(bright upbeat music) - Welcome to season five of High School Quiz Show, Maine where 16 schools are competing to be this year's champion and take home a thousand dollars for their school's project graduation.

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(bright upbeat music) - Welcome to season five of High School Quiz Show: Maine, I'm Todd Gutner.

Welcome to our six qualifying match of the season where we are making our way from 16 teams to one champion who will take home the thousand dollar grand prize for their school's project graduation.

And a reminder that this year you will have the chance to win $500 for the school of your choice with our quiz show conundrum contest that's coming up later in the show.

In today's match, we have Deering High School of Portland taking on our season two champion, Bangor High School.

Let's get things started by meeting the players.

For Deering, we have Colby, Bennett, Eliza and Sarah with alternate Emma and their coach by Cyle Davenport.

And for Bangor, we have Simon, Roland, Riordan and Fallon with alternates Nathan and Mattie and coached by Carl Robbins and Susannah Owen.

Now the competition guys has three rounds, a toss up round, a category round and a lightning round.

We'll start with the toss up round.

In this round, all answers are worth 10 points and this is the only round with no point deductions for wrong answers.

Players though, you must wait for me to complete the question and if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given a chance to answer.

All right guys and girls, are you ready to roll here?

- Yep.

- Okay, okay.

Let's get it started here.

Here's the first question.

TVs, computers and smartphones have RGB screens.

What does RGB stand for?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- Red, green and blue.

- Correct.

Three South American countries sit on the equator; Columbia, Brazil and what other country whose location should be easy to remember?

(bell rings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Ecuador.

- Ecuador's right.

Sockeye and Coho are species of what fish that's famous for swimming upstream to spawn?

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- Salmon.

- Salmon, right.

When Jonas turns 12, he becomes the receiver of memory at the start of what book that's the first in a series of Lois Lowry?

(bell rings) Eliza, Deering.

- "The Giver".

- "The Giver" is correct.

All right, up next we have a picture question.

So take a look at this monitor right here gang.

The question is name this U.S writer credited with popularizing and epitomizing the jazz age with his well known novel, "The Great Gatsby"?

(bell rings) Eliza again.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

- Yes, again.

In a story by Carlo Collodi, what title character sees his nose get longer when he tells a lie?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Pinocchio.

- Yes.

How long is four score in seven years?

(bell rings) Eliza, Deering.

- 87.

- 87 is correct.

All right, up next, we have a video question.

So again, please look at the monitor over there.

- Hi, my name is Kelsey Stoyanova, the 2022 Maine teacher of the year.

Name the scientific term that refers to a DNA change that leads to a new genetic characteristic?

(bell rings) - Colby, Deering.

- Mutation.

- Mutation, correct.

Onward we go.

An award-winning historical project led by Nikole Hannah-Jones takes its name from the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in the Virginia colony.

What is that year?

(bell rings) Rolling, Bangor.

- 1619.

- That's correct.

What fast spinning gamma-ray emitting super dense stars were documented first by Jocelyn Bell in 1967?

(bell rings) Fallon on the end, Bangor.

- Pulsars.

- Pulsars, correct.

A cruciverbalist is skilled at doing what?

A growing vegetables, B designing boats or C solving crossword puzzles?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- C. - C, yes, that's correct.

Solving crossword puzzles.

A math question now.

The senior class buys t-shirts for $15 each and sells them at a 20% profit.

If the class sells 335 shirts, how much profit will they make?

(bell rings) The answer is $1,005, $1,005.

Open grassy plains in Southern Africa are known by what name that means field in Afrikaans?

(bell rings) - Riordan.

Bangor.

- Savannah.

- Incorrect.

Deering, would you like to give it a shot?

- Feld.

- Could just ring in Sarah.

(bell rings) Thank you.

Yeah, just get in that habit.

What was it again?

- Veld, V-E-L-E -D, V-E-L-D. - Judges?

Yep, we're good, good job.

In the equation, Tao equals RF signed theta.

What does Tao represent?

(bell rings) Answer is torque, torque.

Utah, Omaha, gold, Juno and sword were code names for the five beaches in what world war II allied invasion?

(bell rings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Normandy.

- That's correct.

In 2009, U.S Airways pilot, Sully Sullenberger avoided catastrophe by landing his plane in what body of water in New York city?

(bell rings) Bennett, Deering.

- The Hudson.

- The Hudson's right.

From the Greek for leave out, what's the name of three dots inserted into a written sentence to indicate something has been left out?

(bell rings) Sarah, Deering.

- Ellipsis.

- That's correct.

What kind of medieval building would have had a portcullis?

A, a barn, B a castle or C a cottage.

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- A castle.

- A castle is correct.

In addition to an official residence at the White House, the president has access to what country retreat in Maryland named for president Eisenhower's grandson?

