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• USABB
  ...d by [[David Madden]] in January 2016. It is open to elementary and middle school students. It also includes two [[side events]], the [[National Science Bee] ...been completed, the remaining team chooses from one of the three remaining categories.
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• The Challenge
  ...nd; each team received three directed 10 point questions in the same three categories. When a player answered a question correctly in a category, that player co ...In the first round, questions were all multiple choice and come from four categories (always pertaining to history, literature, science, and computational math)
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• Brain Busters
  Brain Busters, stylized as '''BrainBusters''', is a high school quiz bowl tournament sponsored by WellSpan Health (formerly by Westfield In ...show host. From 1998 to 2001 it was preceded by a similar program known as High Q, televised by WHTM of Harrisburg and also hosted by Rosen. Rich Rosen is
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• Bergstrom Stateline
  ...tournament titled "Tournament of Champions" was held for all Illinois high school teams. The tournament has held six seasons as of 2020, while the "Tournamen ...r tournament are attended by thirty-two teams from Northwest Illinois high school teams. The "Tournament of Champions" are attended by eight teams from Illin
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• Quizbusters (WNAB)
  ...20 questions in a category for 20 points each. As teams are assigned the categories, this has the effect of potentially screwing a team that gets stuck with a ...only 10 points. Additionally, teams can now select from a choice of three categories from vague descriptions, with the lower-scoring team picking first.
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• Ryan Rosenberg
  |Subjects = Social Science, "NAQT categories" His high school tenure at [[Ardsley]] saw the team go to more good tournaments his senior y
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• Conversion stats
  ...'conversion data''') measure the [[conversion]] of individual questions or categories It can also show which categories a team is strong or weak at.
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• Chris Ray
  ...player for [[Ohio State]]. He is a graduate of [[Richard Montgomery]] High School, and a former member of the quizbowl teams at [[Maryland]] and [[Chicago]]. ===High School===
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• Quizbowl
  ...he US, the [[Tossup-bonus format|most common format]] on the national high school and college level is a two-team competition in which the teams compete to b ...friends all across the country.”–Roxanne Ilagan, Grosse Pointe North High School (MI) ‘12]]
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• Gautam Kandlikar
  ...in 2005]] [[Category:High school players active in 2006]] [[Category:High school players active in 2007]] [[Category:Players active in 2008]] [[Category: Pl ==High School Career==
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• Regional Quiz Bowl
  Regional Quiz Bowl is a high school Quizbowl league on Long Island. It is sponsored by RQB Associates Inc. of E ...ion cooperative lightning round with bouncebacks; teams choose one of four categories
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• Trash
  ...see below note on crossover categories), though [[ACF Fall]] and most high-school level regular-season events, including the former [[HSAPQ]] Tournament Sets ...e content tend to be more willing to allow "borderline" topics in academic categories, so that popular culture with some reasonable claim on being academic-adjac
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• Ohio Academic Competition
  ...Academic Competition (OAC)''' is the format that is used in most Ohio High School quizbowl tournaments. It is the most common format in the state, second to In this round, teams are asked questions in ten categories. They are (in order) American Literature, Mathematics, World History, Fine
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• Peoria Area World Affairs Council
  ...ns featuring some clue relating to current events or social studies. Bonus categories typically correspond with the category of the toss-up. [[Category:High school tournaments]]
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• Matt Laird
  |'''Former school(s): [[Loyola Academy]], [[Stevenson]]''' ==High School Career==
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• Chenery
  {{Middleschoolteam|Name = W. L. Chenery Middle School ...]] located in Belmont, Massachusetts. It feeds into [[Belmont|Belmont High School]].
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• IHSA
  The '''Illinois High School Association''' governs many sports and activities in Illinois, including [[ ...IHSA was founded in 1900, and is the second oldest (Wisconsin) state high school athletic/activities governing organization.
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• New Essays on Quizbowl Understanding
  ...d a Nationals at Berkeley. No one can rival his achievements in quizbowl’s high modern era, and he’s making a run at quizbowl’s greatest champion, Andr ...ences, but also an amazing literature and history player who is capable of high-level buzzes on any given question. More strategic than you might expect. O
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• Knowledge Master Open
  ...be part of the same school/team depending on the structure of one's local school district was addressed in the eligibility rules. ...e questions (100 questions for the 5th/6th grade division) in a variety of categories. Questions has five answer choices and teams are given two chances to answ
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• Canon
  ...s the sole criterion for selecting answers (while still recognizing a very high degree of crossover between canonical answers and accessible answers as the ...may also shift more often in the case of current events) for each of those categories.
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• Scobol Solo
  ...a [[singles]] tournament held each fall since 2001. It is open to any high school student. It typically attracts many of the top players in Illinois and occa ...nners; since the advent of specialized software for tracking this in 2010, categories have been randomized (and not announced).
