(upbeat music) - Well, welcome to the season premiere of "High School Quiz Show: Maine".

We have 16 schools from across the state competing to be this year's champion and take home that $1,000 prize for their school's project graduation.

In our first qualifying match, it's the Huskies of Gould Academy (upbeat music) taking on the Witches of Brewer High School.

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- Welcome to season seven of "High School Quiz Show: Maine".

I'm Todd Gutner.

Last fall, schools from across the state took the qualifying test to be part of this season.

The top 16 scoring schools have made it onto the show and each one is hoping to become our newest champion and take home the $1,000 grand price for their school's project graduation.

In our first game for season seven, we have a rematch of two teams who met in season six.

The Gould Academy Huskies from Bethel are hoping to repeat their win over the Brewer Witches who are hoping to rack up a second quiz show championship.

Now let's go on to meet the players for our kickoff match.

for Gould, we have Mary, David, Polly and Will with Amelia and Emmett and Marco as alternates and they're coached by Adam, left.

And for Brewer we have Zach, Lily, Stella, and Annette with Alternate Ren and coached by Sue Ann Gators.

The competition of course has three rounds, the tossup round, the category round, and the 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.

(animation music) Okay, Gould, okay, Brewer, are you guys ready to kick off this season?

- [All] Yes!

- All right, that sounds pretty good.

Here comes the first question of season seven.

The official languages of Canada are English and which other language?

(bell beeping) - Zach, Brewer.

- French.

- French is right and we're off.

Famous for his worst intros series and for posting a video of himself counting to 100,000, Jimmy Donaldson is a YouTuber and philanthropist, mainly known by what online alias.

(bell beeping) Will, Gould.

- Mr.

Beast.

- Mr.

Beast is right.

On TV Millie Bobby Brown plays what teenage detective character who has older brothers named Sherlock and Mycroft.

(bell beeping) That'd be Stella, Brewer.

- Enola Holmes.

- Enola Holmes, correct again.

The area known as Research Triangle Park is located in the region between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill in which US state?

(bell beeping) Polly, Gould.

- North Carolina.

- That's correct, North Carolina.

Alright, we have a picture question and that's next.

So please look over here at the monitor.

Here is the question.

This ancient Egyptian artifact featuring a decree inscribed in three scripts was instrumental in deciphering hieroglyphs.

What is its common known name?

(bell beeping) Lily, Brewer.

- The Rosetta Stone.

- That is right.

As its name indicates hydroponics is a method of growing plants by replacing soil with what liquid?

(bell beeping) Go ahead Mary.

- Water.

- Water is right.

Portugal shares a land border with just one other country.

Which country is it?

(bell beeping) David, Gould.

- Spain.

- Spain is the right answer.

We move on to Trinity, which sold that auction for 6.1 million in 2023 is a composite skeleton of what kind of dinosaur made up of bones from three different sites.

(bell buzzing) The answer is T-Rex is the dinosaur.

Next question.

Bowler, trilby and fedora are types of what article of clothing?

(bell beeping) Stella, Brewer.

- Hat.

- Hat is right.

Up next we have a video question, so once again, look at that monitor.

- Hello, my name is Joshua Chard and I am the 2024 Maine Teacher of the Year and today's video question category is science.

What is the name of the process by which a cell engulfs a solid particle bringing it into the cell?

(bell beeping) - Zach, Brewer.

- Endocytosis.

- That's incorrect.

Gould, do you wanna take a shot at that?

(bell beeping) - Mitosis.

- Good guess, the answer is phagocytosis.

Got that.

All right, we'll move on now, we'll move on.

The outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere is known by what name that comes from a Latin word meaning crown?

(bell beeping) David, Gould.

- Corona.

- Corona, yes.

What civil rights leader delivered his, "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis on April 3rd, 1968, the day before he was assassinated.

(bell beeping) Mary, Gould.

- Martin Luther King.

- That's correct.

In which winter sport do players slide rocks into the house?

Hoping to get them close to the button.

(bell beeping) Zach, Brewer.

- curling.

- Yeah, good one.

The equator passes through which of these countries?

Australia, Brazil, or India.

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Mary.

- Brazil.

- Brazil is correct.

We have a math question now.

There should be a pencil and paper right in front of you.

When three x plus two x equals 35, what is the value of x?

