(slow tempo upbeat music begins) (Upbeat music) - I'm your host, Ethan Neir and we have another great show for you today and two more great teams.

So let's introduce those teams.

On the bottom we have Herrin coming back with Gavin, Cameron, Tyler, and Nathan.

On the top we have the hometown Carbondale with Theodore, Clark, Jay and Daniel.

Now before we get into the questions, let's just do a quick recap of the rules.

We'll start off with some toss up questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they get to move on to a bonus question that's worth 20 and can be stolen for 10.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt me and get the question wrong it is five points for the other team.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, do it right.

So, if you guys are all ready, let's get into the questions.

What program, whose first mission ended with a fire that killed Gus Grissom, sent three NASA astronauts to the moon on its 11th mission?

(Buzzer sound) - Apollo.

- Apollo is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value of X, given that the quantity is seven raised to the fourth power, times 49, cubed equals seven, raised to the X power?

- 11.

- [Ethan] 11 is incorrect.

- 10.

- 10 is correct.

Well done Cameryn.

Now move our next tossup.

What events which the helicopter based Los Angeles News Service, pioneered televising in the 1990s, may be ended by pit maneuvers or spike strips?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Police car chase - Police car chase is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus what word, which denotes a stable language developed from mixing other languages also refers to styles of music and cuisine from Louisiana?

- Creole.

- Creole is correct.

Well done.

The next answer, what quantity has a first time derivative called jerk is measured in meters?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Acceleration.

- Acceleration is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

In the seventh century BC, Ashurbanipal took the throne of what empire, which then controlled almost all of the near east from its capital Nineveh?

(Whispering) - Mughal.

- [Ethan] Can you say that again?

- The Mughal Empire.

- [Ethan] Mughal is incorrect.

Herrins it's your chance to steal.

- The Moores.

- The Moores is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was The Assyrians, The Assyrians Empire.

For the next tossup, in 2022, what man's killers, Travis and Gregory McMichael were sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for shooting him (Buzzing sound) while he was jogging?

- Aubery.

- Ahmaud Arbery, is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 2022, British company DeepMind announced that its AI AlphaFold had predicted the structures of nearly all known examples of what molecule?

(Whispering) - DNA - [Ethan] DNA is incorrect.

Herrin your chance to steal.

- Proteins.

- Proteins is correct.

Well done.

The next question.

What NAACP attorney argued the case is Cooper v Aaron and Brown v Board of Education, before the Supreme Court... (Buzzer sound) - Gavin.

- Thurgood Marshall - Thurgood Marshall's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

The German word for building up, names what principle of quantum mechanics, which governs how electrons progressively fill an Adam's Sub Shells?

(Whispering) - No answer.

- Carbondale your on.

- Aufbau.

Aufbau is correct.

Well done Jay.

For the next tossup.

What letter used as a pseudonym by the villains of the Pretty Little Liars franchise is placed on Hester Prynne's clothing?

(Buzzer sound) - Theodore.

- A.

- [Ethan] A is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

The Pillar of Islam that requires the giving of alms is known by what Arabic term, that in the English alphabet starts with Z?

(Whispering) - Zakat.

- Zakat is correct.

Well done.

On to our, and that'll take us to our first media question.

This Punk Rock wolf... (Buzzer sound) Gavin - Five nights at Freddy's - [Ethan] That is incorrect.

This Punk Rock wolf character starred in the new game of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, name this character?

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- Roxy.

- Roxy is correct.

Well done.

(Mumbles) That'll take us back to the tossup as there is no bonus on media questions.

What partition, which travels between the Diomede Islands, mostly follows the 180th meridian and causes a time change of 24 hours when crossed?

(Buzzer sound) Theodore - International Date Line.

- International Date Line is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

In what opera by Richard Strauss does the Dance of the Seven Veils proceed the offstage beheading of Jokanaan, who represents John the Baptist?

(Whispering) - Rosalind Cavalier - [Ethan] Rosalind Cavalier is incorrect.

