- Welcome to the studios of WCMU public television.

And on this episode of Quiz Central, we continue our season with a first round game between Boyne City and White Cloud, coming up right after this.

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- Let's get today's match underway.

Here's your first question on Quiz Central.

(bell rings) - Teddy Roosevelt.

- [Host] That is correct.

- Crimson?

- [Host] Yes.

That answer is correct.

- Patella.

- [Host] Correct.

Congratulations Ludington, you are the Quiz Central Season 16 Grand Champions.

Hello everyone.

I'm Matthew Ozanich, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to the 17th season of Quiz Central right here on WCMU.

Thank you so much for joining us this evening.

And 16 teams will be also be joining us this year, from schools throughout central and northern Michigan.

But today, we will be joined by the teams from Boyne City and White Cloud.

This season on Quiz Central, our two teams are being independently challenged with an identical set of questions.

The school that answers the most questions correctly in the time allotted advances to the next round, and perhaps will be crowned our Season 17 Grand Champions.

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

This week, the Blue Division takes center stage.

So without further ado, let's get today's match underway.

Our first round is the Maroon and Gold Rush.

Our teams will have two minutes to answer as many questions correctly as they can.

Each correct answer is worth 10 points.

There's no deduction for incorrect answers, and students will be able to consult with their teammates on each of the questions, but the final answers will be coming from the team's respective captains.

Boyne City, you're up first.

Here comes your first question in today's Maroon and Gold Rush.

[Host] What country, which runs operation sovereign borders to stop asylum seekers, has been led since 2018 by Prime Minister Scott Morrison from Canberra?

- (indistinct) - I would say, um (indistinct) circumference.

- [Host] Boyne City, do we have an answer?

- If we don't know, we should just go.

- We do not, unfortunately.

- [Host] All right, on to the next question.

The prime meridian passes through the Royal Observatory in which borough of London, which represents the "G" in the acronym G M T?

(indistinct) - I think if you don't know (indistinct).

- [Host] No?

- Yes, since it's time.

- We're gonna pass on that one.

- [Host] All right, pass on to the next question.

Boston Corbett shot what man who yelled "Sic semper tyrannis" and jumped from a balcony at Ford's Theatre after assassinating Abraham Lincoln?

- [together] John Wilkes Booth.

- [Host] Correct.

- What river, which joins the Parana river near the town of Corrientes, shares its name with a landlocked South American country?

- (indistinct) - Either Brazil, Colombia... - Colombian?

- Argentina.

- Columbian River?

- Chile.

- Did you say Argentina?

- I don't know what (indistinct) - Colombian River.

- [Host] Colombia is incorrect.

On to the next question.

What small sacs at the end of bronchioles are the sites of gas exchange in the lungs?

- Oh!

(indistinct) They're like alveoli.

- The alveoli.

- [Host] Alveoli is correct.

In optics, an image is inverted if it has a negative value for what quantity denoted M?

(bell rings) Oh!

That bell is going to signify the end of the round.

Great job Boyne city, we were able to get two correct answers in that first round for a total of 20 points.

White Cloud, now it's your turn in today's Maroon and Gold Rush.

Here comes your first question.

- [Host] What country, which runs operation sovereign borders to stop asylum seekers, has been led since 2018 by Prime Minister Scott Morrison from Canberra?

(indistinct) - Australia.

- [Host] Australia's correct.

The prime meridian passes through the Royal Observatory in which borough of London, which represents the "G" in the acronym G M T?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass.

On to the next question.

Boston Corbett shot- shot what man who yelled "Sic semper tyrannis" and jumped from a balcony at Ford's Theater after assassinating Abraham Lincoln?

- [White Cloud member] Wilkes Booth.

- Wilkes Booth.

- [Host] Wilkes Booth is correct.

What river, which joins the Parana river near the town of Corrientes, shares its name with a landlocked South American country?

- [White Cloud member] Congo?

- Congo?

- [Host] Incorrect.

On to the next question.

What small sacs at the end of bronchioles are the sites of gas exchange in the lungs?

- (indistinct) - Uh, alveoli?

- [Host] Alveoli is correct.

In optics, an image is inverted if it has a negative value for what quantity, denoted M, that indicates how much it grows, as in a namesake glass?

- [White Cloud member] Tempered?

- Tempered?

- [Host] No, sorry that's incorrect.

