- Welcome to the studios of WCMU Public Television.

As we continue our 18th season of "Quiz Central."

Brethren takes on Ellsworth in a first round match coming up right after this.

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- [Host] Here is your first question on "Quiz Central."

(bell dinging) - CS Lewis?

- [Host] CS Lewis is correct.

(bell dinging) - "Charlotte's Web."

- [Host] Correct.

(bell dinging) - Nylon.

- [Host] Correct.

Our season 17 grand champions are the students from Ross Common High School.

Hello everyone, I'm Matthew Ozanich, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to "Quiz Central" here on WCMU.

We finish up the first round of our tournament today, with Brethren taking on Ellsworth.

And here's how the game works.

On our virtual edition of "Quiz Central," our two competing teams will be 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.

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

Our first round is the Maroon and Gold Rush, where our teams will have just two minutes to answer as many questions as they can.

Each correct answer is worth 10 points.

There's no deduction for incorrect answers.

Students will be able to consult with their teammates on each question, but the final answers will be coming from the team's captain.

Brethren, you're gonna lead things off for us today.

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

What particle oscillates between three flavors, has a tiny but non-zero mass, barely interacts with matter, and has a name meaning "little neutral one"?

- Neutron?

- [Host] Neutron is incorrect.

Marco Polo supposedly visited the court of what Mongol leader who founded China's Yuan dynasty and ordered two failed invasions of Japan?

- Genghis Khan?

- [Host] Genghis Khan is incorrect.

What battle, in which Strong Vincent led a defense of Little Round Top and Pickett's charged failed, was an 1863 Union victory in Pennsylvania?

- Gettysburg.

- [Host] Correct.

The Haber-Bosch process is used to produce over 200 million tons per year of what gas used to make fertilizers?

- Carbon monoxide?

- [Host] That is incorrect, next question.

What first ever US delegate to the United Nations previously organized Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial, as FDR's First Lady?

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

- [Host] Correct.

Bed nets help protect against what insect which Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed proved was responsible for spreading yellow fever.

- I can't hear you guys, you have to say it.

- Mosquito.

- Mosquito?

- [Host] That is correct.

What Big 10 school, whose men's basketball team is coached by Juwan Howard, featured a group of players in the 1990s known as the Fab Five?

- Anyone?

Pass.

- [Host] Pass?

Next question.

Theodore Maiman built the first of what devices which use a gain medium to achieve a population inversion that generates coherent beams of light?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What leader of the Soviet Union signed the SALT I treaty after succeeding Nikita Kruschev in 1964?

- Joseph Stalin?

(bell dinging) - [Host] Oh, I'm sorry, that is incorrect and that bell is going to signify the end of the round.

Brethren finishes out the Maroon and Gold Rush with three correct answers and 30 points.

Now, it's Ellsworth's turn in the opening round.

Let's put two minutes back on the clock.

What particle oscillates between three flavors, has a tiny but non-zero mass, barely interacts with matter and has a nay meaning "little neutral one"?

- Neutron?

- [Host] Neutron is incorrect.

Marco Polo supposedly visited the court of what Mongol leader who founded China's Yuan dynasty and ordered two failed invasions of Japan?

- [Student] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What battle, in which Strong Vincent led a defense of Little Round Top and Pickett's charge failed and was an 1863 union victory in Pennsylvania?

- Yorktown?

- [Host] Yorktown is incorrect.

The Haber-Bosch process is used to produce over 200 million tons per year of what gas used to make fertilizers?

- Nitrogen.

- Nitrogen.

- [Host] Nitrogen is incorrect.

What first ever US delegate to the United Nations previously organized Marion Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial, as FDR First Lady?

(students murmuring) - Eleanor?

- [Host] Eleanor is correct.

Bed nets help protect against what insect which Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed proved was responsible for spreading yellow fever?

(students murmuring) - [Student] Just pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, onto the next question.

What Big 10 school, whose men's basketball team was coached by Juwan Howard, featured a group of players in the 1990s- - Michigan, it's Michigan.

- [Host] Known as the Fab Five?

- Michigan?

- [Host] Michigan is correct.

Theodore Maiman built the first of what devices which used a gain medium to achieve a population inversion that generates coherent beams of light?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, onto the next question.

What leader of the Soviet Union signed the SALT I treaty after succeeding Nikita Kruschev and- (bell dinging) Oh, that bell signifies the end of the round, so we're not gonna be able to get to the rest of that question.

After the Maroon and Gold Rush, our score is Brethren 30 and Ellsworth 20.

And before we move on, let's take a look at the questions that we missed in the opening round.

The particle that's a "little neutral one" is a neutrino.

