College Bowl
Winter 2024 College Bowl Tournament
Similar to a Quiz Bowl type competition, Residential Life College Bowl challenges the academic knowledge and skills of our residents. Each year, floor and house teams comprised of four residents (and up to two alternates) compete against each other in the intra-hall tournaments. The winning team from each community will then advance to the inter-hall tournament to determine the overall champion.
Sign up by Friday, January 26th at 5 PM!
Topics Include:
- History
- Literature/Art
- Math
- Science
- Entertainment
- Geography
- Sports
- University of California System
Congratulations to the 2024 Champion…
“Rocy Adwakson” from Olympic Hall!
Tournament Schedule
There are three tournament rounds. The first is individual community tournaments Week 4 of Winter Quarter. The winning team from each community will advance to the second round, the Top 22 tournament will take place in Week 5 on Wednesday, February 7th (6 PM to 9 PM). The winning teams will advance to the Semi-Finals and Finals, which will be held on Wednesday, February 14th (7 PM to 9 PM).
Prize Packages
This year, each member of the winning team will receive Beat Studio Pro Headphones, and the runners-up will each receive a UCLA sweatshirt! Additionally, each Community Tournament winner will receive a collector’s edition College Bowl shirt, and the four semi-finalists will receive water bottles and other swag items!
Previous Winners
- 2000 - The Sixers (Delta B6)
- 2001 - Hedrick Redemption (Hedrick 5S)
- 2002 - Hedrick Hall
- 2003 - Super Texans (Delta B2)
- 2004 - The Professionals (Canyon Point A4)
- 2005 - Team Legitimate (Delta B8)
- 2006 - Domin-eight-ors (Hedrick Summit 8)
- 2007 - Pikachu (Canyon Point A8)
- 2008 - Ezekial Haystack… (Delta B5)
- 2009 - D6 Sexy 6 (Dykstra 6)
- 2010 - Hedrick 5 South (Hedrick 5S)
- 2011 - Cech (Canyon Point)
- 2012 - Cech 2.0 (Canyon Point)
- 2013 - Beautiful Creatures (De Neve GH)
- 2014 - Pecksters (Hedrick Summit)
- 2015 - Warren’s Team (De Neve GH)
- 2016 - Einstein’s Barbers (DeNeve ABCD)
- 2017 - Rieber 5N has our couch (Rieber Hall)
- 2018 - Big Ballers (Sproul Cove Landing)
- 2019 - Rende West (Rieber Terrace)
- 2020 - Terrace 3 (Rieber Terrace)
- 2021 - Andrew Chen (Virtual Tournament)
- 2022 - Cocoa Crusaders (Centennial Hall)
- 2023 - Sunset Villagers (Canyon/ Courtside)
- 2024 - Rocy Adwakson (Olympic Hall)
Past winning College Bowl team captain Cliff Galiher, of Canyon Point, also won the 2007 Jeopardy! College Championship.
Photo by Jeopardy! Productions.
Questions
Email collegebowl@orl.ucla.edu