International History Bee & Bowl European Division

History Quiz Tournaments for Students and Schools in Europe

Upcoming Events
European Championships

2022-2023 Competition Season

The International History Bee and Bowl (IHBB) are two academic quiz competitions with a history focus (the Bee is for individual students, the Bowl is for teams) that are held throughout Europe and around the world each school year. Founded in 2010, IHBB organizes events now in over 50 countries, including the annual European Championships and the biennial International History Olympiad. IHBB is administered by International Academic Competitions, an organization that oversees competitions for over 100,000 students around the world each year.

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Regional Tournaments

For the 2022-2023 school year, we will be running in-person tournaments at approximately 15 sites throughout Europe, as well as two online tournaments for schools who are unable to attend in-person tournaments. We will use two separate sets of questions; schools can thus attend up to two tournaments as long as the questions are different. We are also organizing regional tournaments now for the International Science Bee and International Geography Bee for which students can qualify for the European Championships in those subjects. Alternatively students can also qualify for the European Championships in the Science Bee and the Geography Bee by taking the Qualifying Exams in these subjects which are given during the lunch breaks at in-person History Bee and Bowl regional tournaments.

Championships Qualification

The top students and teams will also qualify for our 2023 International Academic Competitions European Championships in Barcelona (June 9-11), the 2023 International Environmental Science Olympiad in Ecuador, the 2023 International History Olympiad in Rome and the 2024 International Geography Championships. Qualification for all of these events can take place at any regional tournament.