2007 NAC

2007 National Academic Championship
Edited by	Questions Unlimited
Champion	Harrison
Runner-up	Manheim Township
Third	Horace Greeley
Fourth	Torrey Pines
High scorer	Fuhe Xu of Harrison (MVP)
Site	Crowne Plaza Riverwalk in San Antonio (May 26-29); Marymount University in Arlington, VA (June 1-5); Ramada Plaza in Orlando (June 9-12)
Field
Stats

DC champion Harrison A won 355-290 over Manheim Township in the final. Harrison dispatched Hastings A 355-190 in one semifinal, while Manheim Township beat San Antonio champion Horace Greeley 270-235 in the other semifinal. The "Muller Foundation" sponsored a $2000 scholarship for the winning team.

Tournament Events

Harrison's Lyn Schneider was named "Coach of the Year." Fuhe Xu and Ariel Schneider of the Harrison team were both put into the NAC Hall of Fame after the tournament.

Former AAC operator and NAC staffer Brooks Sanders was named MVP of the "coaches' game" in Washington, as he travelled with Ithaca to the tournament.

South Brunswick was named "Rookie of the Year," while Rye Country Day was named "Comeback Team of the Year" for going from 95th in 2006 to 26th in 2007.

The "Who Wants to Be a Game Show Host?" contest was held in San Antonio and DC, with competing students as moderators and coaches as players.

Questions

Some questions from the tournament:

"Whose poems include 'To His Excellency George Washington' and 'On being brought from Africa to America'?"

"Translate the Spanish sentence, Usted es mas loco que una cabra."

"Name three schools that have won the 64-team NCAA basketball tournament more than once."

"In 1892, which composer became director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York?"

"The escape velocity of a planet is the speed an object needs to attain to leave the gravitational pull of the planet. One commonly used equation for escape velocity is written with three letters representing three quantities. Name the three quantities required in this formula."

"As a book reviewer for a conservative periodical, she gave thumbs down to his debut work, Uncle Tom's Children. He retaliated by disparaging her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, in a liberal magazine. Name these two African American authors, destined by politics and points of view to be enemies forever."

Field

The 90-team field, as ranked on the QU website:

1. Harrison A
2. Manheim Township
3. Horace Greeley A
4. Torrey Pines
5. Penn Manor
6. Hastings A
7. South Brunswick
8. Seton Hall
9. Jackson Prep
10. Hoover
11. Shanghai American
12. Wilmington Charter
13. Plano Senior A
14. New Rochelle
15. Saint Thomas Academy
16. St. Joseph's
17. West Chester East
18. Booker T Washington
19. High Technology
20. Copley A
21. Aiken
22. Morris Area
23. Ithaca
24. Hickman A
25. Hamilton
26. Rye Country Day
27. Scripps Ranch A
28. Holland Hall
29. Bellaire A
30. Fishers
31. Briarcliff
32. White Plains B
33. Manchester
34. Byram Hills A
35. Plano East
36. Knoxville West
37. Jackson Jr. High
38. Hastings B
39. Madison Central
40. Kinkaid
41. White Plains A
42. John Cooper
43. Claremore
44. Horace Greeley B
44. River Valley
46. Fruita Monument A
47. St. John's Preparatory
48. Hickman B
49. New Milford
50. Perryville
51. McKinley
52. Plano Senior B
53. St. Croix Country Day
54. Shepton A
54. Ysleta
56. Kennewick
57. Fairfield Community
58. Fairview
59. Syosset A
60. Bromfield
61. Bellaire B
62. Elkhorn
63. Fruita Monument B
64. Plano West
65. Brandon Valley
66. Bayside Academy
67. Bridgeport
68. Bennett
69. Ripley
70. Warren Area
71. Harrison B
72. Lake George
73. Delaware Valley
74. Hershey
75. Ticonderoga
76. Roseville
77. Salida
78. Tatnall
79. Ridgeland
80. Scripps Ranch B
81. Boone
82. Lamar
83. Wallenpaupack
84. Apollo
85. Syosset B
86. Shepton B
87. Bishop Moore
88. Copley B
89. Byram Hills B
90. Eureka

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