B. Only the team captain or co-captain may challenge a decision.
C. Captains may sit in any chair. Scorekeepers must be notified which quizzer is
captain and co-captain before the quizzers take their seats to begin the quiz.
D. The team captain and co-captain may change during a given competition but not
during a quiz.
III. JUMPING AND PRE-JUMPING
A. Failure to answer after jumping and being recognized by the quizmaster will
constitute an error.
B. If a quizzer's light comes on after a question has been called and before the
question has discernibly begun, a foul will be called. The quizzer is ineligible to
answer that numbered question, including the toss-up or bonus question.
C. If a quizzer's light comes on after the quizmaster has discernibly begun reading the
question, this will be considered a pre-jump, and the quizzer will be given an
opportunity to answer.
D. The first quizzer to rise and trigger his light, provided there has been no foul, will be
recognized.
E. If, in the judgment of the officials, a deliberate attempt is made to forfeit a question,
an error will be charged and 10 points deducted from the team score. The next
question will be numbered the same.
IV. TIE JUMP
A. When members of the same team tie, the captain will select one to answer without
any type of verbal or nonverbal communication.
B. When quizzers of two or three teams tie, the question will be replaced with a
question of the same type on which all eligible members of the tied teams may
jump. The question number remains the same.
C. When a quizzer errs on the tie-jump question, it will be treated as a regular question
and the quiz will continue as normal.
V. CONSULTING TEAM FOR REFERENCE
A. If the answer given by the quizzer appears to fulfill the requirements of the question,
the quizmaster may ask the quizzer for a reference. After asking permission of the
quizmaster, a quizzer may consult his team members for a reference. This
consultation may not exceed 30 seconds and need not be in the original 30-second
answer time limit.
VI. CORRECT ANSWERS
A. An answer is correct when:
1. It contains the information requested. If the quizmaster did not complete the
reading of the question, the quizzer's answer must include the information in
the remainder of the question as well as the answer. It is not required to be in
question and answer form, except in the case of a reference question.
2. The quotation is word-for-word as found in the ESV in Finish-The- Verse,
Finish- This, and Quote Questions. In these questions the quizzers may go
back to correct their answers if done in the 30-second time limit. The quizzer
may not
change to another verse.
B. Mispronounced names are still recognizable as the answer.
The C&MA Internationals Bible Quizzing Executive Team
Revised 2013
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