Buzzword Level D

Season 2 of Buzzword, starting July 4, will feature a fourth difficulty level. Level D will have challenging questions similar to those read at our High School National Championship Tournament. Registration is now open.

Buzzword Season 1 Results

Results for the first season of our online game, Buzzword, are now final!

Congratulations to our division winners:

Level A: Conner Feng (MS), Lukas Koutsoukos (HS), Pranav Veluri (College), and Michael Laudermith (Open)

Level B: Nikky Nandipati (MS), Alexander Koutsoukos (HS), Jonathan Suh (College), and Michael Laudermith (Open)

Level C: Aditya Shivaswami (MS), Basil Sousounis (HS), Alexander Pyle (College), and Matthew Jackson (Open)

Buzzword Special Events

NAQT is pleased to announce a new group of special single-subject events for Buzzword. Our first special event, a film tournament read by Ken Jennings, ran through Tuesday, June 16. In subsequent weeks, we'll have special events focusing on American literature, sports, world history, and food and drink. Registration for upcoming events is now open.

Buzzword Season 2

The second season of Buzzword, our online game, starts Thursday, July 2! Registration is now open.

Rising Freshmen Contact List

Interested in playing quiz bowl in college? Sign up for NAQT's Rising Freshmen Contact list! (NAQT uses this information to help college teams identify potential members, and to assist players who wish to form new teams.) We look forward to seeing you at future college tournaments!

NAQT Gift Certificates

NAQT is pleased to offer discounted gift certificates that can be used to buy our practice material! Interested in bulking out your team's collection of practice questions? Looking for a graduation gift or birthday present for an avid quiz bowl player, or an end-of-year present for your child's coach and team? Have budget money that needs to be spent before the end of the school year?

Gift certificates are sold at a discount, with larger discounts for larger amounts. (For instance, a $100 gift certificate can be purchased for $90.)

Gift certificates can only be used to purchase practice material (this includes our subject-specific Thumbs Up! sets, but not registration fees for tournaments or interactive games such as Buzzword).

Gift certificates may be redeemed starting September 1, 2020. They do not expire.

You Gotta Know These Pre-1960s Movies

Our latest You Gotta Know article describes ten key films from the earlier eras of Hollywood.

2019 SSNCT Podcasts

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2019 Small School National Championship Tournament.

NAQT's New Buzzword Competition

Buzzword is NAQT's exciting new online game of knowledge and recall. Challenge the depth and breadth of your knowledge in Buzzword's engaging, audio-based format and compare your results with players at your level from around the world.

Sample games (using questions from NAQT's archives) are available at all three levels of Buzzword.

Actual Buzzword competitions using newly written, previously unheard questions will begin Thursday, April 23. Registration is now open!

2019 MSNCT Podcasts

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2019 Middle School National Championship Tournament.

Valencia A Wins the 2020 Community College Championship Tournament

Valencia College A (Orlando, FL) won the 2020 NAQT Community College Championship Tournament by defeating Chipola College A (Marianna, FL) 260-210 in the first game of an advantaged final. Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS) placed third; Lake Land College (Mattoon, IL) finished fourth. All four teams earned invitations to compete at NAQT's Intercollegiate Championship Tournament in April.

Rising Freshmen 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!