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...e [[Davis Method]], Mark is known for getting seemingly random [[tossups]] correct.

...an overall time limit. After the team question, the count of accumulated correct answers reset and a new cycle began. Each question (either a buzzer questi

...ne answer that is used for an entire bonus, with points given based on how correct answers can be enumerated by a team. This is in contrast to the [[Tossup-Bo ...ints for one, 10 for two, 20 for three and 30 for getting all four answers correct. Name the four states that meet at the Four Corners.

...ely within a specified timeframe. Each team receives credit for all of its correct answers, regardless of whether the opponent also got the question right. Th The [[OAC]] format uses a 20-question worksheet in which all correct answers in a particular round begin with the same letter. The letter for e

...[[NAQT]] rules, the omission of a single leading article from an otherwise correct title does not render an answer incorrect.</onlyinclude> ! Correct in NAQT?

...il a correct answer is given (in which case the team whose player gave the correct answer wins) or an interrupt penalty is issued (in which case the teams who ...gh PACE has no interrupt penalties, so the game ends (only) upon the first correct answer being given to a tossup.

...the clue in connection with one possible answer immediately buzzes and is correct. ...(perhaps the burden of meta-knowledge) occurs when a player discounts the correct answer in the belief that a clue could possibly apply to other answers of w

...ce, Sports and Leisure). One team was given a category and a question. A correct answer was worth 10 points, and the right to answer more questions until th ...nts to answer one final question, a la Final Jeopardy! on [[Jeopardy!]] A correct answer added the wagered points, while an incorrect answer deducted them.

...ame set of questions, for the other team. Five points are awarded for each correct answer during the bonus round, and there is no penalty for incorrect answer

...correct and zero negs. D.C. managed four of each, and New Mexico a single correct answer. The team bonus saw Illinois add 8 points to D.C's 7. New Mexico e ...correct, with two negs. Illinois matched D.C. in negs, but managed eleven correct. The twenty point team question saw Illinois earn 18, D.C. 14, with New Me

...rupt penalties]] in effect (worth –5 points), but no [[powers]]. Non-power correct tossup answers are worth 10 points. * Correct tossup answers in regulation lead to [[bonuses]] comprising three parts wor

...due to a failed attempt at priming. Some of these end triumphantly with a correct guess - most do not.

...questions provide players with a list of possible answers, one of which is correct. ...with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 46. Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of pos

...ountry in primetime and often triggering nationwide debate over rulings on correct answers. Some of the largest companies in Ghana are involved as sponsors.

...available. These are worth 15 and –5 points, respectively, while non-power correct tossup answers are worth 10 points. * Correct tossup answers in regulation lead to [[bonuses]] comprising three parts wor

...a "'''Michigan 10'''" on a three-part [[bonus]] when it gets the hard part correct, but misses the intended middle and easy parts. Analogously, a '''Michigan

===Correct Buzz=== A correct buzz before the <b><u>(+)</b></u> would be worth 6, before the <b>(*)</b> w

...ng; See F.8''). A player who wishes to amend their given answer (''e.g. to correct the pronunciation of a word, to change from one given answer to another'') The following table describes a question with a correct answer of {{q|George {{bu|Washington}}}}:

...are using an off-the-shelf power supply with variable voltage control, the correct output setting is 9 volts.

...s in a category they have chosen from the Academic Rodeo Quiz Board. Each correct answer is worth twenty (20) points. An additional twenty (20) point bonus ...correctly anticipates the question, buzzes in early and does not provide a correct answer, they may be giving the opposing team an advantage. Since the readi

...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.

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

...u have above average knowledge of the subject, and getting all three parts correct means that you have deep knowledge of the subject.

...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

...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:

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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]].

#Correct answer is gettable by average 6-year-old

...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

...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

...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

...s format]]. "Solo questions" were open to both teams with no conferring. Correct answers were worth 10 points; interrupts were -10. "Team questions" specif

...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

...n''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of getting a [[question]] correct.

...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.

