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Knowledge bowl.


Playing this Knowledge Bowl game is a fun and easy way for students to review key facts and ideas from Junior Scholastic this year. This game covers our most recent issues: November November: see month.  14, November 28, and December December: see month.  12.

To play, assign students to the following roles:

* Quizmaster: Reads each question.

* Players: Two, three, or four teams of similar size.

* Scorekeeper score·keep·er  
n.
An official who records the score throughout a game or competition.



scorekeep
.

PLAYING RULES

* Players select a category and question number. If they answer correctly, they earn points for their team (see chart at right). If they answer incorrectly in·cor·rect  
adj.
1. Not correct; erroneous or wrong: an incorrect answer.

2. Defective; faulty: incorrect programming of the computer.

3.
, the next team tries the same question (unless it is a True or False item).

* Teams should take turns, in order, answering the questions. Players also take turns within their teams.

* The game lasts until all the questions have been answered.

HOW TO SCORE
In each category, award the following
points for each correct answer:

Question #1    5 Points
Question #2   10 Points
Question #3   15 Points
Question #4   20 Points
Question #5   25 Points
Question #6   30 Points
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Title Annotation:Educational games
Publication:Junior Scholastic
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 12, 2005
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