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- Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Novice/Trash at Tulane (Nov. 12-13)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6756
Re: Novice/Trash at Tulane (Nov. 12-13)
If Rice brings a team, can we get a moderator discount?
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lower South MAGNI Mirror
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2600
Lower South MAGNI Mirror
Rice University will host a mirror of MAGNI. Saturday, October 29. It is a regular difficulty college tournament. Logistics: The tournament will be held in the Humanities building located on the Academic Quad. Teams should meet in Room 120 of the Humanities building. Signs will be posted. Registrati...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to Become a Good Science Player
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11901
Re: How to Become a Good Science Player
There is no mention of physiology (probably because of the overlap), but I found that Vander's Physiology to be a good textbook. Also, we used "The Immune System" by Parham for my immunology class. It has worked well for me for quiz bowl, and is not very big. I would recommend Guyton for ...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Human Bio
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7322
Re: Human Bio
Writers and editors often tailor questions with the intended field in mind. There are maybe 5 people currently in quizbowl who have any kind of exposure to "nutrition" or "nursing" classes, compared to the much larger set of people with a decent exposure to "biology." ...
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Lone Star State (Texas) 2011-2012
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19842
Re: Lone Star State (Texas) 2011-2012
The students have really been enjoying the camp. They have told me that they have learned a lot from the guided practices, classes, and scrimmages. Most importantly, they've been having fun. Everybody's been making new friends and making good use of their pockets of free time. Although some of the y...
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Region 12 SCT at Rice University - 2/5/11
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2777
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Region 12 SCT at Rice University - 2/5/11
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2777
Re: Region 12 SCT at Rice University - 2/5/11
As you stated, registration begins at 9 and matches at 9:45. Matches will be held in Rayzor Hall, which is located on the Academic Quad. A map of campus can be found here: http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html Facing the Sallyport (the huge archway), Rayzor Hall is the building to the back right of the...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Texas (2/21/10)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3348
Re: ACF Regionals Texas (2/21/10)
LASA won. Other than that, I have no idea what the standings were off the top of my head.grapesmoker wrote:Did this tournament, like, happen and stuff?
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT schedule discussion
- Replies: 76
- Views: 14326
Re: ICT schedule discussion
...13 rounds is quite a feat... How many rounds did you play at your SCT site? We got through 13 rounds with a long lunch break and ended before 4. Anyways, while I think the arguments could have been expressed in a gentler way, there are some of us who have lab work (read as: really expensive thin...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37371
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
Hannah, any further thoughts on mitochondria and malaria? Though this isn't that great of an excuse, those were two of the very few bio questions originating from others, and I had way less time to write/edit than I would have liked this year (going back to like July...). Sure, although be forewarn...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Access to SCT discussion forum
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9931
Re: Access to SCT discussion forum
fluffy4102 = Zach Yeung
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:04 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Good Tournament Directors/Organizers?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11544
Re: Good Tournament Directors/Organizers?
Save two moderator-caused disasters, all of the tournaments that I have attended run by Chris have ended before 5.The Atom Strikes! wrote:Chris Romero is a scarily efficient tournament director.
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PENN BOWL: Difficulty Swings
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5337
Re: Difficulty Swings
Second, The Wild Duck bonus was mentioned in the other thread, but I think it deserves a mention here: the third part was Haakon Werle and Haakon was required (I assume) as Werle was mentioned in the question. But, Haakon's name appears as such twice in the play to my knowledge (I checked this with...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PENN BOWL: So, discussion?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7214
Re: So, discussion?
Yeah, that would be more clear.Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote: ETA: In retrospect, I should have included that Leon Fleisher had specialized in perfoming these particular pieces, seeing as how he notably couldn't use his right hand for 40 years or so. Would that have helped?
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PENN BOWL: So, discussion?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7214
Re: So, discussion?
The tossup on piano concerti for the left hand was a bit sketchy in my opinion. I might be just bitter since I buzzed in early with piano concerto and got negged.
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT South SCT (Region 12)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2002
Re: NAQT South SCT (Region 12)
At this point, it might end up be a triple round robin. UT and A&M have yet to sign up, but they'll probably field teams.DarkMatter wrote:More teams sign up! Pretty please?
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT South SCT (Region 12)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2002
Re: NAQT South SCT (Region 12)
Location: Teams should meet in Room 120 of the Humanities building. Signs will be posted. Teams should arrive by 8:45. Parking: The closest and most convenient parking is in the Founder's Court Visitors lots. These lots are most easily accessed through Entrance 1 and are the first parking lots visib...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter discussion
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16517
Re: ACF Winter discussion
i'm a bit disappointed by the biology. why are we asking for _G-protein-coupled-receptor_ when most of the clues points to the very much canonical _G-protein_? very early in that question, it was clear the answer is G-protein, but i was negged, and i presume others as well. I think the question sai...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter discussion
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16517
Re: ACF Winter discussion
Well, questions on things like quorum sensing may be fun for experienced people (and others in the know), but at a regular difficulty tournament, I think you still need plenty of tossups on revisited-many-times-over topics like cell organelles, standard chemical functional groups, etc. to make sure...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where is the line between "literature" and "trash"?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8008
Re: Where is the line between "literature" and "trash"?
However, some could claim that these questions find a better fit in the religion distribution.AlphaQuizBowler wrote:Would these really frustrate literature players? As long as you don't write on Narnia, there are a lot of Lewis works that would make enjoyable tossups.theMoMA wrote:tossups on C.S. Lewis
- Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2010 at UPenn (1/30/10)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 29416
Re: Penn Bowl 2010 at UPenn (1/30/10)
Rice is considering attending. Regardless, we'll have a packet by next week.