On to the next question.

What long-running conflict ended by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, was fought over whether Northern Ireland should be a part of Britain or Ireland?

- [White Cloud member] British Civil War?

- British Civil War?

- [Host] British Civil War's incorrect.

On to the next question.

What metal, mined at Potosi in Bolivia, was supposedly found in a mountain range that is the origin of the names Rio de la Plata and Argentina?

- [White Cloud members] Platinum?

- Platinum?

- [Host] Platinum is incorrect.

On to the next question.

(bell rings) Oh with that bell that going to signify the end of the round, but White Cloud, you were able to get three correct answers in the opening round for a total of 30 points.

Our Maroon and Gold Rush round wraps up with Boyne City 20, White Cloud 30.

And the answers for those opening round questions that we missed.

- [Host] The prime Meridian passes through a Royal Observatory in the borough of Greenwich, London.

The river that shares its name with a landlocked South American country is the Paraguay River.

In optics, an image is inverted if it has a negative value for what quantity?

That would be magnification.

The conflict that was ended by the Good Friday Agreement was known as the Troubles.

And that metal mined in Bolivia and supposedly found in mountain ranges was silver.

With one tough round in the books, let's take a moment now and meet our contestants from each of today's schools.

We'll begin with today's competitors from Boyne City.

- Alright.

My name is Savannah Leaver, and I'm gonna to be today's team captain.

I'm on the robotics team, and the after-school drama program among other things.

- My name is Bruce McPherson.

I am a senior at Boyne City High School, and I participate in after-school drama and marching band.

- Hi, I'm Lydia Fras.

I'm a senior at Boyne City High School, and I run cross country and play soccer.

- I'm Camille Eades.

I play soccer, and I'm also in the after-school drama program.

- All right, thank you Boyne city.

Now let's meet our next team and today's competition, the students from White Cloud.

Take it away.

- Hi, I'm Anthony (indistinct).

I'm a senior at White Cloud High School, and I do track, football, band, and go to school.

- I'm Malachi.

I go to White Cloud High School.

I'm a junior and I do cross country.

- My name is Tristan (indistinct).

I go to White Cloud, and I run track and cross country.

- Hi, my name is (indistinct) Key.

I am a junior at White Cloud High School, and I do boy scouts.

- Now that we've had a chance to meet everyone, let's head into the next round of competition today, The Perfect Ten.

In this round, our teams will be given the category and they'll have 60 seconds to answer as many questions correctly as they can.

Our Perfect Ten category for today is TV Occupations: given TV characters and their occupations, name the show on which they first appeared.

Boyne city, you're up first.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock, as we dive in to today's Perfect Ten.

- [Host] Physicist Sheldon Cooper.

- Big Bang Theory.

- [Host] Big bang is correct.

Teacher turned drug lord, Walter White.

- Breaking Bad.

- [Host] Breaking Bad's correct.

Government Office Director, Ron Swanson, who is Leslie Knope's boss.

- [Camille] Parks and Rec.

- Parks and Rec.

- [Host] Parks and Rec is correct.

Dunder Mifflin, Regional Manager, Michael Scott.

- [together] The Office.

- [Host] The Office is correct.

Former Police Officer, Rick Grimes.

- [Bruce and Lydia] Skip.

- [Host] Skip?

Is that what I heard, Boyne City?

On to the next question.

Engineer Montgomery Scott.

- [Lydia] Oh, uh the its, um The Flash.

- The Flash.

- [Host] Flash is incorrect.

On to the next question.

Fourth grade teacher, Herbert Garrison.

- [Savannah] Skip.

- [Host] Skip, on to the next question.

Law professor, Annalise Keating.

- [Lydia] (indistinct).

- [Savannah] Law and Order?

- [Host] Law and Order is incorrect.

(bell rings) Oh sorry with that bell, that's gonna signify the end of the round.

Boyne city was able to snag four correct answers for 40 points, and that brings their score now up to 60, but now it's White Cloud's turn to up their score in today's Perfect Ten round.

- [Host] Again, TV occupations given the TV character and their occupations, name the show on which they first appeared.

All right, White Cloud.

We're gonna to get put city 60 seconds on the clock, and here comes your Perfect Ten round.

Physicist, Sheldon Cooper.

- [White Cloud member] Big Bang.

- Big Bang.

