- [Announcer] Local support for High School Bowl is made possible by 17 Upper Peninsula credit unions, including True North federal, Marquette Community Federal, Tahquamenon Area, Soo Co-op, Peninsula Federal, and Gogebic County Federal.

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High School Bowl is a production of WNMU-TV, in partnership with the regional educational service agencies and intermediate school districts of the Upper Peninsula.

- Welcome to High School Bowl.

- Tonight's first game is Brimley versus Manistique.

- Tonight's second game is Houghton versus Menominee.

- It's 2022, where the heck out of flying cars?

- [Announcer] Major production funding for High School Bowl is provided by Janice Mills of Escanaba and by the Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation.

WNMU-TV presents High School Bowl.

Our first game pits the Brimley Bays against the Manistique Emeralds.

Now here's your host of high school bowl, Jim Koski.

(audience applauds) - Happy New Year and welcome to another edition of High School Bowl.

It's your chance to spend an hour with some of the brightest young people on the planet.

We'll kick off the year with two great games.

Later on, we'll be saying hey to Menominee and Houghton, but let's meet the teams in tonight's first game.

And let's start with the Brimley Bays.

- Hi, I'm Braden Kemp, I'm a Junior.

- Mark Osborne, Freshman.

- Hey, I'm Maycee Smart, I'm a Junior and team captain.

- I'm Paul Sweeten, and I'm a Frehsman.

- Those are the Brimley Bays.

Now their opponents in the first game of 2022, the Manistique Emeralds.

- Michael Lamb, a freshmen.

- I'm Emma Kusnier, I'm a freshmen.

- Josh Kozlowski, Junior and team captain.

- Mark Ziemba, Junior.

- Those are the Manistique Emeralds, along with the Brimley Bays, the two teams in the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(audience applauds) Now let's meet the alternates.

For Brimley, it's Abby Hoffman and Keon Paris.

While the coaches for the two teams; for Brimley it's Vicki Pomeroy, for Manistique it's John Ziemba, good luck coaches.

(audience applauds) (chime) Okay teams, it is a brand new year, what do you say we kick it off with your first tossup question.

A rare optically visible example of these objects illuminates the Crab Nebula.

These objects form from... (chime) Kozlowski?

- [Kozlowski] Stars?

- [Koski] These objects form from court collapsed supernovas of stars too small... (chime) Lamb?

- [Lamb] Black hole?

- Too small to form black holes.

(chime) Pulsars, Kusnier?

- [Kusnier] White dwarf?

- [Koski] Pulsars are spinning examples of, for 10 points, what compact objects made up of a namesake, uncharged particle?

(chime) Lamb?

- [Lamb] Neutron star?

- Neutron star, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Emeralds, here is your first bonus round.

In 1967, Christian Bernard became the first to perform this class of operation using a human heart.

For 10 points each, name this type of procedure, also successfully performed on a human liver that same year.

- [Kozlowski] Transplant?

- Transplant.

Yup.

Pioneering doctors credited cyclosporine with the dramatic increase in successful transplant in the 1980s.

The drug prevents this process, in which the body's own immune system attacks the new organ.

(team whispering) - [Kozlowski] Organ rejection?

- Correct, and the most common transplant is that of this transparent tissue that covers the iris and the pupil of the eye.

- Cornea?

- Yeah, corneal transplant.

So 30 points for Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) - Okay, here is your next tossup question.

Teams, in October of 2020, a representative from this state used a whiteboard to criticize a pharmaceutical executive... (chime) Manistique?

- [Lamb] New York?

- [Koski] No, not New York.

Ised a whiteboard to criticize a pharmaceutical executive for price hikes.

Katie Porter is from... (chime) Ziemba?

- [Ziemba] Virginia?

- Katie Porter is from this state... (chime) Kozlowski.

- [Kozlowski] California?

- [Koski] Are you sure or is that just a guess?

- [Kozlowski] That's a guess.

- Well it's a great guess because it's correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) - Okay Emeralds, here's your next bonus round.

This President's domestic plan was known as the Square Deal.

For 10 points... (chime) Nope, it's a bonus round.

For 10 points each, name this President whose relations with Latin America were informed by his motto, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

- [Kozlowski] Roosevelt?

- [Koski] I need a little more than that.

- [Kozlowski] Teddy?

