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02/27/08
Pomona College Wins College Bowl Regional Competition, Advances to Nationals
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Students from Pomona College correctly answered questions on
topics ranging from current events and pop culture to
science, history, geography and literature in the fast-paced
trivia competition College Bowl to win the CA-HI-NV regional
tournament, held Feb. 23-24 in Sacramento. The four-person
Pomona team now advances to the College Bowl championship,
April 25-27, 2008, in Minnesota.
The Pomona College team won the regional final by a decisive
score of 240 to 115 over Cal State Sacramento. In the
preceding playoffs, Pomona beat top-seeded USC, with a score
of 345 to 165, and Cal State Sacramento, with a score of 265
to 160. UC Davis was also among the top four in the double
elimination playoff. The other competitors were Cal State
Fresno, Cal State Long Beach, UC San Diego, and the
University of Hawaii.
College Bowl, "The Varsity Sport of the Mind,” has a long
history on radio and television, and on college campuses
across the nation. Beginning as a radio game show in 1953,
it had an 11-year run on network television. The regional
and annual competitions have been held on college campuses
since 1977. From 1979 to 1982, CBS radio aired regular and
post-season competition. In England, the program is known as
University Challenge and has been on air from 1961-1988 and
again since 1995, currently on BBC. College Bowl provides an
arena for the fastest minds to demonstrate their broad range
of knowledge in competition.
During the 1961-62 television season, a Pomona College team
retired as a five-time champion. Since then, Pomona won the
1988-89 regional playoff, placed second in the 1991-92 and
2005-06 regional events, and placed third in the 2001-02
regional.
Selection for the 2008 Pomona College Bowl team began with a
campus-wide competition last fall. Fifteen teams entered the
event. Members of the winning team, Team Rocket, plus the
top five players from other teams were chosen for the
varsity team. Prior to the regional event, those nine
players selected the five people, with the greatest speed
and variety of knowledge, to attend the regional event.
The winning Pomona team consisted of Daniel Carlton ’11,
from Winchester, VA; Derek Schaible ’11, from St. Paul, MN;
Michael Thompson ’10 from Seattle, WA; and Sneha Vakamudi
’08, from Sugar Land, TX. The larger varsity team also
included Tiffany Chan ‘11, Ben Cheney ’10 (selected for the
regional event but unable to attend), Frank Langan ‘11,
Elizabeth
Levin ‘08, and Daniel Poore ‘11.
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