Matt Bollinger

Matthew Bollinger
Noted subjects	General, Mythology, Music, Arts
Current college	University of Virginia
Past colleges	N/A
High school	Saint Anselms Abbey School (2006-2010)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Matt Bollinger plays for the University of Virginia. He was a member of the St. Anselm's class of 2010.

After his teammate Aidan Mehigan became good at quizbowl, Bollinger went on an enormous study binge over the summer, which paid off when he was the second highest scorer at the 2010 NSC (where his team placed fourth). With Chris Ray, Eric Mukherjee, and Dominic Machado, Matt played on a team that won the Saturday event of VCU Open 2010. Along with Will Butler he led UVA to victory at the 2011 Penn Bowl finishing as the second leading scorer at the tournament. Bollinger was the 2nd individual scorer in Division I (as a freshman) at the 2011 ICT and was the alleged top scorer at 2011 ACF Nationals.

Bollinger is a writer and set editor for HSAPQ. Besides HSAPQ, he assisted Kurtis Droge in editing ANGST and was brought on to edit literature and mythology for the 2011 NSC.

Matt is the subject of a number of notable quizbowl running jokes, most of which were popularized by Mike Cheyne. These include:

• "That's a word, Mike Sorice!"--Occurred during the NSC All-Star Round, when Bollinger responded to a question on "hapticity" by inexplicably telling the moderator Mike Sorice that it was a word.

• "Zeppelins"--Occurred after Matt insisted that a NASAT tossup on zeppelins written by Mike Cheyne was extremely difficult to answer.

• "Rizzoli and Isles"--A reference to the unpopular TNT program. Carsten Gehring and Mike Cheyne have begun referring to Bollinger (Rizzoli) and Evan Adams (Isles) by this name. Evan Adams' recent decision to attend UVA for law school ensures this joke will likely still have some mileage.

• Matt is also noted for his tendency to blush, a fact he was unaware of until an IRC conversation. He once accidentally gave away $10 to a panhandler at the Richmond Five Guys while staffing CULT.