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I'm your host, Todd Gutner.

Semi-final number one has been sorted out with Westbrook taking on Orno and one of today's teams will head to semifinal number two and maybe have that chance for the season eight championship.

John Bapst memorial from Bangor defeated Medomak Valley to make it to this round, but they need to get past Yarmouth who upset Bangor High to find their place in this quarter final.

Let's get things going by meeting the teams.

For John Bapst we have Elinora, Jed, Ada, and Griffin with alternates, Oscar and Indy, and they're coached by Jacob Mattis.

And for Yarmouth, we have Elise, Mathieu, Maddie, and Caroline with alternates, Kevin and Chester, and they're coached by Sarah Wilson.

The competition has four rounds, tossup round, head-to-head round, the category round, and that 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.

Good luck to both teams.

Here we go with the first question.

Huey, Dewey and Louie are the nephews of which Disney animated character who first appeared on screen in 1934.

(buzzer dings) Mathieu.

- Scrooge McDuck.

- [Todd] Ah, that's incorrect.

John Bapst?

Go ahead Ada.

- Donald Duck.

- Donald Duck is the right duck.

After alpha and beta, what is the third letter in the Greek alphabet?

(buzzer dings) Ada.

- Sigma?

- That's incorrect.

(buzzer dings) Go ahead, Caroline.

- Delta?

- Also incorrect, it's Gamma, introduced in 1972.

One of the world's first video games was what table tennis theme game with a four letter name.

(buzzer dings) Griffin.

- Pong.

- You got it.

The Fox Islands and the Near Islands are part of what large chain of volcanic islands off the coast of Alaska?

(buzzer dings) - Jed.

- Ah Lutin.

- [Todd] We'll take it, yes, Aleutian Islands.

Up next we have a picture question.

Please take a look at the monitor right over here.

Designed by renowned architect Antoni Gaudi, this unique cathedral is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world.

What is the name of this famous landmark located in Barcelona, Spain?

(buzzer dings) Caroline.

- Sagrada Familia.

- You nailed it, nice job.

First proposed in 1923 the ERA has been ratified by 38 states, including Maine, but has not yet been added to the US Constitution.

In this context, what does the abbreviation ERA stand for?

(buzzer dings) Maddie?

- Equal Rights Amendment.

- You got it, nice job.

What is the name for the gelatinous fluid that fills the inside of a cell between the cell membrane and the nucleus?

(buzzer dings) Caroline?

- The cytoplasm.

- Also right.

In Maine, China Lake and Sebago Lake are good places to fish for the small mouth and large mouth type of which freshwater food fish?

(buzzer dings) Griffin.

- Bass.

- Bass, nice.

A name for the two surveyors who mapped it in the 18th century, what demarcation line is part of the resolution of a border, but dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware and the colonial United States.

(buzzer dings) Elise.

- Lewis and Clark.

- That's incorrect, John Bapst?

(buzzer buzzes) It's the Mason Dixon line.

Mason Dixon.

What red-orange pigment that's found in sweet potatoes and cantaloupe is a provitamin that your body can convert to vitamin A.

(buzzer dings) Elinora.

- Beta carotene.

- That's right.

Warp and weft are terms related to which of these hobbies?

Baking, calligraphy or weaving?

(buzzer dings) Elise?

- Weaving.

- Weaving is the right answer.

All right, we have a math question now.

You have pencil, you have paper, here's it.

The perimeter of a rectangle is 56 inches.

If the length of the rectangle is three times the width, what is the length of the rectangle?

(buzzer dings) Ah Mathieu.

- 21.

- 21 is the right answer, nice job there.

Here's the next question.

Before they reach adulthood, grasshoppers and dragonflies go through what lifecycle stage that shares its name with the four spirits of Greek mythology.

(buzzer dings) Elise?

Nymph.

- Nymph, right.

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains" is a line from what text published in 1848?

(buzzer dings) Caroline.

- The Communist Manifesto.

- That is also right.

What celebrity chef has hosted more than 500 episodes of the TV show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives since 2006?

(buzzer dings) Griffin.

- Guy Fieri?

- Ah, yes, we'll take it, nice job.

The fundamental principles of geometry are associated with what ancient Greek mathematician who compiled the geometry text called The Elements in the Fourth Century BCE?

(buzzer dings) Elise.

- Plato.

- That's incorrect, John Bapst.

(buzzer dings) Go ahead Elinora - Pythagorea.

- It's also incorrect, it's Euclid.

Euclid is what we were looking for.

In 2021 what former mayor of South Bend Indiana was appointed US Secretary of Transportation?

(buzzer dings) Griffin.

- Pete Buttigieg.

- That is correct.

Used in Turkey in medieval times, a simitar is which of these things?

A chariot pulled by horses, a sword with a curved blade, or a shield carried in battle.

(buzzer dings) Caroline?

