(gentle music) - It's time for quarterfinal number two and one of today's teams will move on to the semifinals in their quest for the thousand dollar grand prize.

In today's match, we have the red riots of Orono High School.

(dramatic music) Taking on the raiders of Fryeburg Academy.

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In quarterfinal number one, Gould Academy was victorious over Westbrook and moved on to the semis.

Each of today's teams hopes to join them in battle for the season eight championship.

Fryeburg defeated Morana Cook to make it to this round, but they need to get past Orono, who are hoping their second season on the show ends in victory.

Let's get things going by meeting the teams.

For Orono, we have Noah, Nick, Dorsa, and Alan with alternate Micah and they're coached by Troy Wagstaff and Shauna Goodall.

For Fryeburg we have Quintan, Aisha, Lillian, and Peter with alternates Gwen and Katie, and they're coached by Joe Minnick.

The competition has four rounds.

The tossup round, the head-to-head round, the category round, and that fun lightning round.

We'll start with the tossup round.

All answers are worth 10 points, and this is the 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.

Is everybody ready?

- Yes.

- All right, sounds good.

Here comes the first question, which Sesame Street Muppet is known for singing the song that begins, "It's not that easy being green."

(bell dings) Noah.

- Oscar the Grouch.

- [Todd] Ah, that's incorrect.

Fryeburg, you wanna try?

- Kermit the Frog is the answer.

Ratified In 1971, the 26th Amendment established what age as the legal voting edge for all elections in the United States?

Dorsa.

- 18.

- 18, right.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is headquartered in what city in Georgia?

Nick.

- Atlanta.

- Atlanta, nice.

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was an enormous statue of what king of the Greek gods carved from gold and ivory by the sculptor Phineas?

Alan.

- Zeus.

- Zeus is right.

Here comes the next question.

"The Modern Prometheus" is the alternate title for what 1818 novel written by Mary Shelley?

Dorsa?

- Frankenstein.

- Frankenstein is right.

What French term that means allowed to do refers to the economic principle that says government should not interfere in the workings of business?

Noah.

- Laissez faire.

- Nice job.

Born Calvin Brodis Jr. in 1971, what rapper, actor, and media personality has hosted a TV cooking competition show with Martha Stewart and a reboot of the TV game show "The Joker's Wild" and is also a playable character in the video game "Call of Duty Vanguard?"

Alan.

- Snoop Dogg.

- Snoop Dogg is right.

In May, 2024, which US Supreme Court Justice issued a statement explaining that his wife was responsible for the American flag flying upside down outside his house in Virginia?

Noah.

- Thurgood Marshall.

- [Todd] That's incorrect.

Fryeburg you wanna try?

Go ahead, Quintan.

- Sam Alito.

- That is right, nice job.

Next up we have a video question, so once again, take a look at the monitor right here.

- I'm Aislinn Sarnacki, host of "Borealis" on Maine Public.

And here's my question for you.

Having expanded its territory north from the southern US in the past 50 years, what marsupial is becoming more common in Maine?

- [Todd] Go ahead, Noah.

- Possum.

- Possum is right.

Technically, it's a different animal, but we're going to accept it.

Nice job.

Next question, emerging in the early Cambrian period, one of the first dominant forms of complex life on earth was what class of marine arthropods whose name refers to the three lateral lobes on their bodies?

Alan.

- Trilobytes.

- Nice job.

From Sanskrit meaning instrument of thought or tool of the mind, what is the five letter name for a word such as ohm that is repeated during the practice of meditation?

Noah.

- Mantra.

- Mantra, that is the right answer.

Chinook salmon are piscivorous, which means that they do which of these things?

Eat other fish, give birth to live young, or shed their skins after mating.

Alan.

- A, eat other fish.

- That is correct.

Nice job.

Math question now.

Got your pencil and paper ready?

Each side of a wooden cube measures two centimeters and the mass of the cube is 24 grams.

In grams per cubic centimeter, what is the density of the cube?

Alan?

- Three.

- Nice job, you got it.

Three is right.

Blanche, Stella, and Stanley are the main characters in which play by Tennessee Williams that takes place in New Orleans?

Noah.

- "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

- That's incorrect, Fryeburg?

Answer, "A Streetcar Named Desire."

In an 1841 case argued by John Quincy Adams before the US Supreme Court, it was decided that the 53 people sailing from Sierra Leone to Cuba had been illegally enslaved and should be free to return to their home in Africa.

What ship were they aboard?

(buzzer beeps) Answer is Amistad.

Halitosis is the medical name for which of these conditions?

