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• Four-quarter format
  Believed to be popular at Southern tournaments, please correct as applicable:
  1 KB (206 words) - 15:01, 31 October 2020
• 30-20-10 bonuses
  ...t of clues and the controlling team has a chance to answer. If the team is correct, they receive 30 points. Otherwise, the moderator reads another clue or set
  1 KB (229 words) - 14:15, 2 May 2021
• Protest
  ...packet is wrong given the question and the protesting player/team gave the correct answer *The player gave a correct alternate name for the answer that was not included in the list of acceptab
  6 KB (960 words) - 22:33, 12 February 2023
• Ben Herman
  ...did not play. His rather meager playing accomplishments include getting a correct tossup on John Quincy Adams without hearing a single word of the question t
  2 KB (238 words) - 07:48, 26 November 2022
• Knowledge Master Open
  ...given two chances to answer each question. Five points are awarded for a correct answer on the first attempt with bonus points based on how quickly the team Two points are awarded for a correct answer on the second attempt, with no bonus points possible. No points are
  5 KB (847 words) - 09:21, 8 March 2023
• Points per bonus
  ...red that did ''not'' lead to a bonus question, which in many formats means correct tossups answered in [[overtime]]. In formats with [[bonus bouncebacks]], PP
  2 KB (280 words) - 11:08, 20 June 2021
• Titanomachy
  ...], [[UGA]], and Alabama (A and B) played a triple round robin. The (mostly correct) complete statistics can be found here [http://www.geocities.com/ua_geek/ti
  2 KB (364 words) - 20:14, 24 January 2010
• 1991 NAC
  ...`balm`` came from what region east of the Jordan River?," and "What is the correct chemical formula for sodium chlorate?"
  2 KB (320 words) - 12:56, 14 January 2014
• Lateral thinking
  ...ossup compliments such as "you ''figured it out''" are common reactions to correct answers divined in this way rather than through actual knowledge.
  2 KB (301 words) - 08:42, 13 March 2023
• Tossup
  ...]]s, in which an increased number of points, usually 15, is rewarded for a correct answer being given early in a tossup. When a player [[negs]], or gives an i ...rder of descending difficulty, and its [[answerline]], which specifies the correct answers and [[prompts]].
  5 KB (741 words) - 10:33, 6 January 2022
• 2021 HSNCT
  ...Carmel]] A. Though the protest committee ruled that Stevenson's answer was correct, the decision was not communicated properly to the game officials, resultin
  4 KB (589 words) - 22:50, 27 February 2022
• Quiz Kids
  ...uestions were obviously poorly designed, many times questions had multiple correct answers, which the kids came up with, often bewildering the poor host - som
  2 KB (278 words) - 00:56, 2 September 2023
• San Diego County Academic League
  ...th 3 points 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 Conferenc ...nt organization". Results of an online search appear to indicate that the correct answer to the question depends entirely upon the ''exact'' wording of the q
  6 KB (856 words) - 23:09, 2 July 2023
• 2014 NTAE
  ...panel) for the final match had intervened and said that the answer, while correct on the answer sheet of the questions, was actually incorrect given the ques
  5 KB (817 words) - 15:52, 15 June 2017
• Prompt
  ...erator]] to a [[player]] whose [[answer]] to a [[question]] is partially [[correct]] but ambiguous. In this scenario, the player is said to have been '''promp ...n reason for a prompt is that a player has answered with a superset of the correct answer.
  13 KB (2,174 words) - 23:08, 17 July 2023
• Tossup-Bonus Format
  A team which answers a tossup correct receives a corresponding bonus read only to them.
  2 KB (364 words) - 11:10, 20 June 2021
• Ohio Academic Competition
  ...read to both teams, and teams only get one opportunity each to answer. A correct answer is worth two (2) points. ...und. In the final round, twenty questions are read to both teams and each correct answer is worth two points each. The questions in the final round are pyra
  11 KB (1,725 words) - 00:10, 10 March 2024
• The Challenge
  ...pectively and are offered first to the team that got the previous question correct.
  6 KB (839 words) - 20:16, 25 March 2020
• Uniqueness
  ...d on their relative level of knowledge, it must be possible to provide the correct answer at various points in the question.
  2 KB (406 words) - 20:48, 1 August 2023
• Powers
  ...s with '''power''' have a set of early [[clue]]s where a [[buzz]] with the correct answer is worth extra points. Powers serve to reward deep [[knowledge]] of ...ers''' (or '''superpowers'''), which form a second tier of rewarding early correct buzzes, and are usually worth 20 points.
  6 KB (947 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2024

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