Well done to our two teams who took part in the Oxford heat of Kids' Lit Quiz . There were 32 teams competing, with over 75 adults watching.
Our Lady's Abingdon Year 8 team came third in a play-off, a sudden-death question, where Quizmaster Wayne Mills started reading the opening lines of a book, which had to be identified. They won £20 book tokens and books, to add to a set of books awarded earlier for winning the round on heroes.
The quiz is sponsored by Serco and John Essery from Serco Defence, Science and Technology presented the KLQ Oxford cup to The Cherwell School. The winning team also went home with £80 book tokens and books, and a place in the UK KLQ Final next month. Runners up Oxford High won £40 book tokens for the team plus books to take away. In between the rounds 10 happy adults won a £5 book token each for answering a question on an adult title. There were also £1 spot prizes for children in the audience.
As Wayne says in his blog "At today's heat in Oxford we had incredibly quick kids and a great turnout of authors." The authors present were: Dennis Hamley, Mary Hooper, Meg Harper, Rod Hunt, Mark Robson, Mini Gray and Rachael Wing, who were happy to sign autographs and copies of their books.
Full results of all the regional heats are on the website: http://www.kidslitquiz.com/UK/2007/results.html
