(upbeat music) - Welcome to season six of "High School Quiz Show Maine."

We're whittling it down from 16 schools to eight as we work towards the quarterfinals and the grand finale with the $1,000 prize for their school's project graduation.

In our fourth qualifying match, it's the Navigators of Falmouth High School.

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I'm Todd Gutner, we're almost halfway through our first eight matches, as we knocked the 16 teams down to eight for the quarter finals.

One of today's teams will make it through and maybe all the way to the $1,000 prize for their school's project graduation.

Falmouth has come this close twice being the runner-up in both season two and three.

Cony High School from Augusta is making their third appearance on the show and hoping to have their chance at a championship.

Let's get things going by meeting our players.

For Falmouth, we have Coco, Patrick, Jacob, Arsh and coached by Mike Casey.

And for Cony, we have Ted Saber, Isaac and Sam with alternates B and Claire and Coach by Steven Scully.

The competition, of course, has three rounds.

The toss-up round, the category round, the lightning round.

We'll start with the toss-up round.

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

Players 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, teams, are you ready?

Let's get rolling then.

Doctors in Wuhan, China officially reported cases of COVID for the first time in December of what year?

They initially classified it as pneumonia of unknown origin.

(buzzer chimes) Isaac, Cony.

- 2019.

- 2019, right.

Even though he acts like a cat and says "Meow," SpongeBob's pet Gary is actually what kind of mollusk?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- A sea snail.

- A snail we will take.

Yes, good job.

In June, 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a ban that had been in effect since 1957 and started issuing licenses to women who want to do what activity?

It was the last country in the world where women were prohibited by law from doing this activity.

(buzzer chimes) Saber, Cony.

- Driving.

- Driving?

Driving is right.

A circumstellar habitable zone is commonly known by what nickname because its conditions might be just right to sustain life?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- Goldilocks Zone.

- Yes, that's right.

Nice job.

Up next we have a picture question.

Players, please take a look at the monitor over here and our question is in the film "The Hunger Games" who does Katniss Everdeen volunteer to replace as pledge after their name is drawn from the reaping bowl?

(buzzer chimes) Jacob, Falmouth - Her sister.

- We're gonna need a name.

- Oh.

(buzzer buzzing) - Cony, you wanna take a shot?

(buzzer chimes) Isaac, Cony, go for it.

- Prim?

- We'll take it, okay.

Good job.

Moving on.

There's a small island named for Charles Darwin in which South American archipelago where he studied finches and tortoises.

(buzzer chimes) Ted, Cony.

- Galapagos.

- Galapagos, yes.

What springtime observance that became a federal holiday in 2021, commemorates the date in 1865 when the emancipation proclamation was finally enforced?

(buzzer chimes) Ted again.

- Juneteenth.

- Juneteenth, yes.

Similar to a monologue, what do we call a speech like Hamlets, to be or not to be, in which a character expresses his thoughts aloud?

(buzzer chimes) Ted again.

- Soliloquy.

- Yeah, that's a hat trick right there, three in a row.

A person with celiac disease has a strong sensitivity to what protein that gives bread a soft chewy texture?

(buzzer chimes) Isaac, Cony.

(fingers tapping) - Uh, grain?

- That's incorrect.

Falmouth, you wanna go for it?

(buzzer chimes) Jacob.

- Gluten?

- Gluten, yes.

You might have buzzed in too early.

Up next we have a video question.

Please take a look at the monitors over here.

- Hello, my name is Heather Perkinson and I'm the librarian at Greeley High School in Cumberland.

What dystopian novel by George Orwell told of life in a future totalitarian state dominated by Big Brother?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- "1984."

That's right, "1984."

We move on.

Libel is a defamatory statement made in print.

What analogous legal term refers to a false defamatory statement that is spoken?

(buzzer chimes) Isaac, Cony.

- Slander?

- Slander, yes, good job.

A Moorish General is the title character in which Shakespeare play?

(buzzer chimes) Ted, Cony.

- King Lear.

- Incorrect.

Falmouth, you wanna take a shot?

