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  • FTP
    <onlyinclude>The acronym '''FTP''' in a [[packet]] stands for "for 10 points," the standard phrase which marks the beginning of the [[giveaway]] clue to ...or confusing newer moderators, it is preferred to always write out "for 10 points" instead of the acronym "FTP."</onlyinclude>
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  • 30-20-10 bonuses
    ...chance to answer for 10 points. If the team is incorrect, they receive no points and the bonus ends. They were used in [[NAQT]] questions until about 2009. ...rth 20 points, and the easiest clue(s) should go last and only be worth 10 points, but question writers generally now prefer to use the same clues in the sam
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  • List bonuses
    ...s]] format more common today, in which there are three separate questions, each of which has a single answer. List bonuses are rarely used in modern quizbo *You get 5 points for one, 10 for two, 20 for three and 30 for getting all four answers correct. Name the four states that meet at the Fou
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  • Rules
    :''For the QBWiki rules, see [[QBWiki:Rules]].'' ...o halves of 9 minutes (middle school, high school) or 10 minutes (college) each; maximum 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]]
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  • NAQT rules
    ...[[NAQT]] uses for its team-based [[national championships]] and recommends for most local tournaments. ...points, respectively, while non-power correct tossup answers are worth 10 points.
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  • ACF rules
    '''ACF rules''' are the [[rules]] used for [[ACF]] tournaments. They are based on the [[common ruleset]] project with ...of 20 [[tossup-bonus cycles]], with a very brief [[halftime]] break after 10 cycles
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  • Giveaway
    ...in the tossup. The giveaway almost always comes after the words "[[For 10 points]]." ...a namesake isthmus and host to a namesake canal.}} rather than {{q|For 10 points, a canal over an isthmus crosses what Central American country?}} (assuming
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  • Conversion
    ...[[downconversion]] (editing questions to be shorter and easier to use them for another purpose) or [[upconversion]] (the opposite)}} ...rstood as taking the words of a question and "converting" them into points for one's team.
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  • Computer Bowl
    ...rs were packaged into two episodes of PBS's series ''Computer Chronicles'' for later TV broadcast. Each Computer Bowl featured a team representing the West coast technology indust
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  • Idaho National Labs Scholastic Tournament
    ...March. The championship matches for each division are taped and broadcast for Idaho Public Television. ...ed for each correct answer during the bonus round, and there is no penalty for incorrect answers. The team with the highest score after 3 periods win.
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  • Visual tournament
    ...e the painting"). The "clues" for each tossup are a set of 6 to 10 slides. Each slide contains an image, such that the first slide contains the hardest ima ...kground to indicate that they are worth [[power]]. Regular slides worth 10 points are black, and the [[giveaway]] slide is green, to indicate the end of the
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  • Moot
    ...s). This scenario can also be described as "having a potential swing of 75 points". ...was in the lead, then the resolution of the protest could not win the game for team B and team A wins outright - the protest is moot.
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  • Buzzerpalooza
    ...d contains eight questions worth 10 points apiece, with a 10 point penalty for wrong answers (even if the question has finished). There are no bouncebacks ...ifferent set of 6 questions worth 20 points apiece. There are no penalties for wrong answers.
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  • Answers Please
    ...uestion or team question part) was worth 5 points in the first half and 10 points in the second half. The winning team returned for the following show, up to a maximum of three appearances.
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  • Bay Area Quiz Kids
    Each episode (except the championship) consists of two matches between two diffe ...ted bonus questions. Answering one question correctly increases the score for the tossup-bonus cycle to 25; answering both bonus questions increases the
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  • 2004 ACF Nationals
    The '''2004 ACF Nationals''' was held on April 10 at [[Maryland]]. [[Chicago]] A, consisting of [[Andrew Yaphe]], [[Subash Ma ...ing the third-place game against [[2004 Kentucky|Kentucky]], who also went 10-3 and earned fourth. [[2004 Rochester|Rochester]] defeated [[2004 Michigan
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  • Bonus
    ...been standardized as three-part questions whose parts are worth 10 points each.</onlyinclude> The [[variable-value bonus]], which assigns different point values to each bonus question, is an [[unfair]] "[[bad quizbowl]]" practice which has larg
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  • The Challenge
    ...nsored by Tri-state network News 12, and was hosted by various newscasters for the network. In 2009, the show was transferred to MSG Varsity, and was last ...orth 10 points, but a wrong answer allowed the other team to answer for 20 points.
