Bryce Avery
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| President or CEO | Bryce Avery | |
| Location: | Grand Junction, CO | |
| Status | Open | |
Bryce Avery is the President of Avery Enterprises, which bills itself as "America's biggest supplier of custom-formatted questions for academic competitions." Avery himself played College Bowl at BYU and California State Polytechnic, Pomona. In 2016, he purchased Questions Galore.
Avery Criticized by Others
- Repeatedly on the HSQuizbowl forums, which include here, here, and perhaps most strongly here.
- Descriptions of Avery questions from those who played on them include: speed questions with an extremely large amount of trash, including, but not limited to, spelling questions and questions about types of detergent.
The criticisms above were valid at the time of writing but are less so in 2021.
Client satisfaction (especially in a vendor's honoring client requests regarding categories, types, distribution, and length) is generally more important to vendors than player criticism afterward (assuming the vendor wants to stay in business). Thus, some criticism of questions by players is more of a criticism of the question requirements given by the sponsoring organization, and players have had success petitioning an organization for changes to those requirements.
List of quizbowl events run on Avery questions
The Avery Enterprises website below keeps an updated list.
Fact Mountain
Avery, through his company Foothills Education, LLC, also produces a quizbowl study guide app series called "Fact Mountain." As of 2021, apps are available in both Apple and Android for American Literature to 1900, 19th-Century British Literature, Russian Literature, Great Paintings, U.S. Presidents and U.S. Constitution. Non-quizbowl apps with the same construction are available for Legal Ethics and for (unofficial) missionary preparation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Mission Prep app is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese by setting devices to those languages. All apps (except Mission Prep, which is totally free) have freemium versions to try out before purchase.
Non-Quizbowl Activity
- Apart from being a major question writer, Bryce Avery is also a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.