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- Fri Jul 29, 2016 5:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2016 Set Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 50133
Re: Chicago Open 2016 Set Discussion
(warning: opinion from no longer current player) As Will alluded to earlier, I did take deliberate steps with Religion and Mythology to stake out areas of future exploration for those categories. Among them, I: 1. put a decent number of questions on scholarship of religion and mythology under those ...
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10250
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
No, there was another Requiem excerpt (Pie Jesu) and two motet clues
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10250
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
Wooo! (When did you buzz?)dwd500 wrote:Speaking of the choral side, again, THANK YOU for the Durufle question. He's massively important for us, but so little-known outside vocal circles he feels like our pet secret composer. He never comes up.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: some numbers about Chicago Open
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4933
Re: some numbers about Chicago Open
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- Tue Jul 21, 2015 12:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: questions about Judaism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8847
Re: questions about Judaism
I'd be interested in seeing some questions from previous tournaments that people would consider "receive 15 points if you are Jewish." This example is from a high school tournament, but it illustrates the point: This holiday sees the singing of the Chad Gadya, and some observants use an o...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: questions about Judaism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8847
Re: questions about Judaism
I'd be interested in seeing some questions from previous tournaments that people would consider "receive 15 points if you are Jewish."
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 111133
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Mind posting the questions on Grotowski, Patience, and Virgil Thomson? I'm especially interested in the Patience question since people are saying it was very hard.
- Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt J's Stuff (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5810
Re: Matt J's Stuff (2014 Penn Bowl)
Ehhh, while it's obviously moot now, I'm iffy about the wording of that lead-in; asking for a ruler while requiring a player to finish, in their head, the line the ruler of the Queen's Navee, the first ruler being Victoria and the latter being Sir J...idk, reference error. How did it play?
- Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt J's Stuff (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5810
Re: Matt J's Stuff (2014 Penn Bowl)
I'm late to the party, but can I see the "queen of England (Gilbert and Sullivan)" question? For whatever it's worth, I like the dream ballet question and would probably have powered it off the minor seventh; "There's a Place for Us" is well-known enough as starting with that int...
- Thu Oct 02, 2014 11:07 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discussion)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16981
Re: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discuss
If this perception is correct, I'd be particularly interested in hearing from women who played high-school quizbowl but chose not to play quizbowl in college, since that seems like a group for whom the obstacles at the two higher levels (cultural attitudes as a whole, quizbowl as a whole) were not ...
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2493
Re: Imaginary Landscape discussion
I want to apologize for not responding in this thread sooner; there's a duplicate thread. Joe, I'm glad to hear that you liked the Messiah tossup. Re Folk Song Suite: is there any particular reason you think the third movement is more recognizable than the second? Obviously a buzzer race was not my ...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 2 Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5273
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 2 Discussion
I had a great time writing this (or rather, writing the ones I did). Would definitely appreciate feedback, if anyone has any. Mine were: Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the Devil (already aware that due to a miscommunication, certain alternate answers weren't accepted -- sorry), Dido and Aeneas, Folk Song Su...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 2 at VCU Open
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6141
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 2 at VCU Open
Mirrors are over and discussion is now in the discussion forum
- Mon May 05, 2014 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
- Replies: 169
- Views: 57638
Re: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
Set still not up?
- Mon May 05, 2014 9:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: community question clinic
- Replies: 95
- Views: 93268
Re: community question clinic
In one speech, this character describes himself as “the king of courtesy” and states that he is “a Corinthian, a lad of mettle” and that he shall eventually “command all the good lads in Eastchap.” With Pointz, this character robs Bardolph and Petro of money they had stolen from some “grand-jurors....
- Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
- Replies: 169
- Views: 57638
Re: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
Is the set not posted yet? Not meaning to breathe down anyone's neck about it, I want to make sure that I'm not being a dumbass and missing where it is.
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 65519
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
I don't know much about dialectal variation in Welsh, so no idea about north/south, but you're probably right about it varying, in any case.And it surely varies with dialect too, like everything. I guess it would be more like that in the north?
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:25 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 65519
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
Yeah.It's true that the a in, for example, Vater is pronounced like the a in schwa. But it's not a schwa itself, it's [ɑ], right?
- Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 65519
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
Er, what?An a not accompanied by an umlaut or another vowel is a schwa. Pronounce it like the a in, well, schwa.
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:46 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 65519
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
Man, that is confusing. If you'd just told me to read that aloud, I would have been totally confident that it was the same "eu" as in neu and dweud. So I guess that must be some weird vestigial spelling from an earlier orthography or something? It's probably just me rounding things down t...
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:57 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 65519
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
I already said that.
Blodeuwedd - another one with the "eu" that sounds like "oi," but possibly more importantly, a double d. The "dd" is a voiced "th," like in "there."
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:04 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 65519
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
I feel as though I ought to add a few things about Welsh. However, Welsh names don't come up all that often, so rather than give rules and examples, I'll do it in reverse order. (Without diacritics, as this is how they will probably appear.) Owain Glyndwr - His surname looks as though it's got no vo...
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open Discussion
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9745
Re: Minnesota Open Discussion
I'm not that worried.Gilbert, in [i]Patience[/i], wrote:In that case unprecedented
Single I must live and die –
I shall have to be contented
With a tulip or lily.
