Quiz bowl Topics

[lifanzeng]

What quiz bowl topics come up the most and what topics would be the most useful to study?

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[SunWukong]

The subject areas that frequently come up at the High School level are the following:
Literature (mainly American, British, European, and World)
History (mainly American, British, European, World, and Ancient)
Science (mainly Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Non-computational Math, Earth Science, and Astronomy)
RMP (Religion, Myth, Philosophy, including all major world religions, common myth systems including Greek/Roman, Norse, Native American, Mesoamerican, Celtic/Irish, Egyptian, and the mythology of religions)
Social Science (including Economics, Anthropology, and Psychology)
Fine Arts (including Painting, Classical Music, Sculpture, Opera, and Filmography)
Geography
Current Events
Non-academic (including Sports, Music, and TV&Film)

You should probably study the topics that interest you most rather than trying to learn something that doesn’t interest you because it comes up a lot. As you play more and more quizbowl you’ll hear about all kinds of cool things just by playing the game and you’ll develop new interests and pet subjects.

[No Electricity Required]

If you want to look at specific distributions used by tournaments to see how often subject-areas come up:
NAQT's IS set distribution is posted here.
Distributions used by individual house-written sets are found in the threads here (most of them are very similar or identical).
HSAPQ's distribution may be posted somewhere, but I'm not sure where that is.

If you interested is learning about specific topics that come up a lot, NAQT's You Gotta Know pages and ACE quizbowl camp's study guides have a lot of good information.

Like Daniel said, learning about what you enjoy will probably be the most successful. You'll get a better grasp on what comes up in quizbowl as you play more of it.