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• Players
  ...[mainstream quizbowl]] is [[affiliated]] with an academic institution or [[school]], typically by attending and pursuing a degree or equivalent credential. *[[:Category:College active-player categories|List of active college players by year]]
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• Tournament
  ...List of tournaments]] and [[:Category:High school tournaments|List of high school tournaments]]'' ...it of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on anoth
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• High School Celebrity Shootout
  The '''High School Celebrity Shootout''', also known as '''Celeb Shoot''', is an annual tourna ...pics, such as "Native Americans," the "Beijing Olympics," and "Composers" (categories seen in the 2008 tournament). There are 44 questions in this round worth ei
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• Category round
  Featured in some high school formats, a '''category round''' involves reading ten questions on some them ...given to the two teams, and they each get the first crack at two separate categories.
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• Kiwanis Bowl
  ...post indicates that a Kiwanis Bowl tournament was held at Los Amigos High School in November 2006. ...mid-1990s, possibly 1996, though [[Gustavo Arellano]] claims that Anaheim High won in both 1996 and 1997 (it's possible that this writer has misremembered
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• Rahul Keyal
  ...ed to second place at [[2017 NSC]]. He played for [[Mesa Verde]] in middle school and attended the [[2013 MSNCT]], where the team took third place. *[[2022 Winter Closed]] – contributed Literature, Art, and other categories
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• Team
  ...lly speaking a team is [[affiliated]] with a [[school]] at either the high school or college level.</onlyinclude> ...hat can be on a team at once, so long as they are all students at the same school.
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• Matt Morrison
  [[Category:High school players active in 2004]] [[Category:High school players active in 2005]]
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• South Central Conference
  ...in the south-central Illinois area consisting of ten small-to-medium sized high schools. The current conference roster is: [[Category:High school categories]][[Category:High school leagues]]
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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 consider Each round contains 30 questions, grouped into six categories with point values from 20 to 100, like on the game show. The point values o
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• Generalist
  ...owever, surface generalists can still be relatively successful at the high school level or against weaker fields. ...ong teammates, these players have the advantage of "turtling" around their categories while occasionally striking outside of their knowledge base, making them go
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• WHIO-TV High-Q
  High-Q was a local television program hosted on WHIO-TV Channel 7 in the Dayton, The High-Q program consists of a four-quarters format, which many competitors believ
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• Cincinnati
  ...start a team, allegedly because he played essentially solo throughout high school and didn't want to continue. ^- leader in most statistical categories
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• Wyatt Carpenter
  ...he exception of those related to Franz Liszt), considering them "[[trash]] categories". He is, in situations where no one more knowledgeable is around, known to [[Category:High school players active in 2016]]
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• Academic Olympics
  ...from around the greater Reno area. Although it is run by the Washoe County School District, there does not appear to be anything specifically describing what ..."play-off". Teams accumulate points for correct answers in the following categories: Math, Physical Science, Life Science, Current Events, English/Literature,
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• KSHSAA Scholars Bowl
  ...School Activities Association Scholars Bowl''' is played in Kansas by high school teams. Kansas is known as the "North Korea of quizbowl" due to the draconia *Practice may not begin until Monday of the seventh week of school and must cease at the end of the competition season. Scrimmages between tea
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• KYVE Apple Bowl
  ...n between high school students. Over a period of one to three weeks, 20-30 high schools come from all over [[Central Washington]] to compete at the Apple B ...of time, the other team may choose a question set from the remaining three categories.
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• Question databases
  ...pically uses the broad categories of "high school", "college", and "middle school", but the utility of additional gradations means that relatively-more stand
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• Collegiate difficulties
  ...omplete beginners to quizbowl (which overlap with the difficulties of high school quizbowl), to the hardest difficulties intended to challenge college studen There are five broad categories of college difficulty: '''[[novice]]''', '''medium''', '''[[Regular difficu
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• YSU Academic Challenge
  ...humb|right]]'''YSU Academic Challenge''' is the Youngstown, Ohio area high school quiz bowl program that airs on ABC station WYTV on Saturday nights and reai ...f [[Youngstown State]]. Two teams of four students representing different high schools across the WYTV viewing area compete in a game similar to that of t
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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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