- Sword with a curved blade.

- Yes.

A direction in musical composition that indicates a piece should be played softly is also named of what keyboard instrument played by John Batiste and Elton John.

(buzzer dings) Jed.

- Piano.

- Piano, right.

The unofficial alliance between Julius Caesar, Marcus Crassus, and Pompey is known by what name that comes from the Latin for threesome.

(buzzer dings) Elise.

- Triumvirate.

- That is right.

All right, here's the second math question of the day.

What are the two values of X in the equation, X squared plus two x minus three equals zero.

(buzzer dings) Mathieu.

- Negative two and negative one.

- That's incorrect.

(buzzer dings) John Bapst.

- Positive two and positive one.

- Also incorrect, it's negative three and positive one.

Here's our next question.

What British American painter born in 1937 is known for brightly colored paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, including A Little Splash and A Bigger Splash?

(buzzer buzzes) The answer is Hockney.

A vegetable oil that has been infused with a certain element to make it solid at room temperature is called A PHO.

In this context, what does the abbreviation PHO stand for?

(buzzer dings) Jed.

Partially Hydrogenated oil.

- That's right.

Name for an Italian physicist who invented an early type of battery, what SI unit of electrical potential is used to measure the power of a battery?

(buzzer dings) Mathieu.

- Volt.

- Volt, nice.

Number One Observatory Circle on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory is the official residence of the person who holds which position in the United States Federal government?

(buzzer buzzes) That'd be the vice president of the US.

(buzzer rings) Ooh, that's the end of our first round.

Ooh this one's really tight.

John Bapst 90, Yarmouth has 100.

Looks like we have a great match underway.

Don't go anywhere.

We will meet the players when we return.

(upbeat bright 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, which is, if you were a sitcom character, what would be your catchphrase?

John Bapst we'll start over here, Elinora.

- I think my catchphrase would be, "What's next"?

Just because I feel like my mind is pretty fast moving and I'm curious.

- So you're You're never sitting still?

You're always moving.

Jed, your turn.

- I'm gonna steal one from my AP Euro teacher, Mr. Duncan.

He always says fuego.

- Fuego, which is like - Fire - hot fire, right?

A hot fire.

- Something like that, yep, I gotcha.

All right, Ada.

- Mine would probably be like, "Wait, what's happening"?

Because I feel like I'm always confused about stuff.

- (laughs) Honestly, you confused me when you said, I was like, we're reading the que, we're doing the catchphrase, you got me.

Griffin?

- I think mine would be "Zoo-Wee Mama" from the the hit book series Diary of Wimpy Kid.

- Okay, I wasn't into it, but is that your favorite?

- Yep, yep.

- favorite book?

I say that in response to everything.

- All of it.

- Zoo-Wee Mama.

- All right, thank you Griffin.

Let's go over to Yarmouth, Elise.

- Yeah, my catchphrase would be anything can happen in the lightning round because Chris says that in practice all the time.

- (laughs) And you know it's true, right?

- Yeah, it is true, yeah.

- It is true, you're never out of it until you know the end of the lightning round.

Mathieu, your turn.

- I'd have to go with "Osto Abibi".

- Why?

- Osto abibi, I mean, that's what my math teacher always says to me every day when I'm walking outta the class, when me and Chris are walking outta that room.

I always hear that "Osto Abibi, follow me out.

- What does it mean?

- I don't know.

- (laughs) Just go with it, right?

Yeah.

Cool.

Maddie?

- I would have to go with Maddie Nation because like whenever I bump into Chris in the hallway, he's always like, what's up Maddie Nation?

How's the economy doing?

How's everything going?

So.

- Yeah.

Is Chris here with us?

- In spirit.

- I'm just curious.

- In Spirit, yeah.

- In spirit, right.

Caroline, your turn, finish it up.

- Okay, my catch phrase would have to be "Best in the West" because Chris is also our MC at our assemblies and he opens every single assembly and says best in the west, and I just really like that.

- Why the west and not like the east or the north?

- Well, because technically we're in the Western hemisphere.

- Western hemisphere.

- Oh, I see now.

Okay.

Chris seems really, really smart and intelligent.

- He is.

- He is.

- Yeah.

- Clearly.

Okay, thanks both teams.

The head-to-head round is next, but let's see how well you do with our viewer question of the week.

(upbeat bright music) - Hi, I'm Jake Cody from Bangor Savings Bank and this is your viewer question of the week.

The Wyoming, built at the Percy and Small shipyard in Bath in 1909, and sinking off of Nantucket in 1924 was the largest wooden ship ever built.

How many feet long was it from tip to tip?

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

(upbeat bright 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 game clock, players ready here we go.

A positive integer that only has two factors itself and one?

(buzzer dings) - Prime.

- Prime is correct.

The consolidated rock that makes up the earth's crust is called what?

