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I'm Todd Gutner.

We're nearly through our preliminary matches as we knock the 16 teams down to eight in the quarter finals.

Each of today's teams hopes to be the one to go all the way for the $1,000 prize for their school's project graduation.

Bangor is making their fifth appearance on the show and they hope to add a second trophy to their case.

They won back in season two as well as being runner up last year.

But Fort Kent is looking to make the 300 mile track worth it by beating the former champ and having their chance at the grand prize.

Let's get things going by meeting our players.

(exciting music) Fort Bangor, we have Riordon, Cuddy, Lana and Joey with alternates Adam and Mattie, and coached by Carl Robbins and Susanna Owens.

And for Fort Kent we have Bryce, Olorin, Ethan, and Daniel, with alternate Mitchell and coaches Douglas Doorman and Jamie Pelletier.

The competition has three rounds, the tossup round, the category round, and that fun lightning round.

We'll start with a tossup round.

All answers are worth 10 points and this is the only round with no point deductions for wrong answers.

Players must wait for me to complete the question and if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given a chance to answer.

All right, teams, Bangor, Fort Kent.

Good luck to both of you.

Let's go.

Middle schooler Greg Heffley is the protagonist in what series of books by Jeff Kinney?

(bell dings) Joey, Bangor.

- "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."

- [Todd] "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is right.

The mascot of the Major league baseball team in St. Louis is what North American Bird whose males are bright red in color?

(bell dings) That'd be Ethan, Fort Kent.

- Cardinals.

- [Todd] Cardinals is right.

The Acropolis is an ancient landmark in what city that is the capital of Greece?

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Athens.

- [Todd] Athens, yes.

Of the three branches of the US federal government which one includes the Supreme Court of the United States?

(bell dings) Ethan, Fort Kent.

- The judicial branch.

- [Todd] Judicial branch, yes.

All right, up next we have a picture question.

So attention right over here at this monitor.

Name this American painter who is famous for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest including American Gothic.

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Grant Wood.

- [Todd] Grant Wood, yes.

Nice job.

What hormone produced by the ovaries is the primary hormone involved in the development of female biological characteristics?

(bell dings) Lana, Bangor.

- Estrogen.

- [Todd] Estrogen is right.

Greyhawk, Forgotten rRealms and Spelljammer are campaign settings in what role-playing game?

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangalor.

- Dungeons and Dragons.

- [Todd] Dungeons and Dragons, DnD.

In Hinduism, the idea that your good and bad deeds will affect your future life is commonly known by what five letter name from the Sanscrit for to make?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- Dharma.

- [Todd] One more time?

- Dharma?

- [Todd] Dharma is incorrect.

Fort Kent, you wanna try?

- Karma?

- [Todd] Karma is correct, Daniel.

Nice job.

We move on.

Beirut is the capital of what Middle Eastern country that has a cedar tree pictured on its national flag?

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Lebanon.

- [Todd] Lebanon, yes.

Up next we have a video question once again.

Take a look at the monitor over here.

- Hello, my name is Amy Denecker and I'm the librarian at Lyseth Elementary in Portland.

"A Dance with Dragons," the fifth book of "A Song of Ice and Fire" series was authored by whom?

(bell dings) - [Todd] Riordan, Bangor.

- George R. R. Martin.

- [Todd] You got it, nice job.

When people in finance talk about digital assets they talk about NFTs.

What does the abbreviation NFT stand for?

(bell dings) Riordan, again.

- Non-fungible token.

- [Todd] You got it again.

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln both have birthdays in what month that was officially designated as Black History Month by President Gerald Ford in 1976?

(bell dings) Daniel on the end, Fort Kent.

- February.

- [Todd] Yes, nice job.

All right, related to lenticels, what is the name for the tiny pores on plant leaves that open and close during plant respiration?

(buzzer beeps) Stomata is the answer.

A herpetologist is a person who studies which of the following?

Edible plants, reptiles or volcanoes?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- Edible plants.

- [Todd] That's incorrect.

Fort Kent, wanna give it a shot?

- Dinosaurs.

Or what was the other one?

(Todd laughing) - It wouldn't have been right, so well it might have been, but it was reptile.

