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Could I see the Plague of Athens, Apollo, and The Police tossups please? Thanks! Responses to this event included a decree removing all tombs from Delos. An ambiguous prophecy about either a limos or a loimos was widely quoted during this event. A description of this event stating that "fear o...

The field for the 2024 MSNCT has been expanded to 160 teams.

The SLAM code can differentiate between populations of these cells. The homing of these cells localizes them to tissue that constitutively expresses E-selectin. Colony-forming units of these cells are stimulated by cytokines like M-CSF and G-CSF to proliferate. These CD34-positive cells are (*) abl...

Can I see the tossup about Yugoslavia please? After British forces refused a surrender, thousands of Axis collaborators being expelled back to this country were killed in the Bleiburg repatriations. The invasion of this country in the April War followed a coup that enthroned Peter II. Ante Pavelic ...

This man targeted Michael Meehan's "Radio Pool" as the first chairman of the SEC. This man declared "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here" while serving as ambassador to Britain in 1940. After the death of his namesake in Operation (*) Anvil, this man, who arranged a...

This man targeted Michael Meehan's "Radio Pool" as the first chairman of the SEC. This man declared "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here" while serving as ambassador to Britain in 1940. After the death of his namesake in Operation (*) Anvil, this man, who arranged a...

Could I see the tossups on denim and "Subterranean Homesick Blues"? Members of the Italian Parliament wore this fabric to protest the Supreme Court's 1999 overturning of a rape ruling because the victim wore a garment made of this fabric. Jacob Davis placed copper rivets along seams in an...

I resisted buzzing on the "South China" answerline for multiple clues because I had the conception that it was south of the Yangtze somehow, but also possibly still in the North Chinese plain and wasn't sure if we wanted the Yangtze delta, Jiangnan, etc. Finally buzzed on Deng's tour. Cou...

Could I see the tossup on Chazelle, please? A scientist with this surname created the soft heap and used it in an algorithm with inverse Ackermann function complexity that is the most efficient finder of minimum spanning trees. Computer scientist Bernard shares this surname with his son, who direct...

Can I see the tossup on the thirty tyrants? Forces controlled by this regime lost the Battle of Munychia during the Phyle Campaign. A member of this group, Theramenes, was accused of being a traitor and forced to drink hemlock by its leader, Critias. This group presided over (*) trials in the boule...

The sports questions, if not a little bland, seemed reasonably well written overall. I was curious though: what was the breakdown like for this category? It felt like there was a decent amount of baseball and basketball, but I don't recall any football questions other than 1 that only got played in...

The protest committee did end up accepting the descriptive answers for Mia Wallace. Civil War content: Battle of Franklin Confederacy and the UK Edwin Stanton reference in the leadin to the common link on the surname "Palmer" Jefferson C. Davis/March to the Sea/Modoc War Montgomery Meigs/F...

Could I see the tossup on Somalia? Thanks. This country prepares a bread called sabaayad that closely resembles Indian paratha . This country's cuisine uses a spice blend similar to garam masala that is called xawaash . Some street vendors in this country's cities of Kismayo and (*) Berbera sell lo...

I would like to see the Curtis LeMay tossup, as I found one of the clues somewhat confusing. In response to a question from Jack Nelson, this man spoke glowingly about island rats that were "fatter" and "healthier" than before. He supposedly once growled that his lit cigar "...

Could I see the tossups on Les Chants de Maldoror and the commonlink on The Emigrants ? A character in this book creates a pit filled with lice, which he then lets loose. This 19th-century book copies entries from Chenu's Encyclopedia of Natural History verbatim, illustrating its author's theory th...

I'd be grateful to whomever posts the Pan Tadeusz tossup. Near the end of this poem, a stirring dulcimer concert is given by a Jewish innkeeper. The cookbook Compendium ferculorum influenced the description of the great banquet that opens this poem's twelfth and final book, at which a notary propos...

Could someone post the Cherubini tossup, please? This composer wrote the aria "Del fiero duol" for an opera revived in 1953 as a vehicle for Maria Callas. This composer accidentally distributed his Song on the Death of Haydn five years before Haydn actually died. A fortissimo tam-tam stri...

