QUIZ REGULATIONS
General Rules
n Discussing questions with your teammates is prohibited EXCEPT FOR FLIP QUIZ.
n Audiences are not allowed to help competitors answer questions.
n If competitors say answers in a language that isn’t English, the point of the team earn becomes half. But, bad pronunciation will not be subjected to taking off points.
n Violence and slander expires the right to take part in competition.
n Using electronics is not allowed during competition.
n You can use an abbreviation of medical terms which are used commonly. But, in some cases, you will be asked to say the meaning of it. Question sentences can also use abbreviation.
n Cheating will be punished.
n If several teams get the same point after competition, winner is determined by sudden-death buzzer quiz. Each team has to select one person from a team. Sudden-death question will not be displayed on the screen.
n Comments to questions will rarely be conducted. Questions will be open to the pubic without those with pictures.
n Teams which are late for the start of the competition lose the right to participate in the competition. Those which are late for the first round can attend from loser restoration round.
n If there are some troubles, game-master in the competition place has all rights to resolve that matter.
n Teams which take part in PQJ2018 on the second day will compete from consolation match.
Buzzer Quiz Without choices
The question reader reads out the questions and competitors push a button to answer it. The question will be displayed on the screen right after question reader finished reading. Only one person of the teammates has right to push the button. If the person pushes the button and says something, the right to push the button moves to a next person whether that answer is correct or wrong. After question reader finishes reading sentences completely, competitors lose the right to answer in 30 seconds.
n Competitors can push the buzzer button as soon as the question reader starts reading questions.
n Discussing the question with your teammates is not allowed. (It will be punished)
n If you don’t say anything for 2 seconds after pushing buttons, you lose the right to answer the question.
Flip Quiz
Each team has to write down an answer to a given question on a white flip board. A question is displayed on the screen from the beginning and it will be read only once.
n If a choice question restricts the number of answers, your number of answers has the same. If the number of answers is wrong, the point you earn is 0.
Example) Mention two viruses that cause chronic hepatitis. (4 points)
Ø Answer1： HBV HCV → The team can earn 4 points.
Ø Answer2： B型肝炎ウイルス、C型肝炎ウイルス → The team can earn 2 points.
Ø Answer3： HBV HPV → The team can earn 1 point.
Ø Answer4： B型肝炎ウイルス、HPV → The team can earn 1 point.
Ø Answer5： HBV → The team earns no point because the number of answers is wrong.
n A time limit is as shown below:
First Round: 40 seconds Semifinal: 60 seconds Final: 60 seconds
n You can discuss a question with your teammates.
n You can earn some points if team’s answers are correct partly. But, the points are the same regardless of the number of correct answers.
n Please do not erase an answer on a flip board before chairperson announcement. In some cases, we cannot give the point to your team.
Time Attack
We made this game rules for the first time, so please check the explanation video (in Japanese).
You have to answer as many questions as you can in a time limit. The question is displayed on the screen from the beginning and it is not read by question reader. The right to answer moves to the next person for each question. Discussing q question with your teammates is not allowed during this game.
This game has 3 phases.
n Phase1 (True or False)
If you think the question on the screen is true, please say “TRUE”. If you think it is wrong, please say “FALSE”. After you say something, the right to answer moves to the next person whether that answer is correct or not.
n Phase2 (Choice Questions)
You have to choose 1 answer from (P) to (S).
After you say something, the right to answer moves to the next person whether that answer is correct or not.
n Phase3 (Question and Answer)
You have to say the most appropriate answer to a given answer.
Unlike the previous phases, you cannot move to the next question unless you get the appropriate answer. But, the questions will go next automatically after 15 seconds passes.
In each phase, we will go on to the next question in 15 seconds EXCEPT FOR THE LAST QUESTION.
A time limit is shown as below:
First Round: 20 questions/180 sec Semifinal:25 questions/240 sec Final:25 questions/300 sec
Time remaining after the last question is exchanged into points. Each team can earn the point which multiples a basic point by the rate of correct answers (Fractions will be dropped).
Consolation March
Teams are divided into two competition room and compete with each other. The game rule is “buzzer quiz without choices” and the point of each question is different. Two Teams which gets the highest point in each competition can pass this session and go to the final.
HANDICAP: Teams which take part in PQJ2018 from second day lose 4 points from your team’s score.
The number of questions and allotment of points
How the competition moves on
① First Round
Only 8 teams can pass first round and go to the next semifinal. Selection method is as shown below:
ü The team which gets the highest point in each competition room can definitely go to the semifinal.
ü The rest teams can go to the semifinal in descending order of the score.
② Semifinal
Only 3 teams can pass semifinal and go to the final. Selection method is as shown below:
ü The team which gets the highest point in each session can definitely go to the final.
ü The highest team in rest 6 teams can go to the final.