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Coming up next on Varsity Quiz, it's A-Tech... (cheers and applause) Taking on Arbor View.

This is the Varsity Quiz Blue League Championship!

(crashing sound) ♪♪♪ (Nate Tannenbaum) Hello, and welcome to the 53rd season of Varsity Quiz where the best and brightest high school students match wits in this unique academic competition.

As we hope you know, there are now two Varsity Quiz leagues in each season's competition.

There were 23 schools in the Blue League and four divisions.

Tonight the question is which team becomes the champion, A-Tech or Arbor View?

It's time to meet our starters.

For Advanced Technologies, for A-Tech, we have Sovannjet.

Hi, Sovannjet.

Good to see you.

Olivia, howdy.

There's Jackie.

Hi, Jackie.

And Wade is back.

The team from A-Tech!

(applause) Now the players for Arbor View.

We have Cecilia.

Hi, Cecilia.

And Ari, and Brayden, and Zachary.

Ladies and gentlemen, Arbor View!

(applause) Let's play Varsity Quiz.

In which state are these Coast Guard units located: Salisbury Beach, Provincetown, Woods Hole, Gloucester, New Bedford and Oak Bluff?

Arbor View, Brayden: Rhode Island.

Incorrect.

A-Tech, Wade: Maryland.

Incorrect.

We were looking for Massachusetts.

We move on.

No points yet.

In 1990 U.S. forces mounted Operation Desert Shield in defense of what country from an impending Iraqi invasion?

Arbor View, Zach: Kuwait.

Incorrect.

A-Tech, Jackie: Iran.

Incorrect.

Saudi Arabia is what we were looking for.

What category of nutrients is largely eliminated in the following diets: Ketogenic, Atkins, paleo-- Arbor View, Brayden: Lipids or fats.

Incorrect.

--Atkins diet, paleo diet and the South Beach diet.

A-Tech, Jackie: Carbohydrates.

Yes.

Points on the board and a deduction for Arbor View.

Here's a question.

This remark is about what literary character: "Did you think the villain was the whale?

"The villain's not the whale.

"It's the megalomaniac at the helm."

A-Tech, Wade: Moby Dick.

Incorrect.

Arbor View, Ari: Captain Ahab.

Yes.

Points on the board for Arbor View.

What string of four letters has nine different pronunciations in this single sentence: A rough-coated, dough-faced thoughtful ploughman-- A-Tech, Olivia: o-u-g-h.

Yes.

Points for A-Tech as we move on to a calculation question.

Leon saved up and bought a new car at the Henderson Auto Mall.

The price was $30,000.

How much did he pay in sales tax?

Arbor View, Brayden: $323.75.

Incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) The answer was $2,512.50.

Moving on.

Which recurrent advertising character returned immediately prior to the start of the broadcast of the Allstate Sugar Bowl when he stole the game's large trophy?

(bell chimes, time expires) We were looking for "Mayhem."

We move on.

What kind of verbs are the following: Blow up, call off, find out, give in and-- A-Tech, Sovannjet: Phrasal.

Yes.

These songs come from which Broadway musical comedy: Dentist!

Somewhere-- A-Tech, Jackie: Little Shop of Horrors.

Yes.

Next question.

In the comic strip Peanuts, neighbors of Charlie and Sally Brown are the Van Pelts.

Their names are Lucy, Linus and blank.

(bell chimes, time expires) "Rerun."

Which term that originally referred to freebooters and buccaneers now refers to the obstructionist tactic involving prolonged speechmaking?

Arbor View, Zach: Filibuster.

Yes.

Points for Arbor View.

Please spell the term for the partly digested food mass in the duodenum that is a homophone for the sound of a bell.

A-Tech, Sovannjet: K-n-e-l-l.

Incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) The word is chyme, and we were looking for c-h-y-m-e. No points, next question.

You're spending a Saturday at a college football game in a stadium where you hear this announcement: "Welcome to Death Valley."

People around you are screaming for the Tigers, and the band is playing Tiger Rag.

You are on the campus of which ACC university?

Arbor View, Zach: Clemson.

Yes.

We move on to this question.

Which U.S. federal holiday is the most recent addition to the calendar?

A-Tech, Wade: Juneteenth.

Yes.

