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This time, we have a first round game between Alma and Manistee, and that's next.

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(triumphant music) - Hello again, everyone, I'm David Nicholas, and welcome to "Quiz Central."

This time, students from Alma are taking on a team from Manistee in this, our 16-team single elimination tournament.

At the end of the season, four lucky "Quiz Central" seniors will receive a book scholarship provided by the CMU Bookstore.

Plus, top teams from "Quiz Central" will qualify for the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament.

And now, let's get to our game.

Our first round is the Maroon and Gold Rush.

Teams will have two minutes to answer as many tossup questions as they can.

If a team misses a tossup question, the opposing team has an opportunity to answer the question.

Teams may not consult during this round.

Throughout our game, correct answers are worth 10 points a piece, and there is no deduction for incorrect answers.

So are we all set, players?

Here comes your first question.

What Roman Emperor, who deified his lover, Antinous, order the Scottish frontier in Roman Britain defended in AD 1?

(bell dinging) - Hadrian.

- [David] That is correct.

What Bulgarian-born artist (score chiming) worked with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, and wrapped such landmarks as the Reichstag in fabric?

Okay, time on that.

Tossup for both teams again, what solar system planet hosts a hexagonal storm over its north pole, has a density less than water's, and has the most extensive ring system?

(bell dinging) - Saturn?

- That's correct.

(score chiming) In the 1870s, what state elected Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce as the first Black senators, filling Confederate President, Jefferson Davis's old seat?

(bell dinging) - Virginia?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Manistee?

(screen chiming) (bell dinging) - Mississippi?

- You are correct.

(score chiming) What state's House delegation includes Republican, Elise Stefanik, Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents Queens?

(bell dinging) - New York.

- That is correct.

(score chiming) A valet with atrophied eyelids escorts Garcin to a room at the start of what play by Jean-Paul Sartre?

Time?

(clicks tongue) Next question, what poem that describes a retreating sea of faith, and imagines a plane where ignorant armies clash is a Matthew Arnold work set on the English shore?

Time, we'll move on.

What Nebula named for an animal was formed- (bell dinging) - Crab Nebula?

(bell dinging) - [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) And that is the end of the round there, but we do take that answer, you're good.

Let's go back and check the ones that stumped both teams this time.

The Bulgarian-born artist was Cristo.

Also, the atrophied eyelids escort was from the Saltre play, "No exit."

The poem was "Dover Beach."

Alma beats the buzzer to take a 10-point lead at the end of our first round.

Let's take a little breather, and get to know a little bit more about our students, and we'll start first with the team from Alma.

- Hello, I'm Ayden.

I'm a junior at Alma High School, and I participate in band and track and field.

- Hi, I am Landen.

I am a senior at Alma High School, and I participate in band and Quiz Bowl.

- Hi, I am Bennet Radey, I'm a senior at Alma High School.

I'm in NHS, and I also do Boy Scouts, and play the violin.

My name's Vincent Yang, I'm a senior at Alma High School, and I do Quiz Bowl.

- Thank you, Alma High School.

Now, let's get a chance to meet your opponents today, our team from Manistee High School.

- I'm Clear, I'm a junior at Manistee, and I play golf, basketball, and soccer.

- I'm Hanna, I'm a senior at Manistee High School.

I am in NHS, "Quiz Bowl," and Youth and Government.

- My name is Sylis, I'm a senior at Manistee High School, and I am an editor for the yearbook.

- I'm Oliver, I'm a senior at Manistee High School, and I play soccer, swim, and I'm part of the band.

- A big thanks to all of our students here competing today.

Good luck to everybody.

Our next round, and for "Quiz Central", is the Kickoff round.

Now, the Kickoff round is a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

The team that correctly answers the tossup question will get the opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

Missed tossup questions can be stolen, but there is no consulting on these questions.

A correct tossup question answer allows for a single follow-up bonus question.

There's no stealing of bonus questions.

However, teams can confer, and we'll take those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus means we'll go back to a tossup for both teams.

Buzzers ready, players, here comes your first question.

What organs which, in insects, have a receptor containing units known as matidia, have mammalian versions with a light-detecting retina?

(bell dinging) - Eye.

