Brookline High To Compete In Season 10 Of High School Quiz Show

BROOKLINE, MA – For the fifth time, Brookline High School will compete on WGBH’s High School Quiz Show. Brookline High School will join 15 other academic teams from across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to compete on the tenth anniversary season, the show announced Tuesday on Facebook.

Brookline and the other 15 schools selected got the highest scores on an oral quiz at the Super Sunday qualifying event held earlier this month at WGBH’s TV studios. The next phase of the competition will be taped in January 2019.

Also among the top 16 are last year’s defending champion, Andover High School and two-time defending champion Lexington High School.

“A well-deserved congratulations to our tenth season’s top sixteen teams. I know you’ll bring the heat at the tapings this winter,” said host Billy Costa in a statement.

WGBH made the official announcement on the High School Quiz Show Facebook page today. The chools that will compete for the state title:

• Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
• Advanced Math & Science Academy (Marlborough, MA)
• Amesbury High School
• Andover High School
• Belmont High School
• Boston Latin School
• Brookline High School
• Hingham High School
• Lexington High School
• Mystic Valley Regional Charter School (Malden, MA)
• Needham High School
• Seekonk High School
• Somerville High School
• South High Community School (Worcester, MA)
• Thayer Academy (Braintree, MA)
• Westford Academy

The top 16 teams will advance to compete in the televised, single-elimination, bracketed academic tournament that will determine a state champion.

Questions on the show are aligned with the Massachusetts high school curriculum standards in subjects that include literature, history, civics, science and math, as well as current events, and general knowledge.

The season will culminate with an Interstate Invitational, featuring WGBH’s High School Quiz Show state champions competing against New Hampshire PBS’ Granite State Challenge state champions, the High School Quiz Show: Rhode Island state champions and the High School Quiz Show: Maine state champions for the final title, according to a release.

High School Quiz Show begins taping at WGBH in January in front of a studio audience. It will premiere 6 p.m. on Feb. 2 on WGBH 2.

Previously:

Brookline High Joins Season 8 of High School Quiz Show

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Photo courtesy ©2018 WGBH/Elizabeth Friar.