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- <onlyinclude>The concept of '''fairness''' is the idea that the two [[teams]] competing in a [[game]] of quizbowl should Fairness is a key tenet of "[[good quizbowl]]"; conversely, it is often absent in "[[bad quizbowl]]".</onlyinclude>4 KB (704 words) - 14:36, 6 January 2022
- ...used to indicate [[knowledge]] which was gained outside of quizbowl. This is contrasted to [[word association]] and meta-knowledge of [[stock clue]]s an ...much more likely to use inappropriate terminology and constructions. This is part of the larger trend of "[[Quizbowlese]]".</onlyinclude>5 KB (835 words) - 21:58, 31 July 2023
- The '''NAQT Middle School Team of the Week''' is a program that began on 7 January 2017. This program recognizes a middle s |Mounds View, Minnesota3 KB (446 words) - 12:27, 27 February 2018
- ...disagree with it. Generally, I cannot control your decisions as to when it is most appropriate to discuss your opinions related to IHSA Scholastic Bowl. First, I disagree with your point of view and your opinion regarding the topic you detail in your email. As I stated3 KB (589 words) - 19:26, 20 May 2014
- == There is no canon == ...rs of this forum are often the ones whose decisions make the canon what it is, hopefully this guide will help set some rough norms of canon expansion wit7 KB (1,278 words) - 17:55, 12 August 2011
- ...wl]], [[College Bowl]]-esque competition. All the information on this page is from online newspaper articles. ...ge?instance=news_schools| this article], "The purpose of Academic Olympics is to showcase students’ skills and knowledge, as well as to review their cu4 KB (636 words) - 20:59, 10 December 2014
- '''Washington State Knowledge Bowl''' is an academic competition for high school students in Washington State. Impor ...take place in February or early March. The number of teams each ESD region is allotted for the state tournament varies each year with the number of schoo5 KB (654 words) - 00:08, 30 January 2014
- ...Watkins had used his access to NAQT's internal writing/editing software to view the first forty characters in several questions in those tournaments. The c ...rk on 2011 PACE and this cheating scandal) largely sums up the community's view of Andy, who probably tops most lists for "Worst Person in Quizbowl" at thi9 KB (1,269 words) - 00:43, 28 June 2021
- ...lina]], who lost only to [[1984 Minnesota|Minnesota]]. The 1984 tournament is believed to be the first use of a [[swiss pair]] system in a quizbowl tourn ...editing and running this tournament, suggesting that College Bowl did not view independent quizbowl as a rival until later in the 1980s. Other figures who4 KB (514 words) - 16:04, 23 May 2022
- ...ho are known to have cheated are typically banned permanently, though this is not always the case.</onlyinclude> ...eing played. This section is not a guide on how to cheat - if anything, it is a guide on how to prevent cheating. Do not ever attempt to do any of these7 KB (1,114 words) - 09:28, 29 June 2021
- ...iversity with its main campus located 40 miles north of Oklahoma City. It is the only HBCU (historically black college/university) in Oklahoma and one o ...and the Golden Hurricane (Illinois Open Mirror) Open. Langston University is participated in the Know Your Heritage Black College Quiz Show, in Decembe5 KB (693 words) - 20:26, 14 October 2023
- ...state chapters range as far north as Illinois and as far west as Texas. It is roughly analogous to the more universal '''National Honor Society'''. ...se it), as well as a set for the national convention in each age division, is written by [[SAGES]]. Previously, the questions were produced by [[Bryce Av11 KB (1,216 words) - 12:47, 9 March 2024
- After the game, Scripps Ranch protested that Lake Maracaibo is not a lake, because it flows into the Caribbean Sea, and thus that Titicaca ...irectly connected to the ocean. ... So Lago de Maracaibo is not a lake. It is, in fact, an embayment of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Venezuela."6 KB (877 words) - 13:11, 14 January 2014
- ...ystem; each division runs independently, and a separate championship title is awarded for each. In 2009, the classifications were shifted, with Class B b OSSAA is viewed by many teams in Oklahoma as an example of [[bad quizbowl]]. OSSAA u9 KB (1,182 words) - 19:23, 12 February 2024
- ...ational pull of the planet. One commonly used equation for escape velocity is written with three letters representing three quantities. Name the three qu ...ame these two African American authors, destined by politics and points of view to be enemies forever."5 KB (668 words) - 02:12, 22 June 2021
- '''Outreach''' is a broad term in quizbowl that refers to actions taken to grow the game as a ...rules for their tournaments to match the standards of "[[good quizbowl]]" is a major outreach challenge.17 KB (2,796 words) - 14:16, 6 January 2022
- '''Wayzata High School''' [wy-ZET-uh] is a public 9-12 high school located in Plymouth, Minnesota. Its quiz bowl tea This is a detailed season-by-season tournament history for [[Wayzata]].20 KB (2,517 words) - 14:06, 3 June 2020
- ...be, by analogy to a previously-played tournament or general standard. This is often denoted '''target difficulty'''. ...der populace. This is, of course, impossible - determination of difficulty is thus a combination of various imperfect measures.12 KB (1,927 words) - 19:05, 22 November 2023
- ...ion]] is partially [[correct]] but ambiguous. In this scenario, the player is said to have been '''prompted''' by the moderator because the answer they g ...l]] or to attempt to gain additional information about an answer, but this is [[sportsmanship|unsportsman-like]].13 KB (2,174 words) - 23:08, 17 July 2023
- ...makes it more difficult for new players to understand what their moderator is asking them.</onlyinclude> ...ion structure. If the only reason you are using a particular word or style is because you saw it in a prior question, and you cannot figure out what exte13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:26, 30 December 2023