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How the Game is Played
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Participating Schools
Prizes & Sponsors
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Tournament 2001 Schedule

About Peninsula Quiz Kids
Peninsula Quiz Kids is a fun, academic, single-round elimination quiz tournament for local high schools. Sponsored by Pacific Bell in its 2000 debut season, 16 high schools competed for the Grand Prize, an all-expenses paid 9-day trip to Europe. Congratulations and Bon Voyage to Menlo-Atherton, our 2000 Champions! Brad Friedman, the Dramatic Arts teacher at San Mateo High School, hosts the show with style, panache, and wits. When not hosting the show or appearing at celebrity events, Brad is busy directing some of the best musical and dramatic performances in the district. Hey, his autograph will be worth a fortune someday!

How the Game is Played Students are asked questions from eight categories (see below). In the first, Collaboration Round, the whole team gets together to figure out the answers. In the next round, the team specialists Face Off in a one-on-one matchup. The match ends with the exciting Lightning
Round, where contestants need speed to beat out their opponents.
Quiz Categories 

• Geography
• History
• Literature
• Math
• The News
• Science & Technology
• Sports

School Videos
Between rounds, student-produced videos about each competing school are shown. Who knows, maybe the next Quentin Tarantino is out there?

If you're interested in producing your school's video, here are some helpful hints as well broadcast specifications for you techies:

• It's only a 60 second video. Don't feel like you need to get it all
• just the highlights.   - Write a script and do a voice over  
• Use some camera movement and quick cuts
• Accepted formats: Mini-DV or DV Cam; SVHS. If recording on VHS, always  record in SP (Standard Play)
• use no copyrighted music  
• leave at least 60 seconds of recorded black before and after the video. ( for our editors).

Saturday Taping Dates/Audience Info
Matches are taped before a live audience at the Peninsula TV Studio in San Carlos, located at 1250 San Carlos Ave. Call 637-1936 if you'd like to be a member of the audience.

Prizes courtesy of:

• Target
• Century 21 Theatres
• SamTrans
• Blockbuster
• Odwalla
• Jamba Juice

Participating Schools

• Aragon
• Burlingame
• Capuchino
• Carlmont
  - 2000 Semi-Finalists!
• Crystal Springs Uplands
• El Camino
• Gunn
• Half Moon Bay
• Hillsdale
  - 2000 Semi-Finalists!
• Jefferson
• Menlo-Atherton
  - Lyndsey, Alex, Robin, Jonathan, and Daniel - 2000 Champions!
• Menlo School
• Mills
• Pescadero
• Sacred Heart
• San Mateo
  - the formidable trio of Reamonn, Katherine, and Michael! 2000 2nd Place!
• San Mateo Middle College
• Sequoia
• Serra
• South San Francisco
• Terra Nova
• Westmoor
• Woodside
  

Broadcast Dates/Channels
In most San Mateo County cities, Peninsula Quiz Kids is aired on Channel 26:
    Fridays - 8pm/ 8:30pm
    Sundays - 7pm/7:30pm
    Mondays - 6:30pm
    Tuesdays - 6:30pm

The following cities may have different air dates.

San Bruno
(650) 877-8889

Pacifica
(650) 355-8000

In Palo Alto and environs
(650) 494-8686

Half Moon Bay and environs
(650) 726-1750

Press
View newspaper articles and photos of you or your school's team

Want To Play?
Check back here in the future for a mini-match

City Links:
Daly City  Hillsborough  Millbrae  Redwood City  San Carlos  San Mateo 
South San Francisco  Belmont  Brisbane  Burlingame  Foster City

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Last Update:June 2001