(bell beeping) David, Gould.

- Seven.

- One more time.

- Seven.

- That's quick math and you got it right.

"Here at Horace Green" and "You're in the Band" are songs from what Broadway musical that's based on a 2003 movie?

(bell beeping) - "Legally Blonde".

- That's incorrect, do you wanna go for it Brewer.

One of you ring in with a guest.

No, okay, it's "School of Rock".

After a windstorm took down more than 400 trees at the Bruce Moore historic site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Landscapers brought in a herd of what farm animals to eat the invasive plants and clear the area for new trees to be planted.

(bell beeping) Mary again.

- Goats.

- Goats is again correct.

Lithium ion technology is widely used to make a rechargeable type of what power source.

(bell beeping) Lily, Brewer.

- Cell phone.

- Incorrect, Gould.

(bell beeping) - Battery.

- Battery is again correct.

We'll move on, in "The Great Gatsby" what woman is Nick's cousin, Tom's wife and Gatsby's long lost love?

(bell beeping) Mary, Gould.

- Daisy.

- Daisy Buchanan, that is correct.

Next question, named for a member of the French National Assembly.

What device with a very sharp blade was used to execute people during the French Revolution?

(bell beeping) Will, Gould.

- Oh, I can't remember the name.

(bell buzzing) - It's okay.

Brewer, you have a shot now.

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Stella.

- Guillotine.

- Guillotine, that's it.

That was on the tip of your tongue, wasn't it Will?

- Yeah, it was.

- It was, all right.

The Hertzsprung Russell diagram is used for classifying which of these things, chromosomes, stars or trees?

(bell beeping) Lily, Brewer.

- Chromosomes.

- That's incorrect.

Gould, go ahead Mary.

(bell beeping) - Stars.

- Yes, you got it.

Stars is it, all right?

In Greek mythology instead of hair, Medusa and her gorgon sisters have what creatures growing from their heads?

(bell beeping) Will, Gould.

- Snakes.

- Snakes is right?

Yep.

Which metallic element is the most abundant metal in Earth's crust?

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Stella.

- Iron.

- [Todd] Incorrect, Gould do you wanna take a shot?

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Polly.

- Aluminum.

- You nailed it.

Was that wait?

Was that a complete guess?

- Yes.

- Wow, there's so many metals out there too.

All right, next question.

Which two colors are the only colors on the national flags of Japan, Poland, and Turkey.

(bell beeping) Lily, your turn.

- White and red.

You nailed that.

Math question again.

Pencils, papers, here we go.

A recipe calls for 32 ounces of juice to make 1/4 of punch.

Using this recipe, how many ounces of juice will you need to make a gallon of punch.

(bell beeping) David, Gould.

- 128.

- 128, yes, good job.

A river, a bay and a strait in northeastern North America were named for what 17th century explorer who was commander of a ship called the Half Moon.

(bell beeping) Lily, Brewer - Magellan.

- That's incorrect.

Good Gould.

(bell beeping) Polly.

- I'll say Marco Polo.

- Also incorrect.

Hudson, Hudson is the answer.

Henry Hudson.

Even though the actors change from movie to movie, the main antagonist in the "Scream" horror film franchise are known by what name that relates to the spooky mask they wear.

(bell beeping) Will, Gould.

- Ghost face.

- Ghost face, yes.

What writing system that was used by the Sumerians around 3,200 BCE has a name that comes from the Latin word for wedge shaped.

(bell beeping) Stella - Cuneiform.

- Yeah, you nailed that, good job.

All right, what invisible line of demarcation is located at approximately 66 degrees, 30 minutes North Latitude.

(bell beeping) Mary.

- Longitude.

- [Todd] Incorrect, Brewer.

(bell beeping) - Tropic of Cancer.

- Arctic Circle.

Arctic Circle is the right answer here.

we go to the next one.

A poem by William Blake refers to what animal burning bright in the forest of the night.

(bell beeping) Lily, Brewer.

- Tiger.

- Tiger is it.

What metal alloy that consists mainly of tin with small amounts of copper and antimony was commonly used to make household items such as plates and cups and colonial America.

(bell beeping) Annette on the end.

- Lead.

- [Todd] Lead is incorrect, Gould.

(bell beeping) - I'll say aluminum again.

- You're gonna go with aluminum again.

