>> BILLY COSTA: Coming up on High School Quiz Show, it's Melrose High School... (fanfare) (cheers and applause) ...taking on Mansfield High School.

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(cheers and applause) >> COSTA: Hi, everybody, and welcome to High School Quiz Show.

I'm Billy Costa, your host.

And in last week's match between Andover and South High of Worcester, Andover defeated South High, and moves on to the quarterfinal.

In today's match, we welcome Mansfield High School and Melrose High School.

And on the Mansfield team we have: Dhruv, Vishal, Aleks, and Rishi, with mascot Sting and alternates Yuv and Danielle as well as coach Ken Barrett.

(cheers and applause) And competing for Melrose High School we've got: Lexie, Sammy, Spencer, and Nora, and coaches Josh Cristiano and Tom Scudder, everybody.

(cheers and applause) The competition has four rounds: a toss-up, a head-to-head round, a category round, and of course, the lightning round.

And we start with the toss-up round.

All answers are worth ten points.

There are no point deductions for wrong answers.

And players may confer.

So teams, if you're ready, good luck and here we go.

While taking a quick break from filming 2016's Doctor Strange, what actor in the title role walked into a comic book store, in full costume, and bought an actual Doctor Strange comic?

Yes, Lexie.

>> Benedict Cumberbatch.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 1905 who produced four groundbreaking papers, including the quantum theory of light and the theory of special relativity?

Yes, Vishal.

>> Einstein.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking how many years on the throne?

Yes, Sammy.

>> 75.

>> COSTA: No, Mansfield, you want to try?

Yes, Dhruv?

>> 50?

>> COSTA: No, 70 is the answer.

What former first lady is the author of American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Eleanor Roosevelt.

>> COSTA: No, you want to try, Melrose?

>> Lady Bird Ford?

>> COSTA: No, Michelle Obama.

Take a look at your screens and this picture.

Here is the famous Rocky statue at the bottom of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

It depicts what actor who starred in eight Rocky films?

Yes, Rishi.

>> Sylvester Stallone.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Iago compares jealousy to a "green-eyed monster" in what Shakespeare play?

Yes, Lexie.

>> The Tempest.

>> COSTA: No, Mansfield, you want to try?

Aleks?

>> Othello.

>> COSTA: Othello is correct.

Adam Kinzinger was one of two Republicans to serve on the January 6th House select committee.

He served as a representative from what U.S. state?

Yes, Aleks.

>> Illinois.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What sea creatures are also known as medusa, after the tentacled head of Medusa in Greek mythology?

Yes, Spencer.

>> Jellyfish.

>> COSTA: Jellyfish is right.

According to a 2020 Pew Research poll, just 3% of U.S. adults who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino use what new, gender-neutral label to describe themselves?

Yes, Sammy.

>> Latinx.

>> COSTA: Latinx is correct.

Take a look at your screens.

A very special guest with your next question.

>> Hi, I'm Mayor Michelle Wu, and here's my question.

What stretch of sand in Greater Boston was established in 1896 as America's first public beach?

Was it Carson Beach, Constitution Beach, or Revere Beach?

>> COSTA: And Vishal.

>> Revere Beach.

>> COSTA: Revere Beach is correct.

We move on.

What famous city of antiquity was the capital of southern Mesopotamia during the reign of Hammurabi?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Babylon.

>> COSTA: Babylon is correct.

A literary star whose memoir Crying in H Mart spent more than a year on the bestseller list, Michelle Zauner is also the frontwoman for what Grammy-nominated alternative pop band?

Rishi.

>> Uh...

Odd Future?

>> COSTA: No, Melrose, you want to try it?

(whispering indistinctly) (buzzer) >> COSTA: Japanese Breakfast is the answer.

The 19th Amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote.

It was ratified in August of what year?

Yes, Vishal.

>> Uh... sorry.

>> COSTA: Okay, Melrose, you want to try?

Yes, Spencer.

>> 1923?

>> COSTA: No, 1920.

In 2022 what European country debuted the world's first hydrogen-powered passenger trains, built as a "zero-emission" mode of transport?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Germany.

>> COSTA: Germany is correct.

Which of the following is a synonym for burgeoning?

Is it growing, sinking, or fleeting?

Yes, Lexie.

>> Growing.

>> COSTA: Growing is correct.

Meaning "truth" in Russian, what Soviet newspaper largely controlled by the government kept up a steady stream of pro-Soviet, anti-American messaging during the Cold War?

Yes, Spencer.

>> Pravda.

>> COSTA: Pravda is right.

Based on the book The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, what film stars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley as companions on a strange planet where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone?

Yes, Sammy.

>> Infinity War.

(laughs) >> COSTA: No, Mansfield, you want to try?

(buzzer) Chaos Walking is the answer.

Taxonomy uses binomial nomenclature, or two-term naming.

In Homo sapiens, for example, Homo is the genus and sapiens is the what?

Yes, Spencer.

>> Species.

>> COSTA: Species is right.

One of the greatest tight ends in NFL history, who retired for a second time in 2022 after 11 seasons with the Buccaneers and the Patriots and four Super Bowl titles?

Yes, Aleks.

>> Gronkowski.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Mushrooms getting cooked in a frying pan is an example of which of the following types of heat transfer?

Conduction, convection, or radiation?

Yes, Vishal.

>> Conduction.

>> COSTA: Conduction is right.

Based on the comic book by Neil Gaiman, what new Netflix series stars Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams?

Yes, Spencer.

>> The Sandman.

>> COSTA: Yes.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, what country won its first gold medal in women's soccer, after a stunning upset victory in the semifinal against the United States?

Yes, Sammy.

>> France.

