Quiz Bowl

The Quiz Bowl will happen on Monday evening. This is a fun contest that challenges students with quick wit and general knowledge trivia - with bragging rights and a trophy to the winning team! 

Both single-university and multi-university teams will compete. If you'd like to see the kind of questions that are asked in the quiz bowl, see this document which shows example questions from the 2017 Quiz Bowl Contest.

2025 Contest Guidelines

A fun contest that challenges students with quick wit and general knowledge.

The top university team will take home the Quiz Bowl trophy!

Pre-registration on the meeting website is required to participate. One four-member (4) team is eligible to register from each university. If more students wish to participate, up to four (4) additional students from each university are eligible to join multi-university teams.

University teams will be required to submit five (5) questions and answers in the crops and agronomy category and five (5) questions in the soils and environment category. Additionally, two (2) optional questions and answers can be submitted. Students wishing to become members of a multi-university team are required to submit two (2) questions and answers in the category of their choice and have the option to submit two (2) additional questions and answers.

Teams are allowed to switch team members prior to the contest deadline. Teams should edit their registration by having the team captain edit the submission through the email link sent to the original submitter.

Registration will close October 1. You must register for the contest and complete your required questions and answers by the deadline to participate.

The bracket will be generated at random and the competition will proceed until there is one winning team. The number of questions per round and specific details of the question format will be provided at the beginning of the Quiz Bowl session.

There will be one judge from each discipline: Agronomy, Crop Science, and Soil Science. When answers do not match the given answers, but may still technically be correct, the judges will decide if the answer is acceptable.

All decisions by the judges are final.

Registration will open May 1 and close October 1. You must complete your registration by the deadline to be eligible to participate. 
Failure to send in complete questions and answers by the deadline may forfeit your place in the competition.  

Contest Chair

Dr. Nicholas Heller, Illinois State University | Send Message

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1st Place went to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls team.

1st Place went to the Oklahoma State University team.