[emailed to qb@... and qb-canada@egroups.com] Schoolreach (a.k.a. Reach for the Top) is always looking for more question writers. 1. The going rate is...
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Gabriel Desjardins
4gmd1@...
Jul 11, 1999 5:40 pm
Paul Russell never paid me for questions in 1995. ... eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/qb-canada http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group...
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petermc@...
Jul 14, 1999 8:00 pm
The inaugural Vancouver Estival Trivia Open , the first quiz bowl tournament in the western half of the country, will take place at the Burnaby Mountain campus...
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Bruce Lin
brucelin@...
Jul 14, 1999 8:58 pm
"By most counts Canada is the Death Star of cultural fortifications, bristling with regulatory armaments to preserve what little is left of its own cultural...
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Zhan Huan Zhao
zhazho@...
Jul 16, 1999 9:48 pm
Or like it says about Canada in "An Incomplete Education" : The winning phrase to complete the patriotic expression "As Canadian as..." was "As Canadian as...
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petermc@...
Jul 23, 1999 2:43 am
The inaugural Vancouver Estival Trivia Open (VETO), the first-ever quiz bowl tournament in western Canada, was held on Saturday, July 17, at Simon Fraser...
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Zhou, Zhan Huan
zhazho@...
Jul 23, 1999 4:00 pm
... Since I was unable to actually present them with this glorious prize, I donated the box of KD to the Vancouver Food Bank. Zhan...
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petermc@...
Aug 24, 1999 10:54 pm
As some of you might have read on the QB-ANNOUNCE mailing list, NAQT is looking for Canadian hosts for its "conference" championship tournaments on the weekend...
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R. Robert Hentzel
topquark@...
Aug 25, 1999 4:04 am
Players-- NAQT would be open to a concrete plan from a host for altering the CCT questions to include more Canadian content (presumably Peter means adding more...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Sep 13, 1999 1:23 am
The University of Western Ontario Quiz Bowl Club presents its first intercollegiate competition, _Mackenzie_Bowl_. It will be a novice tournament with a couple...
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Krista Byers-Heinlein
kbyers@...
Sep 15, 1999 3:45 am
Hello Mr. Thorsley- I have been subscribed to the qb-canada newsgroup for some time now, and was very excited to hear that Western is hosting a novice...
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R. Robert Hentzel
topquark@...
Sep 15, 1999 3:55 am
... Krista -- I am the president of National Academic Quiz Tournaments, an American company that runs a collegiate international championship and provides ...
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Gabriel Desjardins
gabed@...
Sep 15, 1999 12:53 pm
Krista, Shari Dwoskin from McGill was in touch with me in April about starting a team there. You should definitely get in touch with her. If you want to ...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Sep 16, 1999 3:15 am
I have put pictures up from VETO held July 17, 1999 at SFU. You can find a link to them at http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/student/zhzhou/vancouver/vancouver.html...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Sep 16, 1999 3:15 am
... I have old questions used in previous intramural tournaments at Waterloo. They have lots of Canadian content. They are great for practice and for running...
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tara mcfarlane
tjmcfarl@...
Sep 16, 1999 3:38 am
Thanks Zhan! Tara p.s. we all look so evil ... "He who seizes the right moment, is the right man." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Sep 25, 1999 11:38 pm
To all teams interested in attending Mackenzie Bowl on the 16th of October: I am somewhat pleased to announce that packet submission will no longer be required...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Sep 29, 1999 2:25 am
Hi everyone -- UWO Quiz Bowl had our first meeting this evening, with a grand total of 19 in attendance. We had elections to fill two positions, so our new...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Oct 17, 1999 3:35 am
Congratulation to Case Western Reserve University A (Josh Levit, Brandon Eilertson, and Jason Schlabach) who went undefeated in eleven games to win Mackenzie...
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petermc@...
Oct 19, 1999 7:41 am
... awake and ... Seems to have gone very well, from the reports I've read. Congrats on your first tournament! What other teams were there?...
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Gabriel Desjardins
gabed@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:45 am
or more to the point - what Canadian teams were there?...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:52 am
I haven't finished compiling the stats yet (something called exams in getting in the way) but here are the full final standings, as everyone's dying to know: ...
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kmp12@...
Oct 19, 1999 1:17 pm
I just wanted to say on behalf of the Cornell players (even though I was only a moderator) that we really enjoyed the tournament. We liked the questions which...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Oct 21, 1999 2:13 am
The University of Western Ontario Quiz Bowl Club hosted Mackenzie Bowl on October 16, 1999. 6 teams from Canada and 8 from the United States participated. The...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Oct 21, 1999 2:24 am
I wasn't at Mackenzie Bowl, but from what I can gather from Kenny's email, it seems like Mr. Thorsley did an excellent job at Mackenzie Bowl. I only wish that...
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Gabriel Desjardins
gabed@...
Oct 21, 1999 2:52 am
... Don't forget about Montreal smoked meat in Kingston. g...
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Gabriel Desjardins
gabed@...
Oct 21, 1999 7:14 pm
nice stats. It's unfortunate that Queen's couldn't send its best team. Having played with Cam and Rob at their first ever tournament, I think they have a shot...
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Cameron Barr
8csb@...
Oct 21, 1999 8:45 pm
I WOULD like to point out that Queen's did have the highest Canadian scorer at Mackenzie Bowl. Boo-yah. And next time we're dragging Robin along, no matter...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Oct 22, 1999 3:28 am
Having had our first meeting since Mackenzie Bowl, I was able to get a first hand account of what Waterloo felt about the tournament. From the comments I...
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dmatos@...
Oct 22, 1999 3:33 am
I think that it was simply the lack of arts students on our teams that cost us a lot of points. Most of the questions were history, literature, or world ...
