To elaborate a little bit on Eric Hillemann's point, both NAQT-specifically and in general: The [pop culture] music questions that NAQT asks are like any other questions asked by NAQT (and, by extension, any canon that people infer from them). They reflect the questions that writers submit and the evaluations made by subject and set editors. Eric mentioned the dozens of active writers. To be fair, it's possible that the people who contribute the most questions unwittingly bias the question output with their tastes. The best way to defeat this bias is to attract a still broader base of writers with different tastes. In other words, send your questions to NAQT. :-) Or, more generally, if you write packs for invitationals and there are phenomena that you think should appear in more questions -- Write those questions. A bonus part or two, then a tossup. Expose quiz players to it and see how it goes. That seems to be how Norse myth, for example, became so in vogue. (Aside: ACF Regionals sets this year seemed to have a nice diversity of mythological traditions. It doesn't always work. Subash cut my bonus about lesbian erotica (it was a legitimate social science question, I swear), a temporary roadblock in my own quest to subvert the ACF paradigm, though he left in two pop-culturey questions, two more than most of the other packs had. Matt
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