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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 game is Munising versus Painesdale Jeffers.

- Tonight's second game is Chassel versus Westwood.

- How do we know Santa isn't lactose-intolerant?

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

(Upbeat Music Playing) - WNMU-TV presents High School Bowl.

Our first game matches the Munising Mustangs up against the Painesdale Jeffers Jets.

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

(Audience Clapping) - [Jim Koski] Good evening, and welcome to our pre-holiday edition of High School Bowl.

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

Later on this hour, we will be meeting the Chassel Panthers along with the Westwood Patriots.

But, let's say hey to the teams of tonight's first game, and let's start with the returning Munising Mustangs.

- Odin Horne, Junior.

- Alia Potila, Senior.

- Macy Cornish, Senior, team captain.

- Angus Horne, Sophomore.

- Those are the Munising Mustangs, now their opponents in tonight's opening game, the Painsdale Jeffers Jets.

- Chloe Snell, Freshman.

- Macy Raffaeli, Freshman.

- Louis Raffaeli, team captain.

- Nathan Mannenin, Sophomore.

- Those are the Painsdale Jeffers Jets, along with the Munising Mustangs.

The two teams in the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(Audience Clapping) Now let's meet the alternates for the two teams, for Munising, it is Kylan Mulae and Hunter Merryman, while for Painesdale Jeffers, it is Pearl Raffaeli and the coaches for the two teams: for Munising it's Eric Lynch, for Painesdale Jeffers is Jennifer Para.

Good luck coaches.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, teams.

Are you ready?

Because this is your first toss-up question.

This Empire's fleet was defeated by the Holy League at the battle of Lepanto in 1570.

Horne?

- [O. Horne] The Ottoman Empire.

- [Jim Koski] Seriously?

The Ottoman empire, correct for 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, Mustangs, here's your first bonus round for 10 points each.

Name these types of quadrilaterals in all cases give the most specific answer that fits the clue.

Here's the first one.

Every quadrilateral with four congruent angles is this shape.

(Contestants Whispering) - Square.

- [Jim Koski] No, not a square.

Jeffers?

- Rectangle - [Jim Koski] Rectangle, correct.

Munising, every quadrilateral with four congruent sides is this shape.

- Square.

- [Jim Koski] No, not a square.

Painesdale Jeffers?

- Triangle.

- [Jim Koski] How about everyone's favorite shape?

The rhombus.

And Munising, this type of quadrilateral has two pair of adjacent congruent sides.

(Contestants Whispering) - Trapezoid.

- [Jim Koski] Not a trapezoid.

Jeffers?

- Parallelogram.

- [Jim Koski] How about a kite?

- So, 10 points for Painesdale Jeffers in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Here's your next toss-up question.

This man's major book, which is dedicated to Paul, the third, critiques the Ptolemaic system.

This man ignited a namesake revolution with his 1543 book, on the revolutions of the celestial spheres.

For 10 points, name this Polish astronomer.

Cornish.

- Martin Luther.

- [Jim Koski] Name this Polish, Potila - Copernicus.

- [Jim Koski] Copernicus.

Correct for those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, Mustangs.

Here's your next bonus round.

This journalist owned the New York World.

For 10 points, name this German-American, the namesake of annual prizes for fiction, drama and investigative reporting.

(Contestants Whispering) - Pulitzer - [Jim Koski] Joseph Pulitzer actually.

Along with his rival William Randolph Hearst, Pulitzer practiced this type of sensationalistic journalism named for a color.

(Contestants Whispering) - Yellow.

- [Jim Koski] Yellow journalism, yup.

And Pulitzer funded the creation of the Journalism School at this Ivy League University in New York city, which administers the Pulitzer prizes.

(Contestants Whispering) - Yale.

- [Jim Koski] Not Yale.

Painesdale Jeffers?

(Contestants Whispering) - New York State.

- [Jim Koski] No.

How about Columbia?

So, 20 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Here's your next toss-up question.

In this book, the message "me plus YL" is carved above the message "me plus T".

A character in this book called "The boy" requests money, a house and a boat.

The book's title character is eventually, Horne.

- Life of Pi.

- [Jim Koski] is eventually reduced to a stamp.

