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AndyShootsAndyScores

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Here's the thing about having packets ready early. In the last four weeks, I have written or edited somewhere around 800 questions. I produced nearly two packets for both the PACE Spring Qualifier and the Minnesota/Maryland set, and about the same for PACE NSC. In the middle, I wrote nearly two pac...

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Very well written questions from the universities and great moderating staff at Vandy. There were a few answers that I thought were a little obscure for high school level, and I would've preferred the addition of powers and negs, but those are my only complaints.

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Having a "giveaway" buzz after a neg makes sense. Each time a team negs, they should be given a chance to answer at the end of the question. This answer, if correct, would be recorded. When this team matches up with a team that negged earlier than they did, the giveaway buzz counts and th...

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Results from Marshall County Tournament:

1st - BMHS
2nd - Arab
3rd - DAR

And that's all I have to say about that.

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2. Each team will only get to answer each TU once. There will be no opportunity to wait out negs... unless that's your strategy and you want to wait until the end of each question anyway. (Certainly a legit approach which might garner the team a very respectable "Goldfish" score, but the ...

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The question was "Who sang "Travelin' Thru" at the 2006 (I think) Academy Awards?" Long pause....I answer "Dolly Parton", and it was correct. I think I read that in the Chicago Tribune or something. It's really sad that I remembered that. Why is that sad? Granted, she'...

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aarcoh wrote:I'm sorry if I'm a little slow in getting this. If you have multiple teams from one school, they all hear the same questions, but at different times or something like that. In that case, Bergen could probably have three-four teams.

Yeah, kind of liking doing the KMO at different times.

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Cooper98 wrote:That Nick guy from Oneonta was a BEAST!!

I wasn't exactly impressed. He only had 10 less points than me, but he just wasn't anything spectacular, not from what I saw anyway.

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Golden Tiger 86 wrote:Damn...Oneonta? I'm a little surprised myself.

Yeah, I was kind of hoping for a repeat finals from last year, but, alas.

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Snead NAQT Invitational Results:

1st - BMHS
2nd - Oneonta

Suprisingly, Oneonta knocked Russellville out in the semis.

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Deesy Does It wrote:Why bother?

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Top 4 (in no order): ... Russellville is always a very good team... up until the finals, where they always seem to choke. If they could get over whatever block is stopping them, they could very well make top 2. Of course, my speculations always go right out the window once I see pools. [/$0.02] Wha...

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Top 4 (in no order): BMHS Russellville Hoover Grissom Honorable Mentions: Randolph - not a bad team, but if they play like they did at Regionals, they may not even make playoffs. ISS - not consistent enough (and that's coming from a Brindlee Mountain player). Russellville always seems to beat them, ...

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quizbowllee wrote:LOL. Saul Bellow is one of the few things I feel confident that we would get thirty on.

Yeah, that and Bertolt Brecht.

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80b(I). Said teams may also need therapy after said beatings.

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asdf wrote:Well you can only do so much with a buzzer, pencil, and paper
Making a trombone isn't one of them
Dissecting isn't one of them
Performing a music video isn't one of them

You obviously are not a fan of MacGyver.

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I'm sorry, but I just think it's funny that somebody tries to show off by giving an answer hardly anyone has heard of and then complains when he was ruled incorrect. It just seems like poetic justice to me. Whether his/her intention is to show off or not, it is not incorrect. Call it what you want,...

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75. It is not, nor ever was, Marcus Surilius.

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I think that you must be relatively lenient. For example, The Night Watch, Night Watch, De Nachtwacht, and The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem de Ruytenburch should all be acceptable for the Rembrandt painting. There must be restraint. However, incorrect transalations should be just that: ...

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I've never stated that math should not be in quiz bowl. In fact, in my first post, I stated that it was a necessary part of it. I'm one of the few here that doesn't like it, but believe it is necessary (much like war). I do disagree that computational ability can be learned. And that's all I have to...

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Well this has actually bugged me for some time. I am the art and classical music person for our team and I have several "wrong" answers that I just don't understand. 1. The Thinker was originally called The Poet and that is what I answered and they had The Thinker on the paper so I was wr...

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Ford08 wrote:AndyShootsAndyScores on Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:52 pm
I'm not alone!
On which part?

Being an atheist and getting most of the religious stuff.

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My coach and I have written some sets for our middle school. My coach and I have decided that one liners might be the best for those guys. We figure if they learn facts and can develop a strong base then the details will come later. Most of the stuff that our freshman are learning is this way (this...

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I am an atheist. I get several of the religious questions and my captain who is also an atheist gets all of the others. Also, I cannot spell and my grammer is not that great, actually if you could talk to me you would find that I have a strong lisp. Also my best subject is history, and that is what...

