October 9, 2024 • 31 mins
In this episode, Mr. B sits down with Charlotte Shores to talk about quiz bowl. Charlotte talks about what quiz bowl is, how it is played, how she made the team, and some of her favorite things about quiz bowl. She has a LOT to say. We really hope you enjoy the podcast, and as always- never be afraid to embrace your inner weirdo!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now this young lady is a great interview. Hello everyone
out there, and welcome to the podcast with the nerve
(00:22):
and the audacity and yes, yes, indeed, the unmitigated goal
to just come run out and ask, hey, what is
your deal? My name is Michael Bridges, and I am
the GT and AP coordinator for the Alma School District
here in alcohol Alma, Arkansas, and we want to welcome
you to the number one GT podcast in the state
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of Arkansas. That is also the only GT podcast in
the state of Arkansas. And I'm kind of got to
thinking I may need to check that out because there
may be other GT podcasts that we've inspired out there.
I hope everybody's doing well. I'm getting ready to get
into fall here. Things going crazy foot college football season
kicking off. There's baseball playoffs, which I'm a big, huge
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fan of. Can't wait for the World Series to happen,
no matter who it's going to be. Just finished up
the AGIA conference last week in Benton. It was very interesting,
had Secretarial Leva speak as well as doctor Plucker from
the NAGC. A very interesting conference. Secretary o Leva got
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up and spoke about just kind of advancement and acceleration
in schools, which hey, I am all for. I am
all for the fact if a kid is in fifth
grade and has the ability to take a seventh grade
or even eighth grade math course, that they should be
able to. I love the ideas. It's all just about
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the implementation. It's going to be figuring out how to
do that and you know, educating those kids. So I
just kind of am sitting back and waiting to see
how everything plays out. I'm not wanting to make a
quick judgment on anything. I advise everyone else not make
a quick judgment on things, and just kind of wait
and see how things play out and how this is
going to work. New system, lots of new things going on,
(02:07):
lots of uncertainty out there in the education system right now.
So I think we just need to kind of hold
tight and see what happens. That's about all you can do.
You can't make a judgment before things kind of come down.
So that's what we're all waiting on. Not going to
keep you along here on the intro because I'm hoping
you're not showing up just to hear me. I'm hoping
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you're showing up to hear these GT students, And in
an effort to hear these GT students again, if I
could encourage you to go out, you know, give us
a like, talk about the podcast with your friends. I
really want to give our students just a springboard to
be able to get out there and talk about the
things they know and the passions they have and the
things that they love. Because I can assure you, and
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I'm biased here, our gifted students have a lot to say.
And there's some very interesting and yes, sometimes strange students
out there, but you know, just kind of adds to
the mystery and adds to the fun. And with that
being said, I would like to introduce you to my
friend Charlotte Shores, who would like to tell you exactly
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what her deal is. Enjoy everyone, what why are you here?
What are you're sitting here for?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You invited me here for a podcast?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I did, yes, hang on, hang on, okay, let me
check my schedule here. Oh that's right, I have Charlotte
at two for a podcast. So that is you. So Charlotte,
tell me why are you here? What is your deal?
My deal is quizbow Okay, so you want to talk
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about quizbol What is quiz Bowl.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's basically an academic game where there are four different
rounds and you just answer a bunch of a variety
of questions.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, okay, so you're and you're on the team, right
two years in a row? Okay, so how did you
make the team? What what happened so you could make
the team?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's kind of simple. You just take the test and
hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Take the test and hope for the best. That ought
to be on a shirt or something. Take the test
and hope for the best. There there we go, Missus
Lyons and miss self, missus Lion and myself might want
to make that a shirt. Take the test, hope for
the best. All right. So yeah, so it's like a
it's like a buzzer system, but you had to take
a test. Like what were some of the what were
some of the questions on the test?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Do you remember one question I remember both years is
who is the green monster and the trash can from
Sesame Street oscar the ground?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah? So what people want to know, like what are
some of the questions in quiz Bowl?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Like there are like math questions, history history questions, and
just like a big variety most of the boys like
the what's it called sports questions? Yeah, And whenever mister
Bridges yells math computation, everyone's like, oh, and I'm always
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the person who's shouting yes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, I'll have to. I'm gonna I'm gonna scoop back
from the mic and do my math computation voice because
it's gonna be really loud. Okay, So here we go.
Next question is a math computation. Yeah, and everybody here
that lot. Everybody likes that. Some people it scares them.
I'll literally watch fourth and fifth graders jump whenever I
do it. It's kind of fun. It's like it's like
a little bonus to my job. So how is the
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game set up? Like like it it's a quiz bow match.
Quiz bow matches usually take about thirty minutes. How is
the game set up?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
There are four rounds. First, there's a toss up that's
just like twenty questions, just like all random and a
bunch of varieties of it. And then there's the bonus question,
which is like toss up. But then when you get
a question right, your whole team gets four questions that
the other team can't answer.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, And so okay, and then what's the round after that?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You remember that runs lightning ground and there are three
topics and whoever's behind which you usually don't want to be,
gets to pick first out of the three, and then
you pick your topic and then so there are you
get a minute to answer ten try and answer ten questions.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And then the last round is another toss up. Yeah,
so you start with a toss up and you end
with a toss up. Where did I tell you you
win and lose the game? Do you remember.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Bonus and lightning because you get the most there? Yes,
that favorite lightning is. We did one on craft supplies
that I last year. I memorized because like I like
crafts and all and we will the second time we
did it, we got all one hundred points and then
we got a twenty bonus for getting all of them right.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, there's we're not going to be able to explain
all the minutia that is quiz Bowl. But yeah, in
the lightning round, if you get all ten questions right
in less than a minute, you get a bonus twenty points.
So you can score one hundred and twenty points in
that one round, which is big, which is sometimes more
than a team scores the whole game. So yeah, it
can be a big deal. So why do you like
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playing quizball? I mean, it sounds like it's a nerdy thing, Charlotte.
Why would people like to play quiz ba?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Because I feel like it's one thing that stretches my
brain A lot of times when I was little, Like
in first grade, I felt like I and in kindergarten,
I felt like I learned nothing because nothing was a challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Ouch, Okay, all right, I'm sorry to her kindergarten first
grade teachers. I know you did your best, Okay, but
it's just.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Something that's academic that I can do because I like academics.