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• Conestoga Valley Tournament
  ...ia since 1993. It is known for asking questions about Lancaster area high school sports teams and mascots and other local trivia, "math" problems of a forma ...sually features around 5 preliminary rounds and complimentary lunch at the school cafeteria. The prelims are randomly assigned, meaning that some teams get
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• 5th of March Incident
  ...resigned from NHBB with an entire NHBB A-set (the highest-difficulty high school regional set) to write by that following Saturday. The set had to consist o ...ted by Mukherjee and [[Rob Carson]], who served as editor for the cultural categories. As more and more writers joined the effort and the spreadsheet became awas
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• Real knowledge
  The concept of "real knowledge" exists for all [[categories]], but is most significant in those which require specialism, e.g. [[scienc ...as a result, clues that are very "real" for college players are "fake" for high schoolers, as they likely encounter them through packets
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• Early Autumn Collegiate Novice
  ...ment for introducing collegiate novices to quizbowl. Consequently, no high school teams or players are eligible. ...lculated from time in college, not credits). Time in a post-secondary high school program does not count.
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• Literature
  ...r with [[science]] and [[history]], literature is one of the [[Big Three]] categories.</onlyinclude> ...lt literature in its literature distribution in its high school and middle school questions.
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• Bonus conversion
  ...les include the [[D-value]] and [[Groger ranks]]. The [[Fred Morlan]] high school team rankings relied entirely on bonus conversion numbers, and difficulty c ...a major category such as [[science]] that is slightly better at all other categories than an opponent will usually win actual games against that opponent (since
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• Reach for the Top
  '''Reach for the Top''' is the dominant high school quiz competition in Canada. It is composed largely of speed-check questions Francophone high school students usually play [[Genies en herbe]], while university students play i
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• How Quizbowl Works
  ...most common number. In most matches, players on a team all attend the same school, though [[open]] tournaments do not have this requirement. ...helped me become a more well-cultured person.” –Brett Hogan, Fairview High School (AL) ‘17]]
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• Andrew Hart
  ==High school== ...nish at [[Chip Beall]]'s 2006 national tournament. Rob was one of his high school teammates.
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• Scoresheet
  ...reliability. While never zero, the likelihood of errors is kept low by the high average ability of staff, eliminating a major downside of physical scoreshe Digital sheets can be split into the two categories of offline and online, with offline being synonymous with "Excel spreadshee
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• The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
  ...ng more stuff. He does impress me as someone who really be a force in many categories (again, not easy to do), if not overwhelming. He also has one of the most d ...ut who is?). At his peak, pretty fearsome and able to snipe a lot of other categories.
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• How Collegiate Quizbowl Works
  ...asics|Quizbowl basics]]''' and [[:Category:Quizbowl lingo|Quizbowl lingo]] categories as a glossary if need arises. ...&t=14419 here], which may give you an idea of what quizbowl (at a ''very'' high level--these are extremely hard questions) looks like before you read the r
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• Tom Egan's Report on the 2005 NAC
  ...leading at the beginning of the period, choosing from the three remaining categories. ...was the level of question being asked at a supposed national caliber high school varsity tournament. Surely, there could be some very legitimate questions
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• Criticisms of the NAC
  ...e been mounting since the 2000s. They can be broken down into a few basic categories: ...mreport/plagiarism.html here]. The last case was reported by Gonzaga High School student [[Dan Puma]] in an hsquizbowl [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/vie
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal
  ...or has been [[Sister John Baricevic]], who was the coach at Mater Dei High School in Breese, Illinois from 1987 to 1999. The head editor contracts with other :Name these types or categories or branches of psychology.
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• Trivia
  ...s open season on asking about every work on it in both collegiate and high school quizbowl without respect to difficulty or canonicity, and often using inane ...y and context-less facts mentioned above are questions which reduce entire categories of knowledge into rote memorization of numbers, often shielded in the guise
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• How to Write Questions
  ...g to include a lot of new players who are, at best, familiar with the high school [[canon]], the goal should be for every tossup to be answered by every team ...nswer might be. When I say "studying" I don't necessarily mean studying in school, but rather this word should be read as meaning "absorbing information abou
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• 2009 Interview with Chip Beall
  ...led at some seemingly arbitrary decisions relating to protests and mystery categories that disappeared and whatnot. [NOTE: Jason Russell never actually mentioned ...know…we’re… as you well know, we’re regularly reviled on the World of High School Quiz Bowl website.
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal/Email from David Reinstein to Ron McGraw
  ...oh-FOH-bik] tails of the membrane. As these molecules move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration, what gradient are these mole ...centration gradient as they move from an area where their concentration is high to an area where their concentration is low.
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• How to study
  ...in a relatively short amount of time. This is especially true at the high school level, where every year new teams emerge as contenders for the title. ...t in a situation where guessing is optimal and the chance of a neg is very high. Sometimes you just neg. Few games are decided by a single [[tossup]] and e
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• Definitive Greatest Players List
  ...nce player in the modern game. Has expanded his base of knowledge in other categories with each year and once he branches out from myth (at which he is fantastic A. To me, this #19 is a little high. Granted he did a fine job at the 2001 and 2002 ACF nationals, but those fi
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• Atendido-Matthews FAQ List
  13a. How does a school get to the Nationals<br> 14a. How does my school go about hosting a tournament<br>
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