Twenty-Four Teams of West Virginia Eighth Graders to Compete in Eighth Annual West Virginia History Bowl Finals at Culture Center on Tuesday, April 25

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Division of Culture and History (WVDCH) will hold its eighth annual State History Bowl Championship on Tuesday, April 25 at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex in Charleston. Twenty-four teams of eighth graders from 15 schools in 14 counties will vie for the championship title. Activities begin with a general assembly at 9 a.m., followed by the first round of competition at 9:30 a.m.

The double-elimination tournament includes lightning rounds and team rounds featuring questions about state and county culture, geography, government, heritage, history, literature, sports and tourism prepared by the staff of the division’s Archives and History section.

The Archives and History staff developed more than 2,000 questions for its online Quick Quizzes. Teams preparing for the tournament use the Archives and History Daily Trivia and Quick Quizzes as helpful tools from the division’s website, www.wvculture.org/history.

Eighth graders in public, private and home-school education programs are eligible to compete on the four-person teams in double-elimination tournament play. The regional winners and runner-up teams from each district and the top eight teams from a play-in competition will compete in the tournament final.

The play-in competition was held to accommodate schools that were unable to compete in their regional round because of inclement weather and school closings. It also was open to all schools throughout the state that wanted to get a second chance in the History Bowl tournament.

Competitors include the following teams:

Cameron High School Team 1 (Cameron, Marshall County, Region 6)
Cameron High School Team 2 (Cameron, Marshall County, Region 6)
East Hardy Early/Middle School (Baker, Hardy County, Region 8)
Jackson Middle School Team 1 (Vienna, Wood County, Region 5)
Jackson Middle School Team 2 (Vienna, Wood County, Region 5)
Keyser Middle School (Keyser, Mineral County, Region 8)
Madison Middle School Team 1 (Madison, Boone County, Region 3)
Madison Middle School Team 2 (Madison, Boone County, Region 3)
Mountain View Elementary/ Middle School Team 1 (Union, Monroe County, Region 1)
Mountain View Elementary/Middle School Team 2 (Union, Monroe County, Region 1)
Pendleton County Middle/High School (Franklin, Pendleton County, Region 8)
Peterstown Middle School Team 1 (Peterstown, Monroe County, Region 1)
Peterstown Middle School Team 2 (Peterstown, Monroe County, Region 1)
Shady Spring Middle School Team 1 (Shady Spring, Raleigh County, Region 1)
Shady Spring Middle School Team 2 (Shady Spring, Raleigh County, Region 1)
Sissonville Middle School (Charleston, Kanawha County, Region 3)
South Middle School Team 1 (Morgantown, Monongalia County, Region 7)
South Middle School Team 2 (Morgantown, Monongalia County, Region 7)
Summers Middle School (Hinton, Summers County, Region 1)
Summersville Middle School Team 1 (Summersville, Nicholas County, Region 4)
Summersville Middle School Team 2 (Summersville, Nicholas County, Region 4)
St. Joseph Parish School (Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Region 8)
Wayne Middle School Team 1 (Wayne, Wayne County, Region 2)
Wayne Middle School Team 2 (Wayne, Wayne County, Region 2)

For more information, contact Matt McGrew, tournament director and education coordinator for Archives and History, at (304) 558-0230 or Matt.McGrew@wv.gov.

The West Virginia Division of Culture and History is an agency within the Office of Secretary of Education and the Arts with Gayle Manchin, cabinet secretary. The division, led by Commissioner Randall Reid-Smith, brings together the past, present and future through programs and services focusing on archives and history, arts, historic preservation and museums. For more information about the division’s programs, events and sites, visit www.wvculture.org. The Division of Culture and History is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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