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But "One Art" - write it! - is hardly a tirade. Meh, there are people for whom pretty much any assertion of homosexuality is some sort of gay supremacy thing (same with other minorities). The clue was about what a critic said, not the actual content of the work. Anyways! Here are the Matt...

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Oh my lord, the people on Twitter claiming that Matt really lost because the DD wager of "five" really meant "five thousand". This one guy seems to be insisting that since Matt's general strategy is to find the Daily Doubles early to get a big lead, he couldn't possibly have bet ...

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Last night I read all of the comment sections I could find because I hate myself. Good to see that the talk on the Huffpo piece only got better. Highlights include people feeding the troll who responded with "He's Black." to every post at the time, at least one person who thinks there's ch...

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If there has to be an official timepiece for responses, it is easier to just watch the second hand on an analog clock face than it is to fiddle with a stopwatch.

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Indiana is definitely the boring part of the flight from Atlanta to Chicago.

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yessss this is shaping up to be an excellent thread

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Here are mine: 1: alternation of generations/thallus/anther; NO/nitroglycerin/mitochondria 2: glucose/maltose/equatorial 8: thyroid/hypothalamus/calcitonin 10: stomata/abscisic acid/ethene 12: competition/Paramecium/Galapagos 13: folate/uracil/spina bifida 20: carotid/dura mater/anastomosis (this on...

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glucose/maltose/equatorial - Equatorial was pretty hard, and I'm not a huge fan of memorizing all the disaccharides Is it? Are there not high school organic chemistry courses where they learn about cyclohexane's chair conformation (asking seriously)? As for the other part, it was originally about s...

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I will be going to Mercer University, which entails a few things: 1. I likely will attempt to transfer to Georgia Tech, Emory, or Tufts as soon as possible. 2. I will try to help out on my home Georgia circuit as much as possible. I know that Mercer has some sort of team; they went to SCT at the ve...

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I'll take any opportunity to post my "humorous" account of a 2011

regional.

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Gibberish Nonsense wrote:I'm sorry, is there some epidemic of standing going on in quizbowl that I have neither seen nor heard of?

I've seen at least one team stand up in the middle of a match at the HSNCT, but I think it was some sort of lethargy-combating thing. I guess it's fine so long as they can't see the questions.

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At Sectionals 2013, Jarret's scorekeeper literally fell asleep with his head on his hand around 3 tossups into the game and didn't wake up until halftime. Fortunately, I had been keeping score, but don't rely on this! Back when I was at Tech, some people seemed to hate being assigned to keep score,...

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In honor of both Liberty and anime, there is a 1/1 Vic Mignogna distribution.

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As a person from Georgia, I liked the Sea Islands tossup, even though I would have said "Golden Isles" because I always get them mixed up.

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I also thought the Cobain question was neat. My questions: DI apoptosis/mitochondria/TUNEL Gioconda/Dance of the Hours/Suicidio polytene chromosome/Drosophila/abdomen roots/velamen/legume cicada/Hemiptera/cochineal DII Fungi TU apoptosis/mitochondria/p53 Gioconda/Dance of the Hours/Hugo polytene chr...

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You'd have to ask them (I think it was the WKU advisor?), but I think he was literally referring to Honda the sponsor, and not the College Bowl Company.

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HCASC results from preliminary round robin here . Has anybody ever tried to invite these teams to good quizbowl tournaments? It seems like they already have existing organizations, making it a lot easier to bring them into the fold. A few years ago, I had the bright idea to try and invite Georgia H...

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Matthew J wrote:
The United Stats of America wrote:
I wrote:
Joel Gluskin is not wearing a sports cap (500-1)
I didn't see him wearing a sports cap!
This was the biggest surprise of the tournament

I honestly didn't recognize him until he started talking.

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There are a bunch of math and physics things I wouldn't have heard of if not for the game Half-Life 2 and its soundtrack.

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Will we get an update as to exactly how "ridiculous and terrible" the event was?

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I'm kinda disappointed to find that Dave Madden's post wasn't a German tossup like I initially thought.

vinteuil wrote: Not only that, but I can imagine that restrictions on/rules about extracurriculars in Europe might get in the way.

What would those be?

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I'd also be interested in an HSNCT event.

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Maybe it's just because I've been out of the loop at Tech for a few years, but which chemical engineering building are we talking about here? I don't have anything to do with this tournament, but I figure others might need that clarified.

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I don't know that this is a big deal since the packets are already available for free, but this organisation has bonuses from the 2010 CMST posted on their site. Probably tossups, too, but it was the "[10]"s on the bonus parts that tipped me off. For example, the middle school science bonu...

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My questions:

Spanish flu/yellow fever/Legionnaire's disease
PCR
flowers/hay fever/echinacea
kidney
ungulate/Artiodactyla/pig
Archaea/ether/thermophile
Brave New World
Darwin's finches/citrate/ring species
electron transport chain/coenzyme Q/chemiosmosis
hair cells/microvilli/lateral line
vitamin K

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One other thing: for some ballrooms, is it possible to bring the tables closer since the acoustics are rather poor? I was going to post on this very topic. Before one of the Sunday afternoon rounds that I staffed in Rosemont C, a player remarked that he preferred that room's setup with the two team...

