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Podcasts of selected games from the 2023 MSNCT are now available on naqt.com.

Welcome! I'm not aware of any other currently active community college programs in Tennessee- it's possible that you will need to travel to Alabama to find your nearest tournaments.

The middle school division would not be a qualifier in this case (because it is not using NAQT questions). That being said, we encourage teams with strong performances on non-NAQT sets to apply for wildcards once those are available next month.

Our Cyber Monday Sale is here!

NAQT is offering 10% off practice-material orders of $125 or more with promo code 2023CYB. New School Packages are not eligible for discounts. Orders must be placed by midnight Central time on Monday, December 4 to be eligible.

Order practice material here!

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from the 2022 HSNCT.

NAQT would like to remind the quiz bowl community, especially tournament directors, about the importance of maintaining question security for upcoming events. Please be vigilant about attempts to acquire question sets by email, as well as about offers from unknown or unfamiliar parties to spectate, ...

Registration is now open for our first batch of SCT sites!

If your region doesn't have an SCT site yet, please consider hosting (the host call and tournament proposal form are here).

Welcome to the quizbowl community! Why do organizers disclose the question set that will be used in the competition? Is that standard practice? Yes, it is standard practice to announce the question set that will be used. (Otherwise it would be easy for teams to accidentally play the same questions t...

NAQT is pleased to announce that the 2024 Individual Player National Championship Tournament (IPNCT) will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago), on April 7, 2024. This is the same hotel that hosted the 2023 IPNCT. The IPNCT is NAQT’s championship tournament for in...

NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2024 Small School National Championship Tournament will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago), on April 26–28, 2024. This is the same hotel that hosted the 2023 SSNCT. The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division is li...

The 2024 Community College Championship Tournament (CCCT) will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago), on February 23–24, 2024. Schools qualify to send teams to the CCCT through their performances at Community College Sectional Championship Tournaments (CC SCTs) he...

The 2024 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament (ICT) will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago), on April 5–6, 2024. Check-in will occur on Friday, April 5, but all gameplay will be on Saturday, April 6. Schools qualify to send teams to the ICT through their per...

NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2024 Middle School National Championship Tournament will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago), on May 10-12, 2024. This is the same hotel that hosted the 2023 MSNCT. The field is limited to 160 teams. Full details Qualified te...

NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2024 High School National Championship Tournament will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis and Hilton Atlanta hotels in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 24-26, 2023. This is Memorial Day weekend. These are the same hotels that hosted the 2023 HSNCT. The field is lim...

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from the 2023 HSNCT.

Unfortunately, we were unable to record any games from the Open Division at the 2023 SSNCT.

One notable policy change new for this year's SCT: if a school sends teams to two different SCT sites, both of those sites must take place on the same day. (That is: it's ok to send teams to a Saturday SCT and another Saturday SCT, but not ok to send a team to a Saturday SCT and then to a different ...

Sites for the 2024 SCT:

Toronto
Syracuse
Yale
Rutgers
Virginia
Tennessee
Florida
Michigan
Illinois
Minnesota
Texas
Washington
Arizona State This site will be hosted online.
Berkeley
Southern California

Last updated 1/18 --JTH

NAQT is pleased to announce that our 2024 Sectional Championship Tournaments will take place the weekend of February 3-4. Both in-person and online hosting options will be available for the 2024 SCT. If your school would like to host SCT this coming February, please read the 2024 SCT host requiremen...

Welcome to the quizbowl community! 1) If Team A buzzes in first and is incorrect, then Team B is allowed a chance to answer. What if Team B also answers incorrectly? Is a new question given, or is Team A allowed another chance to answer? If so, does it have to be a different player than the one who ...

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The finals match of the 2023 IPNCT is now available on NAQT's podcast page.

Podcasts are now available of selected playoff matches from the 2023 SSNCT.

In general, only events using NAQT questions will qualify teams automatically for our national championships. (This year's Sentinel event, unlike last year's, will be using a non-NAQT set.) That being said, we very much encourage teams with a record of strong performance at non-NAQT events to apply ...

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:09 pm Jeff's an admin & he posts in this thread, so optimism runs wild.

OK, here's a new sticky thread for the contact list.

NAQT collects information on high school seniors’ college plans to help college teams identify potential members and connect players to each other to form new teams. If you have information about graduating seniors’/rising freshmen’s college plans, please let us know! NAQT freshmen contact list home...

Congratulations to the winners of the Sacramento Fall Middle School Tournament: varsity champions Churchill A and JV co-champions Churchill G and Churchill N. Complete team and individual statistics are available here . My thanks to: our host, Coach Bruce Hansen, for directing this tournament; Nicho...

