Year 9 Physics ‘Big Quiz’
This is an event we have entered on a number of occasions in the past, with a varying degree of success and having attained first place on two previous occasions. In normal times, the quiz is held in Birmingham University’s Great Hall but, this year, it was hosted on Zoom (on Friday 21st May 2021), with students submitting their answers using Kahoot!, on which points are awarded not only for correct answers but for speed of response too.
Haisem Zeino writes: ‘There were 6 rounds, each on a different topic. These were ‘Electricity and Waves’, ‘Mechanics’, ‘Who am I?’, ‘What am I?’, ‘Temperature and Matter’ and ‘Medical Physics’. The ‘Medical Physics’ and ‘Who am I?’ rounds were worth double points. The quiz was split into two halves, with a break in between. Before the second half started, however, Professor Mark Dennis, Head of Theoretical Physics at Birmingham University, gave an interesting lecture on Polarised light, during which we all learnt something new. 45 teams participated, all aiming for 1st place. The 12 HGS participants (in four teams of three) were:
Shoaib Mahmood, David Fadairo, Kai Dawkins, Rafae Ajaz, Haisem Zeino, Basel Ziyara, Shrey Kapoor, Jerin George, Erefti Abraham, Hardit Matharu, Eshaan Prabhakar and Haasin Ali.
Well done to everyone. This was very exciting (and tense) for all of us!’
Teams from King’s School, Worcester, took an early lead in the quiz (and ultimately came first and second) but the podium places changed many times, including during the last round. All four of our teams performed very well and we were particularly pleased that the team comprising Rafae, Haisem and Basel beat teams from King Edward’s Camp Hill and King Edward’s Aston to come third, having answered only two and three less answers correctly than second and first placed teams respectively.
Mr Jones
