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In our final qualifying match, it's the Panthers of North Yarmouth Academy, (dramatic fanfare) Taking on the Eagles of Windham High School.

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

Seven teams have moved on to the quarterfinals.

One of today's teams will take that final slot and perhaps go all the way to the thousand dollar prize for their school's project graduation.

Both of today's teams have been with us on previous seasons, but neither has made it to the championship round.

North Yarmouth Academy of Yarmouth, hopes the third time is the charm, but they need to get past Windham High School who would love to have their second appearance lead to victory.

Let's get things going by introducing the team members, for North Yarmouth Academy, We have Olivia, we have Genevieve, Hadley and Ethan.

With alternates Eva and Finn, and coached by Jennifer McKaylass.

And for Windham we have Al, Greta, Kaitlyn and Francesca with alternates Will and Owen and coached by John Ziegler and Nicole Bensmore.

The competition has three rounds.

The tossup round, the category round and that fun 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.

All right teams, NYA, good luck, Windham, good luck.

We are about to get going.

Here is the first question, New York City is the most populous city in the US.

What California city is number two?

(ding) Al, Windham?

- Los Angeles.

- Los Angeles, yes.

In February 2021, Perseverance Rover began collecting soil samples and taking photos of what Terrestrial planet?

(ding) - Francesco, Windham?

- Mars.

- Mars is also right.

Which senator from Wisconsin was the main force behind the hunt for communists he claimed were infiltrating the US government in the 1950s?

(ding) Greta, Windham?

- McCarthy.

- McCarthy, Yes.

As of November, 2021 the major league baseball team based in which Midwestern city is called the Guardians?

(ding, buzz) - Greta, you did beat it.

Yes.

Go ahead.

- Cincinnati?

- Oh, that's incorrect.

NYA, you want a chance at this one here?

Take a guess.

(ding) Go for it Ethan.

- Kansas City?

- Nope, The answer's Cleveland.

The Cleveland Guardians.

Okay, up next we have a picture question.

So look over here at the monitor, Located in Augusta, Georgia, This prestigious PGA tournament is the only one of the four majors to be played at the same venue every year.

What is the name of this tournament?

(ding) Olivia, NYA.

- The Masters.

- The Masters yes.

You guys are on the board now too.

Titania and Oberon are characters in which of the William Shakespeare's comedies?

(ding) Genevieve, NYA.

- Midsummer Night's Dream.

- That's correct.

What small powerful master gland in the human brain secretes growth hormone and luteinizing hormone.

(ding) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- The Pituitary Gland.

- That's right.

Empress Maria Teresa was a member of what Royal Family that ruled Austria, Hungary and most of Central Europe in the 18th century?

(ding) Ethan, NYA,.

- The Hapsburgs.

- That's correct.

A cultural and performing arts festival called The Fringe, was founded in 1947 in what city that is the capital of Scotland?

(ding) Greta, Windham.

- Edinburgh - Edinburgh.

Yes.

Up next, we have a video question.

Please take a look at the monitor again.

- Hello, my name is Karrie Lattari and I'm the librarian at York Middle School.

What poet wrote the following lines, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by."?

(ding) - Francesca, Windham.

- Robert Frost.

- Yes, you got it.

Next question, what word that means salt producer, refers to chloride, a chlorine, iodine and the other elements in Group 17 on the periodic table?

(buzzer) Halogens is the correct answer.

Next question, A German Shepherd named Chase and a Cockapoo named Sky, are two of the main characters on what animated TV series for kids?

(ding) Greta, Windham.

- Paw Patrol.

- Paw Patrol, yeah, did you watch it back in the day?

- No?

An important event in US labor history began in 1965 when workers who harvested what fruit in Delano California, went on strike to demand better pay and improved working conditions.

(ding) Greta, again, - Oranges?

- That's incorrect.

NYA you have a chance here.

(ding) Go for it Genevieve.

- Lemons - Also incorrect, Grapes.

- Oh.

- Grapes.