Congratulations to Mira Loma A (varsity) and Churchill A (JV), the champions of the 2023 Sacramento Fall Tournament! Complete team and individual statistics are available here . My thanks to our host, Kevin Williams of Davis, to Nicholas Karas for logistical support, to the Davis program (Hannah, Cy...

NAQT is pleased to announce a new "welcome to the year" page for coaches of high school and middle school quiz bowl teams. Select your school from the menu to find information about local tournaments and national championships! The page also provides information about eligibility, question...

NAQT is pleased to announce a new "welcome to the year" page for coaches of high school and middle school quiz bowl teams. Select your school from the menu to find information about local tournaments and national championships! The page also provides information about eligibility, question...

Kuleen is correct- high school teams are not permitted to play our Collegiate Novice set.

The 2023 edition of the Rising Freshmen Contact List is now available here.

This is correct (and I already sent details by pm about setting up Locklizard).

So then, if a charter school and public magnet school, which happened to share a campus and whose students play together on the same state-sanctioned athletics teams, were to have a unified quiz bowl team with players from both schools, said team would be NAQT-eligible? Probably not, at least from ...

Is the policy now for hosts to tell their staffers not to do things like post a photo or screenshot of a scoresheet of games they read/kept score for on social media? That is a best practice, yes. So then, if a charter school and public magnet school, which happened to share a campus and whose stud...

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2023–2024 season . Gameplay Rules We made the following changes to the NAQT Gameplay Rules (highlighted on the page): We changed the structure and content of Rule F.2 (about the length of games). The biggest effect of this is that h...

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2023–2024 season . Gameplay Rules We made the following changes to the NAQT Gameplay Rules (highlighted on the page): We changed the structure and content of Rule F.2 (about the length of games). The biggest effect of this is that h...

Until 2022, this man had pitched a record eight World Series starts without recording a win. In 2023 this man became the most recent pitcher to secure a win against every MLB team. The record for career strikeouts among active pitchers alternates between him and teammate (*) Max Scherzer. 2023 mark...

NAQT is seeking a person or persons for the position of Game-Recording Editor. This is a paid position at NAQT’s standard hourly contractor rate of at least $20.90 per hour. The Game-Recording Editor(s) will be responsible for editing NAQT’s audio recordings of games from our 2021, 2022, 2023, and ...

A person from this city named Tim "will blow from eve to morn," according to a folk song about this city's "piper." An invertible ring showing two hands, a heart, and a crown was originally made in this city's neighborhood of Claddagh. A person from this city "played the (*...

In a May 2023 advisory about this action, LULAC cited hospital screening for immigration status. A senator's official statement claimed that "laughter and mockery" would result if this action was taken to "spread Socialism." In a May 2023 formal advisory against this action, the...

In a viral 2021 Twitter thread, BronzeSwords claimed this activity was popular among the "radical left" due to a "lack of work ethic." In 2020 a "Harvard astrophysicist" was hired to defend a YouTuber who cheated in this activity. Recorded frame-perfect inputs are used...

NAQT will be considering contract-writer applications from June 1 until July 31. Prospective writers must be at least 18 years old when they apply. Applicants who will turn 18 between August 1 and October 31 (inclusive) of the year they apply may submit an application in June or July, specifying th...

This character frantically shushes others as "faint and high" music rises "almost to an unbearable scream." This character describes an 84-year-old man who could be "remembered and loved" just by using a phone in any city in an anecdote about Dave Singleman. (*) Howard...

These phenomena are controlled by three pairs of antagonistic muscles, including the lateral and medial rectus muscles. The smooth pursuit type of these phenomena are contrasted with a quick, jumpy type between two or more phases of fixation, called a (*) saccade. Vivid dreaming occurs during a for...

Yaj wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 2:31 pm Could I see the tossup on Victor Emmanuel II? I was confused as to why "Victor Emmanuel" was not a promptable response for that.

This was indeed an oversight; the protest committee ruled that we should have prompted (and the question text has been updated accordingly).

May I see the question on aggregate demand? I think the equation clue was ambiguous and applies to GDP as well. The graph of this quantity against output intersects with a line at 45 degrees to both axes in one economist's namesake "cross" diagram. This quantity equals consumption plus in...

This novel's protagonist experiences an "intense feeling of freedom" while eating a street vendor's hot buttered yams. Mary Rambo houses and feeds this novel's protagonist, who introduces the incestuous Jim Trueblood to the trustee Mr. Norton. This novel's first chapter depicts a blindfol...

This is your question-specific discussion thread for the 2023 NAQT HSNCT. Standard disclaimer: If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2023 HSNCT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (We have one mirror scheduled so far, at Toronto in June; it's possible we may add other mirrors...

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