(bell rings) Bennett, Deering.

- Camp David.

- Camp David, well done.

The Jets and the Sharks are rival street gangs in what Broadway musical that was by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

(bell rings) Eliza, Deering.

- West Side Story.

- That is good.

The Pythia was the high priestess, also called the Oracle at the temple of Apollo in what ancient place?

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- Egypt.

- Incorrect.

Bangor, you got a shot?

(bell rings) Riordan.

- Delphi.

- Delphi is right, nice job.

In morse code one dot signifies the letter E. What does one dash signify?

(bell rings) Bennett, Deering.

- A.

- A is incorrect.

Bangor.

(bell rings) Simon.

- S. - S close, it's T. I think you were just taking a shot in the dark, right?

- [Simon] Yeah.

- Yeah.

Good, you almost got it.

A political policy that bans economic trade with a particular country is known by what name from the Spanish verb that means to restrain?

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- Embargo.

- Embargo is right.

What are the world's first domed stadiums and the first major stadium with an artificial turf playing surface, the Astra dome opened in 1965 in what city?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- Houston.

- Houston is correct.

In a chemistry lab, solution A of known concentration is added to solution B of known volume but unknown concentration.

In order to determine the concentration of solution B, what is the name for this process?

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- Titration.

- Yes, you got it.

The volcanic island of Krakatoa that erupted and killed more than 35,000 people was located between the islands of Java and Sumatra in which modern day country?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Indonesia.

- Yes, nice job.

The forbidden city was built and the capital moved from Nanjing to Beijing during what dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Tong.

- Incorrect, Deering.

(bell rings) Eliza.

- Ming.

- Well done, you got it.

Architect Oscar Niemeyer designed many of the government buildings in what South American planned city that became a world capital in 1960?

(bell rings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Brazilia.

- Yes, nice job.

(bell rings) All right, that's the end of round one.

That's a good match we got going on here.

Really close Deering with 130 points, Bangor with 120 points.

What a start to season five.

We'll meet the teams when we come back.

(bright upbeat music) We're back and a reminder that we're not doing the head to head round this season but we will take a few minutes to get to know our contestants with our special question.

And this evening the question is what attribute from childhood do you wish more adults retained?

Think it over real quickly.

Deering we're gonna start with you.

Colby, you go first.

What do you think?

- I think a continued desire to learn.

- Okay, yeah.

You never, you just, you can learn something new every day, right?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, okay, I like it.

Bennett, what do you think?

- I think creativity.

- Creativity, okay.

With what?

With art, with music, with sports, with-- - Just everything.

- Just everything.

- Yep.

- Okay, we'll keep it going.

Eliza, how about you?

- I think wonder.

- Wonder?

Do you kinda go off into, you know, never, never land every once in a while and wondering and wondering?

- Definitely.

- All right, cool, cool, cool.

Sarah, how about you?

- I think their sense of humor.

- A sense of humor.

- Yeah.

- Are you known as like a funny one?

Do you keep the room alive?

- I'd like to think so.

- You like to think so.

Is it true team?

Is she the funny one on the team?

All right, thanks guys.

Let's move down the line to Bangor and Simon, what do you have?

- I'd say openness to new ideas.

- Openness to new ideas.

Yeah, that makes sense to me although I don't really do that now.

I'm really stubborn in my adult age.

I should take some of your advice.

Roland, what do you got?

- I would have to say silliness 'cause I think the world's a little too serious now.

- I love it, I love it Roland.

Yeah, we just need to kinda take a step back and just bring laughter back a little bit, right?

Riordan, how about you?

- I say imagination.

- Imagination.

What, what do you imagine about?

Where does your mind go during the day Riordan?

- Just the ability to make something out of nothing.

- Yeah, yeah, I like it.

That's cool.

Fallon.

- Optimism.

- Optimism.

You guys all have some amazingly, you know, smart answers.

I was hoping for like, hey, we could still eat chicken nuggets or something like that, right.

All right, we're are gonna get to the category round that is next.

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- Welcome back to High School Quiz Show: Maine.

Next up the category round with the following choices; All set now, nothing compares to you, creepy crawlies, sounds delicious, look for the union label and New York, New York.

Now each category has five questions with increasing point values.

Players, listen up.

You must wait for me to finish the question before you buzz in.

You can confer with your teammates but once you buzz in, you're no longer allowed to confer and we'll need your answer.

And like in the toss up round, if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given a chance to answer.

Bangor you're trailing, just by a little bit though.

We're gonna start with you.

Which category would you like?

- Let's go with Nothing compares to you for 10.

- Nothing compares to you for 10.

All the answers start with you, the letter U.

Of the United nations member countries, whose name start with U which is the only one in South America?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Uruguay.

