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Can I see the Boise State tossup and the Shinto shrines tossup, as well as the bonus on amoebas please? I'm also curious as to whether torii gates could've been accepted/prompted prior to their mention in the Shinto shrines tossup. Thank you so much! This school went undefeated in 2006 under coach ...

also can I get the subduction, willie mays, Australia music bonus, the ananias/sapphira bonus, the blues bonus, the All Progressives Congress clue (didn't remember what the answer was on that, but it was in the final packets), the FBI and the School Vouchers tu please? Thank you so much! This ...

For the record, we would very much welcome substantive discussion of the HSNCT (about both the merits of specific questions, and the set and tournament as a whole), in addition to requests for question text. One bit of feedback that I would give for specific political parties: you should be allowed ...

For the record, we would very much welcome substantive discussion of the HSNCT (about both the merits of specific questions, and the set and tournament as a whole), in addition to requests for question text.

sorry I shoulda put this in the OP but can I see Travis Scott TU and The Office TU (might've been like Michael Scott idk) A song by this artist that featured singer Kacy Hill was paired with a stop-motion music video centering on an action figure of him that also appeared on the cover of his debut ...

NAQT will be considering contract-writer applications from June 1 until July 31. Prospective writers must be at least 18 years old when they apply. Applicants who will turn 18 between August 1 and October 31 (inclusive) of the year they apply may submit an application in June or July, specifying ...

Can I see Wolves, Millay, Afghanistan, Benet, Sweden, German Navy tossups? Thanks In 2020 one of these animals dubbed OR-85 was spotted with a mate in Siskiyou County in northern California. These animals' EPC cells were edited with CRISPR to produce three babies named Khaleesi, (*) Romulus, and ...

Can I see the NYC mayor, West Virginia, Vikings, Lula, the LDP tossup pls? Also wanna see the Arkansas CE bonus, and the NH bonus. A candidate for this office proposed creating a "Mom and Pops Czar" to cut fines and application fees for small businesses by 50 percent. DSA member Zohran Mamdani is ...

May I see the France and Mexico tossup, the South Africa tossup(From Round 9 or 10), and the Bhutan tossup? This country's main east-west highway, the Lateral Road, travels from the town of Trashigang to Phuntsholing. This country's Paro Valley is overlooked by a cliffside monastery known as the ...

Hi, could I please see the tossups on Iceland (r17) and thumb (r20), thanks so much for a great set! An artist from this country used Locrian mode in a song noting "if you complain once more / you'll meet an army of me." A band from this country released the 2023 album Átta and is led by Jónsi. The ...

May I see the tossup on Peru, Papua New Guinea, Nude Descending a Staircase, Boccaccio, Death and the King's Horseman, and stars (round 18)? In both 1937 and 1994 a volcano leveled this country's town of Rabaul on its island of New Britain. In what is now this country's city of Lae, Amelia Earhart ...

Could I please see the North Carolina, Grandmother, linear, and Rocketman tossups? Thank you. In February 2025 an Amazon warehouse in this state overwhelmingly voted against unionizing. Truist, FirstCitizens, and Bank of America are all based in this state, which contains the U.S.'s second-largest ...

Can I see the tossups on Ezra Pound, monetary, Zombies, and the Bahamas? The second section of a poem by this author opens "Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one 'Sordello.'" This poet described his struggle to "resuscitate the dead art" in an 18-part work that includes an "ode for ...

Could I see the solar panels tossup, the count of monte cristo tossup, the boeing 747 tossup, the sisyphus tossup, the garcia lorca tossup, the microsoft tossup, the lady lazarus tossup, the fact checking tossup, the kawabata tossup, and the red chief tossup, as well as the r24 bonus whose first ...

Can I see the Coco Gauff, ionizing radiation, and Jones tossups? This woman beat Poland's Iga Swiatek in the final of the 2025 United Cup. In an upset, this woman lost a quarterfinal to Paula Badosa at the 2025 Australian Open. At the 2024 Olympic (*) opening ceremony, LeBron James carried the U.S ...

Could I see the Intifada tossup, the Daoism bonus (r23 i think), and the Eurovision bonus (r16 i think)? Thanks! A man venerated by this religion dreamed of being prime minister while cooking his yellow millet. For 10 points each— A. Name this religion that celebrates the Eight Immortals. A p ...

