{"id":1108,"date":"2012-02-01T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2012-02-01T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:07:35","slug":"liberty-university-quiz-bowl-team-sweeps-big-south-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University Quiz Bowl Team Sweeps Big South Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liberty University\u2019s Quiz Bowl team captured its sixth Big South Conference win in seven years at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., on Saturday, Jan. 28.<\/p>\n

The team competed against six schools and walked away undefeated for the second year in a row. The average margin of victory was 190 points; they won their closest game by 140 points.<\/p>\n

In its out-of-conference schedule last semester, the team defeated Duke University, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University and Western Kentucky University.<\/p>\n

Quiz Bowl has been called \u201cthe varsity sport of the mind.\u201d Players answer a variety of questions on literature, history, geography, government, the sciences, math, art, popular culture, and sports. Games consist of two 10-minute halves.<\/p>\n

Dr. James Nutter, Liberty\u2019s coach, said it is similar to Jeopardy \u201cbut with much harder questions, where we compete in teams of four against other colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next weekend, the Quiz Bowl team will travel to Virginia Tech to compete in a regional competition of the National Academic Quiz Tournament<\/a>. The top teams will qualify to attend the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament (ICT), the premier quiz bowl tournament at the collegiate level.<\/p>\n

The Quiz Bowl team is part of Liberty’s rigorous Honors Program<\/a>. The team has 18 players from a variety of majors, and six are National Merit Finalists on a full academic scholarship at Liberty. With two seniors graduating in May, Nutter said the team is looking for new players \u201cwho possess a great depth of academic knowledge, popular culture, and trivia.”<\/p>\n

BIG SOUTH TOURNAMENT RESULTS<\/p>\n

LU over UNCA, 275-35
\nLU over Winthrop, 310-70
\nLU over Radford, 260-100
\nLU over Coastal Carolina, 245-75
\nLU over Gardner-Webb, 255-115
\nLU over VMI, 270-80<\/p>\n

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