UC Academic Team Takes Second Place at Quiz Bowl

By Annie Yang
Contributing Writer

"Montezerdi, a 17th century Italian opera composer," was a pivotal
answer for a UC Berkeley academic team, which took second place at an
annual Quiz Bowl tournament this weekend.
	The Quiz Bowl academic competition tests students' knowledge on
various topics, including world history, literature and the sciences.
	UC Berkeley's strong showing pushed them one step closer to competing
at the national tournament in April.
	After much deliberation, four UC Berkeley team members answered the
bonus question about music correctly, winning a round against Stanford
University at the quiz bowl.
	At the tournament, hosted by UC Berkeley, 60 students on 15 teams
from colleges nationwide faced each other in a battle of the minds.
	The UC Berkeley team came in second place, beating Stanford, UCLA and
UC Davis. Other participants included Brigham Young University, which
won first place.
	For the first time in three years, the Quiz Bowl team decided to send
only undergraduates to compete. Graduate students organized and ran
the tournament, after forming the Berkeley Foundation for Academic
Competition Tournaments (FACT) this fall.
	"This made our accomplishments that much stronger," said Jeff Newman,
Quiz Bowl club member and tournament statistician.
	"The graduate students have played for years and years, and to have
our undergraduate students play other teams which have graduate
students on their teams, and play them closely, is quite an
accomplishment," Newman added.
	Members of the second-place team were junior molecular cell biology
major Ben Craycroft, sophomore math major Haggai Elitzur, junior
history major Philip Huang and sophomore Katy Suttorp.

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