Claremore Academic Bowl Team Headed To National Competition

If we told you Booker T. Washington High School's Academic Bowl team was going to the National competition this summer it would probably be no surprise.

But if we asked who else from this area is going, would you guess Claremore?

They're the current 5-A state champs and the 17 team members will compete in Chicago in June.

Click on the video above to see why they have a long history of winning.

The team could use some financial help getting there. Contact the school if you are interested in helping.

And if you think the kids are being lobbed softballs at Academic Bowl competitions, guess again.

Sample questions:

1. Born in Seville in 1599, this artist became the greatest Spanish painter of the Renaissance. Two of his best known works are "The Maids of Honor" and the "Rokeby Venus." Identify this artist who was strongly influenced by the work of Titian.

2. Which three consecutive integers add up to 459?

3. Identify the island country in the West Indies that is located farthest to the east. It was a British colony until 1966. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.

4. Many of the laws passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration were designed to help the poor and to add to the economic security of Americans. As a result, what name was given to President Johnson's domestic program?

5. Identify the name of the Supreme Court judge who succeeded Sandra Day O'Connor in 2006.

Highlight below to see the answers:

Answer 1: Diego Velazquez

Answer 2: 152, 153, and 154

Answer 3: Barbados

Answer 4: The Great Society

Answer 5: Samuel Alito