A calculation question now.

What is the mechanical advantage in terms of distance if a driving gear has a 12-inch diameter and the driven gear has a 9-inch diameter?

A-Tech, Olivia: 3/4.

-Pardon me?

-3/4.

That is incorrect.

Arbor View, Brayden: 4:3.

No.

We were looking for 1.33.

No points, next question.

The following authors all lived for a while on which Florida island: Rosalind Brackenbury, Tom Corcoran, Judy Blume and Ernest Hemingway?

Arbor View, Zach: Key West.

Yes.

On January 1, it's noon in Las Vegas.

What time would it be at the Greenwich Observatory in England?

Arbor View, Zach: 9:00 a.m.

Incorrect.

A-Tech, Sovannjet: 7:00 p.m. No.

It was 8:00 p.m.

So no points, next question.

One evening, the Swifts were playing cards with their neighbors.

After a deal came the comment, "I have spades, diamonds and clubs," said Tom blank.

Arbor View, Brayden: Hearts.

I don't think we can accept that.

A-Tech, Wade: Hearts.

No.

We were looking for heartlessly, "heart-less-ly."

No points, next question.

Peter was struggling with pain in his foot, so his primary care doctor referred him to a foot specialist.

What kind of provider is-- A-Tech, Olivia: Podiatrist.

Yes.

Which A.C. Doyle novel is concisely presented in this haiku-like summary: A family cursed, fake beards, foggy moors and a phosphorescent dog.

(bell chimes, time expires) Oh, Jackie was thinking about it.

You'll hate yourself.

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

No points, next question.

This excerpt comes from the first of a series of articles published in 1787: "It seems to have been reserved to the people "of this country to decide the important "question whether societies of men "are capable or not of establishing "good government from reflection and choice "or whether they're destined to depend "on accident and force."

Arbor View, Zach: The Federalist Papers.

Yes.

The LOC, or line of control, is a line between which two nuclear-capable countries of southern Asia?

Arbor View, Zach: China and India.

Incorrect.

A-Tech, Jackie: India and Pakistan Yes.

Next question.

Which famous prison once held the following people: Sir Walter Raleigh, Rudolph Hess, Elizabeth I and Guy Fawkes?

Arbor View, Zach: Stockton Yards.

Incorrect.

A-Tech, Wade: Tower of London.

Yes.

Next is a calculation question.

Given the half-life of titanium-44 is 63 years, how much of a sample of the element will still be radioactive at the end of four years?

A-Tech, Sovannjet: 16%.

No, that's incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) We were looking for 1/16.

One more question.

Which grammatical construction is illustrated in the following: Barney Blabster, war hero, entrepreneur, devoted husband and spinner of yarns is our candidate.

And Barney Fife, the deputy of Mayberry and friend of Andy Taylor, had delusions of grandeur?

A-Tech, Jackie: Parallel structure.

Incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) They are appositives, or showing apposition.

All right.

That is the end of round one, but before we move on-- great first round-- let's learn more about our players.

We will start over here with A-Tech and say hi to Sovannjet.

He's a junior.

Hi, Sovannjet.

-Hello.

-Hope you're having fun.

Our viewers may have heard of it, but maybe they haven't.

Would you explain briefly what is a Science Olympiad, because you participated, right?

-Yes.

Science Olympiad is a club where there are events including ones where you study a certain topic in considerable detail like at a college level, at least for high school divisions.

-It's fun.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Well, good luck with Science Olympiad.

Are they doing that this year?

-Yes, they are.

-Okay.

Good luck with that and here on Varsity Quiz.

Thank you, Sovannjet.

-Thank you.

-Junior Olivia.

Hi, Olivia.

-Hi.

-Good to see you again.

Are kids still playing these two games that you listed as hobbies of yours?

-I would really hope so.

I'm a very avid fan of both Minecraft and Dungeons and Dragons, and I've been playing since around 6th or 7th grade.

-Right on!

Well, keep the Minecraft and D&D going, Olivia.

Good luck here on Varsity Quiz.

Here's Jackie.

Hi, Jackie.

-Hi.

-She's a senior.

How is speech and debate going?

-It's going pretty good.

I do policy debate, which is like a two-on-two event where we look at government policies under a certain resolution.

