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- Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
However, some learning took place on that question. I gotta say, I preferred having our math teacher advisor teach us about Lebesgue integrals at HFT than I would if he had taught us a parlor trick for adding consecutive numbers quickly. One is actually useful in the real world; the other, kinda ne...
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
However, some learning took place on that question. I gotta say, I preferred having our math teacher advisor teach us about Lebesgue integrals at HFT than I would if he had taught us a parlor trick for adding consecutive numbers quickly. One is actually useful in the real world; the other, kinda ne...
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
No, the problem with tricks is that they do not in any way signify actual mathematical knowledge and understanding, merely trivial shortcuts.kldaace wrote:What's up with people against tricks? Do people really like doing things the nitty gritty way?
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
But I just want to know, what is wrong with having a couple of math tossups, sometimes zero, that appear in a round of quizbowl. I mean, there are going to be like 18 others that people can still answer and can learn information from. Well, since you've already admitted that math questions are ofte...
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
Perhaps it is more germane to address those that do involve intrinsic error, then.SaveComputationalMath wrote:To all- It seems to me that some of the arguments against math computation do not involve intrinsic error, but rather just poor question writing.
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
Guy, While it is true that other quizbowl subjects test factual knowledge while computational questions test applied knowledge, I don't think that should disqualify them from consideration. As was pointed out in this very thread earlier, you don't find it unfair that only one form of applied knowle...
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28322
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
Some people in quizbowl, including me, believe that including computational questions makes quizbowl do a better job of approximating curricula and rewards students who have a better understanding of math. This still sidesteps the issue everyone else has brought up, which is that quizbowl tests pra...
- Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl and the curriculum
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3575
Re: Quizbowl and the curriculum
I don't think that lit and fine arts is more difficult only for freshmen with no intellectual curiosity--it's more difficult for the majority (though not all) of people new to the game at any age. Even for experienced teams, lit specialists are often in demand. What does that mean? Anything special...
- Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Literature Tossups
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5421
Re: Writing Literature Tossups
Confirm; the translator's note in my copy (which used Maman) told me so.everyday847 wrote:The fact that Meursault calls her Maman is important.
- Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Literature Tossups
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5421
Re: Writing Literature Tossups
I think the difficulty you describe is in dropping a name too soon, which can and should be creatively avoided if it's a sufficiently famous character (say, Salamono). Yeah, writing that clue as "The protagonist walks up the staircase to his apartment where he meets his neighbor, who spends ti...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23224
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
Am looking for team, yes sir.
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit announcement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30026
Re: CO Lit announcement
I like quizbowl. I like books.
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12727
Re: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
Hannah, Shantanu, you've read this book, haven't you? I have two ideas so far. Get on Skype sometime.cvdwightw wrote:Tossup 1: both teams play charades on Soseki's I Am a Cat
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Junior NAC 2009 Results
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6019
Re: Junior NAC 2009 Results
Erm. Yeah...scquizbowl wrote:Some of those questions are so high level. What middle schooler has read Princess Bride?
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Junior NAC 2009 Results
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6019
Re: Junior NAC 2009 Results
Awesome.Prof.Whoopie wrote: is a common tool.....
Also, CABINET was probably about the executive branch, not furniture. At least, I hope so.
- Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Next Year
- Replies: 74
- Views: 12878
Re: Next Year
The sophomores of State College and the all-non-graduating kids of Gov and Matt Jackson all put up superb performances at this year's NSC, and I would be very surprised if they are not similarly impressive in the future. This, plus, Hunter also has a pretty young core to support them in the coming ...
- Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12727
Re: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
If you manage to pull off a three-part bonus with a genuine easy, middle, and hard part that tested something important and academic that involved tasting something, then I will give you one hundred very real American dollars. Paging Susan... (note: I'm also not sure this can be done, but I'm incli...
