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a compendium of information on Quizbowl.
Featuring 4,841 articles on tournaments, players, sets, and theory.
Introduction
Quizbowl, or quiz bowl, is the most common name for a team-based competition involving answering knowledge-testing questions with a buzzer. Quizbowl is played at thousands of colleges, high schools, and middle schools across the United States, but competitions exist throughout the world with different names and different formats. In the US, the most common format on the national high school and college level is a two-team competition in which the teams compete to buzz in on tossup questions and then collaborate on bonus questions.
The most important organizations in quizbowl are ACF (at the collegiate level), PACE (at the high school level), and NAQT (at the collegiate, high school, and middle school levels). Much quizbowl community activity occurs at hsquizbowl.org, which is hosted by the Quizbowl Resource Center. Also check out our pages on quizbowl software, buzzer sets, and outreach to new schools and players.
Quick Links
Find information about a club or team
- List of collegiate clubs (directory of contact information)
- List of high school clubs
- List of middle school clubs
Quizbowl History
- Follow the history of quizbowl at the timeline of quizbowl history
- Find out how they play overseas in Canada, the United Kingdom, and other nations
- Learn about the predecessor and long-time competitor to quizbowl, College Bowl
How-to's and guides
- Let past players teach you how-to learn science or run a club
- Peruse various documents written by the community
Miscellaneous
- Want to find out about superpowers? Find out that, and more at quizbowl lingo
- Interested in the significance of capybaras? Stop by the list of quiz bowl in-jokes
- Want to catch the game? Visit the list of quizbowl TV shows
- Curious about the accolades of the game? Read through the list of quizbowl awards
Recent tournament results
Collegiate
- HARI – UBC goes undefeated at McGill[1], Chicago A takes one loss to Michigan A before defeating them in the final at Illinois[2], The RIT A house team clears the field at RIT[3], and Maryland A defeats Rutgers first game of the final with the advantage at Maryland[4]
- Illinois Open – Texas Orange takes only one loss in a triple round robin at Texas[5]
- ARCADIA – Stanford goes undefeated at Berkeley[6]
High school
- 2021 South Central Scholastic League @ Mt. Olive (IS-205A – Southwestern goes undefeated[7]
- Cookeville Fall @ Cookeville (IS-205A) – University School of Nashville went undefeated[8]
- Treasure Valley Tournament @ Treasure Valley (IS-205A) – Timberline goes undefeated[9]
- Southside Holiday IV @ Southside (IS-208) – Thomas Jefferson A and Greenville A both go undefeated (?)[10]
- Quaker Fall Open VI @ Penn (RAFT III) – DCC A enters the final with Great Valley A at a disadvantage after taking a loss in their final playoff game, but takes both games to win the tournament[11]
- VCU Winter Tournament XII @ VCU (IS-206) – Douglass Freeman A beats Thomas Jefferson B twice from the disadvantaged side of the final to win[12]
- 2021 WHIT @ Whitman (?) – Ladue A defeats Parkway West A in the final[13]
- Gopher Invitational @ Minnesota (IS-204) – Wayzata A goes undefeated[14]
- Dickson Comet @ Dickson (IS-207A) – Edmond North A goes undefeated[15]
- Rowdy Raider Invitational @ Northmont (IS-206) – Beavercreek A beats Solon A in the final, going undefeated in the process[16]
Open
- Super ACRONYM 3 @ online – "Al Gore Vidalia Onions" (Colby Burnett, Charlie Fritz, Jason Hess, Susannah Brooks) go undefeated and clear the field[17]
Historical tournament info
Internal
- List of high school tournaments
- List of college tournaments
- GrogerRanks: community-organized rankings of high school quizbowl teams
External
Featured picture
The Solon High School quizbowl team competes at the 2018 PACE National Scholastic Championship.
Photo credit: David Reinstein
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