Explanation of "Fifty Fifty"
Each year, Keokuk
Middle School, students take the National Geography Bee (class level).
There are fifty questions to the test and the top ten from each grade get
selected to compete
at the school level. When I took the test, I got fifty questions correct
out of the possible
fifty. That hadn't happened in twelve years. Because of my
accomplishment, people began
to call me "fifty fifty" for fifty questions correct out of fifty.
I made it to the
school level, of course. And I won that level, with only a 38 out of 50
this time.
I would have advanced to the state level (which is next after school level), but
I didn't have
transportation available.