- [Host] Big bang is correct.

Teacher turned drug lord, Walter White.

- [White Cloud member] Breaking Bad.

- Breaking Bad.

- [Host] Breaking Bad's correct.

Government Office Director, Ron Swanson, who is Leslie Knope's boss.

- [Key] Parks and Recreation.

- Parks and Recreation.

- [Host] Correct.

Dunder Mifflin, Regional Manager, Michael Scott.

- [Key] The Office.

- The Office.

- [Host] Correct.

Former Police Officer, Rick Grimes.

- [Key] Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

- [Anthony] Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

- [Host] Brooklyn Nine-Nine is incorrect.

Engineer Montgomery Scott.

- [Key] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] On to the next question.

Fourth grade teacher, Herbert Garrison.

- [Key] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] That's a pass.

Law professor, Annalise Keating.

- [Key] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Sam Malone, a Boston bartender.

(bell rings) Oh, with that bell.

Sorry, that's gonna signify the end of the round.

With today's Perfect Ten in the books, we now sit at Boyne city 60, and White Cloud 70.

- [Host] Questions missed in that round were, Rick Grimes was from The Walking Dead.

Engineer Montgomery Scott was from Star Trek: The Original Series.

Herbert Garrison is the fourth grade teacher in the show South Park.

Annalise Keating was in How To Get Away With Murder.

And finally, Sam Malone was of course the bartender on Cheers.

Currently, our score is Boyne City 60 and White Cloud 70.

As we now head into our third round of the day, the Homestretch round, I'll be asking each team a series of random questions.

Team members will be able to consult with each other, and final answers will be coming from our team's captains.

Boyne city, we're gonna start with you in today's Homestretch round.

Here comes your first question.

- [Host] Biodiesel fuels are examples of what molecules, formed by reacting a carboxylic acid with an alcohol that form namesake polymers used in clothes?

- Polyester.

- [Host] Polyester is correct.

What quantity is constant for a Newtonian fluid, zero for a super fluid, very high for molasses, and represents a fluid's resistance to flow?

- Viscosity.

- [Host] Viscosity is correct.

What city, whose Tuol Sleng Genocide museum is housed in a former Khmer Rouge prison, is the capital of Cambodia?

- Skip.

- [Host] Skip, on to the next question.

What imaginary creatures include Seagoi in the Earthsea novels, Norbert in the Harry Potter series, and Smog who hoards treasure and breaths fire?

- [Savannah] Dinosaurs.

Dragons.

- [Host] Final answer?

- [Host] Dragons is correct.

In January 2021, the Biden administration announced it would speed up plans to place what woman on the $20 bill instead of Andrew Jackson?

(indistinct) - [Savannah] Harriet Tubman.

- [Host] Harriet Tubman's correct.

What 2021 song, in which Olivia Rodrigo asks, "So when you gonna tell her that we did that too" is named after a two-word French phrase?

- [Savannah] Deja Vu.

- [Host] Deja Vu is correct.

What data structure is often used to represent syntactic structure, consists of a graph with no cycles, has a root and has nodes that may branch?

- [Lydia] Oh, a wave.

- A wave.

- [Host] A wave is incorrect.

On the next question.

What geometric term names the 18th century British trade system that sent sugar to New England, rum to Africa, and enslaved people to the Caribbean?

- [Boyne City Member] Oh, it's soy.

- It's the path that triangle?

- It's the Silk Road?

- The Silk Road?

- [Host] Silk road is incorrect.

On to the next question.

What policy launched by executive order 9 0 6 6, was fought by Fred Korematsu, and led certain west coast residents to be held in camps in World War II?

- [Lydia] It's internment.

- [Savannah] Internment.

- [Host] Internment is correct.

What term and topology means a closed curve that without cutting, cannot be untangled into a simple loop, such as a simple tree foil?

- [all] Skip.

- [Host] Final answer.

What was that, Boyne City?

- Skip.

- [Host] Skip?

On to the next question.

What river whose tributaries include the Pend Oreille empties into the Pacific ocean and forms much of the border of Oregon and Washington?

(bell rings) - The Mississippi?

- [Host] Oh!

I'm sorry the Mississippi is incorrect and that bell is going to signify the end of the round.

Six correct answers means 60 points and a total score of one 120 thus far for the team from Boyne City.