(buzzer buzzing) Patrick, go for it.

- Hamlet?

- Good guess, but it's Othello.

Othello is the answer.

The book and movie "Moneyball" is about Billy Bean's experience as the manager of what major league baseball team in the AL West.

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- The Oakland Athletics.

- You got it.

The theory of plate tectonics explains the formation of which of these things: bones in the human body, mountain ranges on earth or black holes in the universe?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick again.

- Mountain ranges on earth.

- Patrick, that's right.

Nice job again.

Math question now.

So you got a pen or pencil there?

Get it ready.

What is the lowest common denominator of 2/3 and 5/16?

(buzzer chimes) Coco, Falmouth.

- 48.

- You nailed it.

Well done, 48.

All right, moving on.

In the name of an African country, the letters D-R-C stand for Democratic Republic of what?

(buzzer chimes) - Sam, Cony.

- Congo.

- Yup, nice job.

One of the earliest known recordings of JFK's voice was made in 1937 during a public speaking class that he took as a student at what university?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- Harvard.

- Harvard, yes.

An atom of hydrogen typically has one proton and one electron.

The hydrogen isotope with one proton, one electron and one neutron is called what?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick again?

- Hydronium?

- That's incorrect.

Cony?

(buzzer chimes) Go for it, Ted.

- Dihydrogen.

- That's incorrect also, it's deuterium.

Deuterium.

What Japanese word that means one who came before is commonly used as a title of respect for a teacher, especially a teacher of martial arts?

(buzzer chimes) Isaac, Cony.

- San.

- [Todd] That's incorrect.

Falmouth?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick?

- Sensei.

- Sensei, yes.

Players take a vacation on a desert island in New Horizons.

A 2020 installment of what life simulator game?

(buzzer chimes) Saber, Cony.

- Animal Crossing?

- Animal Crossing, yes, nice job.

Which of these revolutions took place most recently?

The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution or the Velvet Revolution?

(buzzer chimes) Sam, on the end, Cony.

- The Russian Revolution.

- [Todd] That's incorrect.

Falmouth, take a shot.

(buzzer chimes) Arsh, what do you got?

- The Velvet Revolution.

- Yes, you got it.

In Norse mythology, the children of Loki include Fenrir, who was what type of animal?

(bed chimes) Ted, Cony.

- Wolf.

- Wolf, yes.

What Latin name that means handyman is given to early human ancestors from more than two million years ago who made and used simple tools?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- Neanderthal?

- [Todd] Incorrect.

Cony?

(buzzer chimes) Isaac?

- Homo erectus.

- Close.

Homo habilis.

Christian devotional paintings of "Madonna and Child" depict the baby Jesus with what woman who was his mother?

(buzzer chimes) That's Ted, Cony.

- Mary.

- Yes, Mary.

Math question again.

Get your pens and pencils ready again.

In a magic square where the numbers one through nine are placed in a three by three grid, the sum of the numbers in one column will always be what number?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick?

- 11.

- 11 is incorrect.

Cony, you have a chance here.

(buzzer buzzing) 15, 15 is the answer.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library both are located in what state where there political careers began?

(buzzer chimes) Saber, Cony.

- California?

- Yep, that's right.

What is the name for a U-shaped curve with one focus in one directrix where any point on the curve is at an equal distance from both the focus and the directrix?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth?

- Parabola?

- Parabola, yes.

Good job.

(buzzer ringing) All right, that's the end of round one and the score is Falmouth 110, Cony 120.

Ooh, we got a good battle here and this is awesome.

Don't go anywhere, we'll be back and we'll meet the players.

(upbeat music) We're back and before we head to the category round we like to pause and get to know our players with a slightly silly question.

This evening it is if the seasons were to never change, which would you choose to keep all year long and why?

We'll begin with Falmouth.

And, Coco, what do you think?

- I would choose fall.

- Uh.

- Because it's the perfect temperature and you can go apple picking.

- Okay, apple your favorite fruit I assume?

Yeah.

- (chuckles) Any, any specific apple?

- I like Fuji apples.

- Fuji apples.

