The Quizbowl Resource Center

Hi everyone! For the past few years, the Purdue University Quiz Bowl Team has had a semesterly tradition we call the Housewrite Catastrophe. Each semester, every member of the club is invited to write questions of any quality, difficulty, amount, and subject they want. At our last meeting of the sem...

A third update: we have secured enough rooms to raise the field to 16 teams, and registration will close this Saturday, December 4th. The initial post has been updated to reflect these two changes.

Another update: we are raising the field cap to 14 teams, and we are not planning to raise it any further. As of now, we have 13 teams signed up, so make sure to register soon if you want to play.

The Purdue University Quiz Bowl Team is hosting the 6th Annual Boilermaker Buzzathon tournament in-person for Indiana high schools on December 11th, 2021. Please see this post for more details.

The Purdue University Quiz Bowl Team is excited to announce the 6th annual Boilermaker Buzzathon: a regular-season quiz bowl tournament for high-school teams in the state of Indiana. This tournament will be held in-person on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus on December 11th, 2021 . The Tour...

Big thank you to everyone who played and staffed this tournament over the weekend! Congrats to Missouri S&T for clearing the field and claiming their victory in this tournament.

Stats have been uploaded here.

DavidB256 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:22 pm Who are the editors for this set?

The editing duties will be split between Sarah Benner, Lalit Maharjan, and myself.

The Purdue University Quiz Bowl Team is happy to announce Boilermaker Spring Novice, a successor to last year’s Spring Novice written by current and former members of Purdue Quiz Bowl, intended for playing in Spring 2022. This tournament will match the style and difficulty of previous Spring Novice ...

Reminder that the registration deadline is coming up on Wednesday! The current field is:

Illinois A
Illinois B
Indiana
Missouri S&T
Notre Dame A
Notre Dame B
Notre Dame C
Purdue A
Purdue B

Arabidopsis failiana wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:15 am

maharhar17 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:53 am Purdue's quiz bowl team is currently working on a spring novice for next year. We'll post a forum announcement soon.

Is this happening? Are there any plans for a spring novice this year?

This is happening, and we should have a forum post out this week about it.

Unfortunately, due to an obligation I cannot get out of, I am no longer able to TD for this mirror. For this and other reasons, we are canceling this site. I apologize for the inconvenience and for any teams who were waiting for the last minute to register. The overflow sites at NYU and Yale should ...

I am pleased to announce that the Midwest Overflow site of 2021 ACF Winter will be held at Purdue on Saturday, November 6, 2021. The tournament will take place on Zoom. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 ET and gameplay will begin at 9:00 ET. I, Quynh Phung, will be the tournament director. Plea...

The Purdue Quiz Bowl Team is excited to announce that we are hosting the Midwest site of the 2021 edition of NAQT's Collegiate Novice Series on October 30th, 2021 . The field is currently capped at 12 teams , subject to expansion given an appropriate number of staffers and buzzers. Eligibility This ...