Timeline of Quizbowl History

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1940

  • Quiz Kids debuts on local Chicago radio. The show runs for 13 years, and other versions eventually pop up in New York, Canada, San Antonio, and Los Angeles. One of the early winners in Chicago is young James Watson, future Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the double helix nature of DNA.

1948

1953

1957

  • Varsity Quiz Bowl for Louisiana high schools begins its run on WYES-TV. It is one of the first non-College Bowl quiz programs in the nation and ends in 1991 after 36 seasons.

1959

  • G.E. College Bowl premiers on television on CBS. It moves to NBC in 1963.

1961

  • October 7: It's Academic quiz show for Washington, DC area high schools debuts. It is currently the world's longest continuously running quiz show.
  • Reach for the Top begins on CBC affiliate Vancouver CBUT-TV featuring Vancouver area teams.

1962

1965

  • The first national Reach competition is held in Montreal. The event is nationally televised on CBC the following year.

1968

  • Trans-World Top Team, a cooperation between CBC and BBC featuring Canadian and British teams, runs for its sole season

1969

  • Varsity Quiz, a televised competition in Clark County, NV sponsored by the local Kiwanis club begins. It is based on a contest in Anaheim, CA.

1970

1976

  • Knowledge Bowl is created by the San Juan County school board in Durango, Colorado. To this day thousands of players world wide remain entrapped by KB's one line questions and terrible puns.

1977

  • Fall: College Bowl recruits writers from the Atlanta-area quizbowl circuit to begin its campus program.

1978

1981

1983

1984

  • December 4: The first KMO virtual quiz competition is run by Academic Hallmarks. The contest continues to run annually until spring of 2013.

1988

  • June 12-18: The sixth NAC is held in New Orleans, LA. This is the first of seven years in which the NAC is televised under the sponsorship of Texaco.
  • June 19-25: The Texaco Star National Academic Championship airs on The Discovery Channel.
  • June: last Super Bowl and first Panasonic/NTAE held

1990

1991

1994

  • June 11-17: The twelfth NAC is held in Houston, TX. The televised rounds are hosted by Mark L. Wahlberg as part of a syndication deal which turned out to be the final season of the televised show.
  • Summer: The seventh and final season of The Texaco Star National Academic Championship airs nationwide on various local PBS and commercial stations.

1996

1997

  • January 24-25: First NAQT ICT held at Penn. Chicago defeats Harvard in the final by powering the last tossup of an overtime tiebreaker.
  • April 20: Virginia defeats Harvard in a controversial College Bowl NCT final. Incidents during the game itself as well as the revocation of the promised winners' prize afterwards spur Virginia to immediately announce that it will not be participating in College Bowl in the future.
  • Fall: The first NAQT high school tournaments are hosted.

1998

  • June 19-20: First PACE NSC held at Case Western. State College defeats Henry Ford II to claim the first high school quizbowl national title of the "modern era."

1999

  • April 24: Chicago wins ACF Nationals, completing the first Triple Crown season in history and finishing with an 88-0 record for their regular A team in non-College Bowl formats.
  • June 5-6: First HSNCT held at the University of Oklahoma, ending with Detroit Catholic Central defeating Walton for the title.

2000

2001

  • November 3: First ACF Fall held, now the most widely played college set of the year.

2005

  • June 12: Thomas Jefferson defeats State College in the PACE NSC final, completing what is still the only double-undefeated performance at HSNCT and NSC and an undefeated year in pyramidal formats.
  • Fall 2005: High School quizbowl starts in Canada

2006

2008

2009

  • April 26: Chicago defeats Brown in the finals of ACF Nationals following Brown's victory over Stanford in a play-in game, unifying the ICT and Nationals championships.
  • June: The last Panasonic NTAE is held without Panasonic's financial backing; the tournament collapses soon after.

2010

2011

  • May 7-8: First MSNCT held at Hyatt Regency O'Hare near Chicago

2013

  • March 20: NAQT announces that a website security review has found evidence of Andy Watkins accessing question material prior to three ICTs in which he participated. Four Harvard titles are revoked and Watkins is suspended from NAQT membership, resigning soon after.

2014

  • April 12: Virginia wins outright to win ACF Nationals. With their win against Yale at ICT, they win both major collegiate championships, the first time since 2009.
  • May 3-4: First SSNCT held at the Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Mall of America
  • May 31-June 1: LASA defeats St. John's to win the 2014 HSNCT. At 272 teams, it is by far the largest quizbowl tournament ever held.
  • June 14-17: NTAE is revived after a four year hiatus
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