Herrins, chance to steal.

- No answer - The answer we're looking for there was Salome.

(Both teams whisper) - On to our next question.

What structures, which include New Zealand's rapidly shrinking Franz Josef, gives rise to eskers and moraines and are slowly moving bodies of ice?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Deltas.

- [Ethan] Deltas is incorrect.

(Buzzer sound) Gavin.

Glaciers.

Glaciers is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What six letter word, which is used as a distress signal in radio communications, comes from the French for help me and sounds like a spring holiday?

- Mayday.

- Mayday is correct.

Well done.

Back to the tossups.

The author of a lecture on Beowulf, subtitled the Monsters and the Critics wrote about the Dwarf Thorin and the Dragon Smaug in his novel The Hobbit?

(Buzzer sound) Theodore.

- Tolkien - Tolkien is correct.

Well done.

(Theodore whispers) For your bonus, what constellation's nominal alpha star Dubhe is part of an asterism, variously called the wagon or the plow?

(Whispers) - Taurus.

- [Ethan] Taurus is incorrect.

Herrin, your chance is to steal.

- Orion's Belt.

- Orion's belt is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Ursa Major.

(Both teams whisper) Back to the tossups.

What office, later held by Alfredo Stroessner, did Francisco Solano López lose after starting the war of the Triple Alliance in a landlocked country?

(Buzzer sound) - Theodore.

- President of Paraguay.

- President of Paraguay is correct, well done.

- For your bonus.

What politician elected to the Senate in 2018 to replace the retiring Jeff Flake is the first openly bisexual member of Congress?

(Whispering) - Smith.

- [Ethan] Smith is incorrect.

Herrin your chance to steal.

- Kyrsten Sinema.

- Kyrsten Sinema is correct.

Well done.

For the next tossup, pencil and paper ready.

What different results from subtracting the fractions 2/7 minus 1/5?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Three over 35, - Three over 35 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

In a heated rivalry that peaked in early 2019, what Swedish YouTuber competed with T-Series to become the most subscribed YouTube channel?

- PewDiePie.

- PewDiePie is correct.

Well done.

I can't believe that was 2019.

That seems like so long ago.

(Both teams laughing) For the next tossup, what author who depicted Sutpen's Hundred, a plantation near Jefferson, Mississippi in the novel Absalom, Absalom?

(Buzzer sound) - Daniel - Faulkner - Faulkner is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What letter can be used to denote the set of rational numbers or a co-enzyme in the electron transport chain?

(Whispering) - N -_ N is incorrect Herrin, your chances to steal.

- R - R is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Q.

The next tossup.

What country, the setting of the 2021 film 'Drive My Car' was the home of the director of Throne of Blood, Ran and Rashomon and Akira Kurosawa?

(Buzzer sound) - Japan.

- Japan is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Edna St Vincent Millay's poem, First Fig, describes what kind of objects that will not last the night but still gives a lovely light?

(Whispers) - Candle.

- Candle is correct.

Well done.

And our next question.

What organ, that contains vitreous and aqueous humor is affected in macular degeneration, contains rods and cones and is responsible... (Buzzer sound) Daniel - I - I is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What general served as Council of Rome, a record of seven times, reformed the Roman Legions and maintained a long-running rivalry with Sulla?

(Whispers) - Caligula - Caligula is incorrect.

Herrins your chance to steal.

- Caesar.

- Caesar is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Gaius Marius.

Onto our next question.

What elder son of Livia Drusilla reigned during the traditional date of Jesus's crucifixion and lived on Capri after becoming the second Roman emperor?

(Buzzer sound) - Nathan.

- Caesar.

- Caesar is incorrect.

(Buzzer sound) Jane.

- Pontius Pilate.

- Pontius Pilate is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Tiberius Jesse's favorite person on the planet.

And for the next tossup.

What two writers who began the Deutsche Volter Bach or German dictionary were siblings who popularized... (Buzzer sound) Clark.

