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Lake Roosevelt’s Knowledge Bowl team showed off their smarts in a competition at Soap Lake on Monday.

The team, which consists of Peyton Robison, Virgil Bearcub, Kailah Leadingham, Noah Hunt and newcomer Lily Brandon, competed with teams from Cascade High School, Cashmere, Chelan, Eastmont, Ephrata, Moses Lake, and Soap Lake.

Some of those schools had multiple teams competing, explained Pam Johnson, who manages LR’s team.

“Scoring more points than at previous three-round meets, the team felt great about their performance,” she said.

LR finished 12th out of 17 teams, scoring 18.3 points.

Cascade’s first team won the event with 57 points.

Johnson elaborated on how the competitions, which require teams to answer questions, work.

“The teams buzz in on an electronic buzzer system,” she said. “They can buzz in at any time during the question in order to get first crack at the question. If they mess up by buzzing in too early to get it right, or if they answer incorrectly, the other teams get to try in the same order in which they buzzed in. There is a 15-second window from the time you buzz in to get your answer in. At the end of the question, if no team has buzzed in, a five-second timer counts down, and the question can die if no one attempts it. The topics are everything from science, literature, math, art, music and history to pop culture, architecture, and engineering.”