You Gotta Know
You Gotta Know is a series of articles that highlights a category and the list of (more or less) ten topics that ÎÞÓǶÌÊÓƵ’s editors have determined to be very valuable to know for the purposes of quiz bowl, along with a brief summary of each topic’s importance.
Naturally, there is no guarantee that these topics or clues will appear in ÎÞÓǶÌÊÓƵ question sets, but statistically speaking, they should be a great place to start.
You Gotta Know…
- …these non-western classical music traditions (November 2024).
- …these works by Fyodor Dostoevsky (October 2024).
- …these functional groups (September 2024).
- …these linguists (August 2024).
- …these Supreme Court cases involving LGBT+ rights (July 2024).
- …these enzymes (March 2024).
- …these modernist authors (February 2024).
- …these modern board games (January 2024).
- …these early-20th-century European composers (December 2023).
- …these 21st-century quarterbacks (November 2023).
- …these New Testament characters (October 2023).
- …these geometric curves (September 2023).
- …these plagues and pandemics (August 2023).
- …these statements about prime numbers (July 2023).
- …these indigenous peoples (April 2023).
- …these presidential scandals (March 2023).
- …these Biblical sayings (February 2023).
- …these new-year celebrations (January 2023).
- …these French directors (December 2022).
- …these ideas from calculus (November 2022).
- …these people from the French Revolution (October 2022).
- …these vice presidents who never became president (September 2022).
- …these jazz musicians (August 2022).
- …these silent films (July 2022).
- …these dwarf planets, comets, and asteroids (June 2022).
- …these world's fairs (May 2022).
- …these works by Irish authors (April 2022).
- …these arias (March 2022).
- …these geologic time periods (February 2022).
- …these sandbox and open-world video games (December 2021).
- …these Greek heroes (November 2021).
- …these Shakespearean speeches, monologues, and soliloquies (October 2021).
- …these characters in the Hebrew Bible (September 2021).
- …these American murders and murderers (August 2021).
- …these baroque painters (July 2021).
- …these countries once known by different names (June 2021).
- …these spies (April 2021).
- …these Black American legislators (March 2021).
- …these presidential inaugurations (February 2021).
- …these translations and translators (December 2020).
- …these psychological experiments and studies (November 2020).
- …these magazines from American history (October 2020).
- …these Supreme Court cases concerned with African-Americans (September 2020).
- …these Romantic-era composers (August 2020).
- …these African-American authors (July 2020).
- …these programming terms (June 2020).
- …these pre-1960s movies (May 2020).
- …these Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine (April 2020).
- …these popes (March 2020).
- …these short story authors (February 2020).
- …these rocks and minerals (January 2020).
- …these Native American peoples (December 2019).
- …these skyscrapers (November 2019).
- …these 20th-century Middle Eastern leaders (October 2019).
- …these Jewish lifecycle events (September 2019).
- …these works of mystery and detective fiction (August 2019).
- …these ancient Greek places (July 2019).
- …these circuit components (June 2019).
- …these Roman emperors (May 2019).
- …these modern speeches (April 2019).
- …these postmodern authors (March 2019).
- …these African-American civil rights leaders (February 2019).
- …these massacres (January 2019).
- …these Arthurian characters (December 2018).
- …these works of Russian short fiction (November 2018).
- …these Dutch paintings (October 2018).
- …these chemistry lab techniques (September 2018).
- …these founders of religious traditions (August 2018).
- …these active volcanoes (July 2018).
- …these photography pioneers (June 2018).
- …these mortal women in Greek myth (May 2018).
- …these Charles Dickens novels (April 2018).
- …these assassinations (March 2018).
- …these rocket scientists (February 2018).
- …these early 20th-century art movements (December 2017).
- …these medieval battles (November 2017).
- …these non-Shakespeare classical English dramas (October 2017).
- …these ballets (part 2) (September 2017).
- …these South American political leaders (August 2017).
- …these schools of Western philosophy (July 2017).
- …these ancient empires of the Mediterranean and Near East (June 2017).
- …these ballets (May 2017).
- …these Revolutionary War battles (April 2017).
- …these mountains (March 2017).
- …these scientific experiments (February 2017).
- …these American third parties (January 2017).
- …these space missions (December 2016).
- …these video game series (November 2016).
- …these economic concepts (October 2016).
- …these Napoleonic battles (September 2016).
- …these choreographers (August 2016).
- …these classifications of mathematical functions (July 2016).
- …these Secretaries of State (June 2016).
- …these chemical elements (May 2016).
- …these Shakespearean villains (April 2016).
- …these European royal families (March 2016).
- …these ancient Greek plays (February 2016).
- …these works by Mozart (January 2016).
- …these British reform movements (December 2015).
- …these Greek mythological monsters (November 2015).
- …these authors of speculative fiction (October 2015).
- …these Supreme Court cases (part 2) (September 2015).
- …these American composers (August 2015).
- …these Mexican leaders (April 2015).
- …these campaigns in the Pacific Theater of World War II (March 2015).
- …these works by Ludwig van Beethoven (February 2015).
- …these scientific scales (January 2015).
- …these explorers (December 2014).
- …these 20th-century African leaders (November 2014).
- …these music theory terms (October 2014).
- …these Chinese dynasties (September 2014).
- …these distinctions among types of plants (August 2014).
- …these British prime ministers (July 2014).
- …these musicals (part 2) (June 2014).
- …these moons (May 2014).
- …these feminists (April 2014).
- …these classic American television series (March 2014).
- …these peoples of the early Middle Ages (February 2014).
- …these North American rivers (January 2014).
- …these battles of the ancient world (December 2013).
- …these anthropologists (November 2013).
- …these 20th-century physicists (October 2013).
- …these western European rivers (September 2013).
- …these ancient philosophers (August 2013).
- …these aviators (September 2012).
- …these World War II battles (August 2012).
- …these African bodies of water (July 2012).
- …these art museums (June 2012).
- …these musicals (part 1) (September 2011).
- …these deserts (September 2008).
- …these mathematicians (March 2008).
- …these sculptors (January 2008).
- …these treaties (September 2007).
- …these Supreme Court cases (April 2004).
- …these operas (March 2004).
- …these classes of particles (February 2004).
- …these Asian rivers (January 2004).
- …these New York Yankees (November 2003).
- …these architects (October 2003).
- …these 20th-century composers (September 2003).
- …these Hindu gods and heroes (August 2003).
- …these Trojan War heroes (July 2003).
- …these tennis players (June 2003).
- …these Latin American authors (May 2003).
- …these Civil War battles (April 2003).
- …these Jewish holidays (March 2003).
- …these types of computation problems (February 2003).
- …these quintuples (January 2003).
- …these Olympics (pre-2000) (December 2002).
- …these American warships (September 2002).
- …these common mistakes (part 2) (August 2002).
- …these religious texts (July 2002).
- …these British monarchs (June 2002).
- …these Norse gods (May 2002).
- …these medieval Islamic dynasties (April 2002).
- …these animal phyla (March 2002).
- …these common mistakes (February 2002).
- …these American plays (January 2002).
- …these golfers (November 2001).
- …these Russian tsars (October 2001).
- …these psychologists (August 2001).
- …these 20th-century paintings (June 2001).
- …these elections (May 2001).
- …these Egyptian deities (March 2001).
- …these Japanese authors (February 2001).
- …these Hockey Hall of Famers (January 2001).
- …these Revolutionary War generals (December 2000).
- …these organelles (November 2000).
- …these kings of France (September 2000).
- …these economists (August 2000).