Athlete's foot, bad breath, or a runny nose?

Alan.

- Bad breath.

- Bad breath is right.

Named for an African born fifth century bishop, what city in Florida is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States?

Alan again.

- St. Augustine.

- You got it again.

What man who served as president of the United States during World War I is the only US president to have earned a PhD?

Quintan.

- Woodrow Wilson.

- Woodrow Wilson, nice job.

In the 1970s British chemist James Lovelock and American biologist, Lynn Margulis, theorized that the earth behaves like a single giant self-sustained organism.

What name did they give to this hypothesis?

It's Gaia hypothesis.

Math question, the second one and the final one.

Annual dues for membership in the hiking club are $32 per person.

If the club collected $896 in dues, how many members paid their dues?

Ooh, the answer's 28.

All right, we move on.

Based on a Broadway musical, what classic film about the Von Trapp family features the songs "My Favorite Things" and "Climb Every Mountain?"

(bell dings) Ooh, Noah.

- "The Sound of Music."

- "The Sound of Music," nice work.

And that's the end of our first round and we've got a score of Orono 140, Fryeburg's at 20.

Looks like we've got a good match here.

Don't go anywhere.

We'll meet the players when we get back.

(dramatic music) Before we go to the head to head round, we like to pause and get to know our players with a slightly off the wall question.

And this one is, what is a word that always makes you laugh?

We'll begin over here.

Orono and Noah.

- A word that always makes me laugh is Edward or it reminds me of my buddy Teddy, who's the funniest guy I know.

- Okay, best, is he like your best buddy too?

Good friend?

- Yeah, he is.

He did "Quiz Bowl."

- [Todd] Oh no kidding.

- "High School Quiz Show" last year, yeah.

- Oh great, nice.

Nick, your turn.

- I would say Eric, this is the first of two middle names for our mentor and inspiration, Teddy.

He did "Quiz Show" last year and he's now off on his endeavors in Canada but he remains with us.

- What was his other middle name?

- Oh, you'll find out soon.

- Oh, okay.

Dorsa, are you gonna inform me?

- Oh, I will, Todd.

My word is Ezekiel.

It just reminds me of my friend Teddy and his fiery red locks.

I miss him every day.

- You do, it sounds like that.

Alan, let me guess.

- I have a compound word for you.

This is the name that Ted and I share.

We're brothers, I gotta say Dickson Smith.

- Dickson Smith.

- [Alan] Always makes me laugh.

- Does Teddy know how much you guys love him?

- Oh.

- We hope so.

- We can't tell him that.

- Can't tell him that?

It'll get to his red locked head.

(Todd laughs) All right, Fryeburg, you're up, Quintan.

- My word would have to be lard.

- Lard, that is really funny actually.

And just you saying it right there, cracked me up.

- I've watched too much "Mythbusters."

- Okay, all right, Aisha.

- I don't really have a word in English that makes me always laugh since I'm not a native speaker.

- [Todd] Uh-huh.

- But maybe, I don't know, sorry.

- It's okay, that's all right.

Is there a word that, what is your native language?

- Spanish.

- Spanish, is there a word in Spanish that makes you laugh all the time?

- Not especially.

- Not especially?

All right, Lillian, your turn.

- A word that always makes me laugh is bamboozle because I feel like you could use so many other words like trick.

- [Todd] Trick, right.

- And it seems very unnecessary.

- Yeah, but it does, yeah, it doesn't.

It kind of rolls of the tongue funny, in a funny way.

- [Lillian] Yeah.

- Peter, you're last up.

- I'm gonna have to go with shamamalay.

- [Todd] Shamamalay.

- It is my, I think it was either my sister or my mom who dispronounced it.

Chamomile.

- Oh.

- Just read the tea box.

- [Todd] Sure yeah.

- And now we all just call chamomile.

- [Todd] It's called chamomile in your house.

- Um no, it's called shamamalay.

It's called shamamalay, all right.

- Even though it is chamomile.

- Right.

All right, Peter, thank you and thank you, Orono and Fryeburg.

The head to head round is next.

but let's see how well you do with the viewer question of the week.

(dramatic music) - Hi, I'm Alec Omer from Unitil, and this is your viewer question of the week.

Maine has had 71 governors since statehood, but in 1959, how many different people served as governor of Maine?

Keep track of your answers and tune in to the semifinals for part two of the viewer question challenge.

(dramatic music) - It's time for the head-to-head round.

Players alternate facing off one-on-one right here at the desk.

Correct answers are worth 10 points.

