2008 Woodie Awards
International students hold world trivia quiz
Kevin Rand
Issue date: 4/23/07 Section: News
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What is the currency called in North Korea?
Or, what is the largest country in the world to have only one time zone?
The team from the table representing Kazakhstan knew more answers, exactly 88 out of 100 of these kinds of trivia questions, than any of the other student teams at the "International Quiz" competition in the University Room near the Market Café on Friday afternoon.
A large projection screen showed multiple-choice questions, pictures of different countries' flags, international celebrity faces and other types of trivia to the participants. With only a few seconds between questions, the students usually huddled together at their respective tables, feverishly debating which answers to write down on their sheets.
The nine teams were composed of about seven students each. They sat at tables decorated with miniature flags of the world, while a different country's name labeled each group's table. However, an internationally diverse mix of students represented each table as well as the room as a whole.
Many of the students said they enjoyed the challenging questions along with the excitement of a little friendly competition.
"Sometimes we don't know how to write," said a laughing Tu Le, a native of Vietnam and a San Jose State University graduate student studying finance and banking. "That's the big problem with International students."
Le, two other Vietnamese students, two South Korean students, one Taiwanese student, one Saudi Arabian student and one Chinese student represented team Germany.
Some of the other tables represented France, Japan, Spain, Argentina and China.
Sara Hussain, a senior majoring in political science, emceed the event. She said she is here from France through a bilateral exchange program.
She participated as a player last semester, but said she chose to help out this time by creating all of the trivia questions and emceeing the quiz.
"We try to have a lot of different questions that concern a lot of different continents and countries," she said, "because we have a lot of different students here."
Or, what is the largest country in the world to have only one time zone?
The team from the table representing Kazakhstan knew more answers, exactly 88 out of 100 of these kinds of trivia questions, than any of the other student teams at the "International Quiz" competition in the University Room near the Market Café on Friday afternoon.
A large projection screen showed multiple-choice questions, pictures of different countries' flags, international celebrity faces and other types of trivia to the participants. With only a few seconds between questions, the students usually huddled together at their respective tables, feverishly debating which answers to write down on their sheets.
The nine teams were composed of about seven students each. They sat at tables decorated with miniature flags of the world, while a different country's name labeled each group's table. However, an internationally diverse mix of students represented each table as well as the room as a whole.
Many of the students said they enjoyed the challenging questions along with the excitement of a little friendly competition.
"Sometimes we don't know how to write," said a laughing Tu Le, a native of Vietnam and a San Jose State University graduate student studying finance and banking. "That's the big problem with International students."
Le, two other Vietnamese students, two South Korean students, one Taiwanese student, one Saudi Arabian student and one Chinese student represented team Germany.
Some of the other tables represented France, Japan, Spain, Argentina and China.
Sara Hussain, a senior majoring in political science, emceed the event. She said she is here from France through a bilateral exchange program.
She participated as a player last semester, but said she chose to help out this time by creating all of the trivia questions and emceeing the quiz.
"We try to have a lot of different questions that concern a lot of different continents and countries," she said, "because we have a lot of different students here."
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