<p>For those who have quick bowl. How do you guys study for it?</p>
<p>You show up to the practices, and maybe write down a few key words of things you don't know. Then look them up on Wikipedia. That's it.</p>
<p>our practices are preatty useless because all we do is go over past match questions. That does not really help alot in preparing for an upcoming match</p>
<p>Know your Shakespeare and your (American) Civil War battles. Those seem to come up frequently.</p>
<p>Look up English authors. In my last match there were at least 3 Byron questions and 2 Bronte. Plus a Coleridge and a Chaucer. I wish I paid more attention in brit lit...</p>
<p>If you can answer any lit questions, you're doing good. I've been to matches before where neither team could get any of those right. They ask about all kinds of useless little works. You don't need to actually read the literature, but be familiar with titles, authors, and what goes on in each.</p>
<p>I was on that for freshman year at our school. We had a horrible run at local, state competitions, placing dead last in many. We just had no experience at the thing. The first year was also our last year. The supervising teacher left the school so we called it quits, and it was kinda sad because I was captain. </p>
<p>Saddest Quiz Bowl EC ever: Hr's per week: 4 Wks per year: 15. Captain of team. 0 Wins, and last place at Statewide competition. I got a question right against Santa Monica High school. It was about Great Expectations. We lost 5 to three hundred something in that match. It was a sad freshman year... (I'm not putting this on my app... :) )</p>
<p>I've been on our team for 2 years (this is third, hope to be captain senior year), and it's been pretty much the same all the time. We practice once or twice a week for 2 hrs or so, using NAQT questions and stuff. We practice in the format of most matches (toss-ups and bonuses, NAQT style), and we sort of hover between our state's A and B divisions. It's a pretty good team this year.</p>
<p>The quiz bowl kids at my school meet after school and do things like go over old questions from past competitions. They also get this massive packet of facts that they should memorize. I guess everything works out for them because they were the 1st place team in state last year, and 13th in the country :)</p>
<p>Just go to The</a> Quizbowl Resource Center and check out the message boards there. Plenty of good stuff plus an easy way to connect with the rest of the QB community.</p>