(upbeat music) - Welcome to season five of High school Quiz Show Maine where 16 schools are competing to be this year's champion and take home that thousand dollars for their school project graduation.

In our seventh qualifying match, we have the Crusaders of John Bapst High School.

(dramatic music) They'll take on the Knight of Noble High School.

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(upbeat music) - Welcome to season five of High School Quiz Show Maine I'm Todd Gutner.

Welcome to our seventh qualifying match of the season.

We're on our way to the quarter finals, as we whittle it down from 16 teams to eight, and one of those teams will take home the thousand dollars grand prize for their school's project graduation.

And a reminder that this year you'll have the chance to win $500 for the school of your choice with our quiz show conundrum contest.

That's coming up later in the show, in today's match.

We have our season four champion, John Bapst High School of Bangore taking on Noble High School of North Burwick.

So let's get things started by meeting the players, for John Bapst, we have Quinn, Olivia, Leo and Sophia with alternates, Levi and Sean, and they're coached by Jacob Mattis.

And for Noble, we have Aaron Anthony, Isaac, Elijah, and their coached by David Par and Adina Hunter.

Now the competition has three rounds.

We have a tossup round, a category round and a lightning round, and 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 though, for me to complete the question and if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will get a chance to answer.

All right, players.

You ready to roll?

- Woo.

- All right.

I like the energy.

All right, let's do this.

Here's question one.

According to the nursery rhyme.

Hey little diddle the cat and the fiddle.

The cow jumped over what?

(beep) Anthony Noble.

- The moon.

- That's right.

What green pigment is the primary pigment involved in photosynthesis?

(beep) Elijah Noble.

- That'd be chloroplast or chlorophyll.

(beep) - We gotta go with your first that's incorrect.

John Bapst, Olivia.

- Chlorophyll.

- Chlorophyll is correct.

Bridget Bishop and Giles Corey were among the people who were executed in 1692 after a series of trials in what Massachusetts town?

(beep) Anthony Noble.

- Salem.

- Salem is right.

All right, teams.

Up next.

We have a picture question.

So please check out this monitor right here.

Name this composer who wrote the jazz composition "Blood On The Fields" which became the first non-classical work to win a Pulitzer prize in music.

(beep) Olivia, John Bapst.

- Louis Armstrong.

- That is incorrect.

Noble would you like to take a shot at it?

(buzzing sound) - No.

The answer is Wynton Marsalis.

All right.

We move on.

What movie character played by Keanu Reeves takes revenge on the crooks who stole his car and killed his dog?

(beep) Quinn, John Bapst.

- John wick.

- John wick is right.

Next question.

American Yorkshire, Danish landrace and Vietnamese pot belly are breeds of what domestic animal?

(beep) Aaron Noble.

- Dog.

- That's incorrect.

(beep) John Bapst.

- Liam.

- Pig.

- Pig is right.

(all laughing) You got it.

What term that means new stone age refers to the period of human history from about 10,000 to 4,500 years BC?

(buzzing sound) Answer neolithic.

The two chambers of British parliament are the house of Lords and the house of what?

(beep) Quinn John Bapst.

- Commons.

- Commons is right.

Okay.

Up next, we have a video question.

So once again, take a look at the monitors over here.

- Hi, I'm Kelsey Stoyanova the 2022 Maine teacher of the year.

Name this ancient philosopher who was believed to be the first person to propose the biological classification of plants and animals.

(buzzing sound) - Answer Aristotle, Aristotle.

We're moving on in summer 2020 people marched in the city of Minsk to protest the reelection of Alexander Lukashenko as president of what country?

(buzzing sound) he's been in the news a little bit, Belarus.

What tall pink birds are used as croquet mallets in Allison Wonderland.

(beep) Sophia.

- Flamingos.

- Flamingos.

Correct.

When you're talking about a con artist con is short for what word?

That is a synonym for trust.

(beep) Olivia John Bapst.

- Confidence.

- Confidence.

Yes.

Which is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere.

A stratosphere, B thermosphere or C troposphere.

(beep) Anthony.

- Troposphere.

- Nice job.

It's kind of meteorological too.

I like it.

Nice job.

All right.

This is a math question.

So get ready.

