Timeline of Quizbowl History

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1953

1970

1977

  • Fall: College Bowl recruits writers from the Atlanta-area quizbowl circuit to begin its campus program.

1978

1983

1988

  • June 12-18: The sixth NAC is held in New Orleans, LA. This is the first of seven years in which the NAC is televised under the sponsorship of Texaco.
  • June 19-25: The Texaco Star National Academic Championship airs on The Discovery Channel.

1990

1991

1994

  • June 11-17: The twelfth NAC is held in Houston, TX. The televised rounds are hosted by Mark L. Wahlberg as part of a syndication deal which turned out to be the final season of the televised show.
  • Summer: The seventh and final season of The Texaco Star National Academic Championship airs nationwide on various local PBS and commercial stations.

1996

1997

  • January 24-25: First NAQT ICT held at Penn. Chicago defeats Harvard in the final by powering the last tossup of an overtime tiebreaker.
  • April 20: Virginia defeats Harvard in a controversial College Bowl NCT final. Incidents during the game itself as well as the revocation of the promised winners' prize afterwards spur Virginia to immediately announce that it will not be participating in College Bowl in the future.
  • November 8: The first NAQT high school tournaments are hosted at Missouri S&T and Princeton.

1998

  • June 19-20: First PACE NSC held at Case Western. State College defeats Henry Ford II to claim the first high school quizbowl national title of the "modern era."

1999

  • April 24: Chicago wins ACF Nationals, completing the first Triple Crown season in history and finishing with an 88-0 record for their regular A team in non-College Bowl formats.
  • June 5-6: First HSNCT held at the University of Oklahoma, ending with Detroit Catholic Central defeating Walton for the title.

2000

2001

  • November 3: First ACF Fall held, now the most widely played college set of the year.

2005

  • June 12: Thomas Jefferson defeats State College in the PACE NSC final, completing what is still the only double-undefeated performance at HSNCT and NSC and an undefeated year in pyramidal formats.

2008

2009

  • April 26: Chicago defeats Brown in the finals of ACF Nationals following Brown's victory over Stanford in a play-in game, unifying the ICT and Nationals championships for the last time to date.
  • June: The last Panasonic NTAE is held without Panasonic's financial backing; the tournament collapses soon after.

2010

  • June 5-6: The 2010 NSC is held, abandoning the old three-quarter NSC format in favor of 20/20 rounds.
  • June 12-13: The inaugural NASAT is hosted at Vanderbilt.

2013

  • March 20: NAQT announces that a website security review has found evidence of Andy Watkins accessing question material prior to three ICTs in which he participated. Four Harvard titles are revoked and Watkins is suspended from NAQT membership, resigning soon after.
  • May 25-26: LASA defeats Ladue to win the 2013 HSNCT. At 256 teams, it is by far the largest quizbowl tournament ever held yet.