Inaugural Community Quiz Bowl Provided Lunchtime Community Fun

This spring, the Tandem community held an inaugural Quiz Bowl/Tandem Trivia contest that was open to teams from the whole school that could be comprised of students and/or faculty/staff. Upper School Director Russell Combs and English teacher Robert Schuster, who coach Tandem's competitive student Quiz Bowl team, launched the idea back in March and eight teams (32 contestants) hastily answered the call. Russell and Robert set up a double elimination tournament that guaranteed each team two matches, with winning teams staying in the top bracket and losing teams in the bottom bracket. Games were fifteen questions, with Russell as the emcee and Robert running the scoring, each player had a buzzer, and the games were played during lunch over the course of a few weeks. Congratulations to the team of Todd Love, Ben Brown, Jeremy Boissevain and Kim Dukes on their undefeated run and eventual championship win this week over runners up Jude G, Mark Goldstein, Nati Y and Tina Goode. The competition was filled with good-natured rivalry and a promise to return next year.