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- Wed May 01, 2013 2:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 36466
Re: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
Yeah, as people have sussed out, I wrote the Marx question. I got the answer line the same way I got the answer line for that human geography bonus people seemed to like in Regionals: find one of the most cited geographers and work him into a question in an answerable way. David Harvey is by miles ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Hip-hop Doubles Tournament
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12228
Re: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Hip-hop Doubles Tournament
I'm interested in playing this.
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QUARK 9/29
- Replies: 30
- Views: 19690
Re: QUARK 9/29
What time is this starting?
- Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10334
Re: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
Is there an argument to be made for underlining only the first surname (the paternal family name) for authors of Spanish descent? Maternal surnames are omitted from many answerlines where authors use their father's family name primarily (Paz, Fuentes, Borges, Donoso, etc.) and in my experience, Span...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Region 7 SCT at Michigan (2/4/12)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6230
Re: Region 7 SCT at Michigan (2/4/12)
That your scoring was really balancedAlliance in the Alps wrote:What is that supposed to mean?cornfused wrote:Holy balanced scoring by DI Ohio State, Batman!
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open and Trash 2011 @ DCC (Aug 6-7)
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19363
Re: VCU Open and Trash 2011 @ DCC (Aug 6-7)
Option 2 works best for me and Joe Nutter since we were planning on driving up Saturday morning.
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010-11 NAQT IS sports question discussion
- Replies: 106
- Views: 20664
Re: 2010-11 NAQT IS sports question discussion
The most important points of Joe's argument have nothing to do with chicken restaurants.
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC 2011
- Replies: 149
- Views: 37447
Re: NAC 2011
Actually, it's a little deeper than that. Coach Schneider believes strongly in her position. She thinks QUnlimited allows girls to show their strengths in English and Literature better. (In fact, she very much likes vocabulary-based questions such as anagrams and synonyms because of this. The fact ...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:39 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: OAC Talk
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6970
Re: OAC Talk
In the immortal words of Jacob Durst: "even a finely-honed OAC packet by the ACF cabal itself would not meet modern standards of acceptability in the quizbowl community."
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: OAC Talk
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6970
Re: OAC Talk
112 is the best number?Isaacbh wrote:I think the real question here is, what is it that makes the Rhode Island Quiz League so much better than tossup/bonus formats?
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: OAC Talk
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6970
Re: OAC Talk
I propose establishing a format with only sports and "single battle" questions.
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30444
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
Can you post the David Foster Wallace tossup from round 6?
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30444
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
The DII question on David Foster Wallace also seemed to be poorly written in this way. The first clue was about DT Max and his biography which hasn't even been released yet and then the very next clue title-dropped The Pale King, which had been getting a huge amount of press in the days leading up t...
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes That Do Not See II
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8019
Re: Eyes That Do Not See II
Since all of the mirrors are done, can you post it?Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Was anyone else planning on mirroring this? If not, I'll post the set soon.
- Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER II @ UWaterloo (01/15/2011)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3646
- Thu Nov 04, 2010 11:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11588
Re: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010)
Those other two garages should work.
- Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11588
Re: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010)
Tuttle Park Place Garage is the closest to Central Classrooms. The Ohio Union South Garage and Neil Ave. Garage are also relatively close. Parking at any of these garages will be $5.
http://tp.osu.edu/visitorsmain/parking/ ... ttle.shtml
http://tp.osu.edu/visitorsmain/parking/ ... ttle.shtml
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11588
Re: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010)
jdd2007 wrote: The tournament will be held in the Central Classroom Building.
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49317
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Hey, Anurag did not get a prompt on Mahabharata. Could someone post the original answer line?
Bhagavad Gita (prompt on "Mahabarata")
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49317
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
John the Parish-Clerk and Trim the Sexton argue over a Watch Coat in this man's satire of ecclesiastical York, A Plitical Romance . Another Trim, a corporal whose real name is James Butler, appears in his best-known novel as the servant of a man pursued by the (*) Widow Wadman, though he prefers to...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49317
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
The oldest evidence of these structures dates to an amber specimen from about 110 million years ago. The older deinopoids used a specialized, flattened organ called the cribellum to produce dry examples, while modern araneoids roduce more viscous ones through specialized organs called (*) spinneret...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49317
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Unplayed Packet 26 Wrote: The abaca or "Manila hemp" is a variety of this plant afflicted by bunchy top and Sigatoka diseases. Its genus, Musa, come from its Arabic name, and its leaves are traditionally used to serve food in South India. In the developing world the most important non-gra...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49317
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
yes, yes it isPerhaps for clarity I should have confined myself to saying that the per tournament distribution is not the cause of the problems people attribute to it.
- Sun May 31, 2009 11:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49317
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Yes , there were both geography and history tossups on Ethiopia in that round
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: All videos of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 206
- Views: 155215
Re: All videos of Quiz Bowl
The Ohio News Network "Brain Game" http://www.10tv.com/live/content/onnbra ... index.html