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Quiz Bowl Resources

Last revised 09/11/2000 4:18:46 PM

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Many of these links were also found by David Levinson, whom I thank for his research and time.

Quiz Bowl Resources

How to play College Bowl ^TM

From the College Bowl Inc. web site.

How to start a team

From the University of Delaware Academic Competition Club

Quiz Bowl Central

Resources and cheat-sheets to make yourself a better player.

Map of college teams' web sites

Located at the Furman University Academic Team web page.

The Maize Pages at the University of Michigan

Main Page

Team Page Directory

Moderators for Hire (Will Read for Food)

The College Quiz Bowl Webring

There is also a separate High School Quiz Bowl Webring.

Online club lists

Quiz Bowl Online, though to use it to its fullest (such as adding events to the calendar), you must sign up as a member of Yahoo.

E-groups clubs QB Chat and Brainbowl Online. You must also register online.

Canadian Academic Quiz League

See what teams from that country up North are doing!

Suggestions for Writing Questions

From the University of Florida College Bowl Team

Question-writing Standards and Distributions

Mostly pilfered from the University of Michigan's links.

• For untimed matches, Academic Competition Federation (ACF)
• For timed matches, the Stanford Guidelines, the Michigan Memorandum and its Appendix.
• Mitchell Szczepanczyk Style manual

Two schedule-making programs (DOS)

Kenneth Butler at Dalhousie University originally wrote these programs for soccer or other athletic scheduling events, but it works quite well for Quiz Bowl. "Field" sets locations but "Sched" does not.

"On-line" Round Robin Pairing

Another "online" Round Robin Pairing worksheet

Tournament Statistics Archive (since 1994 at the University of California at Berkeley)

Buzzer and ACF Newsletter archive at Berkeley.

Most of the issues still extant since 1988!

Media Articles Archive on QB

Includes a link to the infamous Penthouse Article!

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