The scarcity of water resources is pretty relevant here in Nevada.

-Wow, good stuff.

Good luck with that and here on VQ.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Jackie.

And here is junior Wade.

Hi, Wade.

-Hey.

-Now, you are a prime example of one of the things that happens when you're a student at a career and technical academy or a magnet school.

You can participate in sports, but you do that for the school in which you are zoned.

So I understand that you do play a sport.

-Yes.

One of the least considered sports to be a sport, bowling.

-And who do you play for?

-I play for Bonanza.

-Has that already happened, or is it happening?

-We're actually having our last three games next week.

-Well, good luck with that and here on Varsity Quiz.

Ladies and gentlemen, A-Tech, the Advanced Technologies Academy.

(applause) Let's meet our players from Arbor View.

We'll start with sophomore Cecilia.

Hi, Cecilia.

-Hi.

-Good to see you.

You have listed something that you have about you physically that people may not be aware of.

Do you remember what you wrote down?

-Yes.

My knees are double-jointed.

Not to the point where it's insane or anything, but it's enough to freak most people out.

-So basically your legs almost bend backwards.

-Yes.

-Wow.

Well, stay healthy and good luck here on Varsity Quiz.

Thanks, Cecilia.

Here's senior Ari.

Hi, Ari.

-Hey, what's up?

-Well, I want to ask you about orchestra.

How's orchestra going?

-It's going pretty good.

-I mean, is it possible to have concerts under these current conditions, or do you guys just play amongst yourselves?

-We actually do.

We have concerts with a limited amount of parents in the theater at our school.

-Excellent.

Again, you play... -Violin, and I can also play cello.

-All right.

Well, good luck with all that and on Varsity Quiz.

Thanks, Ari.

Here's junior Brayden.

Hi, Brayden.

-Hi, Nate.

-I know we mentioned playing basketball, and I want to talk a little more about that.

Is that strictly recreational or are you a competitor?

-Yes, strictly recreational.

I don't have hops and I'm not that tall, but I do love playing basketball.

I have a half court at my mom's house and I like to practice on it a lot.

But yes, I gave up on my hooping dreams a long time ago.

-But you're going to keep doing it.

-Yes.

-Good for you, man.

Good luck here on Varsity Quiz.

Thank you, Brayden.

And here is senior Zach.

Hi, Zach.

-Hi.

-Did we talk about hiking before?

I want to find out if you have a place that you really like to hike or whether you just want to go all over the place.

-Right now I mainly just do stuff around town like Mt.

Charleston or out at Lake Mead, but there's definitely some more like national parks that I would like to go to and check out.

-Well, good luck with that and on Varsity Quiz.

Ladies and gentlemen, the students from Arbor View.

(applause) The bonus round of our championship match is coming up right now.

(crashing sound) The score going into round two, A-Tech with 40 points to Arbor View's 20.

Now, A-Tech is keeping their same players.

We have two new players for Arbor View.

Let's say hello to Reese.

Hi, Reese.

I dig the bow tie.

I don't know if it's going to help you, but I love it.

And also Tate.

Hi, Tate.

-Hi.

-Good to have you here.

Brayden and Zach are still here.

All right.

Time starts as I begin this first question.

This season's national championship of college football was decided on January 10.

When the game was over, which mascot represented the victorious team?

Arbor View, Zach: Bulldogs.

No.

A-Tech, Jackie: The dogs.

Well, we needed the name, "Uga."

So no points there.

We move on to the next question for both teams.

What general type of therapy utilizes dihydrogen oxide in one way or another, largely for pain relief, to stimulate blood-- Arbor View, Reese: Hydrotherapy.

Yes.

Bonus questions now for Arbor View only.

Answer the following about therapies: First, coffee and tea drinks popular throughout the world must mean the world's most popular psychoactive drug is blank.

Second, what's the common name for painkillers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl?

We'd like to answer for the first question, caffeine; for the second question, opioids.

Both are correct; you got bonus points.

Now this question for both teams.

It is a calculation question.

You've been hired to paint a mural of Lake Winnipesaukee.

The mural will be 7 feet tall, 12 feet wide.

If you complete a preliminary sketch on paper that is 18 inches inches wide, how tall should the paper be?