Disclaimer:

If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)

This is your question-specific discussion for the 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT sets.

Disclaimer:

If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)

This is your question-specific discussion for the 2024 Division I ICT set.

Disclaimer:

If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)

This is your general discussion thread for the 2024 NAQT ICT.

Congratulations to Ali Hamzeh from the Kinkaid School of Houston, Texas, the champion of the 2024 NAQT Individual Player National Championship Tournament!

Complete statistics are now available.

Congratulations to the champions of the 2024 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament! Chicago A went undefeated to claim the Division I Overall title. Cornell A defeated Georgia Tech 250-240 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the Division I Undergraduate title. In Division II, Wat...

The field for the 2024 HSNCT has been expanded to 320 teams.

The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 260 players.

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NAQT is seeking additional staff for our three secondary championships this spring. Specifically: Small School National Championship Tournament (SSNCT, April 26–28) Middle School National Championship Tournament (MSNCT, May 10–12) High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT, May 24–26) The S...

The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2024 SSNCT has been expanded to 88 teams.

The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 250 players.

NAQT is seeking a person or persons to manage video, including livestreams, at its national championships. The video coordinator will be responsible for procuring, setting up, operating, and tearing down video equipment, and doing any other necessary things, for recording and livestreaming selected...

The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 230 players.

Congratulations to Chipola College (Marianna, Florida), who defeated Southern Union State Community College (Wadley, Alabama) 230-195 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the 2024 NAQT Community College Championship Tournament! Murray State College (Tishomingo, Oklahoma) finished third; ...

Results from the 2024 CCCT will be posted throughout the day.

The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 220 players.

Preliminary D-values for the 2024 SCT are now available (Division I, Division II). Please let us know if any corrections need to be made; we expect to issue invitations to the 2024 ICT in the next few days.

The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 200 players.

A private forum for the 2024 SCT is now available. From your user control panel, please select "Usergroups" and then request access to the group marked "2024 SCT Discussion."

Congratulations to Berkeley A, who cleared the field to win the 2024 Northern California SCT! Complete team and individual statistics are available on naqt.com . My thanks to Shahar Schwartz for assistance with the logistics of this tournament, and to all the Berkeley staff (Kelvin, Katerina, Grace,...

Check-in is at 8:30 am in 175 Social Sciences (ex-Barrows) (Berkeley campus map).

Could someone from Florida please contact NAQT directly as soon as possible to confirm question delivery for tomorrow's SCT? Thank you!

Update: this has been resolved; thank you!

Wildcard applications and standby signup for the 2024 HSNCT are now open.

Reminder that SCT registration closes for most sites today, January 26. If you haven't signed up already, now is the time to register your team!

I am pleased to announce that Berkeley Quiz Bowl will host the northern California site of the 2024 NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Location: This tournament will take place in-person at the UC Berkeley Social Sciences Building. Fees: Base fees: $160 base fee fo...

The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2024 SSNCT has been expanded to 77 teams.

NAQT has made some changes to the distribution for our college tournaments, starting with the 2024 SCT. Selected highlights: -Literature, science, and history now have the same top-level weight in the distribution -Additional space has been added to world history, which is now even with European his...

Our future championships page has been updated with the location of the 2025 HSNCT.

Wildcard applications and standby signup for the 2024 SSNCT are now open.

Wildcard applications and standby signup for the 2024 MSNCT are now open.

The University of Chicago will receive one writing autobid to the 2024 Division I ICT, in recognition of Matt Jackson's contributions to the 2024 Division I SCT set. Unlike a hosting autobid, this autobid cannot be dissolved.

The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2024 SSNCT has been expanded to 66 teams.

Andrew is correct: the records pages on naqt.com only rank statistics compiled on NAQT questions. (We sometimes record statistics from non-NAQT sets, most commonly in the case where "one division of a tournament uses our questions and the other uses a non-NAQT question provider," but we do...

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