...an incorrect answer. Some formats award extra points (a [[power]]) for a correct answer to a tossup interrupted sufficiently early.

Believed to be popular at Southern tournaments, please correct as applicable:

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...], [[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

...`balm`` came from what region east of the Jordan River?," and "What is the correct chemical formula for sodium chlorate?"

...ossup compliments such as "you ''figured it out''" are common reactions to correct answers divined in this way rather than through actual knowledge.

...]]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]].

...Carmel]] A. Though the protest committee ruled that Stevenson's answer was correct, the decision was not communicated properly to the game officials, resultin

...uestions were obviously poorly designed, many times questions had multiple correct answers, which the kids came up with, often bewildering the poor host - som

...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

...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

...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.

A team which answers a tossup correct receives a corresponding bonus read only to them.

...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

...pectively and are offered first to the team that got the previous question correct.

...d on their relative level of knowledge, it must be possible to provide the correct answer at various points in the question.

...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.

<onlyinclude>A '''Gettier''' is a correct [[buzz]] on a [[question]] made by a player who arrived at the answer throu

...flashcarding is often described as a study technique, this is not strictly correct - instead, it is a method of improving retention. Flashcarding is associate

*Moderator: Correct, 10 points, now your bonus. *Moderator: Correct. Earlier, the Farmer’s Alliance made these 1890 demands, which were named

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...orth 20 points apiece. In addition, any team that gets all eight questions correct receives a 25 point bonus.

''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>

...uth America, and Walton took the 15 points on the bounceback by giving the correct answer, "Maracaibo." ...lake, because it flows into the Caribbean Sea, and thus that Titicaca was correct. After consulting with a coach's "internet computer" and calling "NAA chief

...Silverman's 105), and [[Matt Jackson|Matt Jackson's]] 2010 record for most correct tossups in a single HSNCT (211 to Jackson's 206). Myers led their Napervil

...team received a Get Out of Interrupt Free card, playable after negging. A correct answer after playing the card scored zero on the tossup, but made the team

...nament grew from six to seventeen teams. Kyle continues to give partially correct answers, which in turn helps the other team figure out the answer. He also

...to require teams to wait for the toss-up to be read before signaling—with correct answers given before the question was finished not counted. By January 16,

...it properly and says "Not caring which side you take." IS answer was ruled correct. I protested at the end of the 4th Q and was told my kid's definition was w

...th. The Reach organizers, upon consulting the teams involved, opted not to correct what was presumably a mistake the day before the game.

===100 Total Correct=== ===20 Correct Answers, Zero Negs===

...tically-trained dissenters, giving them an easy way to bulldoze simple but correct objections to the process. It can be a sign of [[bad quizbowl]].

...correct. Savannah rebounded with the positive equivalent, which was ruled correct. North Kansas City protested the question, claiming that because no direct ...bly [[Eric Mukherjee]], have confirmed that North Kansas City's answer was correct, and thus should have had its protest accepted. The tournament director ha

...p questions. Players have five seconds after being recognized to answer. Correct answers are worth one point. Incorrect answers at any point lose one point

...don't know", or "Yes, I am X". If the bot answers "No, I am not X" and is correct, the question is successfully answered and play moves on to other questions

...at it was entropy. Several seconds later, a Broward player buzzed with the correct answer. Game over. No defense of national title.

...of questions: multiple choice, which have to be answered by repeating the correct choice exactly word-for-word or by saying the corresponding letter (w, x, y

*Selecting the correct inflection to convey the punctuation and sentence structure of a clue *Not revealing information about whether a buzz is correct while judging it

...diately gave another incorrect answer to prevent a teammate from giving a correct answer, and potentially allowing Carbondale to sweep a rebounded bonus. Af

...er of each time, even if said teams have already played each other before. Correct answers ...question asking to "sing the first line of Julia Ward Howe's..." gave the correct line, but got "buzzed" because he didn't SING it. This was the game we lost

...[pyramidal]]. A correct answer on the first clue gives a team 40 points, a correct answer on the second clue gives a team 30 points, and so on. Teams are allo Team A (buzzes in): "Edmonton Oilers" - Correct

A correct answer in the first two rounds earns a team 10 points and a team bonus ques

...eks culminating in the tournament "play-off". Teams accumulate points for correct answers in the following categories: Math, Physical Science, Life Science,

...or who said, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute," had the correct answer on the page or not.

