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Bellarmine will be hosting this tournament on February 22.

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Bellarmine’s Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that the homesite tournament of our first housewrite set, BELLum Omnium Contra Omnes (BELLOCO), will be held on February 22, 2014 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. The initial field cap will be 24 teams, with possible expans...

Could I also see the Schubert tossup?

Personally, I liked the lead-in to the bonus about Feynman. ("A bonus on Richard Feynman? Surely you're joking!") Although that makes me wonder if it would be feasible to write a trash bonus about Richard Feynman using stories from his autobiographies. That man did some amazing stuff. I al...

Well, I think "space" would make sense in the second clue (as in, "a trip to space inspired Ronald Evans…"), although I do agree that all of the other clues refer to the Moon specifically. I don't see how "Sea of Tranquility" makes sense for the clues about the Ansel Ad...

The Descartes and Beowulf overlaps are definitely not a problem, but our moderator did not accept or prompt on "talking to the dead." Giving that answer might also imply that he's still in the realm of the living and is simply summoning the spirits of the dead, though. Also, I was curious,...

Oh, I remember now, the Descartes tossup I was thinking of I heard during practice, right before the start of the tournament. No problem there. I believe the ram and all those liquids were part of a sacrifice to the dead so that they would be able to talk to them. A passage from my copy of the Odyss...

When I played this set yesterday, I remember that there was both a Descartes tossup and a Descartes bonus (both about his philosophy), as well as a separate Descartes bonus part about math. Clues from Beowulf were also mentioned in at least three questions in the set, although not necessarily overla...

I noticed that Arcadia and Bellarmine B somehow played each other in round 12 without hearing any tossups.

Thank you all for coming to our tournament today. It was great to see newer teams performing well. Congratulations to Mira Loma for winning Bellarmine’s Fall Original Novice Tournament Extraordinaire, as well as to Davis A, Palo Alto A and Moreau Catholic A for placing among the top teams. Special t...

I just sent out the following email to all registered teams: Hello all, Thank you for registering for our tournament this Saturday. Here are a few logistical details: Here is a map of our campus . The tournament will be located at Lokey Academic Center (bottom right). The nearest parking is located ...

Registration for this tournament is closed. Any teams wishing to register will be added to a waitlist.
We will also send an email regarding logistics for the tournament soon.

To submit payment early for this tournament, mail a check payable to Bellarmine College Preparatory to the attention of Chris Fleitas at 960 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA 95126, but please wait for confirmation regarding your registration before doing so. Also please make sure that your school n...

Hello, Bellarmine’s Quiz Bowl team, in partnership with the Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance (NCQBA) , is pleased to announce BELLArmine’s Fall Original Novice Tournament Extraordinaire (BELLAFONTE) , which will be held on October 12, 2013 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, Califor...