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- Wed May 06, 2009 4:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament Discussion Committee of the First International
- Replies: 76
- Views: 13383
Re: Tournament Discussion Committee of the First International
There's also some material here that I've never seen before and can't find in my copies of the Eddas: Skirnir's threat to cover the world in ice (could be a translation issue--I do see Skirnir threaten to strand Gerd in the world of the frost giants), Laevateinn as Frey's sword (this seems to be an...
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: inclusion of state/local history
- Replies: 78
- Views: 13271
Re: inclusion of state/local history
Is this for real?User was tempbanned for three days due to backseat modding.
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ratio of American History to European/World History
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19395
Re: Ratio of American History to European/World History
I thought this list was pretty good, but certainly most of them are not household names to non-historians: Thucydides, Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon, Leopold Von Ranke, Jacob Burckhardt, Sir Lewis Namier, C. M. Andrews, Perry Miller, Bernard Bailyn, John Murrin I might add E. P. Thompson as well...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ratio of American History to European/World History
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19395
Re: Ratio of American History to European/World History
I wasn't commenting on Peter Brown's tossup-worthiness, just making a point that he was probably more famous or widely read than most of the other names brought up in that one post (like MacMullen). That said, anyone who takes a medieval survey course or something involving the later Roman Empire/ea...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ratio of American History to European/World History
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19395
Re: Ratio of American History to European/World History
Since Andy mentioned me, I thought I, as another actual historian who has taught and taken a bunch of actual history classes, might have something to add. I do think a lot of what Jeff has said makes sense, and it's nice having "history people" talking about "history" questions. ...
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XVII (3/29/08) at Yale (New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 42665
Re: BHSAT XVII (3/29/08) at Yale (New Haven, CT)
I don't have firsthand knowledge of what exactly happened with the questions this year because I'm not really involved with Yale quizbowl any longer thanks to my dissertation. I just showed up to moderate, having written roughly a packet's worth of questions. That said, I can provide a decent overvi...
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guns of August and the state of quizbowl history
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15551
History questions don't really reflect what is learned in classes, graduate or undergrad. That's just not true. I don't understand, did your undergraduate classes never include any factual information at all? There is no way to do the higher order analysis taught in graduate courses unless you know...
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guns of August and the state of quizbowl history
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15551
To clarify a few points made by my long, rambling, late-night post and to comment on others. I didn't go to Bruce's tournament, but I heard that the difficulty was appropriate. I feel the problems were only caused by his (and likely many others') understanding of the history distribution in quizbowl...
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guns of August and the state of quizbowl history
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15551
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: the quizbowl canon
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17889
I wrote a Richard Russo tossup for this past year's BOB tournament. It probably wasn't perfect, but don't recall anyone griping too much about it or thinking it was overly difficult. If someone wants to dig it out and post it, I wouldn't object. By the way, I agree with Andrew's assessment of Straig...
- Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
- Replies: 127
- Views: 59335
I wasn't there, so I can't comment on the questions directly, and I agree with many of Jerry's sentiments. One point: the Spanish Riding School is pretty famous, as are the Lipizzaner horses. The school is a major tourist attraction in Vienna--it's part of the Hofburg complex and in every guidebook....
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: BHSAT (3/3/07) at Yale (New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7179
- Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BoB Question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2634
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: BOB (12/9/06) at Yale
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7519
- Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: BOB (12/9/06) at Yale
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7519
- Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: BOB (12/9/06) at Yale
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7519
The field is: 2 Rutgers-Newark 1 Rutgers 2 Columbia 2 Brown 1 Amherst 1 Yale House So, 9 teams. We do have rooms...I'll know for sure where those rooms are Thursday afternoon. Time: try to show up around 9. We want to get rounds started at 9:30. Directions can be found at http://www.yale.edu/ysac I'...
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37695
Re: Another example
Perhaps I over-generalized. I have no idea where to put Full House and Airwolf with respect to each other on the Great Chain of Being. My point is this: I have an idea where to put Full House and Airwolf. As someone who has a tv and has spent a great deal of time watching it, I can confidently say ...
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: FAcT (11/11/06) at Yale (New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6005
You can find results on Yale qb's web page...
http://www.yale.edu/ysac
There's a link at the top for FACT.
http://www.yale.edu/ysac
There's a link at the top for FACT.
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SEC tournament?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14015
I'm sorry Chris doesn't like BoB. Sorry Robert never responded to your email three years back. Maybe that's why Princeton isn't coming this year. I don't think that's why tournaments in the northeast aren't well attended, though. There are several reasons not to come to New Haven for our tournament,...
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8559
Seth's reply brings me to ask the following question: how much do people actually care about seeing their questions get used? People who write questions for tournaments want to see their questions get used, at least I do. Otherwise, there's no point in their writing, other than saving a few bucks. ...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: BOB (12/9/06) at Yale
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7519
Hey everyone, looks like the first deadline is fast approaching. Here's the tentative field so far: Brown 2? Amherst 2? Harvard 1-2 Rutgers 1 Rutgers-Newark 1-2 Yale house 1 Expressed interest: Nathan Freeburg Let me know if I've forgotten anyone. Also, there's still room for more teams if anyone's ...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: BOB (12/9/06) at Yale
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7519
hey, just wanted to let people know about BOB on December 9. I've gotten some interest from a few teams, but let me know if you're planning on coming or have questions regarding packets or whatever. Also, the questions from last year's tournament will be put on the archive sometime in the very near ...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PARFAIT II
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8939
- Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Deep Bench predictions
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9240
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On high schools competing in college tournaments
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8889
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33819
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: high school - college retention
- Replies: 72
- Views: 31204
I just wanted to add a couple of names to Chris's list from 2002 DII nationals. In addition to the stellar Robert Beard, both Kyrill Kunakhovich and Bill Schmedlin were both active players on Yale's teams for the past few years and were on subsequent NAQT nationals teams. I believe both of them also...
