> It seems to me that packet guidelines are often too rigid to allow
> this kind of creativity. I personally like mixed genre questions.
> They test someone who has good crossover knowledge in multiple areas
> instead of the usual player with some particular niche expertise.
As far as tossups go: If they required multiple answers, one from each
field, then this would be the case. In the far more common form, the
tossups will end up giving extra points to one subject or another
(usually the giveaway*), thus skewing the whole point of having a
distribution. Judicious use of mixed-subject questions is better
suited to boni, since the effect of the extra points will be
negligible in 60+ bonus answers and the unpredictable matching of a
particular bonus to a particular team, compared to a fixed set of 20
tossups.
*Because far too many mixed-subject tossups are like this:
The name's the same. A person you've never heard of who did X, a
person I've probably made up who did Y, and FTP BUZZER RACE RIGHT NOW.