Acton-Boxborough Trivia Team’s High School Quiz Show Competitors Make School History
After being eliminated in the first round of competition last year, the current team made it to the quarterfinals before falling to their counterparts from Rockport High School in a match televised on April 15, 2012.
Senior John Russell is one of nine ABRHS students who joined a school organization that, by its nature, demanded that they perform voluntary academic work each week. In addition to homework assigned by their teachers, John and fellow Acton-Boxborough Trivia Team members researched facts about a wide range of topics and brought related questions to twice-weekly group meetings. There, they tested one another’s knowledge about a wide range of subjects including literature, history, science, sports, and film. “It may sound like work, but it’s really a minimal time commitment,” John said of the hour-long, rapid-fire quiz sessions. The group’s initial focus was preparing a strategy for WGBH’s annual High School Quiz Show competition. The contest…
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