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This time, a first-round game between Charleroi and Roscommon.

That's coming up next.

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(upbeat orchestral music) - [David] Hello again, everyone.

I'm David Nicholas.

Welcome to "Quiz Central."

This time, students from Charleroi are taking on the team from Rosscommon in a 16-team, single-elimination tournament.

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

Plus, top teams from "Quiz Central" will qualify for the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament.

And now, let's get to our game for today.

Our first round is the "Maroon and Gold Rush."

Teams will have two minutes to answer as many toss-up questions as you can.

If a team misses a toss-up question, the opposing team has the opportunity to answer that question.

Teams may not consult during this round.

Throughout our game, correct answers are worth 10 points a piece, and there is no deduction for incorrect answers.

All set, players?

Good luck.

Here comes your first question.

What quantity is the cross-product of displacement and force, names a type of wrench, is the rational analog of force?

- Torque?

- [David] That is correct.

(ethereal ringing) In June 2024, what US Surgeon General wrote a guest essay in the New York Times, advocating for health warning labels on social media apps?

Time.

We'll toss up again for both teams.

What creature, who was captured and brought to Eurystheus as the last of Hercules' laborers, was a multi-headed dog that guarded the Greek underworld?

- Cerberus.

- [David] That is correct.

(ethereal ringing) The Sacred Band, composed of 150 pairs of male lovers, were an elite military force of what Greek city-state that led...?

- Sparta?

- That is incorrect.

Charleroi for the guess?

I'll finish that question, excuse me.

Were an elite military force of what Greek city-state that led the Boeotian League?

(bell ringing) - Trojan?

- That is also incorrect.

(electronic beeping) Back to the toss-ups, what prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey trial, called "the boy orator of the platte," gave the Cross of Gold speech during his first presidential campaign?

And we'll move on.

Sorry, we're gonna head to the next question.

What author wrote about a judge named Lord Hategood, who questions...?

And... Who questions Mr.

Envy at the trial of Faithful in an allegory titled The Pilgrim's Progress?

All right, no answer there, we will move on.

Toss-up for both teams, and the bell signals the end.

We are off to a start here.

Charleroi, you've got 20 points on the board.

Roscommon currently at zero, but we've got a lot of game left to play.

Let's go back over the questions that stumped folks today.

The Surgeon General was Vivek Murthy.

And also the Sacred Band composed of the 150 pairs is Thebes.

And the prosecutor at the Scopes Monkey trial, William Jennings Bryan.

And the author that wrote about a judge named Lord Hategood, we were looking for John Bunyan.

And with one round in our rear-view mirror, let's take a moment, learn a little bit about our players, starting with our team today from Charleroi.

- Hi, I'm David D., I'm a senior at Charleroi High School and I am in the Nevada State track and cross-country team.

- Hi, my name is Lena Seman Reed.

I'm a senior at Charleroi High School, and I am a cellist in my orchestra and I play varsity soccer.

- Hello, my name is David Grain.

I'm a senior at Charleroi High School.

I enjoy playing on our football team and being at our school ski-racing team.

- Hi, my name is Matthew Gerima.

I'm a senior at Charleroi High School, and I enjoy playing varsity soccer and baseball.

- Welcome again, Charleroi.

Great to have you here.

Let's meet your opponents today.

That's our team from Rosscommon.

- My name is Tristan.

I'm a senior at Rosscommon High School, and I participate in the jazz band, steel band, and at student council.

- My name is Eva Goldman.

I am a junior at Rosscommon High School, and I'm in student council and I help with math tutoring.

- Hello, my name is Tanner.

I'm a sophomore at Rosscommon High School.

I'm big on computer science, and I'm a proud member of the jazz band.

- My name is Owen Barnes.

I'm a senior at Rosscommon High School, and I play basketball, baseball, and soccer.

- And thank you, Rosscommon.

Thank you, students.

Great to have you all here today.

The next round on "Quiz Central" is the kickoff round.

The kickoff round is a combination of toss-up and bonus questions.

