PROJECT NAME: Trivia Nights Kabacan – USM Student Week Intersociety Edition

PROJECT PROPONENTS: Trivia Nights Pinas – Kabacan & University Student Government
VENUE: USM Commercial Building
DATE AND TIME: April 25, 2023; Time(To be announced)

BACKGROUND:

Trivia Nights Pinas (or Trivia Pinas) is an event organizing and marketing outfit that
conceptualize trivia games. It started its trivia games in Davao City and has operations in
places like Davao City, Digos City, Agusan del Sur, Metro Manila and Cebu City.

Trivia Nights Pinas is a brand, with creative mechanics that delineate the games from
being just mere “quiz bowls”. The manner of questioning often digresses from a mere
identification or multiple choice but includes twists of mental exercises such as Venn
diagrams, anagrams, arithmetics, fill in the blanks and more. It is also interactive as it
includes audio and visual categories where participants are asked to decipher the answers
based on sounds or photographs.

A regular trivia night has categories anything under the sun - from business, TV
shows, geography, history, pop culture, music, mathematics, linguistics, movies, current
events or even showbiz. It is completely random and it could cover literally everything with
a notion that every kind of knowledge is acceptable and must be celebrated. It is a team
competition, where team members of a team works with each other to complement the
group based on their strengths. It is ideal in a team that members have varying interests –
there is a film guy, a geography guy, a music guy, a history guy or a “marites” guy
depending on a team’s strategy.

The trivia games of Trivia Nights Pinas was first introduced in Kabacan, North
Cotabato on January 12, 2023. The proponents partnered with Boknoy’s Restaubar to
institutionalize its own brand – “Thursday Fun @ Kabacan”. It was a passion project,
strategizing that Kabacan is in the heart of North Cotabato and is a University Town
housing the premier state university in Cotabato province – USM. The proponents’ purpose
in introducing the games to Kabacan is to create an opportunity for students and other

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persons in the locality to unwind from studies or work through a once a week trivia game
indulgence. The game has no registration fee and no minimum consumable required and is
sustained by a passionate volunteer core group who allocates their time and energy to
organize the games. It has provided a staple activity for people who wants to compete,
socialize and be active during Thursdays in Kabacan.

RATIONALE:

The rationale for the USM STUDENT WEEK INTERSOCIETY EDITION is to organize an
activity during the Student Week with the Trivia Pinas format. It is our utmost belief that
the activity is beneficial for students of USM as:

1. Trivia games promote knowledge and rational thinking;

2. It encourages the habit of fact-checking and precision of information;
3. It builds a community of likeminded people with a shared special interest;
4. It creates an environment of recreation and fair competition and
5. It fosters teamwork upon society/organization members.

It is also a worthwhile advocacy of the Department of Public Information, Executive

Department of the University Student Government. As previously stated, trivia games
promote knowledge and rational thinking – facets which are important in the academe. The
quality of students retaining and processing information should not be understated.
Ignorance plays a grandiose role in misinformation and conflict. These two aforementioned
are key issues in our society which may be mitigated by encouraging fact-checking and
rational thinking.

PROJECT CO-CHAIRS:

 John Rey I. Alejo, Director, Department of Public Information, Executive Department,

University Student Government – to handle the logistics aspects of the activity
 Ryan Davao U. Bernardino, (5-BSEcE), Trivia Nights Pinas - Kabacan (Core Group) –
to handle the content and format related aspects of the activity

MEMBERS:

I. Department of Public Information

1. Diven P. Danila - Secretary
2. Aiman-Nor K. Musa – Undersecretary

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 Directors:

1. John Rey Alejo

2. Kyla Vienne C. Dequilla
3. Andrea Marie G. España
4. Datu B. Blah
5. Nivea Sheen Tabara
6. Benladen A. Lagasan
7. Ian John Quimot
8. Mj Manampan
9. Ronaldo Ellama

II. Trivia Nights Pinas - Kabacan Core Group

1. Ryan Dave Bernardino (5/BSECE/A)
2. Renz Caducoy (1/CpEd/A)
3. Kirk Darrell Eonhil R. Soriano (1/BSDC/A)
4. Reynald A. Macmod(2-BAELB)
5. Reizelle Ayn U. Bernardino (4/BSABE/B)
6. Camille Hope J. Bonoy (1/BSDC/A)
7. Keifer John P. Garcia (1/BSCE/C)
8. Allando D. Eugenio Jr. (4-BSVT/A)
9. Anna A. Abdila (3-BSInfoSys-A)
10. Hairul Sultan

