Oh my...tk447 wrote:[10] Name this state, the home of Crater Lake, with capital at Portland.
Answer: Oregon
^^ that question is in HSAPQ ACF2 Round 3...bonus 4
I don't think any American state has a capital at Portland...
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- Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 25476
Re: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 25476
Re: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
Answer the following about some named items from Norse myth, for 10 points each. [10] The sword known as Nothung, Balmung, or Gram was owned by this son of Sigmund, killer of Fafnir, and hero of the Volsungcycle. ANSWER: Sigurd [or Sigfried; prompt on “Hart“] [10] Examples of these items include Fr...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pyramidality and novice leadins
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3717
Re: Pyramidality and novice leadins
There is a famous sunken road at Antietam ...Bloody Lane (it has the same problem of being named after the battle, but it would be a nice clue for an A-series question on the bloodiest battle of the Civil War), These are the same thing. Antietam had the bloodiest single day. The bloodiest battle wa...
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Re: Tentative Announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl
Yep. We hope to see you there!Great! Thanks a lot.
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Re: Tentative Announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl
It is now official! We have approval to host a tournament at Caesar Rodney! The tournament will be held on either the 3rd of 4th Saturday of April (the 17th or 24th). We decided to go with April to sufficiently avoid any other DE tournament, and to hopefully avoid any overlapping of HSAPQ sets with ...
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Re: Tentative Announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl
With all due respect to Ed, but the Westchester leagues are Chip territory. I do not think that you will have too great a conclict should you cross-schedule. (Excepting St. Joe's, of course!) We at Seton Hall Prep are always looking for a tournament! All the more reason to try and get these teams t...
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Re: Tentative Announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl
Teams Registered (10): -Kellenberg (2 teams, 1 Moderator, 3 buzzers) -St. Joseph's (2 teams, 1 moderator, 2 buzzers) -St. Anselm's (1 team, 1 buzzer) -Delmar (2 teams) -Delcastle (2 teams, 1 moderator, 1 buzzer) -Georgetown Day School (1 team) Teams Committed to Coming (8-?): -Seton Hall (1 team, ? ...
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Re: Tentative Announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl
I cannot speak for other New Jersey schools, but Charlie is right in suggesting that we give you specific dates to help you with your planning, so, here goes. Saint Joe's has been in two leagues in Westchester county since 1995, and our leagues have already scheduled January 31st and February 6th f...
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Re: Tentative Announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl
I suppose you could buy the same set. CR seems to be specifally targeting DE schools. To be clear, one of our hopes is to try and expand good quizbowl in DE, and we would love for many DE teams to compete, but that however does not mean that we don't want other teams to compete as well. We would li...
- Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26679
Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl (April 17th, 2010)
This is the announcement for the Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl, at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden Delaware. The tournament will be held on April 17th, 2010. We would like to hold the opening meeting at 8:45am (meaning all teams should be signed in by that time), and all rounds should start at 9:00am...
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 39075
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
Dunbar was really deep this year. Simply put, they had two of the top 4 (could argue top 3) teams in the state of KY this year, and will probably be pretty good next year (on a national level) with the people they have coming back from the top two teams. If Dunbar A faltered even a little bit, Dunb...
- Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 39075
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
Out of curiosity, how did this happen?24th - Paul Laurence Dunbar High School's second team
32nd - Paul Laurence Dunbar High School's first team
- Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
- Replies: 287
- Views: 116258
Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
Sports teams skip finals for their playoffs all the time. Quiz bowlers should do likewise, unless they think quiz bowl is a joke. Only about 15 of the teachers were at my brothers graduation on Saturday (in a school of 2000+ students). I seriously hope that you aren't suggesting that the CR quiz bo...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Next Year
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10494
Re: Next Year
I honestly think mixing and matching state teams won't help all that much, except in cases almost extreme imbalance, like maybe a very good science player from TJ joining Gov. The natural advantage I think will go to teams that have a pretty good chance of remaining intact, like Hunter or State Col...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Next Year
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10494
Re: Next Year
Michigan also has an active quizbowl program too. Not to be somewhat biased, but Michigan is also not a bad state either. This year was sort of a weird year for Michigan, as only 33 and 1/3 percent of the teams who participated from Michigan made it to the playoffs at HSNCT, that isn't really indic...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Next Year
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10494
Re: Next Year
I definitely project VA to win. The combined forces of Gov and TJ will be hard to beat (let alone if the team was made only of Gov players). PA with State College, NY with Hunter (perhaps even some Kellenberg players), DC with Matt and the St. Anselm players, and Md, with the many notable players fr...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
- Replies: 67
- Views: 19483
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
Tentatively, yes! The prospect of a CR Anselm hybrid team is pretty intriguing, not to mention fairly convenient. This is working out quite well, assuming things don't utterly fall apart...May I join this suckfest? I tentatively have gluten-free cookies.