We now turn to White Cloud to see how they'll handle today's Homestretch round.

White Cloud, here comes your first question.

- [Host] Biodiesel fuels are examples of what molecules formed by reacting a carb- a carboxylic acid with an alcohol that form namesake polymers used in clothes?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, on the next question.

What quantity is constant for a Newtonian fluid, zero for a super fluid, very high for molasses, and represents a fluid's resistance to flow?

- Viscosity.

- [Host] Viscosity is correct.

What city whose Tuol Sleng Genocide museum is housed in a former Khmer Rouge prison, and is the capital of Cambodia?

- [Key] Phnom Penh.

- [Tristan] Phnom Penh.

- [Anthony] Phnom Penh.

- [Host] Phnom Penh is correct.

What imaginary creatures include Segoi in the Earthsea novels, Norbert in the Harry Potter series, and Smog who hoards treasure and breathes fire?

- [multiple members] Dragon?

- [Host] Dragon's correct.

In January 2021, the Biden administration announced it would speed up plans to place what woman on the $20 bill instead of Andrew Jackson?

(indistinct) - Tubman.

- [Host] Tubman's correct.

What 2021 song in which Olivia Rodrigo asks, "So when you gonna tell her that we did that too" is named after a two-word French phrase?

- Deja Vu.

- [Host] Deja Vu is correct.

What data structure is often used to represent syntactic structure, consists of a graph with no cycles, has a root and has nodes that may branch?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, on to the next question.

What geometric term names the 18th century British trade system that sent sugar to New England, rum to Africa, and enslaved people to the Caribbean?

- [Key] Triangle.

Triangle.

- Triangle Trade.

- [Host] Triangle's correct.

What policy launched by executive order 9 0 6 6 was fought by Fred Korematsu, and led certain west coast residents to be held in camps in World War II?

- [Malachi] What about the Japanese internment camps?

- [Anthony] Japanese internment camps.

- [Host] Internment camps is correct.

What term and topology means a closed curve that without cutting, cannot be untangled into a simple loop, such as the simple tree foil?

- [Malachi] A knot?

- [Anthony] A knot?

- [Host] Knot's correct.

What river whose tributaries include the pen- Pend Oreille, empties into the Pacific ocean and forms much of the border of Oregon and Washington?

- [White Cloud Member] Colorado?

- Colorado River.

- [Host] Colorado river is incorrect.

On to the next question.

What element, which has the highest tensile strength and melting point of any metal, was once called Wolfram as reflected in its atomic symbol W?

- [Anthony] Tungsten.

- [Host] Tungsten is correct.

What artist painted animal skulls against desert backdrops, and many detailed and up-close images of flowers after she moved to New Mexico?

- O'Keeffe.

- [Host] O'Keeffe is correct.

What novel in which an electric-eyed snake is used to pump the stomach of Guy Montag's wife depicts (bell rings) Oh sorry, with that bell we're not gonna be able to get to the end of the question, but, White Cloud, fantastic job in that Homestretch round.

Let's count them up.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 correct answers for 100 points, which brings your total after three rounds to 170 points.

Fantastic job in that round.

The score after three rounds, Boyne City 120, White Cloud 170.

Answers missed in the Homestretch were that data structure consisting of grass with roots and branches, we were looking for trees.

And that river that forms much of the border between Oregon and Washington is the Columbia river.

White Cloud has the lead as we now head into the final countdown.

In our final round, our teams will have two minutes to answer as many questions as they can with correct answers still being worth 10 points a piece.

Boyne City, we're gonna to start with you in today's final countdown.

So let's put two minutes on the clock and here comes your first question.

- [Host] The Atlanta Braves lost the 1992 World Series to what team based in Canada?

(indistinct) - The Blue Jays.

- [Host] Blue Jays is correct.

What water soluble vitamin, essential for human norepinephrine and collagen synthesis, is also called ascorbic acid and is found in citrus fruits?

citrus fruits?

- Citric acid.

- [Host] Um citric acid.

Sorry, can't accept that.

I have to go on to the next question.

What author who wrote about an IRS regional office in Peoria in The Pale King, included almost 400 end notes in his lengthy novel, Infinite Jest?

- [Savannah] Skip.

- [Host] Pass, on the next question.

What quantity which can sometimes be calculated using the parallel axis theorem, is the rotational analog of mass?

- Volume?

