BOSTON (November 13, 2018) – WGBH’s High School Quiz Show has announced the sixteen teams from across Massachusetts who will compete on the tenth anniversary season of WGBH’s televised academic tournament. These schools received the highest scores on an oral quiz at the Super Sunday qualifying event held earlier this month at WGBH’s studios and will move on to the next phase of the competition, when episodes are taped in January, 2019. Among the top 16 are last year’s defending champion, Andover High School and two-time defending champion Lexington High School. Boston Latin School will compete on the show for the first time.

“Ten years in, and High School Quiz Show is still going strong, celebrating the immense curiosity, teamwork and academic power of Massachusetts high schoolers” said host Billy Costa. “A well-deserved congratulations to our tenth season’s top sixteen teams. I know you’ll bring the heat at the tapings this winter!”

WGBH made the official announcement on the High School Quiz Show Facebook page today. The schools that will compete for the state title are:

· Acton-Boxborough Regional High School

· Advanced Math & Science Academy (Marlborough, MA)

· Amesbury High School

· Andover High School

· Belmont High School

· Boston Latin School

· Brookline High School

· Hingham High School

· Lexington High School

· Mystic Valley Regional Charter School (Malden, MA)

· Needham High School

· Seekonk High School

· Somerville High School

· South High Community School (Worcester, MA)

· Thayer Academy (Braintree, MA)

· Westford Academy

The top 16 teams will advance to compete in the televised, single-elimination, bracketed academic tournament that will determine a state champion. The season will culminate with an Interstate Invitational, featuring WGBH’s High School Quiz Show state champions competing against New Hampshire PBS’ Granite State Challenge state champions, the High School Quiz Show: Rhode Island state champions and the High School Quiz Show: Maine state champions for the final title.

High School Quiz Show begins taping at WGBH in January in front of a studio audience. It will premiere Saturday, February 2 at 6pm on WGBH 2.

About High School Quiz Show
High School Quiz Show is endorsed by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education and the Massachusetts PTA. Questions on the show are aligned with the Massachusetts high school curriculum standards in subjects that include literature, history, civics, science and math, as well as current events, and general knowledge. Major funding for High School Quiz Show is provided by Safety Insurance. Additional funding is provided by the Museum of Science, Massachusetts Teachers Association, University of Massachusetts Amherst, XFINITY from Comcast, Harvard Summer School Programs for High School Students, and Subaru of New England.

For more information, visit highschoolquizshow.org or follow the show on Facebook, Twitterand Instagram.

About WGBH
WGBH Boston is America’s preeminent public broadcaster and the largest producer of PBS content for TV and the Web, including Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Arthur, Pinkalicious & Peterrific and more than a dozen other primetime, lifestyle and children’s series. WGBH’s television channels include WGBH 2, WGBX 44, and the digital channels World and Create. WGBH TV productions focusing on the region’s diverse community include Greater Boston, Basic Black and High School Quiz Show. WGBH Radio serves listeners across New England with 89.7 WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR®; 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston; and WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR® Station. WGBH also is a major source of programs for public radio (among them, PRI’s The World®), a leader in educational multimedia (including PBS LearningMedia™, providing the nation’s educators with free, curriculum-based digital content), and a pioneer in technologies and services that make media accessible to deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired audiences. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards and Oscars. Find more information at wgbh.org.