It was a good guess.

You seem to be the guest around the team, Polly.

Incorrect, pewter, pewter.

(bell buzzing) All right, that's the end of first round.

We have a score of Gould 160 and Brewer 90.

It's a great start to season seven.

We will meet the teams when we get back.

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Before we head to the category round, we like to pause and get to know our players with a slightly silly question, which is this right here.

You get to design your dream theme park.

What would it be called and what would be in it?

We'll start over here with Mary.

- I think my favorite theme park already exists, which is Dollywood because it's Dolly Parton and can you get any better than that?

- You pretty much can't.

- You can't.

- And she's like timeless too.

- She is, forever and ever.

- Well, probably.

- She's gone on the golden record.

- Yeah, David your turn.

- For me would have to be like a huge waterpark on a tropical island.

- [Todd] Okay.

- Probably called like Aqua Palace or something like that.

- Aqua Palace.

- Yeah.

(all laughing) Sounds pretty cool, you're into waterparks clearly.

- Yeah.

- What's your favorite waterpark that you've been to?

- Oh, there's this one in Germany and it's like a huge dome.

- [Todd] Oh, cool.

- They have, yeah I think.

Yeah, I think that's it, yeah.

- Whatever you guys just said.

(all laughing) Polly.

- I think mine's gonna just complete all my childhood dreams.

It's gonna be some mix of Jurassic Park and Dinosaur Train.

(Todd laughing) - I remember Dinosaur train.

- Naked with dragons instead of dinosaurs.

- Oh, you're a bigger dragon fan now, huh?

- Now, yes, actually.

Puberty head and dinosaurs became dragons.

- It's funny what happens when that hits, isn't it?

Will go, ahead.

Why do you finish up your teams?

- So I'm thinking a ski resort, but it has a roller coaster instead of a chairlift to get you to to the top.

- Why hasn't someone already done that?

- Yeah, no, I'm gonna trademark that idea by calling it Will Land.

- Will Land, I like the idea of it.

What's your favorite mountain to ski at by the way?

- I have to go with my home Mountain Sunday River.

- That's a good choice.

That's a good choice coming from Gould Academy.

We'll go over to Brewer.

Go ahead Zach.

- I've always loved Red Pandas, so I think my amusement park would have a lot of red pandas.

I was thinking of like a red panda palace, like rollercoaster around it, yeah.

- It's got a good little ring to the name too.

It's catchy.

- [Zach] Yeah, I think so.

All right, Zach, thank you.

Lily, your turn.

- I'd have to go with Lily Land and I'd have-- - How'd you come up with that name?

- It was really hard.

I had to like dig deep into the crevices of my brain.

- So what does Lily land exist of?

- Like people from my life.

I'd have like a violet coaster in there.

That's Stella's sister.

- Oh, okay I was so about to ask you.

- Yeah, so it would be like different rides, like themed around my friends.

- Would that be a scary ride or like a fun ride or a-- - I think it'd be a scary ride.

- Oh, really?

Stella's sister's that scary, huh?

- Yep.

- Terrifying.

- Stella's nodding yes by the way.

Stella, your turn.

You can get more, you can zing your sister more if you want.

- No, I feel bad.

I really already like Six Flags.

So I'm gonna call mine Seven Flags and it's just gonna be a better version of Six Flags with better Rides.

- Makes sense, makes a lot of sense.

Thanks Stella, Annette?

- I think mine would just be called Funlandia, you know?

Nice, keep it simple.

You know, it would have rollercoasters that boat that goes back and forth.

- Oh, that's freaks me out.

Especially when you get to the top there-- - It's so much fun.

- For you maybe, for you.

By the way, I would make up my own dream theme park and it would be called Meowy World and it would be consisting of all cats and only cats.

And at the entrance to this theme park would be my cat, giant sculpture of Aries, giant monument of Aries.

And I've thoroughly just embarrassed my twin 14 year olds and I hope they talk to me again later on tonight.

We'll see, anyway, 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 Omera from Unitil and this is your viewer question of the week.

The main friendship house is a museum dedicated to the 1866 journey of a group of Christian Mainers who sailed overseas from Jonesport to establish a church and a new colony.

In which country will you find this museum?

Is it Israel, Norway, Scotland, or Morocco?

We'll reveal the answer later in the show.

