Academic Challenge Quiz Bowl
This exciting competition, similar to College Bowl, places local high schools in a head to head battle for the championship title and over $40,000 in scholarship money.
Twenty high schools from all over Southern Oregon are participating in the NBC Academic Challenge. Each school brings in a team of five students, four participating and one alternate, who answer a series of questions from the host, NBC 5 Chief Meteorologist Jeff Heaton, on topics such as history, math, literature, current events and a variety of other categories.
At the end of this double-elimination competition the final two teams will split the scholarship money, 60% to the championship team, 40% to the second place team.
The idea for Academic Challenge originally started at KRCR-TV in Redding in 1998 and was hosted by Gary Gunter from '98 to 2005, then Tim Mapes from then on. NBC 5's newly-hired general manager Bob Wise brought the identically-formatted program to southern Oregon in 2005.
The program regularly airs on Sundays at 6:30pm, yet does air after NBC Sunday Night Football and NBC 5 News during the NFL season.
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