Knowledge Bowl - Revision history

Matt Weiner: /* History */

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History

Matt Weiner at 16:51, 7 September 2024

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Kevin Wang at 15:14, 6 January 2022

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Chris Chiego: /* Regional formats */

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Regional formats

Chris Chiego: /* Washington Knowledge Bowl */

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Washington Knowledge Bowl

Chris Chiego: /* Regional formats */

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Regional formats

Chris Chiego: /* Tennessee Knowledge Bowl */

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Tennessee Knowledge Bowl

Chris Chiego: /* Colorado Knowledge Bowl */

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Colorado Knowledge Bowl

Chris Chiego: /* Criticism */

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Criticism

Chris Chiego: /* Criticism */

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Criticism

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 ==History==
-The term "knowledge bowl" was at one point the common name for high school quizbowl tournaments in southern California, with documented events held as early as 1960. There does not appear to be any direct affiliation between these tournaments and the later organiation.
+The term "knowledge bowl" was at one point the common name for high school quizbowl tournaments in southern California, with documented events held as early as 1960. There does not appear to be any direct affiliation between these tournaments and the later organization.
 Knowledge Bowl was started by the San Juan County Educational Service Union in Durango, Colorado (now known as the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services). After the success of Knowledge Bowl in Colorado, the event soon attracted educators from [[:Category:High school quizbowl in Minnesota|Minnesota]], Washington, South Dakota, and Tennessee who initiated the activity in their home states. At some point after 1983, former school superintendent [[Bill Brown]] founded [[Academic Hallmarks]] and began supplying questions to Knowledge Bowl events, which they continued to do until the sale of Academic Hallmarks in 2020. After the sale, [[Question Authorities]], another Colorado-based question writing group headed by the former [[Grand Junction]] team coach, took over supplying Colorado, Washington, and Minnesota Knowledge Bowl tournaments. In 2021, the state Knowledge Bowl organizations of Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington organized a national Knowledge Bowl tournament that was held virtually.
 ==Criticism==

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	==History==		==History==
		+	The term "knowledge bowl" was at one point the common name for high school quizbowl tournaments in southern California, with documented events held as early as 1960. There does not appear to be any direct affiliation between these tournaments and the later organiation.
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	Knowledge Bowl was started by the San Juan County Educational Service Union in Durango, Colorado (now known as the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services). After the success of Knowledge Bowl in Colorado, the event soon attracted educators from [[:Category:High school quizbowl in Minnesota\|Minnesota]], Washington, South Dakota, and Tennessee who initiated the activity in their home states. At some point after 1983, former school superintendent [[Bill Brown]] founded [[Academic Hallmarks]] and began supplying questions to Knowledge Bowl events, which they continued to do until the sale of Academic Hallmarks in 2020. After the sale, [[Question Authorities]], another Colorado-based question writing group headed by the former [[Grand Junction]] team coach, took over supplying Colorado, Washington, and Minnesota Knowledge Bowl tournaments. In 2021, the state Knowledge Bowl organizations of Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington organized a national Knowledge Bowl tournament that was held virtually.		Knowledge Bowl was started by the San Juan County Educational Service Union in Durango, Colorado (now known as the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services). After the success of Knowledge Bowl in Colorado, the event soon attracted educators from [[:Category:High school quizbowl in Minnesota\|Minnesota]], Washington, South Dakota, and Tennessee who initiated the activity in their home states. At some point after 1983, former school superintendent [[Bill Brown]] founded [[Academic Hallmarks]] and began supplying questions to Knowledge Bowl events, which they continued to do until the sale of Academic Hallmarks in 2020. After the sale, [[Question Authorities]], another Colorado-based question writing group headed by the former [[Grand Junction]] team coach, took over supplying Colorado, Washington, and Minnesota Knowledge Bowl tournaments. In 2021, the state Knowledge Bowl organizations of Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington organized a national Knowledge Bowl tournament that was held virtually.

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−	'''Knowledge Bowl''' (sometimes shortened to KB or KBowl) is a quizbowl format that previous used questions produced by [[Academic Hallmarks]] and currently generally uses questions from [[Question Authorities]]. It is currently played in several states, mostly West of the Mississippi River. It originated in Colorado, where it eventually spread to Washington, Minnesota, Tennessee, and a number of other states and countries. Knowledge Bowl tests a range of of academic subjects similar to other forms of quizbowl, but has come under criticism by advocates of [[good quizbowl]] for its question quality and format.	+	'''Knowledge Bowl''' (sometimes shortened to KB or KBowl) is a quizbowl format that previous used questions produced by [[Academic Hallmarks]] and currently generally uses questions from [[Question Authorities]]. It is currently played in several states, mostly West of the Mississippi River. It originated in Colorado, where it eventually spread to Washington, Minnesota, Tennessee, and a number of other states and countries. Knowledge Bowl tests a range of of academic subjects similar to other forms of quizbowl, but has come under criticism by advocates of "[[good quizbowl]]" for its question quality and format.

