ABH’s Macorol, Rosende become 2009 Quiz Bee Champs!
Eduardson J. Macorol, ABH 4-1
AB History’s pride, Mr. Eduardson Macorol and Mr. Patrick Rosende, two of the three students who constituted the group for the College of Arts (CA), emerged as champions for this years Philippine History, Culture and Arts Quiz that was held at the Balagtas Hall of the PUP Main Library on September 17, 2009.
Macorol, who is a senior AB History student, and his trainer, Prof. Joanna Aboga-Liao, claimed that the questions for this year’s quiz bee were out-of-these-world, making the participating groups from the different colleges to acquire minimal scores.
“We tried our best though there were times that we were very uncertain with our answers,” he said in an interview. “There were even times when we erased our answers because of uncertainty, yet, to our surprise, Prof. Mc Donald Pascual, the quiz master, would say in the end the same answer that we erased,” he added.
The 2nd place winner, the College of Languages and Linguistics (CLL), was heading the way after the initial question in the difficult round, with PUP Taguig closely following it. The fifth and ninth questions, however, pulled the CA group from the third position to the top by correctly answering them.
The College of Languages and Linguistics and PUP Taguig have not scored after scoring for the first and fifth questions respectively. The College of Arts, on the other hand, eventually maintained its leading position until the quiz bee was over.
The College of Arts earned 15 points while CLL and PUP Taguig got 11 and 10 points respectively. Hence, CA has successfully defended its title from last year’s quiz bee.
