Multiple choice - Revision history

June Yin at 06:37, 16 November 2021

2021-11-16T06:37:49Z

June Yin: /* Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions regularly */

2021-11-16T06:37:25Z

Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions regularly

June Yin at 06:37, 16 November 2021

2021-11-16T06:37:04Z

George Tagtmeier at 19:11, 14 June 2021

2021-06-14T19:11:20Z

June Yin: /* Other */

2020-11-17T22:00:23Z

Other

Gregory Gauthier: /* Formats that use multiple choice questions */ +Questions Unlimited

2018-01-05T18:11:15Z

Formats that use multiple choice questions: +Questions Unlimited

Morgan Vincent at 03:28, 3 October 2017

2017-10-03T03:28:55Z

Gregory Gauthier: +high school quiz show, the challenge

2013-05-06T02:12:08Z

+high school quiz show, the challenge

Gregory Gauthier: start

2013-04-14T00:21:03Z

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'''Multiple choice''' questions provide players with a list of possible answers, one of which is correct.

It should be noted that good questions may limit the answer space to a finite number of answers. For example, a question with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 43. Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of possible answers to choose from, such scope-narrowing phrases do not make a question multiple choice.

Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]].

==Formats that use multiple choice questions==
===Televised===
*[[CBI]]
*[[Bay Area Quiz Kids]] during the spring 2013 season (Season 14), for all tossups in the "Three-for-all" rounds
*[[WRAL Brain Game]]
*[[It's Academic]] (often during the team rounds, and generally the science questions in both the fourth round and the grab bag are multiple choice)

===Other===
*[[Commissioner's Academic Challenge]] (and formerly NTAE/Panasonic Academic Challenge)
*[[Science Bowl]]

==Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions regularly==
*[[IHSA]] (multiple choice is allowed for analogy vocabulary questions only, which have not appeared for at least a decade)
*[[NAQT]] ("X, Y, both, or neither", deprecated)

[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]

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 It should be noted that good questions may limit the answer space to a finite number of answers.  For example, a question with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 46.  Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of possible answers to choose from, such scope-narrowing phrases do not make a question multiple choice.
-Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]]. This is especially true for multiple-choice [[tossup]]s due to the lack of [[pyramidality]].
+Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]]. This is especially true for multiple-choice [[tossup]]s due to their inherent lack of [[pyramidality]].
 ==Formats that use multiple choice questions==

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 It should be noted that good questions may limit the answer space to a finite number of answers.  For example, a question with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 46.  Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of possible answers to choose from, such scope-narrowing phrases do not make a question multiple choice.
-Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]].
+Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]]. This is especially true for multiple-choice [[tossup]]s due to the lack of [[pyramidality]].
 ==Formats that use multiple choice questions==

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 '''Multiple choice''' questions provide players with a list of possible answers, one of which is correct.
-It should be noted that good questions may limit the answer space to a finite number of answers.  For example, a question with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 44.  Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of possible answers to choose from, such scope-narrowing phrases do not make a question multiple choice.
+It should be noted that good questions may limit the answer space to a finite number of answers.  For example, a question with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 46.  Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of possible answers to choose from, such scope-narrowing phrases do not make a question multiple choice.
 Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]].

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 *[[National Ocean Sciences Bowl]]
-==Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions regularly==
+==Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions==
 *[[IHSA]] (multiple choice is allowed for analogy vocabulary questions only, which have not appeared for at least a decade)
 *[[NAQT]] ("X, Y, both, or neither", deprecated)
 [[Category:Bad quizbowl]]

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 *[[Questions Unlimited]]
 *[[Commissioner's Academic Challenge]] (and formerly NTAE/Panasonic Academic Challenge)
-*[[Science Bowl]]
+*[[Science Bowl|National Science Bowl]]
 ==Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions regularly==

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 *[[WRAL Brain Game]]
 *[[It's Academic]] (often during the team rounds, and generally the science questions in both the fourth round and the grab bag are multiple choice)
 ===Other===