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Buzou Prefectural High School

Quiz Bowl Circle New Students Welcome!! 100-Question Paper Quiz

The quiz bowl circle?

Do you study quizzes?

You're just a circle?

Question.

What is quiz bowl?

Quiz Bowl Circle New Students Welcome!! 100-Question Paper Quiz

Quiz bowl is a game known by everyone around the world.

There are those who take it quite seriously!

Now follow in the footsteps of the pioneers who upheld the quiz bowl craze long ago!

You, too!

Don't you want to become a quiz king?!

Huh?!

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Question 1: "Don't You Want to Become a Quiz King?"

Quiz king? What is that?

And who is this huge guy?

Give this a try.

You try it, too.

And you two.

Here. Try this.

Sasajima! Back off!

Circles don't belong here!

New students, join the baseball team!

It's my second day of high school.

And today is the day the battle between the school clubs for new students begins.

This is a world that I, Koshiyama Shiki, don't belong in...

Quiz, huh?

Kuroda? From the Nishi Middle basketball team?

Still playing in high school, too?

You better believe it!

My first goal is to take nationals!

Take your seats.

So what did you all think about yesterday's entrance ceremony?

Three years of high school may seem long now, but it'll fly by.

You can focus solely on your studies,

or you can work hard at your clubs.

If I had a large physique or some kind of skill,

would I have worked hard at some club, too?

Quiz Bowl Circle New Students Welcome!! 100-Question Paper Quiz

A paper quiz?

What in the world? They're all quiz questions?

So people who like quizzes get together and spend their time answering quiz questions?

Is that supposed to be fun?

Don't you want to become a quiz king?

And that guy was part of it?

I'm not sure I want to...

We'll spend first period choosing your class representatives.

Let's start with the class officers...

Question 1.

Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles are "to neither possess, manufacture, nor..." what?

"Introduce." That's common sense.

Question 2... Let's see...

"I think, therefore I am" is a quote by... Descartes, of course.

What desert in Africa is the largest hot desert in the world?

Even elementary school kids know that.

Introduce René Descartes Sahara Desert

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning out of restless dreams"

is the opening line of which novel by Franz Kafka?

Well, I guess some of these are fairly specialized questions,

but if even I know the answers, this must be pretty low-level...

Next up, librarians. We'll need one boy and one girl.

Any volunteers?

Here... Here... Here, here... Here...

Sure, I'll do it.

All right, Inoue Daisuke. It's all yours.

But I was the class librarian through all three years of middle school!

Did you see that?

I guess he wanted to do it.

Now, how about a girl?

Me.

A volunteer?

Yes. I'm Fukami Mari.

Does she like books, too?

Fukami-san's really pretty, huh?

Looks like you got some side perks.

Man, quit teasing me!

Whoops, that was close.

If I'd gotten the same job as the popular girl,

I'd never hear the end of it.

Our eyes met!

Oh...

I ended up answering all the quiz questions.

This might not be a bad way to kill time.

No, no, no, no! No way!

Let's hit the school shop.

I'll push our desks together.

Seriously?

He should just speak up.

Isn't he lonely?

Don't!

Library

They have a lot of minor series, too.

There are so many more genres than the middle school library had!

The library is where I got my start.

Ever since elementary school, I've spent more time reading than playing with friends.

I didn't want to play with the kids who called me "shrimp" and "dunce," anyway.

It was just the only way I knew to have fun on my own.

Buzou Prefectural Library

Since my mom worked at the library, I spent every day

there reading until she got off work.

In middle school, I became the class librarian.

By then, I was nothing but a bookworm.

I used to read a lot of classical literature and non-fictional works back then...

It stimulated my imagination and opened up new worlds before me.

But I was never able to find any friends to share the joy of reading with.

I thought that was fine, though.

Of course, it meant I had no connection to any girls, either...

Let's see...

Isn't she the class librarian, Fukami-san?

Wait, does she even see me?!

U-Um, watch—

Huh?

A-Are you o—

Oh!

P-P-Pan—

Everything okay?

I-I just tripped! That's all!

No running!

You can't eat your lunch here!

I'm sorry!

Man, that startled me...

Forget about that!

My safe haven will be tainted with this crazy memory!

Is this Fukami-san's?

What are these marks?

...long house / is known as...

...refer to betting money / on a single...

...marks left / behind in the snow...

And finally,

the best perk of being in the hardball tennis club

is that you get to see sights like this at the girls' court next to ours!

There!

There!

So wrong...

And that concludes the introduction of all the school clubs.

Me getting in to a sports club is a joke,

but I'm not that interested in the culture clubs, either.

Welcome, New Students!

Next, we'll introduce the school associations.

Here's the quiz bowl circle. Go ahead.

Oh, the quiz king...

Ah. Test, test.

I'm the president of the quiz bowl circle, Sasajima Gakuto, second-year.

Who wants to go to New York?!

There was once a quiz show by that name on TV. Do you remember it?

It was, indeed, a world in which people competed in quiz bowl.

Even today, there is a major quiz show called High School Quiz,

in which high school students engage in a heated competition every year.

Any high school student may participate.

Quiz bowl, as everyone knows,

is a game anyone can play where one simply answers questions to win.

However, adding a competitive aspect makes it a sport.

A sport? Quiz bowl?

The first step is to experience quiz bowl.

Hence this impromptu quiz meet!

The first six to raise their hands will get to participate!

The true thrill of quiz bowl is competing to buzz in the fastest!

Nothing can match the rush that comes from pressing this buzzer!

Where do they even sell those things?

Me, me! I wanna do it!

Yeah, me too!

Here.

Fukami Mari?

Please come up to the stage.

R-Right.

She looks so meek,

but she's so assertive!

I could never do that.

In the interest of time,

I'll select the remaining three participants at random.

Class A, female, student number 6.

What?!

Class C, female, number 8.

You're kidding! No way!

Class D, male, number 11.

Koshiyama, isn't that you?

Class D, male, student number 11. I'm number 10.

Huh?

What?! I have to go up there?!

With all these people watching?!

I can't! I can't! I can't! I can't!

This isn't even funny!

Flail

Flail

How did this happen?

And the mood up here is so awkward...

Question.

"Avril" in French, "aprile" in Italian, and "April" in English refer to which month?

April?

April!

Correct, but that was terrible!

Huh?

You didn't do it right at all.

You weren't taking it the least bit seriously.

You could have buzzed in much faster!

Uh... Well...

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