- [Announcer] 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.

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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 Watersmeet.

- Tonight's second game is Norway versus Menominee.

- Welcome to the 23rd month of 2020.

- [Announcer] 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 of the season pits the Munising Mustangs up against the Watersmeet Nimrods.

Now, welcome back your host of High School Bowl, Jim Koski.

(audience applauding) - Good evening!

And for the first time in almost 20 months, welcome to High School Bowl.

To quote a great American philosopher, what a long, strange trip this has been.

Everything that's gone on in the past year and a half has necessitated a few changes around here; you'll for instance notice the students wearing masks, but among everything else, we're just happy to be back with you.

We hope that you've been healthy, we hope that you've stayed safe, and we hope that you're ready to spend an hour with some of the brightest young people on the planet.

Later on this hour, we'll be meeting Norway and Menominee, but let's say hey to the teams in tonight's first game, and let's start with the Munising Mustangs.

- Odin Horne, Junior.

- Elliot Potila, Senior.

- Maci Cornish, Senior, team captain.

- Angus Horne, Sophomore.

- Those are the Munising Mustangs.

Now, here are their opponents and our season opener, the Watersmeet Nimrods.

- Addison Holland, Sophomore.

- Annabelle Besonen, Junior.

- Charlene Harrison, Senior, team captain.

- Hailey Peterson, sophomore.

- Those are the Watersmeet Nimrods along with the Munising Mustangs, the two teams in the season premiere of High School Bowl.

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

From Munising, it is Caitlin Mulier and Hunter Merryman, while for Watersmeet, it is Jack Brightnose.

And the coaches for the two teams; from Munising it's Eric Lynch, for Watersmeet it's Jay Horn, good luck coaches.

(audience applauding) (chime) Okay teams, we've waited a long time for this.

The time is now, here is your first toss-up question.

The community acquired form of this condition is usually caused by a namesake bacteria in genus streptococcus, both bacterial... (chime) Potila?

- [Potila] Strep throat?

- [Koski] Both bacterial and viral forms are complications of influenza and COVID-19, causing trouble breathing.

The avioli are affected by, for 10 points, what type of... (chime) Cornish?

- [Cornish] Asthma?

- [Koski] What type of lung infection?

(chime) - [Horne] Bronchitis?

- [Koski] Horne?

- [Horne] Bronchitis?

- No, not bronchitis.

Anyone on a Watersmeet want to give it a shot?

Nope?

How about pneumonia?

Okay, let's move on to our next toss-up question, and that is this: during this dynasty, Cai Lun is said to have invented paper.

The three kingdoms period followed this dynasty... (chime) Watersmeet.

- [Holland] Qing Dynasty.

- [Koski] No, not the Qing dynasty.

The three kingdoms period followed this dynasty.

(chime) Cornish - [Cornish] Qin dynasty?

- [Koski] No, not the Qin, which was established (chimes) by the anti, Horne?

- [A. Horne] Sui?

- [Koski] Which was established by the anti-Qing dynasty rebel Liu Bong in 2O2 BC and lasted until AD 22, AD 220, excuse me.

For 10 points, what dynasty lends its name to China's majority ethnic group?

(chime) Horne?

- [O. Horne] The Han dynasty?

- The Han dynasty, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Munising, here is your first bonus round.

This river receives water from the Lula Bala and Kasai Rivers for 10 points each, identify the river that partially names two countries in Central Africa.

It was also the primary setting of the novella, "Heart of Darkness."

(team whispering) Mustangs?

- [Cornish] Nile?

- [Koski] No, not the Nile, Watersmeet?

(team whispering) Nimrods?

- [Harrison] No answer.

- Okay, how about did the Congo River?

Munising, the Congo river empties into this ocean, that is west of mainland Africa.

- [Cornish] I say the Atlantic, Atlantic?

Atlantic?

Atlantic?

- The Atlantic, yep.

And the Congo River separates Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo from this capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(team whispering) Mustangs?

- Swahitti?

- [Koski] No, Watersmeet?

- [Harrison] No answer.

- Okay, how about Kinshasa?

So 10 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next toss-up question teams.

This major us highway has one terminal point in Copper Harbor while the other end is in... (chime) Cornish?

- [Cornish] US-41?

- US-41, correct for ten points.

(audience applauds) Okay Mustang, here's your next bonus round.

For 10 points each, answer the following about quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Here's your first question, Mahomes led to this NFL team to a Superbowl win in 2020.

(team whispering) - [Cornish] The Steelers?

- [Koski] No, not Pittsburgh, Watersmeet?

- [Harrison] Kansas City Chiefs?

- Kansas City Chiefs.

