WHAQ III Set Available for Mirrors (2018-2019)
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:13 pm
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce that the Washington High Academic Questionfest III (WHAQ III) set will be available for mirrors nationwide (and internationally too, if there’s interest)!
WHAQ III will be a regular difficulty set. We plan on aiming to be closer to WHAQ I’s difficulty with this year’s set. For an example of our intended difficulty, the WHAQ I set can be found here.
The set is being written by current and former members of the quizbowl team at Washington High School in Missouri and the Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio, along with guest writers Ganon Evans (formerly of Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO); Aleija Rodriguez (of Monroe County Middle College in Monroe, MI); and Max Shatan (formerly of Bard High School Early College in Long Island City, NY).
The set will be head-edited by myself (Jacob O’Rourke); the rest of the editing team is David Dennis (the classical music, current events); Mike Etzkorn (Literature); Bradley McLain (Geography, Philosophy, Social Science); Ashwin Ramaswami (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Other Science, Religion, non-Greco-Roman myth); and Chandler West (Painting, Other Visual Arts, American History, British History).
We’ll be providing 14 packets for the cost of $10 per team that attends your tournament. If you mirror our tournament, I expect you to have statistics posted within a week of your tournament happening (and the statistics should be posted in a post on the thread for your tournament-for an example of how I want this handled, look here).
The set will be available from September 29th, 2018 until a few days before the 2019 HSNCT at the latest.
Set Details:
The tossups in the set will be powermarked and will run from 5 to 6 lines. The bonus parts will be no longer than two lines long. The questions will be measured in Times New Roman, 11 point font.
Each packet will consist of 21 tossups and 20 three-part bonuses, distributed as follows:
4 Literature (1.5 American Lit [1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet], 1.5 British Lit, 1 European/World Literature)
4 History (1 U.S. History, 1 European History, 1 World History, 1 Miscellaneous History [This is ancient history and questions that don’t fit neatly into one of the other history categories, or just more of U.S., European or World History])
4 Science (1 Biology, 1 Chemistry, 1 Physics, 1 Other Science)
2.5 Fine Arts (1 Classical Music, 1 Visual Fine Arts, 0.5 Miscellaneous Arts-1 tossup or bonus per packet)
1 Geography
1 Trash
2 RM (1 Religion, 1 Mythology)
0.5 Philosophy
0.5 Social Science
0.5 Current Events
1 Extra Question (This will come from any category other than Trash)
Mirroring:
I’d love for as many circuits as possible to have a mirror of this set. If you’d like to mirror this set, please email me at [email protected] with the subject line “WHAQ III Mirroring” to help me make sure I don’t lose it in my email.
I am pleased to announce that the Washington High Academic Questionfest III (WHAQ III) set will be available for mirrors nationwide (and internationally too, if there’s interest)!
WHAQ III will be a regular difficulty set. We plan on aiming to be closer to WHAQ I’s difficulty with this year’s set. For an example of our intended difficulty, the WHAQ I set can be found here.
The set is being written by current and former members of the quizbowl team at Washington High School in Missouri and the Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio, along with guest writers Ganon Evans (formerly of Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO); Aleija Rodriguez (of Monroe County Middle College in Monroe, MI); and Max Shatan (formerly of Bard High School Early College in Long Island City, NY).
The set will be head-edited by myself (Jacob O’Rourke); the rest of the editing team is David Dennis (the classical music, current events); Mike Etzkorn (Literature); Bradley McLain (Geography, Philosophy, Social Science); Ashwin Ramaswami (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Other Science, Religion, non-Greco-Roman myth); and Chandler West (Painting, Other Visual Arts, American History, British History).
We’ll be providing 14 packets for the cost of $10 per team that attends your tournament. If you mirror our tournament, I expect you to have statistics posted within a week of your tournament happening (and the statistics should be posted in a post on the thread for your tournament-for an example of how I want this handled, look here).
The set will be available from September 29th, 2018 until a few days before the 2019 HSNCT at the latest.
Set Details:
The tossups in the set will be powermarked and will run from 5 to 6 lines. The bonus parts will be no longer than two lines long. The questions will be measured in Times New Roman, 11 point font.
Each packet will consist of 21 tossups and 20 three-part bonuses, distributed as follows:
4 Literature (1.5 American Lit [1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet], 1.5 British Lit, 1 European/World Literature)
4 History (1 U.S. History, 1 European History, 1 World History, 1 Miscellaneous History [This is ancient history and questions that don’t fit neatly into one of the other history categories, or just more of U.S., European or World History])
4 Science (1 Biology, 1 Chemistry, 1 Physics, 1 Other Science)
2.5 Fine Arts (1 Classical Music, 1 Visual Fine Arts, 0.5 Miscellaneous Arts-1 tossup or bonus per packet)
1 Geography
1 Trash
2 RM (1 Religion, 1 Mythology)
0.5 Philosophy
0.5 Social Science
0.5 Current Events
1 Extra Question (This will come from any category other than Trash)
Mirroring:
I’d love for as many circuits as possible to have a mirror of this set. If you’d like to mirror this set, please email me at [email protected] with the subject line “WHAQ III Mirroring” to help me make sure I don’t lose it in my email.