After a few weeks recess, the Academic Team finally met today to begin preparations for our last test, which will take place sometime in April or May. We continued our routine of Mr. Scott asking us Trivial Pursuit questions while Dr. Stewart asked us random ones from a book. The meeting went well today. Everyone seemed to be focused and we got most of the questions right, except for the really obscure ones. I was especially happy because it seemed like all rivalries had left, and the team was laughing, joking, and working cohesively. I recognize that these are integral actions for the collaboration of a team, and this made me very happy.
I know that my strength in trivia up to this point has been geography. After the High School Quiz Show competition, I felt that my area of expertise was too narrow, so recently I have been reading more and more books. Of course this isn't just for the sake of Academic Team - I enjoy reading - but it has helped broaden my knowledge. My development of new trivia skills was demonstrated today. At the meeting during lunch, we were asked a few questions about literature. One question asked who wrote the book Lolita, which I know is Nabokov because I am reading that book currently. Another question stated the first line of a Tolstoy book, and asked which book it was. I knew it was Anna Karenina, because I am reading that as well. It was great to be confident in questions that did not pertain to geography, and I am proud that I have really increased my knowledge in literature.
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