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Duke Quiz Bowl: A History
Duke Quiz Bowl 2022-2023:
Team members:
Ashish Subramanian: Junior, Illinois Charlie Linder: Freshman, New York
Jacob Egol: Senior, New Jersey Srikrishna Darbha: Freshman
Jerry Lin: Senior, California Andres Cordoba: Junior, Iowa
Simon Gorbaty: Master's Student, New Jersey Abhishek Chataut: Freshman, California
Evan Knox: Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Koji Bilbao: Sophomore, Guam
Payton Schubel: Senior, Illinois Daniel Chang: Freshman
Justin Zhang: Junior, Washington Sophie Cox: Sophomore
Kevin Jiang: Junior, Ohio Casey Simpson: Freshman
Brandon Weiss: Senior, New York Perisa Ashar: Sophomore, Virginia
Ethan Rehder: Sophomore, North Carolina Erik Novak: Sophomore, Brazil
Zev van Zanten: Freshman, North Carolina Angikar Ghosal: Junior. India
Results:
(Feb. - Oct. 2022) Current and former members of Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill Quiz Bowl and some guests produced a sequel to last year's ARCADIA for Fall 2022. In addition to writing for the set, Payton Schubel reprised her role as European Literature editor; Justin Zhang edited chemistry; Ashish Subramanian edited geography, current events, other academic, and linguistics; Kevin Jiang edited all other social science; and Jacob Egol reprised his role as auditory arts and Judaism editor and logistics lead. More information can be found here.
(Oct. 1, 2022) Winter Closed at UNC-Chapel Hill
Our team placed 6th out of 6 teams. (Jacob Egol wrote classical music, religion, and biology questions for this set.) Stats: Here
(Oct. 15, 2022) ACF Fall at UNC-Chapel Hill
Our teams placed 4th and 7th out of 11 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 22, 2022) Penn Bowl at Duke
Our teams placed 3rd and 6th out of 6 teams. Stats: Here
(Nov. 5, 2022) ACF Winter at James Madison University
Our teams placed 10th and 12th out of 21 teams. Stats: Here
(Nov. 19, 2022) 2022 ARCADIA at Duke
(Those who did not work on the set were eligible to play.) Our house team placed 4th out of 6 teams. Stats: Here
(Jan. 28, 2023) ACF Regionals at VCU
Duke A (Ashish Subramanian, Jacob Egol, Jerry Lin, and Simon Gorbaty) placed 3rd out of 18 teams and earned a bid to ACF Nationals. Duke B placed 7th (fourth among all-undergraduate teams). Duke C placed 11th and won the Division II title. Stats: Here
(Feb. 5, 2023) NAQT SCT at UNC-Chapel Hill
Duke A (Ashish Subramanian, Jacob Egol, Jerry Lin, and Evan Knox) placed 2nd in a 4-team quadruple round robin and earned a bid to the NAQT ICT. Duke B and Duke C respectively placed 5th and 8th in Division II. Stats: Here
(Mar. 11, 2023) BHSU at the University of Maryland
Mixed team of Ashish Subramanian with UNC's Vittal Bhat, UNC alum Grant Peet, and Yale alumna Hasna Karim placed 3rd out of 6 teams. Mixed team of Jacob Egol with UNC players Jim Fan and Michael Eng and UNC alum Kevin Thomas placed 4th out of 6 teams. Mixed team of Kevin Jiang with UNC players Vincent Du, Eric Gunter, and Jonathan Shauf placed 5th out of 6 teams. Stats: Here.
(Apr. 1, 2023) NAQT ICT (Chicago, IL)
Duke A (NAQT SCT edition) placed 26th out of 32 teams in Division 1. Stats: Here
(Apr. 22-23, 2023) ACF Nationals at MIT
Duke A (ACF Regs edition) placed 12th out of 48 teams, becoming the first team in the history of Duke Quiz Bowl to place in the Top Playoff Bracket at ACF Nationals!
In the prelim rounds, they also upset champion Georgia Tech A, who went on to win ACF Nationals for the second consecutive year. Stats: Here
(Feb. – Aug. 2023) Duke Quiz Bowl members returned to the editing team for Chicago Open, as Jacob Egol edited the classical music and opera distribution for the 2023 iteration and Ashish Subramanian freelanced questions across several categories.
