Lloyd Busch has passed away.

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Lloyd Busch has passed away.

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This is from another website this past week.

Written By Todd Leopold

If you grew up in the Atlanta area and were inclined towards trivia and brain bowl-style games, you saw Lloyd Busch. If you needed reference materials at Emory University’s Woodruff Library, you met Lloyd Busch. And if you played on Emory University’s College Bowl team in the ‘70s and ‘80s, you knew Lloyd Busch.

He was that kind of figure — judge on WSB’s HighQ, reference librarian, organizer, coach and just generally a great person who gave selflessly of himself. For me and so many others, he was also a friend.

He drove the van — or, occasionally, his brown 70s-era Dodge Dart — to tournaments and trophy shops. He wrote questions. He ran practices and told us to keep notebooks. (Woe to those who didn’t bring their College Bowl notebook to practice.) He shared his record collection and hosted picnics. His entire house was a library with every room filled with books of every kind. All knowledge was good knowledge.

He taught us how to play the game, how to run tournaments, and how to write quality questions.

He invented the “pocket veto” for questions that were no good. He told hilarious stories about everything. He made quiz bowl “fun” and yet was completely focused on getting the best from everyone.

He coached and mentored numerous folks who went on to become Jeopardy contestants and champions, but he never took credit for anyone else’s success – he always just celebrated for and with them. They include Mike Dupee (Tournament of Champions winner), Ben Stone, Peggy Malys, Dan Felsenheld, Tim Buthod, Steve Saum, Mike Barkin, Sally Tyler, Al Lin, David Morgenstern, Scott McGraw, and Todd Leopold. Also, Norman “Tripp” Payne was a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Lloyd passed away Tuesday, just before Thanksgiving. He was 77.
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