Academic Bowl Online
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| President or CEO | Unknown | |
| Location: | Fort Worth, TX | |
| Status | CLOSED | |
Academic Bowl Online was a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Its writers claimed to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students." It was founded in 2003.
Prior to 2007-2008, it provided questions for grade school practices. It is unknown whether these questions were ever used, or intended for use, at tournaments. In 2007-2008 it provided questions at the for junior high and high school levels. The business announced that it would be suspending operations after August 31st, 2009 and ending operations effective December 31st, 2009.
Question Quality
Academic Bowl Online's mission was to "provide high quality, affordable academic bowl solutions for America's educational institutions." However, question quality was regarded as largely poor: tossups and bonus parts were less than one line long and rarely had any meaningful clues; lightning rounds were single-subject and were often binary matching. Despite this, the only appearance of non-academic questions appeared to be large amounts of math calculation.
Sample high school tossups included "What is the name of Beethoven's only opera?" and "What is log base two of 2048?".