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open Discussion
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9745
Re: Minnesota Open Discussion
I think MO could be summed up as the model of a very competent hard tournament. I initially read this wrong...... It is the very model of a competent hard tournament Not yet Chicago Open, there's bandleader Woody Herman in't A tossup done on Tolstoy in a categ'ry not heard before Sevastopol had Rag...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33335
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
Fair enough, though IIRC that did not come up later in the question.
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33335
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
I guess my assumption is that when assessing difficulty level for history questions, it would do to keep in mind both that clue ordering is important, and that - unlike math/science or music - most players have taken years and years of history, including at least one world/Euro class. The problem is...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33335
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
Any thoughts as to the tossup on the Brothers Grimm that called the two "this author"? I know it's trying to avoid transparency, but it's a bit odd. That made me a little bit crazy - I recognized the plot straight away, but did not buzz because the question had said "this author.&quo...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 20043
Re: Discussion
What was the question?
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wording in Questions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7352
Re: Wording in Questions
Do people still italicize "this" when it isn't followed by a referent? That seems like it could be good practice if for some reason it doesn't work to say "this [thing]."
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wording in Questions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7352
Re: Wording in Questions
Dangling modifiers tick me off to no end (Chris, I hope that was intentional). It's really not difficult: if you include the phrase "name this [thing]," you can't have a modifier. If you want a modifier, use "this is" instead of "name this [thing]."
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 20043
Re: Discussion
Likewise, if you're writing a bonus, don't link it together with something superficial like "people who won Pulitzers." I'm thinking here of that Michael Chabon bonus that randomly had Alice Walker as the third part. Huh? Third part was originally a detail from Kavalier and Clay , though ...
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 20043
Re: Discussion
Props to whoever wrote the Bar Mitzvah tossup, but it got easy fast. "This ostensibly Jewish event is succeeded by a party in which..." is a giveaway on its own, so maybe information about the chair-lifting (and perhaps candy-throwing) should precede, rather than succeed, the fact that th...
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Potential Full Time Job Offer in Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 56
- Views: 22754
Re: Potential Full Time Job Offer in Quiz Bowl
However, I don't know how much of the website you've read, but I am very clear under "Tournament Philosophy" about looking at history from a very broad perspective. Some huge history buffs may get slightly upset here, but I think it's important to keep the appeal broad. There is nothing w...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Giveaways
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3186
Re: Giveaways
I agree with Bentley and would also like to add that giveaways along the lines of "Name this thing whose name translates to X" are abominable.
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 36948
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
Aaron Rosenberg?I can't name any player who is an electrical engineer
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QBDB thread
- Replies: 75
- Views: 51020
Re: QBDB thread
Cool. Thanks again for maintaining this, by the way, it's really useful.
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QBDB thread
- Replies: 75
- Views: 51020
Re: QBDB thread
QBDB appears to be having a few issues again; on some searches all the ACF Fall questions come up under ACF Fall 2006, for example. I was also surprised to find that "The Entertainer" was composed by Great Zimbabwe (do not accept Zimbabwe). (among other such humorous answers and questions ...
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
- Replies: 122
- Views: 41755
Re: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
Sorry!
Also (obviously) ignore The Bells in my comment earlier, I was typing classical pieces I'd listened to recently and clearly forgot to take out all the vocal ones. Nice job, self.
Also (obviously) ignore The Bells in my comment earlier, I was typing classical pieces I'd listened to recently and clearly forgot to take out all the vocal ones. Nice job, self.
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
- Replies: 122
- Views: 41755
Re: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
There are some pieces for which neither theory nor key signature clues will be helpful, because neither of these features are significant or unusual for that piece. trigger/confirmation And of course that's just like in any other question - clues that could apply to a lot of things are not helpful,...
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
- Replies: 122
- Views: 41755
Re: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
The Brindisi clue you cited is made more useful by the fact that the key is mentioned. This allows one to rule out the more famous first act Brindisi from La Traviata from the moment one hears the word Brindisi. Otherwise, one has to wait to find out stuff that rules out La Traviata at the end of t...
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
- Replies: 122
- Views: 41755
Re: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
Time to revive a dead topic. (This is because I'm writing music questions, if anyone was wondering.) How useful are key signatures, as clues for pieces? I don't have perfect pitch and there's about one key signature I can recognize from hearing it (A-flat major, overrepresented in coloratura arias) ...
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:53 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14748
Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History
Well, alternately there is just explaining them.Oh, I thought QBWiki was just for writing about what Charles Hang had for breakfast today.
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14748
Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History
someone make a QBWiki page about memes so n00bs know what this is all about, please
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: 2010 Chicago Open, Chicago, IL (July 23-25)
- Replies: 135
- Views: 46619
Re: Announcement: 2010 Chicago Open, Chicago, IL (July 23-25)
Seconding that request, I'd like to see how mine were edited. (...or one of the editors could send me an e-mail.)
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21696
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
Beezly Kiernan and Grace Chan appear to be joining us.
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21696
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
Playing with Kazim Panjwani; we'll probably scrounge up a couple of teammates.
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 116572
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
You've still got me on a team with Magin; I dropped out.
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open matchmaking thread
- Replies: 57
- Views: 16602
Re: Chicago Open matchmaking thread
I'm out of this tournament (due to scheduling and other concerns). I was going to be playing with Carsten Gehring, David Seal and Stephen Liu, and as I've nearly finished with my part of the packet, this spot would involve no writing.
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit 2010
- Replies: 124
- Views: 47350
Re: CO Lit 2010
I'm out; this leaves Ahmad Ragab without a teammate.
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 116572
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
I'm out; this leaves Jonathan Magin without a teammate.