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Improving as a Player and as a Team

At Olympia, we understand the quest for excellence in academic competition, because it is that same quest which motivates our efforts. Thus, here is information on how to improve in Quiz Bowl, both as an individual player and as a team.
Resources for Improvement

Tips for Improvement
A list of tips for improvement for players, coaches, and teams offered by the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance.

How To Get Better at Quizbowl
A discussion on the Quizbowl Resource Center forums on this subject.

Practice Questions

Middle School Specific Practice Questions


Collaborative Middle School Tournament
A high quality Middle School tournament set offered by a variety of tournaments across the United States in Spring 2010.

2009 Junior Wildcat Tournament
A Middle School tournament written and hosted by the Northwestern University Quiz Bowl team.

Additional Practice Question Sources
It is worth noting that most of the questions available here are geared towards high school and college students, and thus may be difficult for teams at the middle school level.

Quizbowl Packet Archive
An archive of Quiz Bowl questions at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels.

Stanford Packet Archive
The oldest and most comprehensive of the major packet archives.

The Culture Guide Index
A guide to various important topics which come up in Quiz Bowl, compiled by Chris Sewall of Stanford University

If you are aware of a resource which we should include here, please don't hesitate to email us to let us know

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