On Sunday, November 16th, TABC had the pleasure of hosting 18 teams for the National History Bowl and National History Bee competitions. The National History Bowl, founded in 2010, is a history quiz competition for students throughout the country, including public schools, private schools and one other yeshiva high schoold. The History Bowl’s regional and state qualifying tournaments lead to the National Championships in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, VA in the spring of 2015. Dr. Garry Katz serves as the TABC team advisor.
Over the course of the day four different events took place on both the junior varsity and varsity level. In the team competition of the History Bowl, the TABC junior varsity team of Yehuda Koslowe (’17), Akiva Hirsch (’17), Moshe Davis (’17) and Yosef Aryeh Kahan (’18) qualified for the National tournament by taking second place. On the varsity level, TABC’s varsity A team consisting of Orrin Kigner (’16), Eitan Griboff (’15), Aaron Fishkind (’16), Jeremy Rosenblatt (’16) and A.J. Book (’16) made it into the playoff rounds allowing them to also qualify for the Nationals tournament.
The second competition of the day was the National History Bee, an individual buzzer history competition. The TABC team really shined at this competition having seven students qualify for the National tournament. In the junior varsity competition, Yosef Aryeh Kahan (’18) made it to the semi-finals of the junior varsity, while Yehuda Koslowe (’17) and Zachary Orenstein (’17) made it into the playoff round. Each of them also qualified for the National Bee tournament. Four additional TABC students scored well enough to qualify for the national competition. They were Aaron Fishkind (’16), Yoni Katz (’16), Jeremy Rosenblatt (’16) and Orrin Kigner (’16).
The qualifying tests for the National United States History Bee and the National Geography competition were held during the lunch break. Four students qualified for the National U.S. History Bee while one qualified for the National Geography competition. On the varsity level of the U.S. History Bee, Aaron Fishkind (’16), Orrin Kigner (’16) and Aaron Eckstein (’15) qualified for the National contest, while Yosef Aryeh Kahan (’18) qualified for the Junior Varsity National contest. For the National Geography test Daniel Zolty qualified on the Junior Varsity level.