Okay, in Greek mythology, Hypnos and his son Morpheus are most closely associated with which of these things?

Music and dance, math and science or sleep and dreams.

(ding) Francesca?

- Sleep and Dreams.

- That's correct.

Math question.

You got pencils I think over there, get ready.

What is the perimeter of a regular hexagon with a side measuring 16 inches?

(ding) Ethan, NYA.

- 96 inches.

- You nailed it.

You nailed it, Ethan.

Next question.

The Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, across what river?

(ding) Greta Windham.

- The Potomac.

- Potomac is right.

Wakanda Forever is a sequel to what 2018 feature film that stars Chadwick Bozeman?

(ding) Olivia, NYA.

- Black Panther.

- Yes, you got it.

Next question.

Which English king earned the epithet Lionheart, because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior?

(ding) Francesco, Windham.

Richard.

- I'm gonna need more.

- Richard, The First?

- You got it.

You gave me more.

You get the answer correct.

What mythical creature that supposedly drinks the blood of animals gets its name from the Spanish for goat sucker.

(ding) Greta, Windham.

- Chupacabra.

- You got that too, nice one.

What's the six letter name for an Arctic climate region like Siberia or Alaska, that's a natural habitat for Arctic fox and caribou?

(ding) Francesca, Windham - Tundra.

- Tundra is right.

The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag and Treemonisha, are the best known works of what American Ragtime composer?

(ding) Go for it, Greta.

- Sousa?

- That's incorrect.

NYA you have a chance for some points if you get me the right answer here.

Wanna guess?

(buzzer) Joplin, Scott Joplin is the answer.

Raising the temperature of a gas inside a sealed tube has what effect on the pressure inside the tube.

The pressure goes up, it goes down, or it stays the same?

(ding) Al, Windham .

- Increases, goes up.

- It increases, yes, it goes up.

The concept of the rhetorical triangle was outlined by what Ancient Greek philosopher in his fourth century BCE treatise, Rhetoric?

(ding) Greta, Windham.

- Plato?

- Incorrect.

NYA?

(buzzer) Aristotle, Aristotle.

Richard Avadon and Nan Goldin have won the Hasselblad Award for achievement in what visual art medium?

(ding) Greta?

- Sculpture.

- Incorrect, NYA?

(buzzer) Photography, Photography.

More than 90% of people in Thailand practice what religion?

(ding) Ethan, NYA - Buddhism.

- You got it.

Another math question, last one we have.

An analog clock face shows the time is four o'clock.

What is the measure of the angle formed between the hour hand and the minute hand?

(ding) Uh, Greta, Windham.

- 120 Degrees.

- I am shocked that you got it because you guys don't really look at those analog clocks anymore, but you got it.

Well done, Greta.

Next question.

What Croatian born engineer invented the first induction motor powered by alternating current?

(ding) Greta again?

- Tesla.

- Tesla, yes.

What hook shaped diacritical mark is placed under this letter C to indicate a soft pronunciation, as in the word facade?

(ding) Genevieve, NYA.

- Cedilla.

- Yep.

We'll take it.

Good job.

Cirrhosis is a condition in which scar tissue replaces healthy tissue.

In which body organ?

(ding) Greta, Windham.

- The kidney - Incorrect, NYA?

(buzzer) The liver.

The liver.

(alarm ringing) Okay, that's the end of the first round.

We have a score of NYA 70, Windham 150.

Great matches underway here.

Don't go anywhere.

We'll meet the players when we get back.

(upbeat music) - We are back, but before we head to the category round, we like to pause, get to know our players a little better with a slightly silly question, which is, if you could have any animal as a pet, real or imaginary, what would it be?

We'll start with NYA and Olivia.

- I would have to say a sloth.

- Sloth, why?

- I find them adorable - And slow right?

- Exactly.

- They're never gonna run away from you.

- Yeah easy, Easy to - You'll catch it.

control.

- Yeah, - You will catch it.

Genevieve, yourself?

- I, I don't know, I'd I'll just say ancient silver dragon.

- Hmm.