(buzzer dings) - Igneous.

- Bedrock.

What prime minister of the United Kingdom was in office during the COVID-19 pandemic proceeding Theresa May.

(buzzer buzzes) - Boris Johnson.

Based on the 1985 children's book of the same name, a young boy boards a magical train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.

(buzzer dings) - The Polar Express.

- That is right.

From the Latin for empty, what major organelle inside a plant cell fills with water and keeps the cell walls... (buzzer dings) - Vacuole.

- Vacuole, nice.

George is the first name of which filmmaker who created the Star-- (buzzer dings) - Lucas.

- Lucas, yes.

Santorini is one of the thousands of islands in which sea that lies between mainland Greece and Turkey?

(buzzer dings) - Mediterranean.

- Aegean Sea.

What avant-garde architecture in design school was started in Germany by Walter Gropius in 1919?

(buzzer buzzes) Bauhaus.

Who is the only US president to remain a lifelong bachelor?

(buzzer buzzes) Buchanan.

The Broadway musical Annie, Get Your Gun was inspired by the life of what-- (buzzer dings) - Annie Oakley.

Annie Oakley, yes.

Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption, the Green Mile and Carrie are movies-- - Stephen King.

- Right.

In Christian Faiths-- (bell ringing) Ooh, that's the end of our head-to-head round.

It's still super tight.

The score is John Bapst at 110, Yarmouth 120.

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(upbeat bright music) - Next up is the category round with the following choices, Folklore, Taylor's Version, Swifties, I Know Places, The Era's Tour and Live in Concert.

Each team will alternate control of two categories.

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

John Bapst, you're trailing by just a little bit.

Elinora, what category would you like first?

- Can we start with Swifties?

- Swifties, you can.

So these will be questions about speed and fast things.

Here's the first one.

In a physics equation, the letter V stands for what vector quantity, defined as the rate of change in position of an object traveling in a given direction?

- Velocity.

- That is right.

Swifties for 15.

Able to fly at speeds of up to 240 miles per hour in pursuit of prey, the fastest bird in the world is what type of falcon whose common name comes from a word that means wandering.

- Peregrine Falcon.

- Also right, Swifties for 20.

The gauges on a car dashboard include the speedometer to measure the car's traveling speed and which instrument that measures the shaft rotation speed of the engine.

- Odometer.

- Ooh, that's incorrect.

It's tachometer, tachometer.

Swifties for 25 now.

In the equation, expressing Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, e equals mc squared, the letter C represents what constant?

- Speed of light.

- Speed of light is correct.

Swifties for 30, the last one.

The processing speed of super supercomputers is measured in floating point operations per second, commonly known by what acronym?

- Skip.

- You wanna skip it?

Okay, so we're not sending it over to them.

We're gonna skip it.

That's FLOPS is the answer.

All right, we're gonna go over to Yarmouth now for your first category.

Mathieu, what will it be?

- We'll take folklore.

- Folklore.

These are questions about folk heroes and tales.

Here's the first one.

Real life sightings of giant squid by sailors in the 12th century may have inspired tales of what giant sea monster in Nordic folklore.

- The Kraken.

- Yes, Folklore for 15.

In Greek mythology, what great hero was considered the most successful soldier in the Greek army during the Trojan War?

- Achilles.

- That's also right, Folklore 20.

What 11th century heroine of English folklore is said to have ridden naked on a horse through the city of Coventry to protest an increase in taxes.

- Lady Godiva.

- Lady Godiva, yes.

Folklore 25.

Famous for planting fruit trees, the 19th century American folk hero John Chapman is better known by what nickname?

- Johnny Appleseed.

- Yeah, you got it.

Folklore 30, the last one.

In Beowulf, one of the oldest surviving poems written in old English, what is the name of the first monster Beowulf kills ending its 12-year-long terror upon the Kingdom.

- Grendel.

- Grendel, nice job.

You swept the category Yarmouth.

We're going to John Bapst.

Let's see if you guys can do the same, Elinora.

(team whispering) - We'll do, I Know Places.

- I Know Places, these are questions about places you might go to get away from crowds.

Here's the first one, which US state has a population density of just six people per square mile.

Hint, it comes last alphabetically.

- Wyoming.

- Wyoming, nice.

I Know Places 15.

Which Canadian territory is the biggest by land area and the smallest by population with about 36,000 people living on more than 787,000 square miles.

(team whispering) (buzzer beeping) We're gonna need an answer, Elinora.

- Skip.

- You're gonna skip it.

It's Nunavat, Nunavat.

I Know Places 20.

A giant tortoise named Jonathan has lived for nearly 200 years on what remote island in the South Atlantic where Napoleon spent the last years of his life in exile.

- Say Saint Helena.

- Saint Helena.

- Saint Helena, yes.

I Know Places 25.

