Rather than use a buzzer, teams will take turns answering. Line up the team members, or have them sit in a row, and give each a number, one through six. Each student is "it" once during the match (except for understaffed teams).
The first question is directed to student number one, who is “it” on team "A." Only this player is allowed to ask for clarification or for one repetition from the moderator. If she can answer the question correctly without consulting, she wins five points for the team. If she guesses wrong, her team cannot consult and they win no points. Therefore, rather than hazard a guess, if she doesn't know the answer, she can say "No sé," or "Je ne sais pas" or "Ich weiss nicht," which then enables her to consult with her team for twenty seconds. If after consulting she can answer correctly, the team gets three points. On the other hand, if she still can't answer or guesses wrong, the same question goes to team "B" who go immediately into consultation for twenty seconds. If they can feed a correct answer to their player number one, they get three points, with no penalty for a wrong answer.
This exhausts the first question. The second question then goes to player number one on team "B" for a 5-point attempt. The whole process is then repeated, so team "A" gets to try if team "B" misses it. The third question then goes back to team "A"s second player, and the fourth question to team "B"s second player, and so on, until each student has been "it" once, for a total of twelve questions per match, six questions per team. Understaffed teams can simply recycle their players until each team gets a minimum of six questions, for a total of twelve questions per match (except in the case of a tie).
Important details:
Geography
Language
Culture
Geography
Language
Culture
Geography
Language
Culture
Geography
Language
Culture