Susanna, excuse me, gross annual salary is $35,000 to the second decimal place.

What is her gross monthly income?

(buzzing sound) answer, $2,916.67.

That was a tough one.

All right, we move on.

I've got a mule and her name is Sal is the first line of a song called Low Bridge.

Everybody down written about what canal that connects the Hudson river to the great lakes.

(beep) Liam.

John Bapst.

- The Erie canal.

- Erie canal is right.

When Brexit took effect, the EU demanded that the ancient sculptures known as the Elgin marbles be taken from the UK in return to which EU country?

(beep) Sophia - Greece.

- Greece's right.

What three letter word refers to the number of strokes.

A golfer should need to complete a single hole.

(beep) Quinn, John Bapst.

- Par.

- Par is right.

One of the oldest trees on earth is a bristle cone pine in California known by what nickname that refers to an old Testament figure who lived for 969 years?

(beep) Olivia John Bapst.

- Joshua.

- No, that's incorrect.

Noble.

(buzzing sound) Mathusela, Mathusela, all right.

We got another one for you though.

Where are you most likely to find an anapest?

Is it A in a car engine, B in a poem, or C at the zoo?

(beep) Liam, John Bapst.

- Poem.

- Poem is right.

Equal to one jewel per second.

What SI unit of power is named for a Scottish engineer who invented a steam engine?

(beep) Sophia, John Bapst.

- The Watt.

- The Watt is right.

The word, Kuala, excuse me, Kuala means a place where two bodies of water meet in the language of what country whose capital is Kuala Limpur?

(beep) Anthony Noble.

- Thailand.

- Incorrect.

John Bapst you wanna try?

(beep) Liam.

- Malaysia.

- You got it.

That is good.

Maybe guess.

- I've never guessed Todd.

- Nope.

Not a guess.

Nope.

You knew it all along.

I got you, sometimes called the mad monk.

What mystic was an advisor to Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra and died under mysterious circumstances in 1916.

(beep) Sophia.

- Rasputin.

- That's correct?

Which American poet wrote?

Oh, captain my captain about the death of Abraham Lincoln?

(buzzing sound) Mm, yep.

We got it.

Okay.

Sophia John Bapst - Wordsworth.

- That's incorrect.

Noble.

We wanna take a shot.

(beep) - Hemingway.

- What was that Anthony?

- Hemingway.

- Hemingway, nope.

It's Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman.

All right.

We're going on, we're going on on July 16th, 1945.

Scientists detonated an atomic bomb at the Trinity site near Alamogordo.

In which us state.

(beep) Sophia.

- New Mexico.

That's right.

What name that sounds like someone who digs in the dirt was given to early 20th century journalists who wrote about corruption and social injustice?

(beep) Liam, John Bapst.

- Muckrakers.

- That's correct as well.

What section of the education amendments of 1972, bars sex discrimination and education programs and activities offered by entities receiving federal financial assistance?

(buzzing sound) Lot of words for the Verno answer title nine, right?

Title nine.

What small fish of the family in Holiday is a common pizza topping and a key ingredient in Worcester shear sauce.

(beep) Aaron Noble.

- Anchovy.

- That's right.

Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune condition that causes a visible loss of what?

From the body.

(beep) Aaron again, Noble.

- Hair.

- Hair.

Yes.

Yep.

Danish architect.

J ørn Utzon designed the world famous opera house at Bennelong point in what city?

(beep) Aaron again.

- Sydney.

- Yeah, you got it.

(bell ringing) Oh, nice job.

At the end of the round there.

And at the end of this round, we have John Bapst at 150.

They're leading Noble who has 60 points.

Another great start to season five will meet the teams.

When we get back, (upbeat music) We are back in a friendly reminder that we're not doing that head-to-head round this season, but we'll still take a few moments to get to know our contestants with our special question.

And tonight's special question is, you guys ready?

If someone walked into a store and saw a box with your name on it, what would it contain and why?

We'll start over here with John Bapst and Quinn your first up.

What do you got?

- Todd Derby.

One thing.

And one thing only lots and lots of Lego.

'Cause I love Lego.

- Lego.

You're a Lego man.

- Ah, yeah.

- Do you have an expensive Lego set?

Like what's your most expensive one?

