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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2041
Re: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
Could I see the Plague of Athens, Apollo, and The Police tossups please? Thanks! Responses to this event included a decree removing all tombs from Delos. An ambiguous prophecy about either a limos or a loimos was widely quoted during this event. A description of this event stating that "fear o...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2024 NAQT MSNCT: May 10–12, Chicago
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2609
Re: 2024 NAQT MSNCT: May 10–12, Chicago
The field for the 2024 MSNCT has been expanded to 160 teams.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
The SLAM code can differentiate between populations of these cells. The homing of these cells localizes them to tissue that constitutively expresses E-selectin. Colony-forming units of these cells are stimulated by cytokines like M-CSF and G-CSF to proliferate. These CD34-positive cells are (*) abl...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2041
Re: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
Can I see the tossup about Yugoslavia please? After British forces refused a surrender, thousands of Axis collaborators being expelled back to this country were killed in the Bleiburg repatriations. The invasion of this country in the April War followed a coup that enthroned Peter II. Ante Pavelic ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2041
Re: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
This man targeted Michael Meehan's "Radio Pool" as the first chairman of the SEC. This man declared "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here" while serving as ambassador to Britain in 1940. After the death of his namesake in Operation (*) Anvil, this man, who arranged a...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2041
Re: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
This man targeted Michael Meehan's "Radio Pool" as the first chairman of the SEC. This man declared "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here" while serving as ambassador to Britain in 1940. After the death of his namesake in Operation (*) Anvil, this man, who arranged a...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:01 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossups on denim and "Subterranean Homesick Blues"? Members of the Italian Parliament wore this fabric to protest the Supreme Court's 1999 overturning of a rape ruling because the victim wore a garment made of this fabric. Jacob Davis placed copper rivets along seams in an...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I resisted buzzing on the "South China" answerline for multiple clues because I had the conception that it was south of the Yangtze somehow, but also possibly still in the North Chinese plain and wasn't sure if we wanted the Yangtze delta, Jiangnan, etc. Finally buzzed on Deng's tour. Cou...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossup on Chazelle, please? A scientist with this surname created the soft heap and used it in an algorithm with inverse Ackermann function complexity that is the most efficient finder of minimum spanning trees. Computer scientist Bernard shares this surname with his son, who direct...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2041
Re: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
Can I see the tossup on the thirty tyrants? Forces controlled by this regime lost the Battle of Munychia during the Phyle Campaign. A member of this group, Theramenes, was accused of being a traitor and forced to drink hemlock by its leader, Critias. This group presided over (*) trials in the boule...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
The sports questions, if not a little bland, seemed reasonably well written overall. I was curious though: what was the breakdown like for this category? It felt like there was a decent amount of baseball and basketball, but I don't recall any football questions other than 1 that only got played in...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
The protest committee did end up accepting the descriptive answers for Mia Wallace. Civil War content: Battle of Franklin Confederacy and the UK Edwin Stanton reference in the leadin to the common link on the surname "Palmer" Jefferson C. Davis/March to the Sea/Modoc War Montgomery Meigs/F...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossup on Somalia? Thanks. This country prepares a bread called sabaayad that closely resembles Indian paratha . This country's cuisine uses a spice blend similar to garam masala that is called xawaash . Some street vendors in this country's cities of Kismayo and (*) Berbera sell lo...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I would like to see the Curtis LeMay tossup, as I found one of the clues somewhat confusing. In response to a question from Jack Nelson, this man spoke glowingly about island rats that were "fatter" and "healthier" than before. He supposedly once growled that his lit cigar "...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossups on Les Chants de Maldoror and the commonlink on The Emigrants ? A character in this book creates a pit filled with lice, which he then lets loose. This 19th-century book copies entries from Chenu's Encyclopedia of Natural History verbatim, illustrating its author's theory th...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I'd be grateful to whomever posts the Pan Tadeusz tossup. Near the end of this poem, a stirring dulcimer concert is given by a Jewish innkeeper. The cookbook Compendium ferculorum influenced the description of the great banquet that opens this poem's twelfth and final book, at which a notary propos...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could someone post the Cherubini tossup, please? This composer wrote the aria "Del fiero duol" for an opera revived in 1953 as a vehicle for Maria Callas. This composer accidentally distributed his Song on the Death of Haydn five years before Haydn actually died. A fortissimo tam-tam stri...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2041
2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
Disclaimer:
If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)
This is your question-specific discussion for the 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT sets.
If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)
This is your question-specific discussion for the 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT sets.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5654
2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Disclaimer:
If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)
This is your question-specific discussion for the 2024 Division I ICT set.
If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)
This is your question-specific discussion for the 2024 Division I ICT set.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ICT general discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1462
2024 ICT general discussion
Disclaimer:
If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)
This is your general discussion thread for the 2024 NAQT ICT.
If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2024 ICT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (There has been an expression of interest for a British mirror in summer 2024.)
This is your general discussion thread for the 2024 NAQT ICT.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3782
Re: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
Congratulations to Ali Hamzeh from the Kinkaid School of Houston, Texas, the champion of the 2024 NAQT Individual Player National Championship Tournament!
Complete statistics are now available.