	==Format==		==Format==

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 :''Main Article: [[Minnesota Knowledge Bowl]]''
 Knowledge Bowl in Minnesota was initiated in the 70's and was formulated after the Colorado version. Today, Knowledge Bowl is run by Minnesota Service Cooperatives and over 800 teams from 290 Minnesota school districts are involved with it. Although KB is the dominant format in most of the state, several active pyramidal quizbowl schools, such as [[Wayzata]] and [[Eden Prairie]], are not involved knowledge bowl entirely.
 ===Tennessee Knowledge Bowl===
 :''Main Article: [[Tennessee Knowledge Bowl]]''
 Knowledge Bowl is also the name of a scholastic TV show in the Memphis/Midsouth area that has run since the late 1980s. Though the format has been tweaked a few times, it generally features two rounds of [[Great Auk]] tossup questions but uniquely has a final 5-minute lightning round entirely composed of current event questions.
 ===Iowa Knowledge Bowl===
-Still exists in some parts of the state. A state meet is held every year in the spring. Additionally there seems to be an event held at the Iowa State Fair.
+Still exists in some parts of the state. A state meet is held every year in the spring. Additionally there seems to be an event held at the Iowa State Fair. See [https://iowakb.com/ this website] for additional details.
 ===Other parts of the United States===

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 ===Washington Knowledge Bowl===
 :''Main Article: [[Washington Knowledge Bowl]]''
 ===Iowa Knowledge Bowl===

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 :''Main Article: [[Colorado Knowledge Bowl]]''
-The Knowledge Bowl format began Colorado and Academic Hallmarks is still based in Durango. Hundreds of high schools from across the state play Knowledge Bowl and the season culminates with regional championships and the state competition. See the [www.coloradokb.org Colorado Knowledge Bowl] website for more details.
+The Knowledge Bowl format began Colorado and Academic Hallmarks is still based in Durango. Hundreds of high schools from across the state play Knowledge Bowl and the season culminates with regional championships and the state competition. See the [http://www.coloradokb.org Colorado Knowledge Bowl] website for more details.
 ===Minnesota Knowledge Bowl===

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 While Knowledge Bowl generally has traditional and institutional support within the states it is played, it also has garnered considerable criticism from players and observers.
-First, the questions are often extremely short, limiting the ability of the questions to be [[pyramidal]] and encouraging [[buzzer race]]s. Second, the questions often include [[swerve]]s and [[hose]]s deliberately designed to trick or mislead players as well as extraneous information that does not uniquely specify what the question is looking for until the very end. Third, the distribution and difficulty of the questions in a given match often varies wildly, with very hard questions being included alongside very easy questions. Fourth, the questions from year-to-year used in Knowledge Bowl events were sometimes re-used verbatim from previous years. Even supposedly "pristine" questions often bore striking similarities in wording and topics to previous years' questions, giving a major advantage to teams with large databases of old questions and familiarity with pet topics of the question writers. And Fifth, there are relatively few prompts and alternative answers are not generally accepted.
+First, the questions are often extremely short, limiting the ability of the questions to be [[pyramidal]] and encouraging [[buzzer race]]s. Second, the questions often include [[swerve]]s and [[hose]]s deliberately designed to trick or mislead players as well as extraneous information that does not uniquely specify what the question is looking for until the very end. Third, the distribution and difficulty of the questions in a given match often varies wildly, with very hard questions being included alongside very easy questions. Fourth, the questions used in some Knowledge Bowl events were not always "pristine" and sometimes re-used questions from previous years. Even supposedly pristine questions often bore striking similarities in wording and topics to previous years' questions, giving a major advantage to teams with large databases of old questions and familiarity with the pet topics of the question writers. And fifth, there are relatively few prompts and alternative answers are not generally accepted.
 In some Knowledge Bowl formats, one rule that somewhat addresses the latter issue is that if a team buzzes in before the entire question is read, the spokesperson can give any amount of information that is included in the question (the information may or may not be read), and may also supply one factually correct statement that is not included in the question. Thus if tossup is binary, the spokesperson can give both the answers as a declarative statement, and his team can get points. For instance, if a question begins: