- [Narrator] Local support for High School Bowl is made possible by 17 Upper Peninsula Credit Unions, including TruNorth Federal, Marquette Community Federal, Tahquamenon Area, Soo Co-op, Peninsula Federal and Gogebic County Federal, and by Petrucelli and Waara, Attorneys at Law serving Michigan and Wisconsin, supporting our high school students in their quest for excellence, and by Johnson Controls, creating buildings and environments that help people achieve, because when buildings work better, people work better.

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High School Bowl is a production of WNMU-TV, in partnership with the regional educational service agencies and intermediate school districts of the Upper Peninsula.

- Welcome to High School Bowl.

- Tonight's first match is Ishpeming versus Sault Ste.

Marie.

- Tonight's second match is Republic Michigamme versus Cedarville.

- We woke up at 4:00 AM for this.

- [Narrator] Major production funding for High School Bowl is provided by Janice Mills of Escanaba and by the Donald & Audrey Anderson Foundation.

(upbeat music) - [Announcer] WNMU-TV presents High School Bowl.

Our first game matches the Ishpeming Hematites against the Sault Ste.

Marie Blue Devils.

Now here's your host of High School Bowl, Jim Koski.

(audience applauding) - Good evening, and welcome to another edition of High School Bowl.

It's your chance to spend an hour with some of the brightest young people on the planet.

A little later this hour, we'll be saying hey to Republic Michigamme and Cedarville, but how about if we meet the teams at tonight's first game?

Let's start with the returning Ishpeming Hematites.

- Joey Giroux, Freshman.

- Elizabeth Gracyalny, Senior.

- Landon Kiviniemi, Senior and Team Captain.

- Lilian Tommasi, Sophomore.

- Those are the Ishpeming Hematites.

Now, their opponents in tonight's first game, the Sault Ste.

Marie Blue Devils.

- Jared Blakely, Jr., Senior.

- Mya Hazley, Senior.

- Corey Armstrong, Senior and Team Captain.

- Maggie Bauer, Senior.

- Those are the Sault Ste.

Marie Blue Devils along with the Ishpeming Hematites, the two teams in the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(audience applauding) Now let's meet the alternates for the two teams.

For Ishpeming, it is Julian Herman, while for Sault Ste.

Marie, it is Ryan Anderson and Sophie Reddick.

The coaches for the two teams, for Ishpeming, it's Jodie Kristin and Becky Fox.

For Sault Ste.

Marie, it's Kim Bedenski.

Good luck, coaches.

(audience applauding) Okay, teams, are you ready?

Hope so, because this is your first tossup question.

The speaker of this poem asked the question, is there balm in Gilead to a being that comes from the night's Plutonian shore?

The title animal of this poem sits on a pallid bust of Pallas above a chamber door.

For 10 points each, what poem by Edgar Allen Poe?

(alarm buzzing) Uh, Hazley, Hazley?

- The Raven.

- Nevermore.

Correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Blue Devils, here's your first bonus round.

Particles with non zero rest mass cannot travel faster than these particles.

For 10 points each, name these massless quanta of light.

(students whispering) - Photons.

- Photons, yup.

In a vacuum, photons travel at the speed of light, which is commonly denoted by this letter.

It appears in Albert Einstein's equation for the equivalents of energy and matter.

- C. - The letter C. - C. - As in E equals MC squared, yup.

And this is the name for hypothetical particles that travel faster than light.

They're generally thought to be incompatible with the laws of physics.

- I think quarks or bosons.

- Bosons?

- [Jim] No, not bosons.

Ishpeming?

- Quarks.

- No, how about tachyons?

So, 20 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Okay, here's your next tossup question.

This man used a metal detector he had created to look for a bullet inside of President James Garfield.

In 1876, this man tested the device by saying, "Come here, I want to see you," to his assistant, Thomas Watson.

(buzzer buzzing) Hazley?

- Alexander Graham Bell.

- Correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Blue Devils, here's your next bonus round.

This novel is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, who compares herself to a grenade that will eventually blow up.

For 10 points each, name this 2012 young adult novel in which Hazel begins a relationship with Augustus Waters, a fellow member of a cancer support group.

(students whispering) - Fault in Our Stars.

- Yep.

The author, or, this author of The Fault in Our Stars has produced many YouTube videos with his brother, Hank.

- John Green.

- John Green.

- John Green.

And Hazel and Augustus traveled to this European city to meet the reclusive Peter Van Houten, the author of Hazel's favorite book.

- Amsterdam.

- Amsterdam.

- Correct.

So 30 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Okay, here's your next tossup question.

This city's Devari slum was the site of a massive outbreak of Bubonic plague in the late 19th century.

This city on the Arabian sea was the site of a 2008 terrorist attack at its Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

(buzzer buzzing) For, uh, Giroux?

- Istanbul.

- [Jim] For 10 points, name this most populous Indian city, which was formerly called Bombay.

(buzzer buzzing) Hazley?

- Mumbai.

- Mumbai, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Sault Ste.

Marie, here's your next bonus round.

Joe Biden promised that he would reenter this agreement on his first day in the White House.

For 10 points each, name this global agreement meant to address climate change.

Named for a European city, it has been signed by almost every country.

- It might be the Paris Accord.

- Yeah.

- The Paris Climate Accord.

- Correct for 10 points.

This Asian country which, by far, has the highest rate of greenhouse gas emissions is a member of the agreement.

- China.

- China.

- China, yup.

And an earlier global climate change treaty was adopted in 1997 and is named after this Japanese city.

- Tokyo?

- Tokyo.

- [Jim] Not Tokyo.

Ishpeming?

- Fukushima.

- No.

How about the Kyoto Protocols?

So, 20 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Okay, here's your next tossup question, teams.

This letter denotes the educational institution most associated with Friedrich Fr öbel.

It also labels a vitamin that promotes blood clotting, and, oddly, the color black in a color model that is used in printing.

(buzzer buzzing) Armstrong?

- K. - K, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) If you're wondering, Friedrich Fr öbel was the German guy who invented the concept of kindergarten, for the K there.

So, Sault Ste.

Marie, here's your next bonus round.

This letter is derived from a Phoenician letter based on the shape of an ox head.

For 10 points each, name this first letter of the Greek alphabet.

- Alpha.

- Yeah.

- Alpha.

- Correct.

The alpha star system of this constellation is the closest star system to the sun.

(students whispering) - Big Dipper.

- Sagittarius.

- [Jim] Not Sagittarius.

Ishpeming?

- Alpha Centauri.

- Centauri is the correct answer.

Alpha, of course, being the prime star of that group.

And Sault Ste.

Marie, God calls Himself the alpha and the omega in this book of the New Testament, attributed to John of Patmos.

- Revelations.

(students whispering) - All right, Revelations?

Revelations.

- Revelations, yep.

So, 20 points for Sault Ste.

Marie, 10 points for Ishpeming in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) The next tossup question, early in this battle, John Buford's cavalry slowed the advance of A.P.

Hills' Confederates.

Fighting took place at the Devil's Den and on Cemetery Hill in this battle.

For 10 points, what July, 1863 Civil War Battle in Pennsylvania?

(buzzer buzzing) Uh, Hazley?

- Battle of Gettysburg.

- Correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Blue Devils.

Here's your next bonus round.

Wilma Mankiller was the first woman elected as chief of these peoples.

For 10 points each, name this Native American tribe.

One of its members was Sequoya, who created a written language for its people.

(students whispering) - Cherokee.

- Cherokee, yep.

After the signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, thousands of Cherokees died in the course of this forced relocation to what is now Oklahoma.

- The Trail of Tears.

- Mm-hmm.

And Indian removal was a key policy of this seventh President, who defeated John Quincy Adams in 1828.

- That'd be Jackson, Andrew Jackson.

- Andrew Jackson, yeah.

So, 30 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Here's your next toss up question, teams.

With the prefix post, this word refers to a late.

(buzzer buzzing) Kiviniemi?

- After.

- [Jim] Refers to a late seventies genre of music exemplified by the Jam and Joy Division.

Sheena was a practitioner of this genre, in a song by the Ramones.

The Sex Pistols and The Clash pioneered, for 10 points, what anti-establishment genre of rock music?

(buzzer buzzing) Blakely?

- Modern rock.

- Not modern rock.

Anyone on Ishpeming want to give it a shot?

(buzzer buzzing) Gracyalny?

- Punk rock.

- Punk rock, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauding) You can't go wrong with a band like The Clash, can you?

Ishpeming, here's your next bonus round.

This team was first seen in an 1963 comic under the leadership of professor Charles Xavier.

For 10 points each, name this team of Marvel Comic mutants whose early members included Cyclops, Beast and Iceman.

- X-Men - X-Men, yup.

This member of the X-Men, who is from Africa, was introduced in a 1975 comic.

She can control the weather.

- Storm.

- Storm, yup.

And early appearances of the X-Men introduced this training facility in the X Mansion.

It includes numerous traps to test the team's reflexes and battle strategy.

- The Cave.

- Not the cave.

Uh, Sault Ste.

Marie?

- I feel like you would know it better.

- [Jim] Blue Devils?

- The Academy.

- The Academy?

- No, how about The Danger Room?

So, 20 points for Ishpeming in that X-Men themed round.

(audience applauding) Your next tossup question.

A sac named for this period of time is eventually replaced by the amniotic sac.

Similarly to pregnancy, this term refers to the period of time between fertilization and birth.

For 10 points, name this period of time that is.

(buzzer buzzing) Typically, Kivineimi?

- Gestation.

- Gestation period, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Hematites, here's your next bonus round.

This novel's narrator taps into the city's power grid to power hundreds of lights in his underground room.

For 10 points each, identify this novel whose narrator is an unnamed African American man who joins a group called The Brotherhood and meets Ras the Exhorter.

- The Watchman.

- [Jim] Not Watchman.

Sault St. Marie?

- The Invisible Man.

- Invisible Man, correct for 10 points.

Ishpeming, this author wrote Invisible Man.

- One of the authors.

- [Jim] Nope.

(Jim laughing) Sault Ste.

Marie?

(students whispering) Blue Devils?

- H.G.

Wells.

- No.

How about Ralph Ellison?

And Ishpeming, in The Invisible Man, The Brotherhood seeks to improve conditions in this Manhattan neighborhood, which was the location of a cultural renaissance in the early 20th Century.

(students whispering) - Hell's Kitchen.

- [Jim] Not Hell's Kitchen.

Sault Ste.

Marie?

- Bronx, Queens?

- Queens.

- No, how about Harlem?

It was the Harlem Renaissance.

So, 10 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Here's your next tossup question, teams.

This is one of two upper Michigan counties named after a former governor of Michigan.

It is home to a national lake shore, as well as a national recreation area.

Giroux?

- Alger?

- Alger County, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) The other one, if you're curious, is Luce County.

Hematites, for 10 points each, answer the following about dominant pitching performances in baseball.

Here's the first one.

The fewest number of pitches needed to get through an inning is this amount, which is also the number of strikes needed for a strikeout.

- Nine.

- [Jim] Not nine.

Sault Ste.

Marie.

- Three.

- Three, correct.

Ishpeming, this is the current Major League Baseball record for the most strikeouts pitched in a single inning, which has been accomplished 76 times in history.

(students whispering) - 42.

- [Jim] Not 42.

(Jim laughing) Sault Ste.

Marie?

(students whispering) - Six.

- No, how about four?

And here's why.

A batter can strike out, but still reach base if the catcher does not catch the third strike.

It's happened 76 times in MLB history.

So, finally, Ishpeming, this adjective, a synonym of flawless, describes an inning in which a pitcher strikes out all three batters on exactly three pitches each.

- Perfect.

- [Jim] No, not quite perfect.

Sault Ste.

Marie?

- What are you thinking?

- Would it be no hitter?

- No hitter.

- No, it's actually called an immaculate inning.

So, 10 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) (alarm ringing) And we have come to the end of the first half of tonight's first game.

Sault Ste.

Marie with a 190 to 60 lead over Ishpeming.

We'll be back to meet the students, find out who's moving onto our Cerebral 16 right after this.

So don't go far.

- [Announcer] Thank you, Jim.

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Now, back to Jim for the second half of High School Bowl.

- And welcome back to the second half of tonight's first game.

Sault Ste.

Marie with a 190 to 60 lead over Ishpeming.

We'll be back into the questions in just a few seconds, but let's take a few to meet the students.

We have met most of Ishpeming, with the exception of Lillian Tommasi, who is a sophomore.

And Lillian, you say that if you could live in the world of any book or movie or anything, you would want to live in the world of Game of Thrones.

- Yep.

- [Jim] Why?

- I want a dragon.

- Oh, okay.

Aren't there better ways to get a dragon, though, than to, you know, perhaps get your head chopped off?

- I'm just not gonna get my head chopped off.

- Oh, okay.

You'll be one of the survivors of Game of Thrones, right?

Okay.

And what started your a wish for a dragon?

- I don't know, I just thought that'd be cool.

- Well, they are cool.

They breathe fire and they fly, right?

- [Lillian] Yeah.

- No, okay.

That is Lillian Tommasi of Ishpeming.

Now let's move down to Jared Blakely of Sault Ste.

Marie, Jared, you said one of the ways that in which the insanity of the past two years has affected you is that it tanked your GPA.

What happened?

- So, I ended up having to do it online.

- [Jim] Mm-hmm.

- And I got basically all Cs that year, so my GPA went from, like, 3.7 to 3.3.

- And you attribute that to online learning, or just the insanity or what?

- Kind of both.

- Okay.

Well, it was, it's very hard.

It was a very strange time.

You know, you can be excused for stuff like that, right?

Or you're not excusing yourself for stuff like that?

- No.

- [Jim] Okay.

- Should have done better.

- Maya Hazley, you are a Senior.

And you say that the one thing that kind of defines you is figure skating.

- Yes.

- [Jim] Right, tell me about that.

- Well, I've been figure skating since seventh grade, so that makes it my sixth year figure skating, I think.

And it's just been a fun thing to do and it helps me meet people.

It keeps me active, as well.

- Is that why you like it so much?

- Yes.

- [Jim] Okay.

Do you plan on pursuing figure skating once you get to college?

- Probably not.

I'm not good enough.

(Jim laughing) - So, it's more for fun than anything.

- Yes.

- Okay.

Well, it's cool that you have a hobby like that.

Corey Armstrong, you are a Senior and a Team Captain.

And you say that the one person to whom you're looking up, your hero, kind of, these days is Keanu Reeves.

Why him?

- 'Cause Keanu Reeves is a very charitable man.

I learned about how much money he gave back to all the people who worked on The Matrix movies.

And I thought that it's such a generous person, is noble enough for me to admire.

- I see, I see.

I take it you're a fan of his acting then, right?

- Yes.

I've seen several of his movies.

- Do you have a particular favorite?

- I mean, The Matrix.

- How can you go wrong with any of those movies, right?

- [Corey] Yeah.

- Yeah, okay.

And finally, Maggie Bauer.

You are a Senior.

And you say that the one teacher who has had a real impact on you is your band teacher.

Mr. Clarke.

Tell me why.

- Yeah, definitely.

Because, well, first of all, whenever I get out of high school, I'm planning on going into music education.

And I mean, like, I guess in a way, because whenever, he came to Sault High whenever I was a sophomore and the band program wasn't doing too great.

So, then he kind of like raised it up and now we're doing pretty okay.

And I look forward to seeing what he's going to do in the future.

So I hope to like, be like him as a band teacher, so.

- You basically want to follow in his footsteps.

- [Maggie] Yeah.

- And it's great to have a role model like that, isn't it?

Yep.

Those are the Sault St. Marie Blue Devils, along with the Ishpeming Hematites, the two teams in the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(audience applauding) Okay, let's get back into it with this tossup question.

A period of restoration named after this royal house lasted from the 100 days in 1815 to the July Revolution in 1830.

This branch of the Capetian Dynasty included Louis XIV.

France and Spain were once ruled by, for 10 points, what house?

(buzzer buzzing) That shares, Hazley?

- The Tudor Dynasty?

- What house that shares its name with a type of whiskey?

(buzzer buzzing) Blakely?

- Hapsburg?

Not the Hapsburgs.

Anyone on Ishpeming wanna buzz in?

No?

Okay, there must be one or two people above drinking age in the audience.

The answer?

- [Audience] Bourbon.

- The House of Bourbon, yep.

So, let's move on to our next tossup question, and that is this.

This planet's first fly by was conducted by Mariner 4, which was then followed by the Viking missions.

Sojourner traveled just over 100 meters on this planet, which was also visited by the water seeking rovers, Spirit.

(buzzer buzzing) Kiviniemi?

- Mars.

- Correct for 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Hematites, here's your next bonus round.

Oregon's Crater Lake did not form from an impact crater, but from one of these features.

For 10 points each, name these large hollows that form when the land above a volcano's empty magma chamber collapses.

(students whispering) - The crater hole?

- [Jim] No, not a crater vault.

Sault Ste.

Marie?

- Sink hole?

- No.

How about a caldera?

(student groaning) Ishpeming, the caldera above Crater Lake, below Crater Lake was formed by Mount Mazama, a complex of volcanoes partly made up of this type of volcano with a very broad, low surface mound.

(students whispering) - Slope.

- [Jim] Not a slope volcano.

Sault Ste.

Marie?

(students whispering) - Igneous.

- No, how about a shield volcano?

And, Ishpeming, Crater Lake is in this Pacific Northwest mountain range that includes the active volcanoes Lassen Peak and Mount St. Helens.

- The Rockies.

- [Jim] Not the Rocky Mountains.

Sault Ste.

Marie?

- The Sierra Nevada?

- Yeah, Sierra Nevada.

- Sierra Nevadas.

- No, how about the Cascade Mountains?

So, no points for either team in that bonus round, which means that we'll move on to our next tossup question.

And here it is.

An Olympic stadium in this city was partially designed by architect Albert Speer.

A photo of a Soviet soldier raising a flag in this city was taken on May 2nd, 1945.

(buzzer buzzing) After, uh, Blakely?

- Is it Berlin?

- It is, indeed, Berlin.

Correct for those 10 tossup points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Blue Devils, here is your next bonus round.

The Blue Lagoon Hot Springs are in this country, whose traditional cuisine features lamb and fish once consumed by its Nordic settlers.

For 10 points each, what island country's most populous city is Reykjavik?

- Iceland.

- Iceland, yep.

Like the Faroe Islands, Iceland lies in the Northern part of this ocean.

- The Atlantic.

- The Atlantic.

- [Jim] Mm-hmm.

And during World War II, Iceland formally obtained its independence from this European country.

This country still controls the territory of Greenland.

(students whispering) - United Kingdom.

- [Jim] Not the United Kingdom.

Ishpeming?

- Denmark, - Denmark, yep.

So, 20 points for the Sault, 10 points for Ishpeming in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Here's your next tossup question.

This character mistakes of bottle of wine for Raspberry Cordial, which leads to the intoxication of Diana Barry.

(buzzer buzzing) Tommasi.

- Anne of Green Gables.

- Anne of Green Gables, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Ishpeming, let's stay in the literary field for your next bonus round.

This novel is the first book in a series that also includes Hollow City and The Library of Souls.

For 10 points each, Jacob Portman enters a time loop in what 2011 book about an orphanage protected by a woman who can transform into a bird?

- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

- Correct.

This author wrote Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and its sequels.

- John.

- [Jim] Not John.

(Jim laughing) Sault Ste.

Marie?

(students whispering) - Veronica Roth.

- Not Veronica Roth.

How about Ransom Riggs?

And, Ishpeming, the title setting of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is in this constituent country of the United Kingdom, which was also the birthplace of poet Dylan Thomas.

(students whispering) - Ireland.

- [Jim] Not Ireland.

Sault Ste.

Marie?

- Is it Wales?

- It is, indeed, Wales.

So, 10 points for Ishpeming, 10 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Here's your next toss up question.

This national park can be entered at the east via Tioga Pass.

Vernal Falls is in this park, which is home to the giant sequoias' fallen monarch.

(buzzer buzzing) Hazley?

- Redwood National Forest.

- [Jim] And Grizzly Giant.

Granite formations in this park include Half Dome (buzzer buzzing) and, Bauer?

- Yellowstone.

- [Jim] And El Capitan.

For 10 points, name this national park.

(buzzer buzzing) In, Blakely?

- Yosemite.

- Yosemite, correct For those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay, Sault Ste.

Marie, here's your next bonus round.

For 10 points each, answer the following about sheet music.

Here's the first.

This word refers to the five horizontal lines upon which notes are laid out in a musical score.

(students whispering) - Staff.

- [Jim] Staff, yep.

These symbols indicate what notes are represented by each line on a staff, the treble version of this symbol is centered on (alarm ringing) G. Go ahead.

- Clef.

- Clef.

So, 20 points for Sault Ste.

Marie in that bonus round, (audience applauding) which means that the Blue Devils are moving on to our Cerebral 16, defeating Ishpeming by a score of 260 to 100.

(audience applauding) Well, first of all, Hematites, thanks for making the very, very long trip back to Marquette.

Sorry the second time was not the charm.

Now, Lizzie and Landon, you are both Seniors, so we won't be enjoying your presence next year, but good luck in whatever comes your way.

However, Joey and Lillian, we do expect to see you next year.

And Lillian, you can bring your pet dragon if you want.

Okay?

(Jim laughing) Well, I have good news and bad news for you, Blue Devils.

The bad news is you have to wake up at four in the morning again.

The good news is because you're coming back to Marquette to enter our Cerebral 16.

Now we have no idea who you'll be taking on, however, I can guarantee one thing.

It will be the winner of our next match.

So that should be a very exciting game coming up in a few weeks.

Speaking of that next match, who takes on the Blue Devils in round, in our Cerebral 16?

Well, it's either Republic Michigamme or Cedarville, and we'll find out who in just a couple of minutes, so don't go far.

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