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solonqb

No, my point was it should be closer to the giveaway, as anyone who has read Garfield or watched the TV show with any regularity would get it, and Garfield was fairly popular before Jim Davis started drawing that steaming pile of feces that passes for it now.

solonqb

dschafer wrote:At Gonzaga this weekend, both by myself and by Evan/Neel on TJ A:

Q: Garfield often sends his arch-nemesis, Nermal...
A: Abu Dhabi

How the hell was that a leadin on any Abu Dhabi tossup?

solonqb

AFAIK, Solon plans on going to NAQT Nationals, as I believe they have already qualified.

I myself will be moderating there, so I hope to see some friendly Ohio faces.

solonqb

Your suggestion is noted, and will probably be acted upon around Spring Break.

The extant problems with the database are now fixed - users can again submit tournaments and modify them. Further features will be forthcoming.

solonqb

Is Sam Lederer playing for Harvard Quizbowl? He and Jacob seem to have not continued in college.

solonqb

I understand that Gaius Stern (formerly of Berkeley) played a role in making the Mission San Jose team what it was.

solonqb

Caltech

NAQT:
Noah Rahman
Yan Zhang
Ning Bao
Daniel Rowlands
Mitchell Wang

ACF:
Hell will freeze over before I can find someone else willing to go with me.

solonqb

I'm a freshman at Caltech who played quizbowl all four years of high school and now plays for Caltech's team (D2 this year). I wanted to go to CO last year (and maybe I would have seen you there) but my graduation party got in the way.

Now back to your regularly scheduled SCT discussion.

solonqb

Let the record show that if Pericles' next post is not something constructive to the discussion at hand, El Caballo Lorenzo is going the way of the 3-line ACF tossup.

solonqb

I can't find the exact text of the tossup immediately, but the one on Syria attributed the Hamah massacre as taking place in 1983, when it was a year earlier.

solonqb

Sara Garnett (formerly of Okemos, and now at UNC) was the fastest female player I've ever played against.

solonqb

Are they only cleared after ICT?

solonqb

In brief,

UCLA beat Stanford straight up in a quintuple round robin to take the DI championship, and Stanford beat Caltech for DII in a tiebreaker playoff round after both teams went 11-1 in a double round robin with a 1-1 record against each other.

solonqb

Doesn't Matt Bruce's Stats99 Excel macro work across platforms?

solonqb

The modify script will be out of service for a bit while I tinker around with it.

solonqb

Can we get a team count?

solonqb

I did it last year and was a state finalist for Ohio, but got beat by some kid who had been doing it for a few years in a row already. I can sell you the book they get the questions out of and have you study from if you want, I still have it lying around at home.

solonqb

If you're going to use Wikipedia as a jumping-off point for writing questions, try clicking through the reference links and writing on the less obvious clues that arise there.

If the entry has no reference links, it's obviously not worth writing anything off of.

solonqb

Solon packet? From where?

solonqb

Dude, we're not out to start an Internet smear campaign against you. We just want to ascertain what's behind to us a very unusual performance. There is a very simple solution to this, if you want to shut everyone up. Join USC Quizbowl and go to NAQT Sectionals at Berkeley in February. We'll throw do...

solonqb

dafirenze checks out to AOL, the parent checks out to fuse.net, a Cincinnati area ISP.

solonqb

If I remember correctly, he performed much more consistently in the playoff rounds, converting a much higher portion of his bonus questions. Dear USC people, I would be interested in seeing the his playoff stats if possible? I also understand that players in Ohio have a vastly different format from...

solonqb

Tegan wrote:There was a guy from San Francisco reading upstairs at NAQT, and its sad I forgot his name. Had total command of the match, read fast, but was completely understandable ..... excelent pronunciation.

Matt Bruce, Ross Ritterman, or Gaius Stern, perhaps?

solonqb

Amelia, if I remember correctly, is a rural high school in Southwest Ohio, that I can't recall ever doing too well.