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  • Buzzer rock
    ...t line of something like 2 tossups and 0 interrupts in 10 games for a 2.00 points per game average. Use of this term is largely discouraged due to its negati
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  • Buzzword
    '''Buzzword''' is an [[asynchronous]], online, [[audio]] quizbowl competition for individual players, created and hosted by [[NAQT]]. [https://www.naqt.com/b ...and Popular Culture (i.e. excluding sports) questions, delivered in weekly 10-question increments; there is not currently a regular season of academic Bu
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  • Jeopardy!-style tournament
    A '''Jeopardy!-style tournament''' is a knowledge tournament for high schools and is popular in New Jersey. Although it is generally not con ...s until the board is cleared. The team with the higher score gets a bonus for winning the game.
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  • Chloe Levine
    ...uizbowl's gender divide amoung younger players. In 2018, she was nominated for Player of the Year through the [[National Quizbowl Awards]].
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  • Old PACE format
    Each game in the old PACE format had three parts: the Related Tossup-Bonus round ...nsisted of ten tossups, which were each worth 10 points and had no powers. Each tossup was paired with a 2-part, 20-point bonus related to the topic of the
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  • Quizbusters (WNAB)
    ...the effect of potentially screwing a team that gets stuck with a category for which they have little knowledge. ...s are worth 20 points, and the lightning round questions are worth only 10 points. Additionally, teams can now select from a choice of three categories from
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  • Farragut
    |currentcoach = Kelly Loveday for Quizbowl. Alex Shaffer for History Bowl. ...lic high school located in the suburbs of Knoxville, TN. Farragut is known for several recent high finishes at various National Championships: the History
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  • Quizbusters (WKAR)
    ...ts in one toss-up/bonus cycle (10 for the tossup, 30 for the bonus, and 10 for the sweep). ...ead in 60 seconds; unlike in the rest of the game, a wrong answer loses 10 points, and the question is not offered to the other team.
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  • 2005 ACF Nationals
    ...7-5 and beating [[2005 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]] head-to-head to break the tie for 4th place. TAMU placed fifth, while 6-6 [[2005 VCU|VCU]] placed sixth and ...n Keller]] of [[Rutgers]], in that order. Weiner led the field with 71.67 points per game.
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  • Bonus conversion
    ...definition even though their bonuses are not all worth the same amount of points. ...n bounceback opportunities, which may be labeled "bounceback percentage," "points per bounceback," or similar.
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  • Tossup-Bonus Format
    ...expiration of a clock determines how many tossup-bonus cycles are read in each half of the game. ...t buzz in and answer the tossup correctly for their team to receive points for their team.
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  • Westbrook's Amended ACF Rules
    ...hese rules. They were facetiously adopted as the unofficial rules of play for [[ACF]] tournaments in 2007. ...e]] posted the original 1998 Rules of Play for ACF, to provide a guideline for people who sought to revise the rules. After reading through two separate
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  • Powers
    ...of early [[clue]]s where a [[buzz]] with the correct answer is worth extra points. Powers serve to reward deep [[knowledge]] of a subject more than basic kno The region of a question which is worth additional points is referred to as "'''in power'''"; the remainder is "'''out of power'''".
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  • Laming
    ...tion of saving a just-lamed bonus for itself. The saved bonus will be read for the opponent at the next opportunity. ...a 3-part question; team B answers two parts correctly. Team A collects 10 points on the punt). At Maryland 11, this was referred to as "screwing", similar
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  • Weijia Cheng
    '''Weijia Cheng''' played for [[Maryland]] from 2015 to 2019 and was on the team that won [[2017 ACF Nati ...so early that moderator [[Rob Carson]] recorded it on his scoresheet as 15 points, making them one of the few individuals known to have powered a tossup at [
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  • South Forsyth
    ...pionship in 2012, losing to eventual champion [[Chattahoochee]] by only 10 points after failing to convert a bonus part. They later went 5-5 in prelims at th ...e [[2013 HSNCT]] and a T-50th finish. Sean also received an All-Star award for being the 14th highest scorer.