All right, good call.

Patrick?

- I'd choose the fall as well, specifically early fall 'cause that's when the stripe bass fishing heats up.

- Oh yeah.

- Before the fall run begins.

- Are you into you into stripe bass fishing and all of that?

- Yep.

- [Todd] You land any big ones this year, any keepers?

- A couple, couple in the fall.

- Good, good for you.

Awesome.

Jacob, you're up now for Falmouth - Summer without a question.

(Todd laughs) There's no school, no homework.

(Todd laughs) Just the best time to live.

- [Todd] You don't like homework?

- Absolutely.

- What's wrong with you?

I'm just kidding.

No, I don't think anybody likes homework.

Arsh, your turn.

- I would also choose summer.

I think mainly because I enjoy summer activities the most and I also like the heat a lot, so... - Okay.

Which summer activity is your favorite?

- Yeah, I like going to the beach for example.

- [Todd] Yeah, do you go in the main water though?

- I sometimes.

- (chuckles) Yeah.

- Yeah.

- It's a little cold isn't it?

We're gonna flip over to Cony now.

Ted, your thoughts?

- I'm gonna have to go with fall because I like Halloween and smell of Halloweens.

- Yeah, Halloween's great.

What were you for Halloween this year?

- Michael Myers.

- Oh, awesome.

From "Halloween?"

- Yep.

- Oh yeah, that's the best scary movie of the whole thing.

- [Ted] Hands down.

- Yes, hands down.

Saber, your turn.

- I'm gonna say winter 'cause you know why swim in the summer when you can ski all winter?

- I'm with ya.

I'm with you, Saber.

As I get older, I'm enjoying winter more than summer.

I don't know why.

- Right, it's kind weird.

It's great.

- Yeah, skiing's awesome.

Isaac, your turn?

- Honestly, I'd say winter as well because you could have like Christmas like five times a year.

- (laughs) So you're really looking forward to things.

Aren't you?

- Yeah.

All right, and Sam, let's wrap this up.

- I'd probably say fall as well.

It's not too hot and it's not too cold.

It's kind of right in the middle.

- Yeah, it's Goldilocks, it's just right.

That was the answer I think to an earlier question, fight?

Okay, the category round is next, but let's see how well you do with our viewer question of the week.

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Alec O'Meara from Unitil and this is your main question of the week.

In December of 2021, a scallop dragger from Kittery pulled up what from the ocean floor?

Was it a 1994 VHS copy of "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"?

A 12,000 year old wooly mammoth tooth?

Or a treasure chest possibly belonging to pirate Sam Bellamy?

Stay tuned for the answer later in the show.

(upbeat music) - Welcome back, we've got a great battle here.

Next up is the category round with the following choices: Here And Gone, The Emperor Strikes Back, Garden Spots, Math To The 4th Power, Whistle While You Work and Ah!

Alliteration!

Questions have increasing point values and wrong answers will cost you.

The rules for this round are different than in previous seasons.

Each team will alternate control of two categories with each question they can choose to answer and either gain or lose points, skip and neither gain nor lose points or once per category they can toss and force the other team to answer.

Players will have five seconds to confer and decide what to do.

Falmouth, you're behind by a just a little bit and you have control of the board.

What's your first category?

- [Patrick] Math To The 4th Power, please.

- All right, Math To The 4th Power.

All the answers are about Math and have four letters.

In a right triangle, what trigonometric function of an angle is determined by dividing the length of of the side opposite the angle by the length of the hypotonus.

Go ahead Patrick.

- Sine.

- Sine, yes.

Yeah, we don't have to ring in this this round.

You can just blurt it out when you're ready.

Although it's sometimes called the hexahedron.

What is the more common four letter name for a platonic solid with six identical congruent square faces?

- Cube.

- Cube is rights.

That was Math To The 4th Power for 15.

Now we're on Math To The 4th Power for 20.

What diagrams show two or more circles representing sets with overlapping areas to indicate elements those sets have in common?

They're named for a 19th century mathematician with a four letter surname.

- Venn.

- Venn is right, yeah.

