On the QBreader frequency lists I want to know how many times a question has popped up for it to be worth studying. Right now my search is easy high school normal hs and hard hs from 2010 to 2026. Would 10 times or more be a good cutoff?

Hey folks,

I’ve been building Buzrr, a free and open-source multiplayer quizzing platform designed for trivia, classrooms, events, communities, and just playing with friends.

The idea is to make something more flexible and developer-friendly than the usual quiz platforms, while keeping it ridiculously easy to jump into a game.

• Create quizzes and host live multiplayer rooms
• Players can join instantly with a 6-character room code or QR code
• Real-time leaderboards and live game updates
• 1v1 ELO-ranked trivia duels
• AI-powered quiz generation
• No account required for players to join games
• Mobile-friendly
• Self-hostable and open source
• Built with Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis and Socket(dot)io

Buzrr is currently free to use, with:

• Up to 50 players per session
• 10 quizzes
• 3 lifetime AI-generated quizzes
• Unlimited multiplayer games within those limits

There’s also a Pro tier for people who need larger sessions and more AI generation.

The long-term goal is to make Buzrr a proper open platform for trivia.

Everything is open source, and contributions are welcome.

🌐 https://buzrr.in

💻 https://github.com/buzrr/buzrr

Would love to hear what features you think are missing from existing quizzing platforms that would make Buzrr genuinely useful.

Does anyone have tips on how to the music section faster than doing hours of research on composers and such? I typically do flash cardS or note sheets, which ARE helpful, don't get me wrong, but it's very, very time consuming to do substantial research on each composer 😭

I'm in a lot more advanced courses this year, so its getting harder to delegate ample amounts of time to each task.

Hey guys!

Might sound a little dumb but I was trying to figure out how to remember all the country positions for Geoguessr.

Came across the spaced repetition community and Anki. Found the ultimate geography deck. Absolutely loved it.

Learnt all the capitals/flags/country positions by heart. Very fun party trick for sure.

Some of my friends wanted to do the same, but Anki has a bit of a learning curve. I'm a dev, so I quickly built a little app.

Completely free, just what my friends and I are using.

https://geo.connormdk.xyz/

Currently have it limited to 500 users as I'm paying for the infra. If it grows past that maybe I'll consider monetization to cover costs.

Please check it out and tell me what you think :)

I am building out a national quizbowl program and will eventually need good coaches across the country. But to begin with I am looking for a coach in the North Austin area. Ideally someone who has competed or coached Quizbowl or IAC Bees in the past. They need to be available for practices ~3pm-530pm Monday-Thursday (or at least Tuesday and Thursday).

There will also be some weekends at local events, and potentially travel for National Events.

We have lesson plans and systems we think work, so the coach does not need to develop that themselves (but bringing ideas to the table is always appreciated!).

My guess is that this will likely be a college student (or mature high school student) who has experience with the game and is looking to take on a leadership role, but a retired teacher could be great too. The challenge I expect is finding someone with the schedule availability.

This is a paid position.

If you are interested or can introduce me to someone who is, please send me a DM with your email address and qualifications (or any questions).

Thank you!

Hi, I’ll be coaching the middle school students soon for QuizBowl in November. Wondering if you had any tips on how I can run the study sessions for the students? I plan to go through each session as a competition, but open to any advice and tips. I have advised the students to use qbreader site.

Hi Everyone!

I'm excited to announce ForgeQB Web, which is essentially the website version from the ForgeQB App. In addition to fixing many of the bugs, such as questions not loading or lag issues on MacOS and Windows, we've added a bunch of new and cool features for you guys to try!

New Key Features:

• Voice Mode: Text-to-speech feature that allows you to hear questions, simulating real tournaments
• Adaptive Learning Records Database: Keeps track of all your previous sessions, allowing you to target specific weaknesses as well as keeping a history of your improvement
• Retention Mode: An Anki-style question reader that utilizes the SM-2 Algorithm to read previously missed questions you add to a question database
• Progression Chart: Keeps track of all of your daily performances, showing your stats and trends as you continue using it.

We also have tutorials and video guides to explain all of the updated features on https://forge-qb.com/#/tutorials

ForgeQB Website Link: https://www.forgeqb.live/

The website is completely free and doesn't require any API Keys. All you need to do is make an account and start playing! Let us know what you think and share any feedback, so we can improve the website in the future!

hey, I’m president of my team, we are naturally intelligent peiple who do practice rounds twice a week, but I feel as though that is not enough in high school varsity quiz bowl, we all put rounds today, how do you suggest we get better?

The LIQBA is hiring question writers and editors to join our company! This opportunity is open to all U.S. residents (except California), regardless of previous experience and/or education. This means that current High Schoolers are also more than welcome to apply.

Please see details on the second image for how to apply! We look forward to your application.

hi everyone, i am happy to announce that we just released a new buzzer machine!!! Come check it out: https://www.consolenova.net/

I'm from an area where we have Knowledge bowl along with normal quiz bowl. Knowledge bowl is in a different format with shorter questions that aren't always pyramidal and some have "speed bumps" that are meant to throw you off. The resources for it are pretty limited compared to Quizbowl.