Ancient silver dragon.

Is that from like a, a movie or, - D and D. - show?

Dun - Dungeons and Dragons.

- Dungeon Dragons.

Okay, Yep, got it.

Hadley, how about you?

- Um, Olivia actually took mine.

I would, - Come on, you had to have the same?

- They're my favorite animal.

- A dragon?

- Sloth.

- Oh, Sloth.

I'm sorry, I thought we were still on the dragon.

(Laughs) All right, well maybe you could share the Sloth or something.

I don't know.

Ethan, wrap it up for NYA.

- Capybara.

- Oh, because that was one of the questions we just had, right?

Didn't we have Dusepy?

Oh, that was a ChupaCabra?

All right, what was yours?

- A Capybara, they live in South America.

- Okay, thank you for educating me on that animal.

Is it cute at least?

- Yes.

- All right.

Super cute.

Let's go over to Windham, Al.

- Probably like a silver back gorilla.

- A silver back gorilla?

That could get a little dangerous there.

It's just really intimidating.

Good to have around.

- And may kick your butt once or twice.

Oh, absolutely, yeah.

- Greta, yourself.

- I'd get a goose 'cause every day would be different.

- With a goose.?

- Yeah, you never know what they're gonna do.

- Well I I, I feel like goose or geese, like they're they're very intimidating and they can get like nasty.

Right.

And I don't - But different.

- But different, yes.

I think you gotta be careful with those goose.

- Keep life interesting.

Keep life interesting.

- Better than a gorilla.

- A little bit, yes.

- Slightly better than a gorilla.

Kaitlyn, - I wanna parrot to ride around on my shoulder and just repeat everything I said.

- You know, annoying that would get?

- I do not want that reality.

- Yeah, I don't either actually.

Francesca?

- Probably the first ever living organism like in the history of life.

- Okay.

- Because I think it would be interesting to study.

- Yeah, and and what it evolved to next.

- Exactly.

- Right?

- Like how that all worked out.

- Yeah, how did we get to this or that?

Really interesting stuff.

Thanks guys.

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

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Paul Riley from Safety Insurance and this is your Maine question of the week.

Most of us know that Kittery is Maine's oldest town, but what is Maine's newest town?

Is it Limestone, Elliot, or Chebeague Island?

We'll have the answer later in the show.

- Next up is the category round with the following choices.

Look who's talking.

Thanks for the help.

It's an uphill climb.

Dictionary detective.

Deal of the decade and growth industry.

Questions have increasing point values and wrong answers will cost you.

The rules for this round are different than in previous seasons though.

Each team will alternate control of two categories, 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 five seconds to confer with their team and decide what to do.

Okay?

NYA you are trailing right now, so you have control of the board.

What will your first category be?

- Yeah, we'll do, it's an uphill climb.

- Okay.

It's an uphill climb.

These are questions about places at high elevation.

All right, here's the first question.

The highest peak in Greece, is what mountain that shares its name with the home of the gods in Greek mythology.

- Olympus.

- Mount Olympus is correct.

Second question.

Located at approximately 78 degrees south latitude, Mount Vincent is the highest peak on which continent?

- Australia.

- Aus.

Um, that's, - Oceania Australia.

- Australia.

- Australia's incorrect.

It's Antarctica.

Antarctica.

We move on, It's an uphill climb for 20.

Bolivia has two capital cities.

One is Sukra, the other is what city?

That is approximately 11,975 feet above sea level.

- La Paz.

La Paz.

L a P a z - La Paz.

- La Paz is right.

He knows it.

It's an uphill climb for 25.

The mountain that overlooks Cape Town, South Africa is most commonly known by what English name that refers to its distinctive flat top.

(beep, beep, beep) So need, you'll need an answer or you can skip or you can toss it.

- We're gonna skip.

- You're gonna skip it, okay, the answer is Table Mountain, Table Mountain.

So this is a uphill climb for 30.

A holy site in Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

What Historic ridge east of Jerusalem's old city is named for the trees that grew there in biblical times.

