NAQT Rules Changes for 2020-2021

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2020–2021 season. Highlights:

• Bonus questions are now paired with tossup questions.
• In the Middle School Eligibility Rules and High School Eligibility Rules, we added extensive rules regarding online schools and homeschools, and clarified the effect of non-online schools implementing online instruction temporarily.
• Matches at the Community College Championship Tournament will now use 11-minute halves.

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You Gotta Know These Romantic-Era Composers

Our latest You Gotta Know article focuses on ten major composers of the Romantic Era.

Division II Eligibility and the 2020 ICT

NAQT would like to let the community know about the status of Division II eligibility with respect to the cancellation of the 2020 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. We've decided that players on Sectionals teams for four-year schools that earned invitations to the 2020 ICT (in either division) will not retain Division II eligibility for the 2020-2021 competition year or beyond. (The full text of our Division II eligibility rules can be read here.) Please note that players from SCT host schools who did not play the 2020 SCT, but whose schools earned automatic bids to the 2020 ICT, retain Division II eligibility for future competition years if they already had it.

You Gotta Know These African-American Authors

Our latest You Gotta Know article focuses on ten eminent African-American authors.

Buzzword Leagues

Leagues let you experience Buzzword with other players. See how you stack up against friends, teammates, colleagues, family, and more. You can create your own leagues or join an existing league, public or private.

Buzzword Popular Culture Season

NAQT is pleased to announce that Buzzword is adding a season of games about popular culture. Join us starting July 3 for eight weeks of questions about television, film, music, video games, musicals, and comics! Registration is now open.

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)

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!