And then I don't play on any sports teams, so
it's just one team I get.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
To be on, okay, and it's not a team.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like where I'm having to do all the work. Okay,
like in class most of the time, if you're in
a group, a lot of times one person gets stuck
doing a little more work than.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
A true person can be group projects like him or
hate him.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It depends on who work.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Okay, we won't say any names, but I'm I'm the
exact same way. But if you give me the choice. Okay,
you can go work with these people or you can
do it yourself. I prefer to do it myself. Why
do you prefer to do things yourself?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Because it just goes your way and I can go faster.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Would you say, Charlotte, that you are a control freak?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Would your mother say that you are a control freak?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
If we're being quite in the cafeteria, yes, I'm shushing
everyone who's talking.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're the shusher, yes, and when the shusher shushes you,
you have to shush. Yes, yes, Okay, Okay, So that's
I'm I'm kind of when it comes to my work
and things that I produce, and I could. I would
say that about you too, just from what I know
about you, that we're control freaks. We kind of like
to have it our way. If we're if our name
is going to be on it, we want it done
a certain way, right, Yes, And I don't think there's
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necessarily anything wrong with that. Now, it's when you dip
over into perfectionism and stuff like that. But that's a
whole other podcast we could talk. So are there any
pressures with quiz ball? Do you say that you feel
pressure in quiz ball?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes. When we had our tournament last year, we had
a math computation and I'm right handed, and so that's
the same hand I write with and buzz in with comfortably.
And there they had like other buzzers that like the
button went off easier and so like it was the
first game and like you the jitters and I was
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trying to do the math computation and like my thumbs
jeering and presses the button and like I haven't got
the answer yet. And that's like when you don't know
the answer or have accidentally buzzed in, or like think
you know an answer and get it wrong. They're scared
to get it wrong. It's just like you don't want
your team to be mad at you. Like that's just
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the scariest part for me.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's that's true. You don't want you don't want to
upset your team. But we've talked about, you know, and
we did. We didn't necessarily mention that, yeah, there are
buzzers with this. It's almost like a game show set up.
You buzz in with the right answer, and a lot
of times we'll ask a question and you've got like
five seconds to answer, and if it's sat out there
for three seconds and you think you know the answer,
What should you do?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Charlotte buzzon?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, because are there any do they take away points
for getting a question wrong? No? No, But like you
were saying, you don't want to buzz in quick and
then somebody else on your team knew the answer, and
even if you.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Were really shirt and even if you do get it right,
it's still scary, like, oh if I get this wrong,
my team might be madded. That's the one part I
don't really like.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, you think you let your team down? I could,
I could see that. Do you think quiz bolds for everybody?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Not really? I mean it depends on really if you
have stage fright and don't want to speak up, then no,
because then you'd only be good at when you get
a bonus round and talk to your captain or en
lightning around and talk to your captain. And so if
if you have three people on your team out of
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the five people that are on that team who have
stage fright and are scared to speak up, you don't
want that. And then there are people who only like
math questions. True, I am okay about sports. I don't
know most of the answers but I enjoy geography, history,
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and math a wide variety of them. So if there's
one topic you like and you don't like a lot
of topics, I would say it's probably not for you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But like I know, like for us fourth and fifth grade,
we just want you to come on and get the experience.
But as you start going to middle school, and especially
when you go to high school with mister Edwards, you know,
coaching the team and everything, they have specialists there. I
mean they have people that are like, this is our
math guy, this is our science person, this is our
geography person. So it can be for somebody who just specializes.
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But I think kind of what you're saying is you
want to have kind of eosaria.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's really just like you need to have a wide variety. Yes,
totally last year every week because we haven't got to
have a practice this year. But everybody kind of gave
me a chance to buzz in on most of the
math questions unless they absolutely knew they right answer already.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes, yeah, because yeah you can. You can buzz in early,
and sometimes you jump the question and you jump it
too soon before you get all the information you need.
But with that being said, you know you said we actually,
because I do make a lot of decisions on the
fourth and fifth grade team. I hold the triumphs and everything,
as you know, like I'll still get those quiet kids
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because it's good for them to get in those middle
rounds because there are a lot of kids that are
afraid to buzz in. But that can still be good
for your team.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Team. Yeah, like you need to have one person because
like your captain. Yes, but if your whole team is quiet,
then even though the bonus rounds and lightning rounds are
the big rounds, those toss ups are kind of what's
secure it a little bit, but it doesn't make that
much of a difference.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I guess you could say, but I think you know,
you kind of touched on something. If somebody comes out
and I don't know if you've ever had a match
like this, but I've seen matches like this where the
team comes out and like the first ten toss up questions,
the first ten questions in the first round, they'll get
eight of them right, and that kind of makes you
feel like, oh my gosh, this team's really good. I
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don't know if I can answer, and it kind of
makes you nervous.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
We actually last year played a team we lost that one,
and then we played them in our last one and
we beat them in the last one.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Nice. And so why'd you lose the first one? Do
you think did they just get on a roll?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well? Yes, and I felt like they came in a
little we're confident. I whenever I go somewhere, I am
nervous for the first one. Like when I did chess
last year, I'd be scared for the first game, but
then I would get comfortable. I think that's what happened, because,
like I said, it was the first round when I
did that buzz thing on it accident, right, and then
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that kind of set me off where like I got
scared to buzzy.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Sure. Yeah, Well so it's like quiz Bowl's got like
life lessons and stuff in there, right, You just kind
of have to overcome things sometimes.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And one time we had actually gone to me and
my mom had gone to the library. I don't know
what I was doing. I told my mom, did you
know if you're going ninety miles per hour, you'd be
going and a half miles or whatever I said. And
the next day we had quis bow practice and that
question was on there so it's a bunch of random facts.
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Like one time it was what kind of cheese has holes?
It was Swiss cheese. Yes, it's just a lot of
it's very random.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes, but it's just I think quiz Bowl and you're
one of these people is for people who just like knowledge,
that like to know things about different things. And like
you said, I think it's much better to have somebody
that has a broad knowledge of a lot of things,
you know, because like pop culture questions are on there,
there's modern day stuff. I'm sure there will be stuff
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on the election by the time we get to the
tournament that'll come up because our tournaments come up like
in February of March, so there'll be questions about the
election all sorts of things. And then there's math and
everything else that comes into that. So you talked about
like strengths and weaknesses and you said your strength is math.