- Theodore Roosevelt, yep.

Under Roosevelt, the US acquired equipment and infrastructure designed to construct this project in Central America, which Roosevelt personally visited in 1906.

- [Kozlowski] Panama Canal?

- Uh huh.

And before becoming William McKinley's vice-president, Roosevelt served as governor of this state.

Martin van Buren and Franklin Roosevelt were also governors of this state.

- [Kozlowski] Virginia.

- [Koski] Nope, not Virginia, Brimley?

Bays?

- [Smart] California?

- No, how about New York?

So 20 points for Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here is your next tossup question.

This explorer was mortally wounded in a skirmish with the Calusa people.

In 1508, King Ferdinand appointed this Explorer as the first governor of... (chime) Ziemba?

- [Ziemba] Magellan?

- [Koski] As the first governor... (chime) Lamb?

- [Lamb] Chris Columbus?

- [Koski] As the first governor of Puerto Rico.

For 10 points, name this Spanish explorer who led an expedition to Florida and supposedly... (chime) Kozlowski.

- [Kozlowski] Cortez?

- [Koski] Supposedly searched for the fountain of youth.

(chime) Lamb.

- [Lamb] Ferdiand?

- [Koski] No, not Ferdinand.

Anyone on Brimley want to buzz in?

(chime) Kemp?

- [Kemp] Juan Ponce De Leon?

- Juan Ponce de Leon, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauds) - Okay Bays, here is your next bonus round.

This author recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration.

For 10 points each, name this author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

Brimley?

- [Smart] Elizabeth Morten?

- [Koski] No, Manistique?

- [Kozlowski] No answer.

- No?

How about Maya Angelo?

Brimley "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first of Angelou's seven books in this genre, which is closely related to the memoir.

- [Smart] Biography?

- No, no biography, Manistique?

- [Kozlowski] Ode?

- No, how about autobiography?

And Brimley, the speaker of an Angelo poem repeatedly states that no matter what happens, she will still perform this action like air.

The speaker of Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus performs this action and eats men like air.

- No answer.

- [Koski] Say that again?

- [Smart] No answer.

- [Koski] Okay, Manistique?

- [Kozlowski] Breathing?

- No, how about rises like air?

So no points for either team in that bonus round.

We'll move on to our next tossup question, and that is this.

This superhero is idolized by the football star Flash Thompson, who bullies this heroes... (chime) Ziemba?

- [Ziemba] Spider-Man.

- Spider-Man, Spider-Man, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) And if you're curious, yes, we would have accepted Peter Parker too, so.

Okay Emeralds, here's your next bonus round.

In recent years, at least five cities in this country have ranked among those with the highest peace time murder rates in the world.

For 10 points each, name this country in which tourism in such resorts as Acapulco has suffered due to reports of violence.

- [Kozlowski] Brazil?

- [Koski] Not Brazil, Brimley?

- [Smart] Argentina?

- No, not Argentina either.

How about Mexico?

Manistique, this city, which forms an urban area with San Diego had one of the highest murder rates in the world in 2019 and 2020.

- [Kozlowski] Tijuana?

- Tijuana, yeah.

And Tijuana is near the Northern border of this peninsula in Western Mexico; it's Southern tip.

contains the resort city of Cabo San Lucas.

- [Kozlowski] California?

- [Koski] No, not California, Brimley?

- [Kemp] California Sea?

- [Smart] I refer to Braden.

- [Koski] Captain, say it.

- [Kemp] California Sea?

- [Smart] California Sea?

- Uh, no, it is actually Baja, California.

So 10 points for Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Okay, here's your next tossup question teams.

This object's second successor was code named object D, while its first successor carried a dog named Laika.

This object's name is Russian for "Fellow Traveler."

The space race was triggered by, for 10 points, what object launched in... (chime) Ziemba?

- [Ziemba] Sputnik?

- Sputnik, correct For those 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Manistique, here is your next bonus round.

This physical quantity equals an objects mass times its velocity.

For 10 points each, name this quantity.

A stone rolling down a hill is sometimes said to gather or gain this quantity.

(team whispering) - [Kozlowski] Acceleration?

- [Koski] Not acceleration, Brimley?

- [Smart] Force.

- No, how about momentum?

