With all due respect to Mr. Musgrove, and speaking as someone who runs a fairly well-funded quiz bowl team, who in their right mind would pay $100 for such a program? The object is to see what teams need to know and what they need to learn, right? Well, our team has begun doing something simple and free that accomplishes that same purpose, and would like to help someone develop freeware to help people keep track of such things. Here's what we've begun... We take a legal pad and make 3 columns -- 1 with the general subject area, one with the actual answer and one with the name of the person (if anyone) who got the question. What we hope to do is build a database with thousands of answers and see who knows what. Seeing as we go through probably 100-120 toss-ups per practice, the numbers build fairly quickly. The thing is building the database and having the stats computed. Maybe Matt Bruce has a good idea for how to do this, seeing as his Stats2001 will now become standard number-tracking material. Perhaps Microsoft Access or something akin to it will do the trick and we can keep track of the answers, as the same answers come up every so often, as we all know. Anyway, Mr. Musgrove, I don't expect you'll get too much business unless your price comes way down or unless people simply do not want to compile the stats themselves. This and memorizing lists will only get a team so far. Stan Jastrzebski
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