Do you think you've got a weakness like something that's sports?
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Sports are great.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
One time when we had a bonus round, it was
like what you gave us a city and it was
what's their team name? I actually for once did kind
of good on that one, but I am definite you
kind of leave the sports to most of the boys
up there, like that's just usually how it goes.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Sometimes sometimes that is true, but it's you know that
lightning round that we were talking about, which is the
sixty second round. That's when you kind of have to
do that strength and weaknesses thing comes in because and
I've seen Charlotte do this. You know, to your credit,
there'll be a topic come up and a bunch of
the kids will want to do that topic. It might
have been a sports topic, and Charlotte will say, I
don't know much about that one. So then you kind
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of take yourself out of that round. But you don't
want to be in there if you're not going to
be able to answer questions Like Charlotte, woudn't have sat
out if it was crafts right, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Because then I probably could have gotten us one hundred
and twenty points buffos sports. I may have only got
us like ten.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Right, but like crafts, art, math terms things like that,
that would be that would be something you'd be like,
I need to be in on it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I like the vocabulary ones that are in alphabetical order, yes,
because then it makes it a little easier because you know,
but I don't like it when on the other team
they choose it and then like they're doing it and
they choose a whole other word that doesn't even start
with that letter. Yes, it bothers.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And the way that you do that what Charlotte's talking about,
because I try, and I know some of you may
not know how quiz Bow works, but like lightning, rounds
ten questions in a row. So what the competitors should
do is take the scratch paper that they get a
number their paper from one to ten, and then if
it's an alphabetical thing that like starts with A, well,
the answered question one is going to start with an A.
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Answer to question two, we'll start with the B and
I tell them go down your list one, two, three, four,
five and go ABCD that way, if you get off track,
you know you're locked in because that there's a lot
of big clues in things that you can use to
help you there. So I know there were probably people
who tried out for it this year and didn't make it,
because we had it was it was the largest group
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I'd ever had. Fifth grade there were like sixty kids,
and I think fourth grade there was something like fifty.
I take ten yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Fourth grade's usually the bigger one because like they're like, oh,
I get to get out of class and take just
this little test.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And then they come in in a little test and
then they come in and see what it's about, and
they're like, I know none of these questions, which it's
it is a hard tryout.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I want them the test This year it was what
border of the Pilgrims land on? I missed it. It
was Plymouth Rock.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I did a lot of people say Mayflower for that answer,
because that's the ship.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I knew that was the ship. I'm like, it's not Mayflower,
what is it? So I just didn't do that question
and I kept re eating the Eskimo house, yes, like
a zeke Mo house, and I'm like, what in the world.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Is I don't even know in a zek Mo house?
What is this nonsense? Okay, So let's say you've made
the team. Okay, you have made the team. Can you
give some advice to those kids that didn't? What can
they what can they maybe try to do? Shoot for?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I would kind of study state names, their capitals and
kind of like their nicknames because those might be on there. Uh,
but practice your math too, because there's always at least
like one question and go ahead and look at some
main sports stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah. Well, and I think for someone like you, this
will not be the case. I figure I could see
you going quiz Bowl all the way through high school
and everything chess team all the way through high school.
But there are kids who are into sports, and what
happens is quiz Bowl starts cutting into sports. So they
love quiz Bowl, but they have this practice and they
stop playing quiz bowls. Well, that makes an opening on
the team. So there's always a chance that yeah, you
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didn't make it this year, maybe you don't make it
next year, but you get to sixth or seventh grade
and you try on again and you make it, So
that can always happen.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
That's another thing. Like I've had some of my friends.
One of my friends I'm not going to say any
name's made it and then I was talking to her
and I said, well, you can always try again next year,
and she said, I'm not trying out next year, And
I said why, Like, you were good at this and
maybe you'll make it next year. Like that's the thing.
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If you think you'd be good at quis bol, try out,
because even if you don't make it. You're on that list.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You're on the list, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Because like it's one through ten and then you have
your people who are in the next places in case.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Someone drops out, And yeah, I mean that one through ten.
There wasn't a lot that separated the ninth, then the
ten the players from the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth players.
It was very, very close, So you could have been
one of those close people. So don't sit there and
get discouraged just because you tried it this time and
didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Before the test comes, like you're so scared for the test,
but it turns out and I forget. I forgot this
both years. That the worst part is waiting, even though
it was just a day, Like it's the suspense, Like
you're all at recess or at activity or whatever, and
you're just like, I wonder if you make it, and
you're like discussing all the questions, like what do you
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put for this? Like because mainly if you all put
the same answers on same questions, it's probably right. So
like you're all asking, what did you put here? Did
you put anything here? What was this?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Well then like it's just and it's interesting because a
lot of those questions have more than one answer, So
it can it can it can go a different way there. Okay,
so you made it through all the tough questions. Now
you get the FUNSI questions. The let's talk about Charlotte questions.
So Charlotte, what would you say is your favorite book?
You read a lot? What is your favorite book?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I cannot find a series that was better than this.
It was a series of unfortune events. But if I
had to pick one book, it was Hostile.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Hospital And is that part of the series of unportance? Okay?
Why that series? Why that book?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Because like, you know all your books and perfectly, like
I was sick of that, you want books that I can't.
I still can't tell if these books are true or
fake because where we keep them in the library doesn't
say fiction or nonfiction. Uh huh, So I don't know
if the story is true or not. And so it's
just there's these three kids who are really wealthy but
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like don't show off, and they're really smart too, Sonny, Klaus,
and Violet, and then their parents die in a fire,
and then like who they're supposed to go to because
they're not going to the orphanage they don't go to.
And then there's this guy named tount Oloff who's trying
to steal their fortune throughout the entire series.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Sounds like a great guy, no, and.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
He tries to kill some of them. What yeah, so
it is very.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yes, and there's gosh, Charlotte, how many books are twenty
thirteen thirteen?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay? What I like about it is you because like,
one thing I have a problem with is when I
get a new book, I'll usually flip to the back
to see how many pages there and then go and
see how many chapters there are. If there are chapters,
so I can see, okay, I have this, I can
figure out in my head how many pages I have left?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And so there are thirteen chapters in each book, and
there are thirteen books like nice.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
That's that's nice and orderly okay, so hostile hospital okay, okay,
So what about movie? Do you have a favorite movie?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Uh? I actually figured out what it was called today.