- Probably Lego Helms deep from Lord of the rings.

- Wow.

Okay.

That one's pricey.

- Yeah.

- All right.

Olivia, what do you have?

- Well, I think I'm going to go with a bunch of pictures of my family because I have the most fun with them.

- Oh.

That's great.

Do you have siblings?

What?

Do you have siblings?

- Yeah.

Two younger.

I'm the oldest.

I have a little sister and a little brother.

- How old?

- My sister's in a sophomore and my brother's in seventh grade.

- Oh cool.

Great.

Nice Liam.

How about you?

- Oh, well my answer is not as Noble.

I said.

- Are you sure you wanna say this?

- I'm very sure.

- Okay.

Okay.

- Some kind of a living exotic bird.

I'm not sure specifically.

I'm not up on my Orthology but just like some kind of like he jumps out at you or something maybe I don't know.

- Okay.

Have you ever had a bird as a pet?

- Certainly not.

- I had two doves.

- Oh really?

- Yeah.

Brownie and Bruch when I was a kid.

- I had two rats.

- Rats?

Okay.

We're gonna move on real fast here.

Before we get a little deeper there with Liam.

Sophia.

How about you?

- Well, I've played violin for 15 years now, so I gotta see my violin.

- Awesome.

Yeah.

You're still playing obviously.

- Absolutely.

- You gonna keep playing?

- Yes now and Viola.

- And Viola too.

All right.

Great.

Let's go over to Noble.

Aaron.

- It would probably be seeds for the bird that I have name Scuttle.

- Stop.

I mean, that's just coincidence, but what kind of bird is it Aaron?

- Maroon belly Kanye.

- Is it?

I don't.

- Like a medium sized parrot.

It's up on my - Oh, does it talk to you?

- He can make noises, but not words.

- No words yet.

Are you gonna try to train him too?

- I'll train him to be on this show.

He'll answer all my.

- That would be amazing.

Anthony, what do you got?

- Honestly, my box would be empty.

- Why?

- There' really nothing going on inside my head most of the time.

- Oh my gosh.

Come on.

You're on this show.

I know there's something up there.

- There's blank.

- Isaac.

How about you?

- Probably to start off like two loose bell pepper shirts.

It's like a nice snack, a few loose espresso.

- Timeout, your snack of choice is a bell pepper.

- Well like if there are times when I just like feel, I've heard a lot of greasy stuff, I need something to balance it out.

- Okay.

- Like a few loose espresso shots just for like energy if I need it.

And if you like dried corn kernels, just for flavor, just loose in the box.

- Flavor with dried corn kernels.

- It's like a Garnish.

- I heard that one before.

That's like it's like the salt and pepper substitute, right?

- Yeah basically.

- Logically Elijah.

- Definitely D and D dice, a chain mal coy and the shank of some sort of animal like roasted over a fire.

- I don't know what those first two things were.

And I don't want to know what the third one is.

- Probably a bird.

- Thank you.

Okay we'll leave it there.

- All right guys.

The category round is next, but first here's your chance to win $500 for the school of your choice with our quiz show conundrum of the week.

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Grace Levit, president of the Maine education association.

And this is your quiz show conundrum, unscramble the phrase beagle soak.

Your clue is you can take your dog for a swim there that's beagle soak.

You can take your dog for a swim there.

- Unscramble the word or phrase to reveal a Maine location.

Send your answer along with your name in a Maine pre-K through secondary school of your choice to Quiz Show at mainepublic.org.

We'll choose two of the correct answers at random.

And the nominated schools will each win $500.

A different conundrum will be revealed each week.

Entry is limited to one entry per household per question.

Contest ends June 22nd at 11:59 PM Eastern.

Winners will be revealed during the season five championship episode for full contest rules and alternate entry information.

Go to Maine public.org/quizshow and good luck.

(upbeat music) - We are back again.

And next up is our category round with the following choices.

Book of numbers, not so scary monsters, look up in the sky.

It's super man, G is for geography and who's in your wallet.

Now each category has five questions with increasing point values, players listen up.

You must wait for me to finish the question before you buzz in, you can confer with your teammates, but once you buzz in you no longer have that option and we'll need your answer and like in the toss up round.

If one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given the chance to answer.