For 10 points, identify this Shel Silverstein book about an altruistic plant.

(Buzzer Rings) Potila.

- The Giving Tree.

- [Jim Koski] The Giving Tree, correct for those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Munising, here's your next bonus round.

This character helps rescue her kidnapped father Carson, in a novel titled "The Hidden Staircase".

For 10 points each, name this girl detective created in 1930 in response to the success of the Hardy boys.

(Contestants Whispering) - Nancy Drew.

- [Jim Koski] Nancy Drew.

Yup.

Nancy drew first appeared in this novel, which depicts the discovery of Josiah Crowley's will.

(Contestants Whispering) - [Jim Koski] Mustangs?

- The Mystery Briefcase.

- [Jim Koski] No.

Good guess.

Not quite correct.

Painesdale Jeffers?

- The Mystery Bowling Ball.

(Jim Koski Laughs) - Even better guess.

Unfortunately, it is "The Secret of the Old Clock."

And Munising, although many of the early Nancy Drew novels were written by Mildred Benson, the series was published under this collective pseudonym.

(Contestants Whispering) - [Jim Koski] Mustangs?

- Gloria Bills.

- [Jim Koski] No, not her.

Painesdale Jeffers?

- Samantha Biggins.

(Jim Koski Laughs) - Another good guess.

How about Carolyn Keene?

So, 10 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, here's your next toss-up question, teams.

This building was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harrison on the former site of the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

A spire for mooring, Cornish.

- The Washington monument.

- A spire for mooring dirigibles was added to this Art Deco tower, Horne.

- The Empire State building.

- Financed in part by Marquette's Louis Kaufman, in fact.

Yu.

Correct for 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, Mustangs.

Here's your next bonus round for 10 points each.

Answer the following about the science of COVID-19.

Here's the first one.

It is named COVID-19 because it emerged in 2019.

But, is often also denoted by this five letter term, which identifies it as a new and previously unseen viral strain.

(Contestants Whispering) - COVID.

- [Jim Koski] No.

How about the, excuse me.

Painsdale Jeffers, you wanna give it a shot.

- Delta.

- Good guess.

It is five letters.

No.

How about the novel Corona Virus.

Many virologists suspect that COVID-19 developed from a similar virus in these mammals in Order Chiroptera, which are also prime vectors for rabies.

(Contestants Whispering) - Pangolin.

- [Jim Koski] No, not the Pangolins.

Painesdale Jeffers?

- That would be Bats.

- [Jim Koski] Bats.

Yup.

And Munising, if COVID-19 spread from bats, it would be the type of virus denoted by a word combining this prefix with the word NADEC, this three letter prefix comes from the Greek word for animal.

(Contestants Whispering) - Zoonotic.

- [Jim Koski] Zoonotic.

Correct.

So, 10 points for Munising.

10 points for Painesdale Jeffers in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Here's your next toss-up question.

This material titles in Equestrian Statue of Peter, the Great in St. Petersburg and a Rodin statue that was thought to be cast from a living model.

It is comprised mainly of copper, Cornish.

- Tin.

- [Jim Koski] Comprised mainly of copper and, Potila.

- Bronze.

- [Jim Koski] Bronze, correct for those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Tin actually being one of the components of bronze.

So, here's your next bonus round, Munising.

This scientist created the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.

For 10 points each, name this Italian-American Physicist, after whom a lab in Illinois is named.

(Contestants Whispering) - Fermi.

- [Jim Koski] Correct.

For 10 points.

Electrons and other fermions obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

Meaning at most, this many can occupy any given quantum state.

(Contestants Whispering) - Eight.

- [Jim Koski] Not eight.

Painesdale Jeffers?

(Contestants Whispering) - Thirteen.

- [Jim Koski] No.

How about one?

And Munising, Fermi won a Nobel prize for his work on inducing this property.

Uranium and Radium have this property.

Meaning that they have unstable nuclei that emit energy.

(Contestants Whispering) - Radioactive decay.

- [Jim Koski] Yeah.

We'll take that.

Radioactivity, correctly.

So, 20 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, here's your next toss-up question, teams.

