Congratulations to the 2020 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee National Champions!
Varsity: Walter Michaelis, Chattahoochee High School (GA)
Junior Varsity: Tanuj Chandekar, Churchill Junior High School (NJ)
Middle School: Aarush Zarabi, Bret Harte Middle School (CA)
Statistics can be found here.
2020 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee
The 2020 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee will be held on Friday evening, April 24, 2020 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA from 8pm-10:45pm.
To access the registration form for the 2020 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee, please click here.
Note that students who are competing in the Varsity / JV National Science Bee that same evening cannot also compete in the National Sports and Entertainment History Bee.
For 2020, the Sports and Entertainment Bee will feature 2 preliminary rounds of 40 questions each. Both the JV and Varsity Divisions are capped at 56 players. There will also be a Family and Coaches Division, which will be capped at 20 players. Students competing in the International Geography Bee are not allowed to compete, as the IGB finals will run concurrently. For 2020, the Sports and Entertainment Bee will not be broken into separate two separate competitions with one on Sports and one on Entertainment, but rather will feature both Sports and Entertainment in roughly equal amounts.
The rules of the National Sports History Bee and National Entertainment History Bee in the prelims are mostly the same as the rules for National History Bee, except the Sports & Entertainment Bee rounds (there are 2 prelims) have 40 questions, not 30 or 35. The bonus point system works as follows:
Out on question 10: 7 bonus points, score of 17
Out on question 11-12: 6 bonus points, score of 16
Out on question 13-15: 5 bonus points, score of 15
Out on question 16-20: 4 bonus points, score of 14
Out on question 21-25: 3 bonus points, score of 13
Out on question 26-30: 2 bonus points, score of 12
Out on question 31-35: 1 bonus point, score of 11
Out on question 36-40: 0 bonus points, score of 10
In the final round, featuring the top 10 students in each division (sudden victory questions will be used to determine the last playoff spot(s) if needed) we will use the Nationals Bee Playoffs Scoring System for scoring. 30 questions will be played. A student can win with a score of 40; if no one has reached 40 by question 30, then the highest point total wins, or sudden victory playoff questions are played. Ties are broken for the top three spots only.
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Past Results
2020 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee
2019 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee – Select the S & E Bee under Individual Events
2018 National Sports and Entertainment History Bee – Varsity, JV, and Open Division Results
2017 National Sports & Entertainment History Bee Varsity Division Results
2017 National Sports & Entertainment History Bee Junior Varsity Division Results
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Question Distribution for the Sports and Entertainment Bee
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Past Questions
2022 National Sports & Entertainment History Bee Packets
2020 National Sports & Entertainment History Bee Packets
2019 National Sports & Entertainment History Bee Packets