Inside Quizzing

Gryphon and Scott begin with some announcements and discussion about and around the new rule book, which as of now is fully ratified by vote of the districts. Then the dynamic duo briefly discuss the upcoming Great West Invitational quiz meet. Then Scott leads a discussion into objectivism versus subjectivism, especially in the context of context. And finally Gryphon poses the question: Why Quizzi...

Gryphon and Scott discuss 3 philosophical Quizzing topics. First, they discuss whether or not we should make rules solely to prevent bad quizmasters from doing bad things. Then the dynamic duo discuss uniqueness by word count and the implications around that concept. And then they conclude by talking through the hypothetical idea of what might be question difficulty optimal range, across types, wi...

Gryphon and Scott respond to some intelligent and well-articulated listener disagreements. First, from Maddy, a disagreement about PNW's new key verse list (KVL) policy. And second, from Andrew, a disagreement about Gryphon and Scott's shared desire to kill the unique word rule with fire. But first, some announcements from Gryphon about PNW Quizzing, in particular about Great West, the remainder o...

Gryphon and Scott welcome back to the podcast Zachary Tinker and Jeremy Swingle to debate a series of topics related to key verse lists, the concepts and practice of creating lists of verses from the material from which all Quote and Finish questions are derived. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. Chat in near-real-time on the #inside-...

Gryphon and Scott begin with an announcement about a CBQZ bug patch, then they discuss the calculus around switching back to in-person quizzing. Then the dynamic duo dive into a deep discussion about the best ways to organize and coach and Internationals-bound team, inspired by a hypothetical. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. Chat in...

Gryphon and Scott begin with a couple of announcements relevant to Quizzingdom. Then the dynamic duo discuss some question writing theory, in particular about question difficulty in constructing an ideal question set. Scott describes what he calls a distillation of hist past umbrages. Then Gryphon and Scott summarize some of the discussion in the Slack #inside-quizzing channel about motivations an...

Gryphon and Scott being with a review of PNW District Meet 3, which took place a couple days prior to recording this episode. Then the dynamic duo dig into some marked questions from the meet that raise some very interesting scenarios, rules interpretations (and maybe misinterpretations), and a rare disagreement between Scott and Gryphon. They then discuss some follow-up comments about one of the...

Gryphon and Scott open by talking briefly about the upcoming PNW District Meet 3. Then the dynamic duo discuss the current status of the rule book project as it is now in the district review and ratification phase. Then Gryphon and Scott discuss a series of "Quizzing Heresies," ideas that may or may not be good or bad, but when brought up will usually cause most Quizzing folks to emotionally brist...

Gryphon and Scott open by discussing the remainder of the PNW 2020-2021 season, if and when we can move back to in-person meets, as well as extra-PNW meets like Great West and Internationals. Then the dynamic duo discuss transitioning from in-person to virtual meets, reflecting on some good advice about virtual quizzing. Then they discuss the expected transition from virtual back to in-person, wit...

The "Inside Quizzing" podcast is a periodic discussion hosted by veteran Bible Quizzing leaders and innovators Gryphon Shafer and Scott Peterson, occationally including special guests from across Quizzingdom. Each episode, the dynamic duo discuss Quizzing topics, evanglism, methods and practices, study and strategy theory and tips, and anything else they find interesting related to Bible Quizzing.

For the first time (and likely last time) ever, Gryphon and Scott record an entire Inside Quizzing episode in "NPR Voice Mode." As far as content, the dynamic duo primarily talk through a series of "bugs" in the current rule book. These aren't the umbrage items from previous episodes. These are instead actual mechanical faults in the current rule book, where it either contracts itself or otherwise...

Gryphon and Scott begin with a quick review of the Adult Quizzing League (AQL) international meet 1 that was this past Saturday. Then the dynamic duo discuss a series of hypothetical and real quizzing scenarios to tease out Quizzing philosophy debates. And of course then the two debate the debates, exploring various trees of logical thought related thereunto. As always, email questions and comment...

