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Another is that they often get someone like a local professor in to make a big address or talk about a current issue, which is often very variable in quality, but can be a really cool experience. I don't know how quizbowl might do this, but it could be neat to have a tournament offer some kind of m...

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Another is that they often get someone like a local professor in to make a big address or talk about a current issue, which is often very variable in quality, but can be a really cool experience. I don't know how quizbowl might do this, but it could be neat to have a tournament offer some kind of m...

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working against the problem that Ike outlines might be why Ted's painting questions at nationals were so well-received this year.. Discounting the ones that were just super-hard... The big potential space to open up is actual academic work about art; just as history and literature questions have ha...

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I I'd also like to raise a suggestion for visual art questions. I think it would add a layer of depth (that vis-art in quizbowl seems to lack currently) if we shift toward "art history" rather than just "art." This shift means doing the things Ike supports (more context clues, e...

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I would imagine the "mysterious "planning" that Matt is referring to teams actually meeting and finding a few new people who might be interested. I think this was more in reference to the common advice that new teams should be doing things like figuring out room booking, getting offi...

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Yes- as others have mentioned- (for example) all of the University of California schools (except for Berkeley) are on the Quarter system and start in late September (same with non-UC schools such as Stanford and CalTech). I would imagine the "mysterious "planning" that Matt is referr...

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In the interest of not risking bad schedule overruns, that might be a good idea.

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Mewto55555 wrote:Me: I guess my friends must just be smarter than yours, then.
JL: No, that's not possible.

I do not know whose friends I need to meet more now.

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An interesting variation might be to include a very small methodologies distribution alongside the historiography distribution about "how people do history"; this could cover things like archival research practices, research practices in specific fields, archaeological practice, specific ...

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In particular, the presence of actual historians and things you read in history class, as Matt brought up, was great. In fact I would've preferred more of that; it seems bizarre to me that a CO history tournament wouldn't have a distribution devoted exclusively to historiography. Not all answers in...

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This set was excellent and I'd say it and CHB are good examples of how tournaments with very different writing philosophies can succeed. The ancient/late antique/early medieval history in particular did a very good job of avoiding battle-bowl and fashionable topics in favor of interesting, substanti...

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I can send a few meta/vanity questions to be read even if I am not present at this(which i do not currently expect to be).

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If the field is still open, I'm happy to play this.

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Is there any opinions on Europe: A History by Norman Davies? Also, does The Golden Bough have any external quizbowl purposes besides tossups about it? My dim memory of attempting to read The Golden Bough is that there's nothing in it that you couldn't find in more recent and more worthwhile works o...

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A poem by William Meredith is titled “In Loving Memory of” the author of this collection. One work in this collection talks of a woman with “complexion Latin” who is “filling her compact & delicious body with chicken paprika”. Another poem in this collection begins by stating that “Life, friend...

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I'll play this if i am at CO in 2015.

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Since I plan on being in town for CO, I will play this and am looking for teammates.

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Whatever you think about the ideological merits of Zinn's take on history, it is unorthodox, and therefore I believe needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Particularly considering the book is 800 pages long, it doesn't really work as a crash-course in American history, as the first post asked for...

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" Pyramidal quiz bowl doesn't have a really defined good elevator pitch that draws from people's life experiences. Sure, high schoolers have taken tests, but that's not really how you'd want to describe quiz bowl and still have it come across as fun. So the end result is that you would say som...

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This photo, originally titled LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, depicts an aislefull of quizbowl's greatest heroes and villains as they converse (from left to right, Hannah Kirsch, Matt Jackson, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Ted Gioia; seated: Guy Tabachnick, Andy Watkins). Critics have pointed to obvio...

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Just look at schools like B-CC and Whitman that have stopped going to tournaments, instead only appearing on the show. This happened after a period of relevance on the circuit. After people graduated, they basically stopped going to good tournaments. If the MD/DC area had a more stable circuit, one...

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I also am not a fan of "quotes/reactions by composers," but I'm sure people disagree about that. Also, it just occurred to me that this process doesn't include actually listening to the piece (not implying that you didn't). There's no reason that a clue has to be "written about"...

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This tournament was very good; I'd say Ted's art is very good-he writes to a very narrow canon in time and space but within that canon he does very well and tends to emphasize things you'd actually learn about organically instead of the dreaded Corners of Paintings Bowl. The religion was also good a...

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Muriel Axon wrote:Since people have been asking: I plan to go to University of Minnesota for graduate study in ecology.

Congrats Shan!

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Cheynem wrote: 11. Harvard A: Spring Creek joins Little Lehigh Creek several miles upstream of Emmaus in Lehigh County.

It actually took me a moment to realize this was not someplace I've been fishing(there are a a looooooot of streams around Pennsylvania named Spring Creek)

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The hour late start due to the catastrophe of locked rooms / TWO teams not showing up in the morning (WHO DOES THIS?) aside, I thought the tournament's logistics went very well. The last room for non-finals situations was done by approximately 5:30pm [and I had scoresheets starting at 5:15], which ...

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The wording of J.4.1.2 seems self-contradictory to me: if someone buzzes at a point where a tossup is ambiguous, then no answer has been uniquely identified by the clues, right? In the Panipat example, there are multiple "victors of the Battle of Panipat," so no one answer has been unique...

