The Very Best Tournament Questions

The Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance proudly provides questions to tournaments, leagues, Quizbowl TV shows, and other events throughout the United States. Our questions are of the finest quality, with extremely rigorous editorial standards, and can be customized to any format you would like. We have provided questions for leagues with all kinds of formats, from 20/20 to 4-quarter to packets of 100 tossups and 50 bonuses, to anything and everything in between. We provide for both in-person, online, and asynchronous competitions. In essence, if you want questions, we’ve got ’em.

A VERY PROUD ANNOUNCEMENT
(that you’re going to love)

We are very pleased to announce that There will be NO price increases for standard formats whatsoever for the 2026-2027 season! We’re even prouder to announce, on certain formats…

PRICE CUTS!

Every other cost in the world might be spiking… but not for Quizbowl questions. We’re very honored to help keep prices low for teams all across the United States: we take pride in providing both the highest-quality AND some of the most affordable Quizbowl material in the US. In these trying times, rely on us to give your budget just a little bit of relief.

And fear not: the writers’ rates keep going up, and they are among the highest in Quizbowl. We found new efficiencies elsewhere, and are happy to pass the savings through to you!

Here’s our new savings:

• For all high school 20/20 sets, the base fees have been fixed at $50 no matter what; before, if there were over 18 teams at your tournament, there was an extra $50 fee. Either way, it’s still a $10 per-team rate, far and away the lowest in the business.
• IHSA Standard per-packet rates have been reduced from $50 to $40.
• Kansas rates have been slashed across the board, generally by a third or so.
• Arkansas Standard rates have been reduced by $2.50 per packet.
• New Four-Quarter Packets have been reduced from $100 to $80 per packet. We are likely to discontinue the Classic 4-Quarter format after this season, due to low demand; so, unless we get a sudden influx, you should expect only the New 4-Quarter format to be sold.
• While we couldn’t reduce the rates for Virginia: by popular demand, we’ve added 3 additional regular-season packets, so there are now 27 available instead of 24. If those sell well, we’ll bump it up to 30 for next season, the historical number, so be sure to expand your regular-season offerings! As we say, you can never have too much Quiz Bowl… or Scholastic Bowl, in this case!

Note that the form is lagging a bit on prices; if you get last year’s numbers, let us know, hit the option to pay by check (even if you want to do credit card, we can send you a link later), and we’ll change your invoice manually.

STANDARD FORMATS

As always, we write in many formats at standard rates.

Our standard offerings include 20/20 style, State, and QU Legacy formats.

20/20 Style Formats

Format	Consists Of	Availability	Sample
High School Standard Set	20 XL Tossups, Powermarked; 20 3-part bonuses. 1 tiebreaker tossup. Moderate (“Regs”) Difficulty. 13 Packets.	3 Sets Per Season	Sample
High School Novice Set	20 Long Tossups, Powermarked; 20 3-part bonuses. 1 tiebreaker tossup. Easy (“Regs-Minus”) Difficulty. 13 Packets.	2 Sets Per Season	Sample
State Championship Set	20 XL Tossups, Powermarked; 20 3-part Bonuses. 1 tiebreaker tossup. Hard (“Regs-Plus”) Difficulty. 13 Packets.	1 Set Per Season
Middle School Standard Set	20 Long Tossups, Powermarked; 20 3-part bonuses. 1 tiebreaker tossup. Very Easy difficulty. 11 Packets.	1 Set Per Season	Sample
Introductory Collegiate Set	Same as HS Standard Set. State Championship sets are also available for Collegiate use. May also be used by Community Colleges.	3 Sets Per Season	Sample

20/20 Set Pricing

Format	Pricing
High School Standard Set	Base fee: $50 Additional $10 per team
High School Novice Set	Base fee: $50 Additional $10 per team
State Championship Set	Base fee: $50 Additional $15 per team
Middle School Standard Set	Base fee: $50 Additional $10 per team
Introductory College Set	Base fee: $100 Additional $10 per team

State Standard Formats

Questions Unlimited Legacy Formats

Format	Consists Of	Price Per Packet
Tossup Sets	70 Mixed Tossups	$30
Bonus Sets	30 4-part Bonuses	$40
Lightning Sets	7x 10-question Lightning Rounds	$35
Current Events Supplements	10 Current Events tossups, written during the current season	$10
Classic 4-Quarter Sets	1 4-quarter packet in the old National Academic Championship format	$100
New 4-Quarter Sets	1 4-Quarter Packet in the Quiz Bowl National Championships Format	$80

CUSTOM FORMATS

Our custom offerings are limitless. We will write in any format. You do not need to do anything: we will make all the packets for you. Nearly all jobs will be accommodated. No additional charge is made for packetization.

