Wisconsin Forensics Daily

Live from Kansas: Trivia Challenge

Since the National Forensics League is debuting its trivia challenge today, Wisconsin Forensics Daily is re-issuing our NFL Nationals trivia challenge.

Schools have until Friday to submit their answers the following questions. Points possible are listed beside each question. Partial credit is available. Schools will be evaluated by the best single response sheet they send in, not the best overall. All judgment is made by WFD Editor-in-Chief, Nick Bubb and results are final.

Oh yeah. And I deleted last year’s post with all of the answers. Enjoy!

1. Which Individual Event does Wisconsin Have the most number of National Championships? How many times has WI won that event?

2. Name the only two coaches that are in the WFCA, the WDCA, and the NFL Halls of Fame.

3. Since eliminating the sweepstakes award and replacing it with the Schools of Excellence, three different Wisconsin schools have won Schools of Excellence in Debate. Name all three.

4. Before Double entries to the National Tournament were eliminated, one used to be able to attend Nationals in two different events. The only person ever to claim an HI AND a DI National Championship in the same year was from Wisconsin. Name the person, year, and the school for three points.

5. This Active Wisconsin Program has won the Pi Kappa Delta Trophy for accumulated rounds at the National Tournament four times, more than any other School in the Country. Name it for a point.

6. NFL Nationals has been held in Wisconsin four times. Name the Year and Location of each time for Eight Points. Hint - talk to your coaches about the last one. Odds are they weren’t thrilled to go.

7. Wisconsin had the first National Champion in this event. What event was it? What year it?

8. Two now defunct Wisconsin programs have won the Karl E. Mundt Congress Trophy. Name them for two points.

9. Radio Speaking is still an event in WFCA Forensics, but it was discontinued at NFL Nationals in 1974. Wisconsin had two consequetive National Championships in this event. Name the person, year, and what school they were from for six points.

10. Sarah Hinkfus was the second Wisconsinite to advance to the finals of Extemp Commentary in the Last Five years. Name the other.

11. Wisconsin has never claimed an NFL National Championship in Policy Debate. What’s the closest WI has come? Name the place (how close they came, not the location of the tournament), year, and the team for three points.

12. Aside from the previously mentioned Double Championship in HI/DI, WI has won DI only once before. The winner was from this now defunct school. Name the School, Person, and Year for 3 points.

13. Oratorical Declamation, like Radio, used to be an NFL event. Name the only school from Wisconsin to ever claim a National Championship in Declamation. How many championship(s) did this school win? Two points. Huge hint: I have seen the trophy for one of them.

14. A retired, prolific Wisconsin coach (you can probably find him in Kansas this week though) has won the Coach of the Year award ten times. [The name of the coach is not the question, just the setup]. In two consequtive years he was named with his assistant. Name the assistant.

15. Prose/Poetry (Or Oral Intp or O.I.L. in Wisconsin Speak) has also been an NFL category. Name the only person from Wisconsin to win the event before it was discontinued. (Year, School, Name - 3pts).

16. What was Wisconsin’s highest finish in Duo Interp? When was it? What piece was performed? Who was on the team? Five easy points.

17. Wisconsin has two participants in late elimination rounds. Name each person, year and school for four points. The extra point is for the difficulty of the question. And no, the answer is not Bill Batterman.

18. One of the six consolation/supplemental events Wisconsin has one - though it probably was not a secondary category then. Name the category. For three more points, name the person, year, and where they were from.

19. The Bruno E. Jacob Commendation is given to a coach if more than 50 percent of the points needed to win the Pi Kappa Delta Bruno E. Jacob trophy were earned under a single coach. Three Wisconsin coaches have earned this achievement. But you’ve already named two of them. Who’s the third?

20. Marquette had won the sweepstakes many times before it was discontinued. Tell me how many times did Marquette win the sweepstakes, and for extra points, correctly tell me the legnth and years in its streak of Sweepstakes wins. Four points.

21. Huge Challenge: Worth Ten points if you get this correctly. There are seven other NFL Hall of Fame members who have been inducted for their service to the NFL from the work that they have done in Wisconsin that have not appeared as an answer in this trivia challenge. Name all seven of them. All seven correct answers earn an additional three points. Hint: One is still a coach, and we do count people who have been inducted for organizational service in Ripon.

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