Manistique, in an inelastic collision, what proportion of the initial momentum is conserved?

- [Kozlowski] Zero?

- No, not zero, Brimley?

- [Smart] All of it?

- A hundred percent, correct.

And Manistique, this quantity equals the rate of change of momentum.

There are four fundamental sources of this quantity, including gravity and strong and weak interactions named for it.

- Force?

- Force, yeah.

So 10 points from Manistique, 10 points for Brimley in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here is your next tossup question.

This word refers to a body of law that is not made by legislators, but built up by judicial rulings.

The US's oldest city park is a public space of this name in downtown Boston.

An ordinary person may be known as this type of person.

For 10 points... (chime) Lamb?

- [Lamb] Square?

- [Koski] For 10 points... (chime) Kozlowski?

- [Kozlowski] Civilian?

For 10 points, give this word... (chime) Kemp?

- [Kemp] Civil law?

- [Koski] The opposite of rare.

(chime) Kusnier.

- [Kusnier] Common?

Common, correct for those 10 points points.

(audience applauds) Okay, Manistique, here is your next bonus round The results of the 2020 census were released late in 2021.

And they show that only one county in the Upper Peninsula gained in population in the past 10 years; for 10 point each, first of all, what county in the UP was that to gain population?

(team whispering) - [Kozlowski] I would like to defer to Alex.

- [Koski] Go ahead.

- [Ziemba] Gogebic?

- [Koski] No, not Gogebic, Brimley?

- [Smart] Detroit County?

- No, how about Houghton county, which gained just over 700 residents.

According to the 2020 census, what is the most populous county in the UP?

In other words, which county has the most people in it?

(team whispering) - [Kozlowski] Marquette?

- Marquette county with a population of just over 67,000 people.

And Manistique, the city of Marquette is the largest city in the UP; in fact, it's the only one with over 20,000 residents.

Population wise, what is the second largest community?

- [Kozlowski] Sioux St. Marie?

- Sioux St. Marie, with 13,000 residents.

Correct, so 20 points for Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next toss-up question.

In the sequel to this book, Danny and Walter undertake the space adventure Zathura.

A room fills with steam in this book after Peter rolls a three, causing a volcano to erupt.

For 10 points, Lamb?

(chime) - [Lamb] Jumanji?

- Jumanji, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Emeralds, here's your next bonus round For 10 points each, answer the following about universities that have over 900 wins in college football.

- [Kozlowski] Oh my gosh.

- Here's the first one: this Big 10 university, which is coached by Jim Harbaugh has the most wins of any college football team.

(team whispering) - [Kozlowski] Ohio State?

- [Koski] Not Ohio State, Brimley?

- [Smart] What is Notre Dame?

- No, not Notre Dame.

As a graduate of Michigan State, it pains me to say the University of Michigan.

Here's your next one.

This other Big 10 school has the second most all-time wins.

It plays its home games in Columbus.

- [Kozlowski] Ohio State?

- Second times the charm for you there.

And this school in New Haven, Connecticut is the only Ivy League program with more than 900 wins.

(team whispering) - [Kozlowski] Yale?

- Yale, yep.

So 20 points from Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) (halftime chime) And we have come to the end of the first half of tonight's first game.

Manistique with a 172-20 lead over Brimley.

We'll be back to meet the students and find out who's moving onto our Cerebral 16, right after this.

- [Announcer] Thank you Jim.

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Now back to Jim for the second half of High School Bowl.

- And welcome back, Manistique with a 170-20 lead over Brimley.

We'll be back into the questions in just a couple of seconds, but let's spend a few minutes meeting the students.

Let's start with Braden Kemp, who's a junior for Brimley and Braden, you have a rather interesting hero, but not for the reasons that you would expect.

Why is will.i.am, of Black-Eyed Peas your current hero?

- So will.i.am, instead of using his fame and popularity to go and boost himself and buy more personal items, he uses it to start his owner box teams, such as the one out in California.

And he teaches young students about STEM and gives them a career in that area.

- And I personally think that's kind of a cool thing that he's able to go between those two different worlds.

Yeah, and I actually hope that he is an example to not only you, but maybe to other musicians who want to spread their wealth around, yeah.

So we'll see how that turns out.

Mark Osborne, you are a Freshman and you say that one of the ways in which the insanity of the past two years is affected you is that you were kind of bummed that you couldn't go anywhere, right?