Incorrect answers will cost you 10 points.

There are 90 seconds on our clock.

Players ready?

Here we go.

In a historic 1925 court case, what high school teacher was fined $100 and found guilty of violating Tennessee state law for teaching his class about the theory of evolution?

Scopes.

Cashmere fiber is made from the hair of what livestock animal?

- Alpaca?

- Incorrect, goat.

French artists known as the wild beasts were a part of what artistic movement that's known for strong colors and brush work?

Fauvism.

The green place is one of the last remaining areas with freshwater and agriculture in what post-apocalyptic action film released in 2024?

"Furiosa."

Sometimes called the heart of the lion, the brightest star in the constellation Leo is which star whose common name means little king in Latin?

Regulus.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars is a line from Lady Windermere's fan by what Irish playwright?

Oscar Wilde.

Famous for its red sandstone buildings carved into the mountainside, the ancient trading city of Petra.

- Jordan.

- You got it, nice.

In 10 pin bowling, a series of three strikes is called what?

- Turkey.

- Got it bud.

In which country of East Africa do the Aromo and Amara?

(bell dings) Ooh, that's the end of our round and we have a score of Orono 140, Fryeburg 30.

Don't go anywhere.

Our category round is next.

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(dramatic music) - Next up is the category round with the following choices.

Cook's Country, Austin city limits, finding your roots, POV, this old house, and fittingly, I watched it on PBS.

Now each team will alternate control of two categories.

Questions have increasing point values.

With each question they can choose to answer it and either gain or lose points.

They can skip it and neither gain nor lose points or once per category, they can toss and force the other team to answer.

Players will have about five seconds to confer with each other and decide what to do.

Fryeburg, you're trailing right now.

Peter, you're gonna speak for your team and you're gonna go with your first category.

- [Peter] We can do Cook's Country, but that might be about cooking.

Cook's Country, but it might be about cooking.

Cook's Country?

We're gonna go with Cook's Country.

- Okay, Peter, Cook's Country it is.

Questions about foods from various countries.

First one, what fruit that is related to bananas is fried to make the Latin American dish tostones and the Nigerian dish called dodo?

- Banana, like, banana.

(student chats indistinctly) - Skip, skip, skip.

- [Todd] Peter, I'll need an answer.

- We're gonna skip.

- You wanna skip that?

It's plantain, that's the right answer.

Cook's Country for 15.

A long thin loaf of crusty French bread is known by what name that means wand or rod?

- Baguette.

- Baguette, nice.

Cook's Country, 20.

What grain is a key ingredient in both the West African dish jollof and the Spanish dish paella?

- Rice.

- Rice.

- Rice is correct.

Cook's Country 25.

Often served in Japanese restaurants, edamame is a green, immature type of which legume?

(students chat indistinctly) - Skip.

- Skip.

- Wanna skip that as all?

Soybeans.

Cook's Country for 30, last one in the category.

Elote is a popular Mexican street food that consists of what vegetable grilled over an open flame, then coated with spicy garlic sauce and cheese?

- Corn.

- Corn is correct.

Nice job over there.

We're gonna head to Orno now.

And Noah, you're gonna speak for your team and what category would you like to start with?

- [Noah] We'll take, I watched it on PBS.

- I watched it on PBS.

Questions about shows and series that have aired on PBS.

So here we go.

One episode of the award-winning series "Borealis" produced by Maine Public, follows middle school students participating in the Schooic Education Adventure in which National Park?

- Acadia.

- Nice, I watched it on PBS, 15.

On a PBS series for very young kids, Katerina, Kittycat, Miss Elena, and Prince Wednesday live in a neighborhood with which title character who has a little sister named Margaret?

- Tiger.

- Daniel Tiger.

- Daniel Tiger.

- Daniel Tiger, nice.

I watched it on PBS, 20.

Which American documentarian gained national recognition and two Emmy awards for his 1990 series, "The Civil War" and has gone on to make documentary series about baseball, country music, the American buffalo, and Muhammad Ali among many other subjects?

- Ken Burns.

- Ken Burns is right.

I watched it on PBS for 25.

Which popular science series with a name that comes from the Latin word meaning new, aired its first episode on PBS more than 50 years ago on March 3rd, 1974?

- Nova.

- And you nailed that one too.

Onto the last one in this category.

The Dead Parrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks are two famous sketches from which British comedy series that aired for the first time in the United States on PBS in 1974?

- "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

- You guys were great in that category, nice job.

You swept it.

All right, we're heading back over to Fryeburg, and Peter, what will your second category be?

- [Peter] POV please.

