High-Five Challenge, which airs in Oregon and Washington and is taped in Portland, Oregon is a high school quiz competition featuring teams from Oregon and Washington. It has been on the air since 1993 and was created and is hosted by Wayne Faligowski.
Questions come from 10 different categories, both academic (e.g. Science, History, Geography) and non-academic. Each school appears once during the season. Playoffs are held between the top eight s...
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High-Five Challenge, which airs in Oregon and Washington and is taped in Portland, Oregon is a high school quiz competition featuring teams from Oregon and Washington. It has been on the air since 1993 and was created and is hosted by Wayne Faligowski.
Questions come from 10 different categories, both academic (e.g. Science, History, Geography) and non-academic. Each school appears once during the season. Playoffs are held between the top eight scoring teams and two random picks. Each week, two teams of 5 to 7 players (although only 5 may be actively playing at one time, one of these a "Wild Card") face questions posed by the host. Once the regular season is completed, the top eight highest-scoring teams advance to the playoffs.
Each team is spotted 2,000 points to start the game. The host checks the five categories for the first half, and one is chosen at random. The host then asks five questions in that category. Each question is worth a pre-stated number of points; within a...
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