Duke Quiz Bowl 2021-2022:
Team members:
Ashish Subramanian: Sophomore, Illinois Evan Knox: Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia
Jacob Egol: Junior, New Jersey Aneesh Karuppur: Freshman, New Jersey
Jerry Lin: Junior, California Michelle Schultze: Freshman, South Carolina
Payton Schubel: Junior, Illinois Ethan Rehder: Freshman, North Carolina
Ridge Ren: Junior, North Carolina Shivam Mani: Freshman, California
Justin Zhang: Sophomore, Washington Andres Cordoba: Sophomore, Iowa
Kevin Jiang: Sophomore, Ohio David Yao: Freshman, Oklahoma
Brandon Weiss: Junior, New York Jamael Smith: Sophomore, Virginia
Angikar Ghosal: Sophomore. India
Results:
(Mar. - Oct. 2021) Several members and alumni of Duke Quiz Bowl (Jacob Egol, Kevin Jiang, Erik Novak, Payton Schubel, Ashish Subramanian, Brandon Weiss, Annabelle Yang, and Justin Zhang) collaborated with players and alumni from UNC-Chapel Hill (Michael Bucknall, Daniel Cronin, Jim Fan, Vincent Du, Henry Goff, Eric Gunter, Grant Peet, Ryan Rosenberg, Jonathan Shauf, and Kevin Thomas) as well as Hasna Karim (Yale alumna), Caroline Mao (Columbia), and Raymond Wang (Cornell) to write ARCADIA for Fall 2021. Payton also edited American and European literature, Annabelle edited non-Abrahamic religion, mythology, and visual arts, and Jacob edited auditory arts and Judaism and was the logistics lead. More information can be found here.
(Oct. 16, 2021) ACF Fall at Duke
We hosted ACF Fall and our teams placed 4th and 9th out of 16 teams. Stats: Here; Category stats: Here
(Oct. 30, 2021) Penn Bowl at Virginia Tech
Our team placed 2nd out of 9 teams. Stats: Here
(Nov. 6, 2021) ACF Winter at UVA
Our team tied for 8th out of 20 teams. Stats: Here.
(Nov. 13, 2021) ARCADIA at UNC-Chapel Hill
Those who did not work on the set were eligible to play. Mixed team of Jerry Lin and Jamael Smith with UNC's Rasheeq Azad and Maya Spencer placed 2nd out of 6 teams. Mixed team of Evan Knox with UNC's TJ Nanugonda and NC State's Sparsh Patel placed 5th out of 6 teams. Stats: Here.
(Jan. 29, 2022) ACF Regionals at UNC-Chapel Hill
Duke A (Ashish Subramanian, Jacob Egol, Jerry Lin, and Payton Schubel) placed 2nd out of 12 teams, winning the undergraduate title and a bid to ACF Nationals. Duke B placed 7th. Stats: Here
(Feb. 19, 2022) MRNA VACCINE hosted by Johns Hopkins University on Discord
Our teams placed 2nd and 9th out of 10 teams. Stats: Here
(April 9-10, 2022) ACF Nationals at the University of Minnesota
Duke A placed 27th out of 51 teams, and 5th among the all-undergraduate teams. Stats: Here
(Jan.–Aug. 2022) Ashish Subramanian edited the geography distribution for 2022 Chicago Open
Duke Quiz Bowl 2020-2021: The Online Year
Team members:
Annabelle Yang: Senior, South Carolina Brandon Weiss: Sophomore, New York
Jacob Egol: Sophomore, New Jersey Billy Luqiu: Sophomore, Virginia
Jerry Lin: Sophomore, California Cole Walker: Sophomore, Georgia
Payton Schubel: Sophomore, Illinois Pranav Athimuthu: Sophomore, Georgia
Ridge Ren: Sophomore, North Carolina Jamael Smith: Freshman, Virginia
Ashish Subramanian: Freshman, Illinois Naman Parikh: Freshman, Maryland
Justin Zhang: Freshman, Washington Charlie Veronee: Freshman
Kevin Jiang: Freshman, Ohio David Zhang: Freshman
Erik Novak: Freshman, Brazil Chase Johnson: Freshman
Elaijah Lapay: Freshman, North Carolina
Results:
(Sept. 12, 2020) Spring Undergraduate Novice (SUN) hosted by the University of Florida on Zoom
Our team of novice freshmen placed 21st out of 24 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 10, 2020) IO SATURNALIA hosted by VCU on Discord
