Champions have been crowned in the TV-44 Whiz Quiz Tournament with Van Wert and St. Marys claiming top title in each respective tournament bracket. The annual televised event included 30 high school quiz teams, divided evenly into two different brackets, each bracket with three days of competition until crowning a champion.
Bracket one, aka, the Fall Whiz Quiz Tournament, included the following teams: Coldwater, Patrick Henry, Riverdale, Delphos St. Johns, Elida, Paulding, Versailles, Van Wert, Findlay, New Bremen, Shawnee, Bellefontaine, Continental, Arcadia and Allen East.
Bracket two, the Winter Whiz Quiz Tournament, was comprised of: Bath, Ada, Defiance, New Knoxville, LCC, Columbus Grove, Celina, Spencerville, Bluffton, Botkins, Delphos Jefferson, St. Marys, Crestview, Minster, and Pandora-Gilboa.
Each tournament is divided into eight 30 minute television shows, to be aired on a weekly basis. The Fall Whiz Quiz Tournament started airing on TV-44 Oct. 16 and continues to air Thursdays at 9 p.m. through Dec. 4.
The Winter Whiz Quiz Tournament can be seen on television starting Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, 9 p.m. through Thursday, March 26, 2015, 9 p.m.