Gryphon and Scott begin with a quick review of PNW District Meet 1 along with some stats observations. Then the dynamic duo discuss and even debate a variety of interesting Quizzing topics including: marked questions from the last meet, curious rulings either from or inspired by the last meet, and some rulebook clarifications. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on...

Gryphon and Scott welcome to the podcast Alex Mellen, originally from Central, now from Midwest; and the trio discuss a recent article published in Christianity Today regarding memorization theory, specifically around Bible verse memorization. Before that, Gryphon offered a PNW District Meet 1 update. And after chatting with Alex about memorization, Gryphon and Scott announce and discuss the new r...

Allen McPherson from Metro District returns to the podcast to announce and answer questions about a new imitative coming up: International Adult Quizzing League. The first meet of the season is this coming Halloween. Then Scott, Gryphon, and Allen discuss a variety of quizzing topics including some quizzer influence philosophy. The then trio discuss a series of marked questions. And finally, they...

Gryphon and Scott review the PNW Quizzing pre-season meet from the previous Saturday, then they discuss and debate various thoughts around a chapter-reference question from Matthew 2:3. Then the dynamic duo deep dive into common junior or rookie quizmaster mistakes, nearly all of which Gryphon has made in his past. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @I...

Gryphon and Scott discuss a variety of somewhat randomly different quizzing philosophies, a smorgasbord if you will. But first, a listener question about FTV/INT list prep. Then the dynamic duo discuss quizmaster concurrent mental thread capacity, the most important attributes of amazing officials, Matthew material rules from the 2018 rule book, subjective versus objective rules, and a famous Dijk...

Gryphon and Scott continue with part 3 of taking umbrage with the worst quizzing practices. In this, the final chapter of the topic (at least for now), the dynamic duo address: equipment, software, data, and material providers, Quizzing prejudice, Internationals meet leadership, and International quizzing leadership. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter:...

Gryphon and Scott start off by answering some questions from a listener. Then the dynamic duo embark on part 2 of their quest to take umbrage with the worst Quizzing practices. They discuss bad quizmaster practices and misguided and wrong-headed district program philosophy and operations. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web...

Gryphon and Scott being with a quick announcement about an upcoming virtual game night for quizzers, and they answer an interesting listener question about the value of specialization. Then the dynamic duo discuss a series of topics they consider to be the worst quizzing practices, and they take a certain measured amount of umbrage regarding each. Quizzer enunciation, inability to accept feedback,...

Gryphon and Scott being with a quick announcement about the upcoming 2020-2021 PNW Quizzing season. Then the dynamic duo quickly move into part 2 of the discussion and debate over the worst rules of Bible Quizzing, the rules with which they would like to take umbrage. Unique words, determine word or phrase, context, prompts, and more. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and foll...

Gryphon and Scott welcome to the podcast PNW Internetionals coaches Jeremy Swingle and Kristine Delamarter to talk all things coaching, but before they do, Scott offers an Internetionals statistics overview. Then Gryphon and Scott discuss two related rulings from Internetionals regarding when a jump should be a foul versus an error. Then the quizzing quartet discuss how to be a coach, how to recru...

Gryphon and Scott being with a quick review of some of the Internetionals 2020 highlights, then quickly move into a short list of lingering questions and concepts. Then the dynamic duo spend the bulk of the episode discussing and debating the worst rules of Bible Quizzing, the rules with which they would like to take umbrage. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on...

Gryphon and Scott discuss some listener questions and listener feedback, first about the ethics of challenging. Then the dynamic duo discuss in detail some edge cases for "out of context" and the concepts and implications of context in general. And finally, Gryphon and Scott explore how quizmasters are required to rule on provided reference in both reference questions and quote questions. As alway...

Gryphon and Scott discuss a variety of questions related to quizzing: What do you think is a good way to jump competitively in a virtual meet while still minimizing risk? What are ethical standards for quizzing and coaching in terms of challanging and protesting? Is there such a hing as being "too competitive"? And if so, what might that look like for quizzers and coaches? As always, email questio...