About Us
Welcome to the official website of the Long Island Quizbowl Alliance!
We are the largest Quizbowl company in the Northeast, and have hosted dozens of trivia tournaments online and in-person all over the Tri-State. At every event, teams enjoying the experience is the first priority, regardless of whether they’re playing, spectating, or bantering in between matches. We have been crowning champions on Long Island since 2019 and all over the Tri-State since 2021.
Founded in 2019 as a response to the folding of the last Quizbowl tournament in Suffolk County, the LIQBA created the Island Cup to recognize the best team on Long Island each year. Each leg of the Island Cup corresponds to tournaments once held in Suffolk County: the October tournament replaced the defunct Smithtown West Invitational Season Starter, the February tournament replaced the Kings Park Academic Quiz Tournament, and the May tournament replaced a long-defunct yearly tournament at Half Hollow Hills West. After the success of the first two tournaments, the Coronavirus pandemic hit, and the LIQBA took the then-novel step of moving the tournaments online to Discord. The online tournaments proved extremely popular and established the LIQBA as one of the largest organizations in Quizbowl. It soon reorganized into the American Quizbowl League, which ran monthly online tournaments in the 2020-21 season, seeing Quizbowl through the pandemic. The LIQBA returned in May 2021, and led the return to in-person play that October.
If you’re new to this game, look at our Resource pages for helpful advice, including how to start a new team!
If you’re looking for tournaments, check out your local Cup!
If you’re on a team that’s looking to get to the next level, look at our Resources page and our Practice Questions page.
Our Staff
Joe Feldman is the founder and president of the Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance and the founder and former president of the American Quizbowl League. He is an accomplished tournament director, having successfully directed more than a dozen events both in-person and online, including co-directing an event with 120 teams competing. He played Quizbowl at Smithtown West from 2012 to 2016, consistently leading the team in scoring, and played for Suffolk Community College in 2021 and 2022, leading the team to a fourth-place national finish at the Community College Championship Tournament. Joe is a Legislative Aide by trade and builds computers, woodworks, plays EU4 and Cities:Skylines, and sings in his spare time. He has repeatedly been jokingly dubbed to have the “best accent in Quizbowl”. He lives in Nesconset, New York.
Nick Pruitt is the founder and president of the Maine Quiz Bowl Alliance and the outreach director for the Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance and the American Quizbowl League. They are noted as the best outreach director in all of Quizbowl, attracting hundreds of new teams to the game. They are also an accomplished tournament director, having directed events with hundreds of schools competing. They played Quizbowl at Ridgewood, New Jersey from 2017 to 2021, specializing in geography and popular culture. Nick is studying Political Science at Bates College and is a road nerd who loves to take road trips all over New England. They play Pokémon and read history books in their spare time. They have, by far, the largest and most irritatingly effective email server in all of Quizbowl. They live in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Aum Mundhe is a member of both the New Jersey Quizbowl Alliance and the Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance. He is an excellent tournament director and statkeeper, having hosted events during his time in high school and has continued to assist at events throughout the tri-state. He played Quizbowl at Ridgewood, New Jersey from 2017 to 2021, specializing in auditory and visual fine arts. Aum is studying at Rutgers University and loves to take long runs whenever he can. He loves to complete crosswords and play FIFA. When asked for three things he likes to do for this biography, he replied “Eat, Sleep, and Neg,” which we believe succinctly sums up this enigma of a man. He lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
At every event, there are dozens of other staffers, but these are the three primary workers for the LIQBA.