- Um.

- Osaco - Is it Joshua?

- No.

- Maybe (beep, beep, beep) - I'll need an answer or again, you can skip or toss.

- We'll just skip it.

- You wanna skip it?

It's mount of, a Mount of Olives.

Mount of Olives.

All right, that's the end of that category.

We're gonna shift over to Windham.

What will your first category be?

- We'll do Dictionary Detective.

- Okay, Dictionary Detective for 10.

All the answers begin with the letter D. With the letter D, oaks and maples are examples of what kind of trees that shed their foliage at the end of a growing season.

- The deciduous, final.

- Yes, you got it.

Final, yes.

Dictionary Detective 15.

What adjective is applied to a particular type of red or golden apples or anything that tastes delightfully good?

- Delicious.

- Delicious is right.

Moving on to Dictionary Detective for 20.

What adjective that means commanding is the opposite of recessive when you're talking about genetic traits.

- Dominant.

- Dominant is also right.

Dictionary detective for 25.

A recent entry into some dictionaries.

What compound word is defined as continually or repeatedly checking the internet for bad news.

- Doomsday something.

- Do we just skip?

- Skip, I vote we skip it.

- We should skip, skip, skip.

- Yeah, we're gonna skip.

- You wanna skip it?

You're on the right track.

I think I heard Greta saying doom something.

It's doom scrolling.

Doom scrolling.

Dictionary Detective for 30, the last one.

From the Greek for recording the people, what word is defined as a study of the characteristics of a population that a census that, like a census that keeps data on age and household income.

- You wanna toss?

- What?

- Oh no, I don't think I wouldn't risk this 'cause I feel like it's on the tip of my tongue, so I wouldn't risk tossing it.

Wanna skip?

- Skip, skip.

- Okay, we'll skip.

- [Todd] You skip, it's a Demography, Demography.

Okay, that wraps up that category.

Now over to NYA again for your second category, and a reminder you can toss once per category.

What do you think?

What do you think you guys wanna go with?

- Sure.

- Just go with it.

- Look who's talking.

- Look who's talking.

- Look who's talking, okay.

Questions about voices in animation.

Here's the first question.

Since 2002, Frank Welker has voiced what crime solving canine, who travels with his friends in the Mystery Machine?

- Scooby-Doo.

- Scooby-doo - Scooby-Doo Yes, you got it.

Scooby-Doo.

Look who's talking for 15?

What man who was an actor before he became President of Ukraine, voiced the character of Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian releases of the Paddington movies.

- Zelensky - Zelensky.

- Zelensky is right.

Look who's talking for 20.

What Star of the Good Place voiced Anna in Frozen and Lucy Stillman in the Assassins Creed video game series?

- Kristin Bell.

- You got that one too, you're rolling.

Look who's talking for 25?

Debi Derryberry provided the voice of what boy genius title character in an animated series from the early two thousands.

(beep, beep, beep) Answer, skip, toss?

- Skip.

- You wanna skip?

It's Jimmy Neutron.

Jimmy Neutron.

The last one in Look who's talking.

Haley Joel Osment and David Gallagher voice the characters of Sora and Riku respectively, in what Video Game series?

(beep, beep, beep) Answer, skip, toss.

- Skip.

- Skip, Kingdom Hearts is the answer.

All right, we're back to Windham for your final category.

What's it gonna be?

- All right, we'll do Deal of The Decade.

Okay, Deal of The Decade for 10.

I'll give you three events.

You tell me the decade in which they happened.

President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act.

Russia annexes Crimea.

Pokemon Go is released.

- The 20, 2010s.

- 2010s.

- 2010s is right.

Deal of the Decade, 15.

The Suez Canal opens.

Charles Dickens publishes great expectations.

The Battle of Shiloh takes place.

- Oh, teen.

- Something sixties.

- 1860s.

- 1860s - 1860s.

- You got it, 1860s.

Deal of the Decade for 20.

Wings becomes the first movie to win a best picture Oscar.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is established.

John's Scopes goes on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee.