Munising, Mahomes old quarterback coach Kliff Kingsbury now coaches this other NFL team, which is led by quarterback Kyler Murray.

(team whispering) - [Cornish] The Browns?

- [Koski] No, not Cleveland, Watersmeet?

- [Harrison] The Patriots?

- No, how about the Arizona Cardinals?

And Munising, Mahomes is the second youngest quarterback to win a super bowl behind this quarterback, who has won two of them and who has played with such receivers as Juju Smith Schuster (team whispering) Mustangs?

- [Cornish] Tom Brady.

- [Koski] No, not Tom Brady, Watersmeet?

- [Harrison] Aaron Rogers?

- No, how about Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers?

So 10 points for Watersmeet in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next tossup question, groups which limit this ritual to adults include Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, and a denomination named for this ritual and the words Southern and Convention.

A fusion or a spurgeon may be used for the infant version of... (chime) Holland?

- [Holland] Baptism.

- Baptism, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) Okay Nimrods here is your next bonus round, for 10 points each, answer the following about advances in science on the Indian subcontinent.

Here's the first question: in the third century BC, India develop the wootz variety of this alloy that was highly valued throughout the ancient world due to having greater durability than plain iron.

- [Harrison] Steel?

- Steel, yep.

Aryabhata discovered the sine function, who discovered the sine function was one of many Indian mathematicians who advanced this discipline, which studies relationships in triangles.

- [Harrison] Trigonometry?

- Trigonometry, yep.

And an ancient Indian surgeon named Sushruta successfully performed cataract surgery on this part of the body.

The bindi may represent a third one of these parts.

- Eyes.

- Eyes, yep.

So 30 points for Watersmeet in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next toss-up question teams.

This monster, which is called a Kindred of Cane, becomes angry after hearing joyful laughter.

This male character attacks the mead hall of King Rothgar, where a hero rips off this.

(chime) Horne?

- [O.

Horne.]

Grendel?

- Grendel, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) That of course in the epic Beowulf.

Munising, here is your next bonus round.

During the great depression, this painter found, helped found the Stone City Art Colony near Cedar Rapids, Iowa; for 10 points each, name this artist who used his sister and his dentist as models for a 1930 painting.

(team whispering) Munising?

- [Cornish] Grant Wood?

- Grant Wood, yep.

Wood's sister and dentist modeled for this painting, which depicts a farmer holding a pitchfork standing next to his daughter.

(team whispering) - [Cornish] American Gothic?

- American Gothic, yep.

And in one satirical 1932 painting, Daughters of Revolution, manish-looking old women stand in front of this patriotic painting by Emmanuel Leutze.

(team whispering) Mustangs?

- The flag raising?

- [Koski] No, not the flag raising.

Watersmeet, want to give it a shot?

- [Harrison] The new flag?

- No, how about Washington Crossing the Delaware?

So 20 points from Munising in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next toss-up question teams, a classical construction problem that involved squaring this shape was proven to be impossible in 1882.

This shape consists of the set of points that are the same distance from a fixed point.

Potila?

- [Potila] circle.

- A circle, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) Here is your next toss up, or bonus round Munising.

This character repairs an automaton made by the filmmakers George Méliès.

For 10 points, what title boy creates an invention in the 2007 Brian Selznick novel that was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese?

(team whispering) Mustangs?

- [Cornish] Gerald?

- [Koski] No, Watersmeet, want to give it shot?

- [Harrison] Ivan?

- [Koski] Say that again?

- [Harrison] Ivan?

- No, how about Hugo Cabret?

Munising, the Invention of Hugo Cabret was published by this company that offers children's book clubs; its logo features a white book against a red background.

(team whispering) - [Cornish] Scholastic?

- Scholastic, yep.

And Scholastic also publishes a series of books by Dave Pilkey about this superhero who wears briefs and a cape.

He is the alter ego of grouchy principle Benny Krupp.

- Captain Underpants.

- The Immortal Captain Underpants in fact, so 20 points from Munising in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Okay, here is your next tossup question teams.

This piece opens by quoting the hymn "Oh Lord, Save Thy People."

This piece, which also quotes the national anthems "La Marseillaise" and "God Save the Tsar" has a climax featuring cannon fire.

(chime) Horne.

- [O. Horne] Casablanca?

- [Koski] Russia's defense against Napoleon.

(chime) Potila?

- [Potila] 1812 Overture?

- The 1812 Overture by Peter Tchaikovsky, correct for 10 point.

(audience applauds) Okay Munising, here's your next tossup question For addition, zero plays this role.

For 10 points each, give this term for an element identified by an operation, a foreign operation, that leaves the other input unchanged.

Zero has this role in addition, because zero plus anything is still the same other thing.