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:21 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Underwhelmed
- Replies: 141
- Views: 158645
- Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: does anyone know about this NAQT rule?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7957
Think what you may of how fair that is (as previously noted in this thread, the intent is to dissuade host teams from fielding their better staffers--presumably DI players--on house teams), but I find it hard to see how anyone hosting an SCT can reasonably claim ignorance of this rule. well, I thou...
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: does anyone know about this NAQT rule?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7957
- Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: does anyone know about this NAQT rule?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7957
does anyone know about this NAQT rule?
Hey, As you might know, we at Yale hosted a sectional last weekend. We asked for our automatic bid to be in DII, and since we were low on staff, I played solo as a D1 team in order to try to get two teams qualified. However, as you may have noticed from the results Yale's automatic qualification spo...
- Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57657
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52046
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52046
All those things are very historical. They also have the various advantage in quizbowl that they have proper names. Social history, while obviously important, doesn't have convenient labels that you can attach to everything and that everyone agrees on, and that makes it difficult from a practical s...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52046
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52046
- Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: geography
- Replies: 36
- Views: 21085
- Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT at Yale February 18, 2006
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7669
BHSAT at Yale February 18, 2006
Yale Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce Bulldog High School Academic Tournament XV (BHSAT), which will take place on February 18, 2006. BHSAT annually features a number of top teams from around the country. As in the past, the questions will be written and edited by members of the Yale Quiz Bowl team....
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:44 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 106750
Just wanted to add some comments about the tournament. Eric did a nice job putting the packets together, but I think the editor(s) next year should not ask for full packets from competing teams. When people know that most of their questions are going to be unused because of such a large number of te...
- Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: personal stats data analysis
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29902
As an aside, I believe that getting a neg entails more than just -5 for your team. For the most part, other teams (at competent levels) usually pick up 10 (not counting bonuses) after your neg, so the usual PPG scores are inflated if someone just buzzes in a lot. That is, it underestimates the effe...
- Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Powers
- Replies: 161
- Views: 76833
Even though you knew that geography was probably the last category, you were still lucky on that Tivoli question, since the answer could just as easily have had something to do with Rome (Tivoli's an ancient resort on the outskirts of Rome, site of Hadrian's villa, etc.) Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen...
- Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:46 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Technophobia Discussion or Monologue, Really
- Replies: 56
- Views: 62232
a couple things from someone who also hosted a tournament this weekend (Bulldogs over Broadway)...hopefully the things I say aren't painfully obvious. In general, when you edit a tournament, be prepared for shitty packets. When you get these bad packets, you have to rewrite a lot of the questions in...
- Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6249
ok, don't discuss the question specifics because these are going to be used in mirrors at Tulsa (this saturday) and Georgia sometime in January. if you'd like to post your general feelings on the questions (which i think turned out pretty decent) go ahead. Hope everyone enjoyed the tournament....the...
- Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6249
Ok, the tournament will take place in the centrally located Willliam L Harkness Hall (WLH), which is on the corner of Wall and College streets. We will convene in WLH 208 at 9 and hopefully start rounds by 9:30. Parking is located a block away in a lot on Temple Street. For a map, go here: http://ww...
- Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6249
ok, I'll get info out to the teams as soon as it's available...I'm not sure where on campus the tournament will be held yet, but here's a team list as of now: Columbia 2 (maybe 3) New School 1 Penn 1 Rutgers 1 Rutgers-Newark 1 Rochester 4 Yale House 1 Brandeis 1 maybe Brown 1 maybe Most of the packe...
- Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6249
hey, thought I'd give an update to move this thread higher up the list. I sent the packets from last year's tournament to the folks at Stanford, so they should be up on the archive soon. As for this year, so far I've heard from (these are mainly probables, nothing confirmed--so don't freak out if yo...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Yale University HS Tournament - FACT: October 15, 2005
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1896
Yale University HS Tournament - FACT: October 15, 2005
Yale Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the return of its Fall Academic Tournament (FACT). FACT, which will take place on October 15, 2005, will be an official National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC (NAQT) event. This means that the tournament will use questions produced by NAQT (Invitational Series ...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6249
Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005
Hey everybody, This is to let you know that Yale is hosting its annual college tournament, Bulldogs Over Broadway (BOB), on Saturday, October 29, 2005 in scenic New Haven, CT. Due to schedule conflicts, it's going to be a little earlier than our traditional first weekend of December date. Fees: Base...
- Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Seniors Bound for College Thread
- Replies: 155
- Views: 84112
To answer some questions about yale that haven't really been answered...Frankel's pretty much right on. We do have a team and are generally, along with Harvard, the best team in the northeast. We don't travel to too many tourneys (generally 8 or so a year, incl. nats) because nobody at Yale has a ca...
- Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:14 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: SCT commentary
- Replies: 67
- Views: 76768