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• Dog with a Blog
  ...ent's head editor. [[Matt Bollinger]] singled out the question as "a weird quizbowl meta joke" as part of more general criticism of the tournament's trash.<ref
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• 2021 ICT
  ...teams and no tiebreaker games; due to the longer times involved in online quizbowl, all ties for moving from one phase of the tournament to another were broke ...ing their first all-time appearance in the top 4. Vanderbilt won its first quizbowl national title of any kind, becoming the 13th school all-time to win DII IC
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• Criticisms of Reach for the Top
  ...poly in the country, and remains the predominant format despite inroads by quizbowl (facilitated by [[ONQBA]]) and History Bowl. All cited questions are verbat ...s more people are aware that mercury is Hg and would interrupt after that, than being able to get it off the second clue of having atomic number of 80. The
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• Abigail Tan
  ...n 6th place. At [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7536/stats/combined/games/ Varsity 2022], she played for Cambridge B again, winning 375-250 against O ...same team won [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8200/stats/all_games/games/#R2-CambridgeA-OxfordA Varsity 2023] by 310-280, the first Cambridge victor
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• Trivia formats
  ...a variety of very different formats broadly within the category of "[[not quizbowl]]", with the unifying thread being a focus on "[[trivia]]" topics and [[pop ...'quizzes''' or simply '''quiz''', with the act of playing either trivia or quizbowl events termed '''quizzing'''.
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• 2012 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team) 1. Mound City 3-0, 500 ppg. (1500 pts. in 3 games)<br>
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• Sharath Narayan
  Narayan began his quizbowl career by playing for [[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] in middle school. He Narayan is a freelance writer for Spring Academic Games for Elementary Students (SAGES).
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• Bay Area Quiz Kids
  '''''Bay Area Quiz Kids''''' was a televised quizbowl show that airs on Peninsula TV in the San Francisco Bay Area. It ended in 2 ...to buzz must answer without conferring, but if a team misses a tossup, the other team may confer and answer. The team correctly answering the tossup then g
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• Génies en herbe
  ...nces (even Alberta) by the late 1980s. In the early 1990's, the televised games were hosted by Martin Gélinas. "Génies en herbe" also appears to be used to refer to non-quizbowl but similar knowledge-recalling competitions in West Africa, including one
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• Cult of PPG
  ...eone as "good at quiz bowl" leads others to view them as "good" at various other things.</onlyinclude> ...new name for an old phenomenon: there is a long history of top scorers and other "prominent" members of the community being assigned responsibilities like [
  2 KB (386 words) - 15:45, 26 October 2021
• Science Bowl
  ...only [[science]] [[questions]]. It could be called the bastard child of [[quizbowl]] and government-bureaucratized science. It is run and sponsored by the U.S ...in the middle of a tossup, 4 points are awarded to the other team, rather than losing 4 points for your team.
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• Quizbowl in the United Kingdom
  ...urnament between university teams, but this is generally considered "[[not quizbowl]]". There is also a secondary school circuit consisting near-totally of [[S ==University quizbowl==
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• WCTE Academic Bowl
  ...formerly known as the '''Upper-Cumberland Academic Bowl,''' is a televised Quizbowl tournament held by WCTE, the channel 22 Tennessee Upper-Cumberland affiliat ...tion lightning round. In 2023, the lightning round was eliminated, but all other rules remained the same. The tossups have no powers or negs and are very co
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• How Quizbowl Works
  ===Playing Quizbowl=== *Quizbowl matches, which are often called [[rounds]] or [[games]], are played between two [[teams]] of 1-5 players each, with 4 players bei
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• Old PACE format
  ...up 1 of the Category Quiz round, their opponents must pick something other than Science. Old NSCs would feature one [[computational math]] bonus per packet ...uses changed from round to round (within the broad confines of an expected quizbowl distribution; e.g., there might be 1 or 2 science questions but there would
  5 KB (831 words) - 04:47, 5 April 2021
• Zain Africa Challenge
  ...s broadcast, one game a week, over fifteen weeks. In 2009 it expanded into other African countries. ...o join the university's CAC Scholars Club and must participate in practice games in order to be selected for the four-person CAC Scholars Team. Interesting
  6 KB (949 words) - 22:54, 14 January 2021
• Chitin Classic
  ...Maryland]], and [[Vanderbilt]] that were also mirrored at other sites. The games were played on packets of 20 tossups/bonuses. ...t the tournament was expected to have more teams from outside of Minnesota than within, but the final field had a Minnesota majority.
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• Belmont
  ...time in 2018. Since then, Belmont has become a fixture in the high school quizbowl scene, with a noteworthy fifth-place finish at the [[2021 NSC]]. ...by Rahul Ramakrishnan in 2013. Like much of the Massachusetts high school quizbowl circuit, Belmont played casually and did not attend any nationals or garner
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• Tournament of Champions
  ...the games was four-quarter, and the tournament consisted of playing prelim games until all but a certain number of teams had three losses, at which point th ASCN was often viewed as a tournament with all the quizbowl shortcomings of the [[National Academic Championship]], but without the eth
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• NAQT Middle School Team of the Week
  |Went 8-1 to win Greenhill Games. [[Category:Quizbowl awards]]
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