The Quizbowl Resource Center

The main reason CBI as an institution was able to get that kind of faculty support is that faculty and administrators still remembered G. E. College Bowl. That show generated a lot of grant money, as well as institutional prestige to the winning teams. College Bowl had returned to syndicated ...

Buzzer Beaters: The Story of It’s Academic is a documentary in production about the Guinness World Record holder for longest running TV quiz show in history.* Both fans and alumni may be interested, and they’ve created a FB group for player alumni in order to collect their stories. The film is sho ...

While not exactly quiz bowl, the 1966 GE College bowl championships are about as big of an upset as it gets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtcG_1jhJw&t=0s A famous match, indeed! Princeton is Captained by Steve Chernicoff, who became a five-time Jeopardy! Champion in 1994, made it to the ...

The Meow Meow Rebellion that destroyed the Usenet Group began in late 1995 or 1996, not 1992 as the original poster said. Alt.college.college-bowl itself only came into existence in the Spring of 1993. And the quiz bowl social media story after 1996 gets rather complicated. There was the move to ...

The earliest packet submission tournaments I know about happened in the 1963-64 season, and a “Conference Championship happened in 1964-1965, also packet submission. There well could have been earlier ones; and I can document discussions about holding one that date back to the mid-1950’s. The big ...

I saw a buzzer on fire at a tournament at, if memory serves me right, Johns Hopkins in the ‘93-94 season. The earliest quiz bowl buzzer use I can find is the October 17, 1953 episode of NBC’s College Quiz Bowl - and it was the announcer in each of the two rooms who had them; the players raised their ...

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I also did not have any success searching the 1991 portion of the alt.college.college-bowl Usenet archives on Google Groups. That group came into existence in the Spring of 1993, and lasted about two years until the Meow Meow Rebellion, with occasional attempts to revive it afterwards. It won’t h ...