Concerning the availability of last year's regionals: In general, I think, the regionals packets are released into public domain one year after the tournament. (I guess there should be some incentive for buying the packets or something...) But since its been a while, I will send those to Jason Paik ASAP. But I was rather puzzled by your attempt at using NAQT standards to measure the content of ACF Regionals packets-- clearly they're not trying to do exactly the same thing so vairation is to be expected. Furthermore, NAQT produces countless intramural/practice (whatever theyre called) sets that are aimed at a level slightly above high school (and im not sure, the you gotta know thingie may also include high school packets in which case the comparison is doubly useless) the sheer number of these sets would overwhelm the SCT and ICT questions insuring that easier answers swing the balance of what does and what does not seem to come up. Not that there's anything wrong with that, variety between formats is cool, and, better yet, ACF lets you do something about it-- if you want to hear some questions about candide, moby dick, and macbeth write some for the next Regionals... Though I do think the advice of checking out the Carleton list is probably more apropos that too has its problems since the game is pretty dynamic and a great proliferation of Titian questions from the early 90s may make it seem as though he comes up all the time or something (not necessarily a bad thing). Anyways, I promise I'll be quiet now, ezequiel > Thanks to consistent formatting, it's not hard to scan for answers in > electronic copies of Regionals packets from 1999 onward (except > possibly last year's, which I don't have). If we search for the > literary works most commonly occurring in NAQT questions, as listed at > http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/literature.html > then we find that six of the top 10 do not come up AT ALL as answers > to tossups or bonuses in the said ACF packets. These works include > Hamlet, the Iliad, Moby-Dick, Macbeth (though Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk > comes up twice), Candide, and Pride and Prejudice. As far as I can > tell, Moby-Dick and Candide and the Scottish play never even get > mentioned in the questions. > > For literature, art and music, it may be better advice to refer > writers to the Carleton Frequency of Mention of Titles Databases at > http://www.student.carleton.edu/orgs/quizteam/lists.html
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