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Most quiz bowl question producers, including ACF and NAQT, publish a distribution of the number of tossups and bonuses per round that will feature material from a given area of study. [36] [37] [38] ACF/mACF tossups are written in pyramidal style and are generally much longer than College Bowl and NAQT questions.
The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is a United States–based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization [1] that promotes high school quiz bowl and runs the National Scholastic Championship (NSC), an end-of-year national tournament for high school quiz bowl teams.
Academic Competition for Excellence (often shortened to ACE) is a format of high school quizbowl played in the mid-Atlantic, especially in the Commonwealth of Virginia.There are several leagues in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, although many of the Virginia leagues have become feeders for Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl competition, or play the VHSL format instead of ...
National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is a question-writing and quiz bowl tournament-organizing company founded by former players in 1996. It is unique among U.S. quiz organizations for supplying questions and hosting championships at the middle school, high school, and college levels.
The clicker used for the World Scholar's Cup's Scholar's Bowl. The Scholar's Bowl is a quiz bowl usually held in a theater. Team members work together to answer multiple choice questions that are displayed on a large screen. In order to answer the questions, each team of students is given a clicker that is connected to a scoring computer on stage.
There are also "fill-in-the-blank style questions," as well as free response questions (standard to high school quizbowl). While topics range across the academic canon, there is an overall de-emphasis of pop culture questions, and a marked increase in the number of mathematics questions (teams are provided calculators).
Piedmont Quiz Bowl [114] SCETV: South Carolina: Pop Quiz: WVPT: Harrisonburg, Virginia Shenandoah Valley: 1979–2013 [119] Prep Quiz Bowl [120] WDSU: New Orleans, Louisiana: 197? Public Library Quiz Bowl: UNC-TV: North Carolina: 1981–2006 Quiz '88: Community Access: Ottawa, Ontario: 1988 Quiz Kids: Syndication CBS Cable: United States: 1949 ...
Knowledge Bowl is the name for several interdisciplinary academic quiz bowl-like competitions across the United States and the world. The questions for many Knowledge Bowl competitions are supplied by the Academic Hallmarks company of Durango, Colorado .