One thing you might want to do is check the reference source of both questions. -- my guess is that they might be the same. Think of it this way: How many ...
that does NOT sound to me like it's straight out of a reference, especially the last sentence. also, if it was straight out of a reference, why would the clues...
I don't know what's more amazing, that you, or someone else, has the packet recall to recognize this amazing similarity in questions, or that you have the ...
I realize this is only tangentially relevant (at best) but here goes...<br>Has anyone had a tape date for jeopardy, flown out there, and then not got on the...
I would just like to remind everyone that the final, no-penalty deadline for Penn Bowl is this Thursday, December 7, 2000.<br><br>I am NOT extending this ...
I was just wondering, what exactly is a lexicon, in the context of Quiz Bowl? I have seen them on various pages but I don't quite understand what they are. Is...
The inaugural Supernatural Ice Bowl HS tournament was held at Pitt on Saturday ... here is a brief summary.<br><br>Twelve teams competed in a complete round...
The following are a brief look at the results from the 1st Annual DePauw (With a W!) Open, held Saturday, December 2, 2000. A big thank you is in order to the...
>> Everyone's favorite plagiarizer strikes again.<br><br>> Exactly WHOM are you accusing of plagiarism? <br><br>The man, the myth, the legend, Chip...
continued from previous post...<br><br>-The NAC, and other tournaments run directly by QU such as QuizNet, have many strange rules, most notably "one protest...
The assertions you make seem to fit into two categories.<br><br>1. QU's questions and rules stink and the national championship format is a joke.<br>2. Beall...
To add my voice...<br><br>I have participated in the National Academic Championship, and heard QU questions on other occasions, for the past three years. I can...
To throw my hat into the ring...<br><br> I attended the Los Angeles leg of the tournament last spring, playing on Plymouth-Canton Educational Park. This is my...
Oh, to second the Jeopardy question theft --<br><br>At Nationals my freshman year we swept a bonus on Hammurabi's Code. Imagine my surprise when EVERY question...
>>Given that you allege theft, plagiarism, and favoritism, a few more seem to be in order to justify what you're saying.<<<br><br>Agreed.<br><br>My...
I just had a thought that it might be an interesting idea to create some QB publicity for the original authors of those questions to file suit against 20 ...
>>I just had a thought that it might be an interesting idea to create some QB publicity for the original authors of those questions to file suit against...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled discussion/flamewar/etc. for some actual tournament results.<br><br>A total of 22 teams descended on UT-Chattanooga (aka ...
It seems to me that lexica started as a way to explain Quiz Bowl jargon to new players and the otherwise uninformed, but within the last ten years have been ...
I think an even better remedy would be to obtain a list of the schools that regularly attend Chip's tournaments. Then, someone could get in touch with the...
I don't think that any lawsuit on copyright infringement is such a great idea because it is difficult to perceive any damages that have been incurred by such ...
Well, from my understanding (I'm not a lawyer, though) you don't have to explcitly mark your work as copyrighted to have it *be* copyrighted. So just because ...
1. As I said, damages would be nominal--but one could certainly get an injunction preventing him from doing it in the future.<br><br>2. To copyright your ...
But here's my question: what happens when the copyright is removed from the questions before posting?<br><br>What I may end up doing for packets from Penn Bowl...
