Current Players
Class of '09
- Robert Cousins
- Hometown: Chappaqua, NY
- Experience: Four years of Academic Challenge at Horace Greeley High School: as a sophomore I helped lead the B team to the first-ever playoff appearance by a B team in National Academic Championship history; as a junior I started for the A team that won the national scoring title; as a senior I captained our A team to a sixth-place finish at Nationals. My first College Bowl tournament was Terrier Tussle '06.
- Other Activities: Navigators Christian Fellowship, Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services, Dartmouth Apologia, Upper Valley Search & Rescue
- Major/Minor Plans: English / Spanish Literature
- Favorite Cbowl Subjects: Literature, music, sports, chess
- Best Answers: Doll House, Our Town, Christianity, Lope de Vega (my first tournament answer ever), Acupunture, The Gambler, En Passant
- Best Competitions: Terrier Tussle '06, NAQT Sectionals '07
- Random musings on other teams: Boston College, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins' teams all feature alumni of the 03-04 national championship teams from Horace Greeley High School . . . the Goat lives!
- Favorite cbowlers from other teams: Owen Godshall, Philip Levitz, Raphael Krut- Landau (see above); Foster Sexton and Aaron Kashtan (old Dartmouth players).
- Alan Whitney Hess
- Hometown: Richmond, VA
- Experience: Started freshman year, attended first tournament sophomore year.
- Other Activities: Handel Society, Rassias Foundation Drill
- Major/Minor Plans: Econ, Govt/German minor
- Favorite Cbowl Subjects: Comic books, Politics/Current Events
- Best Answers: Bertolt Brecht (I believe my first answer ever), Russia (beating Aaron Kashtan on a question), Pyruvic acid, Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), Shredder, Rain in Paris (because I clearly had no idea what I was doing)
- Anirudh Jangalapalli
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India; San Diego, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Toronto, Canada
- Experience: I started playing in 7th Grade where my team took 4th place of 32 in regionals, and we finished 2nd next year. In high school, I played JV for my two years, and we won the district championship in my second year when I was JV team captain. I was Varsity captain for my junior and senior years, when we ran away with districts each time, and finished 2nd and 5th in States. I played NAQT once in High School (at Princeton's HS Tournament), where we came second in a division with the then national champions Thomas Jefferson A.
- Other Activities: Model UN, Milan, Econ tutoring, working at the Art gallery
- Major/Minor Plans: Economics, and maybe minor in art history and mathematics as well
- Favorite Cbowl Subjects: Definitely live for the Hinduism, and Indian and Art History questions, James Joyce stuff too, though I love hearing Econ and some Math questions. Not that they ask this much in college but Harry Potter also makes my day. In high school, I was the lit/art guy so I'm fond of literature questions as well. I also like comic book questions as long as Alan isn't on the other team. I suck at science, geography, and some history.
- Best Answers: Anything Hindu, most Art questions (I did power Mannerism over a certain unnamed person). The Onion. James Joyce related questions. The Order of the Phoenix. I can't forget Spanish Tragedy - the first Cbowl question I ever answered at '06 ACF Regs. It's not really a favorite, but I mixed up otto von BisMARcK and karl MARX freshman year and still don't hear the end of it. That's kind of how we roll in Cbowl.
- Best Competitions: I enjoyed WIT 2006 (Mirror at Harvard). I loved beating Rutgers at '07 ACF Regs (though I played like crap), and I thought NAQT '07 was enjoyable as well.
- Random musings on other teams: I hate playing MIT -they're all great people, they just seem to have our number a lot. Luckily Dartmouth has won more than half the games we've played, but nonetheless, it's a disconcerting feeling each time around.
- Favorite cbowlers from other teams: My archnemesis - everyone on Dartmouth knows who this is - is fun to play nowadays because I'm currently doing a lot better than this person on the Art questions. My good friend Adam on Harvard's A team is another cool cbowler, and of course, AARON KASHTAN - the REAL man/myth/legend.
- About: I did not coin the term "Cbola virus" (see Dominic), but that's pretty clever. Di-Carbon Monoxide Nitrogen Uracil-Thymine compounds are quite prevalent in Cbowl and I enjoy laying down the law on them (I have not met a player in Cbowl who can beat me on India questions except Jerry - and that's because he got lucky and I had tuned out for that one question).
- Randall Maas
- Dominic Machado
- Hometown: Lawrenceville, NJ
- Experience: Started playing as a freshman. First tournament was ACF Regionals '06.
- Other Activities: Aquinas House, Latin Tutoring, Research Assistant for Professor Paul Christesen, Hosting my radio show
- Major/Minor Plans: Classics (Ancient History) and Economics
- Favorite Cbowl Subjects: Ancient History, Myth, Economics, US History, Japanese History, Japanese Literature, Ancient Literature and most of all Sports
- Best Answers: Saratoga (first College Bowl answer against Harvard B ACF Regs '06), World's Strongest Man, Italy, Phillips Curve, Giffen Good, Wilmot Proviso, Mann Act, Full House, Koy Detmer, Thorsten Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class, Macedonian Wars
- Best Competitions: ACF Regs '06 (my first), EFT '06, MLK '07, NAQT Sectionals '07 (going over 500 pts), ACF Regionals '07 (beating then undefeated Rutgers)
- Random musings on other teams: Most cbowlers are nice guys. So I don't really hate any player in particular. But I do hate playing MIT B, they have my number.
- Favorite cbowlers from other teams: Aaron Kashtan the beast himself and The "Prince."
- Tiberiu Moga
- Hometown: Toronto, Canada
- Experience: Started playing freshman year, went to several tournaments such as the NAQT sectionals, NAQT ICT for Division I and the Terrier Tussle at Boston University.
- Other Activities: French Cinema Club, International Students' Association
- Major/Minor Plans: Biology
- Favorite Cbowl Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Classics
- Best Answers: Apoptosis, Vitamin B12, Q Cycle, Slaughterhouse Five, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Jerry wouldn't accept it at first), Sense and Sensibility
- Aravind Reddy
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Class of '10
- Luofei Deng
- Hometown: Tenafly, NJ (see below)
- About: Luofei is from Tenafly, NJ (also known as the home of the world's largest bottle of wine). He has also lived in Tennessee and China, and enjoys referring to himself in the third person. On campus, Luofei can be found working at the Computing Services Help Desk (pretending he knows what he is talking about) or every other Friday inside The Dartmouth writing a column for the Mirror (pretending he knows what he is talking about and glorifying his own self-importance). At practice, Luofei specializes in questions about the solar system and random trash (Donna Karan?). Currently without a major, Luofei hopes to one day graduate, make use of the degree obtained through massive amounts of tuition, and find a purpose for his existence.
- Ashley Walker
- About: Ashley is a '10 at Dartmouth and she will probably wind up doubling in Arabic and modified Bio/Govt. She plays College Bowl because when she was little, her dad used to tell her to read all of these books and to pay attention to the news, but she would run away and play with her dog instead. One day, though, her dad told her very seriously about a poem that he loved that was actually a series of poems written by a guy named Omar Khayyam. He said that it was not enough for her to read this poem. He said that no person could actually call himself or herself educated unless he or she knew at least a quatrain of the poem by heart. And, he said that she, Ashley, would be doomed to die an ignoramus unless she started caring about knowledge. Terrified, Ashley ran to the bookshelf and got the poem. Since then, she's basically wanted to not be an ignoramus, and she relies on College Bowl to show her how much she doesn't know, which is, unfortunately, a lot.
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