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Local high school students show off smarts in annual academic decathlon, “Super Quiz”
By Cameron Macdonald - Citizen News Editor
The French Revolution was a cause of exuberance, nail-biting distress, relief, triumph, and countless hours of memorizing flashcards – for students from six local high schools that competed in the 30th Sacramento County Academic Decathlon on Feb. 6.
They competed against teams from 25 schools from across the county at Sacramento’s Inderkum High School during a day of delivering speeches and taking numerous written exams that mainly challenged them to show their knowledge of nearly every nut and bolt of the French Revolution.
They were given thick study materials and were assigned to read the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities.
Monterey Trail High Coach Kevin Williams said that his team enjoyed trying to follow how political power moved during the revolution. He noted the infamous Guillotine.
“I think they enjoyed trying to track where all the power went back and forth, and who started popping heads off and who started getting other
They competed against teams from 25 schools from across the county at Sacramento’s Inderkum High School during a day of delivering speeches and taking numerous written exams that mainly challenged them to show their knowledge of nearly every nut and bolt of the French Revolution.
They were given thick study materials and were assigned to read the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities.
Monterey Trail High Coach Kevin Williams said that his team enjoyed trying to follow how political power moved during the revolution. He noted the infamous Guillotine.
“I think they enjoyed trying to track where all the power went back and forth, and who started popping heads off and who started getting other