Battle of the Books

Battle of the Books

4/15/15

Books read: 3

     Battle of the books is a opportunity for trivia. People form teams, and read to become the team that know the book the best. There are a certain amount of books for your team and you to read. Your job is to remember what happens in those books, and eventually answer questions about the books you read. There can only be a maximum of five people on your team, meaning that everyone has to read more than one book if you wanted to split up the books evenly.

     Today is the 15th of April. This is the day of the trivia. I read books called, Zebra Forest, A Dog's Life (An autobiography of a Stray), and Trouble. My job was to remember the main parts of the book, and battle against my peers until the challenge is over. Whoever has the most points, wins. There were two rounds, and there is a possibility of scoring 30 points for each round. If you were to do the simple math, that would be a total of 60 possible points.

     The first question for our team was about a book that we didn't have much knowledge about. It was mostly my responsibility to read and understand it... but I didn't get to read the entire thing because I was taking my time or reading a different book. The plus side though, was we got one point because I knew the author (1 point for author and 2 points for answering the asked question correctly). We scored a perfect score for the rest of the round. We ended up with 28 points for the first round.

     The second round was harder for us because we got the more, difficult/advanced questions, but we still pulled through. We ended up tying for second place... until we settled it with a sudden death. It was a very nerve-racking moment. If you were to count up all the points we had, it was 51 (58 if you were to count the sudden death). We took first place! We were so happy, and we will soon be going to the next part of the battle.