Armadillos are one of the few animals that can get this mycobacterial infection, which is also called Hansen's disease.

It can lead to nerve damage that can cause the loss of limbs.

Skin lesions are seen in, for 10 points, what disease, who, Raffaeli?

- Leprosy.

- [Jim Koski] Leprosy, correct for those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) And Painsdale Jeffers, here's your next bonus round.

And it's rather appropriate for this particular week.

One of this story's central characters visits a hairdresser named Madame Sofronie.

For 10 points each, name this story set around Christmas, which is about a woman named Della and her husband Jim.

(Contestants Whispering) - Christmas Carol.

- [Jim Koski] No, not Christmas Carol.

Munising?

(Contetants Whispering) - The Necklace.

- [Jim Koski] No.

Audience?

- [Audience] The Gift of the Magi.

- The gift of the Magi.

Yup.

Painesdale Jeffers, this author who is known for twist endings in many of his stories, wrote The Gift of the Magi.

(Contestants Whispering) - Robert Frost.

- [Jim Koski] Not Robert Frost.

Munising?

- William Ferguson.

- [Jim Koski] No.

How about O. Henry?

And Painesdale Jeffers, in the Gift of the Magi, Della sells her hair to buy an accessory for this object belonging to her husband, not knowing that he sold the object to buy combs for her hair.

(Contestants Whispering) - A mirror.

- [Jim Koski] No, not a mirror.

Munising?

- A watch?

- [Jim Koski] A watch.

Correct.

So, 10 points for the Mustangs in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Here's your next toss-up question.

I'll tell you what, we've come to the end of the first half of tonight's game.

We'll get to the toss-up question in just a second.

Munising with a 120-30 lead over Painesdale Jeffers.

We'll be back to speak with the students for a few minutes and find out who's moving onto our cerebral 16, right after this.

- 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.

Munising with a 120-30 lead over Painesdale Jeffers.

We'll get back into the questions in just a bit.

But first, we would like to spend a few minutes chatting with the students.

We have already met the Munising Mustangs, but Macy Cornish is a senior and the captain of the Mustangs.

And Macy, there is a question that you had put down or an answer you had put down on your question sheet that has intrigued me these past few weeks.

Macy Cornish, you say that your two favorite types of music are Irish folk and heavy metal.

(Macy chuckles) - Yeah.

When I was, I guess I should say when I was younger, my dad actually was, well, he's a metal head, so that's what I was raised on.

So, I've just kind of continued to do that and listen to metal music, a lot of classic rock as well.

But then, all of a sudden, like three years ago, I was just going through Spotify and Irish folk genre came up on my page and I was like, "Man, what is all this about?"

So, I went through it and it had a very good, I like the rhythm to it.

So, just kind of went from there.

- Because I can't think of two musical genres, more disparate than Irish folk and heavy metal.

(Macy Chuckles) I'm just saying, Okay?

Okay.

Well, very interesting.

I'm glad that you have such a wide ranging field of musical taste.

Now the Painesdale Jeffers jets, Chloe Snell, you're freshman and you say that one of your heroes is someone that not a lot of people know about.

But, why don't you tell us why you look up to Valentina Tereshkova.

- I look up to her because when I'm older, I'd like to go to NASA and that's always been something that I always looked up to.

- [Jim Koski] Valentina Tereshkova, for those of you who don't know, actually was the first woman ever in space.

So are you hoping to follow in her footsteps?

- Yeah.

- [Jim Koski] Okay.

Well, I'll tell you what, it's a dream that a lot of us have including me.

So, I hope that at least you get to do so.

(Chloe Chuckles) - Yeah.

- Mary Raffaeli, you are a freshman and you say that, the teacher who has had the greatest impact on you is actually a teacher that you can call mom.

Huh?

(Mary Chuckles) - Yeah.

- [Jim Koski] So tell me why, Mrs. Raffaeli was such a good teacher for you.

- Well, because she's my mom.

(Jim Koski Laughs) So, she's had a big impact on me.

- [Jim Koski] I can just imagine, what does she teach?

- Math.

- [Jim Koski] Oh, okay.

So, she gets to teach the hard subjects.

Huh?

- Yeah.

