Quiz Bowl
William Floyd High School is also home to a Quiz Bowl Team. Quiz Bowl is a club where students in teams of four answer trivia questions about topics such as: mathematics, world history, and literature. William Floyd High School has two teams, a varsity squad and a junior varsity squad, who each play in five matches per school year against other high schools in the Long Island area. In the 08-09 season, William Floyd High School's quiz bowl team was selected to compete in the televised game show, The Long Island Challenge, which is shown on a popular local news channel (the schools first appearance since the 01-02 season where it won three rounds). The William Floyd Quiz Bowl team won two matches, but then lost and was unable to progress in the competition. The current advisor for this club is Mr. Craig Clasen.
In the 09-10 season, the Varsity squad, led by Captain James Penna, won 3 rounds of The Challenge, and moved up to the semi-finals for Suffolk County, they were then defeated and eliminated from the competition.
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