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Isn't "the appearance of three stars" the definition of "sundown" for Jewish religious purposes? Jonah's right on this one. A sundown-to-sundown holiday or fast starts a bit before the first sundown and ends when three stars are visible after the second sundown (or 18 minutes af...

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stuff I should clarify what I mean. I don't object to things from before a player's lifetime, and I don't think I said that anything from before a player's birth is irrelevant. I think that there were irrelevant or not-so-relevant things asked about from before the players' lifetimes, and those sub...

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One question on theoretical math: what was the acceptability of "toroid" for the torus tossup? Jonah can probably answer this one better because he has the question text, but "toroid" definitely should not have been acceptable as it includes annular shapes made by rotating thing...

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I also edited most (all?) of the pop culture music question This was beyond your control, presumably, and under the control of the compiling software, but it was unfortunate for the two pop music questions in one finals packet to be the Rolling Stones and a bonus on Marvin Gaye. Both are fine, but ...

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Reading the prelims and first few playoff rounds and observing the remainder, I can say the following: This tournament was very well-organized. Joel did a fantastic job with the logistics and everything was great except for the elevator/stair situation, which was beyond NAQT's control. Although I ap...

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Speaking of It's Academic... check this story out . To believe in “It’s Academic” is to believe in good things, in solid things like right answers, certainty, sportsmanship and loyalty. Special appearances by Chris Manners and Raynell Cooper. You can email the reporter via this form to express your...

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I mean, is CO rather packed as it is? As far as I know there's one tournament (CO) happening the entire weekend at this point. It sounds like there's certainly space for this event. And it's been a while since we've had a solid doubles tournament, so I absolutely support adding this to the weekend'...

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:2011 Fall Novice will happen, will be awesome*, will be available for mirrors for free.

*not legally binding

Even without the asterisk, your statement isn't legally binding.

Note: the above is not legal advice.

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I thought the RMP skewed very Christian. I don't think I heard a single Islam or Judaism question in the 11 rounds I heard. Again, this is symptomatic of the larger problem of Ike's favorite areas being overrepresented.

Pretty much everything else I might say has already been offered above.

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Avram wrote:Can I assume that international staff travel will not be covered by NAQT?

If you can fly round trip from Kazan to Chicago for NAQT's limit of $275 or less, you win the Charles Meigs Travel Award and, presumably, the right to staff ICT.

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This tournament will be held in Barus and Holley. Unlike the usual Brown tournament location (Wilson Hall), which is located on the main green, Barus and Holley is located a few blocks from the main green, at the intersection of Hope and George streets. There is, in fact, a parking lot located in f...

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The instruction I've always given people for reading NAQT is to go "as fast as you can without sacrificing any clarity ." More importantly, I like to emphasize ways to minimize wasted time between questions (such as separating tossups from bonuses to eliminate flipping pages back and forth...

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If you write this I'll play in it, but I'll probably be pretty bad considering most of my architecture knowledge is quizbowl-canonical. Though Calatrava is not tossed-up nearly as much as he should be. You must have missed that time when Rob Carson got a hard-on for him two years ago and he came up...

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Thanks very much to Evan for letting us use the set and especially to Dakkas for helping Edmund et al with the Briticization -- er, Briticisation -- of the set. How did this work? Was this a matter of changing "color charge" to "colour charge" and the like, or did the clues/ques...

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stuff about math being easy Don't fall for the Freshman Fallacy. I don't know what your Algebra II and Precalculus classes were like in high school, but mine didn't talk about Gauss-Jordan elimination; the first time I was taught about it was in linear algebra. Complaining about the Weierstrass fun...

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:Do I get like a penny each time the "beardo" line is used memetically?

Not for you, hot-tubbo.

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I have no plans to show up to this event.

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Reinstein, "ALL OF YOU GOT YOUR TODDS FEENISED" and "woned in teh fase" are from the same post, so the argument could be made that they're the same meme.

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In past years, CO trash has ended between 4 and 5. Maybe 5:30 at the latest.

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Is there an established start time for this, or is it just going to be "whenever trash ends"? Will there be a break for dinner before, or is trash going to end early enough that we can play through this before a late dinner?

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dtaylor4 wrote:What I have, I sent to Bruce.

And Bruce is currently in Bosnia, so you might have to wait a little while.

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You've still got me in the free agents list, despite also having me on a team above.

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I am now a definite and will be playing this event with Mr. Mukherjee.

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Bruce has asked me to post this information: "Spring Offensive will operate as scheduled, starting play one hour after HSNCT matches end, which would place the start time at approximately 7 PM Central. If you want to play, please show up to the elevator lobby in the Hyatt, and please bring any ...

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I'm playing this on a team with Matts Weiner and Lafer as well as Eric Kwartler.

