Academic Hallmarks
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| President or CEO | unknown leadership | |||
| Location: | Durango, CO | |||
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Academic Hallmarks, sometimes known as Great Auk is a question writing company based in Durango, Colorado. They supply awful questions to several invitational tournaments, including Knowledge Bowl events in several states where it is dominant quizbowl format. From 1983 until 2013 they organized the online Knowledge Master Open competition, and are currently developing the Knowledge Master Scholar program, whatever that is.
AH has no affiliation with Avery Enterprises, but is oftentimes confused with it by novice QBWiki editors due to both being bad quizbowl providers who are based in Colorado and have two-word names beginning with "A."
Events using Auk questions
(Some of these events may be defunct)
Academic Hallmarks operates in perhaps even more of an "alternate universe" to the good quizbowl scene than Questions Unlimited does, with the names of events on its website sometimes being the only evidence that the events, or any kind of quizbowl circuit in the state in which the event is listed as taking place, exists at all. Thus, there is little to no information available on what most of the below tournaments are.
- Academic Games Tournament, Syria
- Academic Quiz League, TX
- AEA 11 Knowledge Bowl, IA
- Baton Rouge Archdiocese Academic Meet, LA
- Bel Air Annual Academic Tournament, MD
- Black Hills Area Knowledge Bowl, SD
- Central American Knowledge Bowl
- Colbert County Academic Competition, AL
- Colorado Knowledge Bowl
- EMAC Academic Games, Egypt
- High Q Conference, FL
- H.S. Quiz Bowl Challenge for Excellence, OH
- ISAC Tournament, Kuwait
- Lassen County Academic Olympics, CA
- MacDonald's State Championship Quiz Bowl, MI
- Mid-Missouri Quiz Bowl
- Minnesota Knowledge Bowl
- Murray State Univ. Collegiate Tournament, KY
- Nebraska ESU Quiz Bowl
- NEO A&M Quiz Bowl, OK
- Nevada State Knowledge Bowl
- New Frontier Academic Conference, OK
- News Channel Three Knowledge Bowl, TN
- Plevna Academic Invitational, MT
- Pride of Iowa Conference
- Regional Quiz Bowl, NY
- Richland County Schools Knowledge Bowl, SC
- Scholastic Challenge, PA
- SCIL Academic Tournament, NJ
- Three Rivers Junior High League
- Tombstone Invitational Knowledge Bowl, AZ
- Tri-State Middle School Scholar's Bowl, MS
- Vermont Scholar's Bowl
- Washington State Knowledge Bowl
- WDBJ Scholastic Competition, VA
- West Virginia State Academic Bowl
- WGEM Academic Competition, IL
- Wyoming Academic Challenge