- [Host] Volume is incorrect.

Next question.

What mineral with fused and shock types is a piezoelectric crystalline material that defines seven on the Mohs scale, and is made of silicon dioxide?

- [Savannah] Graphite?

- [Host] Graphite is incorrect.

Next question.

The Haight-Ashbury District is located in what U.S. city whose other neighborhoods include Nob Hill, the Mission, and the Castro?

- [Savannah] Texas?

- [Host] Texas is incorrect.

On to the next question.

What novel by Thomas Hardy is named after a milkmaid who was abandoned by her husband, Angel Claire, after she reveals that she gave birth to a child?

- [Savannah] The Handmaiden's Tale.

- [Host] No, I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

On to the next question.

What Roman emperor, who recited the Iliad as he committed suicide, was the last Julio Claudian emperor and ruled during the great fire in A.D. 64?

(indistinct) (bell rings) Oh sorry, that bell's gonna signify the end of the round.

Thank you Boyne City.

Now, White Cloud.

It's your turn to enter today's final countdown.

Here comes your first question.

- [Host] The Atlanta Braves lost the 1992 World Series to what team based in Canada?

- [Malachi] Blue Jays.

- The Blue Jays.

- [Host] Blue Jays is correct.

Which water soluble vitamin essential for human norepinephrine and collagen synthesis, is also called ascorbic acid and is found in citrus fruits?

- [Key] C. - [Anthony] C. - [Host] Vitamin C is correct.

What author, who wrote about an IRS regional office in Peoria in The Pale King, included almost 400 end notes in his lengthy novel, Infinite Jest?

- [Key and Anthony] Pass.

- [Host] Pass?

On to the next question.

What quantity, which can sometimes be calculated using the parallel axis theorem, is the rotational analog of mass?

- Torque.

- [Host] Torque is incorrect.

Next question.

What mineral with fused and shocked types is a piezoelectric crystalline material, that defines seven on the Mohs scale, and is made of silicon dioxide?

- [Key] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, on the next question.

The Haight-Ashbury District is located in what U.S. city, whose other neighborhoods include Nob Hill, the Mission, and the Castro?

(indistinct) - Tallahassee.

- [Host] Tallahassee is incorrect.

Next question.

What novel by Thomas Hardy is named after a milkmaid who is abandoned by her husband, Angel Claire, after she reveals that she gave birth to a child?

- [Key] Pass it, I don't know.

- [Anthony] Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What Roman emperor, who recited from the Iliad as he committed suicide, was the last Julio Claudian emperor, and ruled during the great fire in A.D. 64?

- [White Cloud Member] Nero.

- Nero.

- [Host] Nero's correct.

What last battleship commissioned by the U.S., was the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II?

- [Key] Nimitz.

- Nimitz.

- [Host] Nimitz is incorrect.

Next question.

What man who proposed that electrons can absorb or emit photons to move between circular orbits within an atom (bell rings) Oh, sorry with that bell we're not gonna be able to get to that last question, but in that final countdown, White Cloud you were able to get three correct answers for a total of 30 points.

Let's go ahead and take a look at those questions that we missed in the final countdown.

That author who wrote The Pale King and Infinite Jest was David Foster Wallace.

That quantity that is the rotational analog of mass, we were looking for a moment of inertia.

That mineral that was made of silicon dioxide was quartz.

The Haight-Ashbury District is located in the U.S. city of San Francisco.

The novel by Thomas Hardy that is named after a milkmaid abandoned by her husband was Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

And that last battleship commissioned by the U.S. was the, that was the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II was the USS Missouri.

After four rounds of competition, our final scores, Boyne City 130, White Cloud 200.

Boyne city unable to gain any traction in the final countdown means that White Cloud was able to hang onto their lead and come out ahead on today's Quiz Central.

So congratulations White Cloud, you'll be advancing to our next round of competition.

We want to thank Boyne City for a hard fought match today.

Seniors, good luck to all of you and your future endeavors, and underclassmen, we hope to see you next season on Quiz Central.

And we hope all of you will join us again on our next episode of QC, as two more Michigan schools compete for the Season 17 title.

And as a reminder, all episodes of Quiz Central are archived online at wcmu.org.

From the crew here at WCMU public television, thank you for watching, and we'll see you all right back here for the next episode of Quiz Central.

Goodnight.

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