UPDATED: Are you smarter than a teenage super consumer?
If you missed Saturday’s paper, I wrote my weekly column about the LifeSmarts national championships currently going on downtown. The competition, which is sponsored by the National Consumers League, is a quiz tournament for high-school students.
The 30 teams competing already survived state-championship rounds, where the questions are designed to puzzle most adults. The questions at the national competition are supposed to be even tougher, as I hope to confirm Tuesday, when I drop by for the semifinal and final rounds.
Sadly, I’ll miss out on seeing the four-time Missouri champions in action. The Wolverines of Maysville High School will not be bringing the national title back to northwest Missouri. Teams from New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Washington state remain in the running.
Think you’d ace the challenge? Try this quiz based on questions asked at last year’s championships.
(It’s not exactly the same. During the multiple-choice part of the LifeSmarts competition, youths pick from three answers. Our online quiz software requires at least four choices, so we’ve added wrong answers.)
UPDATE: The Wisconsin team on Tuesday bested the Washington state team to win the LifeSmarts national championship. The team, from Oconto High School, includes Captain David Sohrweide; Taylor Thomson; Rylee Ahnen and Koty Slough.
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Represent Oconto!
I think part of being a smart consumer is the overall knowledge of necessarily understanding what you have to do and not necessarily an exact knowledge of the details of consumer protections. Among other things, smart consumers look for good deals (I find mine for cameras and other electronics at http://junnos.com), know through experience or knowledge their rights and have an overall sense of fairness and protections. But, yes, I think I am a better consumer by far than a teenager.