Year 9 Physics ‘Big Quiz’
On Friday 10th February 2023, 4 teams of 4 Year 9s accompanied by Mr Jones and Mr Alishah headed to Birmingham University for the annual ‘Big Quiz’. The quiz consisted of 6 rounds and a word search, split over 3 sessions.
Session 1: The quiz started with the word search at about 10:15am. We found ourselves deliberating over calories, joules and other physical vocabulary; there were questions which we had to answer and then find the answers on the word search.
Session 2: In session 2 the actual quiz started; this session consisted of 3 rounds and we were introduced to our two quiz masters: Professor David Evans and Dr Rob Smith. They were funny, which helped lighten the atmosphere. The first 3 rounds were ‘Heat’, ‘Light’ and ‘What am I?’ We had the option of using a Joker which doubles a round’s score. Unfortunately, my team wasted it on the first round which didn’t go too well for us!
Session 2: After lunch (at 12pm) and a lecture on Nuclear Power by Professor P Norman, we had the next 3 rounds: ‘Who am I?’, ‘Electromagnetism’ and ‘Quantum Physics’. The last round, although a complex topic, was actually one of the easiest rounds as we had been told about this topic in advance and so most of us had spent some time preparing for it.
Aariz, 9W
The final scores were very close on this occasion and, unfortunately, we narrowly missed out on a podium place. However, the team consisting of Anoop, Arash, Manjit and Mohammed did win one of the ‘Spot prizes’, which were awarded for close estimation of physical quantities.
