A little over two weeks ago, Pleasant Plains High School senior Kameron Wolters correctly answered his 1,000th toss-up question over four years of competition in Scholastic Bowl, an Illinois High School Association-sanctioned activity.
John Barrett, one of Wolters coaches, likened it to a basketball player who scores 2,000 points or a volleyball player who totals 1,000 kills for a career.
Wolters, who reached the milestone during an online tournament, buzzed in a correct answer about Ralph Ellison s novel, Invisible Man. It was kind of ironic that my 1,000th was a literature question, Wolters said last week, because that s not typically my favorite subject or my best subject for scholastic.