Claire Jones

Claire Jones
Noted subjects	history, choral music, Britcon, Lusophony
Current college	Chicago (2021-)
Past colleges	Princeton (2014-2015), Oxford (2018-2020)
High school	St. John's (2010-2014)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Claire Jones is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Chicago. In high school, she was a key member of the Chris Romero-coached St. John's team that placed 2nd at 2014 HSNCT and 3rd at 2014 NSC. After playing a bit but mostly doing non-quizbowl things at Princeton, she returned to the game via the British quizbowl community while pursuing a master's degree at Oxford.

At Chicago, Jones was a pivotal player on the team that placed 2nd at 2023 ACF Nationals, and got the only first-line buzz of that tournament's finals sequence (on the novel Brick Lane); in the following year, she negged only once on the championship team at 2024 ICT Division I and only twice on the championship team at 2024 ACF Nationals. In the wake of Matt Jackson's departure, she was indispensable to Chicago's championship run at the 2025 ICT and to their dramatic 2nd-place finish at the 2025 ACF Nationals (after a sudden-death final versus Stanford). In 2026, she led Chicago A in scoring to consecutive 3rd-place finishes at 2026 ICT and 2026 ACF Nationals, negging only once in the latter tournament.

She is known to confuse moderators by pronouncing Portuguese names accurately.