Event Title - Historic / Future Dates

Aim To commit to memory and recall as many fictional numerical historic/future dates as possible and link them to the right historic event.

Time to memorize 5 minutes

Time to recall 15 minutes

Memorizing paper

  1. 110 different historic/future dates, with 55 dates on a page will be given.
  2. The historic/future dates are between the years 1000 and 2099.
  3. All historic/future dates are fictitious or general (e.g. Peace Treaty signed).
  4. The length of the event text is between 1 and 5 words.
  5. Statistically the whole range of years will be used and no year (and no event) will be presented twice.
  6. The 4-digit number of the historic/future years are on the left side of the event and the events are written down under each other.

Recall paper

  1. Contestants will be given 2 sheets of Recall Paper with 55 historic/future event texts written on each.
  2. The historic/future event texts are in a different order from that of the memorizing phase.
  3. Contestants must now write down the correct year in front of the event texts.

Scoring

  1. A point is awarded for every correctly assigned year. All 4 digits of the year written down must be correct. Half a mark is deducted for an incorrectly assigned year.
  2. Only one 4-digit year can be written down in front of the event.
  3. The points are added up (max. 110 points)
  4. In the case of tied winning scores, the winner will be decided by counting the mistakes (incorrectly assigned dates) of the contestant - the contestant with less incorrectly assigned dates is the winner.

World record: 99 dates (Johannes Mallow, World Championship 2007)

1000 championship points standard: 92 dates

Calculation factor: 1 date - 11 points