The team that correctly answers the toss-up question will get the opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

Missed toss-up questions can be stolen, but there is no consulting on these questions.

A correct toss-up-question answer allows for a single follow-up bonus question.

There's no stealing of bonus questions.

However, teams can confer, and we'll take those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus answer means we head back to a toss-up for both teams.

Buzzers ready?

Good luck.

Here comes your first question.

What region, which lies on the western end of the Kerch bridge, is home to a Russian naval base of Sevastopol and is an occupied peninsula in Ukraine?

(bell dings) - Crimea?

- That is correct.

Your bonus question.

(ethereal ring) What poetic form described as heroic when rhyming and in iambic pentameter is found at the end of Shakespearean sonnets and has two lines?

- Anything?

- I don't know.

- No, I have no idea.

- Answer?

- Pass.

- That's incorrect.

Alright, toss up for both teams.

Ah, sorry.

The answer we were looking for were couplets, the Shakespearean couplets.

Back to a toss-up for both teams.

The Analects contained the sayings of which thinker, who stressed the importance of respecting one's parents by teaching filial piety.

(bell dings) - Aristotle.

- That is incorrect.

Charleroi, answer.

(bell dings) - Socrates.

- We were looking for Confucius was the thinker.

What project overseen by General Leslie Groves culminated in the Trinity Test in 1940?

- Manhattan Project?

- Again.

- Manhattan Project.

- That is correct.

And your bonus question.

Mr. Enfield claims there is something downright detestable about the appearance of what evil character who was created by Robert Lewis Stevenson?

- I do not know.

- Oh wait, that's... - You got it.

- Answer?

- No.

I don't know.

- The other half of Dr. Jekyll.

We were looking for Mr. Hyde.

Toss-up for both teams.

What general, who led US forces at the Battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847 and later ran for president as a wig, was nicknamed Old Fuss and Feathers?

(bell dings) - McCarthy.

Incorrect.

(bell dongs) Charleroi with a guess.

(bell dings) - Roosevelt?

- The one we were looking for from 1847.

You know him, you love him.

Winfield Scott.

Toss-up for both teams.

What man, who after planting a vineyard and getting drunk is ridiculed by his son Ham, builds an ark to endure a massive flood in the book of Genesis?

- Noah.

- That is correct.

Alright, Rosscommon, your bonus question.

What comic, whose standup specials include Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, played vengeful businesswoman Amy Lau in the Netflix mini series Beef?

- Okay, so a female standup.

- I mean it could be like Aquafina or... - Amy Schumer.

- Amy Schumer would be my guess.

- Let's do Amy Schumer.

- Amy Schumer.

- Amy Schumer is incorrect.

We were looking for Ali Wong is the comedian.

- I figured it was.

- Toss-up for both teams.

What African country, which controls the Akosombo Dam at the southern end of Lake Volta, was once called the Gold Coast and is governed from Accra?

(bell dings) - Ghana.

- That is correct.

And Charleroi, your bonus question.

The island of Circe was formed between 1963 and 1967 by the explosion of a volcano off the coast of what island country?

- There's lots of island countries.

- Yeah, there's a lot of islands.

- Answer?

- Should we just go for a random one?

Madagascar.

- Incorrect.

It was Iceland.

Another toss-up for both teams.

What group of mammals, whose only extent member in North America is a Virginia possum, keep their young in pouches?

- Oh, darn it.

- Marsupials.

- You are correct.

And the toss-up, or excuse me, the bonus question for Rosscommon.

What phenomenon, called spooky action at a distance by Albert Einstein, occurs when the quantum states of two particles are linked?

- Quantum entanglement.

- Yeah, I think so.

Quantum entanglement.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) Toss-up for both teams.

What law overrode the Missouri Compromise by allowing a popular sovereignty to decide a state's position on slavery and was named for two territories?

(bell dings) - Kansas, Nebraska.

- You are correct.

- Thank you.

- And the bonus question.

A novel by Hugh Lofting is named for what physician who learns to speak with animals and encounters a two-headed beast called the Push Me Pull You?