(team whispering) Munising?

- [Cornish] Placeholder?

- [Koski] Nope, Watersmeet, wanna... - [Harrison] Value?

- No, how about the identity element?

Munising, this number is the identity element for multiplication, since it times any number is the same number.

- [Cornish] One?

- One, yep.

And what number system uses only zero and one as digits?

- Binary?

- Binary, yep.

So 20 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) (chime) And we have come to the end of the first half of our seasons first game Munising with a 120 to 50 lead over Watersmeet.

We'll be back to meet the students and find out who's moving onto our next round right after this.

- [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, Munising with a slight lead over Watersmeet.

We'll get back into the game in just a couple of minutes, but let's spend a few meeting the students on the two teams.

Let's start with Munising, specifically with Odin Horne, who is a junior, now Odin, one of the things that kind of identifies the real you is your interest in drawing, tell me about that.

- So I do a lot of drawings and stuff, but it's mostly designing things like buildings and vehicles and other things, I like engineering and have an interest in that, I think that... - Does that mean you want to be an architect or a design engineer when you grow up?

- Yeah, I want to have some career in engineering and building things.

- Okay, and then what got you interested in drawing?

- Mostly just seeing machinery and everything in real life, that kind of got me into it.

I wanted to draw those kinds of things on paper, my own versions or whatever.

- But if nothing else, that's a great way to merge both creativity and a form of science, so I think that's real cool.

Well, good luck in that.

Eliot Potila, you are a senior and I find this kind of interesting because even though it's from way, way, way before you were born, the type of music you like is 80s rock, how did that happen?

- I just like, I just found 80s cause my dad listened.

Like my dad listens to 80s rock and Beatles mostly.

And I just always like 80s, I don't know, like I just listen to it all the time when I choose, I also can play it on the clarinet sometimes.

- That would be interesting to hear like Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" on the clarinet.

- Yeah, we actually play that in band.

- Really?

Okay, if you guys come back, I may have you bring your clarinet just to hear that.

Okay, Macy Cornish, you are a Senior and a team captain.

And one of the questions that we asked students was how the silliness of the past 18 months has affected them.

And it seems like you had an interesting journey to try to adjust to it, right?

- Yeah, so I'm always busy, everybody back home knows me as the busy body because I'm always doing something.

I'm in key club, robotics, I mentor middle school robotics.

I do Quiz Bowl, I'm in two sports, I always got lots going on.

So when the pandemic originally first hit, there was nothing, it was just a whole least month where there was absolutely nothing, nothing online, nothing that I could do.

So I just kinda sat there and was like, man, now what?

So I took up a lot, a lot of hobbies.

So I got a whole bunch of like finished stuff at home that I don't know what to do with like art projects, stuff like that.

- So basically now that things are kind of back to normal, you have your pre pandemic life, you have your post pandemic life and you're just trying to merge the two of them together.

- Yes, and I've caught myself kind of trying to do my hobbies that I started during the pandemic and tried to keep up with the stuff that I've gotten now.

So I'm trying to kind of delegate a little bit and make sure that I'm not overspending my time.

- Well good luck with that, that's kind of hard to do sometimes.

Angus Horne, you are a sophomore.

And you say that if you could live in the world of any book or movie, you would want to live in the world of the Matrix, why?

- Well, it's just one of my favorite movies and I don't know, I think it'd be really cool.

Maybe I could be the One, you know?

- Maybe you could, and what do you say to people who actually think that we're actually right now living in a computer simulation?

- Maybe.

- Maybe.

Okay one more question too, red pill, blue pill?

- Red.

- Okay.

Just wanted to make sure, those are the Munising Mustangs.

Now let's meet the students of the other team, the Watersmeet Nimrods.

Addison Holland, you are a sophomore.

And you say the people that you're currently looking up to your current heroes are your parents.

- They are, they helped me get through the pandemic and they, the things they've done in their life, they've done traveling and they're successful in their careers and they're happy people and I love being with them.

And when I look back at my life, I hope that I'm as successful and happy as they are.

- Well, it sounds like you have a great set of role models and hopefully you'll be able to follow in their footsteps.

I hope so.

Annabel Besonen, you are a junior and you say if there's one thing you could do to help change the world, be it big or small, that would be to help homeless people or people recently released from incarceration get a new start on life.

How did you get interested in that?

- Well, I've seen a lot of stories, you know, I've watched a lot of CNN talking about people, the CNN heroes, talking about how they helped them.

And I just want to be a part of that.

Like I feel like people who want to start a new life who get out of prison have less of a chance cause people don't really want to take them, but they still need like money and all that to make a life, so I want to help help with that.