It's called uh Rescued by Ruby uh and it's about
a German shepherd who's in a shelter. And then there's
this guy who has a dream of being on this
like k nine team and like rescuing people and stuff.
Uh huh, but they're German shepherds. They get them from
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Germany or yeah, from Germany, and they're like ten thousand
dollars a dog, and so like you have to have
your own German shepherd to go try out, and like
you can't get on the team after you're twenty, but
like you can stay on and stuff. And so he
goes and gets this German shepherd. But like this German
shepherd has been in and out of homes because like
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no one's been able to train it, and he trains him,
and like is so into helping this dog, and then
this dog becomes so smart. And it's based off a
true story is another thing I like. Okay, And so
it was just a really good movie.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Very cool. I don't know that I've ever heard of that. Okay,
So this one's always tough for me, and I think
it changes day to day. What's your favorite food s?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Stock side notchos? What?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Whoa hey yo? What I heard the Nacho's part the
ss doc side.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, there are three restaurants. There's one in Branson which
is not on a dock. The one it's a liar,
uh but the one there is one on a dock
that we go to a lot because we have a
vacation house up in Missouri. And then so on the
lake they have a restaurant and they have these nachos
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and like it's this huge plate of nachos and then
they layer in the cheese and whatever meat you choose,
and then if you want, you to have like lettuce
and tomatoes and halipinos. But I just get meat and cheese.
But it's not like they just put all these chips
down and glob all the cheese on it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Right, it's a work of art.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You don't have to worry about getting the chips with
nothing on them from the bottom and dipping them the.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
St So there's a good chip to cheese to meet ratio. Yes, interesting, perfect, Yeah,
I love nachios. Nachos are one of my favorites for sure.
What is your favorite band or type of music?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I don't really know any bands, but I do.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Have an artist, okay, Toby Mack.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay, he's a Christian artist that I really like. But
like you know, most Christian songs aren't super upbeat, like
they might be a little upbeat, but like his are
really upbeat. Uh. In third grade, I got to go
to his concert.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, I thought, I thought you had so to go
see where where did you go to the concert? Where
wasn't Tulsa?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It was actually in fourth grade, but.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I thought it, Yeah, I thought it was. I thought
you were in GT when you went to that. Okay, cool,
What is your favorite memory?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I chose this related to quiz Bowl. It was when
we went to the tournament and like I thought, oh,
we're not going to win a trophy. We did. We
won fourth place, but it was first in the so
called loser bracket, and so we got the Better Luck
Next Time trophy with the four leaf clover on it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And that's that. That is what's crazy is we have
kids that wish they would win the Better Luck Next
Time trophy over the first place trophy.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I would not I want first place.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Were you there when we used to call it the
toilet Bowl and it had like a picture of a
toilet bowl on it because you didn't win the Quiz Bowl,
you won the toilet Bowl.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Uh, But that's just kind of part of it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I got the MVP, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He was she was calling out. So it was the
top ten people and so then she was gonna call
number one last. Like it was people who answered the
most questions. She called one another and like so on
until it was not. I'm like, I'm not getting one.
Then she said, and the MVP Charlotte sures, and like god,
all caught up in the moment she had spelled my
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name wrong and we were about to leave, and she's like,
did I spell your name or and I was like, oh, no,
you didn't, And so my name was almost spelled c
cha r e l ott E.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Hey, if I'm gonna be honest, I struggle with spelling
your name correctly. I'm just now getting it after a year.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Go get Charlotte's web book.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It doesn't matter. I'm still like, my name's on there.
I think I have to say Charlatte in my head
and then I can spell your name right.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's act well, pretty close to what miss Yates, who
I call Yates because I've known her since I was
in kindergarten. Yes, she called me Charlotte, and so I
remember being in the hobby Lobby parking lot and saying,
I need to think of a name for miss Yates,
and I said Yates.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It sounds like she's a pirate. Okay, all right, So
now you have to describe yourself in one word. If
you could use one word to describe yourself, what would
it be?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Oh, that's hard. I it is hardly say academic because
I like academic. Okay, because I'm I don't think of
myself as sporty. Because I have a cousin who plays baseball, basketball,
and football, and for a period of time wanted to
also play hockey. I don't know if he's given that up,
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but like so, when you have that, it's hard to
compare yourself to him and think of yourself as a
sporty person.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So I've always kind of leaned towards academics because I've
always been good at that and I just like learning.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So learning will take you for So what do you
What do you think you want to do when you
grow up? What do you want to be when you
grow up?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I've gone through a moment that I don't no longer
know what I want to For a little while, I
wanted to do because I'm into drawing too, I wanted
to design characters for Pixar. But now with all the
hurricanes I've seen, I don't want to live in California.
I think you would have to though, because that's where
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there own the studio for that is.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But now everything's like going remote and everything. And of
course the.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Maybe if that changes by the time I have to
start taking classes for stuff, there may be, but like
right now, the studio that they used for that is.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
In California, California, and it would make it easier being
out in California. California got to worry about earthquakes though
more than like hurricanes. Hurricanes are hitting our East coast
right now like crazy, So be praying for Florida because.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, I have family in Florida.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, it's it's kind of scary out there right now. Okay,
So now you get to do the shout out. So
who is the person or persons that you would like
to recognize and just maybe give a big thank you to.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
First, it's people and missus Maddingly and miss Rolling Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
And why missus Maddingly and miss Rolling uh.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Because they were our coaches last year who made doing
quiz Bowl possible because without them, mister Bridges can't handle
all twenty of us. The fifth graders last year were crazy. Ah,
the fourth graders me up.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh the good group really just angelic.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, truthfully, the fifth grade group was crazy. I remember
when we went to practice with Ozark. They were like
running down the sidewalk acting like monkeys.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
They were going they were going a little nuts. So, yeah,
we need to do a shout out for Miss Roland
and miss Maddingly. So Miss Roland and Miss Maddingly, here
you go shut it out one more time. Maybe, Yeah,
there were two people we needed to shout out. So
all right, Charlotte, you did an excellent job. Normally I
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do this thing and I kind of have to draw
questions and stuff and answers out of people, but you
were like right there on top of it, had your
answers ready to go off the top of your head.
Excellent job. Is there anything else you would like to add?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I love school.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
She does love school, and she's very good at it.
