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This time it's a first round game between Dewitt and Ludington.

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(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Hello everyone, I'm David Nicholas and welcome to Quiz Central.

This time students from Dewitt are taking on team from Ludington in the 16-team single elimination tournament.

At the end of our 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.

all right, let's get to our game.

Our first round is the maroon and gold rush.

Teams will have two minutes to answer as many toss up questions as they 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's no deduction for incorrect answers.

All ready, players?

Here comes your first question.

What singer who featured on a 2023 remix of Lizzo's song Special released the 2022 album SOS, which included the singles Snooze and Kill bill?

(bell dinging) - SZA.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) - [David] What South Asian's River Valley was home to the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?

- Indus.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) What two countries which are fighting in the ongoing Abyei conflict separated after a 2011 referendum and now have- (bell dinging) - Sudan?

- [David] That is correct also.

(bell dinging) What book which opens with a rat being found in a family's apartment in Chicago was the first full length novel published by Richard Wright?

(bell dinging) - Native son.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dining) - Good job.

- [David] What quantity can be measured with the raking scale, is specified along with a pressure at a triple point and has a minimum value of absolute zero?

(bell dinging) - Temperature.

- [David] That is correct.

What man who championed the contract with America while leading a campaign to retake Congress in 1994 was a speaker of the House from Georgia?

(bell dinging) - Newt Gingrich.

- [David] You are correct.

(bell dinging) What grandchild of Helios killed her two children by her ex-husband Jason?

(bell dinging) - Medea.

- [David] That is correct.

What architect who designed the Museum of Islamic Art and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- (bell dinging) - I. M. Pei.

- [David] That is correct.

What British Prime Minister was criticized for his policy of appeasement toward Adolf- - Neville Chamberlain.

- [David] That is also correct.

What mountain range contains the source of the Garonne River and the micro state of Andorra?

(bell dinging) - The Pyrenees.

- [David] You are correct.

(bell dinging) And the bell signals the end of that round.

But before we start our next round, let's learn more about our students competing today.

First, let's welcome our team from Dewitt.

- My name is Jay, I'm in marching band and I play drums.

- Hi, my name's Abby.

I'm a senior at Dewitt High School and I play guitar.

- Hi, my name's Tim.

I'm a junior at Dewitt High School.

I'm in the marching band and I play volleyball.

- Hi, I'm Matthew.

I'm a sophomore and I run cross country and I'm also in band.

- Thank you Dewitt.

Now let's meet our team today from Ludington.

- Hi, I'm Quinn Merchant, I'm a senior at LHS and I'm the drummer in our jazz band.

- Hi, I'm Jackson Skipper, I'm a senior at Ludington High School and I'm in the marching band.

- Hi, I'm Joe Klein, I'm a junior at Ludington High School and I play tenor sax in the jazz band.

- Hello, my name is Gabriel Hill, I'm a senior at Ludington High School and I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

- Thank you students.

Great to have you here.

Our 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.

A 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.

Again, no stealing of bonus questions.

However, teams can confer and will take answers from the captain.

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

Buzzers ready?

All right, let's go and here comes your first question.

What reaction which is undergone by a substance when it combusts is contrasted with a reduction and is defined as a substance losing electrons?

(bell dining) - Ionization.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Ludington, do you have an answer?

(bell dinging) - Convection.

- [David] That is incorrect also.

We were looking for oxidation is the process.

What country's president Alberto Fernandez is a member of the justicialist party and has former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner- (bell dinging) - Spain.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(bell dinging) Yes.

- Peru.

- [David] That is also incorrect.

We were looking for Argentina is the name of the country.

What island where a civilization used the linear A script as a bronze age palace at Knossos and was the center of the Minoan culture.

(bell dinging) - Crete.

- [David] That is correct.

Your toss or your bonus question rather.

Uh what woman who starred with Chris Hemsworth in Men in Black International plays Valkyrie in the Thor series and a Bianca Taylor in the Creed series?

- [Gabriel] Zendaya, I don't know.

- Natalie Portman.

- [Joseph] Scarlett, I think it's Scarlett Johansson.

- [Quinn] No idea.

- Natalie Portman.