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12727
Re: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
He knows. He is mocking you.vetovian wrote:Actually, a VETO bonus from 2007 was: given a pair of chopsticks and a box of Gobstoppers, pick up as many Gobstoppers as you can.Ukonvasara wrote: you have been given a pair of chopsticks and the head of elisha otis. for 6 points each:
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of using power matching at NSC
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12609
Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
If that's the biggest objection, then my proposals can be adjusted so that half-games are used. You have 15 teams and nine spots, so the top six can play half games with the winners getting three of the spots, and the three losers can then go in a pool with the nine other teams, who would play half...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
- Replies: 287
- Views: 134284
Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
but I'm pretty sure the end result will be frustration for the writer and a lot of "that was worth 20??!?" complaints from those playing it. This is basically the response i was anticipating from my original question of "why 20-point powers?" I've always thought 20 points was mu...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
- Replies: 287
- Views: 134284
Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
I like the idea of 20-point powers that require really deep knowledge to get. And the rest of these changes.
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Oh snap, there was a Laurence Sterne question? Awesome, can I see? Thanks.
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Let me make my point exactly clear: there are several people, of whom Guy Tabachnick has now convinced me he is one, who have some kind of innate anti-NAQT bias such that any possible mistake made by any writer writing for NAQT, regardless of whatever respect he may or may not have within the large...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
If my (possibly poor) decision to write a hard bonus part on something you deemed too difficult for high school nationals means that I am "so out of touch with quizbowl in general, especially in high school, that I would advise for them not to write ever again," then I will (effective imm...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
No it couldn't, because it's a horrible idea for a tossup, because nobody will actually know scientific clues about it, so they have to resort to silly ones.Anti-Climacus wrote:I suppose it could have been salvaged with an extra two lines, but I don't know enough bio to be sure.
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Tetralogy of Fallot? Cri du chat? Whoever decided to make these answer choices is so out of touch with quizbowl in general, especially in high school, that I would advise for them not to write ever again.
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Mitchell Szczepanczyk Who is that? A guy with a masters in linguistics from Chicago, actually. :smile: And just what does that have to do with quizbowl? That, if I'm not mistaken, was Chris's entire point. Just because someone knows some stuff doesn't mean he is qualified to edit what are supposed ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 349
- Views: 102975
Re: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
The Encyclopedia Britannica entry surprised the hell out of me by referring to Brahman primarily as brahma. No other source I've read has done that out of respect for the confusion of the reader. But even then, you'll notice that the final 'a' in the Britannica's "brahma" lacks the horizo...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
"When doing a Google search for 'Wikipedia', this group's language is the first non-English result." Is this any way to start a tossup on the Sami? It's not that much worse than the cuneiform lead-in. Was this an actual leadin at a tournament? haha no of course not i made it up save your ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
In Welsh this {diacritical} indicates a {long vowel}. In Esperanto it differentiates letters pronounced as "ts" [T-S] and "ch" [C-H]. In French it often indicates that an 's' was once present after the vowel, as in the word (*) ~h\^opital~ [oh-pee-tahl]; it is also the only mark...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49509
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
This system has been used for the Turkic language Karakalpak [KAR-ah-KAHL-pahk] as well as the Sinitic language Dungan, and the informal Volapuk encoding is one way to represent it in ASCII. It contains a "hard sign" and a "soft sign," as well as a vowel resembling an (*) I-O li...
- Sun May 31, 2009 10:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 349
- Views: 102975
Re: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
Tossups on the circumflex are categorically not linguistics!Brian Ulrich wrote:some foreign language stuff in linguistics.
- Sat May 30, 2009 8:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ National All Star Academic Tournament in 2010
- Replies: 161
- Views: 64810
Re: HSAPQ National All Star Academic Tournament in 2010
But it's true.Jeremy Gibbs wrote:Please stop saying that MACA promotes bad quiz bowl.
I wish I didn't.You know my feelings on this.
Fixed that for you.It is tough to call what we do quizbowl
- Thu May 28, 2009 7:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
What really threw me off from even presenting our qualification to NAC to the rest of the team was the price pre guaranteed game at around $100, which was in addition to the hotel and transport. Unless you're a long-time Chip partisan who has vowed never to come back, of course; a coach, who can ou...
- Thu May 28, 2009 5:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
lolzWild10 wrote:Maybe as an adition to NAC.
EDIT: I'm sure when you join the quizbowl team at Swarthmore next year they'll talk to you about this.
- Thu May 28, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43648
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
That was just the second packet for the bracket advantaged final.Anti-Climacus wrote:Will the academic all-star round be made availabe along with the rest of the set?
