GE College Bowl

coureur
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:21:44 +0000

One of my thrills in watching College Bowl was being a kid and sometimes knowing the answer that the big college students were being asked. The most memorable of these was a match that ended in a dead heat (I don’t remember which schools were playing), so they had one additional toss-up question to break the tie and determine who would come back the following week:

Q: What non-physical characteristic is shared by these three bird species - the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck, and the great auk?

A: They are all extinct.

I remember shouting “Extinct!!” at the television.