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Key Verses For the 2007-2008 Quizzing Material
Galatians Chapter 1 - Verses 1, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 23, 24
Galatians Chapter 2 - Verses 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21
Galatians Chapter 3 - Verses 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Galatians Chapter 4 - Verses 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31
Galatians Chapter 5 - Verses 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Galatians Chapter 6 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15
Ephesians Chapter 1 - Verses 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Ephesians Chapter 2 - Verses 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Ephesians Chapter 3 - Verses 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Ephesians Chapter 4 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32
Ephesians Chapter 5 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 32
Ephesians Chapter 6 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24
Philippians Chapter 1 - Verses 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 27, 29
Philippians Chapter 2 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22, 25, 29
Philippians Chapter 3 - Verses 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21
Philippians Chapter 4 - Verses 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Colossians Chapter 1 - Verses 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28
Colossians Chapter 2 - Verses 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 23
Colossians Chapter 3 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25
Colossians Chapter 4 - Verses 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 12
Specializing in Chapter Only Rererence Questions
To really attack CR questions, you have to know all the verses in all the chapter, and quickly. Sometimes you will get nothing, either because you jumped on a W, or a trivial word like "the", and when that happens, you may need to quote 5 verses in context. Other times you may get a question that has a good word, but is not on your list, and you will need to go through the chapter quickly in your head to see if you can pick out the word. After I have the material memorized, I will try to go through it as quickly as possible, sometimes even timing myself, so that I can go through it quickly in a quiz.
During most regular season quizzes, this will probably be enough to answer any CR question, as you probably won't need to jump that fast. To prepare for the more advanced competitions, you will need to get a list of questions. Get these from a couple different sources, including writing your own. Use a concordance to find words that occur only once in a chapter, but are used elsewhere. The practice of finding questions will be helpful in answering them. Once you have a list, sort them alphabetically. If you have several questions that start with the same letter, especially for the W's, see how many you can group into context. If you can find several questions that start with the same letter, and are in context, be prepared to do all of those question on that jump. It is best to maximize your chances by hitting the most questions that you can. Make sure that you say all the relevant information before moving on to the next question, so that you don't miss the question because you moved on to quickly. Pause when switching between questions to give the quizmaster a chance to ask for your question.
When making up your cards/lists, be sure that on the part of the question you can see, that you don't reveal to much information. In the top competitions, you will probably only ever get the first word, or if it is a W, the W plus the first syllable. Be sure that you can answer each question with this little amount of information.
When jumping on CR questions, it is really helpful to be able to avoid the W's. Practice this by doing W drills with your coach. Have them read interrogatives repeatedly, and then finally read a keyword. Jump only on the Keyword. For example, "Who what who where Astonished", and keep practicing until you can get to the point that you only jump on the keyword, and that you do jump quickly.
Submitted by Nathan Stout
Specializing in Finish the Verse Questions
The first thing obviously is to memorize the material so that you can answer any verse should it be asked. Spend a lot of time working on getting the verses correct. Even if you think you have the material down in practice by yourself, it is much harder to say the verses perfect under pressure in a quiz. You have to be able to do each verse quickly and accurately in practice, so that in the quiz it will come easily.
Then make a list of the best verses. Ask a couple different people to make the list so that you get different views, since no tournament has the same set of verses. Some people like to make index cards for each verse, others an excel spread sheet, with the start of the verse on one side, and the full verse on the other side. No matter which approach you take, make sure that you don't let yourself see too much of the start of the verse. At the highest levels of quizzing you will never hear more than 1 word plus 1 syllable. So the part of the verse that I would reveal never contains more than that information. If I have several verses that start the same way, I put a number at the end of the verse to let me know how many of those that I have. Then I try to say all the verses that start the same way. It is easier to finish a verse the more information you have, so train yourself to know all your choices with as little information as possible will help you in a real quiz. Same with memorizing, the better you know it in practice, the easier it will be in a quiz. You will also want to have a real person work the list with you, so you can hear the way the different syllables will sound.
Then it's all about the jump. Watch the quizmaster's mouth, and pay attention. Look for the next sound. Since you know all your choices on a word + a syllable, if you see the start of another syllable, you should be able to figure out which of your choices to go with. If you don't see anything extra, try to choose the most significant verse. Again, you may want to ask your coach for which verses are the most significant.
A few notes on discerning the next syllable. S's tend to come out very easy. So if you have two verses that start "Yet Saul", and "Yet He", and you only hear "Yet" at your jump point, choose "Yet he". In almost every case, unless you absolutely jumped to fast, if the next syllable starts with a S, you will hear it. Most likely, with the exact same jump speed, you will hear "Yets" for "Yet Saul", and "Yet" for "Yet he". Also, the vowel sounds plus H, tend to come out hard, so if you think you should have gotten another syllable the next word may start with a vowel or H.
Submitted by Nathan Stout
Specializing in Multiple Answer Questions
The best way I've found to do multiples is to make a complete, alphabetized list. Each month, I made a list of MAs from that month's material and added to it with every new section. In other words, I did not make a separate list each month, but continued building on the original list, which makes it easier than trying to combine and alphabetize seven different lists in April. If it is possible for a question with the same answer to be asked in different ways, it is important to include all of the possibilities. For example, James 3:14 reads "But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth." Both the questions "But if you harbor what?" and "If you harbor what" could be asked. It is essential that both are on your list, because the more competitive a quiz becomes, the less of the question you will get, and you need to know exactly how many multiples begin with "but" and how many begin with "if."Also, in a case such as this where there are two possible MAs that could be taken from this verse, but the question would begin the same, write only the question with the most substance. For instance, instead of adding to your list both "But if you harbor what?" and "But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not what?" include only the latter. This way, there is only one question you have to learn, as opposed to two, and you will not be penalized for saying the entire verse instead of just the first half, if only the first half of the verse is needed for the answer.
After you have completed all the material and have alphabetized the list (make sure as you add new questions each month, you continue to alphabetize), print the list and mark each question at the point in which it becomes key, as far as multiples, meaning that there is no other multiple that begins the same way. This is done by looking at the sounds of the words and letters of the question. If there are two questions in which the first word begins with a "k," but the first sound of one is "kee" and the first sound of the other is "kuh," that is the point at which you should know which question to choose. Here are the first five MAs from the Romans/James material and an example of how they should be marked:
A b/rother or sister is without what?
Clothes and daily food
A man c/omes into your meeting wearing what?
A gold ring and fine clothes
A man i/s not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is what?
Circumcision merely outward and physical
A man wh/o what?
Looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like
A p/erson is justified how?
By what he does and not by faith alone
Since there are several multiples that begin with the word "a," it is impossible to know the question after that point. However, because no other multiple begins with the sound "a b…," you should know that the question is "a brother or sister is without what?" at that point. Be careful, however, of sounds that are similar and may have similar formations on the mouth, like "b" and "p."
I memorized my list one page at a time, and found that it was easiest to pick a time frame, usually about two weeks depending on the length of the list and the amount of time before the competition, and divide the number of days by the number of pages. That made it seem more attainable-I generally had two or three pages to learn each day, as opposed to saying I had to learn 30 pages. After I memorized the list and the point at which each question became key, I had someone ask me the questions on the pages I'd learned, in random order. They usually stopped at the point I had marked, but in cases where three or four words were needed before it became key, they stopped short of the mark, and I had to take a guess. I tried to have the whole list memorized a few days before the competition, at which point a willing volunteer would go through the entire list with me, again in random order.
Submitted by Joella Eppehimer
