With a win at the club’s first meet, quiz bowl members look to continue their success in the upcoming season.

Quiz bowl challenges students to answer trivia questions. Players try to hit the buzzer before the opposing team and answer questions in subjects ranging from academia to pop culture.

Adviser Bruce McLean returns for this season of quiz bowl after taking a year off. Many of the students he was familiar with no longer participate in the club.

McLean said he previously knew only two people on the team.

“It is basically a new group of students,” McLean said. “It will be fun to get to know the new kids on the team.”

Senior Elliot Schwartz, a participant in quiz bowl for the past three years said McLean’s return excites him, as he enjoys the way McLean interacts with students.

“I think that one of the cool things is that it is just as much fun for the adviser as it is for members,” Schwartz said.

In previous years, boys dominated the quiz bowl club with few girls participating.

This season, the ratio of boys to girls evened out as more joined the team.

Junior Zoe Leuthner said the greater participation of girls parallels the student demographics in the high school.

“I think that it is good that quiz bowl is more representative of our school in that regard. Girls have good knowledge that they can bring to the team,” she said. “They add diversity and some diversity of interest that can help us.”

McLean said while the club has been mostly composed of male students, there has been female participation in past years.

“We have had girls who have participated well, but we haven’t had as many girls as we have had boys,” McLean said. “It is nice to see more girls participating.”

McLean said the club has qualified for the state tournament in all of his years of advising.

McLean said he hopes the teams will accomplish this goal this year as well.

“Our hope is to always qualify for state,” McLean said. “We always rank among one of the best teams in the state.”

Students interested in joining can come after school Thursdays to C371. The team’s next meet will take place on Dec. 8.

At the last tournament, the A team won 3-1, the B team tied 2-2, and the C team lost 0-4.