- [David] That is incorrect.

The actress is Tessa Lynn Thompson.

- Oh, never gonna get that.

- [David] Toss up for both teams.

What desert whose Paranal Observatory houses- (bell dinging) - Patagonia - [David] That is correct.

- Nice.

- [David] Now Dewitt for your bonus question.

The orchestral tune in the Hall of the Mountain King comes from what Norwegian composers' incidental music to the play Peer Gynt?

- Grieg.

Grieg.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) Back to a toss up for both teams.

What species whose scientific name is dionaea muscipula is the plant which derives nutrients from bugs it captures with leaves- (bell dinging) - Venus fly Trap.

- [David] That is correct.

And now Ludington your bonus question.

(Joseph coughing) In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can turn what Cockney flower girl into a lady fit for upper class society?

- [Ludington Team] Doolittle.

- Doolittle.

- [David] That is correct.

- Nice one.

- [David] Toss up once again for both teams.

What instrument that creates a melody through a chanter and a constant harmony through drones- (bell dinging) - Uh, bagpipes.

- [David] You are correct (bell dinging) Dewitt's bonus question now.

In 1780, what British major who collaborated with Benedict Arnold in plotting to betray West Point to the British was hanged in New York.

- Cornwallis?

Cornwallis.

- [David] Incorrect.

We were looking for John Andre or Major Andre.

Didn't end well for him.

In 2023, Hamish Harding was en route to what specific site when he died along with the CEO of OceanGate- (bell dining) - The Titanic.

- [David] That is correct.

They were on their way to the Titanic and now your bonus question.

What object discovered in 1801 is the largest object in the asteroid belt?

- [Jay] Is it Ceres?

- Ceres.

- [David] You are also correct.

Toss up for both teams.

What popular programming language created by Guido van Rossum uses white space indentation to limit blocks and shares its name with a reptile?

(bell dinging) - Python.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) What country home to Nobel laureates Ales Bialiatski and Svetlana Alexievich is a former Soviet state ruled since 1994 by Aleksandr Lukashenko?

- [Abby] It's not Ukraine.

- Belarus.

- Belarus.

- [David] You are correct.

(bell dinging) Back to now the toss up for both teams.

In what decade when the black Monday crash caused the Dow to lose 23% of its value- (bell dinging) - The twenties?

- [David] Incorrect.

(bell dinging) - The thirties.

- [David] Also incorrect.

It was the 1980s.

That was the other crash and that bell signals the end of that round and we've got a much tighter game now.

Dewitt made a good strong comeback there in the kickoff round.

Ludington holds a 110 to 90 lead as we get set for the perfect 10.

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

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

You can consult during this entire round and we'll take answers from the captain.

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

Here are those perfect 10 categories.

Fins to the left, fins to the right.

Commander in chief.

And finally capitalization and punctuation.

- Capitalization and punctuation please.

- [David] All right.

And so your perfect 10 category is English grammar.

Answer the following about grammar concepts in English.

Well that's 60 seconds on the clock for you Dewitt as you start your perfect 10 with this.

Part of speech of the word between.

- Preposition?

Preposition.

- [David] That is correct.

Punctuation mark that may splices clauses incorrectly.

- A Semicolon?

- Yeah.

- A Semicolon?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Base form of a verb such as to reach that can be split.

- Participle.

- [Abby] Root?

- Participle?

- [David] That's incorrect.

Process of inflecting a verb.

- Uh, conjugating?

- [David] That is correct.

- Good job.

- [David] Grammatical mood used to state facts.

- Imperative?

Imperative?

- [David] Incorrect.

- Oh.

- [David] Element such as ish that can be added to the end of a word.

- Suffix.

- [David] Correct.

Process that is doubled in the phrase don't get no time.

- Negative.

- Negative.

- [David] Uh we cannot take that answer.

We're right at the bell.

Uh so we will have that question coming back.

Ludington, you get a shot now at these perfect 10 clues.

30 seconds on the clock.

And we begin punctuation mark that may splices clauses incorrectly.

- Comma.

- [David] Correct.

(bell dinging) Base form of a verb such as to reach that can be split.