- Fifties?

- I feel like that's a fifties.

1950s?

- Yup, fifties.

- Okay, 1950s - Incorrect.

1920s is the right answer.

Deal of the decade for 25.

Earth Day is celebrated for the first time.

Billy Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes Tennis Match.

The Watergate break-ins occur.

- Break ins, break-ins.

- So half 25, you're not sure, just pass it.

- I mean scandal was 70, 74.

- Just pass it.

(beep, beep, beep) - What do you wanna do?

- Well, talk - Answer, skip, or talk?

- We're gonna pass.

- So you wanna pass it over them?

No, we'll skip, skip.

No, skip, skip.

You wanna skip it, okay.

The answer is the 1970s, 1970s.

Deal of the Decade for 30 to wrap up the category.

The dominion of New England is created.

Isaac Newton publishes Principia.

England's King James II is overthrown in the glorious revolution.

- Toss it.

- No, no, no hang on.

I think this is the King James no, - Yeah, we should toss it.

- Toss it.

- Yeah, we're gonna toss it to the other team.

- [Todd] We're gonna toss.

Okay, so this forces you to answer the question and I'll read it again to you.

The dominion of New England is created.

Isaac Newton publishes the Principia and England's King James second is overthrown in the glorious revolution.

- 1680s.

- 1680s.

- You nailed it, 1680s, well done.

All right, that's gonna end the category round.

Our score is NYA 160, Windham 200.

We got a great battle here and everything can change in the lightning round, so sit tight.

We'll be right back.

(upbeat music) - [Announcer] How did you do with this week's question?

It was, most of us know that Kittery is Maine's oldest town but what is Maine's newest town?

Is it Limestone, Elliot, or Schebeague Island?

The answer is Schebeague Island.

Until 2007, it was part of Cumberland but disputes over the school system led to its residents deciding to apply to the state to become their own town.

- This is a great match and we're now heading into the final 90 seconds of game play.

It's the lightning round.

Players, you do not have to wait for me to finish the question.

You can buzz in anytime.

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 the chance to answer.

The clock is set.

Good luck to both teams.

Here we go.

A fireman named Guy Montag is the main character in what novel by Ray Bradbury.

Genevieve.

- Fahrenheit 451.

- That's correct.

Of the three main types of rock, which one forms from cooled Mag, (ding) Greta window.

- Igneous.

- Igneous is correct.

In social media, til stands for today I, what?

(ding) Kaitlyn?

- Learned.

- Learned is correct.

What Lion headed Egyptian war goddess has a name that means she who is powerful?

(Buzzer) - Sekhmet What author created the goosebumps series of scary books for, (ding) Greta, Windham.

- R.L.

Stine?

- Yes.

An old proverb says that which month comes in like a lion and goes out like a, (ding) Greta, Windham.

- March.

- March, March is right.

In Astronomy, Ursa Major means the great what?

(ding) Genevieve, NYA.

- Bear.

- Bear is correct.

In what year did South Carolina secede from the Union?

(ding) Greta?

- 1863.

- 1863 is incorrect.

It's 1860.

In 2019, Gretchen Whitmer took office as governor of which Midwestern state?

(Buzzer) Michigan.

Brass and bronze are alloys of what metal with the chemical symbol CU?

(ding) Greta?

- Copper.

- Copper is correct.

What English philosopher wrote the 1859 Treatise on Liberty.

(buzzer) John Stewart Mill.

The NFL's Man of the Year Award is named for what Chicago Bears Running Back?

(alarm) Oh, that's the end of the lightning round and we had a great game, but Windham pulled it out with 280 points and they will be moving on to the quarter finals in a few weeks.

Runner up NYA with 200 points, so close.

I hope we see you again next year for another try at the championship.

Thank you guys for playing.

Congratulations to both teams.

Be sure to tune in next time for the first quarter final match.

Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on High School Quiz Show, Maine (upbeat rock music) - [Announcer] Production support for High School Quiz Show, Maine, is provided by Energy is about more than just keeping the lights on.

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