On December 14th, 1911, Norwegian Explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to plant a flag at what remote and uncrowded geographical point?

(team whispering) - The South Pole.

- South Pole, nice job.

I Know Places 30.

The Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific have a population of fewer than 50 people, many of whom are descendants of Fletcher Christian and the other mutineers from what 18th century English ship?

- It's like the HMS.

Oh my God, I dunno.

(buzzer beeping) - Elinora, would you like to answer, skip or pass?

- We'll toss.

Toss, you wanna toss it over there?

Alright, we're gonna go over to Yarmouth now.

I'll reread the question for you.

The Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific have a population of fewer than 50 people, many of whom of whom are descendants of Fletcher Christian and the other mutineers from what 18th century English ship?

(team whispering) (buzzer beeping) What do you think, Mathieu?

- We'll have to go with The Treasure.

- Actually, you weren't that far off, HMS Bounty.

Bounty was the right answer.

That's the end of that category, I Know Places.

Yarmouth we go back to you for your second category Mathieu.

(team whispering) - We'll do Taylor's Version.

- Okay, so these will be questions about people named Taylor.

All right, here's the first one.

Written by English poet Jane Taylor in the early 1800s what lullaby contains the lines up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky.

- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

- Yeah, that's it.

An award-winning three-part series of books by historian Taylor Branch focuses on the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the life of what Civil Rights leader who was assassinated in 1968?

(team whispering) - It might be, I think it might be Malcolm X too, though.

(team whispering) (beeper sounding) - What do you think Mathieu?

- We'll go Martin Luther King Jr. - That's the right answer, nice job.

Taylor's version 20.

Her shooting gained national attention and led to restrictions on the use of so-called no-knock police warrants.

What is the name of the award-winning EMT and first responder who was shot and killed by Louisville Metro police officers executing a no-knock warrant in 2020.

- Brianna Taylor.

- That's right.

Taylor's version for 25.

Famous for having the biggest production budget of its day.

a 1963 Epic film starred Elizabeth Taylor as what Ancient Queen?

(team whispering) - I don't wanna guess.

- Just pass.

(buzzer beeping) - We'll skip this one.

- You wanna skip it?

The answer's Cleopatra.

I heard one of you whispering it over there.

Nice job, Maddie, I heard it.

Taylor's version for 30.

What British pop band whose hits in the 1980s include Rio and Hungary like the Wolf had members named John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor, none of whom were related to the others.

- Duran Duran.

- Yeah nice job.

All right that wraps up our category round.

It's still pretty close.

John Bapst, 195 Yarmouth 265.

We're heading into the lightning round where anything can happen.

Sit tight, we'll be right back.

(upbeat bright music) Okay we're 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.

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

The clock is set.

Good luck, here we go.

Which US President granted Richard Nixon a full pardon-- (buzzer chiming) - Caroline.

Caroline?

- Ford.

- Ford.

The Dark Knight is a nickname for what DC-- (buzzer dings) Griffin.

- Batman.

- Batman, yes.

What is the largest country by area in north of-- (buzzer dings) Ah Jed.

- Canada.

- Canada, right.

What kind of reeds were used for paper in ancient Egypt?

(buzzer dings) That'll be Jed.

Papyrus.

Yes, what sport did James Naismith invent at the spring-- (buzzer dings) Go ahead, Jed.

- Basketball.

- Basketball.

Pneumonia is an infection of which-- (buzzer dings) Ada.

- The lungs.

- The lungs is correct.

The two chambers in the British parliament are the House of Lords and the House of-- (buzzer dings) - Commons.

- Caroline - Commons.

- Commons.

Montezuma, the second was-- - Go ahead Griffin.

- The Aztecs.

- Aztecs When you're talking about 5G wireless technology, what does the G stand for?

(buzzer dings) Mathieu.

- Generation.

- Yes.

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport serves what African Capital City?

(buzzer dings) Griffin.

- Cape Town.

- Nairobi.

Earth has the highest average density of the planets.

Which planet has the lowest?

(buzzer buzzes) Saturn.

The Missouri River is a tributary of which-- (buzzer dings) Caroline - Mississippi.

- Yes.

Operation Desert Storm was the US response to Iraq's invasion of what country?

(buzzer dings) Jed.

- Kuwait.

- Kuwait.

Clara Barton founded what Health Services?

(buzzer dings) Jed.

- Red Cross.

- Red Cross.

Which of the 13 original colonies was founded by James Oglethorpe?

(buzzer zaps) (buzzer dings) I heard the end of the round first, the answer is Georgia.

That ends our lightning round and the final score and winning team is Yarmouth with 345 points.

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

You guys had a great game.

John Bapst, you missed by just 10 points, 335.

What a match, congratulations to both.

Be sure to tune in next time for our last quarterfinal match as Mount Ararat takes on Dearing.

Thank you for watching.

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