Our team tied for 5th out of 16 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 17, 2020) ACF Fall hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill on Discord
Our teams placed 2nd, 5th, and 14th out of 18 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 24, 2020) IKEA hosted by Georgia Tech on Discord
Our team placed 5th out of 12 teams. Stats: Here
(Nov. 7, 2020) ACF Winter hosted by the University of Maryland on Discord
Duke A placed 2nd out of 16 teams. Duke B placed 5th. Stats: Here
(Nov. 21, 2020) FLopen hosted by UVA on Discord
Mixed team of Jacob Egol with UNC players Vincent Du and Henry Goff placed 2nd out of 6 teams. Mixed team of Annabelle Yang with Duke alum John Stathis and UNC's Vittal Bhat placed 4th. Mixed team of Ashish Subramanian with UNC's Kevin Thomas and Michael Bucknall and a Free Agent placed 6th. Stats: Here
(Jan. 30, 2021) ACF Regionals hosted by NYU on Discord
Duke B placed 6th out of 18 teams, winning the Division II title. Duke A (minus Annabelle Yang, who edited mythology and visual arts for the set) tied for 8th. Stats: Here
(Feb. 6, 2021) WORKSHOP Open on Discord
Mixed team of Annabelle Yang with Duke alum John Stathis and UNC's Vincent Du and Grant Peet placed 7th out of 10 teams. Stats: Here
(Feb. 20, 2021) WORKSHOP hosted by Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill on Discord
We co-hosted this year's iteration of WORKSHOP with UNC and a mixed team of Justin Zhang with UNC's John Kim and Christopher Pollard placed 14th out of 18 teams. (Jacob Egol, Payton Schubel, Kevin Jiang, Brandon Weiss, and Elaijah Lapay also wrote questions for this set.) Stats: Here
(Feb. 27, 2021) Southeast-Midwest Housewrite 1 on Discord
Our team placed 5th out of 18 teams. Stats: Here
(Mar. 27, 2021) Spring Novice hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill on Discord.
Mixed team of Kevin Jiang with UNC's Max Sutker placed 2nd out of 4 teams: Stats: Here
(Apr. 3, 2021) ACF Nationals Qualifier on Discord
Due to the online nature of the 2020-2021 season, ACF Regionals was not the qualifier for ACF Nationals this year and an alternate qualification method was used in which teams were ranked based on their performance on 100 bonuses. Duke A tied for 41st and Duke B placed 54th out of 68 teams.
(Apr. 17, 2021) Southeast-Midwest Housewrite 2 on Discord
Our teams placed 10th and 12th out of 14 teams. Stats: Here
Duke Quiz Bowl 2019-2020
Team members:
Annabelle Yang: Junior, South Carolina Billy Luqiu: Freshman, Virginia
Lucian Li: Senior, Texas Angikar Ghosal: Freshman, India
James Zhou: Senior, Illinois Brandon Weiss: Freshman, New York
Jerry Lin: Freshman, California Cole Walker: Freshman, Georgia
Aditya Paul: Freshman, Texas Pranav Athimuthu: Freshman, Georgia
Jacob Egol: Freshman, New Jersey Thomas Ross: Freshman, North Carolina
Payton Schubel: Freshman, Illinois Paul Kim: Freshman, South Carolina
Ridge Ren: Freshman, North Carolina Manith Luthria: Freshman, Texas
Results:
(Oct. 5, 2019) Early Fall Tournament at UNC-Chapel Hill
Our teams finished 2nd and 11th out of 20 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 27, 2019) Penn Bowl at UNC-Chapel Hill
Our teams finished 1st and 3rd out of 6 teams. Stats: Here
(Nov. 2, 2019) ACF Fall at Duke
We hosted ACF Fall at Duke, and our teams placed 3rd and 5th out of 16 teams. Stats: Here
(Jan. 25, 2020) ACF Regionals at UNC-Chapel Hill
Duke A finished 3rd out of 15 teams, winning the undergraduate title and a bid to ACF Nationals (which was ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Duke B placed 5th, winning the Division II title. Duke C finished 8th. Stats: Here
(Feb. 1, 2020) Michigan Winter Tournament at VCU
