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• Comcast Academic Challenge
  ...s once ruled wrong for answering "Asia" when asked "Where is Bhutan?" (the correct answer was the Himalayas). In 2003 the Sanford School was furious after be
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• 1995 Bell
  At this point, Lisgar was scheduled to represent Ottawa as "the correct team". Bell managed to receive an injunction extension that allowed them t
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• International History Bee and Bowl
  ...where a student buzzes they can earn either 6,5,4, or 3 points if they are correct. If they are incorrect, they suffer a -2 penalty if they buzzed before the
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• Michael Kohn
  ...|Warwick University]]. Due to a high number of games played, he amassed 45 correct starters and a large number of negs, one of the highest totals in recent hi
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• Knowledge Bowl
  ...the information may or may not be read), and may also supply one factually correct statement that is not included in the question. Thus if tossup is binary, t ...truth value of the extra piece of information, and on several occasions, a correct answer has been ruled incorrect due to the moderator's incapacity.
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• Power-matching
  ...team takes the lower-numbered card", since although this is mathematically correct, lower-numbered cards correspond to higher rankings within the tournament,
  8 KB (1,344 words) - 15:29, 13 January 2018
• Grail
  ...tossups]] heard in a [[game]]. Generally, this implies a team answering 20 correct tossups, though in a [[timed games|timed match]] this can vary. The team do
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• 2011 NAC
  ...written answer of "line." Irvington's protest in defense of ray was deemed correct after an already long wait, but then Plano fired a counter protest and some
  5 KB (816 words) - 04:06, 13 April 2016
• Brain Busters
  ...ncludes a "bonus question" at the end of the first quarter that grants the correct team free Turkey Hill ice cream, or a similar prize.
  6 KB (926 words) - 00:25, 26 May 2018
• Jackson-Bollinger rivalry
  ...opardy answer was "Kazakhstan" and Jackson wrote "(hi Matt B.)" after his (correct) answer.
  7 KB (1,077 words) - 15:54, 3 November 2023
• 1999 PAC
  .... Additionally, a team may protest another team’s answer that was ruled as correct. Wow! Is that not a lot for a team who just came off of state finals battli ...know Martin, he is sometimes timid in his answer, only to find out he was correct. Martin is considering joining the academic team at the U of I. Good luck,
  14 KB (2,605 words) - 21:04, 29 March 2020
• Zain Africa Challenge
  ...d answers as many of the ten questions as possible in sixty seconds. Each correct answer is worth fifty points. The team ahead at the end of the third quart
  6 KB (949 words) - 22:54, 14 January 2021
• Edmontago
  ...r incorrectly answered the next question, allowing UTS to buzz in with the correct answer. However, debate ensued as to when the 90-second clock ran out. If i
  8 KB (1,270 words) - 22:19, 10 January 2023
• Conestoga Valley Tournament
  Moderators at the tournament are not allowed to give correct answers. Full names are required by some moderators, while others will tak
  7 KB (933 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2016
• 2009 Francis Howell Central
  This incident was appalling because "Mary I, Queen of Scots" was a perfectly correct [http://www.websters-dictionary-online.com/definition/MARY,+QUEEN+OF+THE+SC ...answers given by Francis Howell Central to these questions had been ruled correct, Francis Howell Central quite possibly could have won the District tourname
  17 KB (2,677 words) - 11:13, 6 January 2022
• Letter to Questions Galore
  ...ues and questions should be sourced so that the answer on the paper is the correct answer. Several of the questions I edited had the wrong answer, including ...t not even the best player has a chance to buzz after the lead-in with the correct answer. Additionally, the lead-in must be '''uniquely identifying''': it
  28 KB (4,475 words) - 00:58, 25 January 2010
• 2011 NSC
  ...uld allow for "Eleanor Roosevelt" (an answer given by State College) to be correct. Bellarmine protested that this answer should not be allowed; the protest w
  8 KB (1,305 words) - 02:24, 27 March 2023
• Modern World
  ...and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decide
  8 KB (1,268 words) - 13:33, 25 February 2021
• 2005 Faulkner State
  ...t Shoals, who won the final match in round robin and the tournament with a correct answer in overtime of Hungry, Hungry Hippo.
  11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:07, 5 May 2011
• 2012 IHSA State Championship Tournament
  * Round 8 (which is the 2nd round at State) did not have the correct number of computational questions according to IHSA policies.