- That is correct.

(score chiming) And your bonus question.

In 1921, Shoghi Effendi became the guardian of what religion that originated in 19th century Persia, and believes in the unity of all faiths?

- Baha'i?

Baha'i?

- That is also correct.

(score chiming) Back to a tossup for both teams.

What artist collaborated with Thomas Jeckyll on "The Peacock Room," and painted "Arrangement in Grey and Black No.

1," which depicts his mother?

(bell dinging) - Goya?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Manistee?

(screen chiming) Guess at that one?

(bell dinging) - Homer?

- [David] That is also incorrect.

(screen chiming) You're looking for Whistler.

What painter of the monumental "Sky Above Clouds" series was married to Alfred Stieglitz, and often painted the hills and flowers of the American West?

No answer there, time, we were looking for Georgia O'Keefe.

- Ah.

(palm thumping) - [David] What confessional poet described a man with "one gray toe, big as a Frisco seal" in a poem from her collection, "Ariel," that she titled, "Daddy"?

(bell dinging) - Plath.

- That is correct.

(score chiming) Sylvia Plath.

And your bonus question, what Russian czar emancipated his country's serfs in 1861, but was assassinated by the socialist group, "People's Will" in 1881?

- Is this the second?

- No, I think the first.

- [Ayden] No, it's the second, because it was in Alexander.

(Bennet stammering) - Time.

We were looking for Alexander the Second.

- Alexander, (screen chiming) I don't know that anyways.

- [David] Tossup question here.

What man murdered J.D.

Tippett soon after he fired a shot into Dealey Plaza from the Texas School Depository in 1963 that killed John F. Kennedy?

(bell dinging) - Is it Oswald?

- Oswald?

- [David] That is correct.

Lee Harvey Oswald, (bell dinging) and your bonus question.

- Thank you.

(chuckles) - L'Hopital's rule can sometimes be used to find what quantity the value of function f of x approaches as x gets near a specific value?

- (chuckles) I don't know.

- [Oliver] Anything.

- Infinity?

- We were looking for limit (screen chiming) or limiting value.

- Oh, okay.

- Tossup back to both teams.

What man who names the Broadway Theater where Hamilton plays wrote the music for "The King and I" in collaboration with lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein?

(bell dinging) - Webber?

- [David] That is incorrect.

(screen chiming) Alma for?

No answer, we were looking for Richard Rodgers.

In November, 2022, what man defeated Jair Bolsonaro to win a second non-consecutive term as president of Brazil?

(bell dinging) - Puentes?

- [David] Is incorrect, Manistee, you have a guess.

(screen chiming) And that official was Lula da Silva.

Tossup for both teams, what island contains the town of Hanga Roa, is inhabited by the Rapa Nui people, and is a Chilean possession that contains large, stone Moai statues?

(bell dinging) - Easter Island?

- You are correct.

(score chiming) Bonus question for Alma.

Oliver Cromwell's protectorate abolished what parliament the remnant produced after Thomas Pride purged the Long Parliament?

(Vincent whispering) - English Parliament?

(screen chiming) - You're looking for the Rump Parliament.

(chuckles) And tossup for both teams, what metal which oxidizes to form a green layer known as verdigris- (bell dinging) - Copper?

- [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) Bonus question, what religion which reveres the creator deity Bondye and venerates Loa such as Papa Legba, is a syncretic faith that developed in Haiti?

- Santeria?

- Time, we're looking for (screen chiming) Vodou.

- Ah.

(palm thumping) - [David] Tossup for both teams.

Kit Carson is buried in the town of Taos, and which is in what state whose cities include Clovis and Rio Rancho?

(bell dinging) - Texas?

- Incorrect (screen chiming) Alma with a chance?

(bell dinging) - New Mexico?

- [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) Bonus question, in what decade, which Thomas Wolfe called the Me Decade, did an Arab oil embargo fuel stagflation amid celebrations (players whispering) of the US Bicentennial?

- 1970s?

- That is correct (score chiming) on the bonus.

Tossup for both teams.

(screen chiming) Bell signals the end (bell dinging) of that particular round.

We are up to this junction now with Alma moving out to a lead of 100 to 30 over Manistee, but a lot can change in the Perfect Ten coming up next.

