Brookline High Joins Season 8 of High School Quiz Show

BROOKLINE, MA – Brookline High School is one of 16 teams competing in the upcoming season of High School Quiz Show.

The Hawks were selected from a pool of more than 110 schools after landing among the top scorers of an oral quiz at the Super Sunday qualifying event earlier this month.

High School Quiz Show is a 16-team tournament-style academic game show hosted by local TV and radio personality Billy Costa. The weekly show features four rounds of competition, with the question and answer sections varying by stage. Each high school chosen sends a team into the intellectual fracas, a single-elimination bracket that culminates in the state championship.

The Massachusetts champion then heads to the Governor's Cup Challenge, where it takes on the winner of Granite State Challenge, New Hampshire’s high school game show, for interstate bragging rights.

"The depth of knowledge that Massachusetts high school students bring to WGBH impresses me every season," High School Quiz Show host Billy Costa said in a statement. "High School Quiz Show is so much fun to host and to watch. I know that viewers of all ages will get into the spirit of the competition as much as I do."

Here's the full lineup of teams competing this season:

• Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
• Advanced Math & Science Academy (Marlborough, MA)
• Belmont High School
• Bromfield School
• Brookline High School
• Chelmsford High School
• Dover-Sherborn High School
• Hingham High School
• Lexington High School
• Needham High School
• Newton North High School
• North Andover High School
• North Quincy High School
• Sacred Heart High School (Kingston, MA)
• Somerville High School
• Thayer Academy (Braintree, MA)

High School Quiz Show begins taping at WGBH in January. It will premiere Saturday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. on WGBH 2.

Photo Credit: ©2016 WGBH/Elizabeth Friar