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The Minnesota High School Quizbowl League is a quiz bowl league located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. It is currently run on questions supplied by NAQT, derived from one of the A series they produce each year. The league is directed by R. Robert Hentzel and takes place over multiple nights at separate divisions, which compete at different sites. Each night, a team plays four rounds within its division. After all divisions have played 12 rounds, teams from the top 16 schools convene for a double-elimination playoff. Each school can only send one team to the championship tournament. The MNHSQB League championship tournament is considered by many to be more prestigious than the official NAQT Minnesota State Championship, as it is generally has a more challenging field.

Divisions

For the 2021-22 competition, the MNHSQBL is being run in a hybrid format with Division I held online via Zoom and Buzzin.live and the other two held in person. Schools are listed in the division they play in for the 2021-22 season.

List of divisions and competition dates

Format

The current format consists of two eight-minute halves of NAQT tossups and bonuses, with a pair of lightning rounds after the first half. The lightning round consists of groups of ten related questions worth ten points each. The team that is not in the lead gets the first choice of three subjects for their round, and has one minute to answer as many as they can. The other team then gets a 30 second bounce-back phase on questions the first team missed. After this, the process is repeated with the leading team choosing from the remaining two choices. 15-point powers are used in league play, but -5 interrupt penalties are not.

In previous years, MNHSQB games consisted of four "phases." The first phase consisted of twelve very short warm-up tossups. The second phase consisted of standard tossups with powers and bonuses. The first two phases were combined for timing purposes, and were 9 minutes long. The third phase was a lightning round, and the fourth was more tossups and bonuses, for 6 minutes.

Questions

Regular season play uses tossups and bonuses from NAQT's A-Series and lightning rounds from its Standard Television Series. The playoffs use questions from a regular NAQT set, which are more difficult. A sample packet of A-Series questions can be found here.

History

For many years of the pre-NAQT era, all events were held at Burnsville, so that all schools had an opportunity to appear on public television. Patrick's Press questions were used in the years preceding NAQT's involvement, and Questions Unlimited provided questions before then, in the mid-eighties. Records suggest that it was once part of a quiz show on KSTP. Very incomplete records of those years can be found here.

Since the 2006-2007 season, play has been on NAQT questions. Wayzata has the most titles in the NAQT era, with six. Eden Praire is second with five. Wayzata also holds the record for points in a game in that era, having scored 1,035 points against Edina during round 6 of the 2017-18 season.

Past Results

Pre-NAQT era

Year	Champion	Runner-up
1972	St. Thomas Academy	Unknown
1973	Unknown	Unknown
1974	Unknown	Unknown
1975	Unknown	Unknown
1976	Unknown	Unknown
1977	Unknown	Unknown
1978	Unknown	Unknown
1979	Unknown	Unknown
1980	Unknown	St. Thomas Academy
1981	Unknown	Unknown
1982	St. Thomas Academy	Unknown
1983	Unknown	Unknown
1984	St. Paul Academy	Unknown
1985	St. Paul Academy	Unknown
1986	Blake	Unknown
1987	St. Paul Academy	Mounds Park
1988	Unknown	Unknown
1989	Unknown	Unknown
1991	Rosemount	St. Paul Academy
1992	Chaska	Unknown
1993	Chaska	Unknown
1994	Eden Prairie	St. Thomas Academy
1995	Blake	Unknown
1996	Blake	Unknown
1997	Blake	Unknown
1998	Blake	Unknown
1999	Chaska	Unknown
2000	Chaska	St. Thomas Academy
2001	St. Thomas Academy	Minneapolis Southwest
2002	St. Thomas Academy	St. Louis Park
2003	Chaska	St. Thomas Academy
2004	Chaska	Eden Prairie
2005	St. Thomas Academy	Chaska
2006	St. Thomas Academy	Chaska

