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mrblinux

Wish you all luck in the race to get on it! Now you just have to sit and wait, really. I tried out in Memphis before I got on.

mrblinux

Colleen, those must have been Chip Beall questions.

I'd rather make fun of the question writer than the player who negged. After all, Chip breeds those kinds of answers.

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Nope, haha. Sometimes people who know me from this forum call me that as a joke though. Michael Braun is my name, not Mr. Blinux.

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Indeed.....

I can't believe I'm known as that now just because I wore the shirt from Quizmaster Challenge.

It's MRB linux - linux is an operating system and MRB are my initials.

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We need to have some way of meeting up and having a little hsqb gathering down in Florida. This year, I'm going in that pool.

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I think I know all of you.. from either ACE camp or Jeopardy in Jimmy's case. I'm on Team Maryland again this year.

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I think I speak for all of us when I say...

the heck?

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Both were Holocaust survivors... who was the perpetrator?

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If all goes like it is now, Blake will be at NAQT!

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Bulldog, who are you? I really don't remember all that many specifics of SEMO the summer before my sophomore year. The best teams in the DC metro area, in no order - Blair, Blake, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gonzaga, Richard Montgomery, TJ, Walter Johnson I find it kind of hard to rank. The best way would pr...

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Follower of Mr. BrindleeM wrote: Reader: This fortress was built by Philip II...
Me: Kremlin

I know he lived in the Escorial, was that the answer?

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I'm a fan of timed rounds myself, especially when swiss pairing is involved. When the lowest seeded teams play each other, games with a set number of pyramidal questions tend to go on for longer periods of time. With timed games, more questions can be read if the game goes faster and teams aren't de...

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I know there was - my mother is from the Bronx, and in her yearbook there is a picture of their school's It's Academic team.

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I'd like them if they were pretty mich the same construction as the Livestrong bands (rubbery, cool looking).

right now I wear a Stand Strong for Israel band.

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I'll take one of them - my team isn't as into quizbowl fashion as I am.

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People did the same thing at when the same questions were at the University of Maryland.

FF7... great game.

Back to subject... literature questions with movie leadins need to go.

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The Bible Code for Eight Fold Path (on mentioning an Israeli physicist)

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Actually, we came in third.

1. Raleigh Charter A
2. MLW GSGIS A
3. Blake A
4. Richard Montgomery

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Ross Geller for Steven Jay Gould.

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My blunder today - Remarque for The Comic Book Guy.

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810 against Sherwood and 775 against Seneca Valley. Similar, but lower, score against Kennedy (I don't remember it.)

:hose: :eyebrow:

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TJ A beat RM A in the finals 270-190. WJ and Gonzaga were the other two semifinalist teams. The standings (based on # of points scored in the teams last round. 1. Thomas Jefferson A 2. Richard Montgomery A 3. Walter Johnson A 4. Gonzaga 5. Thomas Jefferson B 6. Blair A 7. Centennial A 8. Eleanor Roo...

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And later that night..

Rape of the Lock and Murder on the Orient Express for Kidnapped
Ikea for Lego
Butterfingers and Oreo Defense for twinky defense
Arnold Shwartzenneger for TS Garp

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There are spots left, and registration is still open. I'll try to get a list of teams coming, but I don't have a list at the moment from my coach.

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jrbarry wrote:You are right! And I wrote that College fball one myself.

And, actually, it was a GEOGRAPHY topic! :-)

OK. Once. :-)

Was this category identical to the College Football give and take at ACE?

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Baldness and Zits for Menopause
Fishing Line for Dog Tags
St. George for Michael (I said this one)
Volga for Volta
George Orwell for War of the Worlds
St. Augustine for Bogota
Onion juice for smog
Mona Lisa for Christina's World

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jewtemplar wrote: Seton Hall Prep, NJ (Hardcore)
Blake, MD (Hardcore)

Yeah... hardcore?

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Yeah, I need to check the caledar more. The weekday tourney is within a few weeks, I now realize I don't have the right date. Gonzaga's was fun last year. Questions were good. Beautiful building. I just can't remember what we had for lunch.

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Any tournament at our school but not run by our team is on a weekday, not a weekend.

By the way, we plan on going to the GAT II.

EDIT: Forgot about Rosh Hashana. And I'm Jewish. That tournament is some time soon though.

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Clare on my team answered "Hamlet" for the author of "Macbeth."

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We used no "Who wrote Moll Flanders?" type questions this year. Actually, there were. The second day of practice was a total buzzer race in my room because of the ultra-short questions. One question used for the first match of the final (third) day of the tournament during the first round...

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I hope that we'll be attending all five, though we'll not be playing in our own tournament. I'll try to get the rest of my team to go to both UMD and TJ, but it's always up in the air. Are there any September tournaments now that TJ changed the date?

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Sounds great. I especially like the random placement of ten lightning buzzes, because hey, you can never prime the buzzer too much. There's a 10-question round of purely lightning questions at the beginning, followed by the other questions. 48 teams are expected, no idea on current numbers though.

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KentB, Mr. Barry, or others - the results are up for the SEMO tournaments. How will the structure of the camp tournaments be different this year? Are there only two, and what kind of questions will be used for the give/take tournament?

Maybe

? Maybe not

?

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I should be sending in my form any day now..

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Date has been changed to October 30 to avoid conflicting with the SATs.

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4th Annual Blake High School Tournament October 30, 2004 All teams guaranteed five preliminary rounds. 16 teams in single-elimination playoffs. Trophies for first four places. Trophy for champion coach. Question topics and format designed as preparation for It competition. All questions are indexed...

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Agreed, that was the one part I hated about it.

I'm coming back this year, to Furman!

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Blake will be there with at least one team, hopefully two. Unless I am mistaken, didn't Delaware move to April 3?

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We beat Quince Orchard and Georgetown Day, losing games to Gonzaga, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Richard Montgomery.

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How strange.. and here I was thinking it was something remotely like the VHSL.

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What exactly is the IIRC? Is it a unique competition to Virginia?

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Just wondering, there was a Brookwooder who liked Norse mythology that I talked too every so often, I thought you might be him, I saw "thor" in your name.

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Th0rKiLL.. did you happen to go to SEMO for ACE camp?

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Edit: Just found out we have our taping that day, we won't be in attendance. :(

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