You're rolling through this category.

Math To The 4th Power, 25.

The formula pi r squared is used to calculate what measurement of a circle?

- [Team Falmouth] Area.

- Area.

- I think I heard all of you say area.

You got it.

And the last one in Math To The 4th Power.

What four-letter name is given to a quadrilateral figure with two pairs of equal length sides that are adjacent to each other?

(buzzer beeping) I'll need an answer, Patrick or you can skip or you can toss.

- We'll toss it.

- You wanna toss it?

Okay, we're gonna send it over to Cony.

You guys have to answer.

I'll read it again for you.

What four-letter name is given to a quadrilateral figure with two pairs of equal length sides that are adjacent to each other.

- Any idea, guys?

- Not a square.

- Four letters.

(exhales) Cube.

- Good guess, answer's kite.

Kite.

All right, that ends that category.

We're gonna go over to Cony now.

You guys have control.

What would you like?

- [Ted] We'll take The Emperor Strikes Back.

- Okay, The Emperor Strikes Back.

Questions about emperors and empires.

On December 2nd, 1804, what man crowned himself emperor of France?

- [Team Cony] Napoleon.

- Napoleon.

- Napoleon, yes.

Good job.

The Emperor Strikes Back for 15.

Babur Akbhar the Great and Shah Jahan were emperors of what Muslim dynasty that ruled India and much of South Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries?

- Mughal?

- Take that right, Mughal is right, yep.

The Emperor Strikes Back for 20.

Shortly after The Great Fire of Rome in the year 64, a large circular rotating banquet hall was built for which Roman emperor who was famous for his extravagance?

- Nero.

- Nero.

- That is correct.

Next one.

The Emperor Strikes Back for 25.

Haile Selassie reigned as the emperor of what African country from 1930 to 1974?

- [Team Cony] Ethiopia.

Ethiopia.

- Ethiopia.

- That is also correct.

The Emperor Strikes Back, last one in the category.

Which Byzantine emperor ordered a complete overhaul of the legal system which resulted in the code known as the Corpus Juris Civilis?

- Hammurabi.

- That's incorrect.

The answer is Justinian, Justinian.

That's the end of that category.

The second category for Falmouth will be?

- [Arsh] Ah!

Alliteration!

- Ah!

Alliteration!

for 10.

All these answers are alliterative such as Mickey Mouse or Peppa Pig.

All right, here we go.

In a 1904 play by J.M.

Barrie, what title character is described as the boy who wouldn't grow up?

- Peter Pan.

- Peter Pan, yeah.

Ah!

Alliteration!

for 15.

What's the first and last name of the protagonist in "The Hobbit" by J.R.R.

Tolkien?

- Bilbo Baggins.

- Bilbo Baggins, yes.

Ah!

Alliteration!

for 20.

In a book by Roald Dahl, what character is described as the most amazing, the most fantastic, the most extraordinary chocolate maker the world has ever seen?

- Willy Wonka.

- Willy Wonka, yes.

And Ah!

Alliteration!

for 25.

Which Jane Austin novel takes its title from the personality traits of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, the sisters.

who are the main characters of the story?

- "Pride and Prejudice."

- Oh, that's not right.

The answer is "Sense and Sensibility."

The next question, the last one for Ah!

Alliteration!

What's the first and last name of the author of "Dubliners," "Ulysses" and a collection of poetry called "Pomes Penyeach"?

- James Joyce.

- You got it, nice job.

All right, we're back over to Cony for their last category.

What are you guys gonna select?

- [Ted] Garden Spots.

- Garden Spots, questions related to gardens.

The first one, the Garden State Parkway spans the length of which Mid-Atlantic state where you'll find Camden Children's Garden and the Rutgers Gardens?

- Jersey.

- Jersey.

- Yep, New Jersey is right.

Garden Spots for 15.

Gardeners at Keukenhof Gardens in The Netherlands plant seven million flower bulbs every year, mostly of what flower?

That is the national flower of The Netherlands.

- Tulips.

- Tulips is right.

20, Garden Spots.