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dtaylor4 wrote:Updated through R4.

I'm still only seeing the one through round 2.

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Maybe.

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Did not play, will not play, etc.

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When I was in high school, it was widespread knowledge* that Ezell-Harding had a class devoted to quizbowl.

*Veracity of knowledge not guaranteed.

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Is it at all possible for NAQT to pay for the transit of a third party who knows what's up to act as a co-TD with the ACUI-ran regions and act as something of a big sibling and as someone prevent things like over-zealousness and the like? I essentially did this for the Knoxville site, but without a...

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By phone call from Bruce Arthur, here's a short version of what happened at the end: Harvard and Brown were both undefeated heading into the last game of the playoffs; it finished 300-300. Harvard had a protest rejected over a bonus part. Ted gets the tiebreaker. Harvard then went on to win the fina...

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Sir Thopas wrote:why not just Hillel?

There was a tossup on Hillel (which I wrote) in last year's RMPFest, and Bruce wanted to avoid asking on the exact same answer lines.

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Magin/Weiner/Jerry/Eric vs. Bentley/Passner/Kwartler/Nagler (not for competitiveness but for the near-grail performance of the Magin team) Magin's team put up 380 against my team... in the first half. That's 380 in a 10-tossup, no-powers half of Chicago freakin' Open. And they scored 610 with a bon...

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Cheynem wrote:all-time worst questions

The one I always bring up in this discussion:

Patrick's Press wrote:China has had many dynasties. I bet you thought this was going to be a history question. For 10 points, spell "dynasties".

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Matt Weiner wrote:[Brad Rutter] returned to the NAC in 2006 as a moderator.

Brad Rutter was also moderating at the 2004 NAC, which I attended, so that date of 2006 is not entirely accurate.

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Shockingly in 2009, there are scanners that exist in your college, and the corresponding software that will allow you to scan to Microsoft Word. It still takes time, but just pointing out that there is another option. I'd never considered it. Not that I don't keep up with new technologies like the ...

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This is a minor point, but there is not much of a difference between mitzvah and commandment. Three of those clues would point towards Commandment as much as or more than Mitzvah. This question is technically correct once rituals are mentioned because rituals are not commandments, but there was a s...

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I have to give some props to Seth Teitler as reader, who didn't bat an eye instead of doing what I would do as reader and collapse into hapless laughter. Obviously, I should have said the last name, but I was concentrating so much on pulling the dude's name that I was like, "Patrick...Roy, tha...

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BG MSL Champs wrote:
Cheynem wrote:From CO Trash:

ME: Patrick Roy
ANSWER: Brandon Roy
Did you say this like "Roy" or like "Wa"?

As his teammate, I can tell you he said it like "Roy".

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I have no complete results, but Bruce Arthur sent me a text message saying that Toronto D (featuring Bruce) won the Hamilton site.

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LIST OF TEXTBOOKS FOR MATH: -Serge Lang's Algebra, for Abstract Algebra (and I think Galois theory?) -Free Probability textbook yaaay: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html -Silverman's A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory, and the more advance...

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I pledged to Auroni to make a post about this after Mizzou Open was completed, because I've been seeing a little increase in a trend of people doing this. Can we agree right now to stop picking numbered UN resolutions, presidential orders, and the like for hard bonus part answers? We had one submit...

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When I was a senior in high school, my team (a first-time NAC competitor) was eliminated from the NAC by a lower-seeded perennial NAC team in a round featuring three questions on the geography and culture of their home area.

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DumbJaques wrote:
It's a discount for kidnapping people named Phil.
Sweet!

Watch your back, Durkos.

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I won't be at HSNCT and thus will not be playing. I'd otherwise definitely form a team with you, Ted.

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There has been one reported death from swine flu in the USA, and it was a small child who also reportedly had several other illnesses. During the last week, roughly a thousand people died of regular influenza.

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Matt Weiner wrote:First they came for the scientists geographers...

Fixed.

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I missed a question on Tintin? :( One polity featured in this series remembers the fourteenth-century defeat of Baron Staszrvitch with the motto, “Eih bennek, eih blavek.” That place uses Cyrillic orthography but has a language closely resembling the Marols dialect of French. Mineral water near Klo...

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Yeah, my original file for the Hamiltonian cycle tossup has "incomplete" where I clearly meant to type "NP-complete." Kind of inexcusable for me to get that wrong when NP-completeness is what I'm talking about in class this week. And likewise inexcusable for me to miss this upon...

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As a side note I guess, I might add that this was the editors' replacement for my original math tossup. This was a CS replacement for a math tossup, as we wound up with a math bonus written to fix some distributional problems in your submitted packet (which can be discussed in private, as can the p...

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