Quizing!!! - participation round

On Friday we quizzed. After waking up, with more than enough time to get ready, Andy came by our room. Shaney then sent him out to get breakfast and Altobelli came by. Altobelli told us (Shaney, Rachel, and myself, though mostly Shaney) that Brian was still asleep. When we went downstairs Brian was waiting for us and Andy handed us our food. Shaney made sure that everyone on our team ate or drank chocolate milk before we quizzed and after having just enough time to get something into our systems, the teams were announced. We were in the room with another Texas team from Bayshore Bible which is in Corpus Christi.

Participation Round Quizing...
As in every round, before quiz actually began, there was a sample question. For participation, this question was "How much is the moon worth?" I have a tendency to be able to remember random quotes (such as this one) just by looking at it. Right before I had left for Summit I had signed off the section with this joke in it for a T&T cluber. So... back to quiz. The first team buzzed in, and it wasn't us. They tried to think of something that sounded reasonable and answered 1 million dollars, which was incorrect. My team was the second team to buzz in and I told my team that I know this one and proceded to stand up and answer with the answer of $1.00, because it has 4 quarters, which was correct. Then the round actually began...
We started the round by buzzing in on Romans! and then we did it again! The first time, the question was "Recite Romans Thir..." I knew that the verse was either one of the Romans 3 verses or Romans 13:8, and looking back on it, I should have known that it was Romans 13. The second time, we buzzed in right after Romans which gave us no hope of figuring out which verse it was and so Rose stood up and said Romans 6:4 perfectly. We buzzed in a few more times, including on a question about the Saved/Unsaved list, which I answered second. For this question, while the first person was trying to list the entire list, which they didn't have time to do, Shaney told me to remember to only say both Saved and Unsaved characteristics if they ask for both. In this question I only had to say 6 characteristics of the saved person.(I ended up saying 7 because midway through I stoped keeping track of how many I had said.) After speed, we "knew" we were done. We were the last place team in the room(?). Then multiple choice began. We got most of the questions right, but not all of them. Still we thought we had no chance of going on...
But there was a tiebraker! and we were anounced as one of the two teams! My thought at that moment was, did they announce the wrong team?? (Last year in a tiebraker in Silver round, we were anounced with a few other teams, but it ended up being that they had read of the wrong list and we were out.) The other team was Bayshore Bible and while we didn't want to eliminate them, we really wanted to get to bronze (and then ultimately to platinum). After the first tiebraker, they announced that we were still in a tie... and after another three minutes, we were still tied! Then they started a sudden death round... one minute of tiebraker... which gives enough time for 1 or 2 questions. The other team buzzed in first to the question... would they get it right? They ended up not getting it right, which meant that whether we answered the question correctly or not, we were going on! Our team then got the question and Shaney proceded to stand up and practically recite an entire page about Abraham and David, which was correct! WE WERE GOING ON!!!!