- The only thing I can think of is like the... Oh no, - Answer?

- No answer.

- Dr. Doolittle.

(bell dings twice) And the bell signals the end of that kickoff round.

Charleroi currently has a lead of 60 to 30 over Rosscommon.

And up next it's the perfect 10.

Teams, you'll have 60 seconds to answer questions from a choice of three clues to three categories.

The opposing team will have 30 seconds to answer any unasked, incorrect, or skipped questions.

You can consult throughout the entire round, and we're taking the answers from the captain.

The team that's trailing gets the first choice to pick a clue to a category.

And Rosscommon, you're currently trailing, so you'll get your choice first for your 60 seconds from your choice of these three clues.

Tippy Top, Buckeye Blitz, and Here's Johnny.

- Which clue do you wanna go with?

- Here's Johnny.

- Here's Johnny.

- It could also be people named Johnny.

- Yes, that's probably what it is.

- Alright.

From the clue Here's Johnny, the category is John.

Name these people who had or were commonly known by the given name John.

And the category is John.

Name these people who had or were commonly known by the given name John.

And Rosscommon, you're perfect 10.

With 60 seconds on the clock, starts with this.

Second president of the US.

- Is it John Adams?

- Adams.

- Correct.

(ethereal ring) Tycoon who founded Standard Oil.

- John Rockefeller.

- Rockefeller, yeah.

- Correct.

Author of The Grapes of Wrath.

- Oh, Steinbeck.

- Correct.

Husband of Yoko Ono who wrote the song Imagine.

- Lennon.

- John Lennon.

- That is correct.

American Folk Hero and Steel Driving Man.

- Adams.

- No.

John Henry, yeah, - That is also correct.

Canadian comic actor in Home Alone and Uncle Buck.

- Oh, John... We'll just pass.

- First US Supreme Court Chief Justice.

- John Hancock?

- Incorrect.

March Composer of the Stars and Stripes Forever.

- John Williams?

- Go for it.

- Williams.

- Incorrect.

Author of the World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

- Oh no.

(bell dings twice) - Bell signals the end of that round.

We'll leave that one on the table.

All right, Charleroi, we come over to you with a chance to pick up on a couple of those that Rosscommon could not get and potentially finish out the category.

Your 30 seconds on the clock begins as we go back to Canadian comic actor in Home Alone and Uncle Buck.

- Pass.

Yeah, pass.

(bell dongs) - First US Supreme Court Chief Justice.

- Marshall.

- Yeah, John Marshall.

- Incorrect.

March composer of the Stars and Stripes forever.

- Sousa.

- John Sousa.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) Author of the World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

- No, hmm-mm.

- All right, and finally, ornithologist.

(bell dings twice) Oh, we did not get to that final.

The first US Supreme Court Justice was John Jay, and the Canadian comic actor we were looking for is John Candy.

And also the author of the World According to Garp, we were looking for John Winslow Irving.

And the last one was ornithologist and artist of the Birds of America, John James Audubon.

All right.

Now we go back to the perfect 10 and shift over to you, Charleroi.

Your chance for 60 seconds from your choice of either Tippy Top or Buckeye Blitz.

- That's what I thought it was.

I think Buckeye Blitz is like Ohio stuff, so should we do Tippy Top?

Okay, Tippy Top.

- Tippy Top.

Your category is "highest points."

What mountain is the highest point in these countries?

Again, from Tippy Top we get to "highest points."

What mountain is the highest point in these countries?

You'll have 60 seconds in the first crack at this.

And we begin with this question.

Japan.

- Mount Fuji?

Mount Fuji.

- Correct.

Greece.

- Just pass.

- Okay, pass.

(bell dongs) - The US.

- McKinley?

- Yeah.

Mount McKinley.

- Correct.

(ethereal ring) Nepal.

- Everest, Mount Everest.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) Tanzania, it's the highest point in Africa.

- Mount Kilimanjaro.

- Also correct.

(ethereal ring) Canada.

- Anything?

Okay, pass.

(bell dongs) - France, with a name meaning white mountain.

- Mont Blanc?

