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Does anyone know where there are free questions for Easier High School Level.

For example, here's a good Junior level site: http://www.freewebs.com/arqb
But, what about high school level?
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There is a high school packet archive that can be found here.
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Thanks! That's what I was looking for, but do you also know of a website that has non-pyramid type questions? Thanks again!
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Why bother?
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Some point in the near future some old versions of the Maryland Fall Classic will be up on that high school packet site. Those contain primarily shorter questions, although we try to make them pyramidal within the 1-2 length constraint.
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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Some point in the near future some old versions of the Maryland Fall Classic will be up on that high school packet site. Those contain primarily shorter questions, although we try to make them pyramidal within the 1-2 length constraint.
Awesome. Send them to me when you can, and I will upload them!
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I have my archive of lots of past Maryland Fall Classic questions we used in Cleveland as Buzzerpalooza. I just have to find it all.
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Deesy Does It wrote:Why bother?
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Deesy Does It wrote:Why bother?
It seems he is from Arkansas, where 5% of coaches want full-blown pyramidal, 30% of coaches want 2-3 line tossups, and the rest want 'Who wrote Paradise Lost?' We also assume the OP is uninterested in success at a national level.

On the other hand, a pyramidal question would provide several clues about the answer, many of which could be asked by themselves in a one-liner tossup. He will want to keep practicing on one-line tossups, to be sure.

I think even in one-liner states, practicing some on pyramidal tossups provides superior practice -- and if you have that once in a career sort of player/team, you can go to HSNCT and not be quite as lost.
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Actually, the reason I wanted shorter questions is to cover more material during our practices. I figure it will be a more efficient waste of our time. :grin:
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If you practice so that your students will hear the most questions, then yes.

But if you want them to know the most stuff and ANSWER the most questions in tournament play, pyramidal is the way to go. EASY pyramidal, sure. But pyramidal.
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This is true. I read through ACF questions and look through qbpackets.com, stanford archive, NAQT u gotta know, and about 40,000 shawn pickrell questions from the last 9 years. By reading through harder questions you build knowlege and depth and with shorter questions if they have a "though" early clue you can usually get those by looking through the tougher questions. This strategy recentely has helped me as a player.
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quizbowler111 wrote:Actually, the reason I wanted shorter questions is to cover more material during our practices. I figure it will be a more efficient waste of our time. :grin:
Hmm, if your team is starting out unaware that Henrik Ibsen is the only known Norwegian playwright, Jean Sibelius the only known composer from Finland, etc., some practice with one-liners may be useful, simply to cram as much basic facts into their heads. At the same time, they need to get used to lengthy questions, if only for the reasons I mentioned (there are possibly 50 one-liner questions to which the answer is 'Edgar Allan Poe,' for example.)

It's akin to doing sprints and endurance running during an athletic practice (yeah, yeah, sports analogies and all that.) If your kids can't run 100 yards without collapsing, then asking them to run 10 miles isn't going to much good ...
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STPickrell wrote:It's akin to doing sprints and endurance running during an athletic practice (yeah, yeah, sports analogies and all that.) If your kids can't run 100 yards without collapsing, then asking them to run 10 miles isn't going to much good ...
Exactly, sports analogies. That one doesn't really hold up, because, among other things, you would be spending the same amount of time in practice, and actually you would be hearing fewer questions if you were doing pyramidals. Also, I mean, if you are playing an A-set or something like that you are still learning basics at the giveaway. I can't see that compelling an argument for one-liners.
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Ford08 wrote:40,000 shawn pickrell questions from the last 9 years.
Where can you get those?
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If you want free one-liners, open an almanac. From page 265 of The World Almanac 2005:
1. Who wrote Superior Woman? Alice Adams
2. Who wrote A Death in the Family? James Agee
3. Who wrote Only Yesterday? SY Agnon
4. Who wrote Requiem? Anna Akhmatova
5. Who wrote Little Women? Louisa May Alcott
6. Who wrote Tevye's Daughters? Sholom Aleichem
7. Who wrote rags to riches books? Horatio Alger
8. Who wrote Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands? Jorge Amado

I'd go on, but eventually you would owe me money.

Bonus question: Which of the two questions above most reminded me of old-fashioned Scholastic Bowl? #4 & #7
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ReinsteinD wrote:8. Who wrote Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands? Jorge Amado
That's my kind of one-liner.
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intothenegs wrote:
Ford08 wrote:40,000 shawn pickrell questions from the last 9 years.
Where can you get those?
Your coach should have those. If your coach doesn't, ask your AD. Then, ask me.

Actually since your assistant coach was the contact for the Battlefield, you should have those.
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intothenegs wrote:
Ford08 wrote:40,000 shawn pickrell questions from the last 9 years.
Where can you get those?
Ditto - my coach(es) are only in their first year and don't really have any sample packets we can work with...
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