--- In quizbowl_at_y..., ajflemi <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> As far as I am aware, no team has ever gotten all the tossups in a
> game of at least 20 questions. Several teams have gotten 19/20,
> including Tom Waters, who got the first 19 TUs in a game but
couldn't
> get the 20th. (I suspect he's still irritated about it.)
>
> ajf
I'd think it must have happened at some point, though I don't recall
ever being on a team that got all 20. UF came very close at COTKU --
got 19 and would have had a 20th if not for my neg on a Harmon
Killebrew tossup. I know my teams have gotten at least 18 on a number
of occasions. Most matches like that get derailed by a neg or by a
surprisingly quick buzz from the losing team. But simply by luck of
the draw, or perhaps as the upper tail of a Poisson distribution, it
seems like it must have happened a few times.
--Raj Dhuwalia