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Geography Bowl hosted during awareness week

Emma Smith, Staff Writer November 5, 2024

Gamma Theta Upsilon will be hosting the annual Geography Bowl on November 7 in the Frey Suite starting at 4:30 p.m.   Randy Bertolas, the chair of the history, politics and geography department, said...

The 10th Annual Geography Bowl was on Nov. 4. Graphic courtesy of Kaitlynn Breeden.

Geography Bowl Summary

Ryan Herek, News Writer November 11, 2021

Wayne State College held its 10th Annual Geography Bowl on Nov. 4 and the competition was as good as ever. In the Geography Bowl students compete in their knowledge of geography and states including...

The 10th Annual Geography Bowl was on Nov. 4. Graphic courtesy of Kaitlynn Breeden.

10th Annual Geography Bowl will be Nov. 4

Hannah French, News Writing November 3, 2021

The 10th annual Geography Bowl will be this Thursday, Nov. 4 starting at 4 p.m. in honor of Geography Awareness Week. Dr. Lesli Rawlings, a professor at Wayne State College, is the one that coordinates...

WSC holds ninth annual geography bowl

Whitney Winter, Staff Writer November 13, 2019

The ninth annual Wayne State College geography bowl winner was team “Rowdy Boyz,” who beat the team “I don’t know how we got roped into this!” with the final wager round ending 14-13. Team...


Rawlings was very proud and excited after the event. “I was very surprised who won, it is was the first time for both of them 
and they happened to be in my class.” Rawlings said. “Everything went as planned, this was our eighth time hosting this event 
so we were pretty much prepared and we couldn’t do it without the students’ help. We had student assistants and other faculty members helping out, it was a team effort.’’
Photo ourtesy of Randy Bertolas Two Clueless Americans were one of the eight teams the participated in geography bowl on Thursday.

Freshmen win the 8th annual geography bowl

Tarik Urvina, Staff Writer November 7, 2018

Wayne State College hosted its eighth annual geography bowl on Nov. 1, in the Frey suites. The geography bowl is an activity held in honor of the geography awareness week, designated as the third week...

Students set to compete in Geo Bowl

Tarik Urvina, Staff Writer October 23, 2018

Wayne State College will host this year’s annual Geography Bowl on Thursday Nov. 1 in the Frey Suite located in the Student Center. The quiz takes place from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and is open to the public. This...

The French-American Alliance strikes again

The French-American Alliance strikes again

Kori Siebert, Staff Writer November 15, 2017

Defending champions from the previous year, “French-American Alliance,” swept the board and took home another win at the 7th annual Geography Bowl at Wayne State College. “I thought it would be...

The sixth annual Geography Bowl

Emmalee Scheibe, Staff Writer November 9, 2016

The sixth annual Wayne State College Geography Bowl was held last Wednesday in the Kanter Student Center. It was organized by Randy Bertolas, chair of the History, Politics and Geography Department, and...

Geography bowl teams of two went head-to-head, answering trivia questions. Left side was team Kenya Not, Grant Harding and Alan Lopez. Moderating in the middle was Dr. Randy Bertolas, and the right side was team The Flint Tropics, Jacob Hord and Kyle Kremer.

‘Murica faces Flint Tropics in geography bowl

Steele Giles, Staff Writer November 11, 2015

    By any chance, would you happen to know which state’s name can be typed using only one row of keys on the QWERTY keyboard? If you’d been in the Frey conference suite on Thursday to watch eight...

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