Teams, you'll have 60 seconds to answer questions from a choice of three clues to three categories, the opposing team will have 30 seconds to answer any unasked, incorrect, or skipped questions.

You can consult throughout the entire round.

We'll take the answers from the captain.

The team that's trailing will get the first choice to pick a clue to the category.

Here are those categories for today.

Across the Pond, There's a Mouse in the House, Monthly Maintenance.

Manistee, you're currently trailing, so you get your first choice from those three clues.

- [Sylis] I think Across the Pond or Mouse in the House?

- [Oliver] Mouse in the house.

- Yeah, I would go for Across the Pond.

We're all Europeans.

- Clear.

- Yeah, what do you think?

- I want Across the Pond.

- Sure, we'll do Across the pond.

- [David] Across the pond.

From that clue comes this category, Cities of the British Isles.

What city in the present day United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland was where?

And so, again, that's cities of the British Isles.

What city in the present day United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland was where?

And you'll have the chance to fill those in on the Perfect Ten.

We will put 60 seconds on the clock, as Manistee, you begin your Perfect Ten with this.

A great fire threatened the British government in the 1660s.

- London.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Irish independence was sought during the Easter Rising.

- Belfast.

- Incorrect - I think you can stop.

- Sorry.

- [David] The Scottish Parliament reopened in 1999.

- Edinburgh.

- [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) The Troubles raged in the capital of Northern Ireland.

- Is that Belfast?

- Belfast.

- That is correct.

(score chiming) - Okay.

- [David] The oldest English-speaking university was founded in 1096.

- Oxford.

- Oxford.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170.

- Canterbury?

Canterbury.

- Correct.

(score chiming) The Beatles formed in 1960.

- I don't know, Liverpool.

(players whispering) Liverpool?

- Correct.

(score chiming) The nickname Cottonopolis arose during the Industrial Revolution.

- Manchester?

- Yeah.

- Manchester?

- Correct.

(score chiming) Plastic was invented in England's- (bell dinging) The bell signals the end.

We didn't get to that, but we'll pick up here in just a moment, and a good job there with the Perfect Ten round for you, Manistee.

We're gonna put 30 seconds on the clock to go back over one missed answer, and then see if we can finish off the round.

That is for you, Alma.

Those 30 seconds up on the clock.

Again, cities of the British Isles.

What city in present day United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland was where?

And that's what you're going for.

30 seconds for your Perfect Ten.

Irish independence was sought during the Easter Rising.

- Dublin?

(players whispering) Dublin.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Plastic was invented in England's second city?

- Pass.

- [David] City on the River Clyde that dominated the colonial tobacco trade?

- Pass.

- [David] Okay, we were looking for on those last two, Birmingham was the second city, and that colonial tobacco trade was in Glasgow.

(paper shuffling) All right, we will shift things over to you, Alma, to pick up here.

You get 60 seconds to choose from either the Mouse in the House or Monthly Maintenance.

- Monthly Maintenance.

- [David] Monthly Maintenance.

That clue leads to this category, Months.

You are naming the month.

Again, naming the month in the category, Monthly Maintenance, from that clue.

60 seconds on the clock as we begin with contains Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving.

- November.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Can end with a leap day.

- February.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Its first Monday is Labor Day.

- September.

- September.

- Correct.

(score chiming) On the Muslim calendar, the holy month of fasting.

- March?

March?

- [David] That is incorrect.

(screen chiming) - Its 26th day is Boxing Day in the UK.

(finger tapping) - December?

December?

- Correct.

(score chiming) (paper shuffling) Name for the Roman God of war.

- April.

- That is incorrect.

(screen chiming) Called Enero in Spanish.

- January.

(fingers snapping) - Yeah.

January.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Some chemists observe Mole Day on its 23rd day.

(Bennet inhaling) - June.

- Incorrect.

(screen chiming) On the Jewish calendar month when Yom Kippur is observed?

(bell dinging) - Oh God.

- [David] Time, we don't get to that one.

We will pick up here as we shift things over to Manistee.

See what you can pick up from the Perfect Ten.

30 seconds on the clock, as we go back first to on the Muslim calendar, the holy month of fasting.

