The National History Bee and Bowl and the US Geography Olympiad are Returning to Hawaii!

Welcome to a new year of history and geography quiz competition! 

The National History Bee and Bowl (NHBB) and US Geography Olympiad (USGO) are excited to announce the start of our competition season with lots of ways for your students to compete. 

Go to this link for a photo album of the 2012 competitions at Iolani School, Honolulu. 

As always, registration for our tournaments is done online at www.historybowl.com/registration for high school level History Bowls,www.hs.historybee.com/registration for high school level History Bees, www.historybee.com for the Middle and Elementary School History Bee, and at www.geographyolympiad.com for the USGO National Qualifying Exam. 

Also, note that for the high school History Bee and USGO, same-day registration is permitted – the online option is provided simply if you need an invoice. History Bowl registration (which is required) remains open until 2 days before each tournament, though earlier registration is always appreciated.

With those administrative messages out of the way, here is the current tournament calendar for Hawaii:

Saturday, Nov. 9 – C Set – Oahu History Bee and Bowl, Iolani School, Honolulu

Saturday, Feb. 15 – B Set – Hawaii History Bee and Bowl State Championships, Island Pacific Academy, Kapolei

For elementary and middle schoolers, you are welcome to come to the Nov. 9 tournament, but we will only be 

using high school level questions there, so unless we get 4 separate elementary and middle school Bowl teams or at least four students in the Bee, students competing here may play against high schoolers in the Junior Varsity division.

Also, there is a different version of the USGO exam for each set of questions a tournament runs on. The USGO is certainly open to middle and elementary school students, who compete together with anyone born after July 1, 1998 in the Junior Varsity division of USGO. Junior Varsity for the History Bee and Bowl is, as in the past, defined as 10^th grade and younger. 

For more information, including a few practice quizzes courtesy of our new Sri Lankan host school (!), please seewww.historybowl.com, www.hs.historybee.com, www.historybee.com, and www.geographyolympiad.com. 

We’ve also added a new preparation guide at: http://www.historybowl.com/study-guide/ If you have any further questions regarding the high school division, please email NHBB Executive Director David Madden atdirector@historybowl.com. For questions on the Elementary and Middle School Division, please email Elementary and Middle Director Eric Huff at eric@historybee.com.