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• Alexander Koutsoukos
  |Subjects = History, Geography ...is younger brother [[Lukas Koutsoukos]]. They finished third at the 2017 [[FaCT]] after defeating [[Darien]] A and B.
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• Hunter Wotruba
  |Subjects = History, Fine Arts, Chicken Wings ...players in Fisher history. With a penchant for the arts and a good base of history, Hunter immediately made impacts for the Fisher Catholic program as soon as
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• Joe Hermiller
  '''Joe Hermiller''' (1925-2010) was a history teacher at [[Bowsher]] High School in Toledo, Ohio. ..., almost all of which were in the Toledo public schools. His BA and MA in history were awarded by Loyola University in Chicago.
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• Harvard International
  ==History and Conception== ...[[Ted Gioia]]. The name '''Harvard International''' was a reference to the fact that the tournament took place in the week between the two national champio
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• Forbidden Zone
  ...posts are sent there means that many controversial incidents of quiz bowl history reside in the Forbidden Zone.
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• 2019 NHBB Online
  ...urnament''', also known colloquially as '''"NHBB Online"''', was an online history bee-style "tournament" (or scrimmage) held during April 2019 on Discord. It ...57297#p35729 HSQB] as a "[[housewrite]] based off of NHBB/IHB packets". In fact, the questions were plagiarized from other sets, sometimes with minor alter
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• ACF Winter
  == History == ...th tournaments were generally regarded as [[regular difficulty]] after the fact.
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• Eric Grunden
  ...as losing its sponsorship from the North Carolina public libraries, and in fact the tournament ended after 2006. Grunden helped to form the [[North Caroli ...in preserving and nurturing North Carolina quizbowl in a tenuous moment in history, Grunden earned the 2006 [[Benjamin Cooper Young Ambassador Award]].
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• Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association
  == History == ...ecognized, up-to-date reference materials such as almanacs, encyclopedias, fact finders, textbooks, dictionaries, or anthologies may be used for proving ch
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• 2010 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...in school history to make the playoffs at a National Tournament in school history. The B team finished the tournament in the top 25% of all schools competin
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• Missouri Quizbowl Message Board
  ==History== ...o reflect the more common [[names for quizbowl|name for quizbowl]] and the fact that MSHSAA hasn't officially used the term "Academic Competition" since 20
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• University of Notre Dame
  ==History== ...r '07, the team travelled to three tournaments, all of which were NAQT. In fact, for the 2005-06 season it appeared that the Academic Competition Club of N
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• 2005 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...has earned nine state championships and finished second in three more. In fact, for the entire 2004-2005 school year, this team has not finished lower tha ...ry. This was the highest scoring single game in Michigan State Tournament history. For their performance in the KMO State Tournament, Senior David Budde and
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• Evan Katsounis
  |Subjects = Geography, History, Fine Arts ...d to his team to single digit finishes at tournaments such as [[SWISS]] I, FAcT, Scarlet Knight Fall, and HFT XI. Evan also earned continuous scoring award
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• Plagiarism
  ...less description of art and artists are thought to be plagiarized from art history textbooks, but no one outside of maybe [[Matt Weiner]] is really checking. ...bviously impossible to verify) that 100% of attempts at plagiarism have in fact been detected. This means that plagiarism is not only morally wrong, but al
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• Lexington (MA)
  ...[[quizbowl]] team was formed in 2012, but it began competing in [[National History Bee and Bowl]] the year before in earnest. Lexington's Zaroug Jaleel had pl Zaroug Jaleel soloed the Massachusetts State History Bee and Bowl, winning the JV Bowl and coming in second in the Varsity Bee.
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• Adam Fine (Yale)
  ...e flashcards, Mythology flashcards, Art flashcards, Philosophy flashcards, History flashcards ...Nationals]] 2016 and 2017, Adam's middle initial is rumored not to be, in fact, an "S."