GUIDELINES:

I. REGISTRATION
a. Only accredited societies/organizations shall be allowed to participate in the
INTERSOCIETY EDITION.
b. Each society/organization shall assemble a trivia varsity team composed of
six members from their official membership. Participation of non-members
shall be a ground for disqualification of the society/organization.
c. The accommodation of teams shall be in first come, first serve basis. Each
team must arrive in the venue with complete members to be successfully
registered.
d. There shall be no substitution once the game starts.

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II. SETS AND QUESTIONS
a. The game shall have five (5) sets.
b. Each set is composed of different categories. Each category consists of eight
(8) questions. A category is a collection of questions relating to a common
theme.

Example: (Category Name: GOING INTERNATIONAL; Category Description: Identify

the meaning of the United Nationas Organizations and Specialized Agencies;
Questions and Answers: 1.   ILO – International Labor Organization 2.   WFP – World
Food Programme, 3.   FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization, 4.   IMF –
International Monetary Fund, 5.   WHO – World Health Organization, 6.   IAEA –
International Atomic Energy Agency, 7.   WB – World Bank, 8.   WTO – World Trade
Organization)

c. The allocation of sets and categories are as follows:

i. Everything under the sun (3 sets, 3 categories each) – completely
random categories ranging from geography, history, showbiz, science,
popular culture, film, music etc. There may be visual and audio
categories.
ii. Everything about USM (2 sets, 2 categories each) – categories which
have a direct or indirect relation with information about the
University. There may be visual and audio categories.

III. GAME PROPER

a. The quizmaster will read the questions only twice. If the question is lengthy,
the quizmaster may opt to read it only once.
b. Participating teams must write their answers in the black boards provided.
Black board and chalk will be provided at the venue.
c. When the quizmaster says “BOARDS UP”, participants must stop writing and
must raise their boards.
d. Teams who were not able to raise their boards upon the quizmaster’s cue is
considered to have no answer for that specific question.
e. Participants may ask for a clue during a question but the host will only give
out a clue if no team will shout "NO CLUE" manifesting their confidence in
their answer.
f. The activity will have official scorers, but each team is advised to tally its
score in its board.

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IV. PROTESTS
a. Protests as to the counting of scores shall be resolved by the end of each
set. In case of a discrepancy between a scorer and a team count, the scorer’s
count shall prevail who shall be charged with faithfully tallying the scores.
b. Protests as to the acceptability of an answer (i.e., a team’s answer, while not
the announced correct answer is likewise valid), shall be resolved after the
game and in the tallying of the score so that the game will not be unduly
disrupted.
c. A team who wishes to protest an answer shall not erase the answer in its
board until a verifier from the organizers has recorded it. In order to have an
efficient resolution of protests by the quizmaster/s, the record of the verifier
shall include 1. The society/organization, 2. The protested answer of the
team, 3. the announced answer and 4. the set and category.

V. WINNERS/TIE BREAKER
a. There shall only be one champion, one second placer and one third
placer.
b. If a tie occurs in the champion, the losing team after the tie breaker shall
automatically be the second placer. The original second placer shall be the
third placer and the original third placer shall be kicked out of the winners.
c. If a tie occurs in the second placer, the losing team after the tie breaker shall
automatically be the third placer and the original third placer shall be kicked
out of the winners.
d. In case of a tie in the above-mentioned placement/s, a best of five tie
breaker shall be conducted.
e. The mechanics for the best of five tie breaker are as follows:
i. The quizmaster has prepared five totally random questions
beforehand.
ii. The team who gets the most correct answers out of the five shall be
the winner of the tie breaker
f. In case the two teams in the above tie breaker garners the same correct
answers, the tie shall be resolved by each team sending a representative
player. The first representative player who raises his board showing the
correct answer to the question shall win the tiebreaker for the team. A
player may raise his board even before the quizmaster finishes the question
and no more counting for boards up shall take place.

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 DIVEN P. DANILA
Chair
Vice President/Secretary
Department of Public Information,
USG-USM

RYAN DAVE U. BERNARDINO

Chair
Trivia Nights Pinas – Kabacan
Core Group

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