- [Ethan] Reptiles, sorry.

- It's the wrong answer.

(Todd laughs) We'll go on.

Okay, this is a math question.

So this is where you need those pencils and the paper there too.

In right triangle A, B, C where angle C is the right angle and angle A measures 35 degrees, What is the measure of angle B?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor?

- 55.

- [Todd] 55, that was quick.

Nice job.

In Norse mythology, warriors who die in battle go to what place in Asgard where they fight all day and feast all night?

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Valhalla.

- [Todd] Yes, you got it.

Honolulu is located on which island that is the most populous island of Hawaii?

(bell dings) Daniel, Fort Kent.

- Maui.

- [Todd] Maui's incorrect.

(bell dings) Bangor?

- Hawaii.

- [Todd] Hawaii's also incorrect.

The island's O'ahu, O'ahu.

The English word vaccination comes from vacca, the Latin word for what animal?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- Cow.

- [Todd] Cow is right.

The first Kuiper belt object to be identified was what Dwarf planet found by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930?

(bell dings) Ethan, Fort Kent.

- Ceres.

- [Todd] One more time?

- Ceres.

- [Todd] Ceres is incorrect.

Bangor?

(bell dings) Riordan.

- Aeris?

- [Todd] Also incorrect.

It's Pluto.

Pluto's the answer.

Which political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance is best known for the treatise called the Prince, published in 1532?

(bell dings) Cuddy.

- Machiavelli.

- [Todd] Machiavelli, Yes.

Which of these federal agencies was founded earliest?

Social Security Administration, NASA, or Environmental Protection Agency?

(bell dings) Lana, Bangor.

- Nasa.

- [Todd] Incorrect.

Fort Kent?

- Social Security Agency.

- [Todd] You gotta ring in.

- Social Security.

- [Todd] You gotta ring in.

- Oh.

(bell dings) Sorry.

- [Todd] Go for it.

Social Security Agency.

- [Todd] Yeah, that's the one.

Thank you for obeying all my orders.

All right, next one.

Lake Victoria is the largest freshwater lake by area on what continent?

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Australia.

- [Todd] Incorrect, we go over to Fort Kent.

You wanna take a shot at it?

(buzzer beeps) Answer is Africa, Africa.

A style of short tailored jacket chairs what name with the best known piece of music by Maurice Revelle?

(buzzer beeps) - "Bolero," "Bolero" is the answer.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in what Southern US city where he was born?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- Birmingham.

- [Todd] Incorrect, Fort Kent.

You wanna take a shot?

(bell dings) Ethan, go for it.

- Montgomery.

- [Todd] Incorrect, Atlanta.

Atlanta.

All right.

Next math question.

The last one we'll have.

Avery drove 231 miles in three and a half hours.

In miles per hour, what was the rate of speed at which Avery traveled?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor?

- 73, no, 77.

- [Todd] That's incorrect.

Fort Kent, you got a chance here.

(buzzer beeps) Answer is 66.

66 miles per hour.

The Peloponnesian War took place in what century BCE?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- 400.

- [Todd] Yep, we'll take that.

The 400s.

Good job.

What's the common name for long narrow U-shaped inlets like the ones on the coast of Norway formed by the movement of glaciers?

(bell dings) Cuddy again.

- Fjord.

- [Todd] Yes, you got it again.

What concoction of whipped egg whites and sugar may be spread on top of lemon pie or baked for a long time at low temperature to make light crispy cookies?

(bell dings) Lana, Bangor.

- Meringue.

- [Todd] Meringue, yeah.

Peter Higgs and Niels Bohr were laureates in which Nobel Prize category?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- Physics.

- [Todd] Physics.

You got it.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney is known for his 2,000 verse adaptation of what Anglo-Saxon epic that involves Grendel and Grendel's mother?

(bell dings) Daniel, Fort Kent.

- Beowulf?

- [Todd] Yes, you got it, all right.

Conservation projects in an area called Thirty Hills are preserving the natural habitat of orangutans on the island of Sumatra in what Asian country?

(bell dings) Daniel, again.

- Indonesia.

- [Todd] Yes.

Nice job.

