Ophir Lifshitz

Ophir Lifshitz
Noted subjects	Classical music, linguistics, other science
Past colleges	Maryland
High school	Walter Johnson}
Stats	HDWhite • https://www.naqt.com/stats/player/?contact_id=135203

Ophir Lifshitz is an alumnus of Walter Johnson and the University of Maryland (and a member of the latter's 2017 ACF Nationals-winning team). He is now focused on the design and documentation of institutional knowledge, community building and sustainability, and technology in quizbowl.

Ophir created the College Quizbowl Calendar and its difficulty scale, a platform for detailed stats to track where players buzz in every question, a style manual, and a pronouncing dictionary, and has written several articles about quizbowl. Many of these projects are hosted on ophir.li or minkowski.space.

Ophir has contributed to dozens of question sets, especially the successes of Terrapin (2016, 2019, and 2020 Terrapin Open) and other sets at Maryland (MYSTERIUM, STIMPY, and SUBMIT). He has consulted freelance (providing copyediting, proofreading, pronunciation guides, and much more behind-the-scenes work) for nationally-run events by ACF (member since 2018, Regionals, Fall, Winter), PACE (member since 2017, NSC), and IQBT (NASAT). He was involved in most college quizbowl sets produced in 2018–2019.

Ophir is a veteran volunteer moderator, mentor, and question writer who has knowledge of classical music, linguistics, and other science. He edits the music audio question set series Guerilla Imaginary Landscape.