Each News Channel 3 Knowledge Bowl Season rings with excitement as highly-motivated high achievers face off in an academic quizfest that annually offers the biggest scholarships of any high school quiz contest in the nation.
The News Channel 3 Knowledge Bowl premieres each September. In a Jeopardy-like setting, the K-Bowl show host floats between two teams of 4 players each, who are on their feet and ready for action. An exhuberant Jim Jaggers tosses out a mixture of curriculum-based and everyday life (trivia) questions about science, literature, history, math, geography, music, art and current events.
The most successful show in WREG-TV'S cache of local programming, K-Bowl has awarded scholarships and bonds exceeding more than $2 million... $152,400+ for each of the last eighteen seasons! The 31-week televised contest encourages learning, supports local education, gives positive recognition for schools and students, and rewards academic excellence. This is made possible by a distinguished group of corporate partners that includes Dobbs Ford, First Tennessee Bank, McDonald's, The University of Memphis, The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Links, Inc. and LeBonheur Children's Medical Center!
K-Bowl features 32 Memphis/Shelby County area high schools in five rounds of single-elimination competition September through April. Games are pre-recorded on weeknights before a lively studio audience of students, parents and teachers. The K-Bowl game is played in three parts: two, seven-minute segments with 10-point toss-up questions followed by a lightning 4-minute round of current event questions. As in business, the team with the most points at the end of a game wins! Our off-camera judge, Dr. Richard R. Ranta, dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at the University of Memphis, rules on the validity of challenged answers and questions.
Host Jim Jaggers is News Channel 3 meteorologist and has recently taken on the challenge of becoming the newest host of Knowledge Bowl. Jim has been forecasting the weather in Memphis for the past 27 years. You will usually find him doing the weather on News Channel 3 during the 4 and 4:30P news and whenever severe weather strikes. Jim accepted the position of host as a way of realizing his dream of hosting a game show.
WREG-TV broadcasts the half-hour contest weekly on Saturday mornings during the school year.
The competition is a proven winner for students, schools, and corporate partners.
The News Channel 3 Knowledge Bowl premieres each September. In a Jeopardy-like setting, the K-Bowl show host floats between two teams of 4 players each, who are on their feet and ready for action. An exhuberant Jim Jaggers tosses out a mixture of curriculum-based and everyday life (trivia) questions about science, literature, history, math, geography, music, art and current events.
The most successful show in WREG-TV'S cache of local programming, K-Bowl has awarded scholarships and bonds exceeding more than $2 million... $152,400+ for each of the last eighteen seasons! The 31-week televised contest encourages learning, supports local education, gives positive recognition for schools and students, and rewards academic excellence. This is made possible by a distinguished group of corporate partners that includes Dobbs Ford, First Tennessee Bank, McDonald's, The University of Memphis, The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Links, Inc. and LeBonheur Children's Medical Center!
K-Bowl features 32 Memphis/Shelby County area high schools in five rounds of single-elimination competition September through April. Games are pre-recorded on weeknights before a lively studio audience of students, parents and teachers. The K-Bowl game is played in three parts: two, seven-minute segments with 10-point toss-up questions followed by a lightning 4-minute round of current event questions. As in business, the team with the most points at the end of a game wins! Our off-camera judge, Dr. Richard R. Ranta, dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at the University of Memphis, rules on the validity of challenged answers and questions.
Host Jim Jaggers is News Channel 3 meteorologist and has recently taken on the challenge of becoming the newest host of Knowledge Bowl. Jim has been forecasting the weather in Memphis for the past 27 years. You will usually find him doing the weather on News Channel 3 during the 4 and 4:30P news and whenever severe weather strikes. Jim accepted the position of host as a way of realizing his dream of hosting a game show.
WREG-TV broadcasts the half-hour contest weekly on Saturday mornings during the school year.
The competition is a proven winner for students, schools, and corporate partners.