- Correct, where would you like to go?

- Let's go with, look for the union label please for 10.

- Look for the union label for 10 questions related to unions in the United States.

What labor union for skilled workers was started by Samuel Gompers in 1886?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- The White Knights.

- That's incorrect.

Deering, would you like to try?

(bell rings) It's the AFL, the AFL.

Bangor you still have control though.

- Let's go with sounds delicious for 10.

- Sounds delicious for 10, questions about people and places with food related names.

What actor with a food related name played Chip Diller in National Lampoon's "Animal House" and seems connected to all of Hollywood by six degrees of separation?

(bell rings) Bennett, Deering.

- Kevin Bacon.

- Yeah, that's right.

You've got control now Deering.

- Can we do New York, New York for 10 please.

- We can New York, New York for 10, questions about New York city landmarks.

What landmark was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and brought to New York city from France in 1886?

(bell rings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Statue of Liberty.

- Yes that's right.

Now you have control.

- [Riordan] Let's go with creepy crawlies.

- Creepy crawlies for 10, questions about lizards, lizards.

Basking in the sun keeps a lizard warm and helps it to produce what vitamin?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- Vitamin D. - That's right?

What you like?

- Let's try all set for now for 10 please.

- Okay, all set for now for 10, questions about the settings of books.

What school of witchcraft in wizardry is the setting for most of the action in the Harry Potter books?

(bell rings) Eliza.

- Hogwarts.

- Hogwarts, yes.

Where would you like to go now?

- New York, New York for 15.

- New York, New York for 15.

Not far from Liberty Island is what other island that was the point of entry for nearly 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- Ellis island.

- That's right, your turn.

- Let's do nothing compares to you for 15, please.

- Nothing compares to you for 15.

When he was traveling in Asia, Marco Polo saw a rhinocerous and believed it was what mythical creature?

(bell rings) Fallon, Bangor.

- A unicorn.

- A unicorn, right, yes.

What would you like Fallon?

- Let's go with New York, New York for 20.

- Okay, New York, New York for 20.

The American museum of natural history is famous for its 94 foot replica of what sea mammal that is the largest animal on earth?

(bell rings) Eliza, Deering.

- Blue whale.

- That's right, your turn.

- New York, New York for 25.

- New York, New York, 25.

There's a Broadway theater named for what playwright whose works include "Morning Becomes Electra" and "Long Days Journey in Tonight"?

(bell rings) Eliza again.

- Richard Rogers.

- That's incorrect.

Bangor, you want a shot?

(bell rings) It's Eugene O'Neil, Eugene O'Neil but Deering, you still have, you still have control.

- Let's do nothing compares to you for 20.

- Nothing compares to you for 20.

In 1968 high schoolers from Maplewood, New Jersey invented what non-contact self refereed, excuse me, team sport played with a flying disc?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Ultimate Frisbee.

- Yeah, that's right, great game.

All right, what do you want Bangor?

Where are we going?

- Can we please go with sounds delicious?

- Sure can, sounds delicious for 15.

With a last name that's the same as an Indian spice blend, which golden state warrior superstar earned the nickname chef even though his wife is the one with the TV cooking show?

(bell rings) Bennett, Deering.

- Steph Curry.

- Yep, it's Steph Curry.

All right, Deering, where are we going?

- Can we do New York, New York for 30 please?

- Sure, New York, New York for 30.

Outside the New York public library are patients and fortitude larger than life statues of what kind of animals?

(bell rings) Eliza.

- Lions.

- Lions, yes, okay.

Deering, you still have it?

- Nothing compares to you for 25.

- Nothing compares to you for 25.

Grace VanderWaal and Julia Nuez are singers who accompany themselves on what four stringed instrument?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- The ukulele.

- Ukulele is right.

Where would you like to go this time?

- Nothing compares to you for 30, please.

- Nothing compares to you to wrap up the category.

In comics and on TV, Sir.

Reginold Hargraves is the leader of what team of superhero kids?

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- Umbrella Academy.

- Umbrella Academy is right.

All right, Colby, where are we going?

- Sounds delicious for 20 please.

- Sounds delicious for 20.

Ice cream cake was a hit for which K-pop girl group whose name sounds like a different kind of cake?

(bell rings) Red velvet, red velvet is the answer.

Deering still with control here.

- Sounds delicious for 25, please.

- Sounds delicious 25.

Sandwich, Massachusetts is the oldest town on what hooked shaped peninsula named for a fish?

(bell rings) Riordan, Bangor.

- Cape Cod.

- Yep, you got it.

What's up, where are we going?

- [Riordan] Creepy crawlies.

- Creepy crawlies 15.

What common name is given to certain lizards in the genus Varanus because they stand on their two high legs to survey their surroundings?

