Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I was prepared for a 1986 headline about "quizbowl bracket set" to be its own brand of insanity (but this turned out to be the surprisingly normal "32-team single elimination"). (And yes, 20k questions is outrageous by any standard, even mega-recycling!) 152
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The big reveal at the end had better be a ebird.org/species/tunb...ebird.org 020
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Let the record show that I despise this rule (even, as here, when it helps one of my favorite players on my own team). 120
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Vest looks real sharp right now and just set aside the only two guys on our roster who can hit... 020
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I honestly flinch for a moment every time I see that abbreviation. ("It can't be, SCT was only three days ago!") 130
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Chance of Evening Grosbeak has been upgraded from 'bird watch' to 'bird warning'! 130
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Yes, from the 1569 Union of Lublin until the second partition of Poland in 1793. 010
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025South of Lawrence that trail rapidly trends in the direction of "you are likely to encounter a Northern Waterthrush." (The bridge at Bryn Mawr has been a tremendous improvement for how I tend to use this system...) 030
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Sweeping years-long epic (the years are "49th Division's arctic warfare training in Iceland, 1940-1942"). 030
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024That should, in general, be ok! (Full text of our practices for resolving this sort of thing can be read here: www.naqt.com/buzzword/jud...)naqt.comNAQT | Buzzword | Answer-Judging Guidelines and ProtestsNational Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC, organizes the premier middle school, high school, community college, and college national quiz bowl championships in North America. 120
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Thanks for letting us know, Josh- our protest committee will take a look at this case. 120
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 24/06/2024The obviously superior option is right there (for certain central Pennsylvania values of "there") 050
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 14/05/2024Today's transit birding is brought to you by: the royalist cause 2260
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 31/01/2024"The Anna's Hummingbird was a regicide." Discuss. 1160
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 18/12/2023The plan for the Crater had real potential, but the execution was very badly botched. (Compare, at a much larger scale, the attack on Messines Ridge in summer 1917.) 010
Reposted by Jeff HoppesRG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 09/12/2023#OTD in 1943, Italy. These pigeons saw a lot of action. They took part in exchange of information when one of the brigades was cut off from the main body of the British 8 Army two weeks earlier and were also used during commando raids around Messina in Sicily. #WW2 #HISTORY 0172
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 06/12/2023(Seriously, I think it would fascinating to write a set of Chicago Open-difficulty lightning rounds for some low-stress summer side event.) 030
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Ooh, sorry, what I have written here is five instances of "ex-Confederate Northern Mockingbird" 100
Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 06/12/2023All these years later and I'm still a bit disappointed my high school career ended without a chance at the "State Birds" lightning round. 010
