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- Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Solon's Two Day NAQT/PACE Tournament-Feb.14/15
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7206
Solon's Two Day NAQT/PACE Tournament-Feb.14/15
Solon plans to run its Two Day Tournament for the 3rd year on President's Day weekend, February 14/15th. The Glenn Gonsalvas NAQT day is Saturday and the Pace Tournament is Sunday. You may participate one or both days. There is a discount if you do both. Tentative costs are $75 for the first team an...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Jeopardy finally finds a way to avoid quizbowlers.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6886
Re: College Jeopardy finally finds a way to avoid quizbowlers.
Caltech Quizbowl's Brandon Hensley will be competing on College Jeopardy.
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BUZZERPALOOZA 2008-SOLON HIGH SCHOOL 3/15
- Replies: 0
- Views: 979
BUZZERPALOOZA 2008-SOLON HIGH SCHOOL 3/15
There is still time to take part in this years Buzzerpalooza. Solon H.S. is sponsoring this years Tournament on March 15th. Costs are $60 for the first team and $40 for each additional team. Discounts are $10 for a buzzer system (max 1 per team entered) and $10 for a reader. We do our best to make y...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Reminder- Solon High School's Two Day Tournament-Feb.16/17
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1151
Reminder- Solon High School's Two Day Tournament-Feb.16/17
We still have openings for Solon's two day NAQT/PACE Tournament. Saturday is NAQT day using IS 74. Sunday is using a new Pace set of Questions. The Tournament is on Feb. 16/17th, President's Day weekend. You may come to one or both days. If you are here for both days, the 2nd days fees are almost ha...
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Solon Two Day Tournament Correction (2/16-17)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1908
Solon Two Day Tournament Correction (2/16-17)
I apologize for the error- The correct dates are Feb.16/17. There will be a
social (dinner, bowling, a movie possibly) on Saturday night. 10 rounds each day for ALL TEAMS. NAQT on Saturday(IS-74)/PACE on Sunday.
[email protected] Bob Weiser
social (dinner, bowling, a movie possibly) on Saturday night. 10 rounds each day for ALL TEAMS. NAQT on Saturday(IS-74)/PACE on Sunday.
[email protected] Bob Weiser
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Solon Two Day NAQT/PACE Tournament 2/16-17/2008 Solon Ohio
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1754
Solon Two Day NAQT/PACE Tournament 2/16-17/2008 Solon Ohio
Solon high School will host its 2nd annual two day two format tournament
on President's Day weekend. Teams may participate in one or both days.
Dinner together with other teams and a social of some kind will take place on
Saturday night for interested teams. Contact Bob Weiser: [email protected]
on President's Day weekend. Teams may participate in one or both days.
Dinner together with other teams and a social of some kind will take place on
Saturday night for interested teams. Contact Bob Weiser: [email protected]
- Tue May 01, 2007 8:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Leisure time in Chicago
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12034
As far a pizza goes, there is a Giordano's at I believe River and Higgins Roads, just down the street from the hotel. I highly recommend it, and will be patronizing it myself. Also, catching a Second City show when you are in town is awesome. I did it with my high school team my senior year (Saturda...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ITT Get your name change on again!
- Replies: 66
- Views: 22396
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ITT Get your name change on again!
- Replies: 66
- Views: 22396
- Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: technology tournament
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19605
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2007 NAQT ICT Stats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10913
- Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Is Van Halen the most disfunctional band of all time?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8812
Pshaw.. Burzum beats out Mayhem for complete f**dupness any day.
Article where Varg Vikernes justifies killing Euronymous and compares himself to Thor.
Article where Varg Vikernes justifies killing Euronymous and compares himself to Thor.
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Identify the bad movie quote OR abuse the previous user
- Replies: 78
- Views: 34644
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT Southern CA HS State Championship, Caltech, 3/31/07
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1850
NAQT Southern CA HS State Championship, Caltech, 3/31/07
Here is the executive summary: Date: March 31st Time: Arrive 9PM game play starts promptly at 9:30, runs until 4PM Fee Structure: 70 per team, -10 per additional team, -10 per lock out system, -10 per moderator, -Epsilon naught per bounded infinite functions (Minimum of 50 dollars) Location: Caltech...
- Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Road to Minneapolis: NAQT ICT bid prediction thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 49014
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12121
As the science editor, you can direct all such complaints to me. I thought I had cut one of the offending photoelectric effect questions, and it is now apparent that I didn't do a good enough job checking for repeats. This was my first time editing, but I recognize that that is still no excuse; inst...
- Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl quick results
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3649
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Singles questions available
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3867
- Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4629
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PARFAIT II
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8923
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PARFAIT II
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8923
We stand guilty as charged as to the scheduling, Dwight. We'll try not to just crib it off some random round-robin site without looking next time. I am aware that our packets may have been perceived as not as high-quality as the rest of the set. To that end, we are always looking for feedback to hel...
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PARFAIT 2: October 14, 2006
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8509
The Caltech mirror had 10 teams gather from throughout California. Stanford A led by Eric Smith romped through the round robin undefeated (8-0, due to USC's midtournament departure), with UCLA taking second and UCI A taking third. Eric Smith led the individual scoring, along with Dwight Wynne from U...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Technophobia Eleven: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1858
Technophobia Eleven: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom...
TECHNOPHOBIA ELEVEN: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom of the Quizbowl Talent Pool, the eleventh annual Caltech Quiz Bowl college invitational tournament, will be tentatively (pending negotiation with UCLA over TWAIN) held the weekend of OCTOBER 14, 2006. This year, Technophobia is mirroring Prin...
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gottfried Keller Results
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14777
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New Quiz Bowl Practce/Discussion room on Paltalk!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17888
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: the most annoying thing about quizbowl
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12587
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Starting quiz bowlers at a very early age
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9609
- Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33737
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Retiring Some Questions?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25274
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15999
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Any interest in a SW tournament?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2062
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Science Bowl--NAQT style?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4111
- Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Retiring Some Questions?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25274
Look, you won't find a much bigger Tolkien nut out there than me. But I think I have to take Matt's side on this one. LOTR's noted lack of character development and adherence to epic storytelling form, combined with the fact that the works it influences sure as hell do not belong in the academic sid...
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where's My Forbidden Zone
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2791
I don't know, the roster of potential action heroes from the University of Chicago is kind of scary. New Milton Friedman action figure! Now with twice the power to destroy Latin American economies! Complete with a prominent M1 across the chest. Wow! The latest Leo Strauss comic book has hit the shel...
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33737
Pachelbel's first l is silent. And Charles and Bruce are correct, although the h in mahdi is of the non-guttural kind. Calm down though, Charles. As far as Ahmadinejad goes, I can see stress going on either the first or third syllable (I stress the first, since Ahmadinejad is a compound name), but u...
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowler in the New York Times
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23588
http://www.peterapplebome.com/Peter%20A ... 20Info.htm
It was on his personal website and took all of five seconds via googling his name to find.
It was on his personal website and took all of five seconds via googling his name to find.
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowler in the New York Times
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23588
I seriously am contemplating writing a letter to the New York Times just to inform them of the veracity of NAC, without taking away from this kid's obvious intelligence. I doubt it will get published but I think they at least need to know how many of us in the quizbowl community feel about this &quo...
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BASQUE 2006
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6961
- Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BASQUE 2006
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6961
BASQUE 2006
Does anyone have any idea whether this is going down? Has Lujan or anyone else talked with Yaphe about it?
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 145399
As the author of the offending fusion question, I apologize for anything that resulted from this. In fact, I may have been the moderator responsible for giving 15 points, because I saw the contradiction in the question, but should have realized that the uniquely identifying device clue earlier trump...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Worst Powers/Early Buzzes
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23978
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: high school - college retention
- Replies: 72
- Views: 31186
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Writing Questions for Practice
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5214
- Sun May 28, 2006 6:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online practice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5402
- Sun May 28, 2006 6:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Toward a True National Organization...
- Replies: 159
- Views: 71190
- Sun May 28, 2006 6:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSNCT Question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5311
- Wed May 24, 2006 7:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ASCN NATIONALS CANCELLED!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15730
- Mon May 22, 2006 6:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ASCN NATIONALS CANCELLED!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15730
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354879
Not a neg per se, but an incorrect movie bonus answer from ICT, coutresy of Amherst, who I'm sure did it for laughs. (blah blah blah), the bonus is indicating either Meet the Parents or Meet The Fokkers at his point Amherst: Uh, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Seth Kendall: Wow. (slight pause) Wow. Ano...
- Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ghetto Warz commentary
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14253