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- Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:28 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 38717
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
Once at CBI nationals there was a tossup on Kiribati. If you don't know, the "ti" sound at the end of "Kiribati" is pronounced with an "s" type sound. Apparently, this is not a thing you would know if you chose to write a one sentence geography tossup by flipping open a...
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl ESL Student
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3691
Re: Quiz Bowl ESL Student
I've coached a good number of ESL students to play quizbowl over the years and it is challenging. I made a lot of mistakes and every student's situation is different. Also all of the students I coached also had been in the United States for at least a year, so it's possible my experience won't speak...
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NHBB Nats: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6675
Re: Specific Question Discussion
After dreaming of a golden man in the sky, Emperor Ming summoned two of these people to translate a book with twenty-four chapters. One of these people, Ennin, was deported to Japan during a (+) campaign against these people by Emperor Wuzong. The travels of one of these people, (*) Xuanzang, inspi...
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NHBB Nats: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6675
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Could you please post the question on Buddhist monks from the Bee and the question on Incitatus from the Bowl?
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 77187
Re: 2015 HSNCT discussion
Out of idle curiosity, is there a rationale for the 17-20% range for power rate? I think I like the more generous rate we saw at this year's HSNCT more. At 25% I suspect that it is much more likely for lower level teams and players to score an occasional power, without making them so common as to be...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
- Replies: 99
- Views: 55864
Re: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
Speaking from the other side of the standings, these questions were really fun for us also. They were hilarious and very well written with a lot of consideration put into how to make them pyramidal. I especially appreciate the tolerance displayed for my long, rambling, overly descriptive wrong answe...
- Tue May 12, 2015 2:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '15 - '16
- Replies: 64
- Views: 47168
Re: Illinois '15 - '16
This actually happened at NASAT 2013 when Ladue was down after the first five or six tossups to our Texas team. Granted, clearly the intent was not to intimidate, but rather that Max and Charlie thought it was really funny. It was actually really funny and Missouri won both the game and the tourname...
- Tue May 12, 2015 2:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Dangers of Fracking in Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 2
- Views: 540
Re: The Dangers of Fracking in Quiz Bowl
Luckily Henry was as generally disaffected as ever.
I need to dedicate more practice time to "Why we should smile when someone takes our picture" and "How we can generally comport ourselves so we appear to be human beings."
I need to dedicate more practice time to "Why we should smile when someone takes our picture" and "How we can generally comport ourselves so we appear to be human beings."
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On the Clock, and how to play with it
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12407
Re: On the Clock, and how to play with it
There are situations when a team is behind and it's in their interest to kill the clock. For example, let's say you just answered a tossup to close the gap to 35ish with around one minute to go. Assuming you know any portion of the bonus at all it's in your interest to kill. Hearing two more tossups...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:19 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: All-time all-state teams
- Replies: 61
- Views: 53441
Re: All-time all-state teams
I also vaguely recall that Susan Mitchell graduated from (or at least attended) Lafayette High School. Susan Mitchell graduated from Houston Memorial. Texas is odd in that you either have to take players from the last two years or go way back into the early 2000s or late 90s. Just considering folks...
- Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Schools that have Quiz Bowl as an elective credit?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2389
Re: Schools that have Quiz Bowl as an elective credit?
Speaking as someone from Texas, I'm shocked at the idea that there are schools which don't have football athletics classes. :grin: I think the objection to a class period dedicated to competition is a little silly. It's not like schools offer programs like athletics or academic competitions for no r...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46202
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
In Texas, we moderators had a long discussion about the antiprompts. For example, in the two treatises of government tossup there was an instruction to antiprompt players who buzzed with the answer "second treatise of government". To me, such an answer seems like it should just be wrong s...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46202
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
In Texas, we moderators had a long discussion about the antiprompts. For example, in the two treatises of government tossup there was an instruction to antiprompt players who buzzed with the answer "second treatise of government". To me, such an answer seems like it should just be wrong si...
- Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where do you think questions come from?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14430
I should have been clear that I essentially agree with both Jerry and Matt, that question writing is a good thing and more people writing more questions is a good thing. I also agree that questions now are as good or better than they've ever been before, and think still further improvement is possib...
- Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where do you think questions come from?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14430
Therefore, if you write 1/1 per day (something that should take half-an-hour at most), your team will finish a packet in under a week. Obviously there are exceptions since sometimes teams don't have a full contingent or whatever, it's obvious that for most cases, putting together a full packet is q...