User:John Dorsey

Captain of the Winston Churchill (MD) High School team (2014-2016) (Potomac, MD). Member, University of Michigan team (2016 - 2020) (Ann Arbor, MI).

BSc. Economics, UMich '20.

John specializes in history, geography, economics, and current (political) events. On the rare occasions in which they do pop up, John can power any Star Trek question. Needless to say, he is a very lonely man.

After spending two years refusing offers to join his high school trivia team for no particularly good reason, John attended one practice and instantly ascended to the rank of co-Captain, competing after school in the Montgomery Academic Beltway League and on screen in It's Academic and the MCPSTV Quizmaster Challenge show, an HS-run public access TV show that very much looked like an HS-run public access TV show. The Churchill quizbowl team ended the 2014-15 season with a 2-0 record on Quizmaster Challenge and a 2-1 record on It's Academic, and the 2015-16 season with another 2-1 record on It's Academic. Three winning It's Academic games were preserved for all time on his personal YouTube channel for all time, but two losses and one embarrassing near-loss mysteriously never appeared.

John joined Michigan's quizbowl team upon matriculation and played in exactly two tournaments in his four years. As a freshman playing in a September 2016 novice tournament, he came in first with 90.50 PPG (although his name was spelled wrong on the stats), which encouraged him to play again in another tournament the following year, where he placed 32nd in spite of (or perhaps because of) his name's correct spelling. Correctly observing that his career had long since peaked, he spent the next few years diligently staffing.

Having graduated from the University of Michigan, he now plays recreational trivia, either in the DC metro area with former teammates, or online with alumni of the Beto O'Rourke campaign. He is also in the process of writing toss-up packets about various elements of the Star Trek franchise, including one packet that uses Star Trek clues even though none of the answers have anything to do with Star Trek ("this substance was contaminated with tribbles when served to Captain Kirk in 2268, and in 2371 USS Voyager was nearly destroyed when it entered a nebula desperately looking for this substance" for coffee).