So Charlotte, I just want to thank you again for
showing up, and I want to thank everyone for listening,
and remember everybody out there, never be afraid to embrace
your inner weirdo. Thanks everybody,
Now this young lady is a great interview. Hello everyone
out there, and welcome to the podcast with the nerve
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and the audacity and yes, yes, indeed, the unmitigated goal
to just come run out and ask, hey, what is
your deal? My name is Michael Bridges, and I am
the GT and AP coordinator for the Alma School District
here in alcohol Alma, Arkansas, and we want to welcome
you to the number one GT podcast in the state
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of Arkansas. That is also the only GT podcast in
the state of Arkansas. And I'm kind of got to
thinking I may need to check that out because there
may be other GT podcasts that we've inspired out there.
I hope everybody's doing well. I'm getting ready to get
into fall here. Things going crazy foot college football season
kicking off. There's baseball playoffs, which I'm a big, huge
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fan of. Can't wait for the World Series to happen,
no matter who it's going to be. Just finished up
the AGIA conference last week in Benton. It was very interesting,
had Secretarial Leva speak as well as doctor Plucker from
the NAGC. A very interesting conference. Secretary o Leva got
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up and spoke about just kind of advancement and acceleration
in schools, which hey, I am all for. I am
all for the fact if a kid is in fifth
grade and has the ability to take a seventh grade
or even eighth grade math course, that they should be
able to. I love the ideas. It's all just about
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the implementation. It's going to be figuring out how to
do that and you know, educating those kids. So I
just kind of am sitting back and waiting to see
how everything plays out. I'm not wanting to make a
quick judgment on anything. I advise everyone else not make
a quick judgment on things, and just kind of wait
and see how things play out and how this is
going to work. New system, lots of new things going on,
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lots of uncertainty out there in the education system right now.
So I think we just need to kind of hold
tight and see what happens. That's about all you can do.
You can't make a judgment before things kind of come down.
So that's what we're all waiting on. Not going to
keep you along here on the intro because I'm hoping
you're not showing up just to hear me. I'm hoping
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you're showing up to hear these GT students, And in
an effort to hear these GT students again, if I
could encourage you to go out, you know, give us
a like, talk about the podcast with your friends. I
really want to give our students just a springboard to
be able to get out there and talk about the
things they know and the passions they have and the
things that they love. Because I can assure you, and
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I'm biased here, our gifted students have a lot to say.
And there's some very interesting and yes, sometimes strange students
out there, but you know, just kind of adds to
the mystery and adds to the fun. And with that
being said, I would like to introduce you to my
friend Charlotte Shores, who would like to tell you exactly
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what her deal is. Enjoy everyone, what why are you here?
What are you're sitting here for?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You invited me here for a podcast?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I did, yes, hang on, hang on, okay, let me
check my schedule here. Oh that's right, I have Charlotte
at two for a podcast. So that is you. So Charlotte,
tell me why are you here? What is your deal?
My deal is quizbow Okay, so you want to talk
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about quizbol What is quiz Bowl.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's basically an academic game where there are four different
rounds and you just answer a bunch of a variety
of questions.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, okay, so you're and you're on the team, right
two years in a row? Okay, so how did you
make the team? What what happened so you could make
the team?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's kind of simple. You just take the test and
hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Take the test and hope for the best. That ought
to be on a shirt or something. Take the test
and hope for the best. There there we go, Missus
Lyons and miss self, missus Lion and myself might want
to make that a shirt. Take the test, hope for
the best. All right. So yeah, so it's like a
it's like a buzzer system, but you had to take
a test. Like what were some of the what were
some of the questions on the test?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Do you remember one question I remember both years is
who is the green monster and the trash can from
Sesame Street oscar the ground?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah? So what people want to know, like what are
some of the questions in quiz Bowl?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Like there are like math questions, history history questions, and
just like a big variety most of the boys like
the what's it called sports questions? Yeah, And whenever mister
Bridges yells math computation, everyone's like, oh, and I'm always
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the person who's shouting yes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, I'll have to. I'm gonna I'm gonna scoop back
from the mic and do my math computation voice because
it's gonna be really loud. Okay, So here we go.
Next question is a math computation. Yeah, and everybody here
that lot. Everybody likes that. Some people it scares them.
I'll literally watch fourth and fifth graders jump whenever I
do it. It's kind of fun. It's like it's like
a little bonus to my job. So how is the
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game set up? Like like it it's a quiz bow match.
Quiz bow matches usually take about thirty minutes. How is
the game set up?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
There are four rounds. First, there's a toss up that's
just like twenty questions, just like all random and a
bunch of varieties of it. And then there's the bonus question,
which is like toss up. But then when you get
a question right, your whole team gets four questions that
the other team can't answer.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, And so okay, and then what's the round after that?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You remember that runs lightning ground and there are three
topics and whoever's behind which you usually don't want to be,
gets to pick first out of the three, and then
you pick your topic and then so there are you
get a minute to answer ten try and answer ten questions.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And then the last round is another toss up. Yeah,
so you start with a toss up and you end
with a toss up. Where did I tell you you
win and lose the game? Do you remember.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Bonus and lightning because you get the most there? Yes,
that favorite lightning is. We did one on craft supplies
that I last year. I memorized because like I like
crafts and all and we will the second time we
did it, we got all one hundred points and then
we got a twenty bonus for getting all of them right.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, there's we're not going to be able to explain
all the minutia that is quiz Bowl. But yeah, in
the lightning round, if you get all ten questions right
in less than a minute, you get a bonus twenty points.
So you can score one hundred and twenty points in
that one round, which is big, which is sometimes more
than a team scores the whole game. So yeah, it
can be a big deal. So why do you like
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playing quizball? I mean, it sounds like it's a nerdy thing, Charlotte.
Why would people like to play quiz ba?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Because I feel like it's one thing that stretches my
brain A lot of times when I was little, Like
in first grade, I felt like I and in kindergarten,
I felt like I learned nothing because nothing was a challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Ouch, Okay, all right, I'm sorry to her kindergarten first
grade teachers. I know you did your best, Okay, but
it's just.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Something that's academic that I can do because I like academics.