The Mongol leader who founded China's Yuan dynasty was Kublai Khan.

The gas used to make fertilizers is ammonia.

Theodore Maiman was the builder of the first lasers.

And the Soviet leader that signed the SALT I treaty was Leonid Brezhnev.

We have a lot more questions to ask in our game today, but before we continue, let's take this opportunity to meet our players from today's schools.

We'll start with the students from Brethren.

- Hi, my name is Jane (indistinct).

I'm a senior at Brethren High School and I also am a competitive dancer with the Conservatory of Dance.

- Hi, I'm Ariel, I'm 15, I'm a freshman at Brethren High School.

I do band and I'm part of the National Art Honor Society.

- Hi, I'm Cora Scott.

I am a senior at Brethren High School and I am in the National Honors Society.

- I am Ian Scott.

I am a freshman at Brethren High School.

I do band and then I am class secretary.

- Thank you Brethren.

Now let's meet the team from Ellsworth.

- I'm Hannah, I'm a senior and I play volleyball and I'm on NHS.

- I'm Jurgen Griswold, I'm a junior.

- Hi, I'm Jacob, I'm a senior at Ellsworth.

I play baseball, basketball, and football.

- I'm Patrick, I'm a junior at Ellsworth.

I play football, basketball, baseball, and I run track and cross country and I'm the student council vice president.

- Well, now that everyone's made their introductions, let's head into our next round of the day, the Perfect 10.

In this round our teams will be given a category and they'll have 60 seconds to answer 10 questions pertaining to that category.

Our perfect 10 category for today is Two Ws.

Give these words or names that contain the letter W at least twice.

Brethren, you're up first in the Perfect 10 round.

So let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

The capital of Poland?

- Pass.

- [Host] All right.

William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about a red one.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, onto the next question.

Steven Chbosky wrote a book about "The Perks of Being" one of these?

- Wallflower.

- [Host] Correct.

Employee who reveals illegal activity in a company.

- Whistleblower.

- [Host] Correct.

Trees with a weeping variety.

- Weeping willow.

- [Host] Willow is correct.

To narrow or reduce in number.

- Pass.

- Term for a woman whose spouse has died.

- Widow.

- Correct.

Native American gathering whose names come from the Narragansett word.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

Chinese dog breed with a thick, coarse coat.

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

Brethren finishes out their Perfect 10 with four correct answers, bringing their score to 70.

Let's turn now to Ellsworth in the Perfect 10 as we put 60 seconds back on the clock.

The capital of Poland.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about a "red" one.

- [Student] Willow.

- Willow.

- [Host] Incorrect.

Steven Chbosky wrote a book about "The Perks of Being" one of these.

(student murmuring) - Defer to Jurgen.

- Jurgen?

- Wallflower.

- [Host] That is correct.

Employee who reveals illegal activity in a company.

- [Student] Whistleblower.

- Whistleblower.

- [Host] Correct.

Tree with a weeping variety.

- Willow.

- [Host] Correct.

To narrow or reduce in number.

(students murmuring) - Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

Term for a woman whose spouse has died.

- Widow.

- [Host] Correct.

Native American gathering whose name comes from- (bell dinging) And that bell signals the end of the round.

Ellsworth is able to snag four correct answers for 40 points in the Perfect 10, bringing their score now to 60.

After two rounds our score is Brethren 70, Ellsworth 60.

A close game indeed.

And before we move on, let's take a look at those questions we missed in the Perfect 10.

The capital of Poland is Warsaw.

William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about a red wheelbarrow.

To reduce in number is to winnow.

A Native American gathering is a powwow.

William Cullen Bryant penned poem about waterfowl.

And the Chinese dog breed we were looking for was a chow chow.

It's still anyone's game as we head into our third round of the day, the Homestretch round.

In the Homestretch, I'll be asking each team a series of random questions.

Correct answers are still worth 10 points a piece, and final answers will be coming from the team's captains.

We're gonna start with Brethren in the Homestretch round.

So students, here comes your first question.

What island, known before 1956 as Bedloe's Island, was renamed after a statue on the island with a tablet reading "July 4, 1776"- - Ellis Island?

- [Host] I'm sorry, Ellis Island is incorrect.

What city, whose jumbo floating restaurant sank in 2022, contains Kowloon north of Victoria Harbor and in 1997 was handed over from the UK to China?

- Pass.

- Pass, next question.

What event, whose 109th edition began in Copenhagen in July 2022 is a major annual cycling race that always finishes on the Champs Elysees in Paris?

- The Tour de France.

- Correct.

In what type of fraction, such as five thirds, is the numerator greater than the denominator?

- What?

- [Ian] Improper.

- Improper.