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BarringtonJP wrote:...or about someone passing a paper 2 seconds before the bonus is done being read...

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I am in now way claiming that a computational machine who knows little about theory will be able to beat out someone who does know quite a bit about theory (consistently). I'm not saying you can't learn to get better and faster at calculation. I am saying that some individuals have the knack for doi...

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I'll agree that anybody can have all the natural talent in the world for math, but if they don't try and better themselves, they will not beat someone with less natural talent who has worked much harder to get faster at calculation; however, this is hardly ever the case. No matter how hard I work at...

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dschafer wrote:If "robotic number-crunching ability" is a key element of a calculation question, it probably needs to be re-written.

Unfortunately, it is difficult-to-impossible to write a calculation tossup that will not reward "robotic number-crunching ability."

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2. pyramidal math is stupid. Sorry but it is. Ok, what is the point of going through a bunch of crap when a good math player is going to get it off the meat anyway. Seriously having it so pyramidal that everyone has a shot is like handing out clues to future questions about art, ya its stupid. In p...

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I have to disagree. While the Christians shouldn't get the Bible questions ALL the time, I do think that they should be knowledgable enough about their religion to beat out someone who would read the Bible like they would any other work of literature and not like it's something they govern most of ...

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Also if you want to make the argument that you know most theoritical stuff, then get this our team is comprised of two athiests, one cathlic and one lutheran, and guess who gets all the religious stuff... yep the athiest. just doesn't make sense. Nobody would argue that the Catholic or Lutheran sho...

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Quiz bowl is about what you learn in school. Math is the most important thing you learn in school. Therefor it should be in QB. We have a guy on our team that is going to be a math teacher, he is a total robot at math and can do about any problem that you put infront of him, whether it be physics o...

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dtaylor4 wrote:
Ugly wrote:65. The ONLY stone that will ever be an answer is the Rosetta Stone.
Blarney Stone, Stone of Scone, Stonehenge have come up as answers.

QFT

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I liked that often if you buzzed in early, you answered the wrong question.

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quizbowllee wrote:Actually, there is no such things as too many tournaments at UTC.

58. There is no such thing as too many tournaments at UTC.

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aestheteboy wrote:...and why can't you complain if you aren't hosting a tournament?

You can, just don't expect much compassion from the TD if you've never hosted a tournament before.

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Results from Alabama NAQT State Championship:

1st - BMHS A
2nd - BMHS B
3rd - Indian Springs

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44. Whether it be a tossup or part of a bonus, T. S. Eliot will come up at every tournament. If it didn't, it was in a bonus you didn't get.

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Lets say there is a literature question about some obscure author that I haven't heard of. Does that question deserve to be in the tournament? Of course. Similarly, if there is a math question that I can solve that no one else can, does it deserve to be in there? Of course. Is this a joke? I kinda ...

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14. In high school, there is only one Norwegian of anything. Anything.

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The NAQT Distribution is: Current Events 7.5% Fine Arts 7.0% Foreign Language 0.5% Geography 7.0% General Knowledge / Mixed 5.5% History 18.5% Literature / Mythology 18.5% Popular Culture 7.5% Philosophy 2.0% Science 18.5% Sports 4.0% Social Science 3.5% Something I didn't notice until now, but the...

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DJ Shadow wrote:The NAQT Distribution is:

Popular Culture 7.5%

Damn. I was not aware it was that high.

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2. Thou shalt not give first name unless thou art prompted.

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NoahMinkCHS wrote:
Athena Starwoman wrote:Dorman is going to the Minnesota tournament the same day that is using these questions.
Dorman? Minnesota? Wow...

I'd venture a guess that they're trying to get a feel for competition outside of the southeast.

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Well, also, like, I'd hazard a guess that there was another clue beforehand that made it unique to Kafka (which would reduce the "it's a bad question" complaint by a lot, since anyone who knows a good amount about Kafka should probably recognize that he wrote "In the Penal Colony&quo...

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ragnarok2012 wrote:4. blue boy

In that case, it's "Au revoir," not "Bon voyage."

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ragnarok2012 wrote:ex, the woman in the back are crying... FTP, name this David work about three Roman brothers...

ex, helped arouse support for the Greek Revolution.

I hope this isn't supposed to be the same painting.

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The way to become a good (visual) art player is to look at lots and lots paintings, not lists of paintings. Just find one of those Phaidon books (The Art Book, The American Art Book, The 20th Century Art Book) and go through it. Then find books about other artists and flip through those. Then go ha...

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I'm fairly certain now that the verb was "created," and Dr. B. had started to say the word "cruel." The verb was what narrowed it down to fiction. Yeah, it'd have to be "created." Although, I don't know if I would've taken a shot there. Still, nice power? early buzz? w...

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