Academic competition resources

• Yahoo! qb-canada group — Quiz Bowl Canada is a forum for discussing academic quiz competitions in Canada at the high school and university level.
   
• Le Relais — French-language forum for Herbogénistes.
   
• Yahoo! quizbowl group — Mostly American forum for discussions about quiz bowl and other games and game shows requiring knowledge and speed of recall.
   
• The Quizbowl Resource Center discussion boards — Mostly American forum for discussion of quiz bowl at both the high school and university level (see "Collegiate & Open Quizbowl"). As of late 2006, this is the most active website for discussion of North American quizbowl.
   
• Yahoo! quizbowl-announce group — Mostly American forum for posting announcements of upcoming tournaments.
   
• The Maize Pages — "The unofficial portal for all your academic competitions needs." Hosted by CollegeQuizBowl.org. Includes a comprehensive directory of team home pages and links to question-writing resources.

American quiz organizations

• College Bowl Company, Inc. (CBCI) — College Bowl is the best-known academic competition organization in the United States, having started on radio in 1954 and later doing a TV run from 1959 to 1970. CBCI holds 15 regional championships in February (four of the regions include parts of Canada), with the winners going to a national championship tournament in April. Schools are eligible to compete in the regionals if they host an intramural tournament under CBCI rules by the end of January. The cost to register in CBCI is $300 U.S. for a new school. Questions are on general topics, with special emphasis on current events and social issues.
   
• Academic Competition Federation (ACF) — ACF was founded in 1990 by former College Bowl players who wanted a slower-paced game with more focus on academic subjects. ACF questions tend to be longer and harder than those of any other organization. Current events, popular culture and sports are not included. ACF is run by students, with regionals in February and nationals in April, all using questions submitted by the participating teams. The format is also used for invitational tournaments throughout the year. The website has free questions for download.
   
• National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) — NAQT (founded 1996) is a middle ground between ACF and CBCI. The questions are harder than CBCI but easier than ACF. Like both of those organizations, it holds regionals in February and nationals in April. NAQT also awards championships for the top all-undergraduate team and the top Division II team (consisting of undergraduates with less than four years' experience). NAQT sells questions for use in some other student-run invitationals.
   
• Testing Recall About Strange Happenings (TRASH) — TRASH (founded 1997) is entirely devoted to popular culture: TV, movies, sports, pop music, pop lit, etc. Regionals are held in November, and Nationals ("TRASHionals") around April 1. Although tournaments are held at universities, there are no requirements for players to be students. Throughout the year there are other occasional invitationals that cover the same topics as TRASH but rely on questions written by the players.

Reach for the Top

• Official Reach for the Top / Schoolreach website — Lots of information here by the people who put on Canada's best-known high school quiz show. Website up since June, 1999.

Génies en herbe:   websites in French only

• Génies en herbe à Thetford Mines — has information about the francophone version of Reach for the Top played in the province of Quebec.
   
• Ligue Post-secondaire de Québec
   
• Ligue collégiale et universitaire de Génies en herbe de Montréal
   
• Paléogénies

Canadian reference sources

• The Canadian Resource Page — Stewart Clamen's excellent list of Canadian links.
   
• The Canadian Encyclopedia Online — the only one of its kind, all for free on the Web!

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