Our quiz bowl-formatted middle school question sets offer middle schoolers the opportunity to play the game on questions geared to their level of experience and education while learning what they may need to learn for high school competitions.

Past question sets can be downloaded from quizbowlpackets.com or from the bottom of the page. These free questions may be used for practice, but must not be used for competitions under any circumstances.

Available Dates

Our middle school octangular question sets are available for purchase annually between the beginning of January and the end of May.

Question Set Format

The set includes eight rounds of 16/16 (tossups/bonuses) and a half-packet of 10/10 replacement questions. Tossups are powermarked. Bonuses have three parts, which are designed to be read one part at a time.

Normal rounds of high school quiz bowl questions are 20 tossups and 20 bonuses long. For our questions, we shortened the literature distribution, which is often very difficult for middle schoolers, from 4/4 to 3/3. We also removed the miscellaneous questions and the philosophy and social sciences, which are not usually represented in middle school curricula.

Subject Distribution

The middle school octangular set’s distribution per round is:

4/4 Science (including 1/1 non-computational math)
3/3 Literature
4/4 History
2/2 Religion and Myth
2/2 Fine Arts
1/1 Geography

Fees

The fee to use the Middle School Octangular set is $16/team. This includes “house” teams representing the host school.

There is a $1/team discount for complete statistics posted publicly or emailed to the set editor within one week of your tournament date. Complete statistics must include full statistics for each individual player on every team for every round, and must be recorded either in YellowFruit or in SQBS with round report enabled. Because Neg5 does not validate game data effectively, Neg5 statistics are not accepted for the stat discount.

There is a $1/team discount if you choose to email or snail mail your raw scoresheets to the set editor within one week of your tournament date.

Download Past Question Sets

For seven years between 2014 and 2022, the middle school question sets below were adapted from the SCOP Novice question set, an introductory-level high school question set. These sets consist of 20/20 question rounds and include miscellaneous, philosophy, social science, and 4/4 literature per round.