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I thought about getting a MA in Art History but decided against it after having a bad experience with the art and aesthetic theory class. I think I drew the very short straw as far as instructors because I got the East Asian specialist who was nuts. If it had been a different person, it might have ...

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I would suggest your teammate's read Mike Cheyne's "How to be a fourth scorer" post and the followups to it (http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=14291); although Mike wrote it based on his experiences on the Minnesota quizbowl team much of it is very applicable to being t...

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print amusing t-shirts and sell them on campus I don't know how it is at other schools, but this is actually what a lot of RSOs or houses looking to raise funds for activities or outings do on campus here do. Usually the shirts are either RSO-related or more often one of our many self-deprecating/s...

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Doug, I think the inherent problem with what you're saying is that the people who play quizbowl just don't know that much about, say, the art of Palenque, so a person who answers a tossup on Palenque from art clues is almost certain to be relying on history knowledge, not art knowledge (or the toss...

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I'm not sure I get your argument that "not caring about the specific artists behind the art" or "not wanting to compare specific pieces" leads to "people aren't interested in this kind of art." The influence that African and Asian art pieces had on French artists and c...

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I think we need to give some more exploration to non-Western art, and to genres of visual art outside of the standard mix of architecture, photography, and film. The Euro-centrism we allow in the Fine Arts distribution would make us shudder were someone to propose imposing it upon the Literature or...

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I'll second what Jerry is saying about philosophy(and extend it to certain areas of critical theory)-at some point in studying pretty much everything you start running into philosophy whether you like it or not(Roland ). Concerning history, I don't see the point of expanding British history substant...

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Libo's point was that there was a lack of pre-industrial history, not pre-early modern history, so it seems like you're dodging his argument here. Regardless, 30% of non-American history being pre-1450 isn't that unreasonable, though I'd personally prefer to see more. Assuming questions from variou...

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A quick jaunt over to quinterest shows that Miguel Ángel Asturias and/or his works have come up in the following tournaments: Terrapin Invitational, MELD (for El Señor Presidente ), Chicago Open Literature, Chipola Lit + Fine Arts, HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set (for "Guatemala"), and Mahfouz Mem...

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For the bonus part on aspiration in DII (round 14 I think) would rough breathing been acceptable? This went into protest (and was being researched) in our game versus Harvard A, but we never got final ruling due to the results of the tiebreakers. Here's the bonus part: B. Grassmann's law describes ...

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Combined Fields If the divisions at a Sectional compete together (as a result of one or both divisions not having at least four teams), then an automatic invitation will also be given to the overall winner if there are at least four total teams at the Sectional. So from the plain and unadorned read...

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Kruger also was gotten fairly early at my site; whatever obscurity she has is quizbowl is more than made up by 1) her fame in the contemporary art world, and 2) The fact that her work is (intentionally) recognizable from about five miles away. As for Stephen's comments, I agree that this felt more d...

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One last comment, and I only bring this up because it is actually something I see recur somewhat regularly(and I apologize if I repeat myself a lot on this point): Geanaeology, "name means X" and a good many "God of ___" clues are terribly unhelpful in most cases for Mesopotamian...

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I tend to hear more about the Academy of Gundishapur as a more general academy/proto-university as well, and buzzed in because and made the same neg. But that may be a function of the contexts I've read about it in. Checking the Cambridge History of Iran turns up essays that both mention a medical s...

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No, and yes but only in the private forum.

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Having said that, it sounds like this specific tossup was rather poorly executed, which seems to account for most of the fustration("They wouldn't make it this obvious that we're talking about descendants of Timur in a tossup on the Timurids would they?"). One member of this dynasty sent ...

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There seems to be a lot of talk about the Timurid Dynasty question so I will make the following comments: The Timurids are a named thing and a dynasty of considerable importance to the history of the Islamic world and Central Asia and widely studied, usually studied as a discrete thing, has named th...

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You can find a collegiate discussion of the merits of film in quizbowl here . IIRC there were two total classic film tossups at PACE NSC: High Noon and Rebel Without a Cause. Those were probably my favorite questions to hear and answer, but I remember nobody else on my team knowing about High Noon,...

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Marshall, don't you have lots of work and more important things to do than getting into pointless internet catfights?

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I will be in school, Marshall will be in school, Matt and Sam will be moving on to other adventures.

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Perhaps the only thematic problem I had with this CO was the appearance of several tossups that ended with an unrelated giveaway. I'd much rather see these tossups stick to focusing on the "balls hard" answer subjects, or, if that's not reasonable, to descend more gently to the easier clu...

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In the interest of giving good suggestions,Trevor Bryce's The Kingdom of Hittites is an engaging overview of Hittite history(and probably one of the most readable books on Near Eastern history out there period) and also gives a remarkably clear and concise overview of second millennium history in th...

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Honestly, if you go into NAC knowing how awful it will be and are going for free and don't really have anything better to do with a weekend, it's quite fun. Not to play, to laugh at during and after. And as Sean said, that Thai place is freaking amazing. Couldn't you have the same fun without givin...

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