DRS to Face SKA in TV Quiz Show

Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys and Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls will face off this Sunday in the second round of MSG Varsity’s “The Challenge.”

Representing the DRS team is Aryeh Kaminetsky, Eli Guttman, Benjamin Aivazi, (Captain), Dovid Goldschein, (Alternates) Yitzie Scheinman and Yossi Goldschein. The academic advisors are Eli Brazil and Bernard Thomas.

The SKA team is represented by Esty Turner, Leeza Hirt (Captain), Racquel Glickman, Esti Hirt, (Alternates) Rachel Baruch and Jessica Rogelberg. The Academic Advisor is Shira Manne.

The match will air on Sunday, April 14, at 6:30 p.m. on Cablevision’s Optimum, Channel 14.

“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.

Participating 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 where they square 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.

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

For more information on “The Challenge,” please log onto www.msgvarsity.com.