World Bible Quizzer

August 2001

08-01-01 Grassroots Plan to Grow Local Quizzing

The Bible Quiz ministry is growing and through it God is changing more and more young lives. Many churches are seeking to begin a team and searching for local support, competition and fellowship. Many more are not even aware that Bible Quizzing ex-ists, even though the church down the street may be fully involved. For these reasons, a "grassroots" model in needed to make this ministry even more effective and pervasive.

The WBQA "grassroots" plan is to find a large number of local contact people who want to help promote God's word to the young people in their area. The goal is not to bring WBQA style to local teams, but rather that they may contact each other on a local level and use the quiz style and questions that will work best for their constituents. Hence, a local event may be planned between denominational teams and independent or new churches. The result will be to both strengthen the denominational teams as well as the "independent" teams and start many new teams along the way.

Premises

1. Make interdenominational quizzing more available on a local level.
2. Strengthen our web of contacts so that local involvement will be more accessible.
3. Increase opportunities for training and promotion of Bible Quizzing.
4. Promote a grassroots model of growth.

Implementation

Local Contact People
Local Contacts work to support teams in or near their hometown. The job description is simply to serve as contact to promote inter-denominational quizzing in the local area. Local areas will be assigned as contacts are available, and these local areas may overlap. Local contact people need only be willing to answer inquiries about quizzing.

Local Quiz Leagues
WBQA will support interdenominational Quiz Leagues by publicizing the League Name, local contact person, quiz style and eligi-bility requirements. Local Leagues may provide news items to WBQA but need not "report" to headquarters. Local league events are not an official function of WBQA and need not use WBQA rules.

Interdenominational Quiz Meets and Tournaments
A Quiz Meet will consist of approximately 3 preliminary quizzes per team plus a championship quiz. A Quiz Tournament will con-sist of approximately 6 preliminaries per team plus playoffs and finals. Either WBQA rules or another style may be used. WBQA can support Quiz Meets / Tournaments in any of the following ways:
1) Publication of dates, material and results in the newsletter and / or web site.
2) Questions from quiz generator and Brackets provided if requested.

08-01-01 A Tribute to Bernice

On the evening of August 9, Bernice Larimore passed away. Bernice and her husband Bert contributed greatly to the growth and influence of the Bible Quizzing ministry. By traveling cross-country with their famous quiz seats and score-board, the pair brought an extra level of import and excitement to quiz events. The Bible Quiz component of Bernice's ministry lasted for over 35 years. Bert and Bernice appeared at a different tournament nearly every weekend during this timespan, earning the love and respect of countless teens in Bible Quizzing. After her husband's death, Bernice carried on the ministry for several more years.

The Larimores visited nearly every summer WBQA Championship through the '70's '80's and '90's. In recognition of their ministry, the WBQA Finals Quizmaster's Choice award was renamed the Larimore Award in 1984. This award is for the quizzer who most demonstrates Christ's love through excellence in quizzing, leadership and testimony. Bert and Ber-nice were a wonderful example of this testimony and Christ's love. Bernice will be sorely missed, but we rejoice in her life of ministry and that she is now with her Lord.

NYI (Nazarene Youth International) has partnered with the Larimore Family to set up a memorial fund that will send quiz equipment around the world in memory of Bernice. If you would like to help, please contact NYI at 816-333-7000 ext 2484. By John Isett

08-01-01 "Quizzes Like a Girl" wins WBQA Finals

This year's World Bible Quiz Association Finals was a great success. There were a total of 23 teams in three divi-sions. The quizzing was intense and there were really no teams that "pulled ahead" of the rest of the pack. I would like to personally congratulate every team at the tournament for how well they did. A special congratulation goes to the top 3 teams of each division. In the Varsity division the top three teams were: 1st Quizzes Like A Girl, 2nd Berrien and 3rd De-troit 2. In the Junior Varsity Division the top three teams were: 1st Pittsburgh Bible Quizzing 3, 2nd Pittsburgh Bible Quiz-zing 2, and 3rd Kentucky Nazarene. In the King James Division the top three teams were: 1st Covenant Life, 2nd Youth-quake Salt, and 3rd Youthquake Light. This year's Larimore Award went to Julie Hodsdon from Quizzes Like A Girl. This was Julie's senior and final year in quizzing. Congratulations Julie!

