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Forgive me if I am treading ground already covered in this discussion, but one thing I'd like to speak about from experience of being on a new team in the Upper Midwest circuit is that of transportation. Naturally, as a newly found club, we are not given as large a budget as other established progra...

Hey all! I know for all us, quiz bowl has made up a significant time commitment - be it in the form of writing, editing, studying, organizing, directing, etc. I was curious for my resume, what aspects I should highlight about quiz bowl to make sure it comes across as a vital activity and part of my ...

I have some friends here at university who would love to hear these questions! Do you have an idea when the set will be posted at all? We would be super grateful here! There's a chance we may do GOLBEZ as a trivia night with the local game dev community where I live, which is why I haven't posted i...

I have some friends here at university who would love to hear these questions! Do you have an idea when the set will be posted at all? We would be super grateful here!

What sentence length and distribution are you all looking at? I'd say for trivia nights, definitely one clue/sentence. We play with about 20 tables of roughly 8 people, so for our format, one clue works since there isn't enough time to stretch out every question. Distribution I wouldn't go crazy wi...

This is a really good idea! And probably more practical in a college setting than posting a flyer or going from classroom to classroom. I'd be very interested in doing this at VMI. Do you all write the questions yourselves or find them from the internet? If you write the questions what kind of dist...

Hello! I don't know a good place to do this, but I wanted to express that I would be interested in writing for any packet sets this year. I wrote for WHAQ III last year and I went through the PACE mentorship program in writing. I would love to be involved in any way, thanks!

Hello friends! I hope summer is going well for everyone! Up at Iowa, we have a freshman introduction week in August. Our Quiz Bowl team hosts a fun trivia night there, which is where I first met our team. Anyways, I see this as a big opportunity to get freshman talent and participation involved in o...

I think one could write some great bonuses in the Skyrim packet. Do you plan to upload the packets online afterwards? Yes! I do plan on uploading the packets. I would love to work together on writing the Skyrim questions and maybe we can make into a couple packets versus the oneshot I had in mind. ...

Hello adventurers of Pandora and Tamriel (sorry)! To practice question writing and to have some fun with two of my favorite titles, I'm currently in the process of writing a 20/20 packet about the Borderlands series in hype for the 3rd game with plans to make a similar packet for Skyrim content afte...

11/10 Tournament, I wish I had one of those Men-in-Black pens so I could play it again!

Finals stats have been uploaded to the hsquizbowl database!

Congratulations for WUSTL A for winning the tournament 8-1 and thus forgoing a final! Thank you to all the teams for coming out to our little shindig and we hope that we can support bigger and better tournaments next year. Thank you!

Eeeeeeeeek! It's live! It's live! The stats are live!

We are a little under two weeks if you are still interested!

Field (As of 3/01/2019):
WUSTL (1/1/3)
Northern Illinois University (1/0/0)
Truman State University (1/0/1)
Iowa (1/lots/1)

I'd love to play this sometime; as of now, I don't know my schedule for tournaments, but I'm down for an online tournament if I can't make any of the main sites.

I'm basically only good for like 2008-onwards, but I think all video game questions are fun!

I am sorry to announce, but due to insignificant interest this close to the date, we will have to cancel the Corn Bowl Invitational. I am sorry to the teams who signed up. However, with talking to teams who could not make it, the University of Iowa is going to work to create a more distance-accessib...

Hello! The University of Iowa Quiz Bowl Team is proud to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of Spartan Housewrite. This tournament will take place on Saturday, March 2rd, 2019 on the University of Iowa Campus in Iowa City. Logistics: We will begin checking in teams at 8:00 A.M. and then conti...

Hi Jonathan, I 100% support with Matt's post above. I think its important to create a good base from which newer players can enter a game rather than throwing them into the mix or forcing other players to slow down. With that being said, I highly recommend attending tournaments as much as possible. ...

Hello! I am trying to nail down Literature. I know it's a big endeavor, and I was wondering if you guys had any guidance on where to start. I understand rote memorization of author to title goes so far, but there's still a ton of other elements like details in works, common link, etc. that it feels ...

I am very excited to announce that this tournament will be a platinum qualifier for the 2019 PACE National Scholastic Championship from June 8-9. The top 25% of teams will be eligible to qualify for the PACE NSC in Washington, D.C. and will also receive $20 their entry fee!

Hobbie Klivian wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 05, 2018 3:40 pm

The TU on harmonica was also somewhat questionable, and I am not sure if any music player could have converted it before the clues on glass harmonica.

For what its worth, Olivia Kiser from UChicago first lined this question.

Current Field (0/18): (January 2nd, 2018)
Waukee (2/1/1)*
Waitlist:


* = 100 Mile Eligible

Hello! The University of Iowa Quiz Bowl Team is proud to announce the first ever Corn Bowl Invitational. This tournament will take place on Saturday, January 19th, 2019 on the University of Iowa Campus in Iowa City. This tournament will be open to all high school and middle school teams. Logistics: ...

A few months ago, I considered translating a few SCOP Novice packets into Spanish. To summarize the discussion over on the Missouri Quiz Bowl forum, there are two big differences that would need to be accounted for in order to transfer quizbowl to a non-American or non-English environment. One, is t...

Unfortunately it seems we won’t be able to read this event this weekend. An online mirror date will be set soon. If there are any dates that work particularly well for you, please post those in this thread. Sometime after July 2nd works best for me, I don't have a specific date in mind though so wh...

When is a tentative date you would like applications in by? I'm very much interested in applying.

Hello, I'd like to revisit this thread since I'm writing some HS questions with powermarks. So, for each question I have, do I need to have like a definite point (not necessarily a cliff) where the question transitions from 15 point material to 10, as referencing the Ethan Frome example from above?...

Hello, I'd like to revisit this thread since I'm writing some HS questions with powermarks. So, for each question I have, do I need to have like a definite point (not necessarily a cliff) where the question transitions from 15 point material to 10, as referencing the Ethan Frome example from above? ...

Hi! I love listening to the podcasts on the NAQT website and I appreciate that they're much easier to access, analyze scores about, and then link to other pages regarding teams, players, etc. Thank you!