Quizbowl, Schoolreach and other academic competition links

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Organization home pages

National Academic Quiz Tournaments (www.naqt.com)
National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is an organization founded by veterans of the academic quiz competition circuit to provide quality questions and tournaments at the intramural, sectional, and national level.

College Bowl Homepage (www.collegebowl.com)

College Bowl, the "varsity sport of the mind", has been part of our culture for nearly half-a-century. After an illustrious broadcast run, it is now in its 21st year live on campuses in the U.S. & Canada.

Academic Competition Federation

ACF stands for Academic Competition Federation, a loosely centralized non-incorporated, non-profit organization dedicated to providing low-cost, high-quality academic quiz tournaments.

Alabama Scholastic Competition Association

The Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA) is a non-profit educational corporation dedicated to promoting academic achievement. ASCA sponsors the Alabama Scholastic Challenge in which quiz bowl (a.k.a. Scholars Bowl) teams representing Alabama's high schools and middle schools compete for our championships.

Canadian Academic Quiz League

The Canadian Academic Quiz League is a distinct society of students at Canadian universities interested in promoting the growth of academic quiz competition in Canada.

The official Reach for the Top Inc. page

"Reach for the Top" is the oldest high school quiz show in Canada.


Other links

The Quizbowl Online
From Gaius Stern's "ACF West Coast Newsletter" IV.4:
The purpose of this site is to have a central repository of information and resources about the sport of Quiz Bowl as a whole. This includes NAQT, CBI, ACF, and everything in between.

Lycos guide - academic competitions

This list of websites is compiled by a combination of your votes and fancy technology. You and millions of other users tell us which are the best web sites by rating them during your visits.

Reach for the Top, the Unofficial Homepage

Reach for the Top was created in 1961 by producer Richard St. John, and sold to the Vancouver branch of the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in 1961. It was based on the US television show GE College Bowl.

CWRU's College Trivia Club Internet Resources
Many many links - a good place to get started.

College Bowl Resources
From the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Berkeley Academic Club "Quiz-Bowl"
Has archives of ACF newsletters and a good collection of links.

Alt.college.college-bowl FAQ
Rather outdated. A local copy is available since RTFM.MIT.EDU no longer has it.

Tennessee Science Bowl


Quizzes / Packets / Question Providers

Packet archive at Stanford (look here first when getting started)
Bible Packs
Academic Competition Federation archive

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Academic Hallmarks
Answers Plus A+
Champions quiz bowl preparation
Questions Unlimited
Triple Q Questions
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