A-Tech, Olivia: 10.5 inches.

That is correct.

Bonus questions now for A-Tech only.

Answer the following calculation questions: First, if the first Olympiad began in 776 BCE, in which year was the 10th Olympiad held?

Second, if 5 out of 27 Venusians have an extra antler on their cones, how many extra-antlered Venusians should you find in a population of 1,647 Venusians?

The first answer is 748 BCE.

The second answer is 305.

I believe the second answer is correct.

What was your first answer again?

-748 BCE.

-Yes, that's incorrect.

It was 740 BCE.

But 305 is correct, so some bonus points but not all.

Now a question for both teams.

In 1857 Chief Justice Roger Taney held that blacks, slave or free, could not be citizens of the United States, ruling that which slave inherited by-- A-Tech, Olivia: Dred Scott.

Yes.

Bonus questions for A-Tech.

Answer the following about the Supreme Court: First, the longest tenured member of the Court was William O. Douglas.

His tenure lasted 36 years, 209 days.

Who is the longest serving member of the current Court?

Second, two presidents hold the record for naming the most justices at nine.

One was George Washington; who was the other?

First answer, Meyer; second answer, Andrew Jackson.

-Your first answer again?

-Meyer.

-Okay, they're both incorrect.

We were looking for Clarence Thomas and Franklin Roosevelt.

No bonus points.

This question for both teams now.

Which French chemist said, "A system in equilibrium when subjected to a stress "resulting from a change in temperature, pressure "or concentration causing the equilibrium "to upset will adjust its position of equilibrium "to relieve the stress "and reestablish equilibrium."

A-Tech, Olivia: Mendeleev.

Incorrect.

Arbor View, Brayden: Hook.

No, it was LeChatelier.

No bonus questions, no points at all.

We move on to this question for both teams.

Four presidents have died by assassination, and other presidents survived attempts.

Further, some presidents' deaths by "natural causes" were suspicious to say the least.

For example, the wife of a president who died of a heart attack refused permission for an autopsy, raising questions about the death of which man who called for a return to normalcy?

Arbor View, Zach: Warren G. Harding.

Yes.

Bonus questions for Arbor View.

Answer the following about assassination attempts: First, which campaigning former president was shot in the chest but still gave a 90-minute speech before going to the hospital?

Second, which president survived two different assassination attempts in the span of 17 days back in the 1970s?

Okay.

We'd like to answer for the first question, Theodore Roosevelt; for the second one, Jimmy Carter.

-Roosevelt is correct.

The second was Gerald Ford.

So some bonus points, but not all.

Next question for both teams.

Although he declined a knighthood and an offer to be the British Poet Laureate, he was the first English language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Name the novelist and poet who was born in India and who spent much of his early adult life there.

A-Tech, Jackie: Rudyard Kipling.

Yes.

Bonus questions for A-Tech.

Answer the following about literature: First, limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery are the nine circles of hell according to what 19th century Italian author?

Second, doubters about the actual identity of what British author are collectively referred to as "anti-Stratfordians"?

The first answer is Dante, and the second answer is Kafka.

Dante is correct but the second is Shakespeare.

Some bonus points.

That is the end of the bonus round.

(crashing sound) The speed round next.

The score going into round three, A-Tech with 65 points to Arbor View with 45.

Anything can happen in the speed round.

Now, A-Tech is keeping their same players.

We have one new player for Arbor View.

We say hey to Ty.

How's it going?

Let's go.

Built by William the Conqueror in the 11th century, Nottingham Castle is near what fabled forest?

A-Tech, Jackie: Sherwood.

Yes.

What isotope of hydrogen has no neutron?

A-Tech, Wade: H-1.

Incorrect.

Arbor View, Ty: Deuterium.

No.

It's protium.

What Central American country has no border on the Pacific?

Arbor View, Zach: Belize.

Yes.

With a name combining that of a color with a synonym for "rock," what was the name of the rocket modified by Wernher Von Braun's team that launched the first U.S. astronaut into space?

(bell chimes, time expires) Did they get in in time?

Who was that?

Arbor View, Brayden: Red comet.

Incorrect.

So we were looking for Redstone.

No points, we move on.

What's the first line in the verse by Samuel Coleridge in which the following is the last line: "Nor any drop to drink."

