{"id":2433,"date":"2013-04-10T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2013-04-10T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:16:05","slug":"scandal-in-the-world-of-quiz-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/10\/scandal-in-the-world-of-quiz-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal in the World of Quiz Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nerd culture\u00e2\u20ac\u009d may be, at this point, thoroughly subsumed into the capitalist mainstream (see: <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, the explosion of Comic-Con\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popularity, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seriously gonna make more <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies, etc.), but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a group of geeks out there swapping obscure bits of knowledge for knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re high-level quiz-bowl players, and a recent cheating scandal has brought their insular world into major news sources\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 spotlight in all the wrong ways.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2013\/04\/andy_watkins_harvard_inside_the_biggest_scandal_in_quiz_bowl_history.html\">Alan Siegel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story at\u00c2\u00a0<em>Slate<\/em><\/a> for more surprisingly dramatic details, including the declaration that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[e]verything you touch you destroy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<h3>Related Posts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2013\/03\/cross-culture-cross-century-cross-dressing\/\" title=\"Cross-Culture, Cross-Century Cross-Dressing\">Cross-Culture, Cross-Century Cross-Dressing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2013\/03\/remember-the-phoenix\/\" title=\"Remember the &lt;em&gt;Phoenix&lt;\/em&gt; \">Remember the <em>Phoenix<\/em> <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2013\/01\/on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-a-liar\/\" title=\"On the Internet, No One Knows You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re A Liar\">On the Internet, No One Knows You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re A Liar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/12\/a-different-breed-of-family-portraits\/\" title=\"A Different Breed of Family Portraits\">A Different Breed of Family Portraits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/11\/gaza-roundup\/\" title=\"Gaza Roundup\">Gaza Roundup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>via The Rumpus.net <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2013\/04\/scandal-in-the-world-of-quiz-bowl\/\">http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2013\/04\/scandal-in-the-world-of-quiz-bowl\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nerd culture\u00e2\u20ac\u009d may be, at this point, thoroughly subsumed into the capitalist mainstream (see: The Big Bang Theory, the explosion of Comic-Con\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popularity, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seriously gonna make more Star Wars movies, etc.), but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a group of geeks out there swapping obscure bits of knowledge for knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re high-level quiz-bowl players, and a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/10\/scandal-in-the-world-of-quiz-bowl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scandal in the World of Quiz Bowl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,929,289],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ifttt","tag-lauren-oneal","tag-the-rumpus-net"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-Df","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}