Noble you are up first.

You have choice on the board here.

Where would you like to go?

- Not so scary monsters.

- Not so scary monsters.

These are questions about monsters that might not be scary.

A picture known as a surgeon's photo was published in 1934 as proof of a monster living in what Scottish lake?

(beep) Aaron, Noble.

- Lockness.

- That's right?

Where are we going?

- I'll take not so scary monsters for 15.

- Okay.

Same category for 15, spoiler or alert.

What Muppet turns out to be the monster at the end of the monster at the end of this book?

(beep) Olivia John Bapst.

- Grover.

- Grover is right.

Where would you like to go Olivia?

- Not so scary monsters of 20.

- Okay.

We'll keep it rolling.

What sea monster was chosen as the mascot for Seattle's new NHL franchise?

(beep) Aaron, Noble.

- Cracking.

- Yeah.

You're a hockey fan huh?

Cracking is right.

- I'm not.

- Well, good job.

All right, Aaron, you still have control now.

What would you like?

- We'll try.

Who's in your wallet for 10.

- Okay.

Who's in your wallet for 10.

These are questions about famous people on world currency.

What Argentine Marxist, revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro is pictured on the three peso bank note used by citizens of Cuba.

(beep) Sophia, John Bapst.

- "Che" Guevara - That is correct.

Nice job.

All right.

You have control now over there, John Bapst.

- Can we go to a book of numbers for 10.

- Book of numbers for 10?

These are questions about books with numbers in their titles.

Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are the title characters of what 1844 novel by Alexander Duma?

(beep) Sophia, John Bapst.

- "The Three Fits."

- That's incorrect.

- Noble, would you like a shot?

(beep) Aaron.

- "Tale of Two Cities."

- Also incorrect.

The answer is "Three Musketeers."

"Three Musketeers."

John Bapst still with control.

- I kind wanna do geography guys.

- Do it let's do it.

- G for geography, Todd.

- Okay.

We got it.

G for geography for 10.

All the answers relate to geography and start with the letter G. Thanks to GPS.

You always know where you are.

What do the letters GPS stand for?

(beep) Liam.

- Global positioning system.

- That's right now what?

- Oh, wow.

Let's do G for geography again.

- Yeah.

Why not?

- For 15.

- For 15.

- G for geography for 15.

Here's the question.

The world's largest river Delta is formed mainly by the Brahmaputra.

And what other major river that flows through India and Bangladesh into the bay of Bengal.

(beep) Isaac, Noble.

- Ganges river.

- That's right.

That's right.

All right Noble.

You have control now.

- Let's do G for geography again.

- Okay.

G for geography for 20, the international committee of the red cross is headquartered in what city?

That is the second most populous in Switzerland.

(beep) Liam.

John bast.

- Oh, Todd.

I was gonna say Geneva.

- And you would be correct.

- Oh yeah.

- For whatever reason, I was like Geneva's a jerk.

- All right.

You got control over there, Liam.

Where are we going?

- Well, it's hot.

I mean, you know me, who's in your wallet for 15.

- I was gonna think a different category.

So I actually don't know you that well, who's in your wallet for 15, starting in the 1950s, a portrait of what woman has been featured on the bank notes of Canada, Jamaica, Fiji Belize, and more than a dozen other countries.

(beep) Sophia John Bapst.

- Queen Elizabeth II.

- That is right.

Nice job.

Where are we going?

- Let's do the same category.

- Okay.

Who's in your wallet for 20, a portrait of the political leader.

Ho Chi Minh, appears on all of the bank notes.

In what country?

(beep) Elijah, Noble.

- Vietnam.

- That's right.

Where would you like to go Elijah?

- I think that we should start with look up in the sky.

- Okay.

Look up in the sky to start the category.

That's for 10 questions about astronomy, astronomy.

- In 2020, an amateur astronomer discovered Clyde's spot.

Not far from the great red spot on which planet?

(beep) Aaron, Noble.

- Mars - Incorrect.

(beep) John Bapst, Sophia.

- Jupiter.

- That's right now you have control.

- Let's go back to who's in your wallet.

- Okay, who's in your wallet for 25, the big bills in Mongolia feature a portrait of what man who ruled the Mongol empire from 1206 to 1227.

