TJ Quizbowl

we had a wonderful weekend at Atlanta participating in HSNCT, seeing the city, and meeting other students. Enormous thank you's to TJ's Partnership Fund, TJ Academic Boosters, and Coach Fu and Mr. Anderson for making this trip possible through their generosity.

Here's a collection of photos from our time exploring the city and participating in the tournament

Tune in to NBC tomorrow morning at 10 AM to catch our seniors in their It's Academic match!

On 2/18 TJ Quizbowl competed at VCU's mirror of the mRNA Vaccine set in Richmond. We placed second overall, despite competing against college teams(!), after winning tiebreakers against two UNC teams. Congrats to UVA for winning the tournament undefeated and many thanks to VCU for hosting us.

Today TJ Quiz Bowl won the Occoquan Region for VHSL Scholastic Bowl. Thank you to Thomas Edison High School for hosting a well-run tournament.

Tune in to NBC4 this Saturday at 10 AM to catch our It's Academic game against Einstein and Springbook!

TJ Quizbowl attended the 2021 Cavalier Classic this weekend, graciously hosted by the University of Virginia. We had a great showing across the board, with two top 10 scorers and two top 10 teams. Congratulations to everyone who attended and represented TJQB!

Photos can be found here:
https://activities.tjhsst.edu/quizbowl/cav2021.html

Thanks to everyone who showed up to our first summer practice since COVID!

We finally got the chance to use handheld buzzers again, and got to meet some of the incoming freshmen as well!

If you're interested, summer readings are Saturday from 1-3PM; Snacks & water will be provided. Further info can be found in the discord server's announcements: discord.gg/43DEY6JjGC

The TJ Puzzle Hunt 2021 has opened! If you registered, you should have received a link that takes you to our first set of puzzles. If you did not receive a link, you either did not register or provided us with an incorrect email address. You can find our rules here: https://tinyurl.com/tjpuzzlehunt21rules (links to the scoreboard and registration/submission form, along with other important information, are included). Please don't hesitate to reach out to [email protected] or any one of our writers on Messenger or Discord with questions!

TJ Puzzle Hunt 2021 Rules.pdf

Congratulations to the A teams from Burleigh and Centennial for placing first and second respectively at this weekend's TJNAT! Top individual scorers were Ethan Burks from Norfolk Academic Guild, and August Vanskike from Montgomery Blair B. Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6550/stats/combined/individuals/

Thank you everyone for attending TJNAT and we hope to see you at (hopefully in person) future TJNATs!

The Quizbowl Resource Center

And that concludes this year's Profiles in Courage! Thank you to those who tuned in and we hope you enjoyed our officer showcase. We wish our seniors the best of luck in their future endeavors and thank everyone for a great 2019-2020 season!

Profiles in Courage (8/8)

And finally, the man you’ve all been waiting for. Last and most certainly not least: William Wang

Since middle school, William has had a knack for rising through the quizbowl ranks quickly and furiously. It all started back in Longfellow Middle School, his growth slowly nurtured with a zeal to overcome his brothers’ strength. That dedication and sheer power brought him to become the 2016 US Academic Bee national champion and decisively secure second place at the 2016 MSNCT. But middle school quizbowl just wasn’t enough for him...

At TJ, William set out with just one goal. Make TJHSST Quizbowl Great Again. Since freshman year, he’s been setting out new initiatives left and right for the club. Everything from this page to Trivia Night has all been birthed from his vision of a new club. You could see the zeal and determination in his eyes as he barges into your English class to organize club finances. His diligence and rightfully earned status as judge, jury, and executioner strikes true fear in all the underclassmen around him that he has been bestowed legendary titles such as El Tigre Numero Uno. However, William doesn’t settle for nonsense. Don’t even bother asking Pratyush Jainshekar or William Graf how many times they’ve been kicked out of our club chat. ⚠️Spoiler Alert⚠️ Too many to count.

At tournaments however, he’s on a whole different level. History, Fine Arts, Chinese Mythology? Bah, you joke. A can of Coca-Cola™ in one hand and an Anderson buzzer in the other, the battle is often decided before the first-line of a tossup is read. It’s a shame the nation’s high schools couldn’t witness his raw power at nationals for one last time...

William will be going on to attend the University of Chicago to major in Computer Science. Will he go on to conquer UChicago quizbowl? What will happen to the club without his guidance and his domination? Who will sit in his throne at Room 233 in his absence next year? We can only sit in amazement and anticipation.

This entry was written by Prithvi Nathan.

Profiles in Courage (7/8)

His anime watchlist is thicker than my flashcard deck. Rumor has it he reads atlases. For fun. He once came to school wrapped in tinfoil: for school spirit, he said. 9/10 freshmen can’t identify him without his beard. I present to you the man, the myth, the legend: Prithvi Nathan.

When I first met Prithvi I laughed him off. I knew the type - the school Geo Bee champ. I bet he read atlases for fun. It wasn’t until I first sat next to him in Honors Biology 9 that I realized the gravity of my mistake. As I struggled to understand the difference between meiosis and mitosis, Prithvi read silently from his ever present edition of Barron’s: AP Biology. By the time I finally figured out in my sophomore year, Prithvi was skipping Quizbowl tournaments to attend Neuroscience conventions.

When he’s not trouncing his competition in geography or researching the next big genetic breakthrough, Prithvi is what some might call a “man of culture”. Some might ask, how does this help with Quizbowl. Allow me to enlighten you.

Imagine: you’re down by 10, it’s the last tossup. Shoot, its cellular biology. You shouldn’t have slept through those biology lectures back in freshman year; you should have carried around your own edition of Barron’s: AP Biology as Prithvi had. But it’s too late for that now. Then, a buzz - it’s Prithvi.

Gosh darn it Prithvi, you think to yourself, when the question said “this state” it didn’t mean --

Then you hear it: “15!”, says the moderator. You are shocked. You look towards Prithvi questioningly. はたらく細胞 (translation: Cells at Work!), he says in perfect Japanese (as do all men of culture). You can only nod your head in your amazement.

This entry was written by William Wang