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• Reach for Dalhousie
  ...n other words, teams are not in a rush to buzz and win by earning the most correct answers on all the questions. Questions are multiple choice. ...offs. In the playoffs, teams meet head-to-head, only needing to earn more correct answers than their opponent.
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• Sit
  Many [[buzzer race]]s are won by players who were sitting on the correct answer and thus [[primed]] to buzz immediately on a crucial clue - as a res
  764 bytes (127 words) - 11:49, 13 February 2023
• How to turn a lower-tier high school team into a good high school team
  ...u have above average knowledge of the subject, and getting all three parts correct means that you have deep knowledge of the subject.
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• Westbrook's Amended ACF Rules
  ...y know, they should buzz and say what they think the answer is. If they're correct, they should be awarded points and get a bonus. If they're not, they should ...and one bonus part and win by a final score of 357 to 500. To attempt to correct for these perceived problems in the rule set, Dwight amended the rules into
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• Hose
  ...cally punish players who possess [[uniquely identifying]] knowledge of the correct answer at the time the player buzzed. ...ecify the one answer being sought and does not account for the potentially correct alternative answer. For example:
  4 KB (715 words) - 10:58, 6 January 2022
• Boston College College Bowl Jam: Tournament Edition
  ...n while a team was on fire, that team could "goaltend" by shouting out the correct answer before the other team had a chance to answer. While this did not gi
  1 KB (175 words) - 22:40, 29 July 2011
• Wordwang!
  ...e question becomes more of a puzzle to figure out which of several equally-correct words fits the pattern required by the question. This also does not test a
  1 KB (173 words) - 20:45, 24 January 2010
• Buzzpoints
  ...at buzzpoints from [[2018 ACF Regionals]] found, among other trends, that correct buzzes within the first 25% of tossups were rare even in a set widely playe
  1 KB (171 words) - 16:28, 22 June 2021
• Educational Service Unit
  ...s for a correct answer, to profound (more difficult), with 10 points for a correct answer, and cover all academic disciplines: language arts, mathematics, sci
  6 KB (821 words) - 01:09, 23 March 2020
• Romero Method
  ...ing that her buzz "was probably a bad idea", which invariably results in a correct answer being given. In the UK, the Romero Method is most closely associated
  1 KB (164 words) - 11:28, 21 June 2023
• Clue
  ...yers cannot buzz off of them in tossups, and they cannot get closer to the correct answer in bonuses. # '''Factual correctness''': A clue must be factually correct and non-[[hypothetical]].
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• Bad Negs
  #Correct answer is gettable by average 6-year-old
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• Litvak's Linear Regression Statistic
  ...ses with opponent strength. Although this is usually thought of as a more correct indicator of player depth, it can also be seen a rough measure of a player' The statistic does not adequately correct for players who play partial games, and the regression coefficients are rid
  3 KB (509 words) - 09:51, 24 February 2021
• KYVE Apple Bowl
  ...tions in some of the rounds. A host reads the questions and determines the correct responses, although off-camera judges are used when an answer is contentiou ...on either team can buzz in and collect 10 points for his or her team for a correct response. If one member of the team answers incorrectly, no other members o
  5 KB (779 words) - 16:53, 16 January 2014
• NBA Jam Rule
  ...red, a member of the team on fire can call out the answer, and if they are correct before the person who has buzzed gets their answer out, the question is con
  1 KB (217 words) - 17:55, 23 April 2021
• I.Q.
  ...s format]]. "Solo questions" were open to both teams with no conferring. Correct answers were worth 10 points; interrupts were -10. "Team questions" specif
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• Bonus
  ...he answer given. If correct, they may verbally confirm with a phrase like "Correct" or "10 points" or they may simply proceed to the next part; if incorrect, ...r, 5 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three and 30 for getting all four answers correct
  7 KB (1,228 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
• Conversion
  ...n''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of getting a [[question]] correct.
  1 KB (213 words) - 09:18, 28 October 2021
• Commissioner's Academic Challenge
  ...ch team, requiring several minutes to complete. Teams earn points for each correct answer, and are not subject to losing points for incorrect answers as they ...question, that question is finished regardless of whether the team gave a correct or incorrect response.
  6 KB (840 words) - 22:07, 15 April 2014
• Interruption
  ...an incorrect answer. Some formats award extra points (a [[power]]) for a correct answer to a tossup interrupted sufficiently early.
  1 KB (228 words) - 18:06, 9 July 2017
• 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
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• 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
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• 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]].
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  A team which answers a tossup correct receives a corresponding bonus read only to them.
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• 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
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• 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.
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• Gettier
  <onlyinclude>A '''Gettier''' is a correct [[buzz]] on a [[question]] made by a player who arrived at the answer throu
  3 KB (445 words) - 13:55, 26 April 2022
• Studying
  ...flashcarding is often described as a study technique, this is not strictly correct - instead, it is a method of improving retention. Flashcarding is associate
  3 KB (412 words) - 09:23, 11 March 2023
• How Quizbowl Works
  *Moderator: Correct, 10 points, now your bonus. *Moderator: Correct. Earlier, the Farmer’s Alliance made these 1890 demands, which were named
  10 KB (1,567 words) - 19:25, 15 September 2023
• Scholars' Bowl (East Tennessee)
  ...ch nine and a half minutes in length, designed to fit the program into the correct time slot. Each tossup is worth ten points, and bonuses are twenty points
  3 KB (347 words) - 19:48, 24 January 2010
• Louisiana (MO)
  ...tournament, and with Em once again setting the individual record with 155 correct tossups. They ended their season with a 10th-place finish (6th Very Small S
  3 KB (416 words) - 17:05, 5 May 2024
• 2005 PAC
  ...on its own, and their neg and the question were thrown out. Illinois had a correct answer on an audio tossup stricken because the audio clip continued playing
  3 KB (428 words) - 16:22, 26 April 2014
• Public Library Quiz Bowl
  ...per player, for a total of 4 questions per team. If the player gives the correct answer, the team is awarded the points. If the player gives an incorrect a
  2 KB (365 words) - 09:37, 25 May 2020
• WRAL Brain Game
  ...used for it. Rather, teams gained their wager for reaching their quota of correct Globetrotting answers (3 in a three-team match, 4 in a two-team match), but
  3 KB (531 words) - 23:41, 6 December 2013
• Buzzerpalooza
  ...orth 20 points apiece. In addition, any team that gets all eight questions correct receives a 25 point bonus.
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• 2001 MSHSAA State Championship
  ''Teams with a single record listed are definitely correct based on the available information.''<br> ''Teams with a single record listed are definitely correct based on the available information.''<br>
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