- That is correct.

Jason Alexander played hapless George Costanza on what nineties TV series, which was often called "a show about nothing"?

- Pass.

- Pass, next question.

What political party, currently led by Keir Starmer and previously led by Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair, is Great Britain's main left wing party?

(students murmuring) - Pass.

- Pass, next question.

What city, which is the origin of fado music, lies at the mouth of the Tagus River, contains the Vasco de Gama bridge, and is the capital of Portugal?

- Pass.

- Pass, next question.

What devices, which contain a tube filled with inert gas, produces audible clicks when radiation is detected?

- Pass.

- Pass, next question.

What poetic form, used in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I compare the to a summer's day," is 14- - A sonnet.

- A sonnet is correct.

The House of the Faun is in what city on the bay of Naples, which was preserved in volcanic ash by an AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

- Pompeii.

- [Host] Pompeii is correct.

The Good Friday agreement largely ended violence in what constituent country of the UK- - Ireland.

- Ireland?

- [Host] Ireland is correct.

What molecule, whose autoionization constant is the product of hydroxide and hydronium ion concentrations and is known as the universal solvent?

- [Ian] Water.

- Water.

- [Host] Correct.

The Battle of Stamford bridge fell three weeks before what battle at which Harold Godwinson was slain by forces under William the Conqueror in 1066?

- The Battle of Hastings.

- [Host] Correct.

Following the 2020 election, Republicans in seven states sent fake elector certificates to what federal agency that preserves government records?

- The National Archives.

- [Host] That is correct.

What trigonomic function's namesake law extends the Pythagorean theorem to non-right triangles and is the reciprocal of the secant function?

- Cosine.

- [Host] Cosine is correct.

(bell dinging) Oh, that bell is gonna signify the end of the round.

Brethren's able to pick up some steam in the home stretch with nine correct answers, bringing their score to 160.

We now turn to Ellsworth to see how they'll handle the Homestretch.

Ellsworth, here comes your first question.

What island, known before 1956 as Bedloe's Island, was renamed after a statue on the island with a tablet reading "July 4, 1776" and a torch?

- The Statue of Liberty?

- [Host] Correct.

What city, whose jumbo floating restaurant sank in 2022, contains Kowloon north of Victoria Harbor and in 1997 was handed over from the UK to China?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What event, whose 109th edition began in Copenhagen in July 2022, is a major annual cycling race that always finishes on the Champs Elysees in Paris?

(students murmuring) - Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

(student sighing) In what type of fraction, such as five thirds, is the numerator greater than the denominator?

- Improper.

- Improper.

- [Host] Correct.

Jason Alexander played hapless George Costanza on what nineties TV series, which was often called "a show about nothing"?

- [Student] "Seinfeld."

- Defer to Jurgen.

- "Seinfeld."

- [Host] Correct.

What political party, currently led by Keir Starmer and previously led by Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair, is Great Britain's main left wing party?

- [Student] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What city, which is the origin of fado music, lies at the mouth of the Tagus River, contains the Vasco de Gama bridge, and is the capital of Portugal?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What devices, which contain a tube filled with inert gas, produces audible clicks when radiation is detected?

- A detector, like a monoxide detector, I dunno.

- Defer to Jacob.

- Pass, pass.

- Pass, onto the next question.

What poetic form, used in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I compare the to a summer's day," is 14 lines long?

(Jurgen mumbling) - Do it.

- Dynamic pentameter?

- [Host] That is incorrect, on to the next question.

The House of the Faun is in what city on the bay of Naples, which was preserved in volcanic ash by an AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

- Pompeii.

- Correct.

The Good Friday Agreement largely ended violence in what constituent country of the UK where unionists fought Republicans during 'the Troubles'?

(student chuckling) - Pass.

- Pass, onto the next question.

What molecule, whose autoionization constant is the product of hydroxide and hydronium ion concentrations, is known as a universal solvent?

- [Student] Hydrogen?

I don't know.

(students murmuring) - Hydrogen?

- [Host] Hydrogen is incorrect, on to the next question.

The Battle of Stamford bridge fell three weeks before what battle at which Harold Godwinson was slain by forces under William the Conqueror- (bell dinging) Oh, that bell's gonna signify the end of the round.

Ellsworth struggles a bit in the Homestretch, but still manages to add 40 points to their total.

And before we give you an update on the score, let's go ahead and take a look at the questions that were missed during the Homestretch.

The city that in 1997 was handed over from the UK to China was Hong Kong.

Great Britain's main left wing party is the Labour Party.

The capital of Portugal is Lisbon.

And the device used to detect radiation is a Geiger counter.

Three rounds in the books and our score is Brethren 160, Ellsworth 100.

