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Quidditch
Quidditch, officially renamed quadball in 2022, is a real mixed-gender full-contact sport adapted in 2005 at Middlebury College from the Harry Potter fictional game, played by seven-a-side teams in over 40 countries under the IQA.
Quidditch (real-life sport)
Quidditch, officially Quadball, is a mixed-gender full-contact team sport adapted from the Harry Potter novels. It was founded in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Quidditch Through the Ages
Quidditch Through the Ages, also published as by Kennilworthy Whisp, is J.K. Rowling's 2001 Comic Relief charity book, a Hogwarts Library companion to Fantastic Beasts charting the fictional sport of Quidditch from Queerditch Marsh to the modern game, with later illustrated editions.
Quidnet Energy
Quidnet Energy is a Houston-based company founded in 2013 that develops Geomechanical Pumped Storage (GPS), storing pressurized water underground and releasing it through a hydroelectric turbine.
Quiela
Quiela is a four-row mancala board game of the Jinga people of Angola, related to Quela and Tchela, played on a 4x7 board with 21 counters per player and capture-all victory.
Quiescent black hole
A quiescent black hole, also called a dormant black hole, is a stellar-mass black hole that emits no detectable X-rays, found instead through its companion star's motion.
Quiescent H-mode
Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) is a stationary, high-confinement tokamak plasma regime that achieves H-mode performance without damaging edge localized modes, first observed on the DIII-D tokamak in 1999.
Quiet (Metal Gear)
Quiet is the mute, bikini-clad sniper of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015), voiced and motion-captured by Stefanie Joosten, designed by Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa, and a controversially sexualized buddy character.
Quiet Light (musician)
Quiet Light is the indie electropop and ambient-folk project of Riya Mahesh, a Texas-raised medical student; named for a National song, self-produced from 2020, signed to True Panther, known for Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 (2026).
Quiet Night Thoughts
Quiet Night Thoughts (静夜思, Jìng Yè Sī) is a short poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, in which moonlight beside a bed is mistaken for frost.
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is a 2024 Investigation Discovery docuseries, directed by Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, exposing abuse on Nickelodeon sets, Drake Bell's revelation about Brian Peck, and Dan Schneider's defamation suit.
Quiet period (cognitive radio)
A quiet period (QP), also called a silence period or sensing slot, is an interval in which a cognitive radio network stops transmitting so its radios can detect licensed users.
Quiet Please!
Quiet Please! (请安静！) is a 1945 MGM Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, released December 22, 1945, in which Jerry schemes to wake napping Spike; it won the 18th Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
Quiet Revolution
Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille): Quebec's 1960s transformation under Jean Lesage's Liberals, marked by Hydro-Québec nationalization, a Ministry of Education, secularization, and debates over whether 1960 was a true break.
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1975 by Kevin DuBrow and Randy Rhoads and best known for its 1983 album Metal Health.
Quiet storm
Quiet storm: a late-night R&B radio format and smooth romantic style named for Smokey Robinson's 1975 album A Quiet Storm, founded by Melvin Lindsey at Howard University's WHUR-FM in 1976.
Quiet Venture
Quiet Venture is the series of Delaware venture funds through which Quiet Capital, a low-profile San Francisco firm founded in 2017, invests across AI, fintech, and healthcare.
Quiet-STaR
Quiet-STaR is a 2024 training method for large language models, generalizing STaR, that generates internal rationales at every token to improve prediction of following text.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet (2012) by Susan Cain, also translated as La force des Discrets, is a bestselling nonfiction book arguing that Western culture's extrovert ideal undervalues introverts, citing Kagan, Aron, Little, Grant, and brainstorming research.
Quietism (philosophy)
Quietism in philosophy is the stance, associated with Wittgenstein, Blackburn, and McDowell, that philosophy should avoid substantive theorizing and dissolve or treat rather than answer traditional questions, in local or global forms.
Quifa Oil Field
Quifa Oil Field is a heavy-oil field in the Llanos Orientales basin of eastern Colombia, operated by Frontera Energy with Ecopetrol since commercial viability in 2010.
Quiggly hole
A quiggly hole, also known as a kekuli, is the depression left in the ground by a semi-subterranean pithouse, the traditional winter dwelling of Indigenous peoples of interior British Columbia.
Quigley Down Under
Quigley Down Under is a 1990 Australian-outback Western directed by Simon Wincer, starring Tom Selleck as sharpshooter Matthew Quigley, with Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman; John Hill's long-delayed script, filmed entirely in Australia for Pathé and released by MGM/UA in October 1990.
Quijada, isla
Isla Quijada (Quijada, isla) is an Antarctic island or ice rise in the Ronne Ice Shelf between Berkner Island and Korff Ice Rise, named by Argentina after Vicealmirante Hermes Quijada; also called Henry Ice Rise, at about 80°35'S 62°W.
QUIJOTE CMB experiment
QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a ground-based polarimeter at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain, measuring cosmic microwave background polarization at 10–42 GHz since 2012.
Quikr
Quikr is an Indian online classifieds platform founded in 2008 and headquartered in Bangalore, where buyers and sellers post ads in categories including jobs, real estate, and cars.
QuikSCAT
QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) was a NASA satellite carrying the SeaWinds scatterometer, which measured ocean surface winds from its launch in 1999 until an antenna failure in 2009.
Quiksilver
Quiksilver, surfwear brand founded 1969 in Torquay, Australia, by Alan Green and John Law; known for boardshorts and the mountain-and-wave logo. Went bankrupt in 2015, now owned by Authentic Brands Group and run by regional licensees.
QuikTrip
QuikTrip (QT) is a privately held Tulsa, Oklahoma-based convenience store and gas station chain founded in 1958 by Burt Holmes and Chester Cadieux, operating over 1,250 stores in 23 states with QT Kitchens foodservice and Guaranteed Gasoline.
Quilicura
Quilicura is a commune of northern Santiago, Chile, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region; 58 km2, about 205,600 residents (2024), Mapudungun name meaning three hills, major industrial park, urban wetlands, and Metro Line 3 terminus.