(bell chimes, time expires) The first part was "Water, water, everywhere."

For whom is Clark County Route 215, the part west of the I-15, named after?

Arbor View, Zach: Bruce Woodbury.

Yes.

What's the common name for an adipocyte?

(bell chimes, time expires) It's a fat cell.

If you arranged the subtractive primary colors alphabetically, which one is first?

A-Tech, Sovannjet: Cyan.

Yes.

Calculation question, not repeated in this round: At what point do the lines 2x + 3y = 5 and x = -2, at what point do those lines intersect?

Arbor View, Brayden: (-2,3).

Yes.

Which state's license plate declares "First in Flight"?

Arbor View, Zach: North Carolina.

Yes.

Alexei, the son of Nicholas and Alexandria, suffered from which blood-- Arbor View, Reese: Hemophilia.

Yes.

In baseball before the Athletics moved to Oakland, the team called two other cities home; name one of them.

Arbor View, Zach: Kansas City.

Yes.

The other is Philadelphia.

You get those points.

What's the term for a crude model of a detested person that's burned as a way of expressing dissent?

A-Tech, Olivia: Effigy.

Yes.

Who serves as Nevada's Attorney General?

Arbor View, Zach: Adam Laxalt.

Incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) At one time he might have been, but the current one is Aaron Ford.

Next question is a calculation question.

Given that A = 3, what does the expression 2 divided by (1/7 + 1/A) equal?

A-Tech, Sovannjet: 14-1/3.

Incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) We were looking for 4.2 or 21/5.

Next question.

Using the names of letters in the Greek alphabet, express the abbreviation for the United Kingdom.

A-Tech, Sovannjet: Upsilon Kappa.

Yes.

The battles of Jutland, Verdun, The Marne and Belleau Wood were all battles in which war?

(bell chimes, time expires) I think that was after the buzzer.

So the answer was the Great War or World War I.

Next question.

If the cone-shaped cells in a person's retinas failed to produce the correct photo pigments, what visual defect results?

A-Tech, Jackie: Colorblindness.

Yes.

The Rashidun Caliphate, the first caliphate, was established in the year 632 immediately after whose death?

Arbor View, Zach: Mohammed.

Yes.

According to the 2020 U.S. Census, which state is the least populous?

Arbor View, Zach: Wyoming.

Yes.

The two major categories of plankton are phytoplankton and what other?

A-Tech, Jackie: Photoplankton.

-Pardon me?

-Photoplankton.

-Incorrect.

(bell chimes, time expires) We were looking for zooplankton.

In the following sentence, "Phred and Nikki chased Leon around the tree," who or what was the direct object?

A-Tech, Jackie: Leon.

Yes.

The orbit of which dwarf planet is closest to the Sun?

A-Tech, Wade: "Glera."

Incorrect.

Arbor View, Zach: Ceres.

Yes.

What is Australia's southwesternmost major city?

Arbor View, Zach: Perth.

Yes.

Kinetic energy is not conserved in what type of collision?

A-Tech, Sovannjet: Inelastic.

Yes.

Who became the uncontested ruler of Rome upon the deaths of Mark Antony and Cleopatra?

Arbor View, Zach: Julius Caesar.

No.

(bell chimes, time expires) We were looking for Octavian or Augustus.

Name the point halfway between the focus and directrix of a parabola where the parabola makes its sharpest turn.

A-Tech, Sovannjet: Vertex.

Yes.

What is the absolute phrase in the following sentence: She sauntered down the path to the historic chapel completely unaware of the fiend there.

Arbor View, Reese: "Completely."

No.

And there was time on that.

I think there was time on that.

Okay.

A-Tech, Sovannjet: "Completely unaware."

That's incorrect.

We were looking for "completely unaware of the fiend."

We were looking for the whole phrase.

We're out of time, so let's find out who won.

(crashing sound) The final score, A-Tech 105 to Arbor View 90.

How about a round of applause for both teams for a really good final match.

(applause) Congratulations go to A-Tech.

Captain Jackie, here you go, and Olivia.

The title VQ 22 Blue League Champion.

We hope you'll tune in next week for a lighthearted Blue League All-Star Match.

Thanks for watching Varsity Quiz on Vegas PBS.

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