- The Brothers Grim.

- Brothers Grim is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Port Louis is the capital of what African Island nation that was once home to the dodo bird?

(Whispering) - Mauritius.

- Mauritius is correct.

Well done.

Onto the next question.

What unit, which is proportional to the common algorithm of a ratio of powers is named after the inventor of the telephone and measures loudness?

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- Bell.

- We will accept Bell.

That is correct.

The answer is Decibel.

For your bonus.

John T. McLaughlin's mosquito fleet fought in what series of three wars involving a sailor, which took place from 1835 to 1842 in Florida?

(Whispering) - Seminole Wars.

- Seminal wars is correct, well done.

For the next tossup.

What battle intended to coincide with an attack on the Aleutian Islands, saw US planes sync four... (Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Battle of Midway.

- Midway is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Askalaphos the keeper of Hades Orchards revealed to the gods that Persephone had eaten the seeds of what fruit?

( Whispers) - Pomegranate.

- Pomegranates.

Correct.

And that will now take us to our lightning round.

(Lightening sounds) The way our lightning round works is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a particular topic.

Now Herrin, since you guys are trailing you will have the first pick of the litter for the topics.

Your choices are Literary Foundlings and Orphans, Countries Bordering the Mediterranean, Female Athletes and Coins.

- Female athletes.

- Female athletes it is.

Given an athlete, name the primary sport in which she competes.

Give an overall sport, not the name of any particular discipline within that sport.

60 seconds on the clock and we'll count you down.

3, 2, 1.

Gabby Douglas?

- Gymnastics.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Mia Hamm?

- Soccer.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Serena Williams?

- Tennis.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Candace Parker?

- Basketball.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Lindsey Vaughn?

- Skiing.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Laila Ali?

- Boxing.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Sunisa Lee?

- Gymnastics.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Carissa Moore?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Katie Ledecky?

- Swimming.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Danica Kirkpatrick?

- NASCAR.

- Racing.

- [Ethan] We will accept NASCAR.

And the last one you missed Carissa Moore?

- Snowboarding.

- Snowboarding is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for there was surfing.

But going a very quick nine out of 10 on that one.

Well done Herrin.

And now Carbondale.

Your guys' chance to respond.

Your choices are Coins, Literary Foundings and Orphans or Countries Bordering the Mediterranean?

- Countries Bordering the Mediterranean.

- All right for that, in which country bordering the Mediterranean sea or its arms will one find... 60 seconds on the clock, I will count you down.

3, 2, 1.

The coastal cities of Valencia and Barcelona?

- Spain.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

The recently rebuilt library of Alexandria?

- Egypt.

- [Ethan] Egypt is correct.

The Côte d'Azur, as known as its Riviera?

- France.

- [Ethan] France is correct.

The Peloponnese?

- Greece.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

The Hagia Sophia originally built as a Cathedral?

- Turkey.

- [Ethan] Turkey's correct.

Mount Vesuvius and Mount Edna?

- Italy.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

The Ruins of Carthage?

(Whispering) - Tunisia.

- [Ethan] Tunisia is correct.

A forest called the Cedars of God.

- Morocco.

- [Ethan] Morocco's incorrect.

Sarajevo, which hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics?

(Whispering) - Slovenia - [Ethan] Slovenia is incorrect.

A partition known as the Green line that runs through Nicosia?

- Crete.

- [Ethan] You said Crete?

Crete is incorrect.

So we'll just go over the ones you guys missed on that.

A forest called the Cedars of God is Lebanon.

Sarajevo, which hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics was Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And our partition known as the Green Line that runs through Nicosia is not Crete but Cyprus.

And I'm guessing, yeah you guys knew after you said it.

But seven out of 10 well done there.

We'll just take a quick look back at our scores.

So Carbondale in pretty firm control right now.

385 to Herrins 160, but Herrin still got a whole back half of the game.

Plenty of time to make up ground.

