Canton Quiz Bowl Team To Compete in National Tournament

April 25, 2024

The Canton Quiz Bowl Team will compete at the Small School National Championship Tournament for quiz bowl in Chicago, Illinois, April 26-28. Team members pictured (l-r): Max Jansen, Emma Gosik, Gabby Gosik, Avery Uhlmeyer, Audrey Randall, Tyler Frazier. In back: assistant coach Pam Martz, head coach Heather Feldkamp
The team and coaches appreciate the businesses/people that sponsored this trip including, Grassland Beef, Design-It, Davis Funeral Home, Richard Horner Shelter Insurance, Oak Hill Inn and Suites, Patricia Cummings, and Dr. Joseph Martz and family.

With its strong finish on the Culver-Stockton Scholastic Bowl Invitational, the Scholar Bowl team from Canton R-V School proved themselves worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 26, the team will represent their school in a 143-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments’ Small School National Championship Tournament.

Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. It is the national version of the game that is often locally called Scholar Bowl. Quiz bowl teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests.

This will be Canton’s first time attending the Small School National Championship Tournament. In 2023, 2020, and 2019 they qualified but were not able to attend.

The SSNCT is the only quiz bowl national championship pitting small schools against each other. It has one division containing non-selective public schools with 500 or fewer students in their top three grades, and another division for other schools with 350 or fewer students in their top three grades. Canton may face familiar foes in Rosemont, as Centralia, Clopton (from Clarksville), and Hallsville will also be attending.