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Congratulations to the champions of the 2024 Bay Area Fall Novice Tournament! In the high school division, Oakland College Prep defeated Bellarmine 310-295 in the second game of an advantaged final. In the middle school division, Churchill A went undefeated to claim the title. Complete team and indi...

Hi I’m also late but could I see the tu’s on Naipaul (21), Chile (21), Mistral (24), Cummings (24), Byron (24), Maupassant (23), Thomas (21), Herrick (21), Pangloss (22), Lamb(19-20), Brecht (19-20), and Coleridge (2-3) This author reworked historical material from his The Loss of El Dorado into a ...

Sorry, I'm kinda late but can I see the glycene and Death Valley tossups from Rd 26?? The poison strychnine binds to the same ligand-gated chloride channels as this amino acid. This amino acid is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter of the brain stem and spinal cord. This amino acid occupies eve...

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2024 High School National Championship Tournament.

Welcome back to a new year of quiz bowl! NAQT's "welcome to the year" page for coaches of high school and middle school quiz bowl teams has information to prepare you for a new season, including details about local tournaments and NAQT's national championships! The page also provides infor...

Welcome back to a new year of quiz bowl! NAQT's "welcome to the year" page for coaches of high school and middle school quiz bowl teams has information to prepare you for a new season, including details about local tournaments and NAQT's national championships! The page also provides infor...

ShimmeringDroplet wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:37 pm (despite what the NAQT site says in the table, all fees are in CAD)

I just fixed this; please let us know if anything else needs adjustment.

The 2024 version of our Rising Freshmen Contact List is now available.

NAQT works to ensure that quiz bowl is a safe, welcoming, fair, and respectful activity for everyone and expects all participants to do the same. We have introduced an Honor Code that governs participation in all tournaments using NAQT questions (regardless of whether they use NAQT gameplay rules). ...

NAQT works to ensure that quiz bowl is a safe, welcoming, fair, and respectful activity for everyone and expects all participants to do the same. We have introduced an Honor Code that governs participation in all tournaments using NAQT questions (regardless of whether they use NAQT gameplay rules). ...

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2024–2025 season . Gameplay Rules We made it a requirement that all protests be lodged before either team’s captain and either team’s official coach has left the game room. We made it a requirement that protests regarding regulation...

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2024–2025 season . Gameplay Rules We made it a requirement that all protests be lodged before either team’s captain and either team’s official coach has left the game room. We made it a requirement that protests regarding regulation...

Just a quick reminder that Wednesday, July 31st is the last day to submit a writer application to NAQT this summer. We've received a number of promising applications and would be thrilled to receive more!

Could I see the Ken and Barbie (It was round 17-18 I think) Swarzschild (Same Round) Conservation of Energy (24) Cosmic Ray (20) Torricelli (7) Dirac (21) Justice (16) Conjugate (16) Collisions (8-10 I think) Adiabatic (Same Round) Convection (9) Magnetic Monopoles (4) and Zimbardo (24) A Drosophil...

Could i see the TUs on Satie (R24), John Williams (R6), and Chagall (R20)? This composer included three "decorative themes" in his incidental music for Josephin Peladan's play The Son of the Stars . This composer gave one piano work the tempo marking "Lent et douloureux," or &qu...

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 th...

Could I see the JMW Turner tossup and the Goya tossup (both of which from round 7), Robert Browning, Meleager, and Tsar (from Round 15), and Eliza Doolittle (Round 1)? Thanks so much. In 2023 a 25,000-pound award named for this person went to Jesse Darling, partly for No Medals, No Ribbons . Since ...

Could I also see the questions for Peter Grimes, Czech, Olmec, Balzac, and Venezuelan presidents? In this opera, the gossipy "Nabob" arranges to buy laudanum at the Boar tavern. The word "silk" is highly-ornamented in this opera's "Embroidery Aria," in which an anchor ...

Can I please see the NYC Draft Riots, War and Peace, and Electron Microscopy TUs? All from r25. In this event, Henry Jarvis Raymond defended his newspaper office with Gatling guns. The Plug Uglies and other Baltimore gangs traveled to join this event. Participants in it burned down the Colored Orph...

Could I see the tossups on Aaron Rodgers and Vector? Thanks! In 2024 this man falsely claimed Jimmy Kimmel was a client of Jeffrey Epstein during an episode of The Pat McAfee Show . In a 2020 game against the Bears, this man completed a TD to Robert Tonyan to reach 50,000 career passing yards. This...

can i see the paleontology bonus from Round 18? i believe it involved Baryonyx For 10 points each—answer these questions about dinosaurs named for their huge claws: A. John Ostrom's 1960s study of what larger relative of Velociraptor , whose name means "terrible claw," helped popularize t...

