La Salle Academy had two medalists at this year’s Rhode Island Academic Decathlon.  They are junior Margaret Rogers, who took home a gold medal for her interview in the scholastic division, and senior Christopher Piette, who captured a bronze medal in math, honors division.  Christopher was also the high scorer of the La Salle team.

This year’s competition held on the Knight campus of the Community College of Rhode Island, measured students’ knowledge and prowess through written tests, speeches, essays, and interviews.

Scholars on 23 teams also faced off in the climactic Superquiz at day’s end during which representatives of each school took turns answering 45 multiple-choice questions on the French Revolution.

For example, how many political clubs were there in revolutionary France?  Were there 25,000 or 1,200 or 10,000 or 250 or 5,000?   The answer was 5,000.