Quiz bowl is also known by various other names, such as Academic Bowl, Academic Challenge, Academic League, Academic Team, Battle of the Brains, Brain Bowl, BrainBusters, Brain Game, College Bowl, Brain Brawl, Brain Busters, It's Academic, Knowledge Bowl, Scholar Quiz Bowl, Scholastic Bowl, Scholar's Bowl, Whiz Quiz, and Nerd-Squad.

They often include in their names " College Bowl ," " Academic Competition ," or " Quiz Bowl.

The " Quiz Bowl " episode of the Internet mockumentary Dorm Life features a parody of a College Bowl match.

The first College Quiz Bowl match was played on NBC radio on October 10, 1953, when Northwestern University defeated Columbia University, 135-60.

In the 1990s with the rise of the Academic Competition Federation and National Academic Quiz Tournaments, both with their own national championships, a number of schools ( such as the University of Maryland, the University of Chicago, both former national champions, and recent runner up Georgia Tech ) " de-affiliated " from College Bowl.

*" General Knowledge Quiz ", College webpage with links to current questions ( as of December ) and previous year's answers ; current-quiz answers as of late January

LASA Quiz Bowl team won the Southwest Regional ACF Fall Tournament n Norman, OK with a perfect 8-0 score, the ONLY High School team competing against 4 College teams.

Adjacent to the Bowl is the Campbell College Center, renovated in 2000, which contains the campus bookstore, post office, cafeteria, and Student Life offices.

At the collegiate level, academic quiz bowl competitions enjoyed broad exposure in the United States media via College Bowl, which started on radio in 1953 and aired on national television from 1959 to 1970.

In 1977, the format was revived on college campuses by College Bowl Company Inc. ( CBCI ), which operated until 2008.

In September 1990, the Academic Competition Federation ( ACF ) was incorporated as the first major alternative to College Bowl on university campuses.

The now-defunct CBCI or College Bowl format emphasizes comparatively short questions on academics, current events, pop culture, and general knowledge.

In the 1990s, " Deaf College Bowl " for university teams with hearing-impaired students emerged.

This program is administered by the College Bowl Company, Inc. ( CBCI ) in cooperation with the Association of College Unions International ( ACUI ) and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Education ( NAFEO ).

* College Bowl-traces its history to 1953, but was suspended after the 2007-08 season by the College Bowl Company, Inc. ( CBCI ).

Some tournaments ( historically College Bowl ) have used single-elimination or double-elimination, but this reduces the number of matches each team can play, and has been criticized on the college-circuit.

For the college game, in official College Bowl, NAQT or other events, there are severe eligibility rules, while other tournaments differ on whether senior or only junior undergraduate, graduate, and even non-students can play.

College Bowl in particular allows only one graduate student per team.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

The fourteenth name was ( Richard ) Buckenham, written Buckman, admitted to Christ's College under Scott 2 July 1625.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.

It fixed on Dartmouth College, which was ready-made and just what the proctor ordered.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

Miss Betsy Parker was one of the speakers on the panel of the Eastern Women's Liberal Arts College panel on Wednesday evening in the Security Life Bldg..

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

Miss Vieth was graduated from the Louise S. McGehee school and is attending Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass..

Now 38, Mr. Simpkins was graduated from the University of Maryland's College of Agriculture in 1947.

The presentation was made before several hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, College of Marin, Kentfield.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

Half of it was natural, half was Smith College.

His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

That show was broadcast from St. Paul in the Janet Wallace Auditorium of Macalester College.

However, in 1987, Prof. Robert Pari of Bentley College published an academic article in the Journal of Portfolio Management detailing the results of a study that found that stocks recommended by Rukeyser's guests on Wall Street Week not only tended to rise in price and trading volume in the days preceding the Friday evening broadcast, peaking on the Monday afterward, but thereafter those stocks tended to drop in price and under-perform the market for up to a year following the recommendation.

* St Hilda's students were the subject of the Channel 4 documentary series College Girls, broadcast in 2002.

In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.

Cambridge University Radio ( later Cam FM ) broadcast from Churchill College from 1979 until 2011.

The annual " Nine Lessons and Carols " broadcast from King's College, Cambridge, on Christmas Eve, has established itself as one of the signs that Christmas has begun in the United Kingdom.

On July 6, 1974, the first live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion was broadcast from the Janet Wallace Auditorium of Macalester College.

From 1970 to 1975 he served as Director for Developmental Psychology at Ryerson Open College, a virtual university which broadcast lectures by radio ( on CJRT-FM ) and TV ( CBC and CTV ) from 1970 to 1975 ; and from 1993 to 2000 he was engaged in Ryerson University Now ( RUN ), an initiative to get bright but disadvantaged students interested in going to university.

Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts introduced one of the first broadcasting majors in 1932 when the college teamed up with WLOE in Boston to have students broadcast programs.

In 2009, Sam Kay, part of the team from Corpus Christi College, Oxford was accused of not being a student when the show was broadcast.

On January 19, 2006, Channel 4 broadcast a docudrama entitled Tony Blair: Rock Star, which stated that the band's first gig was at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, during which the drum kit fell apart, and that the band played a total of six gigs before disbanding.

The BBC set up a bursary award in Dando's memory, which enables one student each year to study broadcast journalism at University College Falmouth.

The best-known version is broadcast annually from King's College, Cambridge, on Christmas Eve.

One recipient, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art had recently appointed the video artist Stephen Partridge as a lecturer who then established ( 1984 ) The Television Workshop to support artists and film-makers ' production and access to high-level broadcast technology.

At least two non-commercial FM stations, the community-based WGDR in Plainfield, Vermont and its sister station, WGDH in Hardwick, Vermont ( both owned by Goddard College ), broadcast a weekly, two-hour " Quiet Storm " program -— a 50-50 mix of smooth jazz and soft R & B, presented in " Triple-A " ( Album Adult Alternative ) style, with a strong emphasis on " B " and " C " album tracks that most commercial stations often ignore.

The Union College radio station was among the very first wireless transmitters in the country to broadcast regularly scheduled programs.

*" Life Portrait of Chester A. Arthur ", broadcast from Union College from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits

In England she taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School and gave lectures at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, which were broadcast by the BBC.