Our team finished 9th out of 13 teams. Stats: Here
(Feb. 8, 2020) NAQT SCT at NC State
Duke A finished 2nd out of 4 teams in Division I. Duke B went undefeated to place 1st out of 13 teams in Division II, earning a bid to the NAQT ICT (which was ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Duke C tied for 3rd in Division II. Stats: Here
(Feb. 22, 2020) Terrapin Open at the University of Maryland
Duke teams finished 6th and 7th in the bottom bracket in a field of 16 teams. Stats: Here
(April 19, 2020) SUN Open online tournament on Discord
Mixed team of Annabelle Yang with Duke alumni Ryan Humphrey (Texas) and John Stathis (UNC), and UNC players Vincent Du and Henry Goff, finished 5th out of 14 teams. Stats: Here
(Apr. 25, 2020) WORKSHOP Open online tournament on Discord
Mixed team of Annabelle Yang playing with Yale's Hasna Karim, Michael Kearney, and James Wedgwood tied for 11th out of 16 teams. Mixed team of Jerry Lin and Jacob Egol playing with Yale's Andrew Verdesca and Jeremy Sontchi tied for 14th out of 16 teams. Stats: Here
Duke Quiz Bowl 2017-2018
A Team Roster:
Ryan Humphrey: Senior, West Virginia
Gabe Guedes: Junior, Maryland
Lucian Li: Sophomore, Texas
Annabelle Yang: Freshman, South Carolina
B Team Roster:
Cooper Lair, Steven Gaston, Dang Nguyen, Nikolas Bramblett
Final Poll Ranking: 24th
Results:
(Oct. 17, 2017) Early Fall Tournament at UVA
A team finished tied for 2nd out of 24 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 28, 2017) Penn Bowl at UNC-Chapel Hill
A team finished 1st out of 8 teams, B team finished in 7th. Stats: Here
(Nov. 4, 2017) ACF Fall at Virginia Tech
A team finished 2nd out of 12 teams. Stats: Here
(Jan. 20, 2018) ACF Regionals at UVA
A team finished 2nd out of 14 teams in Division 1, 2nd undergraduate. Stats: Here
(Feb. 4, 2018) NAQT SCT at UNC-Chapel Hill
A team finished 1st overall and 1st in undergraduate out of 4 teams in Division 1. B team finished 3rd in Division 1. Stats: Here
(Mar. 3, 2018) CMST (Cal Mid-Spring Tournament) at University of Maryland
Mixed team of Duke A with John Stathis in place of Ryan Humphrey (science editor for the set) finished 7th out of 10 teams. Stats: Here
(Mar. 31, 2018) Stevenson Memorial Tournament at Virginia Tech
Ryan Humphrey playing solo finished 1st out of 10 teams. Stats: Here
(Apr. 14, 2018) NAQT ICT (Chicago, IL)
A team finished 26th out of 32 teams in Division 1 and 6th in undergraduate. Stats: Here
(Apr. 28, 2018) ACF Nationals at MIT
A team finished 20th out of 47 teams and 4th in undergraduate. Stats: Here
Duke Quiz Bowl 2016–2017
A Team Roster:
John Stathis: Senior, Georgia (Captain)
Ryan Humphrey: Junior, West Virginia
Gabe Guedes: Sophomore, Maryland
Lucian Li: Freshman, Texas
B Team Roster:
Nikolas Bramblett, Jessica Chen, Grant Larson, Cooper Lair, Steven Gaston, Joshua Jacobs
Final Ranking: 24th
Results:
Sept. 10, 2016: NAQT Collegiate Novice (IS-158C) at UVA
Finish: 1st place out of 11 teams. Stats: Here
Oct. 8, 2016: Early Fall Tournament at Duke
Finish: 3rd place out of 21 teams. Stats: Here
Oct. 22, 2016: Penn Bowl at Duke
Finish: Intra-team Scrimmage. Stats: Here
Nov. 5, 2016: ACF Fall at Virginia Tech
Finish: Duke B in 1st place, Duke A in 2nd place out of 14 teams. Stats: Here
Nov. 11, 2016: Terrapin XXIX at the University of Maryland
Finish: 3rd place out of 19 teams. Stats: Here
Jan. 28, 2017: WAO at UVA
Finished 3rd out of 5 teams. Stats: Here
Feb. 18, 2017: ACF Regionals at VCU
A team finished 3rd out of 23 teams, 2nd in undergraduate. Stats: Here
Feb. 4, 2017: NAQT SCT at UVA
A team finished 2nd of 8 in Division One. B team finished 4th of 18 teams in D2. Both qualified for ICT. Stats: Here