...ayers allowed to answer if they have already buzzed/bonus completed on any correct tossup if buzz occurred in time

...nus questions in Quiznet have every team entering what they feel to be the correct answer into the chat. Beall awards an insignificantly higher number of poi

# Lightning Round (10 questions, 1 min.; 20 point bonus if all 10 are correct; rebound at end of minute)

...include judgement, which is the instantaneous and fair application of the correct ruleset to timing, answerline correctness, and other situations.

...only consisting of 1 or 2 sentences, and are not necessarily pyramidal. A correct starter question earns the team a set of 3 bonus questions, worth 5 points

...parts, after which points are awarded based on how many parts the team got correct. The team with more points when time expires wins. If time expires in the

...mpionship, maintaining the tradition of outrageous negatives and partially correct answers. Langston persevered to earn a top five finish at ACF Fall Southwe

...016 Pennsylvania Novice Initiative], a novice-level tournament designed to correct the lack of material for novice teams to practice on.

...ght on; ironically, many of the proposed alternatives are technically less correct and less intuitive than "pronoun."

...s once ruled wrong for answering "Asia" when asked "Where is Bhutan?" (the correct answer was the Himalayas). In 2003 the Sanford School was furious after be

At this point, Lisgar was scheduled to represent Ottawa as "the correct team". Bell managed to receive an injunction extension that allowed them t

...where a student buzzes they can earn either 6,5,4, or 3 points if they are correct. If they are incorrect, they suffer a -2 penalty if they buzzed before the

...|Warwick University]]. Due to a high number of games played, he amassed 45 correct starters and a large number of negs, one of the highest totals in recent hi

...the information may or may not be read), and may also supply one factually correct statement that is not included in the question. Thus if tossup is binary, t ...truth value of the extra piece of information, and on several occasions, a correct answer has been ruled incorrect due to the moderator's incapacity.

...team takes the lower-numbered card", since although this is mathematically correct, lower-numbered cards correspond to higher rankings within the tournament,

...tossups]] heard in a [[game]]. Generally, this implies a team answering 20 correct tossups, though in a [[timed games|timed match]] this can vary. The team do

...written answer of "line." Irvington's protest in defense of ray was deemed correct after an already long wait, but then Plano fired a counter protest and some

...ncludes a "bonus question" at the end of the first quarter that grants the correct team free Turkey Hill ice cream, or a similar prize.

...opardy answer was "Kazakhstan" and Jackson wrote "(hi Matt B.)" after his (correct) answer.

.... Additionally, a team may protest another team’s answer that was ruled as correct. Wow! Is that not a lot for a team who just came off of state finals battli ...know Martin, he is sometimes timid in his answer, only to find out he was correct. Martin is considering joining the academic team at the U of I. Good luck,

...d answers as many of the ten questions as possible in sixty seconds. Each correct answer is worth fifty points. The team ahead at the end of the third quart

...r incorrectly answered the next question, allowing UTS to buzz in with the correct answer. However, debate ensued as to when the 90-second clock ran out. If i

Moderators at the tournament are not allowed to give correct answers. Full names are required by some moderators, while others will tak

This incident was appalling because "Mary I, Queen of Scots" was a perfectly correct [http://www.websters-dictionary-online.com/definition/MARY,+QUEEN+OF+THE+SC ...answers given by Francis Howell Central to these questions had been ruled correct, Francis Howell Central quite possibly could have won the District tourname

...ues and questions should be sourced so that the answer on the paper is the correct answer. Several of the questions I edited had the wrong answer, including ...t not even the best player has a chance to buzz after the lead-in with the correct answer. Additionally, the lead-in must be '''uniquely identifying''': it

...uld allow for "Eleanor Roosevelt" (an answer given by State College) to be correct. Bellarmine protested that this answer should not be allowed; the protest w

...and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decide

...t Shoals, who won the final match in round robin and the tournament with a correct answer in overtime of Hungry, Hungry Hippo.

