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• William and Mary
  ==An actual, useful history of the W&M quizbowl program== ...he College long before the club was founded. Confusion may arise from the fact that in 2007 three club members were volunteers at States and Matt Morrison
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• Prompt
  ==History== ...h reduce to just asking for a different, related answer. Combined with the fact that "prompt" is a universal and intuitive instruction (e.g., even once-a-y
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• Fort Zumwalt West
  ...resignation because a replacement coach has never been found, despite the fact that rising senior [[Dylan Becraft]] is one of the most talented players in == History ==
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• New Essays on Quizbowl Understanding
  ...choose between him and Andrew Yaphe, the most decorated quizbowl player in history who tops everyone’s best-ever list. Seth’s recent triumphs over Andrew, ...s, and true modern eras. Dominates literature, philosophy, music, art, and history. Performance on questions outside the normal canon in those areas shows tha
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• Trivia
  ...n memorization of an arbitrary fact, divorced from any context of why that fact might have significance. ...e second-place players are of note enough to warrant their own page in the history book, while others are merely trivia attached to well-known names. Some exa
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• Reinstein Varsity
  ==History== ...h tossups and bonuses which were handled as usual in Illinois, and for the fact that bonus parts rebounded. [[Auburn (Rockford, Illinois High School)|Aubur
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• How Quizbowl Works
  ...ionship]] has been held since 2011 for middle school teams. The [[National History Bee and Bowl]] runs high school and middle school division national champio * Quizbowl questions can be about any random fact or piece of trivia:
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• 2001 IHSA State Championship Tournament
  ...while he was at [[St. Teresa]], thus he became the first coach in Illinois history to win state titles with two different schools. ...istory of the State Championship Tournaments, it was also the closest. In fact, the final toss-up went unanswered, which meant this final game was one of
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• Illinois Scholastic Bowl
  ...2006 most of its high school tournaments were played under IHSA Rules. The history of quizbowl in Illinois is very confusing, since it includes many mistakes ==History==
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• How to study
  ...ings like [[spite]] or the emotion of "number goes up". It is a documented fact that this is a successful strategy. However, the returns rapidly diminish - ...you lose a buzzer race, it means you knew the same clue. Recognizing this fact and adjusting your mindset can make these situations more tolerable.
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• Fremd
  ==History== In fact, while many things needed to go right for Fremd, everything started to roll
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• Ohio Academic Competition
  ...re, U.S. Government/Economics, Physical Science, World Geography, and U.S. History. ...on are then place in the opposite brackets. While this may seem fair, the fact that OAC format does not usually single out the best teams causes a draw as
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• How to Write Questions
  ...ion of the Encyclopedia Britannica is superb for many topics, particularly history. Masterplots are a good resource for literature plot summaries, and there a ...del. Suffice to say that it is not a trustworthy source, though it does in fact contain much that is true. Anything read on Wikipedia should be cross-check
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• National Tournament of Academic Excellence
  ...andomly selected social studies teacher to "write quizbowl questions about history" without providing any further context or explanation about what that means ...the same answer. Thus a single player is credited with an answer, when in fact the answer was arrived at mutually.
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• 2009 Interview with Chip Beall
  ...time it’s done, I always seem to have enough science, enough math, enough history and literature… ...on [[Hsquizbowl.org|WoHSQB]]. Everything else is true, however. It can, in fact, be confirmed by him saying something similar [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/fo
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• Honaker
  ...[[VHSL Scholastic Bowl]] state tournament 19 times in the format's 24 year history. Honaker has been classified as a [[VHSL Group A]] school (1998-2013), [[VH ...ever failed to qualify for a VHSL regional tournament in Scholastic Bowl's history, and has only failed to qualify for VHSL States 5 times since 1998.
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• Trivia formats
  ...its own [[TRASHionals|dedicated events]]. These factors, combined with the fact that quizbowl requires either enrollment in college or the skill to compete ...a buzzer to answer pseudo-academic questions. There is a long and storied history of quizbowl players participating in ''Jeopardy!'' - various top all-time e
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• The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
  ...n five bullet points. 1. Wears a tuxedo a lot. 2. Has become a devastating history player and a solid generalist. 3. Still not at the level of top flight gene ...ly just a specialist, but a really good one. At his peak, one of the best "history" specialists I've seen.
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• Walnut Hills
  == History (High School) == ...us Walnut Hills Quiz Team was founded around 1985. In the early 1990s, new history teacher Scott K. Grunder became coach, and would continue to serve as the E
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• Definitive Greatest Players List
  ...icago teams that also featured Freeman and Boorstein. Incredibly strong on history, but just a very good all-around player. Clutch! ...Also a great winner, but perhaps more lackadaisacal than the top two. The fact that he lost to Sheahan at the 1997 ICT and to Yaphe at 1998 ACF nationals
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