Weston High To Compete On WGBH's High School Quiz Show

WESTON, MA — Weston High School has qualified to compete in the Wild Card match on Season 11 of WGBH’s High School Quiz Show. The wildcard involves the top two highest scoring teams outside of the top 14 from Super Sunday that have not participated in the High School Quiz Show broadcast competition, or have not been on the show in the past five years.

Weston High School last appeared in Season 3. The winner of their match, which will air on the February 1 season premiere, determines the final spot in the tournament bracket.

Representing cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth, fourteen of the schools qualified based on their scores on a written quiz at the Super Sunday qualifying event held last month at WGBH’s studios. The 15th school qualified by outscoring seven other schools at High School Quiz Show: Extra Credit, a tournament hosted at An Unlikely Story, the Plainville bookstore owned by Jeff Kinney, author of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” A new wildcard approach will fill the 16th and final spot on the broadcast.

Among the top 15 schools is last year’s defending champion, Boston Latin School. And three schools are competing for the first time -- Salem Academy Charter School, Taunton High School and Waltham High School.