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"Everyone a quiz master" Competition

Every Sunday our children at the Hope House have a competition or two to enhance their intellectual abilities. This Sunday's competition is called "Everyone a quiz master" and in this competition as the name implies everyone gets to be the quiz master and also to be the participant to answer the questions.  This is how it works.


We gave them the reading assignment (a week before) and that is to read the book of Esther from the Bible.  Those of you who are not familiar with this story, Esther is an orphan child from a modest background, brought up by her uncle ends up as a queen in the Kings Palace.  When the situation warranted, she stood by her people in front of the King to protect them.

They were asked to read the entire book (probably they would have finished reading it in an hour) and compile as many questions as they possibly could.  All the participants gets a chance to be a quiz master to ask 10 questions each (order of participants was prepared with draw of lots) and the repeat questions are not allowed.  When the quiz master asks a question, whoever answer that question correctly gets a candy and if not the quiz master gets a candy.  Idea is to make them to prepare hardest possible questions for which they have to read the chapters carefully  

Totally 12 participants participated and the number of questions prepared by each one ranged between 10 and 34.  There was enormous interest during the entire competition as their peers were asking the questions and instant gratification being there also helped.  Sujatha won the competition as she had prepared the highest number of questions (34) and five hardest questions out of the ten. 

At the end of the competition, we all of us sat together and discussed about the lessons learnt from this book.  We unanimously agreed that our positions and possessions in life should not make us proud but humble enough not to forget our roots.  

Lessons Learnt:
  • To learn something, don't just read to answer questions but prepare questions which is doubly hard.  
  • Don't make anything mandatory and have instant gratification.
  • Make children become the teachers (quiz masters in this case) which makes the other children to relate to the teacher easily (including corrections).
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Location: Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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