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1999 National Academic Championship
Edited by	Questions Unlimited
Champion	James Island
Runner-up	Ridgewood
Third	Maggie Walker
Fourth	Altamont
High scorer	Ryan Cooper (named MVP)
Site	Loyola University in New Orleans and Marymount University in Arlington, VA
Field
Stats

Despite a 335-350 prelim loss to Grand Junction, New Orleans champion James Island won the tournament on their fourth trip to the finals game, defeating DC champion Ridgewood 450-250. James Island defeated Maggie Walker to take the New Orleans title, while Ridgewood beat Altamont in the DC final. James Island was given free transportation to DC to compete for the overall title.

Following the finals in D.C., several exhibition games were held including a "coaches' game" and a matchup between James Island and the tournament staffers, who wrote the questions and unsurprisingly won the game.

Lancaster Mennonite was named "Rookie of the Year."

Vandebilt Catholic was recognized as the "alltime Most Improved Team," moving from 102nd place in 1998 to 16th in 1999.

Due to the oddness of preliminary scheduling at the NAC, Langham Creek went 0-4 but scored 306 PPG.

Wellington was given the possibly fake "Best-Liked Award."

Questions

Some of the questions from the tournament:

"Italy's easternmost port on the Adriatic Sea is on a peninsula that was occupied by Yugoslavia between 1945-54. Name the port."

"The subject of Virgil Thomson's opera, "The Mother of Us All," was what leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association?"

"The smallest kind of star is formed when a normal star collapses to the size of 20 kilometers to 30 kilometers in diameter."

"He was given a royal grant of a yearly allowance of wine for his work as England's poet laureate in the late 14th century. The author of "Troilus and Criseyde," he was born in 1340 and died in 1400. Name this classical 14th century writer."

"They painted New York City from 1897-1917 and included George Bellows and John Sloan. What was their collective name?"

"Who becomes President of the United States if the Vice President dies in office?" (Answer: "The person who was already President when the VP dies remains President.")

Field

The 125-team field, as ranked on the QU website:

1. James Island
2. Ridgewood
3. Governor's School
4. Altamont
5. Dorman
6. Webb School
7. Jesuit
8. Nazareth
9. Irmo A
10. Millburn
11. Detroit Country Day
12. Booker T. Washington
13. Caddo Magnet
14. Southside
15. Chaska
16. Vandebilt Catholic
17. Lancaster
18. Grand Junction
19. Ysleta
20. Cooperstown
21. Riverside
22. Lamar
23. Plano
24. Manheim Township
25. Lancaster Mennonite
26. Hancock
27. Mainland Regional
28. Homeschool Achievement Center
29. New Rochelle
30. Clear Lake
31. Murrah
32. Jenks
33. Madison Central
34. Houston Memorial
35. Jackson Prep
36. Turpin
37. Washington
38. Rye Country Day
39. Garden City
40. Coronado
41. Pleasant Valley
42. Klein
43. Aiken
44. Verona
45. St. John's (MA)
46. Delaware Hayes
47. Kinkaid
48. Horace Greeley
49. Bellaire
50. Vanguard
51. Edison
52. Loyola Academy
52. White Plains
54. Haslett
55. Waramaug
56. Edgemont
56. Edmonson County
56. Rye
59. Apollo
60. Wellington
61. St. John's (TX)
62. LBJ
63. Syosset
65. All Saints
66. Kellenberg Memorial
67. Cold Spring Harbor
67. Jones
69. Calhoun County
70. Harpursville
71. Defiance
71. Klein Forest
73. Edmond North
74. Bromfield
74. Temple
76. Archmere
76. Wallenpaupack
78. Lincoln Northeast
79. Tatnall
80. Irmo B
81. York Comprehensive
82. Flora
83. Oshkosh West
84. Edwards County
85. Des Moines East
86. Redwood Valley
87. St. Andrew's Episcopal
88. St. Joseph's (NJ)
89. Wilson
90. Walterboro
91. Caney Valley
91. Salem
92. Ellicottville Central
93. Ripley
94. Boyd County
95. Warwick
96. Notre Dame
97. St. Joseph's (IN)
98. Huntsville
99. Cardinal Ritter
100. West Orange-Stark
101. Riverside Poly
102. Lamesa
103. Vicksburg
104. Benicia B
105. Lumberton
106. Langham Creek
107. High Point
108. Austin
109. Chenango Forks
110. Coatesville
111. Boiling Springs
112. Ridgefield
112. Robert E. Lee
114. Eureka
114. Lenape Valley
116. Benicia A
117. Fairfield
117. Grenada
119. Delaware Valley
120. Hurricane
121. Pocono Mountain
122. Saunders
123. Lawrence County
124. Wesson
125. River Valley

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