- Ramadan.

- Ramadan?

- [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) Named for the Roman God of war.

- March.

- March.

- Correct.

(score chiming) Some chemists observe Mole Day on its 23rd day.

- I'd say, February, 'cause like, Groundhog Day.

(chuckles) February?

- That is incorrect.

(screen chiming) On the Jewish calendar, the month when Yom Kippur is observed.

- December.

- That is incorrect.

(screen chiming) (bell dinging) And the bell signals the end there.

Picked up a couple of those.

We were looking for Mole Day as part of October, and in the Jewish calendar with Yom Kippur, we were looking for Tishrei.

Well, that wraps up our Perfect Ten, and Alma now leading 160 to 120 over Manistee.

We've got a close game, as it heads to the Homestretch.

The Homestretch round is a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

The team that correctly answers the tossup question will get the opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

Missed tossup questions can be stolen, but there's no consulting on these questions.

A correct tossup question answer allows for a single follow-up bonus question.

There's no stealing of bonus questions.

However, teams can confer, and we'll take answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus answer means we'll go back to a tossup for both teams.

All right, buzzers ready?

Here comes your first question.

The Gracie brothers developed a popular Brazilian form of what Japanese martial art?

(bell dinging) - Jiu-Jitsu?

- That is correct.

(score chiming) And your bonus question, what characters smuggles goods to the falsely imprisoned Muff Potter is raised by Aunt Polly and courts Becky Thatcher in a novel by Mark Twain?

(Players sighing) - I don't know.

Any ideas?

- [Sylis] Oh, Tom Sawyer.

- Tom Sawyer.

- [David] That is correct.

- Good job.

(score chiming) - [David] Tossup for both teams.

What viral disease whose A and B types are preventable by vaccines- (bell dinging) - Influenza.

- That is incorrect, Alma?

(screen chiming) (Bennet breathing deeply) I'll finish the question for you.

A and B types are preventable by vaccines, has a C type that can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer.

(bell dinging) - Hepatitis.

- That is correct.

(score chiming) And your bonus question, what program which is no longer supported in China due to its use of malware produces images which integrated with Dall-E, and was created by Open AI?

(bell dinging) - [Vincent] ChatGPT?

- ChatGPT.

- [David] That was a bonus.

- Yeah, ChatGPT?

- Yes, correct, (score chiming) yes.

- A bonus.

All right, tossup for both teams.

Ports on what body of water include Aktau in Kazakhstan and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan?

(bell dinging) - The Caspian Sea.

- You are correct.

(score chiming) Now, to your bonus question there, what country was ruled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and its predecessors from 1929 until the Vicente Fox's electoral victory in 2000?

- Any ideas?

France, question mark?

(players whispering) - Answer?

- France?

- [David] That is incorrect.

It is Mexico.

(screen chiming) Tossup for both teams, what novel whose epilogue is narrated by Professor Pieixoto features Aunt Lydia the commander- (bell dinging) - "Handmaid's Tale."

- That is correct.

(score chiming) To your bonus question now, in March, 2024, what state passed a law protecting in vitro fertilization after its state supreme court ruled that frozen embryos are children?

- Alabama?

Alabama?

- [David] That is the state of Alabama, correct.

(score chiming) This tossup for both teams now.

What series in which a Jack McBrayer played the seemingly immortal page, Kenneth, starred Tina Fey as writer, Liz Lemon?

(bell dinging) - "30 Rock."

- You are correct.

(score chiming) And your bonus question, what character, the so-called Napoleon of Crime, has a fatal struggle with Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls?

- Moriarty?

- Moriarty?

- [David] Also correct on the bonus there.

(score chiming) Tossup for both teams.

In what effect whose transverse form was measured in the Ives-Stilwell experiment does a moving observer perceive a change in a wave's frequency?

(bell dinging) Alma?

- Doppler effect?

- That is correct.

(score chiming) Your bonus question.

What country's revolution in which the AVH secret police were broken up by Imre Nagy in 1956 ended up with the arrival of Soviet tanks in Budapest?

(fingers snapping) - It's Hungary, right?

Hungary?

- That is correct.

(score chiming) Tossup now for both teams.