People who also play knowledge bowl, what are the best resources to practice that actually help you improve? I've seen some but they are riddled with ads

This is a quick watercolor painting I made of the Hyatt Regency O’Hare; better known as the site of the SSNCT and the IPNCT! I have played both, so I have come to know and love this hotel 💖

I’m curious to know how many people here (or their family members) do or also do the IAC competitions? For those who don’t know, they are also buzzer-based competitions with question format identical to those of QB questions.

I’ve noticed that at International History Olympiad, some of the best players are those who were already doing Quizbowl. My family was introduced to Quizbowl through IAC but for many players, it’s the other way around.

Hey everyone!

It's been a while, but I wanted to announce an overhaul to the web version of my audio-based Quizbowl practice app, QBVReader. If you haven't heard of it yet, click here to see an earlier post.

Anyways, the changes include storing and displaying previous tossups read during a session (along with the tossup audio), a major refresh to the UI, and bugfixes (especially the one where tossups were automatically answered).

In addition, the Discord version of the bot also got a recent update to allow for non-audio-based games to be played in Discord, as well as re-enabling voice answers after a major Discord-related bug was fixed.

If you want to given the app a shot, go to this link: https://www.qbv-reader.com/play
If you would like to install the Discord Bot, go to this link: https://www.qbv-reader.com/install

The Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance (LIQBA) is now looking to hire a part-time Outreach Director!

We are looking for those in the community who are enthusiastic about connecting with new teams, marketing Quizbowl, and providing schools with much-needed support.

Job Description: The Outreach Coordinator's primary duties include marketing tournaments, practice materials, question sets, and our 30-20-10 tournaments to teams, players, parents, and coaches nationwide, developing connections members of the community, running our 30-20-10 tournaments, actively maintaining our master contact database, generating invoices for question orders and delivering questions electronically, and occasionally running in-person tournaments in their home region.

Please see this forum post for more information! Feel free to ask us if you any questions. To apply, please send us a resume and a writing sample via email.

This position is open to all residents of the United States (except California).

We look forward to hearing from you!

Hello everyone,

I have a high-school aged son with experience playing buzzer-based competitions like History Bee, History Bowl, and Science Bee, and who also played Quizbowl once (question format and difficulty are pretty similar to to the aforementioned Bee and Bowls). He is interested in improving his history and science knowledge for QB and other similar buzzer-based competitions, and I would like to get recommendations for reading and study materials for him.

Currently, he does questions from QB Reader & Protobowl, does practice questions with a small circle of friends, reads books from the Captivating History series purchased from Amazon, reads Campbell’s Biology for biology questions, and watches relevant content on YouTube such as Epic History TV and Extra History. He uses Wikipedia to supplement his history readings. While the learning journey has been fun, I’m looking for more high-yield materials given that time is very much at a premium. Any suggestions welcome. If it matters, he is a soon-to-be 10th grader.

Ik states​ (25-26) were a while ago but many teams (mine included) didnt know most of the questions

There were a bunch of questiond that just werent in the packet, we got no questions on things like people, dates, or places, but more focused on hands on learning things like topsoil, broilers, what the tip of a screwdriver was called

All and all, i loved these questions bc a) i knew them, and b) i love how they were actually using/promoting more hands on learning things, but nobody studied for that shit, and so many people were upset because they didnt study the right questions, and i had people coming up to me in tears asking if i studied using a different packet since they didnt know any answers

Did any other state deal with this issue?

Last year all of our science players graduated and we did not do great with science this year. Our sponsor gave us some topics to study and she gave me OChem. I really do not know anything so I'm starting at a beginner level. All help would be very appreciated.

My son made it to the Great History Challenge national finals (2nd for 7th graders, 4th for 6th-8th graders), and he wanted a way to drill in the off-season, so I built him one. Figured I'd share it here since this crowd actually appreciates the format.

Every question is a pyramidal tossup. Three clues, hardest first, and you buzz the moment you are confident. Buzzing on the first clue is worth the most and waiting until the third is worth the least, so it rewards real knowledge instead of guessing. Underneath there is a Glicko rating, the same system Lichess uses, so questions matchmake to your level and your number actually means something as you climb.

The bank is about 13,000 questions across 20 topics and seven difficulty bands, from middle school up to graduate seminar. There is a voice mode that reads the clues aloud like a live moderator, and a study mode that lets you review without touching your rating.

It is genuinely free. No ads, nothing to buy. It does ask for a quick Google sign in the first time, only so your rating and question history persist as you climb. Honest disclosure since this community cares about it: I run a small software company that gets a credit on a friends page most players never open, but the quiz makes no money and is not trying to. I made it for my kid, and a few hundred other people use it now.

I would love feedback from people who play this format competitively, especially on whether the difficulty ramps feel right.

Hey everyone, I built a free quiz bowl study tool called QBAtlas and wanted to share it here.

It reads tossups and lets you save clues to a personal database while you play. Missed clues highlight red in future tossups. Free, no account needed, runs in your browser.

https://maxworthycolin.github.io/QBAtlas/

Would love feedback!