(Boston, MA – January 7, 2013) High School Quiz Show, WGBH’s award-winning academic show, presents the official 2013 tournament bracket for the 16 qualifying teams with corresponding episode broadcast dates. All episodes premiere Sundays at 6:30pm, repeating Saturdays at 6pm, on WGBH 2:
· Hopkinton vs. North Quincy February 10
· Acton-Boxborough vs. Hingham February 17
· Advanced Math & Science vs. Brookline February 24
· Lincoln-Sudbury vs. Somerville March 3
· Chelmsford vs. Wellesley March 10
· Rockport vs. Sharon March 17
· Lexington vs. Needham March 24
· Framingham vs. Wachusett March 31
Hosted by Billy Costa, High School Quiz Show is a single-elimination academic tournament featuring qualifying matches, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a state championship match. For the very first time, this season will culminate with a Bay State vs. Granite State showdown, when WGBH’s High School Quiz Show state champion team meets New Hampshire Public Television’s Granite State Challenge winner.
High School Quiz Show is endorsed by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Princeton Review judges the televised competition and reviews the questions. All questions are aligned with the Massachusetts high school curriculum standards in subjects including literature, history, science, and math, as well as current events and general knowledge.
Major sponsorship for High School Quiz Show is provided by Safety Insurance and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Additional funding is provided by Massachusetts Teachers Assocation, XFINITY from Comcast, Harvard Summer School Secondary School Program, Bentley University, Subaru of New England, and Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts.
For more information, visit highschoolquizshow.org, become a fan on Facebook and follow the show on Twitter.
About WGBH
WGBH Boston is America’s preeminent public broadcaster and the largest producer of PBS content for TV and the Web, including Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Arthur, Curious George, and more than a dozen other prime-time, lifestyle, and children’s series. WGBH’s television channels include WGBH 2, WGBH 44, and the digital channels World and Create. WGBH TV productions focusing on the region’s diverse community include Greater Boston, Basic Black, High School Quiz Show, and Neighborhood Kitchens. WGBH Radio serves listeners across New England with 89.7 WGBH, Boston Public Radio; Classical New England; and WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR® Station. WGBH also is a major source of programs for public radio (among them, PRI’s The World®), a leader in educational multimedia (including PBS LearningMedia™, providing the nation’s educators with free, curriculum-based digital content to meet the needs of 21st-century learners), and a pioneer in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. Find more information at wgbh.org.
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