Editing It's Academic (section)

====Category round====
The "very fast"<ref name="washington-1983">[[WRC-TV]] (Washington) in association with Altman Productions. 23rd season premiere. ''It's Academic''. Presented by [[Mac McGarry]]. Featuring Churchill, Mount Vernon and Northwestern. Original airdate 1983-09-25.</ref> category round consisted of questions pertaining to the same category. In some cases, the question was the same throughout the round:  teams were given different items, and had to answer the common question on the basis of each item (e.g., given a state, name either senator from that state<ref name="buffalo-1979">[[WIVB-TV]] (Buffalo) in association with Altman Productions. 1978–79 championship. ''It's Academic''  Presented by [[Van Miller]]. Featuring Grand Island, Iroquois, and Jamestown. Original airdate 1979.</ref>). In other cases, all the answers in the category round shared an announced characteristic in common (e.g., geographical locations whose names begin and end with "A"<ref name="washington-1983" />). Teams used their buzzers in this round, earning 10 points for a correct answer, but losing 10 points<ref name="buffalo-1979" /> (later 20 points<ref name="washington-1983" />) for wrong answers.