Page No: 10 Dulwich Despatch
Kids Lit Quiz 2015 The Kids Lit Quiz is an annual competition run by Wayne Mills that takes place all round the world, in which the questions are based on books. There are ten rounds with ten questions each. Each round has a theme and at the beginning you decide which round will be your joker round (in which points are doubled) based on the round titles. Those who win their local heat, for us South London, get prizes and go on to the national heat, then the winners to the international final. This year the international heat is in New Zealand.
Several months before the local heat the Kids Lit Quiz club runs at DC. It is often on several days a week and uses questions from previous years, including the one I was in. Based on how you do you may or may not get picked for the team, but as I found out it is worth a try. Although I thought I knew too little about books, even though I do read, I managed to get in.
Many famous books have questions appearing time and time again, Harry Potter often has a round to itself. If you like reading try to get in to the competition, and if you do try to beat the Dulwich College B Team of 2015 who finished in 3 rd place. Will you do better than us? My Report on the Quiz 2015:
We weren’t doing too well, 23 rd place and it was already the third round of ten. The other group were in about 16 th . However, most other groups played their joker in the Harry Potter round, yet we still had the World Myths to play. We had crept slowly through the rankings, but the board was hard to make out, when it was actually on. Where had we come? I hoped for 11 th
place, maybe 10 th if we were lucky. At least I had enjoyed it, even more so knowing that next year I couldn’t do it. Third place was being announced. “And third place, is Dulwich College B Team!” proclaimed Wayne, the Quizmaster. I was amazed. Up we went to receive our certificates and handshakes, this was more than I could have hoped for. When the photos were taken I remembered that I needed to smile to show my happiness, I couldn’t expect people to guess how I was feeling. We may not have qualified for the National Heat but I was extremely happy.
Ned Wildgoose-Bulloch, 8C
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