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Introduction

Quizbowl, or quiz bowl, is the most common name for a team-based competition involving answering knowledge-testing questions with a buzzer. Quizbowl is played at thousands of colleges, high schools, and middle schools across the United States, but competitions exist throughout the world with different names and different formats. In the US, the most common format on the national high school and college level is a two-team competition in which the teams compete to buzz in on tossup questions and then collaborate on bonus questions.

The most important organizations in quizbowl are ACF (at the collegiate level), PACE (at the high school level), and NAQT (at the collegiate, high school, and middle school levels). Much quizbowl community activity occurs at hsquizbowl.org, which is hosted by the Quizbowl Resource Center. Also check out our pages on quizbowl software, buzzer sets, and outreach to new schools and players.

Quick Links Find information about a club or team College High School Middle School Quizbowl History Follow the history of quizbowl at the timeline of quizbowl history Find out how they play overseas at the pages for Canada, the United Kingdom, and international quizbowl history Learn about the predecessor and long-time competitor to quizbowl, College Bowl How-to's and guides Let past players teach you how-to learn science or run a club Peruse various documents written by the community Miscellaneous Confused what a vulcher is? Find out that, and more at quizbowl lingo‏‎ Wondering why the youth keep saying "m"? Stop by the list of quiz bowl in-jokes Want to catch the game? Visit the list of quizbowl TV shows Curious about the accolades of the game? Read through the list of quizbowl awards

Tournament results and info Internal High school tournaments College tournaments High School Quizbowl Rankings External Tournaments listed in Quiz Bowl database NAQT HS results NAQT college results NAQT community college results NAQT middle school results

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The Solon High School quizbowl team competes at the 2018 PACE National Scholastic Championship.

Photo credit: David Reinstein

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