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...bout the tournament describing a semifinal match decided on a sudden-death spelling tossup.

|Subjects = Spelling, General Management

...rag Kashyap''', captain, was the noted winner of the 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee, and a former member of [[Rancho Bernardo]] with [[Kevin Gong]] and [[Z

...to be counted by the Trivia Bot. However, answers deemed incorrect due to spelling could be manually corrected by channel ops or the person who started the ga

The '''Ventura County Academic Rodeo''' is an academic competition and spelling bee that has been held in Ventura County in Southern California for element ...toss up questions, vocabulary definitions and for the Academic Stallions a spelling bee. Prizes are given for first, second, third and fourth place. There are

...ny founded in the late 1990's by [[Jeremy Krug]]. It featured one-liners, spelling questions, and other things generally considered today to be [[bad quizbowl

...school, this can also refer to using stupid language arts questions about spelling, grammar, or vocabulary in place of real literature. [[Questions Galore]] a

Also won the National Spelling Bee and Teen Jeopardy and got a 1600 on her SATs, then attended Rice.

...y going to be asked until at the last moment the question "swerves" to a [[spelling]] question (which is also usually not desired).

...s of Questions Galore include the widespread use of "[[hose|left turns]]," spelling, [[buzzer race]]s, and both excessively difficult and excessively easy [[co

...also enjoy "arm-wrestling 8-year olds" and participating in "second-grade spelling bees," and likening his actions to Andrew Jackson's treatment of Native Ame

...ns with an extremely large amount of trash, including, but not limited to, spelling questions and questions about types of detergent.''

.... OJABA questions regularly feature topics such as [[computational math]], spelling, and [[binary matching bonus|binary matching]] of presidents or chemical el

*[[computational math]] is heard; spelling tossups were present before [[NAQT]] took over question writing

...izbowl and eschewal of questions on excess general knowledge or [[trash]], spelling, and other non-academic "fluff" (see [[trivia]] for a discussion)

...terms. Questions that requires certain numbers of letters or syllables, [[spelling]]s, or anything similar are most likely flawed.

* Absolutely no spelling, calculation, "FAQTP," or ordering/multiple choice questions.

...ly have a strong typist and some luck and finish on top. Typing speed and spelling abilities, therefore, play a very large role in Quiznet, sometimes more so

...Good questions are not only pyramidal but also well-written in other ways (spelling and grammar, factual accuracy, the absence of [[quizbowlese]], etc.), and q

...'s [[Quiznet]] league, although those were counterbalanced by his terrible spelling skills.

...multi-part bonus'': Helium's symbol is He. What two elements have symbols spelling

...ound," which led to some teams replacing their normal fourth player with a spelling specialist. ...et current standards of [[pyramidal]] quizbowl. [[Computational math]] and spelling questions are used and other questions are generally of the "one-line" vari

...n a hockey team, multiply that by the number of innings in baseball, ...", spelling questions, and, in general, terrible questions.

...proved of because a of a lack of literature and an emphasis on grammar and spelling. Beyond that, there were particular questions that caused general uproar.

*at least '''2.0%''' [[spelling]] questions

*periodic table spelling/Scrabble ("What elements spell the word 'TiN'?"/"What is the highest scorin

...uizbowl insiders" will generally just use the term "prompt on" rather than spelling out "ask the player for a more specific answer" or similar.

...age Arts category traditionally had a much larger distribution of grammar, spelling, and speech. These sub-categories was also eventually whittled away, leavi

Aside from spelling, grammar, and a few changes in word selection, the report was filed immedia

...e not cute, not funny, and not helpful to players. Similarly, topics like spelling words with chemical element symbols (9B12) and solving number riddles (4B7)

...f course, but some tournaments I've been to have featured missing words or spelling errors or grammatical mistakes in almost every question. This is the minimu

...s. However, at this early date, ACF still included variable-value bonuses, spelling questions, and other bad College Bowl mainstays.

...o more than 3, and ACF discourages the use of any quickies. '''[WIKI NOTE: Spelling questions and "quickie" questions are hallmarks of [[bad quizbowl]] and sho