(upbeat music) - Next up, we have the category round with the following choices.

Our house, V is for vocabulary, life by the lake, four plus four, it's a colorful place and how sweet.

Each team will alternate control of two categories.

Questions have increasing point values with each question they can choose to either answer and either gain or lose points.

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

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

Our trailing team right now is Brewer.

So you guys have your first choice of the board.

What category are we going to?

- [Lily] V is for vocabulary.

- V is for for vocab.

These are all answers will be words that start with the letter V, okay?

Here's the first question for 10 points.

What V word that can be a synonym for inoculation has a root that comes from the Latin word for cow?

(Brewers discussing) (bell beeping) Lily, what do you wanna do?

- Skip.

- You wanna skip?

The answer is vaccination, vaccination.

V is for vocabulary for 15, from Latin words that mean goodbye and speaking, what V word refers to the student at the top of a class who delivers the farewell speech at a graduation.

- Valedictorian.

- That's correct.

V is for vocab for 20.

In 1944, a man named Donald Watson coined what V word to describe a person who does not eat meat, eggs, or dairy products.

- Vegan.

- Vegan is also right.

V is for vocabulary 25.

From the Italian for little worms, what is the name for long stringy pasta that is skinnier than spaghetti?

(bell beeping) What would you like to do there Lily?

- We're gonna skip.

- You wanna skip that one as well?

So it's vermicelli.

V is for vocab.

Last question in the category.

What common name for a female fox comes from the old English word for fox?

- We're gonna toss.

- You wanna toss that?

I will read it again to you guys at Gould, you'll have to answer.

What common name for a female fox comes from the old English word for fox.

- Vixen.

- Vixen, you nailed it.

That was pretty easy.

All right, so that's the end of the first category.

We go over to Gould now, what will be your choice, Mary?

- [Mary] Can we do it's a colorful place.

- You can, it's a colorful place.

These are questions about places with colors in their names.

Colors in their names.

Here's the first question.

The largest island in the world that is not a continent is which island in the North Atlantic.

- Greenland.

- Greenland.

- Greenland.

- Yes, that's right.

It's a colorful place for 15.

The Mahoosuc Range in Western Maine is an extension of what of which mountains that cover about 25% of New Hampshire?

- White mountain.

- White mountains.

- The white mountains also, right?

It's a colorful place 20.

The geyser known as Old Faithful is a popular spot in which US National Park.

- Yellowstone.

- Yellowstone is also right.

It's a colorful place for 25.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen are three of the seven countries with ports on which sea In the Middle East?

- Red Sea.

- Red Sea, you guys are flying through this category.

Here's the last one.

See if you sweep it.

It's a colorful place for 30.

The small county located between Los Angeles and San Diego has what colorful name that refers to its local agriculture?

- Orange County.

- You did sweep it, nice job.

All right, we're heading back to Brewer, you guys have a chance here.

Let's go with your second category.

- [Lily] We'll go with how sweet.

- How sweet, these are questions about desserts?

Okay, here's the first question.

The town of Dover Foxcroft hosts an annual festival in honor of what soft cream field chocolate treat that is the official state treat of Maine.

- Whoopi pie.

- You better have gotten that one right.

(Todd laughing) Here's the second one for how sweet.

It said that Queen Elizabeth, the first of England has what kind of sweet and spicy cookies baked in the shape of her friends making houses from this kind of cookie became popular in Germany after the brothers Grim published the tale of "Hansel and Gretel".

- Gingerbread.

- Gingerbread also right?

How sweet for 20.

The pearls at the bottom of a cup of bubble tea are what starch that comes from cassava root and can also be the basis for a thick sweet pudding.

- Tapioca.

- Tapioca, nice job.

How sweet for 25.

Marzipan is traditionally made from what kind of nuts that are finely ground and mixed with sugar and honey.

- Almond.

- Almond also, right?

And the last one.

Maybe you guys could sweep the category, which Italian dessert made with Lady Fingers, Marscarpone cheese, espresso, Marsala wine and cocoa powder has a name that loosely translates as pick me up - Tiramisu.

- You did it, you swept it.

Nice job Brewer.

And we go back to Gould for your second category.

We are on a roll right now.

- [Mary] Can we do four plus four?

- Four plus four, yes, we can.

All answers consist of two, four letter words or names like King Kong or True Blue.