Complete statistics are now available.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3627
Re: 2024 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
Congratulations to the champions of the 2024 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament! Chicago A went undefeated to claim the Division I Overall title. Cornell A defeated Georgia Tech 250-240 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the Division I Undergraduate title. In Division II, Wat...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT HSNCT: May 24–26, Atlanta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2256
Re: 2024 NAQT HSNCT: May 24–26, Atlanta
The field for the 2024 HSNCT has been expanded to 320 teams.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3782
Re: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 260 players.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT Novice / British Novice at Tufts (4/13)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 862
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: NAQT national championship staff call
- Replies: 0
- Views: 476
NAQT national championship staff call
NAQT is seeking additional staff for our three secondary championships this spring. Specifically: Small School National Championship Tournament (SSNCT, April 26–28) Middle School National Championship Tournament (MSNCT, May 10–12) High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT, May 24–26) The S...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3767
Re: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2024 SSNCT has been expanded to 88 teams.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3782
Re: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 250 players.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT job posting: video coordinator
- Replies: 0
- Views: 201
NAQT job posting: video coordinator
NAQT is seeking a person or persons to manage video, including livestreams, at its national championships. The video coordinator will be responsible for procuring, setting up, operating, and tearing down video equipment, and doing any other necessary things, for recording and livestreaming selected...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3782
Re: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 230 players.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT CCCT: February 23–24, Chicago
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2411
Re: 2024 NAQT CCCT: February 23–24, Chicago
Congratulations to Chipola College (Marianna, Florida), who defeated Southern Union State Community College (Wadley, Alabama) 230-195 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the 2024 NAQT Community College Championship Tournament! Murray State College (Tishomingo, Oklahoma) finished third; ...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT CCCT: February 23–24, Chicago
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2411
Re: 2024 NAQT CCCT: February 23–24, Chicago
Results from the 2024 CCCT will be posted throughout the day.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3782
Re: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 220 players.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3627
Re: 2024 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
Preliminary D-values for the 2024 SCT are now available (Division I, Division II). Please let us know if any corrections need to be made; we expect to issue invitations to the 2024 ICT in the next few days.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3782
Re: 2024 NAQT IPNCT: April 7, Chicago
The field for the 2024 IPNCT has been expanded to 200 players.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5510
Re: 2024 NAQT SCT: February 3
A private forum for the 2024 SCT is now available. From your user control panel, please select "Usergroups" and then request access to the group marked "2024 SCT Discussion."
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: NAQT SCT at Berkeley (2/3/24)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 863
Re: NAQT SCT at Berkeley (2/3/24)
Congratulations to Berkeley A, who cleared the field to win the 2024 Northern California SCT! Complete team and individual statistics are available on naqt.com . My thanks to Shahar Schwartz for assistance with the logistics of this tournament, and to all the Berkeley staff (Kelvin, Katerina, Grace,...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: NAQT SCT at Berkeley (2/3/24)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 863
Re: NAQT SCT at Berkeley (2/3/24)
Check-in is at 8:30 am in 175 Social Sciences (ex-Barrows) (Berkeley campus map).
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SCT @ University of Florida (2/3/24)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 581
Re: 2024 NAQT SCT @ University of Florida (2/3/24)
Could someone from Florida please contact NAQT directly as soon as possible to confirm question delivery for tomorrow's SCT? Thank you!
Update: this has been resolved; thank you!
Update: this has been resolved; thank you!
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT HSNCT: May 24–26, Atlanta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2256
Re: 2024 NAQT HSNCT: May 24–26, Atlanta
Wildcard applications and standby signup for the 2024 HSNCT are now open.
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5510
Re: 2024 NAQT SCT: February 3 - register now!
Reminder that SCT registration closes for most sites today, January 26. If you haven't signed up already, now is the time to register your team!
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: NAQT SCT at Berkeley (2/3/24)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 863
NAQT SCT at Berkeley (2/3/24)
I am pleased to announce that Berkeley Quiz Bowl will host the northern California site of the 2024 NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Location: This tournament will take place in-person at the UC Berkeley Social Sciences Building. Fees: Base fees: $160 base fee fo...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3767
Re: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2024 SSNCT has been expanded to 77 teams.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: NAQT college distribution changes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1650
NAQT college distribution changes
NAQT has made some changes to the distribution for our college tournaments, starting with the 2024 SCT. Selected highlights: -Literature, science, and history now have the same top-level weight in the distribution -Additional space has been added to world history, which is now even with European his...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: Future NAQT championships
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24615
Re: Future NAQT championships
Our future championships page has been updated with the location of the 2025 HSNCT.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3767
Re: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
Wildcard applications and standby signup for the 2024 SSNCT are now open.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2024 NAQT MSNCT: May 10–12, Chicago
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2609
Re: 2024 NAQT MSNCT: May 10–12, Chicago
Wildcard applications and standby signup for the 2024 MSNCT are now open.
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3627
Re: 2024 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
The University of Chicago will receive one writing autobid to the 2024 Division I ICT, in recognition of Matt Jackson's contributions to the 2024 Division I SCT set. Unlike a hosting autobid, this autobid cannot be dissolved.
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3767
Re: 2024 NAQT SSNCT: April 26–28, Chicago
The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2024 SSNCT has been expanded to 66 teams.
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:56 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: NAQT Records
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1151
Re: NAQT Records
Andrew is correct: the records pages on naqt.com only rank statistics compiled on NAQT questions. (We sometimes record statistics from non-NAQT sets, most commonly in the case where "one division of a tournament uses our questions and the other uses a non-NAQT question provider," but we do...