Hingham High School Qualifies for WGBH's High School Quiz Show

131 teams tried to qualify for WGBH’s High School Quiz show and now only 16 remain.

The long-running academic trivia show recently announced the teams that advanced to the knockout round, including tournament regular Hingham High School.

The teams moving onto the next phase of High School Quiz Show received the highest scores on an oral quiz at the Super Sunday qualifying event at WGBH’s studios in Brighton on November 15, 2015.

The schools that will compete for the state title are:

• Acton-Boxborough High School
• Advanced Math & Science Academy (season six champion)
• Andover High School (first time in tournament)
• Austin Preparatory School (first time in tournament)
• Belmont High School
• Chelmsford High School
• Hingham High School
• Lexington High School
• Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
• Newton North High School
• North Quincy High School
• Norton High School (first time in tournament)
• Shrewsbury High School
• Somerville High School
• Thayer Academy (first time in tournament)
• Wellesley High School

The top 16 teams will compete in the televised, single-elimination, bracketed academic tournament that will determine a state champion. The season will culminate with a Governor’s Cup Challenge, when WGBH’s High School Quiz Show state champion team meets New Hampshire Public Television’s Granite State Challenge winner for the fourth annual interstate quiz show face-off.

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

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