- Do you think that we'll to a point anytime soon where disadvantaged people are given a bit of an advantage?

- I think it will take time, but yes.

Progress takes time and money, I think we can do it.

- Okay.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you're part of the solution then too, so.

Charlene Harrison, you are a senior and a team captain.

You say that if you could live in the world of any book or movie, it would be the answer that probably half the students who come through here give.

You would want to live in the world of Harry Potter, why?

- Well like, I've always had like a fascination in like fairytales and stuff like that, with like the magic and I'm like, well, that's pretty cool.

Like I wish we could have something like that.

And like the scenery and everything, the people, I feel like certain characters are misunderstood and outplayed as the villain, but it's really their upbringing.

And that's often in like real life.

So I like would like to go there and like help clear their story I guess you could say good.

- Okay, you basically want to be their advocate.

Okay, and of course I have to ask too, which house?

- [Harrison] Slytherin.

- Okay, just wanted to check.

And finally, Haley Peterson, you are a Sophomore and you say that the type of music you listen to is the type of music that's conquering the world these days, K-pop, why do you like it so much?

- I don't know, it's different from what I grew up listening to and some of the bands have like a really good motive towards it.

They wanna, they're promoting trying to make the world better and more equal.

And so.

- Which is a very good thing.

Favorite K-pop group?

- BTS.

- Of course, right?

Okay.

Those are the students for Watersmeet and Munising, the two teams in the first half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(audience applauds) Okay Teams, let's get back into it with our next toss-up question.

In this man's cabinet, Judah P Benjamin served in three different positions.

This Mississippi politician's vice-president, Alexander Stephens, said that his country's cornerstone was slavery; for 10 points each, name this first and only President of the Confederate States of America.

(chime) Horne.

- [A. Horne] Jefferson Davis?

- Jefferson Davis, correct for 10 points.

(audience applauds) - Okay Mustangs, here is your next bonus round.

A character with this name first appeared in a 1933 film in which he climbed the Empire State Building.

For 10 points each, what giant creature is the title character for a 2017 film set on Skull Island?

- [Cornish] King Kong?

- King Kong, correct.

Munising, when this animal's name is placed before Kong, it names a video game ape whose relatives include Diddy and Dixie and who titles a 1981 arcade game in which he kidnaps Pauline.

- [Cornish] Donkey Kong?

- Donkey Kong, yep.

And the real life Kong empire was founded in 1710 by immigrants from this West African empire that contained Timbuktu.

This empire's name lives on in that of a modern African country.

(team whispering) Munising?

- Ghana?

- [Koski] No, not Ghana.

Watersmeet?

- [Harrison] Kenya?

- No, how about Mali?

So 20 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next toss up question teams, a gulf that shares its name with this US state is also known as the Sea of Cortez.

(chime) Besonen?

- [Besonen] Mexico?

- [Koski] Tourists in this state may visit its channel islands... (chime) Horne?

- [O. Horne] California?

- California, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauds) 'Kay Munising, here is your next bonus round.

This man proved that the west Indies were not part of the Asia during a voyage that began in 1501; for 10 points each, name this Italian explorer whose first name was later used to name the new world continents.

(team whispering) Munising?

- [Cornish] Amerigo Vespucci.

- Correct for 10 points.

Vespucci explored Brazil on behalf of this country, from which Brazil became independent in 1822.

(team whispering) - [Cornish] Portugal.

- Portugal, yep.

And Vespucci's voyages challenged the maps created by this Greek astronomer from Alexandria, whose geocentric system of the universe prevailed until the 16th century.

(team whispering) Munising?

- Galileo?

- [Koski] No, not Galileo, Watersmeet?

- [Harrison] Plato.

- No, how about Ptolemy?

So 20 points for Munising in that bonus round.

(audience applauds) Here's your next tossup question teams, an extremely costly form of this concept is described by the adjective Pyrrhic.

(chime) a sculpture, Potila?

- [Potila] Acid?

- A sculpture from Samo, and we have come to the end of tonight's first game.

Munising is moving on, defeating Watersmeet by a score of 180 to 50.

(audience applauds) Well, first of all, Nimrods, thanks for waking up really, really early, now Charlene, you're a Senior, so we won't get to see your smiling face again next year, but best of luck in whatever comes your way, but Haley, Annabel and Addison, we look forward to seeing you next season.

Mustangs, guess what, you get to move on and your opponent in the next round will be the Panesdale Jeffers Jets.

So we look forward to seeing how that turns out in just a couple of weeks.

Well, we are now halfway through our season premiere of High School Bowl; up next Munising or excuse me, up next, Norway and Menominee, don't go far.

(bright music) - [Announcer] 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 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.

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.