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What is the National Tournament of Academic Excellence??
It's academic bowl - with a kick - the top teams in the nation - competing on very challenging questions. Each state is invited to bring one team. Oklahoma has always had an all-star team.
"Anyway, from a parent's perspective, I felt it was an honor for Matt to represent his state on Team Oklahoma for two different years. Competing with (and getting to know) some of the best students from all over the country is a great experience. He definitely loved it and set his goal early in the year to be able to go back his senior year. I know for Matt, being on the team was one of the highlights of his high school years. " Sherri Drwenski, mother of Matt Drwenski - 2002 & 2004 Team Oklahoma member
The 2009 all-star team will be the
22nd Oklahoma team to compete in this prestigious
national competition.
In the past eighteen years Oklahoma has finished among the top eighteen teams
eleven times making the finals twice - 1991 and 1996.
An Oklahoman has been named to the All-America team eight times.
Drew. Kane - Tulsa Memorial
Matt Bruce - B.T. Washington
Eric Bell - Broken Arrow
Hemanth Parasum - Edmond/OSSM
Eric McArthur - Edmond Memorial
Mike Taylor - Edmond Memorial
Dan Benediktson ~ B.T. Washington
Martin Ye ~ Jenks
Help this winning tradition continue.
We're looking for the six best players in the state.
Questions?
Contact Lonnie or Gail Bliss
Lonnie - Carnegie High School 580-654-1266
Gail - OAAC 580-654-1852
Home 580-654-1802
gnbliss@carnegienet.net
TEAM SELECTION PROCESS
1. Students participate in the first round tryout session. The sixty-five national tournament questions will be read by a moderator. Students will give written answers. Points are deducted for incorrect answers. Students will be given complete rules at the testing site.
2. The tests are graded and given five scores, an overall score as well as a separate score for math, science, social studies and humanities. The top eight students in each of the separate categories and the top four remaining students with the highest overall score will be invited to attend the second round of tryouts, the buzzer round, on Sunday, December
7, 2008. Students may qualify for the buzzer round in more than one area. Invitations to the buzzer round will be mailed by November 28,
2008. A list of the qualifying students will be posted during Thanksgiving
week-end.
3. The questions for the buzzer round will be from the specific subject area for that time. Each student will begin the buzzer round with fifty points. Points are awarded for correct answers and deducted for incorrect answers. The student with the highest score at the end of each specific subject area competition will become a member of Team Oklahoma. The student placing second will advance to the Wild Card round. Questions in the Wild Card round will cover all subject areas. The top student from the Wild Card round will also become
a member of Team Oklahoma.
Buzzer Round Schedule - December 7, 2008
Oklahoma School of Science & Mathematics, OKC
Mathematics -- 1:00 PM
Science -- 1:40 PM
Social Studies -- 2:20 PM
Humanities -- 2:45 PM
Wild Card -- 3:00 PM
OKAY. . . NOW WHAT?
1. Complete and submit, mail or fax the registration form along with the $5.00 registration fee or school purchase order number. Registration fee may be paid on site. Late registrations and on site registrations will be accepted IF the testing site has adequate space.
2. Leave a little extra time to find the testing site ... signs will be posted to help you find the testing rooms. If you have questions about a specific site ... call Bliss Info Central, not the testing site. Look it up on the web!! (Mapquest.com)
Check our web site for links oaac.org
3. Bring a pencil or pen with you!!! Bring your calculator!!
4. Be ready for a CHALLENGE!!
Responsibilities of Selected Oklahoma
All-Star Delegation Team Members
Financial -- Team Oklahoma members are each responsible for a small portion of the travel and registration expense. $350.00 will be due on April 1. Specific information will be given to each team member at the first practice session.
Practice -- The NTAE format is very different from the state format. Practices are normally held on Sunday afternoons from 2-4 at OSSM. Tentative Practice Dates - January
11, February 22, March 29, April 19, May 17.
Team Oklahoma will compete in the National Tournament of Academic Excellence
Disney World
June 12-17, 2009
Sample Questions
Taken from previous high school level tournaments.
5-Point Questions:
MATH 1. Find the sum of the three missing terms in the following Fibonacci sequence:
1,1,_,3,5,_,13,21,_.
ART 2. If you were to visit the Sistine Chapel to see Michaelangelo's ceiling, could you also see Leonardo's Mona Lisa in the same city?
ENG 3. Which one or ones of the following four individuals used the devil as a central figure in one of their short stories?
1. Stephen Vincent Benét
2. Henry David Thoreau
3. Washington Irving
4. James Fenimore Cooper
10-Point Questions:
SS 4. Match each of the four structures to its location.
Structures
Locations
A. The Palace of Minos
1. Jerusalem
B. Cleopatra's Needle
2. The Alhambra
C. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
3. London
D. Court of Lions
4. Knossos
MUS 5.Identify the playwrite whose works such as The Would-be Gentleman, The Miser, and The Doctor in Spite of Himself inspired operas.
SCI 6. Using the calculator provided, calculate to one significant digit the pOH of a solution of 5 milliliters of 0.5 molar sulfuric acid and 5 milliliters of 0.7 molar barium hydroxide.
15-Point Questions:
MS 7. Compute the exact area in square units of a triangle whose base has a unit measure equal to the number of stories in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and whose altitude has a unit measure equal to the number of permanent member countries on the United Nations Security Council.
SS 8. Which one of the following four occurred during the administration of John Tyler?
1. the admission of Texas as a state
2. the beginning of the Civil War
3. the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
4. the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill
MS 9. Identify the surname common to the people who made the following four statements.
1. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
2. The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
3. The game's a foot.
4. The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this court sits.
Answers:
1. 44
2. No (Note: It is in the Louvre in Paris.)
3. 1. Stephen Vincent Benét, 3. Washington Irving
4. A-4,B-3,C-1,D-2
5. Moliére
6. 0.7
7. 60 (Note: 1/2 x 24 x 5 = 60)
8. 1. the admission of Texas as a state
9. Holmes (Note: 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 2., 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 3. Sherlock Holmes)