Quiz Bowl
Philippine Government, History, Geography and Culture
1. Four (4) questions composing Philippine Government, History, Geography, and
Culture shall be prepared by each competing region following the suggested format;
to wit:
Question:
Answer:
Reference/Source:
Name of Coach:
Name of SUC:
a. Submitted questions by all respective coaches shall be factual and are based on a
legitimate reference or source (e.g. no Wikipedia Info or facts, slide share data, online
information without any citations or are not even cited by other authors).
b. These submitted questions shall be pre-screened by the members of the panel of
adjudicators before it will be officially included as one of the official questions during the
conduct of the event. The Coach may be called for verification of the submitted questions
and answers during the pre-screening.
c. Submission of the questions shall be done 2 hours before the competition starts.
Screening of the questions immediately follows.
d. To ensure fairness and justness to all participating schools, four (4) boxes will be
provided where the questions for each category (Philippine Government, History,
Geography, and Culture) will be dropped after been pre-screened and verified by the
members of the panel of adjudicators.
2. Each participating SUC is entitled to three contestants composing a team, who are
bona fide students at the college/university. One official alternate will be allowed.
Alternate will only be allowed once per team and only at the end of Levels I and II.
3. Contestants will answer the same set of questions in writing. Before a question is read,
the contestant must raise their right hand. Each team will be provided with an illustration
board, chalk and eraser.
4. The question will be read twice by the Quizmaster. After the second reading, the
Quizmaster shall say "go" - only then will the team be allowed to write the answer.
Automatically, the ten-second time limit will begin with the word "go" by the Quizmaster.
If a question requires enumeration, the time limit will be extended to ten (10) more
seconds.
5. After the time limit, a buzzer will sound; the team should stop writing and raise their
answer.
6. The proctors will go around and check the answer of the teams. One proctor for each
team will be provided to check and confirm the correctness of the answer.
7. The contest has three (3) rounds, Level I, Level II, and Level III. In Level I, twenty
(20) questions will be asked. Each question is worth one (1) point. After asking twenty
(20) questions, the Quizmaster announces the top Ten (10) teams will advance to Level
II. If there is/are a tie for the Tenth (10th) place, then both/all of them will advance to
the next level.
8. Fifteen (15) questions will be asked is the second (2 nd) round, by this time, two (2)
points will be assigned for each correct answer.
9. After the Fifteenth (15th) question, scores from Levels I and II will be added then the
Quizmaster announces the top Five (5) teams will advance to Level III (Final Round).
10. For the Final Round, there will be 10 questions worth 3 points for each correct answer.
11. After the Final Round, scores from Levels I to III will be added for each team to
declare the Champion and the Runners up. Should there be a tie, extra questions will be
asked by the Quizmaster to break the tie.
12. The duly registered teacher-coach of the team is only the person authorized to make
a decent approach for point of clarification. Clarifications should be referred to the Board
of Judges immediately before the Quizmaster reads the next question.
13. Champions during previous PASUC National Cultural-Literary Festival in this event are
NO longer qualified to join this year and future competitions.
12. Panel of Adjudicators in as much as possible shall be composed of three (3) experts:
i. One (1) Lawyer
ii. One (1) Professor in Social Sciences from a Private Higher Education.
iii. One (1) LGU Employee preferably a Tourism Officer/ who is inclined in culture and the
arts craft.
14. Contestants/Competitors are required to wear plain white polo shirts/any white
collared blouses during the competition.
15. All Coaches/Chaperons are only allowed to stay distantly at the back of the
competitors.