And then I don't play on any sports teams, so
it's just one team I get.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
To be on, okay, and it's not a team.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like where I'm having to do all the work. Okay,
like in class most of the time, if you're in
a group, a lot of times one person gets stuck
doing a little more work than.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
A true person can be group projects like him or
hate him.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It depends on who work.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Okay, we won't say any names, but I'm I'm the
exact same way. But if you give me the choice. Okay,
you can go work with these people or you can
do it yourself. I prefer to do it myself. Why
do you prefer to do things yourself?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Because it just goes your way and I can go faster.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Would you say, Charlotte, that you are a control freak?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Would your mother say that you are a control freak?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
If we're being quite in the cafeteria, yes, I'm shushing
everyone who's talking.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're the shusher, yes, and when the shusher shushes you,
you have to shush. Yes, yes, Okay, Okay, So that's
I'm I'm kind of when it comes to my work
and things that I produce, and I could. I would
say that about you too, just from what I know
about you, that we're control freaks. We kind of like
to have it our way. If we're if our name
is going to be on it, we want it done
a certain way, right, Yes, And I don't think there's
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necessarily anything wrong with that. Now, it's when you dip
over into perfectionism and stuff like that. But that's a
whole other podcast we could talk. So are there any
pressures with quiz ball? Do you say that you feel
pressure in quiz ball?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes. When we had our tournament last year, we had
a math computation and I'm right handed, and so that's
the same hand I write with and buzz in with comfortably.
And there they had like other buzzers that like the
button went off easier and so like it was the
first game and like you the jitters and I was
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trying to do the math computation and like my thumbs
jeering and presses the button and like I haven't got
the answer yet. And that's like when you don't know
the answer or have accidentally buzzed in, or like think
you know an answer and get it wrong. They're scared
to get it wrong. It's just like you don't want
your team to be mad at you. Like that's just
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the scariest part for me.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's that's true. You don't want you don't want to
upset your team. But we've talked about, you know, and
we did. We didn't necessarily mention that, yeah, there are
buzzers with this. It's almost like a game show set up.
You buzz in with the right answer, and a lot
of times we'll ask a question and you've got like
five seconds to answer, and if it's sat out there
for three seconds and you think you know the answer,
What should you do?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Charlotte buzzon?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, because are there any do they take away points
for getting a question wrong? No? No, But like you
were saying, you don't want to buzz in quick and
then somebody else on your team knew the answer, and
even if you.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Were really shirt and even if you do get it right,
it's still scary, like, oh if I get this wrong,
my team might be madded. That's the one part I
don't really like.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, you think you let your team down? I could,
I could see that. Do you think quiz bolds for everybody?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Not really? I mean it depends on really if you
have stage fright and don't want to speak up, then no,
because then you'd only be good at when you get
a bonus round and talk to your captain or en
lightning around and talk to your captain. And so if
if you have three people on your team out of
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the five people that are on that team who have
stage fright and are scared to speak up, you don't
want that. And then there are people who only like
math questions. True, I am okay about sports. I don't
know most of the answers but I enjoy geography, history,
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and math a wide variety of them. So if there's
one topic you like and you don't like a lot
of topics, I would say it's probably not for you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But like I know, like for us fourth and fifth grade,
we just want you to come on and get the experience.
But as you start going to middle school, and especially
when you go to high school with mister Edwards, you know,
coaching the team and everything, they have specialists there. I
mean they have people that are like, this is our
math guy, this is our science person, this is our
geography person. So it can be for somebody who just specializes.
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But I think kind of what you're saying is you
want to have kind of eosaria.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's really just like you need to have a wide variety. Yes,
totally last year every week because we haven't got to
have a practice this year. But everybody kind of gave
me a chance to buzz in on most of the
math questions unless they absolutely knew they right answer already.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes, yeah, because yeah you can. You can buzz in early,
and sometimes you jump the question and you jump it
too soon before you get all the information you need.
But with that being said, you know you said we actually,
because I do make a lot of decisions on the
fourth and fifth grade team. I hold the triumphs and everything,
as you know, like I'll still get those quiet kids
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because it's good for them to get in those middle
rounds because there are a lot of kids that are
afraid to buzz in. But that can still be good
for your team.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Team. Yeah, like you need to have one person because
like your captain. Yes, but if your whole team is quiet,
then even though the bonus rounds and lightning rounds are
the big rounds, those toss ups are kind of what's
secure it a little bit, but it doesn't make that
much of a difference.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I guess you could say, but I think you know,
you kind of touched on something. If somebody comes out
and I don't know if you've ever had a match
like this, but I've seen matches like this where the
team comes out and like the first ten toss up questions,
the first ten questions in the first round, they'll get
eight of them right, and that kind of makes you
feel like, oh my gosh, this team's really good. I
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don't know if I can answer, and it kind of
makes you nervous.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
We actually last year played a team we lost that one,
and then we played them in our last one and
we beat them in the last one.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Nice. And so why'd you lose the first one? Do
you think did they just get on a roll?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well? Yes, and I felt like they came in a
little we're confident. I whenever I go somewhere, I am
nervous for the first one. Like when I did chess
last year, I'd be scared for the first game, but
then I would get comfortable. I think that's what happened, because,
like I said, it was the first round when I
did that buzz thing on it accident, right, and then
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that kind of set me off where like I got
scared to buzzy.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Sure. Yeah, Well so it's like quiz Bowl's got like
life lessons and stuff in there, right, You just kind
of have to overcome things sometimes.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And one time we had actually gone to me and
my mom had gone to the library. I don't know
what I was doing. I told my mom, did you
know if you're going ninety miles per hour, you'd be
going and a half miles or whatever I said. And
the next day we had quis bow practice and that
question was on there so it's a bunch of random facts.
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Like one time it was what kind of cheese has holes?
It was Swiss cheese. Yes, it's just a lot of
it's very random.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes, but it's just I think quiz Bowl and you're
one of these people is for people who just like knowledge,
that like to know things about different things. And like
you said, I think it's much better to have somebody
that has a broad knowledge of a lot of things,
you know, because like pop culture questions are on there,
there's modern day stuff. I'm sure there will be stuff
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on the election by the time we get to the
tournament that'll come up because our tournaments come up like
in February of March, so there'll be questions about the
election all sorts of things. And then there's math and
everything else that comes into that. So you talked about
like strengths and weaknesses and you said your strength is math.
Do you think you've got a weakness like something that's sports?