- [Jim Koski] Have you learned a lot from her, both as a teacher and a mom?

- Yeah.

- [Jim Koski] Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Louis Raffaeli, you are a sophomore and a team captain and it sounds like you're into paleontology, huh?

- Yes, indeed, - [Jim Koski] Why?

- I've always been intrigued by what we don't know and the process of finding it out and what knowledge that, in the future we can find and how it can help us in today.

- So I'm guessing that, one, you are hoping to be paleontologist.

- [Louis] Most certainly.

- Okay.

And two, I'm guessing that your career dream might be to discover what a previously undiscovered line of dinosaurs.

- That's what everybody dreams for.

(Jim Koski Laughs) - How many do you think are out there that we haven't found yet?

- More than I can count.

- [Jim Koski] More than we found you think?

- More than I can count.

- [Jim Koski] Okay.

Nathan Manninen, finally, you are a sophomore and if Louis is into paleontology, it sounds like you like to build things, huh?

- Yeah.

- [Jim Koski] Why?

- Well, just the creativity and all that and making things for other people and all that.

It's a fun thing to do.

- Do you have a specialty that you're interested in more than any other?

- Well, just woodworking I guess, but like more construction, building houses, I guess.

- [Jim Koski] Okay.

Do you look forward to putting up houses that 50 or 60 years after you build them, you can take your kids and grandkids to and say, "I built that."

- Exactly.

- [Jim Koski] Oh, okay.

Well, that's actually kind of cool.

Those are the Painsdale Jeffers Jets, along with the Munising Mustangs, the two teams in the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(Audience Clapping) Okay.

Let's get back into our game with this next toss-up question.

At the Delta of this river, lies the island of, Raffaeli?

- Nile.

- [Jim Koski] Lies the isle of Marazo, an offshoot of this river called the Para, Potila.

- Amazon.

- [Jim Koski] The Amazon, correct for 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay.

Here's your next bonus question, Munising.

An opera by this composer likely spawned the idiom, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings."

For 10 points each, name this German composer of Gotterdammerung whose character, Brunhilde, is typically played by a voluptuous actress.

(Contestants Whispering) - Munising?

- Wagner.

- Wagner, in the German, correct for 10 points.

Gotterdammerung itself, concludes this quartet of Wagner opera's name for a magic piece of jewelry crafted from the Rhine maidens gold.

(Contestants Whispering) Munising?

- A necklace?

- [Jim Koski] No, not a necklace.

Painesdale Jeffer's.

- A ring?

- As in the ring cycle, correct for 10 points.

And Munising, Brunhilda is one of these Norse mythical beings.

The third opera in the ring cycle is titled for one of them.

(Contestants Whispering) - Valkyrie.

- [Jim Koski] A Valkyrie and right now, anyone with any musical taste is going, "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit."

20 points for Munising, 10 points for Painesdale Jeffers in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) See, Elmer Fudd stuck in your head now, isn't?

Yeah, okay.

Here's your next toss-up question, teams.

This Upper Peninsula community is one of the oldest settlements in the state of Michigan founded, Potila?

- Lafayette.

- [Jim Koski] Founded in 1671, Raffaeli?

- Marquette.

- Founded in 1671 by Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette.

It has been under, Cornish?

- Marquette.

It has been under French, British and American control, Horne?

- Mackinaw Island.

- It's home to several different ferry lines and, Potila?

- I already answered.

- [Jim Koski] Yes, sorry.

You already did answer.

It's home to several ferry lines and it's the starting point of highway U.S. 2.

For 10 points, name the town that's the UP Terminus of the Mackinaw bridge.

(Buzzer Rings) Horne.

- St. Ignace.

- [Jim Koski] St. Ignace.

Correct for those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, Mustangs here is your next bonus round.

In 2020, a computer program called AlphaFold made major strides in figuring out how these molecules are formed.

For 10 points each, name these molecules made of amino acids.

(Contestants Whispering) - Protein.

- [Jim Koski] Protein.

Yup.

Prediction of protein structure is useful for the design of this very general class of substances.

Examples of which include INSEAD's beta blockers and diuretics.

(Contestants Whispering) - Enzymes.

