Quizbowl Packet Archive: A database containing most non-NAQT quizbowl question sets since the start of modern quizbowl. These packets are great for scrimmages or self-study!
QB Reader: This website is likely the single most useful resource that exists for quizbowl—everybody will find something to enjoy here. The primary functionality of this website is as a question reader and searchable question database. In tossup mode, QB Reader will reveal tossups to you one word at a time and allows you to filter which questions you see based on subject, difficulty, year, and/or question set. It also has a bonus mode, a multiplayer mode, and a database mode, which contains powerful search tools. You can use the database mode to generate custom question batches with category and difficulty constraints, or search for questions with a specific answerline. There are also other good tools on the website like answer frequency lists, a pronunciation guide lookup, a packet parser, and much more. The site is being actively developed and its creators are adding new features every day that you can read more about on its Tips page.
NAQT Podcasts: Recordings of matches from NAQT's national championships. These recordings are a great way to get a glimpse of what the top level of competition is like.
Protobowl: A real-time quizbowl web app for playing quizbowl with your friends. This website has been largely superseded by the multiplayer features of QB Reader (detailed above), and the use of Protobowl today is generally discouraged due to the developers' "ongoing tolerance of racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other offensive content."
The OPTUDB: The OP Tossup Database. Contains most tossups (sorted by category) written up to 2016. I honestly have no idea where this came from (possibly Stevenson High School?), but it's a pretty good resource.
The Culture Guide Index: This site is a compilation of trivia, primarily designed as an aid for studying for quizbowl competitions, but perhaps also of some general interest.
ACE Camp Study Guides: A folder containing overviews of a ton of different subjects. This material was created by ACE Camp, a now-extinct quizbowl summer camp.
Kevin's Resources
Bonus Entry Sheets: This spreadsheet allows you to input your scores on bonuses and calculates averages for you (automatically split by category). Leave a note describing bonus parts that you missed, so you can come back to them later.
Quizbowl Megadocument: This is a living document containing all resources recommended to improve by quizbowl players at the University of Washington. Resources are tagged by type and quizbowl subject. Feel free to comment suggestions so we can keep this document up to date!
World Lit Hub: This document provides links to literature guides covering several different regions of the world. These guides are less about listing clues that will get you good buzzes and more about telling you what to study. Each guide comes with a "companion packet" featuring tossup + bonus questions related to the material, so you can ask a friend to test your knowledge after completion.
Famous Operas: A list of the operas that come up most frequently in quizbowl with some basic information about each. Like the literature guides, this guide is more about telling you what to study and will not function super well as a standalone guide.
Canonical American + British Authors: A list of American and British authors that come up frequently in quizbowl, as well as a couple of the most notable works. This guide is primarily targeted towards the high school game (more authors show up in college), but it should be somewhat applicable to the college game as well.
Canonical Philosophers: A list of philosophers that come up frequently in quizbowl. This guide is primarily targeted towards the high school game (more philosophers show up in college), but it should be somewhat applicable to the college game as well.
World History Hub: Links to a few resources I made in high school about world history, mostly military history. These guides are more detail-oriented and probably contain enough information for you to get a good buzz or two. I'm not as proud of these ones, but they still contain a lot of interesting information. These guides also come with companion packets for practice.
Quizbowl Lingo: Neg? RMP? Stock? This page should cover most of your questions about weird quizbowl words. An abbreviated glossary can be found here.
ACF Quizbowl: Website for ACF, the premier college quizbowl question writing organization. They host what is typically the most popular quizbowl tournament of the year, ACF Fall, as well as the national tournament ACF Nationals.
NAQT: Website for NAQT, the largest quizbowl organization in the United States. They primarily focus on high school competition, but they do college competition as well, most notably ICT.
Quizbowl Discord: While many regional and community-specific quizbowl servers exist, this is the one for the at-large quizbowl scene and with the most members. Enter at your peril.
QBWiki: Articles about the community and every aspect of the game.
Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl: Technically a blog for PA quizbowl only, but it has a lot of great resources under the "Quizbowl Essentials" sidebar. They also have a quizbowl podcast.
ACF: ACF's four annual events all run on question sets that are collaboratively produced by the editors and players. With the exception of ACF Fall, all tournament attendees are required to submit half a packet's worth of questions beforehand, which may be used at the event. Early packet submissions come with a nice discount for when we play these tournaments. If UW is playing a given ACF tournament, you can volunteer to write part of UW's half packet. You can expect an announcement to go out when writing starts for a given packet, and you can always ask an officer about the next packet submission we're doing! We participate in ACF packet submission on roughly the below timeline:
ACF Fall: June - August
ACF Winter: July - September
ACF Regionals: October - November
ACF Nationals: January - February
This is most likely the way that you will be introduced to question writing, as UW will be in need of new writers every year to provide these questions. Experienced writers can also apply for an editor position. Editor applications are accepted from May to early June.
PACE Mentorship Program: PACE is a quizbowl organization that runs a national championship for high schools. Most years (most recently in 2026) editors for this championship's question set take on mentees interested in becoming better question writers. Mentees generally complete about twenty questions and a self-reflection as part of this, and good questions can make it into the actual question set for the tournament. This is probably the most accessible way to get into high-level question writing, and the people you meet will be able to connect you with future opportunities. This program usually takes applicants in early September.
NAQT: NAQT is generally the most "prestigious" of the quizbowl writing gigs; it pays well above average—up to $17.61 per tossup—and writers are free to contribute questions on any subject at any difficulty without needing to worry about the constraints imposed by working on a single question set. However, they are quite selective. NAQT accepts applications between June 1 and July 31 of every year.
Quizbowl Resource Center Forums: Inividual question sets are always looking for writers to join their ranks, especially for middle and high school sets! Look on the forums for posts whose subject lines include something to the effect of "Call for writers/editors."
Misconduct
Misconduct Reporting Form: This is a website to answer questions about and/or report misconduct in the quizbowl community. A link to the actual form can be found here.
Tournament Announcements: A list of all tournament announcements in the college quizbowl community. This is also where we notify the community about our own upcoming tournaments.
TJ Sheets: Scoresheets for running tournaments. These scoresheets can be auto-converted into basic or advanced stats reports.
MODAQ: An increasingly popular, though somewhat complicated, web application developed by Alejandro Lopez-Lago for easy scorekeeping of games and support for advanced buzzpoint statistics. The website also includes information about Alejandro's Discord bot for scorekeeping quizbowl games and the packet parser that turns Microsoft Word documents of packets into MODAQ-friendly JSON files.
College Quizbowl Map: An open-source, detailed schedule of question sets available for collegiate play in a given competition year, including difficulty and the number of known tournament sites. Another page on the site gives a rough detail of every collegiate circuit and which schools are active in their quizbowl scenes.
UW Internal
Club Constitution: Quizbowl's RSO Constitution as mandated by the University.
UWQB Website Repository: A GitHub repository containing the source code for this very website. Its contribution instructions are outdated and will be edited, but in the meantime feel free to contribute by forking and to contact the officers if you have any questions!