Here's the first question for 10.

Keanu Reeves plays what title character with two four letter names in a series of Neo-noir action films whose fourth installment was released in 2023.

- John Wick.

- Yes, John Wick.

Four plus four 15.

A film franchise of buddy movies starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker takes its name from what two word phrase that refers to the time of day when road traffic is heavy because people are traveling to and from work.

- "Rush Hour".

- "Rush Hour" yeah.

Four plus four for 20, which very short flat track in the Mario Kart video game series may have a staff ghost that rides a goo-goo buggy or a marshmallow.

- I don't play video games.

- I'm gonna say Coconut Mall.

- The answer Baby park, sorry about that Gould.

We'll go on though.

Four plus four for 25.

And her first hit single from 2007, Sarah Barella sings "I'm not gonna write you a" what "'cause you asked for it."

- Love song.

- Love song.

- Love song is right, yes.

Four plus four for 30, the last one.

Named for his light colored plumage and his gender, what Red-tailed Hawk lived in and around New York City's Central Park from the 1990s until his death in 2023?

- Toss.

- You wanna toss this one over to Brewer?

I will read it again to you guys.

Named for his light colored plumage and his gender, what Red-tailed Hawk lived in and around New York City's Central Park from the 1990s until his death in 2023?

(Brewers chatting) (Brewers laughing) (bell beeping) - What do you think, Lily?

- Pink Boy.

- I mean, not a bad guess.

It was Pale Male.

You weren't far off.

(Todd laughing) Well, that's gonna end our category round.

We have a score right now of Gould at 320, Brewer is at 195, but everything can change in the lightning round, so sit tight, we'll be right back.

(upbeat music) - How did you do with the question of the week?

It was the main friendship house is a museum dedicated to the 1866 journey of a group of Christian mainers who sailed overseas from Jonesport to establish a church and a new colony.

In which country will you find this museum?

Is it Israel, Norway, Scotland, or Morocco?

The answer is Israel.

The museum is in the city of Jaffa.

A house brought over from Jonesport with the pilgrims on the ship, Nellie Chapin.

(upbeat music) - Okay, here it is.

We're heading into the final 90 seconds of gameplay.

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 them until I call your name.

You get 20 points for each correct answer.

Incorrect answers will also cost you 20 points and the other team does not get a chance to answer the question.

So our clock is set.

Good luck to both of you, here we go in the lightning round.

Which American writer created "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Fit"?

(bell beeping) Lily, Brewer.

- Mark Twain.

- Yes.

What is the molecular formula for water?

(bell beeping) Will, Gould - H2O.

- Yep.

- In the Northern Hemisphere.

Winter solstice happens around the 21st of what month.

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Stella.

- December.

Yes, how many feet does a tetrapod have?

(bell beeping) Zach.

- Four.

- Four is right.

NASA's Johnson Space Center is in which Texas City.

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Mary.

- Houston.

- Houston, yeah.

Cobalt is a shade of what color?

(bell beeping) - Annette, Brewer.

- Blue.

- Blue, yes.

In the "Star Wars" films, what's the name of Han Solo's Wooki copilot.

(bell beeping) Go ahead, Zach - Chewbacca.

- Yep, Basmati in Arborio... (bell beeping) - David, Gould.

- Rice.

- Rice, yes.

- Helsinki is the capital of which... (bell beeping) Go again, David.

- Finland.

- Finland, again, right?

1 billion is written as a one followed by... (bell beeping) - Nine, oh, sorry.

- Will, nine.

- You got it right.

The Interpretation of dreams is a work by which Austrian site?

(bell beeping) Polly.

- Zigman Freud.

- Yes, the name of which Zodiac sign is Latin for twins.

(bell beeping) Stella, Brewer.

- Pisces.

- Incorrect.

Right, it's no, it's Gemini.

The sheriff of what English city is the antagonist in the classic tales of "Robinhood".

(bell beeping) Annette.

- Nottingham.

- Nottingham, yeah.

(bell beeping) And that's the end of our lightning round and the final score in our winning team Gould with 440 points.

They'll be moving on to the quarterfinals in a few weeks.

Our runner up this evening Brewer with 295 points.

Thanks so much for playing.

Congratulations to both teams.

Be sure to tune in next time as Deering takes on North Yarmouth Academy.

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

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