By Marisa Laviano – Staff Reporter

Jonathan Law’s National Honor Society held its annual Brain Bowl on April 27. 

Members from each grade compete against each other in trivia in front of an audience of the school in the auditorium and the winning team to compete against the faculty team.

“The purpose is to bring the entire school community together to have fun competing in trivia while raising money for brain cancer research,” National Honor Society Advisor Ms. Turcotte said.

In all, over $800 was raised for brain cancer research from this year’s Brain Bowl.

All students and teachers trying out for their team had to take the preliminary multiple choice trivia test. The four students in each grade with the highest scores were selected to represent their grade on their brain bowl team.

Representatives from each team were: freshmen Sarah Ahmed, Isabella Vancho, Sarah Gutierrez, and Carol Jiang; sophomores Arshaq Ahmed, Arman Punjabi, Eliot Melgar, Benjamin Giarandola; juniors: Matt McKlosky, Kyle Chy, Skylar Johnson and Devin Calvin; seniors: Elanor Clay, Anthony Fino, Travis Zeidler, and MaKenna Sharpe; and faculty: Mr. Evanko, Ms. Furst, Officer Goldfuss, and Ms. Mannion.

“The highlight of the event was when I got a ‘Freaky Friday’ question wrong when I was in the musical,” freshman Sarah Ahmed said. “All of the drama kids started yelling from the audience. It was so funny.”

The game consisted of four rounds and at the end of each round the team with the least amount of points got eliminated.

All four student teams competed for a chance to compete against the faculty team.

The first to be eliminated were the the sophomores, followed by the freshmen, then the juniors. The seniors went on to compete against the faculty.

“Our team did surprisingly well and made it to the final round against the staff, even though we lost in the end we put up a great fight,” senior Travis Zeidler said.

The final question of the brain bowl both teams wager their points to answer a question following the theme of the game, this years theme being “The Avengers.”

“The highlight of the event was probably watching the staff try to name each of the Infinity Stones,” junior Skylar Johnson said.

The staff ended up going home with the victory in the 2022 Brain Bowl.