  10 KB (1,391 words) - 16:46, 14 May 2023
• National Scholastic Championship
  ...ce 2007 the organization seems to have settled on the singular form as the correct name of the tournament.</ref> or '''NSC''', is a high school national quizb
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• National History Bee and Bowl
  ...ere a student buzzes they can earn either 6, 5, 4, or 3 points if they are correct. If they are incorrect, they suffer a -2 penalty if they buzzed before the
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• National Academic Quiz Tournaments
  ...o use untimed halves as well. NAQT uses [[powers]], which means that early correct answers falling within the "power" portion of the tossup (which is designat
  12 KB (1,738 words) - 18:02, 25 July 2022
• Tom Egan's Report on the 2005 NAC
  ...ed by the judge sounding a bell or buzzer, in addition to the host stating correct or incorrect, sometimes followed by commentary. An electronic horn signals ...only coach to actually file a protest over an answer (which the coach was correct about, because the question writer misunderstood a current event, placing I
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• College Bowl
  ...ll be and give all answers before time expires; as long as they are in the correct order, such answers will be accepted. Moderator: "Russians called them.." *buzz* Player: "Vikings" Moderator: "Correct" and
  41 KB (6,409 words) - 16:52, 5 January 2024
• Criticisms of the NAC
  ...words "Roma imortale ...", a player from the second team rang in with the correct answer, "Vatican City". Chip Beall's response was "I saw you on Jeopardy!" ...rang in and answered: "Freedom Riders". The answer was disallowed, as the correct answer was "Freedom Rides", with Beall explaining after the question "You c
  35 KB (5,884 words) - 22:59, 12 May 2017
• 2009 Interview with Chip Beall
  ...ires or otherwise steps down… y’know, often a team has trouble rebuilding. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Irmo has been a benefactor in South Carolina in a nu
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• Criticisms of Reach for the Top
  ...orth 20 and 10 points respectively), until, if no team is able to give the correct answer, the answer is read. This is similar to reading each clue of a four
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• Quizbowlese
  *Use correct, clear, formal written English at all times. Do not emulate previous quizbo
  13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:26, 30 December 2023
• Computational math
  ...ect. It is not sufficient for a topic to have an answer which can be ruled correct or incorrect to be considered "good quizbowl" (or even quizbowl).
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• 2011 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s, which over five games would be a 15.4 average. It is not known which is correct, as everyone was probably distracted by the historic performance in Class 4
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• How to Write Questions
  ...he middle") should successively narrow the answer space down to the actual correct answer of the tossup. This is the part that is usually the hardest to execu ...writing. It should go without saying that packets should be grammatically correct, but they're often not, so please read your questions out loud to yourself
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• Grissom
  ...nd round 370-340 victory over defending champion [[Auburn]] with a "save" (correct final tossup answer) from Tony Rickey highlighted the tournament. Grissom
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• Scobol Solo
  ...r elimination or the championship are broken by tiebreaker tossups, with a correct answer advancing the player and an incorrect answer eliminating the player. ...to have a handout counted scored 1 point for a handout that is completely correct, otherwise –1. In 2001, very lengthy questions that were repeated twice a
  35 KB (4,416 words) - 21:00, 11 November 2023
• How to flashcard
  *Correct a factual error ...le, concrete relationships where there are few or no ambiguities about the correct answer ("binaries").
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• Lisgar
  ...r regional play and heralded by SchoolReach director Sandy Stewart as "the correct team" to go to provincials. A few court proceedings and lawyers later, Bel
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• Team Illinois
  ...ossup rounds. These tossup rounds have a unique scoring system of +2 for a correct answer and -1 for an incorrect answer (at any point, even after the tossup
  14 KB (1,803 words) - 23:08, 5 March 2024
• ABC
  ...lly play-testing each round in practice to ensure the difficulty level was correct. Also, the 84 teams in competition witnessed the addition of a number of fe
  14 KB (2,164 words) - 10:47, 28 March 2020
• May 2014 Illinois General Assembly hearing on the IHSA
  ...w admits that they used plagiarized questions and has taken some action to correct the problem, the people who acted stand by their actions. The Head Editor s
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• Atendido-Matthews FAQ List
  ...ot be televised. '''[WIKI NOTE: Most of the above information is no longer correct. Please see the wiki page on [[HCASC]] for updated information]''' ...re given by the player without a discernible pause, the player's answer is correct.
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• How to run a high school tournament
  ...tration during the tournament, and it may be something that you can easily correct next time. Compliments will make it all worth it! A good tournament can be
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• MSHSAA State Championship
  ...tossups for the Class 1 leaders, so it is not known if 77 or 89 tossups is correct.
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• ACF
  ...ed a Site Coordinator position to help hosts manage their sites and select correct packet-submission formats, taking those responsibilities away from the Comm
  28 KB (3,816 words) - 01:05, 26 October 2023
• HSNCT Record Book
  :P% = Power percent (powers as a percent of total correct answers) :C% = Conversion percent (total correct answers-per-tossups heard)
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