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
- Replies: 67
- Views: 19483
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
I need a ride... but yes! [email protected], if you want to get a hold of me.Actually Aidan, Trey and i (tentatively) are thinking of playing together for this. You may join our sucky tandem...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
- Replies: 67
- Views: 19483
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
I'm very interested in playing this, and almost certainly not with CR (meaning I'm on the hunt for a team, if anyone will have me).
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- Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Next Year
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10494
Re: Next Year
Caesar Rodney: This bunch traveled widely this year, and won a few games against lesser teams after wild-card bids got them into both nationals. Though this year they proved to be decent-to-OK, they're not graduating anyone major and have another year to keep traveling. Trey already puts up impress...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Next Year
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10494
Re: Next Year
Excellent news! I'm glad to hear it. I'm looking forward to playing you guys next year.NOT NAC, fortunately. RM is rising from the ashes.
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACE Camp
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7342
Re: ACE Camp
My attendance at Milligan: Now possible!
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: TJIAT (10/17/09)
- Replies: 140
- Views: 35669
Re: TJIAT (10/17/09)
Regardless of there not being timed rounds, CR is still of course interested in this tournament, pending some date checks when the time gets closer.
- Thu May 21, 2009 10:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC Prediction Contest - 2009 Edition
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2895
Re: PACE NSC Prediction Contest - 2009 Edition
That was quick. I thought I got the correction in fast enough too, but yea, it occurred to me right after I posted.I don't think they're coming to NSC.
- Thu May 21, 2009 10:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC Prediction Contest - 2009 Edition
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2895
Re: PACE NSC Prediction Contest - 2009 Edition
Predict the 16 playoff teams (two points each) Dorman A, WJ, Gov A, Hunter, State College A , CSW A, Georgetown Day, Gonzaga, Stow-Munroe, Dorman B, TJ A, DCC, Brookwood, Chaska, Rockford Auburn, Rancho Bernardo. Predict which teams will go undefeated and untied in the preliminaries (one point each...
- Wed May 20, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pre-Nationals High School 2009 Poll
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9807
Re: Pre-Nationals High School 2009 Poll
It was really a ceremonial thing recognizing how much better you guys have gotten over the year- besides, once you get down to 25, it's much harder to differentiate between teams. Thanks, Isaac. However I still feel it is undeserved, we certainly appreciate the recognition. Looking forward to seein...
- Sun May 10, 2009 7:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
- Replies: 79
- Views: 13107
Re: Virginia NAQT Championship May 9 (Richmond)
I think NAQT is right in including both, and would gain nothing by removing Sports or Pop Culture questions to replace them with more Fine Art. Fine, but do you also agree in NAQT having more Pop Culture (not even including sports) than Fine Arts? The general issue that people have with the distrib...
- Sun May 10, 2009 2:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACE Camp
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7342
Re: ACE Camp
I really wish I could, but the distance might be too much, but we will see...I think I'll be attending Milligan.
- Sun May 10, 2009 12:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of NAQT's future
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1733
Re: Virginia NAQT Championship May 9 (Richmond)
To support this, Delaware's 3 tournaments were all NAQT, which is sad for a number of reasons...I think it's fair to say this is not exactly par for the course. NAQT is dominant in some areas (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Minnesota) than others.
- Sun May 03, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Maryland Spring Invitational (5/2/09)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 85221
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Maryland Spring Invitational (5/2/09)
The games in that room ran behind because most of them got started late as I tried to enter stats in between rounds, and was a bit slower than my normal speed owing to my lack of sleep. Acting like the 4-5 minutes extra it took ruined your tournament experience is dumb. I also seem to recall quite ...
- Sat May 02, 2009 8:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Maryland Spring Invitational (5/2/09)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 85221
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Maryland Spring Invitational (5/2/09)
I suppose it was pyramidal and not a bad tossup per se; I was just confused about whether the answer was well-known after it went dead (and was very glad that it turned out not to be a tossup on Ann Coulter). Well, I take that back. I'm glad I was not the only thinking it might be the Coulter!!! Al...
- Sat May 02, 2009 8:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Maryland Spring Invitational (5/2/09)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 85221
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Maryland Spring Invitational (5/2/09)
Chris, I think the issue that Mr. C expressed concern over was not for the sake of our team. We as a team felt the difficulty wasn't terribly unreasonable, and relished the opportunity to practice for our National competitions. However, roughly half of the teams there are not going to any such tourn...