Our speaker this year was Tom Houston, director of Shenango Valley Bible Quizzing. The music was done by Joel Kamper from Teen Bible Challenge and Andy Dalrymple from Canton. And who can forget Madison Greene-thanks for the great concert! I would like to thank everyone who helped in any way with the tournament. I want to thank all of the quizmasters, scorekeepers, material judges, the rate people, Tom Houston for his excellent messages, and Joel and Andy for their music. I hope to see you all next year. God Bless.

08-01-01 Bernie Elliot to speak at 2002 Finals

We are pleased to announce that Pastor Bernie Elliot will be our devotional speaker for this year's WBQA finals. The tournament is June 26 through 30. The varsity quiz material is 1 and 2 Corinthians.

The JV division was successful for the second consecutive year, and we will run this division again. Many of these quizzers will be moving to varsity for this year's finals. We have had great JV participation at Regionals and Chicago, and this is a wonderful opportunity for these teams to wrap up their seasons with a big event. This division is available to any-body up through and including grade 9.

WBQA will again offer a 50% discount to all "new" teams. A "new" team is one from a program that has not sent a team to the tournament in the past 4 years and that consists only of quizzers attending for their first time. This discount is quite significant because it applies to the team fee and the individual fee to cover room and board.
KJV Quiz Material

This year's KJV material is Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. If you have any questions, please contact Sal Varsalone at 330-493-0749 or Mel White at 309-582-3171. If you need quiz materials for King James quizzing, call Nada Rogers at 716-889-1466.

08-01-01 From The Archives

This newsletter we well take a trip back to 1981. Finals that year were held at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. The dates were July 23-26 and the material was 1 and 2 Corinthians. Twenty-three teams took part with Pilgrim Chapel BiC finishing third. Finishing second was Olivet Nazarene and the champions were Nappanee Missionary. The top scorer was Kay Heinrichs from Detroit YFC with an average of 55.4 followed by Dan Miller from Nappanee Missionary with a 54.0 average and third was Carlos Ramos from Huron Valley YFC #1 with an average of 48.3. I'm still looking for information on the earlier years, 1974-1978 and 1982. Also on Chicago pre-1986. If you have any of that information, contact Chris at 610-589-2573 or by email at Cfrey57@aol.com.
By Chris Frey

08-01-01 Chicago '02 is April 6

This season's WBQA Chicago tournament will take place on April 6, 2002. The NIV Varsity and JV material will be 1 Cor-inthians chapter 1 through 2 Corinthians chapter 2. The NIV Little League material will be 1 Corinthians 1, 2, 3, 10, 13 and 15 and 2 Corinthians 5 and 6. KJV varsity material is Gal., Eph, Phil., and Col. 1, 2. KJV LL will quiz over Philippians and Colossians.

08-01-01 Denominational Profile

This newsletter let's take a look at Christian Missionary Alliance (CMA) quizzing. CMA quizzers must be 13 or in 7th grade and may compete through age 19. CMA quizzing for the most part follows the WBQA cycle. Teams consist of five quizzers-four starting quizzers and one substitute. Quizzes consist of three teams over twenty questions using a style similar to WBQA. Question types are basically the same as WBQA with the addition of multiple-answer questions. Scoring is similar to WBQA with the addition of a twenty-point bonus for each team with five members present at the scheduled starting time of the quiz. There is also a bonus given in the first fifteen questions to the remaining team after two consecu-tive errors. For more information on CMA quizzing you can contact either Juanita Douglas at rrdouglas@pathway.net or Jon Caskey at cask@bright.net.
By Chris Frey

08-01-01 KJV Materials

A complete line of quiz materials is now available for the KJV. They can be ordered from Nada Rogers.
Individual Scripture Portion $2
Highlighted Study Text $6
Fill in the Blank Memory Text $10
WBQA Question Book $12
Concordance with Key Word List $10
Quote Cards $15
GEPCP on Cassette Tape $5
Computer Programs:
WBQA Quiz Generator (PC) $99
Personal Electronic Testing System $30 / team
Bible Quiz Study System $30 / team
Contact: Nada Rogers
477 Chili Riga, TL Road
Churchville, NY 14428 (716-889-1466)