- Infinitive.

- [David] Correct.

(bell dinging) Grammatical mood used to state facts.

- Interrogate?

- Informative.

- [David] Incorrect.

The process that is doubled in the phrase don't get no time.

- Negative.

- [David] More specific please.

- Double negative.

- Double negative.

- [David] Correct.

(bell dinging) And the bell signals the end of that round.

There were two that we did not get to.

The one that stumped both, the grammatical mood is the indicative or declarative.

Or the evidential.

Now we shifted over to Ludington.

You get your choice of the two remaining clues that we have and they are fins to the left, fins to the right and commander in chief.

- We'll do commander in chief.

- [David] Commander in chief.

All right and what that gives you for a category is presidents at war.

Name the president who led the US into these conflicts.

60 seconds on the clock to start your perfect 10 and we begin.

World War I.

- Wilson.

- Wilson.

- [David] Correct.

World War II.

- F-D-R. - [David] Correct.

(bell dinging) Spanish-American War.

- Roosevelt?

- No, McKinley.

- McKinley.

- [David] Clarification in the- - William McKinley.

- William McKinley.

- [David] Let's say correct.

The crossing of the answers, we may have to check on that.

The war of 1812.

- Uh Madison.

- Madison.

- [David] That is correct.

The Mexican-American War.

- Polk.

- Polk.

- [David] Correct.

(bell dinging) The Quasi War.

- Um, this is Adams.

Adams.

- Adams.

- [David] Correct.

The Korean War.

- Oh this is a Truman.

- Truman.

- [David] Correct.

The Bosnian war.

- Um, Clinton?

- Clinton.

- [David] Correct.

The invasion of Grenada.

- [Joseph] Oh Reagan.

- Reagan.

- [David] Correct.

And the First Barbary War.

- This is Jefferson.

- Jefferson.

- [David] That is correct.

That completes then a perfect 10 for you Ludington.

Good job there.

Ludington stretches their lead with a score now of 240 to 120 for Dewitt as we get set to enter the home stretch.

The home stretch 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 will allow for a single follow up bonus question.

No stealing of bonus questions, however, teams can confer and we'll take those answers from the captain.

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

All right, buzzers ready.

Here comes your first question.

What art form whose performers may sport colorful, bold, striped- (bell dinging) Yes Dewitt.

- Oh man.

- [David] Time.

Ludington will finish the question.

The striped Kumadori makeup is a hyper stylized men's only theater tradition from Japan.

- Uh, Okaye?

- [David] That is incorrect.

We were looking for Kabuki.

- Oh.

What collection of ancient texts includes the Sama, a compilation of chants and melodies and the rig which contains hymns to deities such as Agni?

(bell dinging) - Ludington.

- The Vedic texts?

- [David] More specific please.

- The Vedas?

- [David] Vedas, that is correct.

Your bonus question.

What author who depicted himself as Peter Martin in the town and the city wrote about Carlo Marx, Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise in On the Road?

- Yeah, yeah.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

- [David] That is incorrect.

We were looking for Jack Kerouac.

- Oh.

Toss up for both teams.

What Amazon Prime video series that ended in 2023 starred Rachel Brosnahan as the title 1950s housewife who becomes a- (bell dining) - Marvelous Ms. Maisel.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) Now to the bonus.

What class of rock makes up intrusions such as sills and includes that are said to be intrusive if they form from the cooling of magma?

- Ingenious?

Igneous.

- Igneous.

- Igneous.

- [David] Igneous is correct.

(bell dinging) Toss up for both teams.

Lynn Margulis proposed what theory that double membrane organelles like mitochondria and chloroplast originated as independent organisms?

(bell dinging) - Mitosis?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Dewitt, do you have a guess?

(bell dinging) - Cell theory?

- [David] That is incorrect.

We were looking for endosymbiotic.

- Ah, I knew that.

- [David] Toss up for both teams.

What woman whose reputation was damaged by the affair of the diamond necklace was the wife of Louis the 16th?

Dewitt?

- Marie Antoinette.

- [David] That is correct.

- Good job.

Good job.

- [David] Now to your bonus question.