- Thu May 28, 2009 3:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Letter to Questions Galore
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9012
Re: Letter to Questions Galore
Heh.Anti-Climacus wrote:My only quibble is that you did not mention that the clue cited in the last footnote, " inscripction written in three languages" is not even uniquely identifying.
EDIT: Granted, there's only one trilingual inscription that could be asked about in high school, but still.
- Thu May 28, 2009 1:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
I see SOMEONE is bitter that his soufflés always collapsed in home ec.ColJade wrote:Also, I fail to see how tossups about a blender reward applied knowledge.
- Thu May 28, 2009 12:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
Guy, I certianly did not kill my argument. How can we say that Charter was better than Booker T? They lost! And here I am reading that Booker T was the 24th best team in the Nation. Well hold on a second! They beat Charter, arguably one of the best teams in the country. Booker T won! So they were t...
- Thu May 28, 2009 11:39 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
And to say that the winner of NAC is not a National Champion is simply outrageous. Last year, Wilmington Charter finished second at NAQT Nationals. Where did they finish at NAC? Second as well. You've killed your own argument here—Wilmington Charter was objectively far, far, FAR better than the tea...
- Thu May 28, 2009 8:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
pain Would PACE ever consider awarding something akin to the purple heart for quizbowl players permanently scarred by stuff like this? Players perhaps. There are also the coaches who have all gotten screwed somehow by Chip. No, it's the coaches' choice to go. The kids are just strung along most of ...
- Wed May 27, 2009 9:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tossups about works
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2359
Tossups about works
While reading old literature questions in preparation for PACE, I noticed several appearances of a trend I really don't like: having a tossup about a work that leads in with a clue or two not about the work itself. Admittedly, this doesn't happen very often, but I'd like to make the point that it sh...
- Tue May 26, 2009 7:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA Date Claim 09-10
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16598
Re: DC/MD/VA Date Claim 09-10
It might help teams if they knew what format this would be in (speed or pyramidal 20/20, etc.)sir negsalot wrote:Richard Montgomery is planning to host a house written tournament tentatively on Sep. 19.
- Fri May 22, 2009 10:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC Prediction Contest - 2009 Edition
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3577
Re: PACE NSC Prediction Contest - 2009 Edition
Predict the 16 playoff teams (two points each) Charter Chaska DCC GDS Gonzaga Hunter Brookwood Gov New Trier Carbondale Stow-Munroe Falls Dorman WJ State College RB TJ Predict which teams will go undefeated and untied in the preliminaries (one point each) Gov WJ Hunter Dorman SC Charter GDS Chaska P...
- Mon May 18, 2009 7:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 44931
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
They've done that for quite a few years. It allows their readers to give more of a game show mentality to things. It's just not quizbowl without a dude in a cerulean shirt and a maroon suit addressing imaginary crowds before reading you tossups on "a chest of drawers ". Would that I could...
- Mon May 18, 2009 7:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 114591
Re: Bad Negs Again
I blame NAQT for having a tossup on yttrium.jonpin wrote:Just wondering, when do NAQT sets become live? After HSNCT?
From Goldfish...
Correct answer: Yttrium
Not an element: Yibittrium
- Mon May 11, 2009 8:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
- Replies: 79
- Views: 17510
Re: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
Andrew, the post about SS, Science, etc is a response to why people need those subjects more than Fine Arts and Sports. It starts talking about Quiz Bowl when it says "Again, this is Quiz Bowl" Let may be very specific about this: I believe everything has academic value. The amount of val...
- Mon May 11, 2009 8:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
- Replies: 79
- Views: 17510
Re: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
I still don't see why you're exalting these few subjects over fine arts. My 6-year school requires 5 years of English, 5 of science, 5 of social studies, 4 of arts, 4 of foreign language, 2 of theater, and 2 of health. Social Studies: explains our society and allows people to understand why things e...
- Sun May 10, 2009 10:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fri 5/29: Afternoon/Evening Tournament near Chicago-O'Hare
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3797
Re: Fri 5/29: Midwest Championship near Chicago-O'Hare
Really, trophies?
- Sun May 10, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
- Replies: 79
- Views: 17510
Re: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
As are the Nika Revolts, dude. And probably Jackie Robinson as well.Anti-Climacus wrote:Actually, Donald Taylor's satirical proposal for more buisness tossups would be better-found than your defense of sports,since historical buisiness-related laws are discussed in basic history classes.