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Round Report on Stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12556
Re: Round Report on Stats
Virtual Box + copy of windows 7 (30 bucks for students)dinoian wrote:But significantly more expensive. I actually think using his system is easier than SQBS; there is no coding involved from the user, and stats can be entered from any computer with an internet connection.
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22238
Re: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
So, now I am no longer sure what your point is: are we then in agreement on the fact that saying "a pair of horns in this piece was supposed to recapitulate a theme in C major" is inaccurate? Because the point of my writing that was to say that the idea that the horns is what Beethoven wa...
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22238
Re: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
Also, I would appreciate feedback on the music Some oddities in the two Beethoven tossups. From the Beethoven's Fifth tossup in the Chattahoochee packet: A pair of horns in this piece was supposed to recapitulate a theme in C major, but was replaced by its composer in that section by bassoons. This...
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science writing for non-scientists
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9024
Re: Science writing for non-scientists
An addendum to Jerry's list of good references: Silberberg (really comprehensive) for intro general chem Vollhardt for intro organic chemistry March's Advanced Organic Chemistry for the harder organic chemistry McQuarrie and Simon for physical chemistry Lehninger's Principles of Biochemistry Albert...
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22238
Re: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
Apart from shortest-path algorithms (which is really as much a discrete math thing as a CS thing anyway), every CS concept that was asked about this tournament, apart from one hard part in a trees bonus, had come up in my AP Computer science course in high school. I think that a knowledge of first-...
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22238
Re: ACF Fall 2009 Discussion
In general, I felt for many packets, the history was not distributed in regards to time period. Besides the packet with the tossup/bonus on stuff related to the 30 Year's War, another packet had a tossups on Winter War and Casablanca Conference. That just doesn't seem to be very well distributed to...
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KLEE Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3440
Re: KLEE Discussion
Wasn't In Nomine mostly used for instrumental music, and thus not in the running as an answer to a question that talks about a bunch of choral music? Yeah, it was mostly instrumental consort music. I didn't realize that the question was calling for a choral work specifically. I misread it as piece ...
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KLEE Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3440
Re: KLEE Discussion
I forgot to mention that the In Nomine setting uses a segment of the plainchant cantus firmus from Taverner's Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas. I'm not sure if that's helpful.
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KLEE Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3440
Re: KLEE Discussion
I think that question was probably OK on balance because I don't think a TON of non-music people know what L'Homme Arme is. The way Renaissance masses would sometimes work is that they would pick a "cantus firmus" line to derive musical material from, which was usually something from a po...
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 186
- Views: 28134
Re: EFT Discussion
While we had an interesting bonus part that described ethers as "molecules characterized by two alkyl groups bonded to a hydrogen atom," this was a good set that was pretty accessible. Did anybody else notice the pervasiveness of questions related to South Africa? Someone had just watched...
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 186
- Views: 28134
Re: EFT Discussion
While we had an interesting bonus part that described ethers as "molecules characterized by two alkyl groups bonded to a hydrogen atom," this was a good set that was pretty accessible. Did anybody else notice the pervasiveness of questions related to South Africa?
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Discussion of Chemicals
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2451
Re: Discussion of Chemicals
On the topic of biochemistry, I'm more inclined to distribute a question as defined by the question itself, not just based on the fact that it's a chemical species. Granted that a good question on proline would involve some mechanistic aspect, protein folding and its function in antibodies is obviou...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: TQBA Houston Holiday Hoedown
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1500
TQBA Houston Holiday Hoedown
The Texas Quiz Bowl Alliance will hold the Houston Holiday Hoedown on Saturday, December 6, 2008. The format is untimed NAQT with 10 Tossup-Bonus pairs per half. 5 matches are guaranteed. We will be restricting the field at 48 teams with Varsity and JV divisions. For registration contact Chris Romer...
- Mon May 26, 2008 3:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT HSNCT Question Discussion
- Replies: 87
- Views: 17516
Re: NAQT HSNCT Question Discussion
Give the ethnicities of the following leaders,
"Joseph Stalin from Georgia" or something along those lines...
Everybody was going "WTF?"
Either that or the reader accidentally slipped. We just found it strange.
"Joseph Stalin from Georgia" or something along those lines...
Everybody was going "WTF?"
Either that or the reader accidentally slipped. We just found it strange.
- Mon May 19, 2008 12:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: HSNCT Classical Name-That-Tune, 5/23/08
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4566
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: HSNCT Classical Name-That-Tune, 5/23/08
BTW I'm Zach Yeung.yoda4554 wrote: Fluffy from Texas
- Thu May 08, 2008 12:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: HSNCT Classical Name-That-Tune, 5/23/08
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4566
Re: HSNCT Classical Name-That-Tune?
Sounds like fun.
- Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Senior Destinations 2008
- Replies: 103
- Views: 23178
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: (Correct) Answers that made you hang your head in shame.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 20157
Re: (Correct) Answers that made you hang your head in shame.
Wizards after "Little is known about alatar and pallando, the blue"cornfused wrote:There is no shame, only points.
Or in this case, bragging.
I completely agree.
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 07-08 Midseason Poll
- Replies: 57
- Views: 58632
Re:
- Saint John's (TX) lost sometime in the playoffs in the TQBA Houston tournament, so they aren't actually undefeated, but I don't have any decisive data on when they lost or to whom. The team they lost to was Lyndon Baines Johnson A (a.k.a. LASA A). http://www.texasquizbowl.org/ Actually St. John's...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: College Destinations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4480
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Worst Match Ever
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13895
- Tue May 08, 2007 3:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl vs. Quizbowl
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9064
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: TQBA Texas NAQT State Championship (4/21/07)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2453
- Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT IS?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11052
- Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354850
- Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354850
- Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prompts
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7049
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Favorite Readers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9521
- Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad moderating
- Replies: 60
- Views: 29164