Camarillo Academic Olympics

The next SuperQuiz Competition will take place in 2021

The SuperQuiz is an important component of CAO, although presented separately every other year from the CAO subject competitions. SuperQuiz (SQ) enables students to team together in an academic competition against other schools; all private and public schools (and home schoolers) throughout Camarillo. It is an opportunity for students to work together, developing teamwork and team spirit. Team members study together a selected single-subject book to develop an in-depth knowledge of that topic in preparation for an intense but fun-filled and exciting two-day competition. The SQ topic for 2019 was history and the reference book from which all of the questions were Smithsonian’s “History Year by Year: The History of the World from the Stone Age to the Digital Age”

SQ is the only part of CAO in which the schools compete head-to-head. All schools entering teams in the SQ select up to five students who work with their coaches to prepare over 3-4 months.

The preliminary round of the 2019 SuperQuiz consisted of 20 teams. The top six teams, plus ties, in each of the two divisions (Division I for middle school and Division II for 4th-5th grades), earn the chance to go for the gold in the SQ finals.

At the completion of the individual SQ awards (including best T-Shirts, best nicknames, craziest study habits), the final results of the SuperQuiz are revealed, and the winners receive the Richard C. Smith Trophy (founder of CAO), which will have the winning school's name engraved, and the school keeps the trophy until the 20th SuperQuiz in 2021.

In addition to the SuperQuiz trophy, the Boys and Girls Club of Camarillo awards trophies to the Division I and Division II teams that display the best sportsmanship and team spirit during the SQ preliminaries.

Check back in the fall of 2020 for registration information!

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