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world were the hanging gardens of what city located about 50 miles south of what is present day Baghdad, historians are not certain of their exact location or whether they existed at all.

- Babylon.

- Babylon.

- Babylon, yes.

Garden Spots for 25.

A wedding scene in the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" was filmed at the Supertree Grove in Gardens by the Bay in what independent Asian city state?

- [Team Cony] Singapore.

- Singapore.

- You got that one too.

And the last one in the category of Garden Spots, a well-known section of Alnwick Garden in England is planted with laurel, belladonna, hemlock and about a hundred other plants that all have what specific thing in common?

- Toxic.

- Toxicity.

- Toxic.

- That is right.

Well done in that category, Cony.

That ends the category round.

And wow, we have a tie.

Falmouth Cony tied at 230.

Everything can change to the lightning round and it will clearly.

So sit tight, we'll be right back.

(upbeat music) - Did you come up with the answer to this week's question?

It was in December of 2021, a scallop drag from Kittery pulled up what from the ocean floor?

Was it a 1994 VHS copy of "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"?

A 12,000 year old wooly mammoth tooth?

Or a treasure chest possibly belonging to pirate Sam Bellamy?

While they did drag up a copy of "Ace Ventura" a couple years prior, in 2021, they caught a 12,000 year old wooly mammoth tooth.

In March of 2022, it was auctioned off for over $10,000 with the proceeds going to the World Central Kitchen Organization to help with Ukrainian refugee relief.

- Boy, we've got a great match on our hands here.

We're heading into the final 90 seconds now game play.

It's the lightning round.

Players, you do not have to wait for me to finish the question.

You can buzz in at any time but do not answer until I call your name.

You get 20 points for each answer correct and incorrect answers will cost you 20 points.

The other team does not get the chance to answer the question either.

The clock is set.

Good luck both of you, here we go.

What European City will host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2024?

(buzzer chimes) Sam, Cony.

- Paris.

- Paris, yes.

What kind of animal's Punxsutawney Phil?

(buzzer chimes) - Ted, Cony.

- Groundhog.

- Groundhog, yes.

In November 2021, Michelle Wu was elected mayor of what city?

(buzzer chimes) Ted, Cony.

- Boston.

- Boston is right.

Which taxonomic kingdom includes molds and mushrooms?

(buzzer chimes) Isaac, Cony.

- Fungi.

- Fungi, yes.

Miss Hannigan is the villain in what Broadway musical?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick, Falmouth.

- "Annie."

- "Annie," you got it.

How many lines of verse are in one couplet?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick.

- Two.

- Two, yes.

"Levitating and "Don't Start Now" we're hits for what British singer?

(buzzer chimes) Sam, Cony.

- Dua Lipa.

- You got it.

Matt Murdock is the alter ego of what- (buzzer chimes) Ted, Cony.

- "Daredevil."

- "Daredevil," yes.

The Beagle Channel is a strait at the bottom of what continent?

(buzzer buzzing) South America.

The old-fashioned choosing game is rock paper and what- (buzzer chimes) - Scissors.

- Yes.

How many sides does a decagon have?

(buzzer chimes) Ted, Cony.

- 10.

- 10 is correct.

What nonmetallic element shares its name with Superman's home planet?

(buzzer chimes) Ted again.

- Krypton.

- Krypton, yes.

When bears hibernate, they are dormant in which season?

(buzzer chimes) Patrick.

- Winter.

- Winter, you got it.

US Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay.

(buzzer ringing) That is the end of our lightning, that round.

That was an amazing match.

Our winning team is Cony with 390 points.

(Team Cony cheering) They'll be moving on to the quarter finals in a few weeks.

Our runner-up, Falmouth, you guys did an awesome job.

Thank both of you for playing.

Congratulations to both of you too.

Be sure to tune in next time as Wells takes on Noble.

Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on "High School Quiz Show Maine."

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- [Announcer 2] Safety Insurance is committed to environmental sustainability and supports many local charities.

You can ask an independent agent about auto, home and business coverage from Safety Insurance.

Safety Insurance will help you manage life's storms.

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