Spans several years of publicly released HS tournaments of various difficulties. Don’t really use anything older than about 2010, they’re outdated before that. Try and remember what packets you’ve read so we know what not to use during practices. Click the links near the top to get to Collegiate, Middle School, or Trash packets.
Stanford Uni’s quizbowl archive. A bit outdated, but still has some good sets we probably wouldn’t use for practice. Also, there are some single-subject sets.
My dropbox of category-specific reference guides, that contain a TON of alphabetized tossups of specific subjects. Good for studying, like quinterest, especially for specific subjects.
Wastebin, a repository of trash (pop culture) packets that people make. Not good for studying, but if you find friends who know a lot about Archer or Star Trek or Disney, use these to settle the score.
Sample packets from HSAPQ, a question writing company. Check to see that packets are recent and that they’re not college. If it’s ACF (not ACF-Format), then they’re college. Some good National History Bowl/Bee stuff on here. Although we will (likely) not compete in it this year, the history knowledge still helps. If you wanna try the hardest stuff HS Quizbowl has to offer, check out NASAT.
Sample Packets from NAQT, another big question writing company. Less variety here, and only one packet each. The Introductory set to the HS Nationals set should be doable. If you’re looking for a challenge, do the HS Nationals or the college Intramural.
Search through a database of public, previously used quizbowl questions. Narrow down by answerline, or search within the questions itself.
Make sure that you’re using “High School” when learning, you most likely will not find good use out of MS or College level questions, unless you’re really confident in a subject.
A question-reading program that allows for multiple people to play together, and for category manipulation.
HOW TO USE PROTOBOWL: If practicing/studying, create your own room and play by yourself. The people who play on the open channels have just memorized the first lines of the limited tossups used. Instead, play a tossup. If you don’t feel confident about the answerline, go on to quinterest and read up about it. Next time you get the same answerline, see if you do better. Don’t think that this is a replacement for studying. “Protobowl Memorization” can only get you so far.
I don’t like flashcards, but some do, and they’re more helpful in certain subjects than others. Search “quizbowl” and you’ll find a ton of category-specific flashcard sets that people have made. Feel free to use this or make some yourself!
Although mostly outdated, NAQT has made many lists of things that “you gotta know”, similar to my top 10 paintings list. If you learn these, you will definitely get tossups on them at the regular level. Good to pick and choose from, depending on what specific subjects you would like to focus on
The question distribution of NAQT tournament sets. This gives you a good idea what categories come up a lot in quizbowl, and what isn’t really asked about. Obviously, this varies between question writers.
IRC client where (occasionally) there are region-wide quizbowl practices. If you’re on facebook, join the group #nypaqb, or I can invite you. We also have google hangouts practices occasionally.
