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Kevin Wang at 17:13, 6 January 2022

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Kevin Wang at 16:28, 25 May 2021

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Ophir Lifshitz: mind reading

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Ophir Lifshitz: the example is not really a common link question

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the example is not really a common link question

Kevin Wang at 08:00, 10 December 2020

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Kevin Wang at 08:00, 10 December 2020

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Matt Jackson at 01:31, 17 July 2011

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Common link questions are [[pyramidal]] [[tossups]] which arrange clues about several distinct places, works, events, or entities to point to a common word or phrase describing all of them as the answer. They often add creativity to a question set or are used to incorporate important clues that would be too difficult as answer choices of their own. Individual common link questions have been criticized in the past for requiring the player to "read the writer's mind" or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines; despite this, some number of common link questions are standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.

Common links are not to be confused with tossups that simply list different things and expect the player to deduce a common attribute without any clues.

===Example===

From [[HSAPQ]] ACF-Format Set 1, Packet 3:<br>
A 1998 work by Tracey Emin is entitled "My" one of these objects. One painting primarily set on one
of these objects depicts a woman, a ghastly demon, and a horse emerging from a curtain, and was
painted by Henry Fuseli. A large red one of these objects is found in Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus,
and the right side of Jan Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage also contains a red one of these objects. For
10 points, name this piece of furniture, on which the title figures of the paintings Olympia and Venus of
Urbino recline.<br>
ANSWER: <u>'''beds'''</u>

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 Common link questions can add creativity to a question set and incorporate [[important]] clues that would be too difficult to serve as answer choices of their own.
-Individual common link questions have been criticized for requiring the player to [[mind-reading|"read the writer's mind"]] or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines. Despite this, some number of common link questions are de facto standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.
+Individual common link questions have been criticized for requiring the player to [[mind-reading|"read the writer's mind"]] or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines. Despite this, some number of common link questions are de facto standard in "[[good quizbowl]]" sets.
 [[Category:Quizbowl lingo]]

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 '''Common link''' questions (or '''common links''') are [[pyramidal]] [[tossups]] whose answer is a word or phrase that happens to be common to several distinct entities that are otherwise unrelated and not linked by a [[theme]] of any [[significance]].
-Common links are not to be confused with [[Quizbowl lingo#list tossup|list tossups]], an obsolete form of question that simply lists different things and expects the player to [[mind reading|somehow deduce a common attribute without any clues]].
+Common links are not to be confused with [[list tossups]], an obsolete form of question that simply lists different things and expects the player to [[mind reading|somehow deduce a common attribute without any clues]].</onlyinclude>
 ===Example===

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 '''Common link''' questions (or '''common links''') are [[pyramidal]] [[tossups]] whose answer is a word or phrase that happens to be common to several distinct entities that are otherwise unrelated and not linked by a [[theme]] of any [[significance]].
-Common links are not to be confused with [[Quizbowl lingo#list tossup|list tossups]], an obsolete form of question that simply lists different things and expects the player to somehow deduce a common attribute without any clues.
+Common links are not to be confused with [[Quizbowl lingo#list tossup|list tossups]], an obsolete form of question that simply lists different things and expects the player to [[mind reading|somehow deduce a common attribute without any clues]].
 ===Example===
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 Common link questions can add creativity to a question set and incorporate [[important]] clues that would be too difficult to serve as answer choices of their own.
-Individual common link questions have been criticized for requiring the player to "read the writer's mind" or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines. Despite this, some number of common link questions are de facto standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.
+Individual common link questions have been criticized for requiring the player to [[mind-reading|"read the writer's mind"]] or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines. Despite this, some number of common link questions are de facto standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.
 [[Category:Quizbowl lingo]]

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-Common link questions are [[pyramidal]] [[tossups]] which arrange clues about several distinct places, works, events, or entities to point to a common word or phrase describing all of them as the answer. They often add creativity to a question set or are used to incorporate important clues that would be too difficult as answer choices of their own.
+'''Common link''' questions (or '''common links''') are [[pyramidal]] [[tossups]] whose answer is a word or phrase that happens to be common to several distinct entities that are otherwise unrelated and not linked by a [[theme]] of any [[significance]].
-Individual common link questions have been criticized in the past for requiring the player to "read the writer's mind" or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines; despite this, some number of common link questions are standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.
+Common links are not to be confused with [[Quizbowl lingo#list tossup|list tossups]], an obsolete form of question that simply lists different things and expects the player to somehow deduce a common attribute without any clues.
 ===Example===
+{{qq|
-From [[HSAPQ]] ACF-Format Set 1, Packet 3:<br>
+A 1998 work by Tracey Emin is entitled “My” one of these objects. One painting primarily set on one
 of these objects depicts a woman, a ghastly demon, and a horse emerging from a curtain, and was
-painted by Henry Fuseli. A large red one of these objects is found in Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus,
+painted by Henry Fuseli. A large red one of these objects is found in Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalus,
-and the right side of Jan Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage also contains a red one of these objects. For
+and the right side of Jan Van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Marriage also contains a red one of these objects. For
 points, name this piece of furniture, on which the title figures of the paintings Olympia and Venus of
-Urbino recline.<br>
+Urbino recline.
-ANSWER: <u>'''beds'''</u>
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 Individual common link questions have been criticized in the past for requiring the player to "read the writer's mind" or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines; despite this, some number of common link questions are standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.
-Common links are not to be confused with tossups that simply list different things and expect the player to deduce a common attribute without any clues.
+Common links are not to be confused with [[Quizbowl lingo#list tossup|tossups that simply list different things]] and expect the player to deduce a common attribute without any clues.
 ===Example===

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		+	Individual common link questions have been criticized in the past for requiring the player to "read the writer's mind" or for having underspecific or overspecific answer lines; despite this, some number of common link questions are standard in [[good quizbowl]] sets.

	Common links are not to be confused with tossups that simply list different things and expect the player to deduce a common attribute without any clues.		Common links are not to be confused with tossups that simply list different things and expect the player to deduce a common attribute without any clues.