Royal welcome for quiz champs

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Royal welcome for quiz champs

Published: Thursday | April 2, 2009

Petrina Francis, Staff Reporter

Kingston College (KC) students celebrate with members of the triumphant Schools' Challenge Quiz team yesterday. They beat Ardenne High School 42-14 in the finals Tuesday night. In blazers (from left) are Oral Lawson, captain Kenneth Peart, Roland Douglas and Alain N'Dalla.
The Melbourne campus of Kingston College (KC) erupted with shouts yesterday when the winning 2009 Television Jamaica Schools' Challenge Quiz team walked on to the school's compound.
The victorious team members, who are all based at KC's North Street campus, marched to the lower school with their trophies and purple and white flags in their hands.
"Fortis! Fortis! Fortis!" the excited lower-school boys chanted as the team entered the school's compound.
The teachers, some of whom were decked out in their purple and white outfits, turned paparazzi as they took photographs of the team.
"This trophy not coming back out of KC," one teacher yelled.


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