Difference between revisions of "Jonah Greenthal"

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Jonah Greenthal

Noted subjects	Judaism, math, musicals, Tom Lehrer, Arrested Development
Current college	none
Past colleges	Chicago (2010–2012), Illinois (2008–2009)
High school	New Trier (2005–2008)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Jonah Greenthal is a member of NAQT, for which he does a wide variety of technical work, subject editing (primarily mathematics), set editing (including roughly a dozen national championships), logistics (including logistics-directing the 2012 and 2013 MSNCT and 2017 ICT and tournament-directing the 2023 ICT and HSNCT), and miscellaneous administrative work. His voice can be heard on many NAQT game recordings ("podcasts") from roughly 2014 through 2019.

Jonah developed custom software for various ventures by his former coach David Reinstein, including for running Scobol Solo (which thereby became the first known tournament to track exactly where in questions players buzzed) and Reinstein QuizBowl's ordering system for IESA-style questions. He also helps Reinstein produce the Solo and Masonic question sets, and he used to co-TD the New Trier Varsity tournaments (additionally writing and editing much of it in 2008 and 2009).

His unremarkable playing career was for Chicago (2010–2012), Illinois (2008–2009), and New Trier (2005–2008).

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 {{Infobox|Name = Jonah Greenthal
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 |Subjects = Judaism, math, musicals, Tom Lehrer, Arrested Development
-|schoolcur = [[Chicago]] (2011–present)
+|schoolcur = none
-|schoolpast = [[Illinois]] (2008–2009)
+|schoolpast = [[Chicago]] (2010–2012), [[Illinois]] (2008–2009)
 |highschool = [[New Trier]] (2005–2008)
 | }}
+'''Jonah Greenthal''' is a member of [[NAQT]], for which he does a wide variety of technical work, subject editing (primarily mathematics), set editing (including roughly a dozen national championships), logistics (including [[logistics director|logistics-directing]] the [[2012 MSNCT|2012]] and [[2013 MSNCT|2013]] [[MSNCTs|MSNCT]] and [[2017 ICT|2017]] [[ICT]] and tournament-directing the [[2023 ICT]] and [[2023 HSNCT|HSNCT]]), and miscellaneous administrative work. His voice can be heard on many [[NAQT game recordings]] ("podcasts") from roughly 2014 through 2019.
-'''Jonah Greenthal''' is a former player at [[New Trier]], where he played on the [[2007 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2007 IHSA]] class AA state champion team and captained the team the following year. He attended and played with [[Illinois]] for one year, then went to [[Chicago]], where he is a math major but does not play quizbowl. He continues to staff high school (mostly) and college tournaments (occasionally) around the state and country. He also hosts the [[QBWiki]] and has turned it into an awful version of Wikipedia.
+Jonah developed custom software for various ventures by his former coach [[David Reinstein]], including for running [[Scobol Solo]] (which thereby became the first known tournament to track exactly where in questions players buzzed) and [[Reinstein QuizBowl]]'s ordering system for IESA-style questions. He also helps Reinstein produce the Solo and [[Masonic]] question sets, and he used to co-TD the [[New Trier Varsity]] tournaments (additionally writing and editing much of it in 2008 and 2009).
-He head-edited and wrote a plurality of the 2008 and 2009 [[New Trier Varsity]] tournaments. Additionally, he was an occasional contributor to [[Aegis Questions]] before its untimely death and helps edit the New Trier [[Scobol Solo]]. Jonah assisted [[Jeff Price]] in editing the 2009 [[Barrington Invitational Tournament]], improving on the work of [[Quillin's Questions]]. He writes for the [[IHSA]]; for the 2010 State Series his categories included all the physics, all the music theory, a handful of British literature, a bunch of the terrible [[bad quizbowl|miscellaneous categories]] (i.e., driver's ed, agriculture, and industrial arts), and some art history.
+His unremarkable playing career was for [[Chicago]] (2010–2012), [[Illinois]] (2008–2009), and [[New Trier]] (2005–2008).
-Jonah is also the current college student liaison to the [[IHSSBCA]] steering committee and a test- and performance-certified moderator by the IHSSBCA. He has often incurred the wrath of some IHSSBCA members for advocating [[ACF]]-style bonuses, [[good quizbowl|good questions]], the institution of [[negs]], and the elimination of [[computational math]].
+{{Navbox NAQT}}
-In conjunction with the above liaison role, in March and April 2009 Jonah (with [[Matt Laird]]) conducted a survey of current and former Illinois high school players, which featured questions about changing the unusual Illinois bonus format to an ACF-style one and about changing the distribution of certain minor categories such as driver's ed and agriculture. The survey was sent to the [[IHSSBCA]] and [[IHSA]] Scholastic Bowl advisory committee with the intention of accompanying a similar survey the IHSSBCA took of coaches, where it was pretty much ignored. Its results are available [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&amp;t=7681 here].
+[[Category:People]]
+[[Category: New Trier]]
-With [[Tom Egan]], he was the commissioner of the Scholastic Bowl program in the [[Central Suburban League]] for the 2010-11 academic year. He assistant-coaches at [[St. Ignatius]].
+[[Category: Illinois]]
+[[Category: Chicago]]
-[[Category:People]] [[Category: New Trier]] [[Category: Illinois]] [[Category: Jews]]
+[[Category:NAQT]]
 [[Category: High school players active in 2006]]
 [[Category: High school players active in 2007]]
 [[Category: High school players active in 2008]]
 [[Category: Players active in 2009]]
+[[Category: Players active in 2011]]
+[[Category: Players active in 2012]]
 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]
+[[Category:Question writers]]

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