squareroot165 wrote:Not that I support

in any way, but there is a point when similar questions might not actually be copying. This might have been stolen; it might not have. The CBI copy found earlier this year was really obvious. One-liners are harder to tell.
I see what you mean, but this has been ongoing ..... with some claims of virtual word-for-word copies from the same sources. I think that is what makes it far to easy to believe that there is plagiarism going on.
squareroot165 wrote:If you had Matt Weiner, for instance, write 1000 bad one-clue tossups,
File this with faster-than-light-travel, time travel, bigfoot, the Roswell aliens, and the Loch Ness Monster. We can write about such things because of the limitless human imagination ...... but not going to happen
squareroot165 wrote:I'm sure some of them would be similar to things asked on Jeopardy! by pure chance. We QB players should be careful with what we consider to be plagiarism and what is not, to make sure that we have a strong argument.
I agree! I think that the answer selection would have the possibility of significant overlap. However, I think the chances of seeing word-for-word similarity would be much smaller than what we have been seeing coming up with Mr. Beall.
It might be interesting one day to pick a limited, yet common, answer space, and compare questions from web-published sites, to other questions that have popped up, compare them to various tournament uses.