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On a test I wrote earlier this season, I enjoyed asking teams about my favorite vegetables, the roots! Remember that this is not a biology event, though, so be sure to consider oddball categories for other branches of science, too.

Skink wrote:On a test I wrote earlier this season, I enjoyed asking teams about my favorite vegetables, the roots! Remember that this is not a biology event, though, so be sure to consider oddball categories for other branches of science, too.

Thanks!! What categories are you suggesting? Most of the categories I can think of pretty much fall in the biology category (since they are so straightforward), which categories do you know of for the other major fields that may be tested?

ff wrote:

Skink wrote:On a test I wrote earlier this season, I enjoyed asking teams about my favorite vegetables, the roots! Remember that this is not a biology event, though, so be sure to consider oddball categories for other branches of science, too.

Thanks!! What categories are you suggesting? Most of the categories I can think of pretty much fall in the biology category (since they are so straightforward), which categories do you know of for the other major fields that may be tested?

There should also be geology stuff (rocks and minerals, landforms), astronomy topics (stars and constellations), and you should know scientists, instruments and tools you would use for science.

Our test for regionals was really hard. One of the categories was "Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine after 1967."

Yeah, I'm all for creative, not obvious categories. Well...

chick-fil-a for life wrote:Our test for regionals was really hard. One of the categories was "Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine after 1967."

...that one is a bit out there.

Skink wrote:Yeah, I'm all for creative, not obvious categories. Well...

chick-fil-a for life wrote:Our test for regionals was really hard. One of the categories was "Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine after 1967."

...that one is a bit out there.

Here are some of them:
A-Arber
B-Black
C-Campbell
E-Edwards
F-Fischer
G-Goldstein
H-Hunt
K-Krebs
M-Marshall
N-Nurse
R-Roberts
S-Sharp
W-Warren

Point is, usually when we get topics like that we just like to list common last names and they tend to work more often than you would think

when listing scientist, do i need to go by the first or last name. also, am i allowed to bring any reference materials to the event.

Einstein wrote:when listing scientist, do i need to go by the first or last name. also, am i allowed to bring any reference materials to the event.

Last name. No reference materials allowed, I believe.

JasperKota wrote:

Einstein wrote:when listing scientist, do i need to go by the first or last name. also, am i allowed to bring any reference materials to the event.

Last name. No reference materials allowed, I believe.

^keep in mind that you still have to write both the first and last name to get points, even though the letter has to match the last name

Einstein wrote:when listing scientist, do i need to go by the first or last name. also, am i allowed to bring any reference materials to the event.

The letter to put the name under is based off the last name, however you have to include the first and last name for it to count.

if two teams got every single point (750) what would be the tiebreaker?