On April 30, Miami Palmetto Senior High hosted its second annual Teacher Trivia game show, a competition between teams of four teachers from every grade answering different trivia questions ranging from math to pop culture.
“Teacher Trivia is a competition between the grade levels where there’s four teachers from each grade representing the most knowledge. They compete head to head in a trivia competition with questions about all different types of subjects to see essentially which grade is the ‘best’,” Co-producer of Television Production and junior Lucas Anson said.
This year’s freshman team consisted of: AP World History teacher Julianne Farkas, English I Honors teacher Elena Ruiz, Early Childhood and Development teacher Melanie Tripp and AP Human Geography and World History Honors teacher Mirabel Pizarro.
The sophomore team consisted of: AP Seminar teacher Marcos Cohen, AP Environmental Science teacher Pamela Shlachtman, Mathematics teacher Nicole Bond and World History Honors teacher Leonel Ruiz.
The junior team consisted of: U.S. History Honors teacher Javier Ruiz-Gil, English III Honors teacher Ernesto Ferris, English II teacher Maria Sanin and Economics Honors teacher Armando Gonzalez.
Lastly, the senior team consisted of: AP Macroeconomics teacher Joel Soldinger, U.S. Government Honors teacher Kailey Almonte, AP Calculus AB/BC and Pre-Calculus Honors teacher Sara Tuttle and English IV Honors teacher Laura Aviles.
This year, the show included a new segment based on the game show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” where the school invited fifth graders from Pinecrest Elementary to compete against the teachers.
“The first round will be a replica of ‘Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?’ So, we’ve involved students from Pinecrest Elementary, from their own Television Production program. So, there will be 12 fifth graders and they will be battling the teachers in order for the teachers to get points. The kids don’t get any points but if they both get it right the teachers get 10 points. If the kid gets it wrong and the teacher gets it right, the teachers get 20 points, but if the kid gets it right and the teacher gets it wrong, there’s a 10 point deduction,” Assistant Activities Director Sadhna Seunarine said.
They then moved on to the regular trivia rounds where the one teacher representative from the grade at hand would go against the other grade’s teacher. The game functioned through elimination rounds, where the seniors were last, the freshmen were third, the juniors placed second and the sophomores winning.