I'll move back to our tossups.

What composer of black, brown and beige and in a sentimental mood led a jazz band with a signature tune, Take the A train and was nicknamed Duke?

(Buzzer sound) - Tyler - Duke Ellington.

- Duke Ellington's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

If 2/5 of X equals eight, what is the value of 3/10 of x?

- Six.

- Six is correct.

Well done.

Back to the tossups.

What process which is induced by gradings, can cause light going through an aperture to spread out or cause light to bend around an obstacle?

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- Diffraction.

- Diffraction is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Eoin Colfer wrote a book series name for what criminal mastermind who collaborates with the Elf Holly Short and shares a name with the Greek goddess?

(Whispers) - Artemis Fowl.

- Artemis Fowl is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup.

What General, who took command of the Atlantic wall after losing to Bernard Montgomery at El Alamein in 1942 was called the Vermax Desert Fox?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Himmler.

- Himmler is incorrect.

Herrin your chance to answer.

(Buzzer sound) Cameryn.

- Marion.

- Marin is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Erwin Rommel.

And Gavin, I see you mouthing, immediately had the answer on that one.

I'll take us to another tossup.

What amendment passed shortly after Franklin Roosevelt first took office, reduced lame-duck periods by starting the presidential terms in January?

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- 25th.

- [Ethan] 25th is incorrect.

(Buzzer sound) Nathan.

- 23rd.

- 23rd is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the 20th.

The 20th amendment.

And for our next tossup.

What country were Ometepe Islands, lies in the largest lake in Central America is between Honduras and Costa Rica and has this capital... (Buzzer sound) Theodore.

- Nicaragua.

- Nicaragua is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What French author's seven volume of magnum opus has been published in English, under the title's Remembrance of Things Passed and in Search of Lost Time.

(Whispers) - Les Misérables.

- That is incorrect.

- No Answer.

- The answer you're looking for was Marcel Proust.

On our next tossup.

What state were union troops for Robert E. Lee's special order 191, was the site of the Battle of Antietam and... (Buzzer sound) Nathan.

- Virginia.

- Virginia's incorrect.

Was the battle of Antietam and the Pratt Street riots in Baltimore?

(Buzzer sound) - Maryland.

- Maryland is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What order of aquatic mammals takes its name from the Latin word for whale and also includes dolphins?

(Whispers) - Sedasia - Sedasia is incorrect.

Herrin your chance to steal.

- Familia.

- Familia is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Cetacea or Cetacean's.

And that will take us to another media question.

This character is the main villain in She-Ra and is known... (Buzzer sound) - Catra.

- Catra is correct.

Well done.

Back to the tossups.

What Aramid Polymer, developed by Stephanie Kwolek, at DuPont has a very high strength to weight ratio, making it useful for Bulletproof vests?

(Buzzer sound) Gavin.

- Kevlar - Kevlar is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the surname of what woman, the first saint born in the US, proceeds hall in the name of a New Jersey University?

(Whispers) - Setons.

- Seton is correct.

Well done.

Back to the tossups.

What author of the novel Pincher Martin wrote about Ralph Piggy and other school boys?

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- Golding.

Golding is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what father of Laertes and Ophelia does Hamlet describe as a tedious old fool, before unknowingly stabbing him through a tapestry?

(Whispering) - King Lear.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect?

- No answer.

The answer we're looking for was Polonius.

Onto the next tossup, what leader, who delivered the Jewel Voice Broadcast, reigned until 1989 during the ShMwa era and was the Emperor of Japan during World War 2?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Hirohito.

- Hirohito is correct, well done.

For your bouns, the cities of Plattsburgh and Burlington lie on opposite shores of what lake, that forms part of the border between New York and Vermont?

(Whispers) - Lake Champlain.

- Lake Champlain is correct.

Well done.

Back to the tossups, pencil and paper ready.

What is the surface area of a cube, whose edges each have a length of two, given that the cube has six square faces?

(Buzzer sound) Jay.

