27,000 HSAPQ answer lines
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 4:45 am
Here's a document listing the answer to every question published in an HSAPQ set from our start in 2008 until the conclusion of last academic year:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub ... utput=html
Caveats:
1) We did not use QEMS in the first year, so those answer lines were compiled by hand and pared down to eliminate repeat entries. Answers from fall 2009 to spring 2011 are left as-is (that is, with repeats) so you can get a sense of how often things come up.
2) There are several different categorization schemes used for our different projects, and things are generally left as what they originally were, so there will be multiple places that a given category might be found. For the same reason, some questions do not have subcategory tags.
3) There's some stuff in here that is too difficult to come up in regular high school quizbowl tournaments, either because it is a hard bonus part from a NASAT set or an outlier from our first year that is now coded as a "level 99" (do not ask about this again) question.
4) Math calculation questions have been removed under the assumption that knowing "24 trucks" or "-3.25" was once the answer to a question will not help anyone.
5) This is not a "study guide" per se, neither HSAPQ nor any other supplier of questions is under any obligation to conform to any item or trend in this list when writing future sets, do not invest heavily in "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" being the next big high school tossup answer, et cetera.
With that said, we thought some teams might get use out of such a document, and it's nothing that isn't already derivable from our publicly posted sets. So, a belated Merry Christmas to the high school community and do with this what you will.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub ... utput=html
Caveats:
1) We did not use QEMS in the first year, so those answer lines were compiled by hand and pared down to eliminate repeat entries. Answers from fall 2009 to spring 2011 are left as-is (that is, with repeats) so you can get a sense of how often things come up.
2) There are several different categorization schemes used for our different projects, and things are generally left as what they originally were, so there will be multiple places that a given category might be found. For the same reason, some questions do not have subcategory tags.
3) There's some stuff in here that is too difficult to come up in regular high school quizbowl tournaments, either because it is a hard bonus part from a NASAT set or an outlier from our first year that is now coded as a "level 99" (do not ask about this again) question.
4) Math calculation questions have been removed under the assumption that knowing "24 trucks" or "-3.25" was once the answer to a question will not help anyone.
5) This is not a "study guide" per se, neither HSAPQ nor any other supplier of questions is under any obligation to conform to any item or trend in this list when writing future sets, do not invest heavily in "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" being the next big high school tossup answer, et cetera.
With that said, we thought some teams might get use out of such a document, and it's nothing that isn't already derivable from our publicly posted sets. So, a belated Merry Christmas to the high school community and do with this what you will.