The Quiz

The main reason to make the quiz part of the competition is the opportunity it offers to involve the participants of the IGU congress and to promote geography education. In ’96 in The Hague there were over 400 geographers from all over the world in the audience; in ’98 in Lisbon there was only a handful of interested collegues in the hall.

Proposal:

  • only organise a quiz if it is certain that a considerable number of collegues attending the IGU-congress can be present

In ’96 the quiz questions and resource materials (maps, graphs, etc.) were presented to the candidates in their national language on a computerscreen. The computer program however proved to be vulnerable: it collapsed during the quiz and it took several minutes to get it started again. In ’98 tranparencies and an OHP were used to present the questions and resource materials; the questions were also read out in English by a member of the jury. The candidates could ask for a an oral translation if they did not (fully) understand the question.

Proposal:

  • an OHP and/or a slide projector is advisable, since it is less collapse-prone
  • with respect to the translation of the quiz questions, the remarks regarding the translation of the written test are applicable
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