PRISTINE QUESTIONS

If you place an order, all the questions we send you are guaranteed to have never been heard in your area. We also guarantee our questions to be free of error, and if one is found, we will fix it immediately at no charge.

GRADE LEVELS

We write questions for both Elementary, Middle/Junior High, and (Senior) High School levels. Please note that some types of questions may not be available at the Elementary School level.

TYPES OF QUESTIONS WE WRITE

We write the following types of questions, but please note that we are happy to do custom questions:

1. Short tossups: These are no more than 2 lines, but with no less than 3 pyramidal clues. We offer both easier and harder short tossups.
   
2. Long tossups: These are pyramidal tossups, no more than about 3-4 lines.
   
3. XL Tossups: These are pyramidal, power-marked tossups, about 4 lines.
   
4. Bonuses: These are multi-part questions on a single topic. They can be two, three, or four parts, depending on your liking. All bonuses start out easy and get harder as they go along; there are distinct easy, medium, and hard parts. If you need one-part bonuses, we use Short Tossups for that!
   
5. Lightning rounds: These are sets of 10 very short, related questions on a single topic that are meant to be answered in a short period of time, typically 60 seconds. Our lightning rounds are set apart by having a minimum of two to three clues for each part, and having a consistent, clean difficulty gradient from easiest to hardest.
   
6. Alphabet rounds: These are sets of 20 short questions, but all answers start with the same letter. Much like our lightning rounds, minimum numbers of clues and a difficulty gradient still apply; in addition, the distribution of topics is constant for every alphabet round, so you’ll always hear the same amount of History, Literature, and Science, for instance, among other things.
   
7. Multiple-Choice Questions: We write multiple choice questions of varying difficulties: some very easy, some very difficult, in all subjects. Note that we don’t usually write these, however, so the rate for MC questions tends to be much higher than for other types of questions. The exception to that is for Knowledge Bowl competitions in Washington, Colorado, and Minnesota, where they are at a low standard rate.

WHERE OUR QUESTIONS CAN BE USED

In short, anywhere! You can use our questions for any tournament, league, Quizbowl TV or radio show, summer camp, or anything else, except for practice questions, which can be found on this page.

SUBJECTS WE COVER

We write questions in History, Literature, Science, Fine Arts, Religion, Mythology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Geography, Current Events, Pop Culture, Sports, Trades, and General Knowledge. Basically, we write about everything under the sun!

For a custom order, you can even specify a custom mix of subjects. If you’d like to know what our standard one is, shoot an email to Outreach and they can provide.

WHAT REGULATIONS DO YOU NEED TO FOLLOW?

Not much! We try very hard to make it easy for you.

We require you to tell us who played at your event. This is so teams do not hear the same questions at another event: not fun for anyone! We also require you to tell us who the top teams were, so we can invite them to Nationals.

We require you to tell us, accurately, the date of your event.

You are not permitted to send electronic copies of the questions we give you to anyone, ever. You may use a system like MODAQ or another electronic question-reader if you desire, with the limitation that moderators are never permitted to have electronic copies of the questions downloaded on their computer.

You cannot record or stream matches without our permission. Let us know; it’s likely we can grant recording rights, provided they are released later. We generally can’t do streaming rights, though, unless you’re a governing body, and it costs a lot of money to arrange that (since the questions usually must be completely custom).

And that’s it! There are no contracts (unless you would like one) and no agreements to sign. There are no requirements to submit statistics of any kind. However, you are free to generate both basic, advanced, and category statistics to your liking. You may use paper or electronic scoresheets. You may post statistics anywhere you would like. Except for the New 4-quarter style of packets, we do not have standard rules for tournament play; you are free to use your own. For a standard set of rules for New 4-Quarter style games, see our National Championships pages.

We keep things nice and simple, so you can breathe easy.

You can also edit, reorder, add to, and make any modification to our questions that you’d like.

CUSTOM JOB PRICING

Every custom job we do is custom-quoted, as no two are exactly alike. Give us a email or call and we’d be happy to discuss! Our prices tend to be extremely competitive. If you know what you’re looking for, you can fill out our order form.

SAMPLES

Look below to view a sample of our work. This is one of our standard 4-quarter packets, which showcases most of the types of questions we write: short easy tossups in quarter 1, long tossups and bonuses in quarter 2, lightning rounds in quarter 3, and hard short tossups in quarter 4.

Samples of our 20/20 offerings are in their corresponding table above.

HOW TO GET A CUSTOM QUOTE OR PLACE AN ORDER

We have a form for that! Fill out this form and we’ll be with you soon.

Fair warning on payment, though: we invoice on delivery, and you generally have to pay within a month or so. If you don’t, we’ll charge late fees, which can be steep… which we really don’t like doing! So be sure to pay invoices promptly.

THANK YOU

Thank you for considering us to be your question provider! We very much hope to work with you this season, and many more beyond that.