- [Jim Koski] No, not enzymes.

Painesdale Jeffers.

(Contestants Whispering) - Medication.

- Yeah.

Drugs, correct.

For 10 points.

And Munising to produce secondary structures such as beta sheets, proteins form these bonds that also connect base pairs together in DNA molecules.

(Contestants Whispering) - Nucleic.

- [Jim Koski] No, not nucleic bonds.

Painesdale Jeffers?

- Covalent.

- [Jim Koski] No.

How about hydrogen bonds?

So, 10 points for Munising, 10 points for Painesdale Jeffers in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, here's your next toss-up question.

This man and his followers are told how to pass through the Clashing Rocks by Phineas, whom he saved from the harpies, while Potila.

- Jason.

- [Jim Koski] Jason, correct for those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, Munisng, here's your next bonus round.

A wealthy district in this country's capital city inspired the title of the 2012 hit song, "Gangnam style".

For 10 points each, name this Asian country, where the music genre K-pop originated?

(Contestants Whispering) - South Korea.

- Yup, South Korea.

The Jungkook and RM and four others make up this K-pop boy band whose hits include "Fake Love" and "Dynamite".

(Contestants Whispering) - BTS.

- [Jim Koski] That's so metal of you for saying that.

And Munising, this K-pop group is featured on a song from Lady Gaga's album Chromatica, titled "Sour Candy."

This group whose name consists of two colors, also featured Selena Gomez in their song, "Ice Cream."

(Contestants Whispering) - BLACKPINK.

- [Jim Koski] BLACKPINK.

So, 30 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(Audience Clapping) Here's your next toss-up question, teams.

During this monarchs reign, the East India Company was dissolved allowing this Monarch to directly rule India.

The final, Cornish.

- King Henry.

- [Jim Koski] This final British ruler of the house of Hanover became reclusive after the death of her husband, Prince Albert.

For 10 points, what Queen, Potila?

- Queen Mary.

- [Jim Koski] No.

What queen ruled the UK from 1837 to 1901?

(Buzzer Rings) - Elizabeth.

- [Jim Koski] No, not queen Elizabeth.

Anyone on Painesdale Jeffers want to buzz in?

(Buzzer Rings) - [Jim Koski] Raffaeli?

- Queen Victoria.

- [Jim Koski] Queen Victoria, correct.

For those 10 points.

(Audience Clapping) Okay, Painesdale Jeffers.

Here is your next bonus round.

The Guadalquivir abro integrous rivers are all on this peninsula.

For 10 points each, Spain and Portugal are located on what European Peninsula?

(Contestants Whispering) - [Jim Koski] Jets?

- Yucatan.

- Not the Yucatan.

We do need to give Munising a shot at it.

(Contestants Whispering) - Sambia Peninsula.

- [Jim Koski] No.

How about the Iberian peninsula?

So, no points for either team and that's bonus round.

We have come to the end of the game.

The Munising Mustangs are the first team qualifying for our Cerebral 16 defeating Painesdale Jeffers by a score of 210-60.

(Audience Clapping) Well, first of all, jets, thanks for making the trip down to Marquette.

Sorry, it didn't quite work out for you.

But, one of the great things I think is Nathan, Louis, Macy and Chloe, you guys are all very young students and we're going to get to see you for the next couple of years and see the progress that you make.

So, we do look forward to that.

Well, Munising, the second time was the charm, I guess for you.

You, like I said, are now moving on.

You're the first team to qualify for our next Round Cerebral 16 and that's kind of cool.

Who are you going to take on?

We don't know, but I can guarantee one thing.

It'll be the winner of our next game.

So, we do look forward to that.

Speaking of who will be the Mustangs opponent in our Cerebral 16, it will be one of two teams, either Chassel or Westwood.

We'll find out which team coming up next.

So, don't go far.

(Upbeat music) - Major production funding for High School Bowl is provided by Janice Mills of Escanaba and by The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation with local support by 17 Upper Peninsula Credit Unions, including Northern United Federal, Embers, Michigan Tech Employees Federal, Great Lakes First Federal and Baraga County Federal and by Petrucelli and Wara, 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.

Johnson Controls, helping people achieve.

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.