Jimmy Carter Quiz Win!

9 September 2010

Jimmy Carter Quiz

 We Won

 

Awatapu College was the 2010 co-winner of the annual interschool competition, the Jimmy Carter Quiz. The quiz commemorates the visit of the former Amercan president to the Manawau in1982. It is organised by the Lions Clubs of the Manawatu.

The contest was very close, with Awatapu vying for the lead with St Peters College throughout the evening. By the end of the contest the two teams were tied and a further series of five questions failed to separate them. As a result the organisers decided, for the first time, to make a joint award of the Quiz Trophy to the two high schools.

This is the fourth time that Awatapu has won first place in the contest after a run of success in 1999-2001. However, last year the team placed second and were hopeful of improving their effort this year. 

The team was made up of five students, each one representing a different year level:  Thomas Austin, Kerrianne Joe, Edward Todd, Rory Robinson and Malina Hargreaves.