In what state was March For Our Lives founded by survivors of a 2018 school shooting in Parkland?

(bell dinging) - Ohio?

- Incorrect, Manistee (screen chiming) with a chance?

(bell dinging) Don't have to- - Illinois.

- Also incorrect, we were (screen chiming) looking for Florida, where the Parkland shooting took place.

Tossup for both teams.

What instrument whose virtuosos included J. J. Johnson and Glenn Miller had an earlier form called a sackbut, and is played using a slide?

(bell dinging) - Trombone?

- That is correct.

(score chiming) Bonus question now, what American author of the novel, "Babbitt" also wrote "Arrowsmith"?

- No answer.

- Okay.

We are looking for Harry Sinclair Lewis.

(screen chiming) Tossup back to both teams.

What acid used in the wet method to make a phosphorus, phosphoric acid, excuse me, can be made using the contact process, and is a strong acid with chemical formula, H2SO4?

(bell dinging) Yes, Alma?

- Carbonic acid?

- That is incorrect, Manistee?

(screen chiming) (bell dinging) - Sulfuric acid?

- Sulfuric acid is correct.

(score chiming) Bonus question now.

(players speaking faintly) Modern Tanzania was formed by the union of Tanganyika and what archipelago in the Indian Ocean?

- [Sylis] Oh, Oceania.

- Zanzibar.

Zanzibar.

- That is also correct.

(score chiming) (Sylis whispering) Tossup back to both clubs again.

(bell dinging) And the bell signals the end of that round.

(players whispering) Good Homestretch.

We have still a very good game.

Alma is holding a lead of 230 to 190 over Manistee, and Alma will take that 40-point lead into the Final Countdown.

Teams, you'll have two minutes to answer as many tossup questions as you can.

If a team misses a question, the opposing team has the opportunity to answer.

Teams may not consult during this round.

All set, players?

Here comes your first question.

What politician, who was CEO of Halliburton in the late 1990s served as both George H. W. Bush's defense secretary and George W. Bush's vice president?

(bell dinging) - Cheney?

- That is correct.

(score chiming) What word follows Bose-Einstein in the name of a- (bell dinging) - Condensate.

- That is correct.

(score chiming) What city Los Feliz neighborhood contains the Griffith Observatory with other landmarks like Grauman's Chinese theater line its Hollywood Boulevard?

(bell dinging) - [Ayden] Los Angeles.

- [David] That's correct.

(score chiming) What rapper's 2021 album, "Hall of Fame," which starts and ends with the songs, "Painting Pictures" and "Bloody-" (bell dinging) - Polo G. - [David] More specific, please.

Okay.

(score chiming) That is correct, all right, they tell me that they caught that, very good.

Okay, tossup here again.

What nutrient isolated by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi is called ascorbic acid because- (bell dinging) - Vitamin C. - [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) What 1959 play by William Gibson depicts Anne Sullivan's real-life work teaching language and discipline to a young Helen Keller?

(bell dinging) - "Annie"?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Manistee?

(screen chiming) - No.

- [David] And we're looking for "The Miracle Worker."

One of what events which cut power to Jamaica in 2024 after maxing out the Saffir-Simpson scale was named- (bell dinging) - Hurricane?

- [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) In what experiment did Thomas Young observe the formation of interference fringes after passing light through two apertures?

(bell dinging) - Double-slit?

- [David] That is correct.

(score chiming) What novel set at Misselthwaite Manor is by Francis Hodgson Bennett, Burnett, excuse me, and portrays an orphan named Mary Lennox, who discovers the title- (bell dinging) (bell dinging) - "The Secret Garden."

- That signals the end, sorry.

(score chiming) All right, we will take that final answer.

Yes, that is correct.

- I thought you heard me.

- (chuckles) sorry about that.

All right, that wraps up the Final Countdown in a good game.

Alma, you came out on top, 300 to 200 Manistee, a well-played game.

Let's have a round for both of our teams today.

Good round of applause.

(audience applauding) Thanks very much, Manistee, for playing with us, great job.

We hope we'll see you back again.

Alma, we will see you in an upcoming round, and we'll see you here next week for another edition of "Quiz Central."

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