NAQT era

Year	Set Used	# of Teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth
2007	MN-06	98	Eden Prairie	St. Anthony Village	St. Thomas Academy	Wayzata
2008	MN-07	112	Eden Prairie	Orono	Minnetonka	Wayzata
2009	MN-08	100	Chaska	Eden Prairie	St. Louis Park	Wayzata
2010	MN-09	100	Eden Prairie	St. Thomas Academy	Chaska	St. Louis Park
2011	MN-10	108	Chanhassen	St. Paul Central	Eden Prairie	Wayzata
2012	MN-11	110	Wayzata	St. Paul Central	Chaska	Mounds View
2013	MN-12	110	Wayzata	St. Paul Central	Chaska	Eden Prairie
2014	MN-13	105	Eden Prairie	Wayzata	St. Thomas Academy	Blake
2015	MN-14	130	Wayzata	Eden Prairie	Blake	Edina
2016	MN-15	131	Eden Prairie	Wayzata	Mounds Park Academy	Burnsville
2017	MN-16	139	Wayzata	St. Thomas Academy	Mounds Park Academy	Burnsville
2018	MN-17	134	Wayzata	Eden Prairie	Mounds View	Edina
2019	MN-18	118	Mounds View	Wayzata	Burnsville	Eden Prairie
2020	MN-19	126	Wayzata	Eden Prairie	Mounds View	Burnsville
2021	MN-20	86	Wayzata	Burnsville	Mounds View	Eden Prairie

External Links

Current (2021-22) standings

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Division	School	City	Coach(es)	# of teams
Division I 11/4, 12/2, 1/13
	Apple Valley	Apple Valley	Shawn Dylla	2
	Athens	Athens, WI	Paul Hoffman	1
	Benilde-St. Margaret's	St. Louis Park	Matt McMerty-Brummer	2
	Holy Family	Victoria	Jim Walker	1
	Kennedy	Bloomington	Chris Lyons	2
	Minnetonka	Minnetonka	Judith Thomas	3
	Roseville	Roseville	Ira Sanders	1
Division II 11/11, 12/9, 1/20
	DeLaSalle	Minneapolis	Martin Marrin	4
	Hill-Murray	Maplewood	Louise Head and Kevin Ryan	3
	Hudson	Hudson, WI	Roberta Naujok and Kristin Bores	2
	Irondale	New Brighton	Bryan Coyle	5
	Mounds Park	St. Paul	Jay Noland and Wade Peterson	3
	Mounds View	Arden Hills	Justin Benolkin	3
	North St. Paul	North St. Paul	Joe Simms	2
	Pine City	Pine City	Dana Phillips	1
	Saint Agnes	St. Paul	Jackie Cates and Jared Taggart	2
	Shattuck-St. Mary's	Faribault	Genevieve Andreas and Nicole Taynton	2
	St. Croix Prep	Stillwater	Craig Wolke and Will Palus	2
	St. Paul Academy	St. Paul	Kate Lockwood	1
Division III 11/18, 12/16, 1/27
	Blake	Minneapolis	Jonathan Osters	2
	Burnsville	Burnsville	Les Moffitt	4
	Chanhassen	Chanhassen	Mitch Williams, Parker Bakke, Katy Boyum-Hill, and Scott Zaske	1
	Chaska	Chaska	Tucker Besel and Naomi Jones	3
	Eagan	Eagan	Patsy Keech and Francis Samuel	1
	Eastview	Apple Valley	John Kelly	2
	Eden Prairie	Eden Prairie	William Bednar	6
	Edina	Edina	Jennifer Stone	2
	Hopkins	Minnetonka	Chris Adams and Don Habel	1
	Orono	Long Lake	Brian McCollor and Joseph Suchomel	3
	Prior Lake	Prior Lake	Brian Olsen and Jay Clawson	3
	Providence	Plymouth	Kevin Keiser and Emily Semsch	4
	Rosemount	Rosemount	Chris Kauffeld	4
	Shakopee	Shakopee	Matthew Johnston	2
	St. Louis Park	St. Louis Park	Peter Dangerfield	1
	St. Thomas Academy	Mendota Heights	Doug Hoverson, James Jurkovich, Jessica Sutherland, and Melissa Judy	3
	Wayzata	Plymouth	Lucas Sun	7