(bell rings) Monitor lizards, monitor lizards.

Bangor, still with control.

- Sounds delicious.

- Sounds delicious to wrap up that category for 30.

Meatloaf had a small role as Eddie in what 1975 cult movie that starred Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter?

Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- Rocky Horror Picture Show.

- Yeah, you got it.

Nice job.

All right Deering, where are we going?

- Creepy crawlies for 20 please.

- Okay, creepy crawlies for 20.

Lizards are members of the taxonomic order squama, which refers to what characteristic of their skin?

(bell rings) Eliza, Deering.

- Scales.

- Yes, that's right, scales.

Now where Eliza?

- Creepy crawlies for 25.

- Okay.

A natural adaptation called caudal autonomy allows a get go to shed which body part of it, body part if it needs to escape the grasp of a predator?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Tail.

- Tail is right.

Where to?

- Let's go with all set for now or all set now for 15.

- All set now for 15.

"Night", "The Book Thief" and "All The Light We Cannot See" take place during which war?

(bell rings) Colby, Deering.

- World war II.

- That's right, okay, Colby.

- Let's take, let's finish out creepy crawlies.

- Okay, let's do it.

Lesser and Tillion and common green are two of the 35 known species of what lizard that is mentioned in the title of a Tennessee Williams play?

(bell rings) Iguana, Iguana, Deering still has it.

- All set now, all set now for 20, please.

- All set now for 20.

Which award-winning science fiction author set a cycle of novels in the fictional archipelago she named "Earth Sea"?

(bell rings) Ursula Le Guin.

Deering, still with control here.

- All set now for 25, please.

- All set now for 25.

"Wild Swans", "Red Scarf Girl" and "The Good Earth" all take place in which country?

(bell rings) China, China.

Deering go ahead again.

- Let's finish out all set now please.

- Okay, let's do it.

What dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley is set in the year 2540 AD or 632AF in a place called World State?

(bell rings) This was a tough category.

That was brave new world.

All right, Deering.

We're up to look for the union label 15, look to the union label 15.

A tragic event in the history of workplace safety regulations was the March 25th, 1911 fire that killed more than 100 garment workers at what factory in New York city?

(bell rings) Colby.

- Triangle Shirtwaist.

- That is correct.

We'll go for, look for the union label for 20 now.

With about 2.4 million members, the largest union in the United States is the NEA which represents people in what profession that affects your life actually every day?

(bell rings) Eliza.

- Education.

- Yeah, that's right, yep.

(bell rings) All right, we are at the end of round two, we got a battle here.

Deering 320, Bangor 265.

We've got the lightning round next and anything can happen in it.

Sit tight, we'll be right back.

(bright upbeat music) Okay, we're back and we're heading into the final 90 seconds of gameplay, it's the lightning round, it's always exciting.

Okay players, hear the rules.

You can buzz in any time, you get 20 points for each correct answer, incorrect answers will cost you 20 and the other team will not get the chance to answer.

The clock is set guys and here we go.

What's the highest mountain in Maine?

(bell rings) Simon, Bangor.

- Mount Katahdin.

- That's correct.

A tetrahedron is a solid figure with how many flat sides?

(bell rings) Roland, Bangor.

- Four.

- Four, yes.

What car did Ford roll off the assembly line?

- Bennett, Deering.

- The model T. - That's right.

Hero's department store is based in what European capital city?

Eliza, Deering.

- London.

- Yes.

What magician was an advisor to king Arthur?

Roland.

- Merlin.

- Berlin, Merlin yes.

Chinese philosopher Laozi is most closely associated with what-- Simon, Bangor.

- Tao aging.

- Incorrect, it's Taoism.

Which new England city is the smallest state capital by population?

Bennett, Deering.

- Burlington.

- Incorrect, it's Matpilia.

Hepatitis is an inflammation of what body organ?

(bell rings) The liver.

Ratified in 1933, which amendment repealed prohibition?

Simon, Bangor.

- 21st.

- 21st is right.

What fruit is a topping on a Hawaiian style pizza?

Simon again.

- Pineapple.

- Yes.

Which is the only precious gem made of pure carbon?

Colby.

- Diamond.

- Diamond, yes.

Gary Larson drew what single panel comic that he retired in 1995 and revived in 2019?

Colby again.

- Peanuts.

- That's incorrect, it's the far side.

We are at the end of round three.

Oh, this was a close one.

Our winner this week is Bangor at 345.

They're going on to the next round.

They're moving to the quarter finals.

Our runner up Deering with 340, it was so, so close.

Both teams you played awesome, congratulations.

Be sure to tune in next time, John Baps will take on Noble in our next qualifying match.

We wanna thank you for watching High School Quiz Show: Maine.

We'll see you again next time.

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