EDIT: They're in Batavia, Clermont County, just SE of Cincinnati. But still, never an OAC superpower to my knowledge.

solonqb

Actually, who was responsible for the current ACF distribution? By which I mean who first set it out in stone? Was it that guy from Georgia who came up with the 20/20 format (whose name I don't recall at the moment, Dr. Robert something).

solonqb

As a rule, do try to avoid abbreviating names of schools in your posts, since most of us aren't familiar with the St. Louis circuit. Is the MO Thomas Jefferson from St. Louis?

solonqb

Dwight Kidder. No contest. His speed and clarity are ridiculous.

solonqb

Yeah, I definitely remember Kang coming up on some third NAQT bonus part a while back.

solonqb

If you want a decent parable of how our country has been fscking with the Middle East for the last fifty years, watch Syriana.

solonqb

If Stanford has such a strong program, then why on earth have they canceled Cardinal Classic this year?

solonqb

Dude. First of all, I feel your pain. OAC was much like this in Ohio. But BREAK UP YOUR POSTS! Not so long. Secondly, you are taking the right course of action. The only thing that will get IHSSBCA to listen is competition. I helped start a parallel NAQT circuit in my state when I was sick and tired...

solonqb

Don't worry, I highly doubt it's cancelled.

EDIT: NAQT NSC???

If you mean the HSNCT announcemnt, it's probably just because no one's posted there in a while.

solonqb

This isn't too practical classification, but I think it's generally agreeable to clasify Satanic Verses and everything afterwards (Moor's Last Sigh, etc.) as British Lit, and everything before, (Shame, Haroon and the Sea of Stories, Midnight's Children) as Indian Lit. THere is definitely a change in...

solonqb

Similarly, how much great Indian lit really comes up? I can't name you anything in the late 1800s or 1900s. BTW let's not mistake lit written in English by Indian authors with Indian lit. After racking my brains, I can think of precisely two authors that fit your criteria, both primarily poets. One...

solonqb

grapesmoker wrote: Your other example, the Tale of Genji, is about the only accessible piece of medieval Japanese literature (the other one possibly being the Tale of the Heike)

Isn't Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book considered canonically accessible as well?

solonqb

No, I've been there and he's pretty much right. About the only other thing Massillon has going for it are its notable high school football teams.

solonqb

Why, though? Don't you want to get Ohio quizbowl out of its provincial mindset by getting them to post on this board?

solonqb

recfreq wrote:WTF is homochirality? So there's heterochirality?

Increasing my posts per day avg.

Uh, yeah there is. Remember the canonical example of the discovery of chirality, when Pasteur picked apart the two chiral forms of sodium ammonium tartrate? If that's not heterochiral, I don't know what is.

solonqb

(4) That said, when CERTAIN PEOPLE don't give me the packets THEY are responsible for until 8:45 AM, it's REALLY hard to have them checked for repeats and format and printed out by 9 AM. P.S. To the person in question: When I explain just why I'm yelling at you for being late with the packets, and ...

solonqb

leapfrog314 wrote:
"[something about a composer]...his death in 1945..." BUZZ
Handel.

Hmm, my first thought was Webern upon seeing that, but something tells me they were aiming for Bartok instead.

solonqb

I wouldn't mind seeing some chemical equilibrium questions as well, although the ones I wrote were rejected/are languishing in limbo. As far as I know, the writer responsible for most of the NAQT computation questions is Matt Bruce. I'm not sure whether he wants his email posted online, but I'll be ...

solonqb

Sedna was defienitely gettable from that, and 2004UB313 had been all over the news recently (the whole Spanish astronomy fraud thing), so there were at least 10 easy points on that one. While there was some overzealous underlining that should have been corrected, it wasn't a horrible bonus.

solonqb

Yeah, I'm responsible for the Shirin question myself. It was an ill-conceived effort to expand the answer space. I figured if Shahnama had been coming up, why not introduce a main character from it? I know now to keep such things to bonus parts.

solonqb

The solution would be to see Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc be more common bonus parts in lower-level (relative to ACF Fall) tournaments, so Quetzalcoatl wouldn't be the only askable Aztec god in ACF Fall. I know NAQT has done some of that at the high-school level, but the key here is in a raising of qu...

solonqb

What's in your own head to begin with is hardly an outside aid.

solonqb

Having done Celebrity Shoot for a few years, I'm curious to see what this years test was like.

Who knows, maybe I can convince my colleagues here to mirror Celebrity Shoot. We shall see.

solonqb

Manyo2 wrote:From last year's Dunbar tournament on the deciding question versus Solon:
"His journey began and ended at the Reform Club.." Buzz: "Fogg"
Not exactly mind-blowing, but good given the situation.

That match was awesome.

solonqb

Try Danville and Dunbar as well from KY.

solonqb

dsfquizbowl wrote:He also guessed "Bool" correctly in a math history question.

I certainly hope they didn't ask him to spell it ;)

solonqb

I'll check on that.

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