- 24.

- 24 is correct.

For your bonus, what sculptor who died in 2022 is known for massively oversized sculptures of everyday objects, such as his dropped cone and clothes pin?

(Whispers) - Smith - [Ethan] Smith is incorrect.

- Johnson - Johnson is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Claes Oldenburg.

Back to the tossups.

What NFL team won Super Bowl 48 over Denver, had... (Buzzer sound) Nathan.

- New England.

- New England is incorrect.

When Super Bowl 48 over Denver had Richard Sherman and Earl Thompson's in it's Legion of Boom defense and plays in Washington state?

(Buzzer sound) Theodore.

- Seahawks.

- The Seahawks is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what poem that ends by describing a bronze statue of Neptune is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning, about the deceased wife of a sinister Duke?

- My Last Duchess - My Last Duchess is correct.

Well done.

- Next answer.

What book, which depicts a 1959 event in Holcomb, Kansas, in which the Clutter family was murdered, is a pioneering true crime book by Truman Capote/ (Buzzer sound) Theodore.

- Breakfast at Tiffany's.

- Breakfast at Tiffany's is incorrect.

Great song though.

(Buzzer sound) Gavin.

- Oregon Trail.

- Oregon Trail, fantastic game, Not the answer to the question.

The answer you're looking for is In Cold Blood.

Back to the tossups.

What British King who reigned when the British Empire abolished slavery and when the 1832 Reform Act was passed, was succeeded by Queen Victoria?

(Buzzer sound) - Clark - James the fourth.

- James the fourth is incorrect.

(Buzzer sound) Gavin.

- George the fourth.

- George the fourth is also incorrect.

It is a different fourth.

It is just William the fourth.

I'm shocked that both of you guessed the fourth though outta nowhere.

That is, that's pretty surprising.

For your tossup, what painting displayed in a California gallery, near Thomas Lawrence's pinky is by Thomas Gainsborough and shows a child wearing a particular color?

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- Child in Green.

- Child in Green is incorrect.

(Buzzer sound) Cameryn.

- Blue.

- That is the correct color, but we need more on that answer.

The answer you're looking for was the Blue Boy.

But guessing the right color, well done.

For the next tossup.

What proteins have two paratope's on their ends, have subtypes including IGG and IGA, are Y shaped and help to trigger immune response.

(Buzzer sound) Daniel.

- Antigens.

- Antigens is incorrect.

(Alarm sound) So you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for wasn't Antigens, but Antibodies.

Antibodies.

The next question, what rapper who dissed Nas in the song Takeover on his album The Blueprint says, "If you're having girl problems, I feel bad for you son."

In 99 problems.

(Buzzer sound) Gavin.

- 50 cent.

- 50 cent is incorrect.

(Buzzer sound) Theodore.

- Jay-Z.

- Jay-Z is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Greyfriars Kirk is a church in what capital and second most populist city of Scotland?

(Whispers) - Glasgow.

- Glasgow is incorrect.

Herrin the chance to steal.

- Edinburgh.

- Edinburgh is correct, well done.

Next question.

What country were the repeal of the anti L G B T law, Section 3 77 A was announced in 2022 by Lee Hsien Loong, is a city state off the Malay Peninsula?

(Buzzer sound) Clark.

- Singapore.

- Singapore is correct.

For your bonus.

what author wrote, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" in the New Colossus, written to raise money to install the Statue of Liberty?

(Whispers) - Polly.

- [Ethan] Polly is incorrect.

Herrin your chance to steal.

- Longfellow (Bell sound) - Longfellow is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is Emma Lazarus.

And as you know that bell means that is all we have time for on today's show.

So let's take a look at the scores.

Carbondale ending at 555.

A pretty unique score there.

And Herrin with 235.

So well done Carbondale, moving on further in our bracket.

So that is all the time we have for on today's show.

From all of our people working hard behind the scenes and our lovely contestants here today.

I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much and goodnight.

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