- Yeah.

- [Koski] Tell me about that.

- So COVID, I couldn't go to my friends' house or go anywhere for my birthday or travel for vacation anywhere too, 'cause everything was shut down.

- I think that was one of the worst ways in which the pandemic has affected us.

Are you looking forward to actually someday getting out and doing that again?

- [Osborne] Yeah.

- Yeah, I think most of us are too.

Macy Smart, you are a junior and a team captain.

And you say that one of the things that defines the real you is music.

You want to tell me about that?

- Yeah, so I've played drums since I was in second grade and recently got into violin and guitar and that just helps me relax and kind of take a break from like the chaos.

And so it helps me just find myself again.

- Are you thinking perhaps a pursuing music as a career or just as a hobby?

- More just as a hobby, I play the drums for my church worship team.

And so that's always going to be something that I do.

- Okay, so you have an outlet for it too.

That's kinda cool.

Okay, Paul Sweeten, you are a freshman and kind off, sort of staying in the musical genre.

You say that if you could do one thing to change the world, for better or for worse, it would be to rid the world of pop music.

Want to explain that?

Or is that one of those things that's unexplainable?

- Unexplainable.

- (laughs) Okay.

Well, we'll just leave it at that, as that dream.

Those are the Brimley Bays, now the Manistique Emeralds, Michael Lamb, you are a freshman.

And you had also mentioned about how the pandemic had affected you in that you had just moved when it began?

- Yep.

- [Koski] And so how did that, did that make it even stranger for you that way?

- A little bit, it wasn't that bad though.

- Okay, because I can imagine moving to a new place and then all of a sudden not being able to explore it would be kind of strange.

- I didn't know anyone anyways, it didn't make that much of a difference.

- So you've just kind of been easing back into the glide path of normalcy for the 18 months or whatever, right?

- I guess.

- Okay.

Eva Kusnier, you are a freshman and you have a rather interesting dream, and I'd like you to explain this to me.

You want to know what's on the other side of a black hole?

- Yeah.

I thought it would be kind of cool.

I mean, nobody knows what's behind it.

Probably certain death, but you never know.

- And are you an astronomy buff or is this just something that has planted itself in your brain?

- Just kind of something planted in my brain.

- Okay, well it's a very interesting concept.

I had actually not thought of it that much until I read your question and then I was going, what is on the other side of a black hole.

So if nothing else, thank you for making me think a little bit.

Okay now Josh Kozlowski, you are a Junior and a team captain.

Paul Sweeten says that he would ban pop music; music that you say you like is pop music.

So first of all, what do you think a world would be like without pop music?

- Eh, it'd be no different to me.

I could just listen to something else.

- But you do say that you enjoy pop music and why do you like it so much?

- It's something like I would, I can find them some music that I like in every genre, but like pop music, I have like the most songs that I like in that genre.

- So another word, when you go through your Spotify playlist or something, it's pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, like that right?

- You can say that.

- Okay, well there's nothing at all wrong with pop music.

After I'll pop stands for popularity or popular and it's popular for a reason, right?

So, Alex Ziemba, finally, you are a Junior, and you say that you have a lot of different interests in school, including geography, history, astronomy, even designing.

To what do you credit your vast interest?

- Well, it's just basically, I have had a lot of alone time with a lot of different things and kind of gone with all that.

That's always fascinated me, I can, in fact, I'm even thinking about becoming a civil engineer in the future.

- Uh-huh, and you do need a rather broad education for that, right?

Well, I tell you what, I hope that you continue to expand your field of knowledge, because that's always a good thing.

Those are the Manistique Emeralds, along with the Brimley Bays, the two teams and the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(audience applauds) Okay, let's get back into it with this next tossup question.

The current leader of this country has faced scandals involving WE charity and the engineering company... (chime) Ziemba.

- [Ziemba] Venezuela?

- [Koski] And the engineering company SNC-Lavalin.

(chime) Lamb?

- [Lamb] Columbia?

- [Koski] Jagmeet Singh leads the new democratic party in this country whose conservative party was founded by Steven Harper; for 10 points each, name this country currently led by Justin Trudeau.

(chime) Ziemba.

- [Ziemba] Canada.

- Canada, eh?

Correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Emeralds, here's your next bonus round.

For 10 points each, answer the following about the origins of national anthems.

Here's the first one.

This national anthem of France was composed as a war song for the army of the Rhine in the 1790s.

- [Kozlowski] Rise Children of the Fatherland?

- [Koski] No, good guess, Brimley?

(team whispering) - [Smart] No answer.

- How about La Marseillaise?

Manistique, Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner while observing the bombardment of a Baltimore Fort, of this Baltimore Fort in the War of 1812.

- [Kozlowski] I think it was Fort McHenry Fort McHenry?

- Yep, correct.

And a tune by John bull or Henry Purcell may have inspired the melody of God Save the Queen, which is the Royal Anthem of this organization of 54 domains that claim Elizabeth II as their Monarch.

- [Kozlowski] The United Kingdom?

- [Koski] Not the United Kingdom, Brimley?

- [Smart] England.

- No, how about the Commonwealth of Nations?

All of the nations that Britain at once held reign over.

So 10 points from Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Okay here's your next tossup question teams.

Joseph Bazalgette built this city's sewer system after the Great Stink of 1858.

This city boasts the world's oldest subway system, which was nicknamed... (chime) - Sweeten.

- [Sweeten] New York?

- [Koski] Which was nicknamed the tube.

(chime) Ziemba.

- [Ziemba] London, - London, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Manistique, here's your next bonus.

This philosopher theorized that the pineal gland connects the body body to the soul.

For 10 points each, name this French author of the "Discourse on the Method" and "Meditations on First Philosophy."

- [Kozlowski] I don't know if he's French.

Newton?

- [Koski] Not Newton, Brimley?

- [Smart] Aristotle?

- No, how about Rene Descartes?

Manistique, Descartes stated, "cogito ergo sum," or I do this action, therefore I am.

- [Kozlowski] Think?

- I think therefore I am, correct for 10 points.

and Descartes practiced a methodological forum of this attitude; more generally, this term refers to any questioning or doubting attitude toward knowledge or religious dogma.

- [Kozlowski] Ignorance?

- [Koski] Not ignorance, Brimley.

- [Smart] That was our answer.

- [Koski] No?

- [Smart] No.

- How about skepticism?

So 10 points from Manistique in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Okay teams, here's your next tossup question.

This novel begins at a ball hosted by Anna Scherer, which is attended to by Prince Andrei.

This novel depicts events at a Borodino and Austerlitz and sees Natasha Rastova marry Prince Bezukhov.

Napoleon's invasion of Russia is depicted in, for 10 points, what very long Leo... (chime) Lamb.

- [Lamb] The War and Peace?

- Dah, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Emeralds, here's you next bonus round.

For 10 points each, answer these questions... (end chime) or not about hexagons.

We have come to the end of tonight's game.

Manistique is moving onto our Cerebral 16, defeating Brimley by a score of 222-20.

(audience applauds) Well, first of all Bays, thank you for making the very long drive to Marquette, for waking up so early to do so.

The great thing Braden, Mark, Macy, and Paul is that you're all underclassmen.

So we'll get the privilege of meeting you guys again next year and seeing what's up.

So we do look forward to that.

Well Manistique, I have some good news for you.

You are the now third team to make it to our round of our Cerebral 16.

We have no idea who you're going to take on.

I can however guarantee that it will be one of the two teams in the next match coming up in just a few seconds.

So we'll see who that is.

We'll see you guys again in a few weeks.

Who will be taking on the Emeralds in our Cerebral 16?

Well it's either Menominee or it's Houghton; we'll find out who in a couple of minutes.

So don't go far.

(calm music) - [Announcer] Major production funding for High School Bowl is provided by Janice Mills of Escanaba and by the Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation, with local support by 17 Upper Peninsula credit unions, including Northern United Federal, Embers, Michigan Tech Employees Federal, Great Lakes First Federal and Baraga County Federal, and by Petrucelli and Waara, Attorneys at Law, serving Michigan and Wisconsin, supporting our High School Students in their quest for excellence, and by Johnson Controls, creating buildings and environments that help people achieve, because when buildings work better, people work better.

Johnson Controls, helping people achieve.

High School Bowl is a production of WNMU-TV, in partnership with the regional educational service agencies and intermediate school districts of the Upper Peninsula.