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ National All Star Academic Tournament in 2010
- Replies: 161
- Views: 58083
Re: HSAPQ National All Star Academic Tournament in 2010
Paging Mr. Tressler...Ha, that's the best part, it's like CR can pretty much guarantee a player on this since, for Delaware, only us and Charter actually do anything in the state. Yay! Kinda.
- Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New Jersey NAQT Championship take 2 (Hackensack, NJ) 4/25/09
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2990
Re: New Jersey NAQT Championship take 2 (Hackensack, NJ) 4/25/09
I apparently don't know New Jersey Quiz Bowl as well as I thought I did, so could someone please tell me who St. Joseph is, and also how they beat Bergen A.
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- Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 Benjamin Cooper Award Announcement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1834
Re: 2009 Benjamin Cooper Award Announcement
Congratulations, Mr. Huff and Chris, its certainly well earned and deserved.
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WorldQuest?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 984
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RAQIT I @ Robinson SS, Fairfax, VA -- cancelled
- Replies: 117
- Views: 25686
Re: RAQIT I @ Robinson SS, Fairfax, VA -- cancelled
Is it not possible to run it on a Sunday? I would love for a Sunday tournament, if it means that RAQIT could happen. A tournament we went to earlier this year happened on a Sunday, and i don't recall any travesties occurring, so if it is plausible for you guys, it seems plausible for quizbowlers, a...
- Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 97294
Re: Bad Negs Again
That was my tossup... Where was the neg? What clue was it on? I would not look too much into, Ian. The person who got the neg was rather green, since he has only been coming to practice for a few weeks or so. Also, he buzzed in/around the first line, I think, so he did not have much to go off of, s...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5642
Re: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
He was Teddy Schleifer.And before I forget, thank you to all of the readers who helped out, including the coaches, Peter from Mount Pleasant, Raja from Columbia (formerly CSW) and the CR alum whose name I didn't catch.
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5642
Re: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
HA, as proud as he would be to be the one responsible for this...Ok, who let CHRZ near the brackets this time?
- Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5642
Re: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
No time to post about it, but a great day, a couple issues about the tournament but everything was resolved and i was quite happy with outcomes. I didn't see who won but i'm assuming Charter A. HHHW A, Moravian A, and Charter B (i think) were the other teams that made the 4-team semifinals. Lots of...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:42 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: All videos of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 206
- Views: 141884
Re: All videos of Quiz Bowl
I think they have medication for having a weak stream...Hrmm, the stream doesn't appear to be working for me. Anyone else having better luck?
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RAQIT I @ Robinson SS, Fairfax, VA -- cancelled
- Replies: 117
- Views: 25686
Re: RAQIT I (03/28/09) @ Robinson SS, Fairfax, VA
Yes. Yes it is.Isn't Blue Hen on the 21st?
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5642
Re: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
Our B, C, and D teams have drastically improved as well... they're not going to be the whipping boys (er, girls) that they have been in the past. They're really looking forward to this Saturday. They will certainly be better, but whether or not they drop the status of "whipping boys" is s...
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 97294
Re: Bad Negs Again
Given: KKK
Answer: Copperheads
Answer: Copperheads
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5642
Re: Blue Hen XI (3/21/09) Newark, Delaware
I don't know if this is a really good way of informing him of the fact of this, or a completely awful way of doing so...Remember, little Ryan is going to be on the C Team and he's going to need elevators, etc.
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How To Do This?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1560
Re: How To Do This?
I think the biggest issue is not so much philosphical acceptance of distant middle school teams as the fact that there are at present few options besides throwing middle schoolers to the probervial lions. This is especially problematic given the sort of lions found around here. Other than that, I t...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How To Do This?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1560
Re: How To Do This?
Not that we are in the same area as you guys at GDS, Whitman, and St. Anslems, but we tried to do a similar thing at CR this year. Though we actively tried to form a middle school team, and did not table it on purpose, it ended up not coming to fruition when the teacher we were working with at the m...
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: VCU Spring Tournament 2/21/09 Richmond VA
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8587
Re: VCU Spring Tournament 2/21/09 Richmond VA
I did not mean to sound like I was favoring one style over another. Everyone has their own playing style. Perhaps Tommy should be more aggressive. People must decide how to best play. Look at Daichi. He negs a bunch, and its hard to argue with his success. Chris Ray was well-known for his frequent ...
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: VCU Spring Tournament 2/21/09 Richmond VA
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8587
Re: VCU Spring Tournament 2/21/09 Richmond VA
On the other hand, I am not afraid to be aggressive and neg... which I do do a lot. I don't know if it serves me well though. I did well enough with 47.5ppg, which is typical for me, so I don't want to change my play style any and risk doing poorly, especially since I am okay with how i currently d...