Schreiber Advances in 'The Challenge'

Schreiber High School students have advanced to the second round “The Challenge,” a quiz show on of MSG Varsity, and will take on Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway on Sunday, March 17, at 6:30 p.m.

Competing for Schreiber are Drew Feldman, Robert Gray (Captain), Miles Kurtz, Elana Galassi, (Alternates) Simon Shapiro and Kerim Kivrak. The academic advisor is Jeremy Klaff.

Competing schools advance through a series of elimination rounds, with one school in each region being crowned regional champion and winning $2,500 for their school. The winning teams from each region go on to “The Challenge” championship, squaring off in a tri-state showdown. The school awarded the title of Tri-State Champion will receive $10,000 in prize money and each student participating in the final “Challenge” Championship game will receive $500.

Schreiber is joined by 15 other schools from Nassau County on Long Island as they progress through the regional gounds in trying to qualify for the Tri-State Championship Playoffs.

Back for his fourth season as host of “The Challenge” is Jared Cotter, host of “MSG Varsity’s Talent Show” and an "American Idol" semi-finalist. As moderator, Cotter tests competing teams on their knowledge of history, arts and literature, current events, math, and science in front of a live studio audience.

“The Challenge” includes 192 high schools from the entire tri-state area — Long Island (with Nassau and Suffolk as two distinct regions), the Bronx, Brooklyn, Westchester/Lower Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Connecticut.  Long Island will be represented by 32 high schools from Nassau County and 32 high schools from Suffolk County. A new match-up can been seen every Sunday through Friday at 6:30 pm, on MSG Varsity, Cablevision’s Optimum Channel 14.