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Audience Tickets Available to Cheer on Regional Team on 'Quiz Show'

The Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School College Bowl team begins its quest on Saturday to defend its title on "High School Quiz Show" with a live taping at the WGBH-TV studios in Brighton.

You will be able to cheer on the College Bowl team as it returns to in a first round matchup on High School Quiz Show this weekend.

The Generals will face the team in a show taping on Saturday morning at the WGBH-TV studios in Brighton. WGBH has free tickets available to join the live studio audience.

Although the show will be taped at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, all members of the audience will be sworn to secrecy about the match results and will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. The episode will air on Feb. 19 at 6:30 p.m. on WGBH-TV, channel 2. The show airs each Sunday at 6:30 p.m. and airs again at 6 p.m. the following Saturday.

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The only requirement is that studio audience members be 7-years-old or older. Sign up on the High School Quiz Show website.

The show, in its third season, is hosted by North Shore resident Billy Costa.

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The first round matchup in the single elimination tournament is a rematch of last year’s semifinal competition, .

Hamilton-Wenham went on to win the High School Quiz Show competition and faced Mt. Greylock Regional High School, winner of “As Schools Match Wits,” a similar show that airs in western Massachusetts, in the state finals.


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