philosophy quiz bee
Last Tuesday, September 3, 2013, I attended the Philosophy Quiz Bee that is exclusively for 1st and 2nd year students who are taking Philosophy subject. It is entitled: Ironical Thinking Quiz Bee. The whole thought of the event is to make the students think ironically about the given question and/or category. It was held at the Lecture rooms 3 and 4, the first batch started at 9am and ended up at 10:30am while the second batch ended up at 12 noon. Every section of the course has a representative, our sections representative was Ma. Julianna Stephanie Cruz. The quiz bee started at exactly 9am, and the host, one of the professors first introduced all the competing contestants and there are 8 of them who joined. They were all seated at the stage and the quiz bee has begun. The first component of the quiz bee was the Comic Strip part; they were given 2 comic strips and they were given 2 minutes to think of what can be the possible irony of it. The first comic strip was from Garfield and it goes like this; “dieting is easy when you set your mind to it. I no longer crave food. It’s the calories I crave.” Garfield said. After 2 minutes, all their papers were given to the judge; Mr. Manaloto, a theology professor. But their answers were read aloud by Ms. Myra Reyes for the sake of the audience. In my opinion, the participators answers were different from each other but all their answers make sense as well. The second comic strip was from Calvin and Hobbes and it goes like this; “Well summer is almost over. It sure went quick didn’t it?” “Yep” “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing that you want.” And again, their answers were given to the judge and read my Ms. Myra. The second component of the quiz bee was the Anecdote, they were given 3 minutes to think and answer in this part. They were given 2 examples of anecdotes and they should answer one sentence this way; “________ and yet _______.” After that, the third component was the Situation part. They were