Quiz Bowl Resources

Quiz Bowl Formats

Formats for Collegiate Quiz Bowl

• Academic Competition Federation (ACF)
• National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT)

Formats for High School Quiz Bowl

• High School Academic Pyramid Questions (HSAPQ)
• National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT)
• Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE)

Quiz Bowl Information

• Oklahoma Quiz Bowl Alliance: The OQBA promotes quiz bowl competitions in Oklahoma.
• The Quizbowl Resource Center: This site hosts the official forums for quiz bowl discussion and tournament announcements.
• Quizbowl Wiki: This site provides descriptions of significant organizations, tournaments, and figures in quiz bowl.

Question Packet Archives

• Collegiate Quiz Bowl Packet Archive: This packet archive features a selection of notable academic tournament sets.
• High School Quiz Bowl Packet Archive: This packet archive contains several high school and novice collegiate tournament sets, including PACE National Scholastics Championship sets.
• Stanford Packet Archive: The largest quiz bowl packet archive on the Internet, it contains many academic and trash tournament sets at both collegiate and high school levels.
• Wastebin: This is a packet archive for trash tournament sets.

Question Databases

• acfdb: Maintained by Carlo Angiuli, this is a searchable database of tossups from official ACF packets. Searches may be conducted based on year, level, or category.
• Gyaankosh: Maintained by Arnav Moudgil, this database allows for output of question packets as text or PDF files.
• Quizbowl Database: Developed by Jerry Vinokurov, this is a collection of questions from several ACF and modified ACF packets. This database is intended for use as a study tool.

Writing Questions

• ACF Formatting Requirements: Developed by Jerry Vinokurov, this document is a guide to formatting question packets. He encourages all modified ACF tournaments to use this format to promote a standard appearance across tournaments.
• ACF Packet and Fee Information: This document contains the official distribution and fee schedule for submission of ACF packets.
• Jerry Vinokurov's Guide to Writing Questions: In response to a poorly written tournament held in April 2007, Jerry Vinokurov created a guide explaining how to write questions. He provides suggestions for locating sources and selecting topics for the questions, and his discourse on writing questions treats material for tossups and bonuses, the style in which to write the questions, usefulness of clues, and what to avoid.
• Subash Maddipoti's Ten Tips on Writing Questions: A precursor to Jerry Vinokurov's guide, this document provides suggestions for avoiding certain mistakes in question writing.

Locating Tournaments

• Quizbowl Resource Center Tournament Database: This is a calendar of tournaments for both collegiate and high school levels. The calendar can be filtered by state and level.

Running Tournaments

• ACF Hosting Details
• ACF Rules: ACF allows the use of these rules for any tournament.
• NAQT Moderator Evaluation Form
• NAQT Official Scoresheet: This is the de facto standard scoresheet for collegiate quiz bowl tournaments.
• NAQT Rules

Keeping Tournament Statistics

• BEeS: Developed by Andrew Hart and Sean Skaar, this is an integrated program suite that stores questions, records exact points of answering questions, and makes statistics available based on question category in addition to combining key features of SQBS and Taft. The suite is currently in beta and is scheduled for general release later in 2009.
• SQBS: Developed by Chris Sewell, this program keeps track of team and individual records. It requires Windows to run and Web space to upload the HTML files that it generates. Oklahoma Academic Team uses SQBS to generate and publish tournament results.
  • NAQT Guidelines for Entering SQBS Data