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"Stump the Experts" round coming up.

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Herculaneum is across from what?

Nobody gets it, and I yell Pompei.

Chip tells me that I know my stuff.

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Chip's talking about "becoming a Game Show Host" segment and all of us taking some survey.

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Sosa, Gwyn, and Henderson were the answers

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audio tossup on “Bluegrass”... bonus on baseball coming up

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"Some Russian church commemorates Napoleon's defeat. What Tchaikovsky work commemorates his defeat?"

I knew it.

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Also, Boone is from Iowa, Cutter Morning Star is from Arkansas.

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I love areas of trapezoids. So does Chip.

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An audio tossup on the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Boone girl says answer before name is called. Gosh darn her.

Such words! -- Mgmt.

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Chip gets the crowd involved. I dig it. I'm gonna yell out the answer one of these times.

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"Obama didn't say this T word at his meeting at Cairo."

buzz; TERRORISMMMMM

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Apparently, in the 27 year history, the most violated technicality is answering before your name is called.

This is according to Chip, who's reading this match.

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**Cutter Morning Star, not Cutter Mill

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COMING UP: Boone vs. Cutter Mill

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I have arrived. Buffet is mediocre. The only "hot" part about it was the pancakes. I envisioned better.

I have seen Byram Hills and Zionsville so far.

More importantly, I have seen Chip. Sporting green jacket like Tiger Woods.

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The day has come. NAC 2009.

About to leave for the Sheraton. Should be fun. I'm getting up extra early to get there for the hot breakfast buffet. I like food.

Rumor has it that there's free internet, which is good.

Back in an hour or so.

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And isn't it a little overkill to have 3 HSAPQ events in October (if you include perhaps Oct. 17)? Gotta save some for later, you know. Well, if there are three sets for the fall, it seems sensible to make sure they all get used. All the other possible dates are already taken with high-quality tour...

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grapesmoker wrote:Is the full set posted anywhere?

cdcarter wrote:http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... mizzou.zip

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The Hemingway bio and White House # are especially great.

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I'm quite pleased that my unamusing parody of Cato the Elder can stop after only two posts. I like the new format very much, except that I think the distribution is somewhat odd. In particular, 15% each of RMP and FA seems like too much. Perhaps this belongs in a separate thread, but one of the few...

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Does a SQBS page, or something like it, exist? I see top individuals and final team ranks but nothing more at NAQT.com

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I was once one of NAQT's strongest supporters, so I never thought I'd be saying this: I agree with everyone in the quizbowl community that PACE is far more legitimate than NAQT. The rounds at PACE are too long, but the questions actually test academic knowledge, not Wheaties. I'm in the same boat. ...

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To be perfectly honest, I would never even consider competing at any other Nationals other than NAC. That's fine! I accept the fact that you enjoy NAC. Trying to compare the two formats is like trying to say that "rugby" teams are better than "football" teams. The competitions a...

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Weiner's laws being cited, oh my!

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Back in the Chi, slightly less exhausted. A fantastic tournament indeed. Quality of questions and level of organization were high. I had a blast playing against great competition and was thoroughly satisfied with the moderating. It's stuff like this that makes quizbowl awesome. I do have a couple cr...

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I think it's a fine idea, but I'm 100% with Nick on this--it should be after a normal tournament. A stand-alone trash tournament in high school is promoting the wrong thing, I think. Rather than having it in the Spring, when many Illinois quizbowlers are unfortunately in "the off-season" (...

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Silby.

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DII SCT

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I just wanna say that while Zach is wrong about a lot of stuff in this thread, let's not pile on. If you were a high school sophomore in Illinois, you would have viewpoints very similar to his--guaranteed. I certainly made many regrettable posts when I first discovered hsqb. It was not long ago when...

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New Trier kids pay 5 bucks per mile to ride in my car.

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Protractor?! Oh right!!

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Headed to DePauw. Thats great! Apparently they used to have a fairly active team - i'd bet you could revitalize that. That's what I hope. Though, don't they have a anti-quizbowl quizbowler attitude? I hope it's not too much of an uphill battle. Also, ND quizbowl may turn into Loyola East Quizbowl--...

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Headed to DePauw.

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Why do I have to graduate.

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BG MSL Champs wrote:what's happening with your graduation?

I don't think anyone will know until the day of. All of the seniors will miss many rounds, regardless of what happens. We're bummed that we can't be at full strength (like, at all) for HSNCT, but we are gearing up for NSC.

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Basketball?

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I agree with most of what's been said, but after the weekend of IHSA State, how can we think that change is in the future? IHSA advocates glossy programs, a color guard, and a dress code but asks questions about computational spelling and driver's ed? Maybe I was the only one disillusioned by the wh...

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I'm not trying to bash Greg's or anyone else's ideas in this post. In fact, I support some of it. But, News flash: this fight isn't worth fighting. Three things will always hold true. 1) IHSA is a sports organization that isn't in-touch with updated quizbowl. 2) People don't want to and/or are afrai...

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Robbie Ram wrote:one day is simply not enough time to produce and organize question sets

Printing packets takes 20 minutes.

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That's pretty cool.

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They got mad at us for wearing do-rags.

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I agree with all that's been said; NSC format is too gimmicky for me.

JackGlerum · Re: Mohammed Massaquoi Memorial Hybrid (Athens GA) Apr 25, 2009 ...

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I think one of them was HDG = hot dipping galvanization.

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My expectations were pretty low, but it was worse than I thought (and worse than last year, iirc). Distribution and difficulty were both atrocious. I'm too tired to get angry about comp. math, but what about "language arts"? Again, I expected (not that this excuses anything) a couple of sp...

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Yesterday was a satisfying quizbowl experience. Eleven guaranteed rounds, all of which had both moderator and scorekeeper, made me smile. It's about time someone got this simple logistics concept down in Illinois. Also worth noting is lunch. By far the best I've had at a quizbowl tournament. All ten...

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I only posted this in the UChicago Regs thread, so here it is.

Chicago A vs. Minnesota A

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We'll have final numbers after practice on Thursday.

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I like this post a lot. Social Science questions can be awesome but are often watered down, as you have pointed out. I don't think there are other concepts that would make good tossup answers besides those models, but since economics is not my field, perhaps someone could mention some I'm not thinki...

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