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Hah, yeah I should've finished reading before posting.

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I like the liveblog at the bottom of this Sun-Times report.

[i]Sun-Times[/i] writer Michael O'Brien wrote:This is officially scholastic bowl's moment in the sun. This keeps up and we will have to start up a scholastic bowl Super 25 ranking.

Someone send this guy Fred's rankings.

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TORCH infections and IgG can cross this organ, but IgM cannot. It secretes hormones to maintain the endometrial lining, and deoxygenated blood reaches it via the (*) umbilical arteries. For 10 points--name this temporary organ that forms on the uterine wall and nourishes a developing fetus. The clu...

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This was only my second time ever reading at the middle school level, but I actually found many of the questions to be rather difficult, for example, a leadin about TORCH in placenta that my scorekeeper noted was something he learned in med school. I knew I should have replaced that clue :/ I've be...

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Tees-Exe Line wrote:For those interested in the sillier aspects of this story, I present the GJR-GARCH email: [snip]

Yeah, wow.

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I couldn't write many questions for this, but here are mine: DI 2 - mtDNA/ubiquinone/retina 3 - Boris Godunov 8 - Mordred/Volsung/Tezcatlipoca 9 - Ediacaran/radula/mollusk 11- Capriccio espagnol/Rimsky-Korsakov/Alborada 16 - benzyne/aniline/ortho 16 - Respighi/Fountains of Rome/horn DII 2 - mtDNA/re...

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For the record, this is against NAQT rules*, and it could be interpreted as against HSAPQ's** (and I guess ACF's).

*Section K.1
**Section B.1

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This common over the counter drug, abused by one out of every ten teenagers, is the active ingredient found in Robitussin and Nyquil as well as other OTC cold medications. Its use is often described as "robo-tripping" and its four different dosage levels are referred to as plateaus. In la...

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Another thing to note when it comes to large roster sizes is that constantly switching out players can be really aggravating for score- and statkeepers.

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Happened to my team all the time in high school. It was especially frustrating because none of us knew about the online community, so our coach was basically the gatekeeper of everything. The crowning moment was when we qualified for the HSNCT my junior year and there was little communication betwee...

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It doesn't look like that thread was closed down at all. First, it was around for about 1 year and 3 months. Second, it is located in "Off topic archives", which means it was archived (moved there after some suitable period of no response). You'll notice that all the current topics in Off...

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Which is why I said they should both be acceptable answers.

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As explained above, both the "ee-vahn" and "eye-van" pronunciations are automatically correct per good-quizbowl rules on being lenient with players' answers as long as they look like what's on the page and aren't identifying a different, wrong answer (eg, alkane and alkene). Howe...

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A thing doesn't have to be intentionally malicious to be the worst of something.

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the Fillmore Central I found originally in Nebraska had a ton of updates about their quiz bowl team including their women's quiz bowl team. Okay, I couldn't let this one go without finding out more, so it seems like this women's quiz bowl is run by the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs, which is...

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Here's one that I was wondering about: If these data structures are continuous in memory, they are said to have "unit stride," and C++ provides a separate new operator to handle them. Portions of them are specified by "slicing," and every Java Collection must implement a method t...

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I am also interested in the Settlers of Catan tossup. How do you write a tossup on something like that? I particularly liked the Catan tossup because I played a round of it that previous evening. And, no disrespect to Max Schindler, that was a pretty funny neg. But it can be difficult to write tras...

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Also, I want to publicly declare that Matt Bruce is the best moderator ever. We had the privilege of being in his room one round. Immediately after the match, my players commented on what a great moderator he was. Every single word was clear and pronounced correctly. He didn't read too fast, but st...

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Centennial Olympic Park?

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Having everyone play on the same difficulty would be like using a yardstick regardless of how short or long the length you're measuring is. You would only get good results for the group the packet difficulty is appropriate for. Would you use a yardstick to measure the thickness of a sheet of paper o...

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If this set isn't cleared for discussion yet, I'd like anyone with comments on specific biology questions to send them to the email in my profile. I edited about half of them and would like feedback especially regarding whether or not they were of appropriate difficulty.

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1) Do fundamentalist Christians dislike it when quiz bowl asks about other religions? Is a tossup on Diwali, for example, somehow Leftist in your opinion? I'm just curious. This would not be surprising, as I have seen multiple instances of fundamentalist Christians objecting to any real or perceive...

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If they're fair game in a high school literature class, why is it strange for them to come up in quizbowl?

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I didn't actually hear it myself. One of my moderators told me about it after the fact. Basically, it seemed that they were complaining about literature and art. Liberal Arts = Liberals = Left Wing. :lol: :roll: This is Alabama, after all. Don't forget the science distribution, with its well-known ...

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