(beep) Anthony, Noble.

- Genghis Khan.

- That's right.

All right, Anthony, you got it now.

- Let's do it's Superman.

- It's Superman.

Okay.

Questions about things with super in their names.

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki played Dean and Sam Winchester.

Two brothers chasing monsters and urban legends.

On what long running TV series?

(beep) Sophia, John Bapst.

- Supernatural.

- That's right.

Supernatural.

All right.

John Bapst.

- Let's do G is for geography.

- G is for geography for 25.

What city on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico was the most prosperous in Texas until it was nearly destroyed by a hurricane in 1900?

(buzzing sound) Galveston the hurricane in 1900 in Galveston, John Bapst still with control.

- Let's finish the category.

- Okay.

G is for geography for 30.

What British oversees territory is about nine miles from Morocco and as a land border with Spain, that spans about three quarters of a mile?

(beep) Liam, John Bapst.

- Tribrotha.

- That is right.

All right, Liam.

What category now?

- I'm feeling not so scary monsters Todd.

- All right.

We'll see if that's the case.

Not so scary monsters for 25.

Mo ghost and feather circle are friendly monsters.

You might encounter on a side quest in the ninth installment of what role playing game series.

(beep) Liam.

- Final fantasy.

- You got it.

I guess you are into monster.

All right, Liam.

You wanna go with, you pick the category.

- Yeah, we'll finish.

- I figured not so scary monsters for 30.

What American author first wrote about a creature called Kathulu in 1928?

(beep) Liam.

You got in John Bapst.

- HP Lovecraft.

- Yeah.

You got it.

All right.

So next categories for you is gonna be what?

- Who's in your wallet.

- Who's in your wallet.

We're wrapping up the category for 30, Banjo Patterson who wrote the lyrics to Waltzing Matilda is pictured on the $10 note of what country?

(beep) - Canada.

- Isaac Noble.

Go ahead.

- Sorry.

- Canada.

- Canada's incorrect.

John Bapst.

Wanna try?

(beep) Liam go for it.

- Germany.

- Australia is the right one.

(bell rings) Okay.

That's the end of the second round.

John Bapst has the lead 285 to Noble's 100.

Everything can change though, in the lightning round.

So sit tight.

We'll be right back.

(upbeat music) Okay.

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

It's the lightning round players listen up.

You can buzz in at any time.

You're gonna get 20 points for each correct answer.

Incorrect answers though will cost you 20.

And the other team will not get the chance to answer this time around.

The clock is set and here we go.

What inventor was granted the first successful US patent for a telephone.

(beep) Aaron, Noble.

- Ram bell.

- Ram bell is right.

What river that stretches from Quebec to long island sound is the longest in new England?

(buzzing sound) That's the Connecticut river, who was the first black woman elected the US Congress?

(buzzing sound) It's Shirley Chisholm, Shirley Chisholm.

Which is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky way.

(beep) Liam, John Bapst.

- Andrometer.

- That's right.

What family of brothers start in the comedy film, "Duck Suit" in the 1930s.

(buzzing sound) Mark's brothers.

From the Latin for whip.

What long appendage propels a bacterium?

(beep) Liam again, - Flagella.

- That is right.

The seven wonders of the ancient world include the hanging gardens of what city?

(beep) Elijah Noble.

- Babylon.

- Babylon right.

How many lines of verse are in a Quran?

(beep) Sophia.

- Four.

Four is right.

In 2006 Roger Goodell became the commissioner of what organization?

(beep) - NFL - Anthony.

- Oh, my bad NFL.

- That's okay.

It's okay.

NFL is right.

Bohemia and Moravia are historic regions of what present day European (beep) Liam.

- Germany.

- That's incorrect.

- Noble would you, oh, sorry.

Nope.

We're not moving around doing that.

We're not doing that.

The answer is Czech Republic, Czech Republic.

in math what?

(bell rings) That's the end of the final round.

The lightning round and our winner is John Bapst with 325 points.

They will be moving on to the quarter finals in a few weeks.

Our runner up Noble with 160.

You guys played great this evening.

Wanna congratulate both teams and be sure to tune in next time.

Thanks for watching High School Quiz Show Maine, we'll see you again.

Next time.

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