Josh on 8 Feb 2002 07:56:48 -0000


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Re: hosers-talk: Oh yeah...


Tom Plagge sez:
>> 
>> Tom Plagge sez:
>> >Anybody have some good KQ questions?
>> >(he says to a list full of quiz bowlers...)
>> 
>> Dude, how hard could those things be to write? Take you one night.
>
>I thought it might be nice to not have all the questions be about
>physics, math, Russian literature, and music.  The idea this
>year is to make Google a less useful tool than, say, actual knowledge.

Unfortunately that eliminates most of the questions you could
ask about most disciplines.

Lotsa math problems, though.

Also: identify-the-sound-processing-technique. Fucking awesome.

Describing paintings is a popular format of quizbowl tossups about
them. Maybe tougher to google.



Josh

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