A group of pirates called the Victual Brothers targeted what medieval league that built trading posts called Kontors and was led by Lubeck?

- Is it the Dutch?

- Indian trading company, I don't know.

- It's medievals.

- The Teutonic Knights?

- [David] Incorrect we were looking for the Hanseatic League.

Toss up for both.

In what musical is the heavy side layer reached after the song Memory is sung- (bell dinging) - Cats.

- [David] That is correct.

To your bonus question now.

The French word chevre can refer to what animal or to a cheese made from its milk?

- Goat?

- [Gabriel] Goat.

Yeah.

- Goat.

- [David] Goat is correct.

(bell dinging) Toss up to both teams.

What author of How Much Land Does a Man Need wrote about an adulterous wife who throws herself under a train in the Russian novel Anna Karenina?

(bell dinging) - Leo Tolstoy.

Tolstoy.

- [David] Dewitt you did ring in and that is the correct answer.

Your bonus question now.

What acid with molecular formula CH3, COOH is responsible for the tart taste of vinegar?

- Acetic?

Acetic acid?

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) Toss up for both clubs.

What National park which contains Hetch Hetchy Valley and the rock formations Half Dome and El Capitan is in the Sierra Nevada of California?

(bell dinging) - Petrified Forest.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Dewitt?

(bell dinging) - The Badlands?

- [David] Nope.

We were looking for Yosemite.

Toss up for both.

The Eight-Nation Alliance sought to put down what anti-imperialist rebellion in China led by the righteous- (bell dinging) - The Taiping Rebellion?

- [David] That is incorrect.

(bell dinging) - The Boxer Rebellion?

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) - I was waiting for him to finish the question.

- [David] What color, which names a revolution led by agronomist Norman Borlaug also names a third party that nominated Ralph Nader for President?

- Green.

- Green?

- [David] Also correct on the bonus there.

Toss up for, and the bell signals the end of that round.

Ludington now has lead of 290.

Dewitt, you're at 170.

We've got the final countdown round and a lot can happen in those last two minutes.

So let's get to it.

In the final countdown, 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.

All set players?

Here comes your first question in our final countdown.

Playwright August Strindnberg was born in what European country, which was also the homeland of the Millennium Trilogy author Stieg Larsson?

(bell dinging) - Sweden.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) What astronomer who showed that a far off galaxy's recessional speed is proportional to its distance is the namesake of a space telescope?

- Hubble?

- [David] you are correct.

Thalassemia can cause enlargement of what organ responsible for disposing of old red blood cells?

(bell dinging) - Colon.

- [David] That's incorrect.

(bell dinging) - Kidneys?

- [David] Also incorrect.

What physiologist who wrote 1902's lectures on the work of the digestive glands demonstrated a conditioned reflex in his studies on salivating dogs?

(bell dinging) - Pavlov.

- [David] You are correct.

What animal, which may be named after the mother of the hydra and consort of Typhon- (bell dinging) - Echidna.

- [David] You are correct.

(bell dinging) Toss up for both.

In what play does a character reveal that he was born by cesarean section fulfill a prophecy made by three witches- (bell dinging) - Macbeth?

- [David] You are correct.

Tajikistan's eastern border is with what country which contains the Taklamakan Desert and the southern portion of the Gobi Desert?

(bell dinging) - Um, Kazakhstan?

- [David] That is incorrect.

(bell dinging) - China.

- [David] China is correct.

(Joseph coughing) What region, which names the world's largest and highest plateau is home to the Potala Palace?

(bell dinging) - Tibet.

- [David] That is correct.

(bell dinging) In Judaism, four- Bell signals the end of that final countdown round.

Let's go over the questions that stumped both.

And thalassemia can cause that enlargement in the spleen.

And with that, we close out the final countdown in our game today.

Ludington takes it 320 to 210 over Dewitt.

Very good game players.

Let's give them all a round of applause.

(audience and teams applauding) All right, Dewitt.

Thanks very much for playing with us today.

A very good job by all of you players.

And Ludington, congratulations.

We will see you in an upcoming round of Quiz Central.

And that means we will see you right here next week.

Another edition of Quiz Central here on WCMU.

Have a good night everybody.

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