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  • Tossup
    ...o score points for their team. Tossup questions are the staple of gameplay for virtually all contemporary quizbowl. "[[Good quizbowl]]" advocates for tossups in [[pyramidality|pyramidal]] style, in which a question begins wit
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  • 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
    ...final to repeat as tournament champion, also taking the small school title for the third consecutive year. ''Teams marked with * were eligible for the small school title''
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  • Copley Invitational
    ...ossible. They consist of B teams and non-qualified teams hoping to qualify for OAC Regionals. In 2015, a middle school NAQT tournament was paired with th
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  • 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
    ...hington B finishing third. [[Hallsville]] A claimed the small school title for the fifth consecutive year, finishing eighth overall. ''Teams marked with * were eligible for the small school title''
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  • Sycamore (Indiana middle school)
    ...ycamore School''' is a small Preschool-8th school in Indianapolis, Indiana for gifted students. The school offers quiz bowl to its seventh and eighth grad ...n, Gavin Sigua, and Evan Ting, set the all-time NAQT tournament record for points per 20 tossups heard across a tournament, with 670. This is the highest ave
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  • Ann B. Davis
    ...convert the entire bonus. If the team missed any bonus part, they get zero points. ...eligible for the bonus. A second incorrect answer earned the team minus-10 points.
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  • Classen SAS
    ...during the 2020-21 season. At the [[2023 MSNCT]], Classen SAS placed tied for 21st while captained by Sreekar Vajjha, who placed third in individual scor ...y in-state tournament they played. The other 2 teams they competed against for the title of "Best in Oklahoma" with being [[Morris]] and [[Yukon]]. Playin
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  • 2003 ACF Nationals
    ...go A|Chicago A]] head-to-head to earn fourth; both schools finished with a 10-4 record. [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]] beat [[2003 Yale|Yale]] to earn sixth w ...port]] of [[South Carolina]], respectively. Mathews led the field with 72 points per game.
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  • Taco Bell Soap
    ...sup 3 in the "Fair Game" Theme Packet by "Shaun Cassidy & the Grapico Kid" for [[Ghetto Warz]] III. It was later revealed by the question's author, [[Dwi ...cuss Crawley's daughter Grace making one out of Archdeacon Grantly. For 10 points, identify this eight-letter word that also names a USC fight song.<br>
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  • Science Bowl
    ...ce, which have to be answered by repeating the correct choice exactly word-for-word or by saying the corresponding letter (w, x, y, or z), short answer, a *[[Tossups]] and [[bonuses]] are interchangeable, but are worth 4 and 10 points respectively.
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  • Ultima
    ...tournament as a early-in-the-year way of discovering potential candidates for [[Team Illinois]], especially so that he could recommend to coaches that ce ...ach in the first period, ten points each in the second, and fifteen points each in the third. There were no rebounds, and any incorrect answer results in
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  • 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
    ...] A to win the tournament. [[Hallsville]] A claimed the small school title for the fourth consecutive year, finishing sixth overall. ''Teams marked with * were eligible for the small school title''
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  • Tennessee Knowledge Bowl
    ...V in the Memphis and greater Mid-South region. It has taken place annually for over 31 years, though production was halted on the 2020-2021 season due to ...f Meteorologist Jim Jaggers took over and is currently the host. The judge for possibly the entire course of the show has been (now-retired) Dean Richard
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  • Public Library Quiz Bowl
    ...with teams competing on a local, district and state level. The winner of each tier advances to the next tier, and the winner of the state tournament is d ...Again, if the question is missed, the other team has a chance to answer it for half credit. Rounds are not timed.
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  • 2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
    ...Missouri Qualifier title. [[Hallsville]] A claimed the small school title for the sixth consecutive year, finishing third overall. [[Louisiana (MO)|Louis ...igible for the small school title. Teams marked with ** were also eligible for the very small school title''
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  • John Nam
    ...with [[Carol Guthrie]] and [[Ramesh Kannappan]], and for playing quizbowl for a really, really long time. He was also the assistant coach of the [[1990 M ...e standard of college eligibility, despite continuing to play for Maryland for another 12 years after 1990. This was far from the only such case prior to
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