Promoting history and geography education through competition on five continents. Bringing the sound of ringing buzzers to a school near you!
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IAC is looking for paid summer interns! Looking for an opportunity to get more involved with the game that you love so much? Apply today.
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A new picture quiz is now live! Submissions are due by Tuesday, June 9, at 11:59 PM.
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Our first online quiz goes live in at 7:30pm Eastern Daylight Time. It's a history quiz meant for school teams (both high school and middle school), so gather up your NHBB / IHBB teammates and join the fun! facebook.com/iacompetitions/
Please check out this week's picture quiz! Due Monday April 6 at 11:59 PM EST. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Next picture quiz posted here! Anyone can participate! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
The next picture quiz is now available here: iacompetitions.com/usa/pictu…
Answers due by Monday, March 23 at 11:59pm EDT. Good luck!
This week's #PlayerOTW is Liam Starnes of Barrington, Illinois! Liam competed at the 2016 & 2018 IHOs, where he won 4 medals. In his free time, he enjoys watching Chicago sports teams, playing tennis, and trying to first-line toss-ups on Protobowl.
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This week's #PlayerOTW is Thomas Glotfelty, an 8th grader from Fairfax VA! He enjoys watching 1970s TV shows and listening to classic rock music; He studies weather, and hopes to work in it one day. His favorite quiz bowl motto is “To buzz or not to buzz, that is the question..”
This week's #stafferOTW is Raynell Cooper, thew TC for the Bay Area. He played in IAC's first season in 2010-2011 with Richard Montgomery HS and has staffed ever since. His favorite moment was moderating matches in the Colosseum in Rome at the 2014 Euro Championships!
This week's #PlayerOTW is DeWitt Silber! This talented 4th grader will be competing in IGB Worlds in July! His favorite author is J.R.R. Tolkien, and he likes Beyblades, Minecraft, drawing and board games. He also plays soccer, skis, and has a brown belt in karate.
This week's featured staffer is Jaya Alagar! She has worked as a question writer since 2017 and composed a variety of questions for different audiences. She looks forward to one day staffing an IAC event and hearing her questions being played in real-time.
Our next player of the week is Cerulean Ozarow of Hunter College HS! Outside of quiz Bowl, he enjoys solving mathematics & computational linguistics problems, writing short stories, writing and performing music, acting, and spending way too much time looking at Quiz Bowl stats.
Introducing our second featured staffer of this week, Will Tippins! He is currently a third year in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He's always had a love of history, ever since he was given the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History.
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Introducing our first staffer of the week, Michael Borecki! A tournament coordinator for NHBB, Michael also takes on other roles when possible, including TDing, CCing, and writing/editing some of IAC's geography sets. At Bowdoin, he double majors in Mathematics and Government.
Introducing IAC's new monthly picture quiz! Check out this link for information on how to enter.
Please forward the link to anyone else you know who might be interested, including middle and high school students. Good luck!
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Last month, two teams from Thunder Ridge became only the second and third teams from Idaho to ever register for the National History Bowl National Championships! Congratulations to Coach Michael Buhler and the Thunder Ridge High School teams!
Introducing Will Schneider, one of our featured staff members! Will has been staffing IAC events since 2011. He is a valued member of our Nationals stats and tech team, and in his spare time enjoys cooking, running, rock climbing, and programming.
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Introducing our player of the week, Walker Combs of George Washington (WV) HS! Outside of NHBB, Walker is a ‘band nerd’ (French Horn), a skier, tennis player, and a stage actor (Shakespeare). He hopes to one day become a history professor or work for the government.
