Vaccination Policy for 2022 In-Person National Championships

To protect the health and safety of everyone attending our tournaments, NAQT will require all participants at our 2022 in-person national championships to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Read more about our policy here.

You Gotta Know These Sandbox and Open-World Video Games

Our latest You Gotta Know article focuses on ten sandbox or open-world video games.

Cyber Monday: New Practice Material Available!

For Cyber Monday, NAQT is releasing new practice materials! We’ve converted the questions from Seasons 3 and 4 of Buzzword, our online individual quiz competition, into written practice materials for use with your entire team.

For $99, you can get all the questions from the all-subject games in Season 3 (Levels A, B, and C) and Season 4 (Levels A and C). That’s 2,000 tossup questions, new to anyone at your school who didn’t play those Buzzword games. These questions will help your players prepare for team competitions or Buzzword Season 6, which will begin in early 2022.

2021 HSNCT Podcasts

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2021 High School National Championship Tournament.

2022 SCT Host Call

NAQT is pleased to announce that our 2022 Sectional Championship Tournaments will take place the weekend of February 4-6. Both in-person and online hosting options will be available for the 2022 SCT. If your school would like to host SCT this coming February, please use our tournament request form.

You Gotta Know These Greek Heroes

Our latest You Gotta Know article focuses on ten heroes from Greek mythology.

You Gotta Know These Shakespearean Speeches, Monologues, and Soliloquies

Our latest You Gotta Know article focuses on ten speeches from the plays of William Shakespeare.

Rising Freshman Contact List

In order to help college quiz bowl teams identify potential players, NAQT collects information about players' college plans. If you have information about graduating seniors’/rising freshmen’s college destinations, please let us know!

Policy Changes for 2021–2022

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2021–2022 season.

In-Person Tournaments for 2021–2022

NAQT will resume licensing questions for in-person quiz bowl tournaments in the United States for the 2021–2022 competition year.

Barrington Wins the 2021 HSNCT

Congratulations to Barrington High School (Barrington, Illinois) for winning the 2021 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament! University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois) was second; Detroit Country Day School (Beverly Hills, Michigan) was third; and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (Alexandria, Virginia) was fourth. 224 teams competed.

Churchill Wins the 2021 MSNCT

Congratulations to Winston Churchill Middle School (Carmichael, California) for winning the 2021 NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament! Longfellow Middle School (Falls Church, Virginia) was second; Burleigh Manor Middle School (Ellicott City, Maryland) was third; and Stanford Online (Redwood City, California) was fourth. 112 teams competed.

Arin Parsa Wins 2021 MS IPNCT Title

Congratulations to Arin Parsa (Stanford Online High School, Redwood City, California) for winning the 2021 NAQT Middle School Individual Player National Championship Tournament!

Westmont and St. Mark's Win SSNCT Titles

Congratulations to the champions of the 2021 Small School National Championship Tournament: in the Traditional Public Schools Divsion, Westmont (Illinois); in the Open Division, St. Mark's School of Texas A. Complete team and individual statistics are now available.

Panel Discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Quiz Bowl

The video from our March 13 panel discussion about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the quiz bowl community is now available!

Thank you to our panel participants (moderator Jeremy Nelson; panelists Grace Liu, Caroline Mao, Esther Perceval, and Chris Wright) and to our fellow organizers from PACE, ACF, and IAC.

Arthur Delot-Vilain Wins 2021 HS IPNCT Title

Congratulations to Arthur Delot-Vilain (Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC) for winning the 2021 NAQT High School Individual Player National Championship Tournament!

Columbia, Brown, and Vanderbilt Win ICT Titles

Columbia University defeated the University of Illinois to win the Division I Overall title at the 2021 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. Brown University defeated Princeton University to claim the Division I Undergraduate title. Vanderbilt University defeated the University of Minnesota to win the Division II championships. Congratulations to all of these teams and the 57 others who represented the finest in collegiate quiz bowl!

Jefferson (KY) Wins the 2021 Community College Championship Tournament

Jefferson Community and Technical College (Louisville, KY) won the 2021 NAQT Community College Championship Tournament. Santa Fe College (Gainesville, FL) finished second. Valencia College A (Orlando, FL) defeated Lake Land College (Mattoon, IL) 285-220 to claim third place. The top three finishers earned invitations to compete at NAQT's Intercollegiate Championship Tournament in April.

Videos About Online Tournaments

Videos from our December 2020 seminars about the online tournament experience are now available!

Video for tournament hosts

Video for coaches and players

Partnership with SKT Education Group

NAQT is excited to announce that we are partnering with SKT Education Group to bring middle and high school quiz bowl to a wider audience in China. SKT will support local tournaments run by clubs and run regional tournaments that will serve as qualifiers for a large national championship (which will in turn serve as a qualifier for NAQT’s championships in the United States). NAQT will provide the question sets for these tournaments.