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- ==History== ...y covers some of the basic high school canon in its tossups, especially in history and literature, as well as current events, sports, and other various [[tras6 KB (926 words) - 00:25, 26 May 2018
- ==History== ...stion writers. And fifth, there are relatively few prompts and alternative answers are not generally accepted.13 KB (2,125 words) - 10:14, 6 January 2022
- ...rrectly answering a tossup [[powers|sufficiently early]]. [[negs|Incorrect answers]] given while the question is being read lose a team 5 points and that team [Player 2’s team earns 20 points for their correct answers of Populists and Teddy Roosevelt out of a possible 30 points]10 KB (1,567 words) - 19:25, 15 September 2023
- * [[Marshall Steinbaum]]'s [[Urgent Call for Unity]] was played as a history side-event and won by [[Jeff Hoppes]]. ...forum discussion of the questions was about difficulty levels of specific answers, which means that the tournament was a success.3 KB (485 words) - 13:47, 27 July 2018
- ...can refer to the specific act of "using Google during questions to look up answers", but is often used to refer to related actions or just cheating in general ...there is rarely a smoking gun if someone has been occasionally looking up answers to questions. In some cases, players have had multiple accusations leveled7 KB (1,114 words) - 09:28, 29 June 2021
- ==History== ...nts and bonuses are 3 parts worth 1, 3, or 5 points for 1, 2, or 3 correct answers, respectively, though the San Diego City League and Metro Conference League6 KB (856 words) - 23:09, 2 July 2023
- ...er team asked in 60 seconds, with a 45-second bounceback period for missed answers. The final round is nine minutes of tossups without bonuses. == History ==8 KB (981 words) - 14:20, 20 March 2023
- ...re, U.S. Government/Economics, Physical Science, World Geography, and U.S. History. ...tions. Both teams receive the exact same set of questions, and all of the answers will begin with the same letter. Usually the letter will either be announc11 KB (1,725 words) - 00:10, 10 March 2024
- ...ship match in Class A featured one of the single great performances in the history of the Tournaments. Making their fourth consecutive trip to the Tournament ...A history. It is widely considered among the biggest upsets in tournament history, as well as one of the toughest roads that any champion had to go through t8 KB (1,141 words) - 21:37, 17 March 2024
- ...905 summary of his observations], which is perhaps the longest post in the history of the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board]], found that at least *at least '''4.6%''' were answers that shouldn't come up in quizbowl, had [[Weiner's Laws|neither cute nor cl12 KB (1,670 words) - 19:50, 10 March 2014
- ...dominant format despite inroads by quizbowl (facilitated by [[ONQBA]]) and History Bowl. All cited questions are verbatim from the 2012-2013 regional level co ...the winner may be determined just by a coin flip where there's two logical answers, as seen in "CLUE A: I am named after a scientist whose first name is Chri11 KB (1,832 words) - 12:16, 6 January 2022
- ...hris Ray]] called the set "absolutely horrible" and listed out a number of answers - these form an interesting slice into what was considered "too hard" at th ...n 2009 Discussion] by [[Matt Weiner]] » Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:07 pm</ref> The history was cited as distinctly weaker than the rest of the set, which had many of7 KB (1,135 words) - 08:23, 20 October 2021
- The first well-documented naval battle in history, it took place in 480 BC. (*) The Battle of Salamis saw a victory for what Someone who buzzes at the star here could easily say many other answers that would be correct at the time they buzzed, since it is not unique. This4 KB (715 words) - 10:58, 6 January 2022
- ...ion writers would also be more careful to have more acceptable alternative answers listed. ...while he was at [[St. Teresa]], thus he became the first coach in Illinois history to win state titles with two different schools.13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:04, 14 May 2023
- ...titutes "close enough", but they typically approximate the [[vowel rule]]. Answers which differ in major ways, like the placement of consonants or entirely wr ...s and assign a point value for each (termed "defense") - if their opponent answers a question correctly, they receive the points assigned.10 KB (1,596 words) - 19:10, 25 February 2024
- ...ence, Current Events, English/Literature, Economics/Government, Fine Arts, History/Geography."4 KB (636 words) - 20:59, 10 December 2014
- ==History== ...by volunteers. Later they were provided by [[Answers Plus]]. After Answers Plus lost the contract around the year 2000, the tournament went through a numbe13 KB (1,666 words) - 12:45, 15 March 2024
- * Ocean history (usually explorers) * Unlike in Science Bowl, multiple-choice answers do not always need to exactly match the wording of the answer choice. Addin5 KB (635 words) - 03:18, 31 December 2022
- ...itten) question, Team Pennsylvania fell to second (because, at NTAE, wrong answers are actually penalized), with Team Florida seizing the lead. ...to a different newspaper comic strip, usually preceded by a paragraph-long history of the comic strip itself which had no relevance to answering the question.5 KB (817 words) - 15:52, 15 June 2017
- ...ice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered ...nts in any other tournament, uninterestingly written 1990s and early 2000s history that barely qualified as current events at all, and random sports and video8 KB (1,268 words) - 13:33, 25 February 2021