* Round 8 (which is the 2nd round at State) did not have the correct number of computational questions according to IHSA policies.

...ce 2007 the organization seems to have settled on the singular form as the correct name of the tournament.</ref> or '''NSC''', is a high school national quizb

...ere a student buzzes they can earn either 6, 5, 4, or 3 points if they are correct. If they are incorrect, they suffer a -2 penalty if they buzzed before the

...o use untimed halves as well. NAQT uses [[powers]], which means that early correct answers falling within the "power" portion of the tossup (which is designat

...ed by the judge sounding a bell or buzzer, in addition to the host stating correct or incorrect, sometimes followed by commentary. An electronic horn signals ...only coach to actually file a protest over an answer (which the coach was correct about, because the question writer misunderstood a current event, placing I

...ll be and give all answers before time expires; as long as they are in the correct order, such answers will be accepted. Moderator: "Russians called them.." *buzz* Player: "Vikings" Moderator: "Correct" and

...words "Roma imortale ...", a player from the second team rang in with the correct answer, "Vatican City". Chip Beall's response was "I saw you on Jeopardy!" ...rang in and answered: "Freedom Riders". The answer was disallowed, as the correct answer was "Freedom Rides", with Beall explaining after the question "You c

...ires or otherwise steps down… y’know, often a team has trouble rebuilding. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Irmo has been a benefactor in South Carolina in a nu

...orth 20 and 10 points respectively), until, if no team is able to give the correct answer, the answer is read. This is similar to reading each clue of a four

*Use correct, clear, formal written English at all times. Do not emulate previous quizbo

...ect. It is not sufficient for a topic to have an answer which can be ruled correct or incorrect to be considered "good quizbowl" (or even quizbowl).

...s, which over five games would be a 15.4 average. It is not known which is correct, as everyone was probably distracted by the historic performance in Class 4

...he middle") should successively narrow the answer space down to the actual correct answer of the tossup. This is the part that is usually the hardest to execu ...writing. It should go without saying that packets should be grammatically correct, but they're often not, so please read your questions out loud to yourself

...nd round 370-340 victory over defending champion [[Auburn]] with a "save" (correct final tossup answer) from Tony Rickey highlighted the tournament. Grissom

*Correct a factual error ...le, concrete relationships where there are few or no ambiguities about the correct answer ("binaries").

...r elimination or the championship are broken by tiebreaker tossups, with a correct answer advancing the player and an incorrect answer eliminating the player. ...to have a handout counted scored 1 point for a handout that is completely correct, otherwise –1. In 2001, very lengthy questions that were repeated twice a

...r regional play and heralded by SchoolReach director Sandy Stewart as "the correct team" to go to provincials. A few court proceedings and lawyers later, Bel

...ossup rounds. These tossup rounds have a unique scoring system of +2 for a correct answer and -1 for an incorrect answer (at any point, even after the tossup

...lly play-testing each round in practice to ensure the difficulty level was correct. Also, the 84 teams in competition witnessed the addition of a number of fe

...w admits that they used plagiarized questions and has taken some action to correct the problem, the people who acted stand by their actions. The Head Editor s

...ot be televised. '''[WIKI NOTE: Most of the above information is no longer correct. Please see the wiki page on [[HCASC]] for updated information]''' ...re given by the player without a discernible pause, the player's answer is correct.

...tration during the tournament, and it may be something that you can easily correct next time. Compliments will make it all worth it! A good tournament can be

...tossups for the Class 1 leaders, so it is not known if 77 or 89 tossups is correct.

...ed a Site Coordinator position to help hosts manage their sites and select correct packet-submission formats, taking those responsibilities away from the Comm

:P% = Power percent (powers as a percent of total correct answers) :C% = Conversion percent (total correct answers-per-tossups heard)