Could I see the tossups on Younger (R8), Attucks (R10), South Africa (R10), Intifadas (R11), France and Mexico (R12), Vlad the Impaler (R13), King Philip's War (R14), Cambodia (R16), Draco (R18), "We Can Do It!" (R21), Sundiata (R21), and Peru (R24)? A member of this family claims the death of her ...

Thanks for a great set this year. Could I see the meristem, urea, hilbert, Gödel incompleteness theorem, velocity, metabolic rate, stegosaurus, arithmetic and geometric mean, de morgan, and boise state tus KNOX genes maintain these tissues, such as a type containing a quiescent center adjacent to a ...

Thanks for a great set and a great tournament. I thought the lit was generally very difficult, at least compared to past years. I especially thought that the tossups on Thomas Wolfe (R29 I believe) and Trollope (R20) were very difficult but I did enjoy playing both of them especially since Thomas ...

Can I see the "speed-running", "magritte", "E=mc^2", (Sunday morning, all from the same round), TUs, "mies" and "brazil" TUs from round 24? JSR trained his dog Peanut Butter to do this activity for Gyromite . YouTube documentaries by Summoning Salt trace the history of this activity in various ...

Can I see the Ron Santo TU (i think that's what the answerline was anyways) and the dimensions TU? For 10 points each—answer the following about baseball players who starred on the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox: A. After playing for both teams, Clark Griffith became the owner of this city's ...

Could I see the TUs on Prague (some morning round), Iowa (don't remember), Stacy's Mom (some morning round), Slovakia (don't remember), and Zambia (some Sunday morning round)? The longest escalators in the E.U. are in this city's Námestí Míru subway station. In 2000 this city's high-tech style Žižko ...

Thanks for a great nats and question set. Could I see the tossups on Iraq (R30), German Requiem (R28), Sicily (I think from R26), trumpet (R18), Cello (R25), mephistopheles (R4), birth of buddha (R4), and Elisha (R29). Could I also see the bonus set on #24 from round 7 and idk if it’s possible, but ...

Could I see the tossup on Clairo from Round 24 please? This artist sang "you make me wanna slip off a new dress" in a 2024 song that ends with her performing the "mouth trumpet." This artist of "Juna" was controversially labelled an "industry plant" after the success of her 2017 single (*) "Pretty ...

Can I see the Banksy's name TU & the interpretations of quantum mechanics TU? This information was speculated to be revealed by a March 2024 photo of a man in a black Nike hoodie climbing over a fence. Simon Hattenstone likely learned this information during a 2003 interview in which a man said the ...

This is your question-specific discussion thread for the 2025 NAQT HSNCT. Standard disclaimers: If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2025 HSNCT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (We have received proposals for both Canadian and mid-Atlantic mirrors of the HSNCT set this ...

Congratulations to Livingston High School (Livingston, New Jersey), who defeated Northview High School (Johns Creek, Georgia) 455-195 in a one-game final to win the 2025 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament! Wade Hampton High School (Greenville, South Carolina) finished third; B. Reed ...

The questions will be released to official coaches within a week or so. Please note that the MSNCT question set is not clear for public discussion (we have at least one summer event that will be using this set).

Congratulations to Smith Middle School of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the champions of the 2025 MSNCT! Smith defeated Coppell Middle School West (Dallas, Texas) 370-235 in the first game of an advantaged final. Meyzeek Middle School (Louisville, Kentucky) claimed third place with a 490-190 win over ...

Congratulations to the champions of the 2025 NAQT Small School National Championship Tournament! In the Traditional Public Schools Division, West Point A (Cullman, Alabama) defeated Hastings (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) 400-360 in the second game of an advantaged final. Morris A (Oklahoma) was our ...

The field for the 2025 HSNCT has been expanded to 336 teams. We will consider the possibility of expanding to 352 teams if there is sufficient demand.

Could I also see the tossups on The Tempest , Mickey Mouse (sports) and the Vegas Golden Knights ? In a retelling of this play, a "battle song" for Shango is sung by a character who names himself "X." Fancy clothes distract three pursuers in this play's fourth act, in which Juno, Iris, and Ceres ...

