Strathallan had wo Year 7 and 8 teams enter the highly popular ‘Kids Lit Quiz’ this week, a national competition for intermediate-aged students who love literature. Tahlia Pillay was one of our participants:
We arrived at the competition quite early which gave us plenty of time to settle our nerves by running through some practice questions. Soon the main hall at St. Cuthberts was packed with eager young literary enthusiasts ready to take out the competition. When all the teams had been seated, the quizmaster gave us the run down of how the competition would work. There were ten categories. In each category there are ten questions. He would read out the questions and we would write down the answers to each one in our booklets. At the end of each round, we were to rip out the page and hold it up to be collected.
The initial rounds were quite tricky and we were horrified to get a Harry Potter question wrong. We soon got the hang of it and even won a round earning us some Whitcoull’s gift vouchers. The lit quiz was fun and very challenging and there are some students out there who really know their literature. Some of the draw breaker questions were really amazing to watch being answered. One girl from the Carmel 1 team answered her question at the speed of light. The quizmaster was reading the first two words of a poem when the girl shot her hand up and exclaimed ‘The Jabberwocky! By Lewis Carrol’.
My team placed 15th overall and our Year 7 team was placed 17th. The lit quiz was fun and very challenging and I found that I learnt quite a lot about literature. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience participating in the LitQuiz.