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'''Charles "Chip" Allen Beall''' is the President of [[Questions Unlimited]]. Chip apparently has a background in television and was the host of the Texaco Star National Academic Championship television program, which aired on the Discovery Channel from 1989-1993. His name is often synonymous with QU's flagship tournament, the [[National Academic Championship]], as well as other tournaments run using similar formats and [[bad quizbowl]] practices, colloquially referred to as "Chip Bowl." Chip grew up in Arkansas and played on his high school team.  
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'''Charles "Chip" Allen Beall''' is the President of [[Questions Unlimited]]. Chip has a background in television and was the host of the [[Texaco Star Academic Challenge]], which aired in multiple regions of the country (a YouTube playlist shows episodes at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChdlOuQunw5-zsnU5Eh5bnA/playlists). His name is often synonymous with QU's flagship tournament, the [[National Academic Championship]]. Chip grew up in Arkansas and played on his high school team.  
  
 
He has served as host and writer of many quiz programs, including [[Whiz Quiz]] (1977-85), a production of WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas; Know Your Bible, on radio in Dallas from 1981-85; Bill Clinton's Arkansas Quiz Bowl, aka [[Arkansas Governor's Quizbowl Association|Governor's Academic Competition]] (1984-85); the Texaco Star Academic Challenge TV quiz programs in Port Arthur, Houston, and Midland, TX, Tulsa, OK, and White Plains, NY (1986-95); the Texas Academic Championship (1993).
 
He has served as host and writer of many quiz programs, including [[Whiz Quiz]] (1977-85), a production of WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas; Know Your Bible, on radio in Dallas from 1981-85; Bill Clinton's Arkansas Quiz Bowl, aka [[Arkansas Governor's Quizbowl Association|Governor's Academic Competition]] (1984-85); the Texaco Star Academic Challenge TV quiz programs in Port Arthur, Houston, and Midland, TX, Tulsa, OK, and White Plains, NY (1986-95); the Texas Academic Championship (1993).
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
* [[2009 Interview with Chip Beall]]
 
* [[2009 Interview with Chip Beall]]
* [[Criticisms of the NAC]]
 
  
==External Links==
 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9r8ymUwUV8 1991 Playoff on the Texaco Star National Academic Championship]
 
 
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]
 
 
[[Category:People]]
 
[[Category:People]]
 
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]
 
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]

Revision as of 03:11, 21 November 2017

Charles "Chip" Allen Beall is the President of Questions Unlimited. Chip has a background in television and was the host of the Texaco Star Academic Challenge, which aired in multiple regions of the country (a YouTube playlist shows episodes at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChdlOuQunw5-zsnU5Eh5bnA/playlists). His name is often synonymous with QU's flagship tournament, the National Academic Championship. Chip grew up in Arkansas and played on his high school team.

He has served as host and writer of many quiz programs, including Whiz Quiz (1977-85), a production of WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas; Know Your Bible, on radio in Dallas from 1981-85; Bill Clinton's Arkansas Quiz Bowl, aka Governor's Academic Competition (1984-85); the Texaco Star Academic Challenge TV quiz programs in Port Arthur, Houston, and Midland, TX, Tulsa, OK, and White Plains, NY (1986-95); the Texas Academic Championship (1993).

See also