Mont Blanc.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) Australia.

- I used to know this one.

I dunno, pass.

- Pakistan, also the second tallest mountain in the world.

- K2?

K2.

- Correct.

New Zealand, named after a British explorer.

- Anything?

Mount Wellington.

- Incorrect.

Bell signals the end.

We are at the final question there.

Rosscommon, we will come back over to you with 30 seconds to try to steal some from this category.

Again, the clue is Tippy Top, the category "highest points."

What mountain is the highest point in these countries?

30 seconds on the clock for you, Roscommon, as we begin with Greece.

- I'm thinking Vesuvius.

Huh?

Sure, Olympus.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) Canada.

- Sure, St. Helens.

- Incorrect.

- I don't think so.

It's in Michigan.

- France.

Excuse me, Australia.

- Pass.

(bell dongs) - And finally New Zealand, named after a British explorer.

(bell dings twice) - Bell signals the end there.

In Canada, that highest point is Mount Logan.

In Australia it is Mount Kosciuszko.

And finally in New Zealand we were looking for Mount Cook.

So at the end of the perfect 10, Charleroi is maintaining a lead.

You are at 130.

Rosscommon is at 90.

We've still got two rounds to go.

And up next it's the home stretch.

In the home stretch, we'll have a combination of toss-up and bonus questions.

The team that correctly answers the toss-up question will get the opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

Missed toss-up questions can be stolen, but there is no consulting on these questions.

A correct toss-up-question answer allows for a single follow-up bonus question.

There's no stealing of the bonus questions.

However, teams can confer, and we'll be taking those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus answer means we'll head back to a toss-up question for both teams.

Buzzers ready?

Good luck.

Here comes your first question.

What French puppet government collaborated with Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944?

(bell dings) - Vichy France?

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) And your bonus question.

What kind of function has its expedition terminate when it reaches a base case and, before that, may repeatedly call itself with different arguments?

- You call it a loop?

- Sure, loop.

Huh?

Loop.

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for a recursive function or recursion.

Toss up for both teams.

The furthest point reached by a glacier is marked by a terminal example of what pile of debris, deposited by glaciers?

- Till?

Glacier till?

- That is incorrect.

Rosscommon?

- An iceberg.

- Incorrect.

We were looking for the terminal moraines.

Toss up for both teams.

What author described a geopolitical great game in the novel Kim and wrote about Bagheera, a panther who helps raise Mowgli in The Jungle Book?

Answer?

(bell dongs) Rosscommon?

- I dunno who wrote it.

No, I don't have it.

- That is John Rudyard Kipling.

Toss up for both teams.

A metropolitan area in north Texas consists of Dallas Fort Worth and what other city, which is home to Globe Life Field and AT&T Stadium?

- Houston.

- Incorrect.

Rosscommon for a guess.

- Austin.

- Incorrect.

It's Arlington, Texas, is what we were looking for.

Toss up for both.

In May 2024, what Supreme Court Justice blamed his wife for flying an upside-down US flag at his home in 2021?

(bell dings) - Thomas.

- That is incorrect.

Rosscommon?

- MacArthur.

- Incorrect.

The justice with the flag dispute was Samuel Alito.

Toss up for both.

Players explore the fallen kingdom of Hollow Nest in what 2017 Team Cherry video game, in which players fight enemies using a sword-like nail?

(bell dings) - Hollow night.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) And your bonus question.

What city is home to the Black Diamond National Library, is connected to Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund Bridge, and is the capital of Denmark?

- Amsterdam?

- It would be Amsterdam.

- Amsterdam.

- Incorrect.

It's Copenhagen.

What leader of the 1952 Free Officers Coup against King Farouk nationalized the Suez Canal and was succeeded as Egyptian president by Anwar Sadat?

- Nasser?

- That is correct, Abdel Nasser.

And the bonus question.

What commander of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition arrived in Ujiji in 1871, completing his highly publicized search for the lost David Livingston?

- Looking for a commander.

- Yeah, we got nothing.

- We were looking for Henry Morton Stanley or also known as John Rolands.

