National History Bee and Bowl

The National History Bee and Bowl is an history focused academic competition directed by David Madden. It consists of the National History Bowl, a four-player team event played on pyramidal questions in a four-quarter format, and the National History Bee, an individual elimination-style event. Teams qualify for Nationals by placing above a certain threshold at state Bowls; all sites also have a Varsity and JV division. In addition to the History Bee and Bowl, NHBB also organizes a number of other events, including the US History Bee and US Geography Olympiad.

For the 2010-11 school year, the local events were written by NHB staff and Nationals were written by HSAPQ; until 2014, HSAPQ wrote for all History Bowl events, before that task fell to teams led by Matt Weiner in 2015 (but see here) and Brad Fischer in 2016 and beyond.

National History Bee and Bowl also incorporates middle and elementary school divisions. In February 2016, the running of the elementary and middle school division was transferred to ACE.

Past Champions and Results

Bowl

Year	Bowl Champion	Bowl Runner-Up	JV Bowl Champion	JV Bowl Runner-up	Field size
2011	Maggie Walker	Parkersburg High	Wilmington Charter	Bellarmine	98 (72 Varsity + 26 JV)
2012	Hunter	Bellarmine	Northmont	Chattahoochee	161 (113 Varsity + 48 JV)
2013	Bellarmine	LASA	Northmont	Centennial	198 (132 Varsity + 66 JV)
2014	LASA	Saratoga	Westview	Farragut	216 (132 Varsity + 84 JV)
2015	Saratoga	LASA	Hunter	Saratoga	246 (156 Varsity + 90 JV)
2016	LASA	Lexington	James E. Taylor	Thomas Jefferson	263 (161 Varsity + 102 JV)
2017	Westview	Thomas Jefferson	Beavercreek	Trinity Prep	252 (144 Varsity + 108 JV)
2018	Thomas Jefferson	Richard Montgomery	Stevenson	George Washington	252 (144 Varsity + 108 JV)
2019	Beavercreek	Millburn	Hunter College A	Team Coldhug (CT)	240 (144 Varsity + 96 JV)
2020	Stevenson	Saratoga	Team MB A	Phillips Exeter	84 (36 Varsity + 48 JV)

Bee

Year	Bee Champion	Bee Runner-Up	JV Bee Champion	JV Bee Runner-Up	MS Bee Champion
2011	Mark Arildsen, University School of Nashville	Nicholas Brumfield, Parkersburg High	Sameer Rai, Bellarmine	Mickey Gioia, Stepton HS
2012	Alex Frey, St. Joseph	Richard Yu, Hunter Mark Arildsen, University School of Nashville	Sameer Rai, Bellarmine	Jonathan Leidenheimer, George C. Marshall	Tajin Rogers, Longfellow
2013	Sameer Rai, Bellarmine	Jonathan Leidenheimer, George C. Marshall	Connor Wood, Maggie Walker	Nirav Ilango, Chattahoochee	Jonathan Tran, Stoller
2014	Jonathan Leidenheimer, George C. Marshall	Sameer Rai, Bellarmine	Daniel Yan, Farragut	Chandler Burrows, Rolla	Alex Schmidt, Seven Generations Charter School
2015	Bruce Lou, Saratoga	Austin Foos, Detroit Catholic Central	Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley Academy	John Peter Connor, E. WA Homeschool	Benji Chiu, Stoller
2016	Jakob Myers, Naperville North	Devin Shang, Lexington	Douglas Simons, High Tech	Rohan Hegde, TJHSST	8th Grade: Govind Prabakhar, Buffalo Grove Aptakisic 7th Grade: Enzo Cunanan, Trinity Prep
2017	Jakob Myers, Naperville North	Jonathan Tran, Westview	Justin Young, McLean	William Golden, James E. Taylor	8th Grade: Arjun Nageswaran, Buffalo Grove Aptakisic 7th Grade: Robert Muniz, Midtown Classical
2018	Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley	Fred Zhang, Thomas Jefferson	Govind Prabhakar, Stevenson	Walker Combs, George Washington	8th Grade: Robert Muniz, Midtown Classical 7th Grade: Rishabh Wuppalapati, Daniel Wright Junior High
2019	Hari Parameswaran, Beavercreek	Eshaan Vakil, Ed W. Clark	Shiva Oswal, Team Pi-Oneers	Avinash Iyer, Team Escobar (CA)	8th Grade: Vaibhav Rangan, Joaquin Miller Middle School 7th Grade: Daniel Figueroa, Ransom Everglades 6th Grade: Arin Parsa, Challenger Almaden
2020	Pedro Juan Orduz, Hunter	Arjun Nageswaran, Stevenson	Andrew Zeng, Hunter	Rishabh Wuppalapati, Stevenson	8th Grade: Bradford Kimball, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

See http://www.historybowl.com/.