About Us

College Bowl is what is commonly referred to as quiz bowl. Basically, it involves asking academic questions and seeing who is the first to come up with the answer.

We practice on Mondays and Thursdays from 7:00 PM till around 10 in Thornton 107. Practice consists of us reading questions from old packets stored at either ACF or Stanford Packet Archive. Practice is a laid back affair and we encourage everyone to come. Practice can be a place to have fun and be social or a place to seriously improve our knowledge.

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About College Bowl

General Rules

Two teams generally comprised of four players each try to signal in using a lockout buzzer system. The first player to signal and correctly answer a tossup question gets 10 points for his/her team, with a 5-point penalty if an incorrect answer is given before the question has been completed. Each time a team gets a toss-up, they have the chance to earn up to 30 more points on a bonus question read only for that team, during which team members can confer. (Conferring is never allowed on tossups.)

Formats

Dartmouth College Bowl generally plays two formats.

National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) competitions are characterized by easier, shorter questions, two timed halves of 9 minutes each, and a special ‘power’ rule, in which an exceptionally early answer earns a team 15 points, instead of the usual 10. Teams qualify for the ICT nationals competition through Sectionals competitions, which are regional competitions that determine eligibility. Dartmouth has been invited to the ICT for three years running.

Academic Competition Federation (ACF) competitions are characterized by untimed rounds of twenty questions apiece, as well as explicitly academic questions that are both longer and more difficult than NAQT questions. This is the format we primarily play, attending competitions during both the fall and winter.

In addition to the ‘major’ formats, colleges will occasionally host independently affiliated tournaments using questions written by members of the host school’s team, special rules, or both.

About Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private institution of higher learning located in New Hampshire. It is part of the Ivy League...