Students from L-S compete from home in High School Quiz Show.
A four-member team from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School overtook their competition in the last round of High School Quiz Show’s wild-card event on February 5 and will face Andover High School on February 19.
High School Quiz Show on WGBH is a Jeopardy-like competition for Massachusetts high school student teams. Seventeen teams made the initial cut from 72 that competed in Super Sunday, a 50-question quiz in November. Two teams (L-S and Buckingham Brown & Nichols) with the next-highest scores that hadn’t been previously featured on the show or hadn’t competed in five or more years faced off in the preliminary wild-card contest.
L-S first competed about 10 years ago, and in the show’s 12 previous seasons, more than 700 students from over 70 schools across the Commonwealth have participated.
The L-S team (Jack Grosberg, Henry Hurtt-Rensko, and Spencer Reith of Sudbury and Gray Birchby of Lincoln) trailed for the first three rounds. They entered the final “lightning round” down by a score of 615-575 but overtook BB&N to win 875–775. The victory advances them into the group of 16 vying for a chance to play in the 2022 state championship on May 21.
Click here to watch the video of the February 5 contest.