The Academic Quiz

On Wednesday, fifth of June, two teams from year seven and eight went to an Academic Quiz night at Broadgreen Intermediate. The year seven team were called the Puple People eaters, and the year eight team-Max, Jamie, Zane, Catherine, Rubin, and Benjamin- were the Nerds.

On the night there were eight categories in which there were ten questions on each. The categories were Science- insects, Maths- Geometry, NZ movies, NZ Children's books, the NZ Olympics team, Maori knowledge,  NZ songs, and NZ icons. There was also an extension on the maths, where we had 30 seconds to write down as many numbers of pi (π) as possible- unfortunately 30 seconds is a relatively short time and we didn't manage to write down all of the numbers we had learned. It took two hours to get through the whole thing, (but luckily we were supplied with water and lollies to keep us going!!)

You'd expect quizzes to be boring, but the whole thing was actually super fun - and in the end, The Purple People eaters came 11th out of 22 teams, and The Nerds came fifth tied!