A fixed-time team-played quiz game (JIETF) is a mind sport where teams try to identify the correct answer to trivia or general knowledge questions in a fixed period of time. The team’s goal in the game is to answer to a greater number of questions than their rivals.
The event brought together three teams: Phoenix (Lucian Blaga Lyceum, Tiraspol); ProVeritas (Evrika Lyceum, Rîbnița); and Intelect (“Ștefan cel Mare și Sfînt” Lyceum, Grigoriopol).
The event was organized together with the Moldovan Mind Game Club and aimed to promote the culture of human rights through knowledge and information multiplication.
Octavian Sirețeanu, the host of the game, stated: “At this session of mind games, the three teams had the opportunity to give a try at three different games. All the rounds included both questions pertaining to human rights, the event’s theme, and general knowledge questions. As concerns the teams’ performance, I should remark that it had been a tight race before one team eventually managed to obtain a comfortable lead just in the final round. The players prepared well for the thematic questions on human rights, and seldom had troubles answering such. In the general knowledge questions department, answers wouldn’t come that easy, but most of the time, with a little tip, they would eventually crack them. The final results were fair, considering that that was their first experience of the kind. I wish the players to keep playing mind games, and with a bit of experience I think that this group can produce some valuable players.”
“Through this activity, we planned to involve the youth in the region into promoting human rights culture in a new, more interactive fashion. The three teams showed great interest and motivation throughout the game. The competition spirit added dynamism to the game and created a friendly environment for all the participants in the event. We plan to support the organization of quiz games during the Human Rights Decade in a number of education institutions in the region”, said Olga Gordila, Civil Society Program coordinator at Promo-LEX.
“I took part for the first time in such an activity and we were a little bit nervous in the beginning. But we managed to overcome our emotions as the game advanced. It was extremely interesting, because it tried our knowledge, our speed of thinking, and teamwork skills. Together with our teachers, we will try to hold such quizzes in our school, too”, said one member of the team ProVeritas.
The activity was part of the “Promoting Human Rights and Strengthening Civil Society in Moldova’s Transnistrian Region” Program, which is implemented thanks to the financial support offered by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).