The Scholar Bowl team of 16 students has now completed their first scrimmage that started their 2017-2018 season. The scrimmage was held in the science wing classrooms at FHN on Nov. 16 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. FHN competed against FHC and FHHS.

“I enjoy Scholar Bowl, because I like having the opportunity to test my knowledge against others and learn new things,” senior and team member Colby Winner said.

Scholar Bowl is a club where students compete in team quizzes against other schools. During a scrimmage or a meet there is two teams and a moderator. The moderator reads questions in “toss-up” rounds where the first person to buzz in gets to answer. If the person gets the question right the team gets 10 points, but if they get it wrong the other team has an opportunity to answer. There are six categories of questions including communication arts, social studies, fine arts, math, science and miscellaneous.

“I really enjoy the Tuesday meets throughout the season,” junior and team member Colin St. Aubin said. “It’s always great competition, and they do a great job of keeping stats so we can track our progress throughout the season.”

The varsity team went 1-1 against both of FHHS’ varsity teams at the scrimmage. The JV team went 2-0 against FHC. Since this event was just a scrimmage, the scores will not go on FHN’s record. The scrimmage was practice for the meet season starting up Nov. 28.

“We were third in the league, and we qualified for Nationals last year,” said Scholar Bowl Sponsor Chris Witthaus. “I’m looking forward to hopefully qualifying for Nationals again this year.”

The Scholar Bowl team has practice every Tuesday after school from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in Witthaus’ classroom. At the practices the students they test themselves with quiz books and compete against each other like in a real meet.

“Anyone is welcome but we really need freshmen and sophomores to build our team up,” Witthaus said.