Pearland Independent School District middle school and junior high teams waged a battle of trivia skills at Turner College and Career High School on February 24 that ended in Pearland Junior High West winning the overall Grand Championship.

During the annual Quiz Bowl, students competed in general trivia and Super Quiz contests based on the theme “American Revolution”.

Hosted by Pearland ISD Advanced Academics, this district event builds capacity and interest in the high school Academic Decathlon program.

Individual and team scores are as follows:

General Trivia Top Scoring Individuals

Pearland Junior High East: Drew Campo (7th), Carter Reyes (8th)

Jamison Middle School: Barrett Sellers (5th), Gavin Salter (6th) and Colten Scott (6th)

Berry Miller Junior High: Daniel Boster (7th) and Hitesh Dasari (8th)

Rogers Middle School: Janica Lucason (5th), Nora Olson (5th) and Logan Miller (6th)

Sablatura Middle School: Loc Pham (5th) and Mason Gordy (6th)

PJH South: Jenelise Anderson (7th) and Johnny Chico (8th)

PJH West: Roger Cui (7th) with the highest score overall and Alexander Fernandez (8th)

Super Quiz - First Place

5th grade – Sablatura: Kaitlyn Braden, Iris Yan, Zachary Shi, Timothy Xiao, Wilson Gao, Matthew Bui, Neer Juneja, Wania Dawood;

6th grade – Sablatura: Katherine Chi, Lialah Robinson, Emma Chen, Athena Zhou, Saanvi Thakre, Naivasini Arulveerakumar, Mark Zhang, Allen Ai;

7th grade – PJH West: Chinmay Kaushik, Amily Granados, Andrew Lu, Joylene Sun, Tautik Shankar, Roger Cui, Yanqiao Huang, Jerry Miller;

8th grade – PJH West: Rahul Senthill, Vedant Yadav, Amudhan Madhankumar, Avinash Bathla, Madelyn Talasila, Junxi Ding, Annalise Eble;

Super Quiz - Second Place

5th grade – Rogers: Rhianna Templonuevo, Preston Allie, Aarna Bhagat, Alejandro Garza, Janica Lucason, Elizabeth Saenko, Aranya Yasa, Radhika Marwaha;

6th grade – Rogers: Aadhya Karundikar, Raegan Toner, Shreya Vaithianathan, Oliver Olson, Laurence Nicholson, Ethan Nguyen, Ansh Sharda;

7th grade – PJH South: Beatriz Morales, Caelon Wonders, Aidan Gurka, Jenelise Anderson, Olivia Rosenblatt, Ike Patino, Landan Ballard;

8th grade – PJH South: Katia Laminack, Beth Meyer, Louis Padilla, Aria Bouchard, Hailey Anderson, Aliderly Sanchez, Carlie Laminack, Caryn Metz

General Trivia - First Place

5th grade – Sablatura: Loc Pham, Anirtuh Karthikeyan, Tiseyi Osadiya, Voctor Bett;

6th grade – Sablatura: Miles Kessling, Emma Lemuz, Mason Gordy, Sean Liu;

7th grade – PJH West: Roger Cui, Tautik Shankar, Chinmay Kaushik, Yanqiao Huang;

8th grade – PJH West: Vedant Yadav, Amudhan Madhankumar, Avinash Bathla, Alexander Fernandez

General Trivia - Second Place

5th grade – Sablatura: Audrey Pham, Sulan Yang, Bella Mao, Ruby Cui;

6th grade – Rogers: Logan Miller, Oliver Olson, Ansh Sharda, Shreya Vaithianathan

7^th grade – PJH West: Jerry Mao, Daniel Xi, Andrew Lu, Joylene Sun;

8th grade – PJH West: Aashrith Talasila, Madelyn Dinh, Ryder Norris, Aarush Subhedar

General Trivia Alternate Winners:

Rodrigo Padilla (5^th), Ivan Wei (6^th), Taylor Nix (7^th), Junxi Ding (8^th)

Quiz Bowl coaches included Lindsey Kingrea (Jamison), Tracee Belton and Talisa Word (Rogers), Christy VanderWoude and Ashley Arnold (Sablatura), Beth El Jiatani (Berry Miller), Vanessa NG and Gray Curtis (PJH East), Lauren Witte (Alexander), Kenton Helms (PJH South) and Ashley Hill and Julie Pasha (PJH West).

(03/10/2023)