Jonah Greenthal

Jonah Greenthal
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Noted subjects	Judaism, math, musicals, Tom Lehrer, Arrested Development
Current college	Chicago (2011–present)
Past colleges	Illinois (2008–2009)
High school	New Trier (2005–2008)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Jonah Greenthal is a former player at New Trier, where he played on the 2007 IHSA class AA state champion team and captained the team the following year. He attended and played with Illinois for one year, then went to Chicago, where he is a math major but does not play quizbowl. He continues to staff high school (mostly) and college tournaments (occasionally) around the state and country. He also hosts the QBWiki and has turned it into an awful version of Wikipedia.

He head-edited and wrote a plurality of the 2008 and 2009 New Trier Varsity tournaments. Additionally, he was an occasional contributor to Aegis Questions before its untimely death and helps edit the New Trier Scobol Solo. Jonah assisted Jeff Price in editing the 2009 Barrington Invitational Tournament, improving on the work of Quillin's Questions. He writes for the IHSA; for the 2010 State Series his categories included all the physics, all the music theory, a handful of British literature, a bunch of the terrible miscellaneous categories (i.e., driver's ed, agriculture, and industrial arts), and some art history.

Jonah is also the current college student liaison to the IHSSBCA steering committee and a test- and performance-certified moderator by the IHSSBCA. He has often incurred the wrath of some IHSSBCA members for advocating ACF-style bonuses, good questions, the institution of negs, and the elimination of computational math.

In conjunction with the above liaison role, in March and April 2009 Jonah (with Matt Laird) conducted a survey of current and former Illinois high school players, which featured questions about changing the unusual Illinois bonus format to an ACF-style one and about changing the distribution of certain minor categories such as driver's ed and agriculture. The survey was sent to the IHSSBCA and IHSA Scholastic Bowl advisory committee with the intention of accompanying a similar survey the IHSSBCA took of coaches, where it was pretty much ignored. Its results are available here.

With Tom Egan, he was the commissioner of the Scholastic Bowl program in the Central Suburban League for the 2010-11 academic year. He assistant-coaches at St. Ignatius.