Minnesota High School Quiz Bowl League

The Minnesota High School Quizbowl League is one of the most popular quiz bowl formats in Minnesota and is a member association of the Minnesota Quiz Bowl Alliance. It culminates in a tournament consisting of 16 of the top teams. It is currently run on questions supplied by NAQT, derived from one of the A series they produce each year. The league is directed by R Robert Hentzel and takes place over five nights at four separate sites. The four sites are each home to one division. The divisions are supposed to be divided equally by talent and location, but recently have become rather lopsided. Each night a team plays four rounds within its division. On the last night, which is the the "playoff" night, the top teams from each site come together and play for the title in a single elimination playoff bracket. Each school can only send one team to the championship tournament. The MNHSQB League championship tournament considered by many to be more prestigious than the official NAQT Minnesota State Championship, as it is generally has a more challenging field and is televised.

Divisions

List of 2013-14 divisions and competition dates

Past teams:

Format

Each MNHSQB game consists of four "phases". The first phase consists of twelve warm-up tossups, which are short and worth only ten points each. The second phase consists of standard NAQT tossups with powers and bonuses. The first two phases are combined for timing purposes, and are 9 minutes long. The third phase is lightning rounds consisting of ten related questions worth ten points each. The team that is not in the lead gets to go first and picks from three subjects for their round. They then have one minute to answer as many as they can. Then the other team has a 30 second bounce-back phase on questions heard but passed on or incorrectly answered. Then the lead team picks one of the two remaining lightning rounds, and they have one minute to answer followed by their opponent's 30 second bounce-back phase. If a team manages to get all ten parts of their lightning round correct, they get an extra 20 points. The fourth phase is more tossups with powers and bonuses, for 6 minutes. Five point neg penalties are not used, but teams are still locked out for the rest of the tossup. There are a total of 1140 points available to a team in a round.

Questions

About NAQT A-Series questions. In years past questions had been even easier. You can read a sample packet here.

History

Since the 2006-2007 season League play has been on NAQT questions. Before that it was run on Patrick's Press questions, and on Questions Unlimited in the mid-eighties. Eden Prairie has won the most titles in the NAQT era. Very incomplete records can be found here. At one time, the MNHSQB league was the sole venue but invitational tournaments on the circuit has since been held. Records suggest that it was once part of a quiz show on KSTP.

Past Results

Pre-NAQT era

Year	Set Used	Champion	Second
1971
2000	Patrick's Press
2001	Patrick's Press	St. Thomas Academy	Minneapolis Southwest
2002	MN-01	St. Thomas Academy	results missing
2003	MN-02	Chaska	results missing
2004	MN-03	Chaska	results missing
2005	MN-04	St. Thomas Academy	results missing

NAQT era

Year	Set Used	# of Teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth
2006	MN-05	88	St. Thomas Academy	results missing
2007	MN-06	98	Eden Prairie	St. Anthony Village	St. Thomas Academy	Wayzata
2008	MN-07	112	Eden Prairie	Orono	Minnetonka	Wayzata
2009	MN-08	100	Chaska	Eden Prairie	Saint Louis Park	Wayzata
2010	MN-09	100	Eden Prairie	Saint Thomas Academy	Chaska	Saint Louis Park
2011	MN-10	108	Chanhassen	Saint Paul Central	Eden Prairie	Wayzata
2012	MN-11	110	Wayzata	Saint Paul Central	Chaska	Mounds View
2013	MN-12	110	Wayzata	Saint Paul Central	Chaska	Eden Prairie
2014	MN-13	105	Eden Prairie	Wayzata	Saint Thomas Academy	Blake

External Links

Division	School	City	Head Coach	# of teams
North Division 11/7, 12/12, 1/23
	Chanhassen	Chanhassen	Krista Hammann	3
	Blake	Minneapolis, Hopkins, Wayzata	Frank Sachs	3
	Breck	Minneapolis	Brad Kohl	1
	DeLaSalle	Minneapolis	Martin Marrin	6
	Edina	Edina	Nickie McKeever	4
	Hopkins	Hopkins	John Sammler	3
	Hudson	Hudson, WI	Laurie Harmon	2
	Robbinsdale Armstrong	Plymouth	Pat Quinn	3
	Robbinsdale Cooper	New Hope	Tim Darsow	2
	Wayzata	Plymouth	Meaghan Decker	6
East Division 11/14, 12/19, 1/30
	AFSA	Vadnais Heights	Randy Brodzeller	1
	Hill-Murray	Maplewood	Louise Head	4
	Irondale	New Brighton	Jeremy Hieb	1
	Roseville	Roseville	Ira Sanders	2
	Mounds Park	Saint Paul	Wade Peterson	4
	Mounds View	Arden Hills	Justin Benolkin	2
	North Saint Paul	North Saint Paul	Michelle Zwirn	2
	Saint Paul Academy	Saint Paul	Amy Weisgram	2
West Division 11/21, 1/9, 2/20
	Chaska	Chaska	Jennifer Stone	4
	Benilde	St. Louis Park	Megan Kern	3
	Eden Prairie	Eden Prairie	Dan Murray	5
	Minnetonka	Minnetonka	Joan Truettner	3
	Mound Westonka	Minnetrista	Jim Kaeter	2
	Saint Louis Park	Saint Louis Park	Carmen Garland	3
	Providence	Plymouth	Arthur Hippler, Kevin Keiser	3
	Orono	Long Lake	Larry Williams	1-2
	Saint Paul Central	Saint Paul	Randy Knoche (de jure)	2
South Division 12/5, 1/16, 2/6	Apple Valley	Apple Valley	Brett Melton	1
	Burnsville	Burnsville	Les Moffitt	4
	Eagan	Eagan	Brian Poehler	2
	Eastview	Apple Valley	John Kelly	3
	Kennedy	Bloomington	Christopher Lyons	2
	Prior Lake	Savage	Andy Franklin
	Rosemount	Rosemount	Chris Kauffeld	5
	Simley	Inver Grove Heights	John Severson	2
	St. Thomas Academy	Mendota Heights	Peter Wynia	4