(alarm ringing) All right, that's the end of round one with a score of Bangor 160, Fort Kent 70.

We got a pretty good battle here.

We'll meet the players when we get back.

(exciting music) Welcome back.

Before we get to that category round, we're gonna pause and get to know our players a little better with this silly question which is, imagine that you have just discovered a new planet that you get to name.

What will the name be and why?

We'll start over here with Bangor and Riordan, you're first up.

- Probably Lemuria.

- [Todd] Excuse me?

- Lemuria.

- [Todd] (laughing) Why, what?

- I'd like to imagine that a planet out there is purely populated by just lemurs.

- By lemurs.

You're a big lemur fan, huh?

- I'd just find the name to be interesting.

- It's a fun name to say, I'll give you that.

All right, Cuddy.

Your turn.

- I would call it Terra Nostrum because I like romance languages and it's a good throwback to the Roman Empire.

- Wow, okay.

Terra Nostrum, you said?

Terra Nostrum.

Lana, your turn.

- I would call it gazebo 'cause gazebo is fun to say and I think gazebos deserve more recognition.

- You know what, they are kind of nice, you know?

You drive through a town, if there's a gazebo on the town green, it's kind of- - [Tara] Right, yeah.

- It spoofs it up a little bit, right?

It gives a little more character to the town.

Joey, we'll wrap it up for Bangor.

- Joey Landia.

(Todd laughs) - You don't even have to explain why, we all get it.

Thank you Joey.

We'll move down to Fort Kent, Bryce.

- Brycesitter.

(Todd laughs) - Did you just copy Joey Landia or something?

Brycesitter you said?

- Yes.

- [Todd] All right, we'll go with that.

Olorin?

- Braun Von Epp.

- [Todd] Why?

- It's my last name.

- [Todd] Oh, all right.

Okay, I see a theme here.

Ethan?

- I'd say little Earth or big Earth.

- [Todd] Little?

- Because I'd hope that we'd be able to live on it at least.

- [Todd] That's a good point, right?

We need, eventually down the line, not in our lifetimes hopefully, we're gonna have to inhabit something else.

Daniel, let's wrap up this.

- I'd name it Horus, because there are a lot of planets named after Greek and Roman gods and I think some other mythologies deserve some credit too.

- Is there one named after Horus yet?

- [Daniel] I don't think so.

- [Todd] No, okay.

- I don't know of any Egyptian planet names.

- [Todd] Okay, cool.

- Although I'd be happy to know if there are any.

- We'll go with Horus there too.

That's it for the question, the category around us next but let's see how well you do with our viewer question of the week.

(exciting music) - Hi, I'm Al Colmera from Unitil, and this is your main question of the week.

Most Mainers know that Mount Katahdin is the tallest peak in the state, but which mountain is second tallest?

Is it Saddleback Sugarloaf, or Mount O-J-I?

We'll have the answer later in the show.

- Welcome back.

Next up is the category round with the following choices.

Hoop Dreams, Not So Many Words.

Travelers in Chief.

Sweet 16, Time For a College Tour, and Cool Runnings.

Questions have increasing point values and wrong answers will cost you.

The rules for this round are different than in previous seasons.

Each team will alternate control of two categories.

With each question, they can choose to answer and either gain or lose points.

They can skip it and neither gain nor lose points or once per category, they can toss it and force the other team to answer.

Players will have five seconds to confer and decide what to do.

Okay, so Fort Kent, you're trailing.

You get control of the board and you can choose the first category that you want.

- [Ethan] I think we'll do Travelers in Chief for 10.

- [Todd] Travelers in Chief for 10.

So these are questions about presidential travels.

The first US president to travel abroad during his term was which president who went to see the construction of the Panama Canal in 1906?

- Teddy Roosevelt.

- Teddy Roosevelt?

- [Todd] Teddy Roosevelt is correct.

FDR went to Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula for a meeting in 1945 with what man who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time?

- Stalin.

- Joseph Stalin.

- [Todd] Joseph Stalin is also correct.

Travelers in Chief for 20 now.

In February, 1972, Richard Nixon made diplomatic history as the first sitting US president to visit what Communist country?

- It's China.

- China.

