Academic Team

I'm in a thing called Academic team. Every Wednesday after school we practice for an hour doing trivia and stuff like that. This is to practice for the "Trivia Fests" that other middle schools have. I was on the team last year too but we never even got 3rd. On Tuesday a school called St. Mary's had a trivia fest. there were twelve teams and all of them were private catholic schools but us. Almost all of them also had eighth graders but us. Our team had 4 7th graders and 4 6th graders. They ask the questions out loud twice and all the teams have to put the answers on the sheets they are given. After each category of 10 questions & 1 bonus you take the sheet up to the grading table. Then they announce the answers & put the scores up. It was about two hours long with a break and snacks in the middle. Obviously our worst category was saints because as I said we were the only public school. We only got one right & the answer wasn't even the name of a saint. But in the end we one by one point and there was a tye for second. It was awesome this was the first one of the season, we had no 8th graders, we totally crashed and burned on the saints category, & never even came in 3rd last year. Dad toke me to get ice cream afterward. It was GREAT!