- POV, questions about point of view in literature.

Here's the first one.

Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," is told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch, who is known by what nickname?

(bell dings) What do you think, Peter?

- We're gonna skip it.

- Wanna skip it?

It's Scout.

POV for 15.

Which novel by Charlotte Bronte is narrated by the title character who famously reveals in chapter 38, reader, I married him.

- Skip.

- "Jane Eyre" is the answer.

POV 20, one example of a novel with several points of view is what 1897 novel by Bram Stoker that is told through the letters and journal entries of Jonathan Harper, Mina Murray, Dr. Van Helsig, and other characters.

- Anything?

Skip.

- Skip, it's "Dracula."

POV 25, what adjective that comes from the Latin for all knowing is often used to describe third person point of view, in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters?

- Omniscient.

- What?

- Omniscient.

- Omniscient is correct.

POV for 30.

An unreliable narrator affects a reader's perception of a story by including only certain details and leaving out key facts.

This is the case with the character called Kathy H. Who grew up at the fictional Hailsham School and narrates what 2005 coming of age novel by Kazuo Ishiguro?

- Skip.

- You wanna skip that?

Thank you for not, oh well, unfortunately, Peter, we have to take your first one there.

The answer is "Never Let Me Go."

Selfishly, I'm glad I didn't have to read that again.

(Todd laughs) So that wraps up that category.

We're going back over to Orono now.

Noah, what would you like?

- [Noah] Austin City limits, please.

- Austin city limits, great.

Questions about Texas geography.

The fourth largest US city by population is which Texas city that had widespread power outages after Hurricane Beryl in July, 2024?

(students chat indistinctly) - Dallas.

- Incorrect, Houston is the right answer.

Austin City limits, 15.

What geographical term that sounds like something you'd find in a kitchen refers to a strip of land that protrudes from a larger land mass like the part of northwest Texas where Amarillo is located?

- Panhandle.

- That's correct.

Austin City limits 20.

The busiest airport in Texas is known by the initials DFW.

The D stands for Dallas, but what does the FW stand for?

- Fort Worth.

- That's right.

Austin City Limits 25.

Located on a ranch in Blanco, Texas, County, Texas, the Texas White House is the lifelong home of what man who served as a senator from Texas and as vice president before he became president of the United States?

- Bush.

- Oh, that's incorrect.

It's LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson.

Austin City limits the last one for 30.

An unofficial boundary separating East Texas and West Texas, one of the longest rivers in Texas is known by what name that comes from The Spanish word for arms?

- Brazos.

- Brazos.

- That is right, nice job.

That wraps up the category round.

We have a score right now, Orono 270 and Fryeburg of 120.

Everything can change though in the lightning round.

Sit tight, we'll be right back.

(dramatic music) Okay, we're now heading into the final 90 seconds of gameplay, 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 correct answer and incorrect answers will cost you 20.

The other team does not get a chance to answer.

Our clock is set.

Good luck, here we go.

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of which?

Alan.

- Japan.

- [Todd] Yes, what is the square root of 49?

Nick.

- Seven.

- Yup, what 1925 novel is set mainly in the fictional New York suburbs of East and West Egg?

"Great Gatsby."

The channel tunnel is a direct connection between England and.

- France.

- Yup, Quintan, you got it.

Gastric acid is secreted by glands in what organ?

Noah.

- The stomach.

- That's correct.

Who was president of the United States in 1848 when the Oregon territory was established?

Polk.

In eSports, LCK is a championship for teams playing what battle arena game?

Noah.

- "League of Legends."

- [Todd] Got that.

What author of "The Stranger" won the 1957?

- Albert Camus.

- [Todd] Dorsa.

One more time?

- Albert Camus.

- [Todd] Got it.

In 1945, the US detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and what other?

- Nagasaki.

- [Todd] Yes, what name is shared by a Roman god of love and one of Santa's rein?

Go ahead, Noah.

- Cupid.

- Yes, symbolized by omega, what is the SI derived unit of electrical resistance?

Alan.

- Ohms.

- [Todd] Ohms.

The Sundance Film Festival takes place in Park City in what US state?

Dorsa.

- Utah.

- Right, who became emperor of Rome immediately after Julius Caesar?

Augustus is the right answer.

And we have a final of Orono with 430 points.

They'll be moving on to the semi-finals in a few weeks.

Our runner up, Fryeburg, 160 points.

Thanks for playing and congratulations to both teams.

Be sure to tune in next time for Quarterfinal number three as John Babs Memorial takes on Yarmouth.

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

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