NYU

New York University
Location: New York, NY
Current President or Coach	Lauren Ward
National championships	None
NAQT Page	link

New York University is a private university in New York City with an active quizbowl program. The team takes part in a mixture of academic and "trash" quizbowl and regularly holds practices and intramural tournaments.

NYU has a long history of competition in collegiate quizbowl events. In the 1959-60 season, NYU played four games in the televised rounds of College Bowl, beating Dartmouth College (215-145), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (230-120) and University of Oklahoma (170-150) before losing to Colgate University by 140 points to 95. The four games were broadcast on consecutive weeks (March 20, March 27, April 3 and April 10, 1960).

In the 1969-70 season, they once again qualified for the televised rounds but lost their first and only game to University of Connecticut-Storrs by 345 points to 165.[1]

NYU continued playing College Bowl events until 2002. NYU won College Bowl's Regional Championship (for ACUI Region 3) in 1986-87, 1997-1998 and 2001-2002, and finished third in 1985-1986, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.[2] By winning the Regional Championship, NYU qualified for the National Championship, finishing 14th in 1997-1998 (with a 2-13 record) and 11th in 2001-2002 (with a 6-9 win-loss record) in the 16 team round-robin championship.[3]

Beginning in the late 1980s, NYU regularly took part in, and hosted, collegiate quizbowl tournament outside the College Bowl circuit. The second issue of Buzzer, a early newsletter for the quizbowl community, notes that NYU participated in a tournament at University of Maryland during the Fall 1987 semester, finishing outside the top four.[4]

The earliest known tournament held at New York University was the NYU Invitational in Fall 1988. The exact date is unknown, but since other tournaments were scheduled for mid-November (Terrapin Invitational at Maryland) and "winter" (Nittany Lions Invitational at Penn State and Wisconsin Invitational at UW-Madison), it is presumed the tournament took place in September, October or early November.[5]

An NYU Invitational was also held in Fall 1989.[6]

In National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) competition, NYU were champions in Division II of NAQT Sectionals 2000-2001 held at Boston University and thus qualified for ICT, where they finished 20th in a field of 24 teams. NYU also finished 7th in a field of 11 teams in NAQT Division II SCT in 2006-07, and sixth in a field of 16 teams in Division II SCT in 2008-2009.

In more recent times, NYU has regularly featured at events such as ACF Fall and Penn Bowl, both of which they have attended every year since 2008, as well as ACF Regionals in 2010 and 2012. Other tournaments attended include Harvard's FIST in 2009, THUNDER in 2010 and Blastoise in 2011. The 2011-2012 academic year saw an increase in tournament attendance, with participation in the Early Autumn Collegiate Novice tournament, Missiles of October, MAGNI and ACF Fall as well as fielding players in a mixed team at Penn Intergalactic, the northeast mirror of Minnesota Open.

NYU won the 2012 NAQT SCT Region 3 (Division II) tournament at Princeton University and thus qualified for ICT.

World Series of Pop Culture

A team composed of NYU undergraduates Andrew Weber, Andrew Unterberger and Victor Lee won Season 2 of VH1's World Series of Pop Culture, playing under the name Twistëd Misters. The show was taped in March 2007 and broadcast during the summer of the same year.

Current Players

• Yogesh Raut
• Hannah Kirsch (inactive)
• Andrew Watkins (inactive)