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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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• 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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• Anti-NAQT sentiment
  In NAQT's early history, there was considerable debate over whether NAQT had distanced itself enoug Opposite these broad-sense defenses of NAQT is the fact that there are definitely low quality NAQT questions, some particularly egr
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• Criticisms of the NAC
  ...ter and softer, in what appears to be the first "fade-out" ending in music history. Completed in 1917, this piece was influenced by English folk songs, Wagner ...r and softer, in what appears to be the first "fade-out" ending in musical history. Completed in 1917, this piece was influenced by English folk songs, Wagner
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• 2009 Francis Howell Central
  ...''' was one of the top teams in Missouri and the most successful in school history. Not only did it win many tournaments, but more importantly, it improved on ...of 210 degrees" in favor of "Square root of three over three," despite the fact that both are equivalent answers. Francis Howell Central gave the first ans
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• Reach for the Top
  ...ollowed by single-elimination playoffs. There is some controversy over the fact that only three teams have qualified from Ontario in recent years (the same ...ow, although it has been many years since it was regularly broadcast. This history may make some schools more willing to provide resources to create a Reach f
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• College Bowl
  ==History of College Bowl== ===History of College Bowl to 1970===
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• Buzzer
  ==History of Quizbowl Buzzers== ...buzzer systems formerly used by the Rice team as part of an exhibit on the history of Rice's quizbowl program.
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