Can I see the art question about Germany, the literature tossup on Spanish, and the tossups on Curling and Euphoria please? An artist from this country painted himself in uniform with a severed right hand in Self-Portrait as a Soldier . An art movement founded in this country in 1905 included the ...

Could I see the tossup on The Winter's Tale ? Late in this play, a man says "if this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating" after noticing a woman is "warm." Its fourth act opens with a monologue by "Time," announcing the passage of 16 years. In this play, Leontes suspects an (*) affair ...

Jazmine Sullivan TU, Michael K. Williams TU, The Dark Knight Returns bonus, Gillian Anderson TU, Dig Dug TU, 110-meter hurdle TU Okay I've got to see this Dig Dug tossup! Yuriko Keino's inability to make a walking sound for this game led to its catchy movement jingle. The most independently ...

YesYouMayNot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 10:18 am Could I see conversion data on the Ma vlást TU? (round 4 of IPNCT, round like 9-10 of ICT DII)

6/9/3 in 16 rooms.

Can I see the tossup on the "Old Manse?" Upon renting this building, Sophia Peabody carved the line "Man's accidents are God's purposes" into a windowpane. While living in this building, an author wrote a story in which Aylmer's wife dies after a splotch fades from her face. This ancestral home of ...

May I see the aforementioned Loach bonus, the Wong Kar-Wai bonus (with part pineapples), and Heraclitus bonus (with part "the way up and the way down"). In addition, I'd love to see the "Euphoria" tossup. For 10 points each—answer the following about winners of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or: ...

The repeated eigendirection problem affects techniques for decreasing this quantity, such as diffusion maps, which decrease this quantity by finding manifolds. The Kullback-Leibler divergence between two distributions with different values of this quantity is minimized in (*) t-SNE, decreasing this ...

I perceived contemporary film questions as being uniformly easy, with the second line of The Substance tossup being buzzable by a savvy player from the trailer and the hard parts on two directors that got a ton of limelight during this past awards season, Mohammad Rasoulof (though I did manage to ...

This writing system was used to create a simple lunar calendar on the Mamari tablet, according to Thomas Barthel, who grouped its characters using a three-digit system. The fluting of objects such as the Aruku Kurenga, which features this writing system, may have attempted to mimic the rule-like ...

Oh I remember what the criticism was after reading the D2 discussion thread. I disagree with NAQT putting before/after directives after the answer they refer to. For example: answer: Minerva (accept Pallas ; before "what Roman," accept Pallas Athena ; after "what Roman," reject "Athena" or "Pallas ...

Could I see the David Hume tossup? A chapter on morality by this philosopher contrasts our reactions to a tree overtopping its parent and to a human committing parricide. This philosopher remarked that morality was "more properly felt than judg'd of" in a book that relates "impressions" and ...

A letter to William Pearce about these people denounces "night walking." These people, including the subject of a newspaper advertisement named Ona Judge, were systematically "rotated" to avoid residing in Philadelphia for six continuous months. These approximately 300 people included the ...

Stinkweed Imp wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 6:38 pm Could I see the conversion data (if available) on the Mildred Dresselhaus tossup?

1/1/1 in four rooms.

In a city in this country, people can traverse Cerro Alegre using 16 ascensores , or funicular lifts. A port in this country—destroyed by an earthquake four months after San Francisco in 1906—boomed from serving miners en route to California before becoming a (*) nitrate shipping hub. This country's ...

In Roman Britain, this goddess was syncretized with the Celtic goddess Sulis and worshipped at Bath. She was the youngest member of the Capitoline Triad, alongside Jupiter and Juno. In the sixth book of the Metamorphoses , this goddess answers a (*) challenge from a talented mortal weaver and ...

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=1405310 There was apparently a nasty procedural protest in this game which I would like to know more about. Semifinals from IPNCT though I'm not sure what question. Maybe someone else can elaborate. This was a "should have been prompted ...

CPiGuy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 1:23 pm Was the tossup on Budapest from Finals 2 a downconvert?

No, that tossup was Division II-only.

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If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2025 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2025.)

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