Will Ellsworth be able to make up some ground and take the lead in our final round of the day?

Well, we'll find out as we enter the Final Countdown, where our teams will have just two minutes to answer as many questions as they can, with correct answers still being worth 10 points a piece.

Brethren, we start with you in the Final Countdown.

We're gonna put two minutes on the clock.

Here comes your first question.

What term, coined from the Greek for "a way down" by Michael Faraday, is an electrode that is a site of reduction and is connected to an anode?

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What man ran for president on the Reform Party ticket in 1996 after drawing nearly 20 million votes as an independent candidate in 1992?

(student murmuring) - Pass.

- [Host] Pass.

- 1992.

- Oh.

- [Host] What field of study, which was practiced by Clifford Geertz and Margaret Mead, concerns human culture and has a name meaning "study of man"?

- Anthropology.

- [Host] That is correct.

What Civil rights leader and chairman of SNCC was beaten while leading the Selma marches in 1965, and later served as a congressman from Georgia?

- Oh my god, I can't remember his name.

Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What Trojan hero, Priam's eldest son, was dragged around the walls of Troy after his death?

- Achilles?

- [Host] Incorrect, next question.

A controversial study of delayed gratification by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel is named after what food item offered to children in the study?

- The M & M study?

- [Host] That is incorrect, next question.

What protein which forms stiff chains when mutated in sickle cell disease, has four iron atoms that bind to oxygen, and is found in red blood cells?

- Plasma.

- [Host] Plasma is incorrect.

What country, which contains an arid region called the Great Karoo, completely surrounds Lesotho and has three national capitals, including Cape Town?

- [Ian] Saudi Arabia.

- Saudi Arabia?

- [Host] Incorrect.

What philosopher, who wrote about the definition of knowledge in a work called the "Theaetetus" included the allegory of the cave in "The Republic"?

(bell dinging) - Plato.

- [Host] Oh, I'm sorry, you were able to get the correct answer but unfortunately it was after the bell so we're not gonna be able to accept that one.

Brethren struggles in the Final Countdown.

Only able to get one correct answer.

Now, Ellsworth, it's your turn to enter the Final Countdown.

Here comes your first question.

What term, coined from the Greek for "a way down" by Michael Faraday, is an electrode that is a site of reduction and is connected to an anode?

(students murmuring) - Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, next question.

What man ran for president on the Reform party ticket in 1996 after drawing nearly 200 million votes as an independent candidate in 1992?

(students chuckling) - [Student] Pass.

- Pass - [Host] Pass, next question.

What field of study which was practiced by Clifford Geertz and Margaret Mead, concerns human culture and has a name meaning "study of man"?

- Anthropology?

- [Host] Correct.

What civil rights leader and chairman of SNCC was beaten while leading the Selma marches in 1965 and later served as a congressman from Georgia?

- [Student] Pass.

- Pass.

- [Host] Pass, onto the next question.

What Trojan hero, Priam's eldest son, was dragged around the walls of Troy after his death?

- Pericles?

- [Host] Pericles is incorrect.

A controversial study of delayed gratification by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel is named after what food item offered to children in the study?

- [Student] Chicken tenders.

- Chicken tenders?

- [Host] That is incorrect, onto the next question.

What protein which forms stiff chains when mutated in sickle cell disease, has four iron atoms that bind to oxygen, and is found in red blood cells?

- [Jacob] Hemoglobin - Defer to Jacob.

- Hemoglobin.

- Hemoglobin is correct.

What country, which contains an arid region- (bell dinging) And that bell signals the end of the round.

Both teams finding today's Final Countdown a bit of a challenge with Ellsworth adding just 20 points to their score in that round.

And before we get to our final score, let's take a look at the questions that were missed in the Final Countdown.

The term coined from the Greek "a way down" is cathode.

That independent presidential candidate who ran in 1992 was Ross Perot.

The civil rights leader and chairman of SNCC was John Lewis.

The Trojan hero dragged around the walls of Troy was Hector.

That controversial Stanford study utilized the food marshmallows.

And the country with three capitals including Cape Town is South Africa.

And finally, the philosopher and author of "The Republic" was Plato.

After four rounds of competition, our final score is Brethren 170, Ellsworth 120.

So congratulations to Brethren for being today's victors and on advancing to the next round of "Quiz Central."

And we wanna send our thanks to the team from Ellsworth for joining us this season on "Quiz Central" and seniors, good luck to all of you in the future.

And underclassmen, we hope to see you next season on "Quiz Central."

And we invite all of you to join us again in the next episode of QC as two more Michigan schools vie to be our season 18 grand champions.

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

From the crew here at WCMU Public TV, 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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