- [Todd] China is right.

Travelers in Chief for 25.

What island nation has been visited twice by sitting US Presidents once by Calvin Coolidge to give a speech in 1928 and once by Barack Obama for meeting with Raul Castro in 2016?

- Cuba.

- Cuba.

- [Todd] Cuba, also right.

And now we're up to the last one in this category.

Travelers in Chief for 30.

In 1963, which president visited West Berlin where he famously declared, "Ich bin ein Berliner," meaning I am a Berliner.

- Jfk.

- [Todd] JFK is right.

Okay, great job in that category.

You swept it.

We're going over to Bangor now.

It's your choice to choose.

Where would you like to go?

- [Cuddy] We'll go for Sweet 16 please.

- [Todd] Sweet 16, okay.

These are questions related to the number 16.

The first question is nobody's favorite amendment.

The 16th amendment to the US Constitution gave the federal government permission to collect what?

- Income tax.

Income tax.

- [Todd] Income tax is correct.

Sweet 16 for 15.

Merle Travis wrote the country song "16 Tons" about the hard life of a man who works in what kind of mine in Kentucky?

- Coal.

- Coal, yeah.

- Coal mine.

- [Todd] Coal mine is also right.

Sweet 16 for 20.

What 11 letter adjective describes a base 16 numbering system?

- Hexadecimal.

- [Todd] Hexadecimal is also right.

You didn't even need to confer, Cuddy, there.

(they laugh) Sweet 16 for 25.

Bad breath can be caused by smelly natural compounds that contain what element whose atomic number is 16?

- Phosphorus.

- What?

Phosphorus?

- [Todd] Phosphorus is incorrect.

It's sulfur, sulfur.

Sweet 16 for 30.

The number 16 has how many divisors?

- Eight?

- Four, or no.

Five.

- [Todd] Five is right.

Nice job there, Cuddy.

We're back over to Fort Kent.

Just a reminder, you can toss a question over to the other team and force them to answer it.

What would you like to go with the category here, Fort Kent?

- [Ethan] We'll do hoop dreams.

- [Todd] Hoop dreams.

Hoop dreams, these are questions about basketball.

All right, here we go.

The torch from what New York City landmark is pictured in the logo of New York's WNBA Team?

- Lady Liberty.

- [Todd] We'll take that right?

Yeah.

Statue of Liberty, yep.

The annual NCAA Division One College Basketball Championship Tournament begins in what month?

Some people call it madness.

- March Madness.

- [Todd] Yeah, you got it, you got it.

Hoop dreams for 20.

A shot is about to go through the hoop but a defensive player sticks a hand up into the rim to stop the ball from going through.

That player has committed what rule violation?

- Goal tending.

- [Todd] Goal tending.

Ethan, you play basketball?

Yeah, I can tell.

All right, hoop dreams for 25.

The shot clock counts down the length of time a team can possess the ball before attempting a field goal.

On most possessions in the NBA and WNBA, the shot clock is set for what length of time?

- 24 seconds.

- 24 seconds.

- [Todd] You got it again.

This is the last one in the Hoop Dreams category.

A ball handler's teammate screens a defender allowing both the ball, handler and the teammate to move toward the basket and score.

What's the common three word name for this offensive play?

- Pick and roll.

- [Todd] Pick and roll.

You swept it Ethan, nice job.

All right, Bangor.

Your second category will be what?

- [Cuddy] Time for a College Tour, please?

- [Todd] Time for a College Tour.

These are questions about American Colleges.

Architect Albert Irvin Cassell designed Founders Library at what HBCU in Washington DC where Kamala Harris earned her undergraduate degree?

- Oh, which one did she go to?

- Should we toss?

- Yeah.

- Toss.

- [Todd] You wanna toss it?

Okay, so this goes over to Fort Kent.

I'll read the question again.

You guys are gonna have to gimme an answer.

Architect Albert Irvin Cassell designed Founders Library at what HBCU in Washington DC where Kamala Harris earned her undergraduate degree?

- Is it Washington, DC?

- Georgetown.

(tone beeping) - [Todd] I'll need an answer.

- Georgetown?

- Georgetown.

