Menlo-Atherton High School Quiz Bowl club


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M-A has been Quiz Bowl champion of the Bay Area 5 of the past 13 years,

Do you like playing Jeopardy from your living room couch?  Then come join the Quiz Bowl club!  The  club meets at lunchtime in room B-10 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The advisor is Sue Kayton.  We hold tryouts each fall to select a four-person varsity team, but all club members have the opportunity to compete at the junior varsity level.  We compete in Bay Area Quiz KidsNAQT (national), BAAL (Bay Area), and other local tournaments.  If you would like to join the club or borrow a DVD or videotape of matches, just show up at one of our meetings.

The varsity team was the Bay Area NAQT champion for 2007, qualified for the 2004 and 2007 national NAQT high school tournaments, and was the undefeated Bay Area Quiz Kids champion four years in a row from 2000-2004.  Come join our club and YOU can represent M-A on this show!  For more information, contact Sue Kayton (650) 853-1711, kayton@alum.mit.edu

Upcoming dates:  

Sat Feb 11, BAAL tournament at Bentley School in Lafayette
3 March San Leandro HS History Bowl and Bee
??31 March - quizbowl contest at a HS yet unchosen
weekend of April 14 NAQT State championship
Early May - Pace State Championship

Print out field trip permission forms
Order Bear Wear club T-shirt and sweatshirt.  Choose category Miscellaneous, then Quiz Bowl.


   
Put your picture here!  Come and join the Quiz Kids club.  We meet in B-10 Wednesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime.  
2012 varsity team:  2011 varsity team:  Nikhil Viswanathan, Kurt Kessler, Koji Kameda, Jake Solomon
 
2009 varsity team:  Benjamin Nuyens, Dan Kozlowski, Kurt Kessler, and Cam Cogan 2008 varsity team:  Dan Kozlowski, Benjamin Nuyens, Greg Nisbet, and Tom Ivy

2007 varsity team:  Tom Kozlowski, Patrick Leugers, Robbie Eaton 2006 varsity team:  Robbie Eaton, Tom Kozlowski, captain Benj Fried, Patrick Leugers. 

2005 varsity team:  Julia Choe, Rachel Barclay, captain Collin Cronkite, alternate Robbie Eaton (not shown) 2004 varsity team: Daniel Altman, Rajiv Ayyangar (not shown), coach Gregg Whitnah, Rachel Barclay, and Collin Cronkite.
2003 undefeated champions:  Jessica Woods, Amelia Drace, David Hestrin, coach Gregg Whitnah, and Daniel Barclay.   2002 undefeated champions:  David Hestrin, Daniel Barclay, Robin Pam, Jessica Woods, coach Gregg Whitnah
2001 undefeated champions.  Principal Eric Hartwig, Daniel Barclay, Noah Veltman, Robin Pam, coach Bob Hasbrook 2000 undefeated champions:  Lyndsay Toeppen, Jonathan Soon, Daniel Barclay, Robin Pam.  Not shown:  coach Bob Hasbrook
2001 Quiz Kids in London  2003 Quiz Kids in Costa Rica/Nicaragua