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I think some of the biology questions had easy clues very early on. Specifically: *The retina question- it describes retinoblastoma in the second clue which I would argue is one of the two most well known oncogenes and the only oncogene that I can think of that is named for the tissue that it is der...

Unfortunately this will never become a button because I no longer have button making capabilities but I'm happy to have this chance to share it with the quizbowl community.

R. was referring to this incident , not this incident . (The latter case had nothing to do with the security of NAQT's website; rather it involved an NAQT editor inappropriately revealing question content to players who were about to play the 2012 ICT.) Well, an "editor" who was not editi...

R. was referring to this incident , not this incident . (The latter case had nothing to do with the security of NAQT's website; rather it involved an NAQT editor inappropriately revealing question content to players who were about to play the 2012 ICT.) Well, an "editor" who was not editi...

To judge solely from this article, the paucity of XX-chromosomed persons in quizbowl can be explained by 1). Women's collective unwillingness to "show off [their] knowledge" (apparently the BC Calculus exam is an oasis from such misgivings!) and 2). The tendency of male quizbowlers to mak...

Someone wrote an article in response to the slate article. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/05/14/quiz_bowls_sexism_and_women_can_geekiness_breed_misogyny_.html I really hope everyone reads this article and then explains that the lack of women in quizbowl has something to do with fragile la...

Here are the questions that I wrote for this tournament: Tossups: Red Queen Angiosperms PCR Ubiquitin Celiac Disease Golgi Apparatus Heat Shock Proteins Gluconeogenesis Broca's Area Chloroplast p53 Ribozymes Bile Cholera Phagocytosis Tyrosine Kinases Peptidoglycan Bonuses: clathrin/SNARE/calcium mic...

This tournament will start at 9:30, be in Harper at 9:00.

She can stay in my apartment.

I'm going to make detergents accepted all the way through. I don't think they're ever ruled out, do you? I agree. I think you could be right (particularly about that one); here it is: This molecule's activity is upregulated in the endolymphatic sac in patients with Meniere's disease, possibly helpi...

I generally enjoyed the science in this set. One thing that stands out for me though is the question on surfactants. The question started describing SDS pretty early on and I buzzed in the middle of that description and said "detergents". I don't really remember the first clue so it could ...

I was a moderator at the region 8 SCT.

These stats are for all of the 11 prelim games. For some reason the stats program says that all but two of the teams played 10 games even though if you go to the team detail and count games played there are 11 for each team. Rounds 13, 14, and the finals will probably be up tomorrow or monday. Some ...

The stats for the prelims are here