Mar. 4, 2017: This Tournament is a Crime at the University of Maryland
A team finished 3rd of 6 teams. Stats: Here
Apr. 8, 2017: NAQT ICT (Chicago, IL)
A team finished 25th out of 32 teams in Division I. Stats: Here
Apr. 22-23, 2017: ACF Nationals at Columbia University
A team finished tied for 16th overall and lost a tiebreaker for 2nd with Princeton University to finish in 3rd in Undergraduate. (Duke Quiz Bowl's 1st trophy-earning performance at Nationals!) Stats: Here
Duke Quiz Bowl 2015-2016
A Team Roster:
John Stathis: Junior, Georgia (Captain)
Ryan Humphrey: Sophomore, West Virginia
Gabe Guedes: Freshman, Maryland
B Team Roster:
Timmy Huang, Delia Li, Nikolas Bramblett, Mason Zhang, Sujay Rao, Jason Ng
Final Ranking: 28th
Results:
(Oct. 3, 2015) VCU Novice at VCU
Novice team finished 5th out 12 teams. Stats: Here
(Oct. 24, 2015) Penn Bowl at UNC-Chapel Hill
A team finished 1st out of 4 teams. B team finished 4th out of 4 teams. Stats: Here
(Nov. 7th, 2015) ACF Fall at UNC-Chapel Hill
A Team finished 1st out of 28 teams and went 13-0. B team finished 6-6. Stats: Here
(Nov. 14, 2015) Missouri Open at VCU
Partial A-team finished 4th out of 9 teams and went 6-5. Stats: Here
(Jan. 16, 2016) MLK at the University of South Carolina
A team finished 3rd overall out of 8 teams. Stats: Here
(Jan. 30, 2016) ACF Regionals at UVA
A Team finished 2nd overall out of 24 teams, 2nd place undergraduate. Stats: Here
(Feb. 6, 2016) NAQT SCT at VCU
A Team finished 4th out of 13 Teams. A team won Undergraduate Title. Stats: Here
(Mar. 26, 2016) MYSTERIUM at the University of Maryland
Partial A team (Ryan Humphrey, John Stathis, John Bernabie) finished T-3rd out of 10 teams. Stats: Here
(Apr. 2, 2016) Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament at VCU
Ryan Humphrey played this tournament solo. (He went 4-7 on the day and unfortunately negged a lot.) Stats: Here
(Apr. 9, 2016) NAQT ICT (Chicago, IL)
A team finished tied for 21st in Division One. Stats: Here
(Apr. 16-17, 2016) ACF Nationals at the University of Michigan
A team finished 37th out of 44 teams. A team finished 18th in undergraduate. Stats: Here
Accomplishments:
Finished 37th out of 44 teams at ACF Nationals.
Finished tied-21st in Division I at NAQT's 2016 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament
2016 NAQT D1 ICT Qualifier
2016 ACF Nationals Qualifier
2016 NAQT Mid-Atlantic SCT Undergraduate Champion
2016 ACF Mid-Atlantic Regionals: Overall and Undergraduate Runner-up
2015 ACF Fall Mid-Atlantic: Overall and UG Champions
2015 Penn Bowl at UNC: Overall Champion
Duke Quiz Bowl 2014-2015
A Team Roster:
John Stathis: Sophomore, Georgia (Captain)
Ryan Humphrey: Freshman, West Virginia
Adil Khan: Senior, Georgia
Shaunak Amin: Senior, New York
Results:
(Oct. 25, 2014) Penn Bowl at the University of South Carolina
Finished tied-5th out of 9 teams. Stats
(Jan. 3, 2015) DEES Online Mirror
Finished 2nd out of 8 teams. Stats
(Jan. 24, 2015) ACF Regionals at UVA
Finished 5th out of 21 teams. Champions of DII and Undergraduate Divisions. Stats
(Feb. 2, 2015) NAQT SCT at VCU
Finished 2nd out of 10 teams in DII. Stats
(Mar. 28, 2015) NAQT ICT (Atlanta, GA)
Incomplete A team finished 27th out of 32 teams in Division 2. Stats
(Apr. 4, 2015) Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament at VCU
Finished 4th out of 11 teams. Stats
Accomplishments:
2015 ACF Mid-Atlantic Regionals: Undergraduate Champion
2015 ACF Mid-Atlantic Regionals: Division II Champion
2015 ACF Nationals Qualifier
2015 NAQT Mid-Atlantic SCT Division II Runner-up
2015 NAQT ICT Division II Qualifier