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Major Formats:
(More about these in the FAQ and Lexicon)

ACF

NAQT

TRASH

CBI/CBCI

Quiz Bowl Portals:

Yahoo! Quizbowl Group - this moderated group is a great outlet for tournament announcements and discussion about College Quiz Bowl.

World of High School Quizbowl - Run by VCU's Matt Weiner. While these boards are primarily geared toward High School Quiz Bowl discussion, a section is fully devoted to College Quiz Bowl Also a great outlet for tournament announcements and College QB discussion.

The Maize Pages - Run by Michigan Alumnus Craig Barker, this is Quiz Bowl's version of the Yellow pages -- A veritable smorgasboard of Quiz Bowl information including links to question writing guides, tournament-running guides, and team directories.

Question Writing Resources:

Stanford Guidelines - the question-writing how-to that started it all. Originally written in 1991 and updated in 1999.

Michigan Memorandum - Originally written in 1995, four years after Stanford, this document was orginally intended as a Stanford Update. Check out the 2002 update, as well...

ACF Guidelines - The Academic Competions Federation's guidelines for question writing, specifically for their tournaments. Within, you'll also find columns about how to better yourself at the game and what *not* to do while question writing.

Stanford Packet Archive -  Previously-played tournament questions for practice purposes.

SCSZicago Manual of Style - another question writing guide written by  Mitchell Szczepanczyk, formerly of the University of Chicago.

The Reference Desk - Run by Dwight Kidder, this is a compilation of web sites that can be used for researching facts for question writing.

Nearby Quiz Bowl Teams: (those with webpages)

Maryland

Delaware

Rutgers

Princeton

Columbia

Swarthmore

Villanova

Penn State

Virginia

VCU

UNC

NC State




You can also see a directory of teams from all over the nation through The Maize Pages Team Directory...