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• Edmontago
  ...ge-scale HSNCT and the city of Chicago, and, perhaps most importantly, the fact that Lisgar had never qualified for the [[Reach for the Top]] National Fina ...point was the fact that Lisgar had never, in the team's decorated lengthy history, qualified for the Canadian national finals. Lisgar had always been viewed
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• Fisher Catholic
  == History == ...r down to 166 in 2016. The school's enrollment decline largely lays in the fact that the City of Lancaster has an atrocious economy that, somehow, managed
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• Academic Hallmarks
  ==History== ...and maintained through the 2000s contained many tournaments which have in fact switched to [[NAQT]] questions over the years. Several other "tournaments"
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• Berry
  ...e club that has been an active circuit member since at least the 1970s. In fact, much of the early development of a quizbowl "circuit" can be attributed to For many years, Berry history professor [[Gordon Carper|N. Gordon Carper]] led the Berry program and spea
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• Gallatin
  ==History== ...ad coach in school history. The 2018-2019 Gallatin team was notable in the fact that it featured three eventual TACA All-State players, out of the five the
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• Misuse of statistics
  ...ams, and statistical analysis tools in a futile attempt to make up for the fact that the premises or underlying data being fed into the model are incorrect ...player- or team-ranking formula ever produced, which seeks to sidestep the fact that the data collected about quizbowl games are insufficient by manipulati
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• Louisiana-Lafayette
  == History == ...a record of 10-3, and advancing to [[NAQT ICT]] for the first time in its history.
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• 2009 Wilmington Charter
  ...te College powered the tossup, but subsequently earned zero on the English history bonus. Charter stole 20 of the bonus points to secure the win. ...[[2009 HSNCT]] in the second game of an advantaged final over Dorman. In fact, this was the fifth time the two teams had been forced to play during the t
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• Springfield High School
  == History == Not much is known about Springfield from this time, other then the fact that they often rivaled the prestigious [[Springfield Southeast]] that was
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• Writing
  ...y passed on for [[editing]]; the [[editor]] can be the same person, and in fact editors typically also write. Writing is a very technical process which req ...ly 500 questions need to be written for any given [[tournament]]. The long history of [[packet submission]] and [[housewrites]] means that, historically, many
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• National Academic League
  ==History== ...example, a science class is worth 4 points; mathematics is worth 3 points; History is worth 2 points; and English is worth 3 points. The values of the grade l
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• Mahoning County Quizbowl League
  == History of the Competition == ...ls from angry parents over the length of matches. This was in spite of the fact that the reading rate of the complaining coach was, to put it delicately, n
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• Strake Jesuit
  == History == ...ou City Invitational. However, they did not attend that season's HSNCT. In fact, after Bayou City, Strake played one more tournament (13th of 20 at the 201
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• ACF Regionals
  ==History== ...Regionals]] was noticeably easier than [[2007 ACF Regionals]] (and was in fact statistically easier than [[SCT|NAQT Sectionals]] of the same year).
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• Importance
  ...tions ("[[knowledge]]") and those which are not suitable ("[[trivia]]"). A fact is "'''important'''" if it has qualities which justify its inclusion in que ! the political history of Paraguay
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• 2000 NSC
  ...ntion for the championship through round 10, this was the only year in the history of the NSC in which no separate consolation playoff was held. ...ure over a pattern of behavior at this tournament, including revealing the fact that a particular answer was coming up in a future packet when a player inc
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• Woburn CI
  ==History== ...wed by the undercurrents of acrimony felt within the team, driven from the fact that they were almost denied their spot in the Provincials championship not
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• Tossup
  # an individual clue (which, in turn, can mean either an individual fact or a sentence) ...r (e.g. "this person", "this country"). At an earlier point in quiz bowl's history, questions would frequently use vague pronouns like "this" or omit them ent
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• Oxford
  ==History== ...awkins, the author of ''The God Delusion'', was once the patron of OUQS, a fact that delighted many American quizbowlers at the time.
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• Weiner's Laws
  ...ry attempting to generate advanced quizbowl statistics can make up for the fact that the underlying data on [[conventional stats|basic stat reports]] just ...att Weiner failed to heed his own axioms at the [[2012 Collegiate National History Bowl]], resulting in a slight, though predictable, pizza shortage.
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• Modern World
  ...g" event) or to have a "dinner break" before starting round 1, despite the fact that PACE NSC was scheduled to completely end by 4:00 and met this goal, we ...ice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered
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• Hunter
  ...MSNCT]], [[National History Bee and Bowl|2021 NHBB (Varsity)]], [[National History Bee and Bowl|2022 NHBB (Varsity)]] =History=
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• Olympian
  ==History== ...nto the core team that would take Olympian to its apex. Highlighted in the fact that in the 2017 HSNCT, Olympian B - which consisted of these players, Zach
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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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