- [Todd] Georgetown's incorrect.

It's Howard University.

Howard University.

Time for a College Tour for 15.

The Museum of Geology at Arizona State University contains more than 1,000 samples of what geological objects that fell to earth from space?

- Meteorites.

- Meteorites.

- [Todd] Meteorites, yes.

Time for a College Tour for 20.

Rita Dove and Sherman Alexie attended the Famous Writer's Workshop at what Midwestern University whose mascot is The Hawkeye?

- Kansas, Kansas State.

- Kansas State?

- That's incorrect.

It's Iowa, University of Iowa.

Time for a College Tour for 25.

A special collection at San Jose State University in California contains manuscripts, musical instruments and even a lock of hair belonging to what German composer, who's famous for his ninth symphony?

- Mozart.

- Beethoven.

- Beethoven.

- We gonna take that?

Yep, good job.

Beethoven.

And Time for a College Tour for 30.

The last one in the category.

The first woman's college basketball game was played in 1893 in Alumni Gymnasium at what Liberal Arts college in Northampton, mass?

(group whispering) - Amherst.

- [Todd] That's incorrect.

It's Smith College.

Smith College.

So that wraps up the category round.

We've got a score, Bangor 200, Fort Kent 260.

This is a nail biter and you know everything can change in the lightning round, so sit tight.

We'll be right back.

(exciting funky music) - Were your main geography skills up to the task in answering this question?

It was, most Mainers know that Mount Katahdin is the tallest peak in the state, but which mountain is the second tallest?

Is it Saddleback, Sugarloaf, or Mount O-J-I?

The answer is Sugarloaf at 4,240 feet tall, it is over 1,000 feet shorter than Mount Katahdin.

- We've got a battle here and now we're heading to the final 90 seconds of gameplay, the lightning round.

Players, you do not have to wait for me to finish the question.

You can buzz in at any time but to not answer until I call your name.

You get 20 points for each correct answer.

Incorrect answers will cost you 20 and the other team does not get the chance to answer the question.

Okay, good luck to both of you.

The clock is set.

Here we go.

(upbeat music) Emily and George are the main characters in what play by Thornton Wilder?

(buzzer beeps) "Our Town."

What lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the US?

(buzzer beeps) Crater lake.

How many carbon atoms are in one molecule of glucose?

(bell dings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Six.

- [Todd] Six, yes.

What falcon-headed Egyptian God was the son of Is- (bell dings) - Horus.

- [Todd] Horus is right.

What Canadian territory is the largest by area in northern- (bell dings) Riordan again.

- Nunavut.

- [Todd] Nunavut, yes.

What sweet sticky substance is Winnie the Pooh's favorite- (bell dings) Joey, Bangor.

- Honey.

- [Todd] Honey, yes.

In what year did the 9-11 attacks occur?

(bell dings) Riordan?

- 2001.

- [Todd] Yes.

What three letter word means an adult female, deer or ra- (bell dings) - Doe?

- [Todd] That'd be Cuddy.

- Doe.

- [Todd] Yes, doe.

(laughs) Most people in Egypt live close to what river?

(bell dings) Daniel.

- Nile.

- [Todd] Nile.

What precious gem is a crystallized form of carbon?

(bell dings) Riordan.

- Diamond.

- [Todd] Diamond is right.

What's the name of the warthog character in Disney's- (bell dings) Riordan again.

- Pumbaa.

- [Todd] Pumbaa, yes.

Salmonella is a rod shaped type of what single-celled organism?

(bell dings) Cuddy, Bangor.

- Bacteria.

- [Todd] Bacteria.

According to the old proverb, a stitch in time saves- (bell dings) Daniel.

(buzzer beeps) Nine.

In Romeo and Juliet, which character is Juliet's- (alarm ringing) Oh, that's the end of the lightning round.

And our winning team with a comeback is Bangor at 380.

They'll be moving on to the quarter finals in a few weeks.

Runner up, Fort Kent.

You guys had 260 points.

This was a close one.

Thank you both for playing and congratulations too.

Be sure to tune in next time as John Bapst Memorial of Bangor takes on Marshwood of South Berwick.

Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on "High School Quiz Show Maine."

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