(bell dings twice) The bell signals the end of the round, and at the end of the home stretch we've got a real tight game.

Charleroi, you are still in the lead, but it's now by 10 points, 130 to 120 as we get set for the final countdown.

Should be an exciting finish to today's game, so let's get to it.

It's the final countdown, and in this round our teams will have two minutes to answer as many toss-up questions as they can.

If a team misses a question, the opposing team has the opportunity to answer.

Teams may not consult during this round.

Get ready, good luck, and here comes your first question.

What division in the rings of Saturn separates the A ring and B ring and is named after a 17th-century Italian astronomer?

(bell dings) - Galileo?

- That is incorrect.

(bell dongs, then dings) - Cassini.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) What elements atoms form the cross links created in vulcanization, the bridges formed by cysteine residues in proteins, and a yellowish solid?

- Hydrogen?

- That is incorrect.

Rosscommon with a guess?

- Sulfur.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) What British archeologist told Lord Carnarvon he saw wonderful things after uncovering and first peering into the tomb of Tutankhamen?

(bell dings) Next question.

What author, whose attributed works are cataloged in the Perry Index, was supposedly a slave who created The Lion and the Mouse and other fables?

(bell dings) - Aristotle?

- That's incorrect.

Charleroi with a guess.

- Aesop.

- That is correct.

Toss up for both again.

Horace Giddens has a heart attack, but his scheming wife Regina does nothing to help him in The Little Foxes, a play by what American author?

(bell dings) - Miller?

- Incorrect.

Charleroi with a guess.

And we'll move on.

What team, whose players include Jalen Suggs and a 2023 NBA rookie of the year?

- The Magic.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) Thorium and, excuse me, Neptunium belong to what set of radioactive elements that lie below the lanthanides on the periodic table?

- Actinides.

- That is correct.

(ethereal ring) - What artist, whose namesake prize was awarded to Veronica Ryan in 2022 for her work in contemporary British art... (bell dings twice) And bell signals the end of the round.

We can't get to an answer there.

We wrap up the game in a tie.

At the end of the final countdown, we will settle this final countdown in today's "Quiz Central" with a tie break.

Let's go over the missed answers first of all.

And the British archeologist was Howard Carter.

And Horace Giddens with a heart attack.

And the wife who did nothing, shame on her, Lillian Florence Hellman.

And those were the ones that stumped both.

Our tie at 150 means this game will be decided in overtime.

Okay, teams, in overtime, I'll have a toss-up question for both of you.

The first player to ring in will have a chance to answer.

An incorrect answer means the opposing team will have a chance to answer.

Now both teams answer incorrectly, we'll go back to another toss-up question until we have a correct answer and a winner.

Everybody breathe.

Teams' hands on the buzzers as we enter overtime.

All right, players, good luck.

We begin with this.

In what state did ranked Choice votes reallocated from Nick Begich help Democrat Mary Peltola win a 2022 special election against Sarah Palin?

(bell rings) - Hawaii?

- That is incorrect.

Chance to steal for the game.

- Washington?

- Incorrect.

We were looking for Alaska.

- Oh, it was the other one.

- We remained deadlocked at 150 a piece, and we move on to another.

We'll turn up the air conditioning and lower the heat in the studio.

(all laugh) Next tie-break question, what NFL player, who as a rookie in 2021 broke Chad Johnson's franchise record for receiving yards in a season, plays for the Cincinnati Bengals?

- Jamar Chase.

- That is correct for Rosscommon.

It is indeed Jamar Anthony Chase who catches all those passes from Joe Burrow in the Cincinnati Bengals.

Well, that is something that gets the heart racing just a little bit.

Congratulations to both teams on a fabulous game.

Let's hear it for all of our players here today.

(all clapping) And with that, Rosscommon, congratulations.

Jamar Chase is now your favorite player.

Thank you, Charleroi, for a great game today.

Rosscommon, you will be moving on, and we will see them again and see all of you coming up very soon, the next time we play "Quiz Central" here on WCMU.

And have a great night, everybody.

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