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Sports are great.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
One time when we had a bonus round, it was
like what you gave us a city and it was
what's their team name? I actually for once did kind
of good on that one, but I am definite you
kind of leave the sports to most of the boys
up there, like that's just usually how it goes.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Sometimes sometimes that is true, but it's you know that
lightning round that we were talking about, which is the
sixty second round. That's when you kind of have to
do that strength and weaknesses thing comes in because and
I've seen Charlotte do this. You know, to your credit,
there'll be a topic come up and a bunch of
the kids will want to do that topic. It might
have been a sports topic, and Charlotte will say, I
don't know much about that one. So then you kind
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of take yourself out of that round. But you don't
want to be in there if you're not going to
be able to answer questions Like Charlotte, woudn't have sat
out if it was crafts right, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Because then I probably could have gotten us one hundred
and twenty points buffos sports. I may have only got
us like ten.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Right, but like crafts, art, math terms things like that,
that would be that would be something you'd be like,
I need to be in on it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I like the vocabulary ones that are in alphabetical order, yes,
because then it makes it a little easier because you know,
but I don't like it when on the other team
they choose it and then like they're doing it and
they choose a whole other word that doesn't even start
with that letter. Yes, it bothers.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And the way that you do that what Charlotte's talking about,
because I try, and I know some of you may
not know how quiz Bow works, but like lightning, rounds
ten questions in a row. So what the competitors should
do is take the scratch paper that they get a
number their paper from one to ten, and then if
it's an alphabetical thing that like starts with A, well,
the answered question one is going to start with an A.
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Answer to question two, we'll start with the B and
I tell them go down your list one, two, three, four,
five and go ABCD that way, if you get off track,
you know you're locked in because that there's a lot
of big clues in things that you can use to
help you there. So I know there were probably people
who tried out for it this year and didn't make it,
because we had it was it was the largest group
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I'd ever had. Fifth grade there were like sixty kids,
and I think fourth grade there was something like fifty.
I take ten yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Fourth grade's usually the bigger one because like they're like, oh,
I get to get out of class and take just
this little test.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And then they come in in a little test and
then they come in and see what it's about, and
they're like, I know none of these questions, which it's
it is a hard tryout.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I want them the test This year it was what
border of the Pilgrims land on? I missed it. It
was Plymouth Rock.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I did a lot of people say Mayflower for that answer,
because that's the ship.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I knew that was the ship. I'm like, it's not Mayflower,
what is it? So I just didn't do that question
and I kept re eating the Eskimo house, yes, like
a zeke Mo house, and I'm like, what in the world.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Is I don't even know in a zek Mo house?
What is this nonsense? Okay, So let's say you've made
the team. Okay, you have made the team. Can you
give some advice to those kids that didn't? What can
they what can they maybe try to do? Shoot for?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I would kind of study state names, their capitals and
kind of like their nicknames because those might be on there. Uh,
but practice your math too, because there's always at least
like one question and go ahead and look at some
main sports stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah. Well, and I think for someone like you, this
will not be the case. I figure I could see
you going quiz Bowl all the way through high school
and everything chess team all the way through high school.
But there are kids who are into sports, and what
happens is quiz Bowl starts cutting into sports. So they
love quiz Bowl, but they have this practice and they
stop playing quiz bowls. Well, that makes an opening on
the team. So there's always a chance that yeah, you
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didn't make it this year, maybe you don't make it
next year, but you get to sixth or seventh grade
and you try on again and you make it, So
that can always happen.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
That's another thing. Like I've had some of my friends.
One of my friends I'm not going to say any
name's made it and then I was talking to her
and I said, well, you can always try again next year,
and she said, I'm not trying out next year, And
I said why, Like, you were good at this and
maybe you'll make it next year. Like that's the thing.
(19:40):
If you think you'd be good at quis bol, try out,
because even if you don't make it. You're on that list.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You're on the list, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Because like it's one through ten and then you have
your people who are in the next places in case.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Someone drops out, And yeah, I mean that one through ten.
There wasn't a lot that separated the ninth, then the
ten the players from the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth players.
It was very, very close, So you could have been
one of those close people. So don't sit there and
get discouraged just because you tried it this time and
didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Before the test comes, like you're so scared for the test,
but it turns out and I forget. I forgot this
both years. That the worst part is waiting, even though
it was just a day, Like it's the suspense, Like
you're all at recess or at activity or whatever, and
you're just like, I wonder if you make it, and
you're like discussing all the questions, like what do you
(20:31):
put for this? Like because mainly if you all put
the same answers on same questions, it's probably right. So
like you're all asking, what did you put here? Did
you put anything here? What was this?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Well then like it's just and it's interesting because a
lot of those questions have more than one answer, So
it can it can it can go a different way there. Okay,
so you made it through all the tough questions. Now
you get the FUNSI questions. The let's talk about Charlotte questions.
So Charlotte, what would you say is your favorite book?
You read a lot? What is your favorite book?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I cannot find a series that was better than this.
It was a series of unfortune events. But if I
had to pick one book, it was Hostile.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Hospital And is that part of the series of unportance? Okay?
Why that series? Why that book?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Because like, you know all your books and perfectly, like
I was sick of that, you want books that I can't.
I still can't tell if these books are true or
fake because where we keep them in the library doesn't
say fiction or nonfiction. Uh huh, So I don't know
if the story is true or not. And so it's
just there's these three kids who are really wealthy but
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like don't show off, and they're really smart too, Sonny, Klaus,
and Violet, and then their parents die in a fire,
and then like who they're supposed to go to because
they're not going to the orphanage they don't go to.
And then there's this guy named tount Oloff who's trying
to steal their fortune throughout the entire series.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Sounds like a great guy, no, and.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
He tries to kill some of them. What yeah, so
it is very.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yes, and there's gosh, Charlotte, how many books are twenty
thirteen thirteen?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay? What I like about it is you because like,
one thing I have a problem with is when I
get a new book, I'll usually flip to the back
to see how many pages there and then go and
see how many chapters there are. If there are chapters,
so I can see, okay, I have this, I can
figure out in my head how many pages I have left?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And so there are thirteen chapters in each book, and
there are thirteen books like nice.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
That's that's nice and orderly okay, so hostile hospital okay, okay,
So what about movie? Do you have a favorite movie?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Uh? I actually figured out what it was called today.
It's called uh Rescued by Ruby uh and it's about
a German shepherd who's in a shelter. And then there's
this guy who has a dream of being on this
like k nine team and like rescuing people and stuff.
