Quizone is back on RTÉ Two Young People’s for a brand new series in February 2009, where more teams will battle it out against each other in the zone.
In each show three teams between the ages of 9 and 11 years old from all over Ireland will compete in this mental and physical challenge. In every round the teams must nominate a runner, who will race through the zone while the rest of the team back in the search room are also up against the clock to try to find an answer using the quizone.tv safe search engine and a library of reference books. The quicker the runner makes it through the zone, and the faster their team has an answer, the more points they stand to win.
This time the race is much tougher – at the top of each round runners must search in absolute darkness for a glowing bonus ball before they are allowed to continue through the zone, we keep an eye on the action with night vision cameras but for the contestants seeing what they are doing isn’t quite so easy! However the real tension for the teams comes in the second last round when the internet in the search rooms is shut down and contestants have to look for an answer using just the books, which is not an easy task when the clock is ticking.
Keeping a close eye on everything that happens in the zone is referee Jamie Darling, he will be watching the runners every move and anyone who doesn’t complete the zone in time will be disqualified by Jamie and sent back to their search rooms with no points to play for.
Check out the website at www.rte.ie/quizone for behind the scenes video clips, photos and show information.
*THE TEAMS* SERIES 4 Week 7
Monday Feb 16th : Granard Co Longford, Clonmellon Co Westmeath, Lucan, Co Dublin.
Tuesday Feb 17th : Carrignavar Co. Cork, Thurles Co. Tipperary, Glenbeigh Co. Kerry.
Wednesday Feb 18th: Knocklong Co. Limerick, Ennis Co.Clare, Cobh Co.Cork
Thursday Feb 19th: Loughduff Co. Cavan, Stradbally Co. Laois, Ballymum, Dublin.
Friday Feb 20th: Mullingar Co. Westmeath, Tullamore Co.Offaly, Castleknock Co. Dublin