MasterMinds and Quiz Bowl Team

     

                                                                                                        

Masterminds

MasterMinds is a quiz bowl-style academic competition for high school students.  Matches are played in eight-minute halves with each school playing four students at a time.  Students must ring in and be recognized before answering.  Correct answers earn that player’s team ten or 15 points and the opportunity for the team for answer a 30-point bonus question. The questions cover a broad range: art, biology, chemistry, current events, geography, history, literature, music, political science, pop culture, religion and sports.

Currently Medina has 25 students competing on one Varsity team and two Junior Varsity teams. Matches are held about every three to four weeks from October to March. Our current league consists of teams from Amherst, City Honors, Cleveland Hill, Williamsville East, Williamsville North, and Williamsville South. The Varsity team has competed in the playoffs the last three years and finished in 5th in the Buffalo region last year.

 

Quiz Bowl

Students on the Varsity MasterMinds team also compete in Scholastic Bowl on WLVL radio. About once a week, four students compete in a contest against two other schools in a trivia contest of general knowledge. Students buzz in to answer questions against teams from Clarence, Lew-Port, Lockport, North Tonawanda, Niagara Falls, Roy-Hart, Starpoint, Williamsville North, and Wilson. Medina’s Quiz Bowl team has matches on 1/11, 1/19, 2/02, 2/09, 2/28, 3/07, 3/16, and 3/21. Each match starts at 5:30. For the last three years, the Quiz Bowl team has made the playoffs in Scholastic Bowl, winning the championship in 2014 and 2015.

 

For Questions or more information you may contact Mr. Jeff Dole

email: jdole@medinacsd.org