Uh huh, but they're German shepherds. They get them from
(23:12):
Germany or yeah, from Germany, and they're like ten thousand
dollars a dog, and so like you have to have
your own German shepherd to go try out, and like
you can't get on the team after you're twenty, but
like you can stay on and stuff. And so he
goes and gets this German shepherd. But like this German
shepherd has been in and out of homes because like
(23:33):
no one's been able to train it, and he trains him,
and like is so into helping this dog, and then
this dog becomes so smart. And it's based off a
true story is another thing I like. Okay, And so
it was just a really good movie.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Very cool. I don't know that I've ever heard of that. Okay,
So this one's always tough for me, and I think
it changes day to day. What's your favorite food s?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Stock side notchos? What?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Whoa hey yo? What I heard the Nacho's part the
ss doc side.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, there are three restaurants. There's one in Branson which
is not on a dock. The one it's a liar,
uh but the one there is one on a dock
that we go to a lot because we have a
vacation house up in Missouri. And then so on the
lake they have a restaurant and they have these nachos
(24:23):
and like it's this huge plate of nachos and then
they layer in the cheese and whatever meat you choose,
and then if you want, you to have like lettuce
and tomatoes and halipinos. But I just get meat and cheese.
But it's not like they just put all these chips
down and glob all the cheese on it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Right, it's a work of art.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You don't have to worry about getting the chips with
nothing on them from the bottom and dipping them the.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
St So there's a good chip to cheese to meet ratio. Yes, interesting, perfect, Yeah,
I love nachios. Nachos are one of my favorites for sure.
What is your favorite band or type of music?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I don't really know any bands, but I do.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Have an artist, okay, Toby Mack.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay, he's a Christian artist that I really like. But
like you know, most Christian songs aren't super upbeat, like
they might be a little upbeat, but like his are
really upbeat. Uh. In third grade, I got to go
to his concert.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, I thought, I thought you had so to go
see where where did you go to the concert? Where
wasn't Tulsa?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It was actually in fourth grade, but.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I thought it, Yeah, I thought it was. I thought
you were in GT when you went to that. Okay, cool,
What is your favorite memory?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I chose this related to quiz Bowl. It was when
we went to the tournament and like I thought, oh,
we're not going to win a trophy. We did. We
won fourth place, but it was first in the so
called loser bracket, and so we got the Better Luck
Next Time trophy with the four leaf clover on it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And that's that. That is what's crazy is we have
kids that wish they would win the Better Luck Next
Time trophy over the first place trophy.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I would not I want first place.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Were you there when we used to call it the
toilet Bowl and it had like a picture of a
toilet bowl on it because you didn't win the Quiz Bowl,
you won the toilet Bowl.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Uh, But that's just kind of part of it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I got the MVP, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He was she was calling out. So it was the
top ten people and so then she was gonna call
number one last. Like it was people who answered the
most questions. She called one another and like so on
until it was not. I'm like, I'm not getting one.
Then she said, and the MVP Charlotte sures, and like god,
all caught up in the moment she had spelled my
(26:46):
name wrong and we were about to leave, and she's like,
did I spell your name or and I was like, oh, no,
you didn't, And so my name was almost spelled c
cha r e l ott E.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Hey, if I'm gonna be honest, I struggle with spelling
your name correctly. I'm just now getting it after a year.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Go get Charlotte's web book.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It doesn't matter. I'm still like, my name's on there.
I think I have to say Charlatte in my head
and then I can spell your name right.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's act well, pretty close to what miss Yates, who
I call Yates because I've known her since I was
in kindergarten. Yes, she called me Charlotte, and so I
remember being in the hobby Lobby parking lot and saying,
I need to think of a name for miss Yates,
and I said Yates.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It sounds like she's a pirate. Okay, all right, So
now you have to describe yourself in one word. If
you could use one word to describe yourself, what would
it be?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Oh, that's hard. I it is hardly say academic because
I like academic. Okay, because I'm I don't think of
myself as sporty. Because I have a cousin who plays baseball, basketball,
and football, and for a period of time wanted to
also play hockey. I don't know if he's given that up,
(28:06):
but like so, when you have that, it's hard to
compare yourself to him and think of yourself as a
sporty person.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So I've always kind of leaned towards academics because I've
always been good at that and I just like learning.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So learning will take you for So what do you
What do you think you want to do when you
grow up? What do you want to be when you
grow up?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I've gone through a moment that I don't no longer
know what I want to For a little while, I
wanted to do because I'm into drawing too, I wanted
to design characters for Pixar. But now with all the
hurricanes I've seen, I don't want to live in California.
I think you would have to though, because that's where
(28:50):
there own the studio for that is.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But now everything's like going remote and everything. And of
course the.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Maybe if that changes by the time I have to
start taking classes for stuff, there may be, but like
right now, the studio that they used for that is.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
In California, California, and it would make it easier being
out in California. California got to worry about earthquakes though
more than like hurricanes. Hurricanes are hitting our East coast
right now like crazy, So be praying for Florida because.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, I have family in Florida.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, it's it's kind of scary out there right now. Okay,
So now you get to do the shout out. So
who is the person or persons that you would like
to recognize and just maybe give a big thank you to.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
First, it's people and missus Maddingly and miss Rolling Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
And why missus Maddingly and miss Rolling uh.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Because they were our coaches last year who made doing
quiz Bowl possible because without them, mister Bridges can't handle
all twenty of us. The fifth graders last year were crazy. Ah,
the fourth graders me up.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh the good group really just angelic.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, truthfully, the fifth grade group was crazy. I remember
when we went to practice with Ozark. They were like
running down the sidewalk acting like monkeys.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
They were going they were going a little nuts. So, yeah,
we need to do a shout out for Miss Roland
and miss Maddingly. So Miss Roland and Miss Maddingly, here
you go shut it out one more time. Maybe, Yeah,
there were two people we needed to shout out. So
all right, Charlotte, you did an excellent job. Normally I
(30:37):
do this thing and I kind of have to draw
questions and stuff and answers out of people, but you
were like right there on top of it, had your
answers ready to go off the top of your head.
Excellent job. Is there anything else you would like to add?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I love school.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
She does love school, and she's very good at it.
So Charlotte, I just want to thank you again for
showing up, and I want to thank everyone for listening,
and remember everybody out there, never be afraid to embrace
your inner weirdo. Thanks everybody,
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