- History

Caltech Quiz Bowl was founded back in the late twentieth century by Richard, Maribeth, and Craig; the first tournament attended by the team was Cardinal Classic VI, where they placed a respectable sixth. The team started getting compeditive in 1998 when Richard, Jay, Chris, and Maribeth took second at WIT 6. In 1999, Jay Catherwood, Josh DenHartog, Mat Ballard, and Dan Stick took a division II team to a seventh place finish at the 1999 ICT. The next year, Maribeth, Chris, Richard, and Jay took sixth at ICT nationals.

Caltech continued to have a strong undergrad team even as Chris, Richard, and Maribeth decided to focus on finishing their dissertation. Caltech won the all undergrad UCLA TWAIN tournament in 2000, 2001, and 2003 and placed second in 2002. Harris Nover, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Ben Aronin won the DII West title in 2002. The next year, Irene, Parag, Libin, and Albert placed seventh in the national DII contest.

Caltech is not just an academic team; in 2002 Caltech's Richard, Maribeth, Josh, and Jordan won UCLA's TrashIt tournament, defeating the "Geeks" from Comedy Central's Beat the Geeks.

After Chris and Jay moved on from Caltech (for Silicone Age and Cornell, respectively) and Richard and Maribeth decided to finally graduate, the team had a bit of a slump, but went on win the West coast undergraduate title in 2004 and was the fourth place undergraduate team at the 2004 ICT.

Caltech is the home of the West Coast's longest running continuous packet-submission tournament, Technophobia, and the nation's first and oldest guerilla tournament, Quesadilla.