We have a problem. An untraditional addiction, really. We ride the snake every Saturday morning at 10 — and we mean every Saturday morning at 10 — with our man Mac McGarry. We turn on NBC4 and crash “It’s Academic” — the longest-running pharm party of the mind on television. And this Saturday, Mr. McGarry is hosting two of the year’s dopest quiz show bashes with the Washington-area final at 10 a.m. and the regional Super Bowl at 6 p.m.

For the uninitiated, “It’s Academic” is a quiz bowl for brainy, ultra-competitive high-schoolers. The show’s been a Washington original since 1961. Throughout the season, three three-student teams compete against one another on each episode to move on to the next round (and to earn modest scholarships, courtesy of Giant Food). The questions range in difficulty from “Jeopardy!”-tough to freakin’ impossible. And the intellectual bacchanal is ringmastered by the indefatigable Mac McGarry — a D.C. broadcasting icon who signed on the air with the local NBC station as a staff announcer way back in 1950.

Although we could go on and on about “It’s Academic” (and we have — don’t even get us started on the lopsided and unfortunate supremacy of the area’s elite private school teams and Montgomery County public school teams over most of the District’s and Prince George’s County’s public school teams, if the latter exist at all), we’ll leave it at this: Rockville’s Richard Montgomery High School (Montgomery County), Bethesda’s Walter Johnson High School (Montgomery County), and the District’s Gonzaga College High School (private) compete in the D.C.-area final at 10 a.m. on NBC4. Expect “Welcome to the Dollhouse”-esque jazz bands, cheerleaders, and perhaps even a baton twirler for your between-round entertainment. The “It’s Academic Super Bowl,” the regional final that features the winning teams from the D.C., Baltimore, and Charlottesville versions of the show, airs at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

We might not know all the answers, but we do know (spoiler alert) who’s going to win. Now, come on up here!