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2001 National Academic Championship
Edited by	Questions Unlimited
Champion	Irmo
Runner-up	Walton
Third	St. John's
Fourth	Klein
High scorer	Jonathan Hess of Irmo (MVP)
Site	Loyola University in New Orleans (May 31-June 3), Marymount University in Arlington, VA (June 7-10), and Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA (June 14-17)
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Tournament Events

Reflecting the new demographics of high school quizbowl following the rise of NAQT, this tournament was dominated by teams from Texas and the Georgia-South Carolina corridor. Three Houston-area teams took spots in the New Orleans semifinals, where St. John's defeated NAQT Texas state champion Huntsville to win the trip to Malibu. Of the eighteen teams that made the playoffs at the HSNCT or NSC, St. John's was the only one who participated in the NAC.

Klein knocked Parkersburg out of the DC quarterfinals because of a math answer ruled wrong due to the "lowest terms" rule, and went on to win the DC phase and the second Malibu trip.

Both satellite winners were knocked out in the overall semifinals, setting up a final between Irmo and Walton.

Beall noted that the "bonus round" in the finals was the lowest-scoring bonus round ever read at the NAC, and provided these questions which both teams failed to answer:

1. Lloyd Douglas, a Lutheran pastor, wrote a novel titled The Big Fisherman. Which apostle is the main character?

2. Translate this opera titles into English: Die Gotterdammerung.

3. Provide the missing part: Length, width, depth, ------.

4. As he was being taken to be beheaded on orders of Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More said, "See me safe up onto the scaffold. For my coming down, let me shift for ..."

(Ans. Peter, Twilight of the Gods, Time, Myself)

Irmo won the final 410-240 over Walton in what Beall labeled "pretty much a virtuoso performance by Jonathan Hess, answering difficult questions in a wide variety of subjects: higher math, government, classical music, current events, geography (his specialty), and even auto mechanics." Hess was put into the NAC Hall of Fame after the tournament as a junior.

The Scripps Ranch team was named "Rookie of the Year."

On the tail end of the show's popularity, a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" contest was held at the DC site.

Questions

Questions from this tournament included:

"Name the two U.S. Presidents who donated their salaries to charity."

"Which Shakespearean play did Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton do a film version of in 1967?"

"These cells close the openings during the darkness, when there is no need for carbon dioxide, and during the day they open and close the stomata as the carbon dioxide needs vary. Name these cells in a plant leaf that minimize the loss of water by transpiration."

Field

The 133-team field, as ranked on the Questions Unlimited site.

1. Irmo
2. Walton
3. St. John's School (TX)
4. Klein
5. Caddo Magnet
6. Huntsville
7. Scripps Ranch
8. Southside
9. Redwood Valley
10. Parkersburg
11. Kinkaid
12. Latin School of Chicago
13. White Plains
14. Hibbing
15. Bellaire
16. Hempfield
17. Liberty
18. Wilson (PA)
19. Apollo
20. Andover
21. James Island
22. Conway
23. Booker T. Washington
24. Edison A
25. Plano
26. Jesuit
27. Fox Lane
28. Manheim Township
29. Dorman
30. Lamar
31. Ardsley
32. Andrean
33. Kellenberg Memorial
34. North St. Paul
35. Wilson (SC)
36. West
37. Coronado
38. Livingston
39. Defiance
40. Plano East
41. Kamiakin
42. Aiken
43. LBJ
44. Rye
45. Jesse H. Jones
46. Woodland
47. Vandebilt Catholic
48. Horace Greeley
49. St. Andrew's Episcopal
50. Jacksonville
51. East A
52. Bloomfield
53. Kennewick
54. St. Joseph's
55. Dana Hills
56. Newark
57. Parkland
58. Turpin
59. Briarcliff
59. Fort Worth Country Day
61. Ward Melville
62. Edmond North
62. Madison Central
64. St. John's Prep (MA)
65. Chaska
66. Cooperstown
67. Johnson Central
68. Falconer Central
69. Bridgewater-Raritan
70. Clear Lake
71. Brownsburg
72. St. Mary's Memorial
73. Loyola Academy
74. Sterling
75. Boone
76. Cascade
77. St. Pius X
78. Sacred Heart
79. Saratoga Springs
80. Vero Beach
81. Antilles
81. East B
81. Ponca City
84. New London Spicer
85. Shelton
86. Queensbury
87. Delaware Valley
88. Riverside
89. Thornton A
90. Ysleta
91. Enid
92. Klein Forest
93. Halls
94. Waramaug
95. Roseville
95. Warwick
97. Edgemont
98. Pleasant Valley
99. Owosso
100. Bridge City
101. Bromfield
101. Ripley
103. Shepton
104. Ridgefield
105. High Point
106. Rye Neck
107. Wallenpaupack
108. Billings Skyview
109. Del Norte
110. Alief Hastings
110. Desert Vista
112. Lenape
113. Parkersburg Catholic
114. Lenape Valley
115. Claremore
116. Edison B
117. Mann
118. Pocono Mountain
119. Sumter
120. Wellington
121. Northridge
122. Tri-Valley
123. Thornton B
124. Garfield Heights
125. Lancaster Mennonite
126. Eureka
127. Riverside Polytechnic
128. Kremlin
129. White Cloud
130. Socorro
131. Fairfield
132. Carthage
133. Bridgeport

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