Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King represented BYU on the sport present “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King compete on “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King compete on “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
Cooper Manning, Craig Walker, Cosmo the Cougar, Ben Potter, Frani King and Peyton Manning on “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
BYU college students Ben Potter, Frani King and Craig Walker knew the semifinal spherical of “School Bowl” wasn’t going to be simple.
They have been going up in opposition to Columbia College, the reigning champion of the trivia recreation present hosted by Peyton and Cooper Manning. And up to now this season, the Columbia Lions had dominated their matches, profitable by massive margins.
However BYU was decided to be Columbia’s hardest competitor but.
Who received the BYU vs. Columbia recreation on ‘School Bowl’?
Potter, King and Walker got here out firing on all cylinders for the semifinal recreation, which aired on Oct. 28.
First spherical
Firstly of the Kickoff spherical, the BYU quiz bowl college students swept the class “Fictional Fiends,” appropriately answering the next three questions (all solutions could be discovered on the backside of the article):
- “Within the 1931 movie adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein,’ the monster is delivered to life by what kind of vitality?”
- “Mentioned to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary Battle, in what Washington Irving story would you discover the character depicted right here?” (the scholars have been proven an image of a headless horseman)
- “Thought of a Chilly-Battle period commentary, what creatures terrify a Pennsylvania countryside in George Romero’s traditional movie ‘Evening of the Residing Useless’?”
BYU maintained its momentum, continuing to brush one other class, titled “Nation title adjustments”:
- “The musical ‘The King And I’ relies on the ebook ‘Anna and the King of Siam,’ which was set within the land of what modern-day nation?”
- “The final British colony on the Central American mainland, what nation was referred to as British Honduras till 1973?”
- “The U.S. acknowledged the Ivory Coast in 1960 and formally started utilizing what French language model of the nation’s title in 1986?”
BYU was now up 60-0 — however Columbia wasn’t going to finish the spherical empty-handed.
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King compete on “School Bowl.”
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The Lions lastly received on the board by answering the next three questions beneath the class “Furry conditions”:
- “Miley Cyrus has been sporting a contemporary model of what ‘enterprise within the entrance, occasion within the again’ coiffure made well-known by her father Billy Ray?”
- “The final U.S. president to usually put on a full beard whereas in workplace was what grandson of a earlier commander-in chief?”
- “After the ruler depicted right here started dropping his hair, he employed 40 wigmakers to maintain up his fashionable seems. Who is that this French king?”
Second spherical
BYU was up 60-30 going into the second spherical, known as the Go-Play, the place a workforce might choose one class to play and cross the opposite class to their opponent.
The massive catch right here was that any incorrect reply resulted in these factors being awarded to the opposing workforce.
That is the place the sport received just a little tighter.
Columbia College began the spherical, opting to present the Cougars a query about spices whereas answering the next clue about rocks: “Obsidian is a sort of darkish glasslike rock that's fashioned by the solidification of what?”
BYU received the spice query proper: “Made by grinding chili peppers and crimson bell peppers, what's the nationwide spice of Hungary?”
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King compete on “School Bowl.”
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The Cougars then selected to play the class “One Republic,” however couldn’t give you the reply to the next query: “By space, what's the second largest nation in Africa?” (trace: It’s not Chad).
Columbia acquired 20 factors for Cougars’ incorrect response of “Chad,” and gained the lead when it appropriately answered the next query beneath the class “Maestros”: “Found 50 years after his demise, the long-lasting piano piece greatest referred to as ‘Fur Elise’ is the work of what German composer?”
For the remainder of the spherical, BYU and Columbia matched one another query for query. Columbia completed with a slight lead over BYU at 150 factors to the Cougars’ 140.
After which it was time for the two-minute drill.
Ultimate spherical
BYU and Columbia have each proven they'll rise to the event throughout the two-minute drill.
On the earlier episode of “School Bowl,” each groups dominated this spherical, appropriately answering 15 questions in two minutes — essentially the most any workforce had answered on “School Bowl” as much as that time.
Which makes what Columbia pulled off in opposition to BYU within the semifinals all of the extra spectacular: The Lions answered a whopping 19 questions in two minutes — an all-time file for “School Bowl” — solely lacking the very first query in the beginning of the spherical.
Potter, King and Walker knew it might be almost inconceivable to copy that magnificent feat — they would want to reply 20 inquiries to win, so there was no room for error.
In the long run, the Cougars answered 10 questions.
“The strain of getting 20 was fairly a bit,” Walker not too long ago instructed the Deseret Information. “After we began, we have been hopeful, however we missed a couple of questions in that first 45 seconds. And at that time, we realized we weren’t going to make it. In order that final minute and a half of the two-minute drill, we have been simply smiling. ... We realized we weren’t going to make it, however we have been simply nonetheless having a extremely good time answering some questions.
“We have been actually excited for Columbia,” Walker continued. “They have been actually a superb workforce to go in opposition to. We have been actually impressed with them. So we ended up dropping that semifinal match, however it was such good enjoyable.”
Cooper Manning, Craig Walker, Cosmo the Cougar, Ben Potter, Frani King and Peyton Manning on “School Bowl.”
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Greater than a recreation
They didn’t pull off the win, however Potter, King and Walker have been proud to present Columbia College certainly one of its extra aggressive matches on the present (Columbia in the end received dethroned by the College of Georgia throughout the championship recreation).
“We have been tremendous proud of what we have been in a position to do, the chance and, clearly, the scholarship cash,” Potter stated.
As semifinalists, the three BYU college students every walked away with $20,000 to place towards their schooling.
“An unbelievable sum of money, and like, actually life altering,” Walker stated. “It’s arduous to stroll away feeling unhappy about one thing like this.”
“They don’t allow you to go away empty-handed,” King added. “Even the smallest quantity of scholarship cash remains to be impactful, and also you’re strolling away with an awesome expertise. A visit, friendships. So there’s no actual losers within the recreation.”
Solutions: Electrical; “The Legend of Sleepy Hole”; zombies; Thailand; Belize; Cote d’Ivoire; mullet; Benjamin Harrison; Louis XIV; lava; paprika; Democratic Republic of Congo; Beethoven.