Atlas of Eminence

Who the quizbowl canon remembers, and where they were from.

People—

Questions—

Countries—

Records — the greatest dominances

Every country × field × era cell under the current filters, ranked by how much of the field's whole output that country produced in that era. Cells need at least 8 people and 40 weight to qualify, so a lone star cannot fake an empire. Click a row to jump the map there.

rank by

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Which countries over- and under-perform in which intellectual fields, measured by quizbowl answer frequency. Pick a domain and era, then click a country to see the people behind the number. Dual nationals default to their country of origin; peoples (Jewish, Scottish, Catalan, Parsi …) are counted as their own groups by default, and can be folded back into their countries. Practitioners are counted by default; subjects, including legendary and fictional figures, appear under the role toggle.

Query the data directly

Everything behind this page is a 4 MB SQLite file and a dependency-free JSON API. Start the server, then hit it from a notebook, curl, or the browser.

python3 ~/qbgeo/api.py          # http://127.0.0.1:8077

GET /fields
GET /countries?era=Modern
GET /cell?group=NL&field=Auditory Fine Arts
GET /matrix?field=Physics&era=Modern&min=8
GET /people?group=HU&field=Other Science / Math
GET /top?metric=percap&from=1450&to=1750&min=10
GET /search?q=pareto
GET /population?country=IE

Or go straight to SQL

Three tables: person, person_field, population.

sqlite3 ~/qbgeo/qbgeo.sqlite

SELECT p.nationality, SUM(pf.answerlines) AS n
FROM person p
JOIN person_field pf ON pf.person_id = p.id
WHERE pf.field = 'Auditory Fine Arts'
  AND p.birth_year BETWEEN 1450 AND 1750
GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY n DESC LIMIT 10;

Raw corpus

~/qbgeo/qb.sqlite (401 MB) holds every question: 188,531 tossups and 477,345 bonus parts from QBReader, 2000–2026, with full text, category, difficulty, set and year.

Domain

Measure

Era of birth

Advanced

Peoples

Attribute to

Dual nationals

Combine domains

Click to toggle; pooled domains combine.

Lens Alternate view

Each field shows who it is really about. The alternate lens flips it: characters (Literature, film, TV), the chroniclers (History, Current Events), or the non-practitioners a field merely name-drops (sciences & the rest).

Include people with no identified discipline

Region

Filters Exclude low confidence Include mention-only figures Include fictional figures Show dependent territories on the map (Bermuda, Jersey, Guam…) Show global figure list when nothing is selected

Min people per cell — 1

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Levant & Cyprus ×7

Caribbean

Peoples

Under

Over Made by Stevie Miller · quizbowl canon via qbreader people per capita vs. population share

All countries ranked

Country	Per capita	RCA	Weight	People	Population	z	Share

Select a country

Click any tile on the map or a row in the ranking.