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• How to Get Good at This Game
  '''Step 1''': Enjoy what you're doing. If you really like sitting at a buzzer and answering (or attempting to answer) questions about stuff other people ...ategories]] and subcategories for everyone. [[Literature]], [[science]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [[Trash|sports]], [[Music|classical music]], etc. all ap
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• Turkey Leg Match
  ...so many turkey legs during games, as the grease makes it hard to grip the buzzer properly.”<ref>[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=38033#p ....org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=321218#p321218 Re: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History] by [[Skepticism and Animal Feed]] » Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:05 pm</ref>
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• 2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament
  * History 5/5 (must vary reasonably by place and time) * Buzzer discount: $5 (max 2)
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• KYVE Apple Bowl
  ...wo teams of three members each, with all six individuals using a lockout [[buzzer]] system to answer questions. Each team has a captain who is required to an ==History==
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• Saint Viator
  ==History== ...pirit wear t-shirts that say &quot;Tradition&quot; (the &quot;i&quot; is a buzzer) and &quot;Learned Not Given.&quot; (The football team's t-shirts once read
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• 2014 NTAE
  ...ws more about anything. The tossup questions alternated between first-clue buzzer races ("What kind of event did Pope Urban II organize...?") and impossible ...to a different newspaper comic strip, usually preceded by a paragraph-long history of the comic strip itself which had no relevance to answering the question.
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• NYU
  ==History== NYU has a long history of competition in collegiate quiz bowl events. In the 1959–60 season, NYU
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• Campus Quiz
  ...irst use of [[speedcheck]] questions available to both teams. There was no buzzer system in use at the time, so participants seem to have had to shout out th [[Category: quizbowl history]]
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• Homewood-Flossmoor
  ==History== ...state and qualifying for Masonic state for the first time in recent school history. H-F won their conference championships but lost their sectional to rival [
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• Earlybird
  ...ament hosted by the University of [[Illinois]] at Urbana-Champaign. In its history, it has been a house-write, used [[HSAPQ]] questions, and in recent years, In addition to the Earlybird hosted by the Illinois Academic Buzzer Team, an honors group called the Phi Scholars used to host a tournament on
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• 2009 ACF Nationals
  ...for this tournament consisted of [[Matt Weiner]] (head editor, literature, history, geography, trash, current events), [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]] (arts, RMP), ...ent was played in two buildings and with a suboptimal number of functional buzzer systems, resulting in posts on the forums about [[slapbowl]] being used (su
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• Brain Busters
  ==History== ...idal]], as many of the first sentences include a giveaway clue, leading to buzzer races. Usually, a handful of the tossups each game are [[hose|hoses]].
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• Buzzersystems.com
  ...igns, Inc.''' is a company based in Chillicothe, Illinois which produces [[buzzer]] systems. Unlike most companies, they do not have one simple system, and ==History==
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• Princeton
  ==History== Princeton has a lengthy though obscure history of participation in [[College Bowl]]. It is known that the club lost to Agn
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• Mike Bentley
  |Subjects = Visual arts, technology, modern world, history ...ash tournaments. Mike wrote a plurality of questions for the two [[College History Bowl]] tournaments. He regularly writes freelance questions for [[ACF Natio
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• 2000 IHSA State Championship Tournament
  ...ship match in Class A featured one of the single great performances in the history of the Tournaments. Making their fourth consecutive trip to the Tournament ...A history. It is widely considered among the biggest upsets in tournament history, as well as one of the toughest roads that any champion had to go through t
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• Knowledge Bowl
  ...compete on 45 tossups. Many Knowledge Bowl circuits make use of a special "buzzer strip" system that consists of a single piece of pressure sensitive tape sh ==History==
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• Pennsylvania State Academic Competition
  ==History== ...5 seconds after the entire question is read to come up with an answer. One buzzer is supplied to each player. Fanfare rounds are 60 second timed affairs. Eac
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• Michael Kohn
  ...m, appearing on the side that achieved Durham's best result in modern BSQC history with an equal 4th place finish at BSQC 2023. He can be found on Durham A al ...t starters and a large number of negs, one of the highest totals in recent history. He then selected and trained the winning Imperial team for season 51, and
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• Timeline of Quizbowl History
  ...elopment in the United States. For more targeted discussions of the game's history in other countries, see [[quizbowl in Canada]] or [[quizbowl in the United ...here is an item that pertains to both or an item relating to middle school history, the box spans both columns.
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