Would love to see the Mesozoic fossil discoveries in Mongolia toss-up. One of my son's favorite documentaries as a small boy was "Dinosaurs Alive!" and getting to hear several clues from the documentary in quiz-bowl-toss-up form was a treat for both me and my daughter. The dinosaur Pinaco...

Can I see the tossups on the Zapruder Film, waves in fine art, French-Canadians, and harpooners from Moby Dick? CBS producer Don Hewitt allegedly told Dan Rather to punch this work's creator and steal it. A now-missing creation by Orville Nix shows a different angle than this work. This work's &quo...

Can I see the question on Drake and 21 Savage? Arthur Kar delivers the outro of a song by these two artists that notes "I come from the ghetto, so my trunk is in my hood." These two artists were sued for parodying Vogue in ads for an album that included "On BS." One of these rap...

Can I see the red giants, Guru Nanak, altitude, index of refraction, and absorbance tossups? Many of these bodies ascend a namesake "branch" and then move onto the horizontal branch when they begin the triple-alpha process. These bodies in spectral types K and M shed their outer layers to...

could I see the Michelangelo tu please? This sculptor showed a roughly-carved monkey behind the legs of a nude man who touches his chest with his right hand and holds the back of his head with his left. A seated, bearded man sculpted by this artist has a feature based on a mistranslation of the wor...

Could I see the tossups on ethylene, Hungary, the Charlotte Hornets, shipwrecks, and Grey? An acid known as ACC is rapidly converted to this compound when it is needed. This compound mediates the "triple response" that allows plants to grow around obstacles. High concentrations of this co...

Could I see the tossup on text editors? Bram Moolenaar created one of these programs that added features such as folding and swap files to its predecessor. To exit one of these programs, the user must press "Escape," and then type "colon Q." Examples of these programs include (*...

Can I see the Philip Sheridan tu and Shanghai tu, thanks. This general dispatched Wesley Merritt to eliminate Mosby's Rangers in the "Burning Raid." This man controversially sacked Gouverneur Warren during the Battle of Five Forks, during which he forced the evacuation of Petersburg. This...

Can I see the Marti tu, The Gold bug tu, the Boston Afa Tu, The Glass Menagerie tu, and Marcus smart bonus :D This poet described his verse as a "gentle green" and a "flaming red" in a poem that opens "If you've seen a mount of sea foam." This poet praised "the tr...

Also, could we get the Wendys tossup? Thanks! This phrase was used after noting "private conversations" have to "exist somewhere" during 2023 Supreme Court arguments in NetChoice v. Paxton . This phrase replaced "Dude" in a meme template based on a SrGrafo cartoon. An ...

Could I see the tossups on Tybalt (R6), Chicago (R8), 1988 election (R9), Slovakia (some afternoon round), Bali (R16), rats (R16), James Earl Ray (R17), love (R24), Borges (R25), and cubic (R25) please? Also, could I see the MBTA bonus (R21)? This character says that an "intrusion shall / now ...

Could I see the Mariners, Turkmenistan, Water, Midnights, and My Way questions please? In 2023 this team controversially traded reliever Paul Sewald en route to a September collapse. In 2024 this team acquired Anthony DeSclafani and Mitch Haniger by trading former ace Robbie Ray. This team clinched...

This is your question-specific discussion thread for the 2024 NAQT HSNCT. Standard disclaimers: If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 HSNCT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (We have received one mirror request so far, at Toronto in June; it's possible we may add other...

Congratulations to Barrington High School (Barrington, Illinois), who defeated St. Mark's School of Texas (Dallas, Texas) 445-325 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the 2024 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament! Livingston High School (Livingston, New Jersey) defeated Buff...

A bit late, but can I see the question on Australian Aboriginals, the moderator in my room said that something happened in October 2024, and that confused me a bit, as October 2024 is yet to occur Health care for these people is provided at the Lowitja Institute, named for a nurse and advocate for ...

Congratulations to River Trail Middle School of Johns Creek, Georgia, the champions of the 2024 MSNCT! River Trail defeated Sycamore School (Indianapolis, Indiana) 470-360 in the second game of an advantaged final. William Hopkins Middle School (Fremont, California) claimed third place with a 335-29...

Thank you for posting about these concerning incidents, Lee and Tracey. We strongly encourage teams to contact NAQT right away if you experience issues related to the hotel experience at our national championships (please visit the Info Desk if the tournament is still in-progress, or write to us dir...

Congratulations to the champions of the 2024 NAQT Small School National Championship Tournament! In the Traditional Public Schools Division, Hastings (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) defeated West Point A (Cullman, Alabama) 550-210 in the first game of an advantaged final. West Iron County (Iron River...

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...

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