Matt Jackson

Matt Jackson
Noted subjects	History, Mythology, Philosophy, sciencey fraud, Video Games
High school	Georgetown Day School (2007-2010)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Matt Jackson is the captain of Georgetown Day School's 2009-10 A-team. After two tournaments on GDS B his freshman and sophomore years, Matt joined the A team alongside Ian Eppler, whose ability to fraud widely contrasted with Matt's more scattered real knowledge.

During Matt's senior year, he was the top scorer at every tournament attended during the regular season; these tournaments were the Richard Montgomery Rumble on the Pike, the Maryland Fall Tournament, the TJIAT, VCU Winter, GSAC XVII, ACF Winter 2010, ZIGZAG, Blue Hen XII (at which he also won the neg prize and the tournament playing solo), Maryland/DC NAQT States, and the Maryland Spring Invitational.

At HSNCT, he led his team to a 5th place, earning an All-Star award with a 2nd place overall finish and 119 PP20H; he and Neil Gurram broke the previous record held by Kurtis Droge.

Matt will be attending Yale starting in the fall of 2010, and intends to play quizbowl there.

Writing

Matt contributed questions and some editing work to the No Name Tournament set, played at GDS in 2008, and joined the Fall Novice Tournament project, writing many questions when a call for new writers became necessary. He wrote a substantial portion of, and edited, the 2010 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament set, which was used at GDS in March 2010 and mirrored at Vanderbilt, Champaign High School, and Mizzou.