The Wenatchee High School’s Knowledge Bowl has been studying away to compete with their excellent thinking skills. Making them qualify for the Washington state tournament in 2024-25. Here are some cool updates on what the knowledge bowl has been doing and what they do with new members on the team.

One member, Abigail Neilson said she really liked how it doesn’t feel as intense as other clubs in the high school. For the president of the club, Neal Nayak, he finds it fun, getting quizzed by challenging questions.

“Knowledge bowl is kind of like a jeopardy game for high school students, but we compete against other schools instead of individuals vs. individuals, teams vs. teams,” said advisor Christopher Cloke.

One thing that might get you interested is the different range of questions that could be asked; anything from music, science, history, literature and even some pop culture and current events.

“I think I just really enjoy, like trivia questions and kind of drawing back random information, figuring out different problems,” said Nayak. “Fact biases, I really like answering that kind of trivia questions,” said Neilson.

The overall purpose of knowledge bowl is not much different from other well-known school clubs.

“Well just like sports, this is an academic, like a physical athletic sport. So we want to win our individual competitions in the regular season, if we qualify at regionals, we can go to state for a state tournament,” said Cloke.

As for what goes into preparing for the competitions, Nayak prepares by doing quizlets on some topics such as literature and science, even with some school work and whatever he learns from classes. Neilson studies up on old trivia questions or competition questions.

“We prepare for a competition by basically mimicking a competition at lunch, the students come in and just divide into teams, we play each other and the goal is to get faster and gain points during practice even though the points don’t count,” said Cloke.

Another thing to learn about the knowledge bowl club is there is not too much pressure to be super smart as long as you have effort.

“People should try it out, there’s like a learning curve to it but it’s just really fun there is no pressure, anyone’s accepted to come you don’t have to be good at it,” said Nayak.

“If someone is interested in playing it’s open to everybody. It doesn’t matter the level of knowledge or the amount of knowledge that someone knows, all are welcome. We have some people who come and they want to compete against other schools and that’s both our options, and I always say to the team, if we haven’t laughed out loud by the end of the session we did it wrong, because it’s supposed to be fun, sometimes people just want to challenge themselves to see what they know,” said Cloke.

If you are ever interested in challenging your knowledge join the club.