FHS takes Scholars’ Bowl top prize
Under the leadership of team captain Roshan Ramanan, FHS managed to dethrone last year’s champ, Webb School of Knoxville, during the semifinals, or “Philosophical 4” round. Farragut went on to defeat Dobyns-Bennett High School in the championship game.
Team members Roshan, his sister, Nisha Ramanan, Sophia Chen, Arman Oguz and Leyton Lu were presented with the Bowl’s Frank Miller Memorial Trophy Wednesday, Feb. 25, by Tennessee Scholar’s Bowl executive producer Ernie Roberts and show host and head writer Frank Murphy, both of East Tennessee PBS, which produces and broadcasts the show.
Additional team members are Uday Sujithkumar, Evan Conger and Jared Li.
In addition to the trophy, the team won $1,000, which team sponsor Tiffany Booker said would be at least partially used “to purchase new buzzers for training purposes.”
“We worked on our buzzer skills a lot in preparation for this year’s Bowl,” noted Roshan, a junior, who said the team also looked at previous questions and Bowl episodes to be on top of their game.
Each game consisted of four students answering questions in literature, language, math, science, art, geography, music, sports, history and religion, and other subjects.
