Quiz Bowl Links
The following links have been selected by NAQT for their excellence and general usefulness to the community of quiz bowl players, coaches, and fans.
The links are summarized into the following categories.
- Quiz Bowl in the News
- Question Writing: Devoted to methods of question writing and sites useful for question writing.
- Running Tournaments: Help with running your tournament.
- Team Information: Lists of teams and their home pages.
- Statistics Software
- Quiz Bowl Discussions: Forums for discussions of quiz bowl and related topics.
- Team Development: Methods and services for improving one's team.
- High School Quiz Bowl Sites
- Other Sites
- Trivia Games
- Other Quiz Bowl Organizations
Quiz Bowl in the News
San Diego Union-Tribune on Sweetwater High's County Championship (Companion article on school website)
Pioneer Press on New Trier HS (IL) Preparing for Nationals
State College, PA Centre Daily Times on Scholastic Scrimmage
Wall Street Journal on the Benjamin Banneker HS "It's Academic" Team
Contra Costa Times on Bentley HS quiz bowl
The New York Times on the Byram Hills High School team
The Daily Tar Heel on the 2002 ICT
Question Writing
Carleton College's general guidelines
The Reference Desk
Over 1000 sites catalogued by category for their usefulness to the question writer.
Stanford Writing Guidelines
A methodology for writing good questions and good packets.
The SZCZicago Manual of Style
A step-by-step guide to writing academic quiz competition questions.
Writing Good Quizbowl Questions: A Quick Primer
A beginner's guide to writing questions.
Running Tournaments
The College Quizbowl Schedule Database
An online resource for generating round-robin schedules for central-source and packet-submission tournaments. Also has links to singles formats and double-elimination brackets.
Team Information
The Maize Pages (Team Directory)
Statistics Software
SQBS, a Quiz Bowl Statistics Program for Windows
Quiz Bowl Discussions
Yahoo! Quiz Bowl Group
Yahoo! Junior/Community College Quiz Bowl Group
(all Yahoo! groups require a Yahoo! registration to post and view features)
eGroups: QB-CHAT
eGroups: QB-CANADA
eGroups: QB-SPORTS
(all eGroups groups require an eGroups registration to post and view features)
Team Development
NAQT Entering Freshman Contact List
This service connects high school seniors with the teams at the colleges they will attend in the fall. Use it to contact college teams, or to help start a program at a school.
Stanford Packet Archive
Hundreds of packets from old tournaments, charitably donated by teams.
Carleton's "Frequency of Mention of Titles" Databases
Compiled by the team at Carleton College, this tracks the "most popular" titles to appear in tournament play in a variety of fields.
Funding Academic Competition Programs
Compiled by Tom Michael, former coach of the University of Virginia
High School Quiz Bowl Sites
World of High School Quizbowl
Alabama Scholastic Competition Association
Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association
Bay Area High School Quiz Bowl Calendar
Illinois High School Scholars' Bowl Coaches Association
Indiana Academic Competitions for Excellence
Kansas Association of Scholars' Bowl Coaches
The Kentucky Association for Academic Competition
Louisiana Association for Academic Competition
Minnesota Quiz Bowl Alliance
North Carolina Academic Team Association
Tennessee Academic Coaches Association
Texas Quiz Bowl Alliance
Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl
Virginia High School League
West Virginia Academic Coaches Association
Other Quiz Bowl Sites
College Quiz Bowl Tournament Infocenter
Tournament Results Archive
Records of tournaments dating back to 1994.
Trivia Games
http://www.QuizJunkie.com
Other Quiz Bowl Organizations
Academic Competition Federation
The College Bowl Company, Inc.
BuzzerQuiz (British Quizzing)
Canadian Academic Quiz League
Kansas Academic Excellence Challenge
Kentucky Collegiate Quick Recall League
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