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What is Quiz Bowl?

The World of Quiz Bowl

HSQuizbowl Forums

The nexus of the quiz bowl universe. Tournament annoucements, discussions of question sets, and more.

HSQuizbowl Database

Most tournaments post their results here.

QB Wiki

An encyclopedia about quiz bowl. A central repository for history, theory, general information, and more.

NAQT

Produces regular season middle and high school question sets, and runs national championships at the middle school, high school, community college, and college levels.

Academic Competition Federation (ACF) Produces several packet-submission collegiate tournaments per year, including ACF Nationals.
Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) Runs the National Scholastic Championship (NSC), of the two main high school championships.
High School Academic Pyramid Questions (HSAPQ) One of the premier providers of high school questions. Runs the National All Star Academic Tournament (NASAT) each June.
National History Bowl A series of all-history tournaments for high school teams. See also the National History Bee, the International History Bee and Bowl, and the United States Geography Olympiad.
List of state and provincial high school quiz bowl organizations Compiled by NAQT.
High School Quiz Bowl Rankings Fred Morlan uses an "adjusted points per bonus" metric to rank the top teams who play pyramidal tournaments.
Quiz Bowl Stat Search Pulls results from the HSQuizbowl and NAQT databases. Search by team or by player. Maintained by Harry White.
Guide to Packet Difficulty By Ted Gan and the Colonel By team.

Other Historical Information

Where to Find Questions

Full Packet Sets

HSQuizbowl's packet archive The primary source for high school, collegiate, and open-level packets.
Stanford packet archive More sets, some of which aren't on the HSQuizbowl archive. Mostly of historical interest at this point.
HSAPQ archive Sets written by HSAPQ, including National History Bee and Bowl sets.
The Wastebin An archive of trash sets maintained by Mike Bentley. Also contains the Eyes That Do Not See visual arts tournaments.
Aegis Questions archive Aegis Questions was a question-writing company that existed from 2006-2009. Their sets can now be downloaded for free.

Question Search / Random Questions

Quinterest A searchable database of questions, from middle school to open level. As of summer 2014, contains tossups from about 130 tournaments and bonuses from 9 tournaments. Created by Rohit Lalchandani of UC Berkeley and maintained by Jacob Reed of Yale.
ACF database search A searchable database of over 14,000 tossups from ACF tournaments, 1999-2010. Created by Carlo Angiuli.
Protobowl Reads randomly selected questions from a database of over 30,000 tossups. Users can specify difficulty and subject. Best to go to a private room so as to avoid the trolls.

Resources for Hosting Tournaments

PACE's Quiz Bowl 101 page Has several valuable guides including "A Brief Guide to Running a Tournament," "10 Tips for Hosting a Better Tournament," "Round Robin Scheduling Made Easy," and "Scheduling 101."
Southern California Quiz Bowl Tournament Hosting Guide
For moderators
- 10 Tips for being a better moderator
- Some (somewhat esoteric) discussion about pronunciation
SQBS The tried-and-true software for tracking and reporting quiz bowl statistics.
Scoresheets
- NAQT scoresheet
- LaTeX scoresheets by Cody Voight. NAQT/ACF/ACF + powers
- HSAPQ's ACF format scoresheet
- Excel scoresheets by Jon Pinyan. They do the math for you.
- Excel scoresheets by Lily Chen and Stephen Young. They also do the math for you
LaTeX schedule templates by Jonah Greenthal
Rules: NAQT / ACF / HSAPQ
Abacus A web-based tournament management and scorekeeping tool by Raj Kesavan. Still a work in progress as of summer 2014.
Buzzer sets QBWiki's comprehensive list of available sets.

Quiz Bowl Resources