>> COSTA: No, you want to try, Mansfield?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Netherlands?

>> COSTA: No, Canada is the answer.

Millions of students across the country went on strike after the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of anti-war demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine, at what university on May 4, 1970?

Yes, Aleks.

>> Kent State.

>> COSTA: Kent State is correct.

What term beginning with the letter A refers to the distance from a sound wave's baseline to its highest or lowest point?

Yes, Spencer.

>> Amplitude.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In classical mythology, what king sacrificed his daughter in order to obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet sailing for Troy?

Is it Aeneas, Agamemnon, or Hector?

Yes, Spencer.

Agamemnon.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Emperor Hadrian--- (bell ringing) Oh, and there's the bell that ends the toss-up round.

The score right now-- Mansfield High School, 100 points; Melrose High School, 90 points.

We've got ourselves a match here, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, the head-to-head round is next.

First, we're gonna take a few minutes to get to know the players, the contestants, a little bit better.

And we do it with a question.

I've got it right here in my hand.

Each of you will have a shot to answer it.

We'll start with Mansfield High School, and you, Dhruv.

And here is the question: what major public event-- existing or not-- would you most like to produce and host, and why, Dhruv?

>> Well, Billy, I would have to say the Geography Bee because I love geography and I was a part of it in middle school.

>> COSTA: Okay, that makes sense.

Okay, Vishal, you?

>> Well, recently, I loved watching the World Cup, so I'd love to host the World Cup in my backyard, but cause it's smaller, I'd do 3V3 soccer.

>> COSTA (chuckling): Okay.

Aleks, how about you?

>> I was kind of thinking the Olympics, but with a twist, like some bizarre games.

Like the main two I came up with was blindfolded curling and track relay.

But instead of passing out a baton, they pass off like a bowling ball or something ridiculous like that.

>> COSTA: All right.

I like that, Aleks.

Rishi, how about you?

>> I would host the Super Sunday event that we all took to qualify here.

And I would like stand over people and be like, "Read the directions carefully," and just not elaborate and leave.

>> COSTA: All right, let's go to Melrose High School.

Lexie, how about you?

>> Electoral arm wrestling.

>> COSTA: Wow!

Okay!

And Sammy.

>> I just think it'd be really cool to try to like host and actually produce the game for the robotics competition that I take part in, FRC.

>> COSTA: Oh good.

All right, very nice.

Spencer?

>> Dentist races.

>> COSTA: The dentist races.

>> Yeah.

Yeah, like we make some dentists run.

(laughter) >> COSTA: Nora, how about you?

>> Mine would be a reality TV show called Keeping Up With the Royal Tudors.

>> COSTA: Nice one.

I noticed nobody said High School Quiz Show.

I'm just saying.

(laughter) Okay, it's time now to go head-to-head, which means all of you are coming forward, and you're all going head-to-head, so let's do that right now, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, teams, in this round correct answers add ten points to the team total.

And there is a ten-point deduction for incorrect answers.

If a player doesn't answer, there is no impact on the score.

So the clock is set at 90 seconds.

Good luck and here we go.

On July 4, 1997, the NASA rovers Pathfinder and Sojourner touched down on what planet?

Yes.

>> Mars.

>> COSTA: Mars, right.

What state is home to the U.S.

Naval Academy of Annapolis?

Yes.

>> Maryland.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2022 what Boston sports team hired Jim Montgomery as its... yes.

>> Bruins.

>> COSTA: Yes, Boston Bruins.

Atomic number 88 refers to what chemical element discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie?

Yes.

>> Radium.

>> COSTA: Radium is right.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, what is the name of Scout's older brother?

>> Jem.

>> COSTA: Jem is correct.

What country has a capital city of Kathmandu?

Yes.

>> Nepal.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2022 Billie Eilish won an Oscar for Best Original Song, for what James Bond... yes?

>> No Time to Die.

>> COSTA: Yes.

The city of Chicago lies on the shores of what lake?

(buzzer) Lake Michigan.

Name the kind of cell division in which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half.

Yes.

>> Miosis.

>> COSTA: Yes.

After four years of Nazi occupation during World War II, Paris was liberated-- yes?

>> The U.S.A. >> COSTA: No, 1944 was the answer.

Ben Franklin and George Washington were members of what fraternal secret-- yes?

>> Freemasons.

>> COSTA: Yes, the Masons.

Linen is one of the oldest textile fibers used by humans.

It's made from what plant?

(buzzer) Flax.

Commonly used for theatrical effects to generate mist or fog, dry ice is the solid form of what gas?

>> Carbon dioxide.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 1963, what poet-- (bell ringing) Oh, and there's the buzzer that ends the round.

Let's take a look at the score-- Mansfield High School, 170 points; Melrose High School, 110 points.

Go ahead, give them a nice round of applause.

(cheers and applause) Okay, next up is the category round with the following categories: Snark Week, To Bee or Not to Bee, Island Hopping, Strike Zone, Who's the Boss?, and I'm Just a Bill.

All categories have five questions with increasing point value.

Teams will each choose two five-question categories, and will have the option to toss one question per category to the other team.

Players, yes, are able to confer.

And, Mansfield, who's your spokesperson gonna be?

Aleks.

Okay.

How about you, Melrose High School?

Okay, Sammy.

Now Melrose, you have a little ground to make up, no big deal.

But you get to choose the first category, and what will it be?

>> (whispering): To Bee or Not to Bee.

>> All right, let's go for To Bee or Not to Bee.

>> COSTA: To Bee or Not to Bee.

Questions about insects.

And for ten points: all insects have three body segments.

What segment lies between the head and abdomen?

>> Thorax.

>> Thorax.

Yeah.

>> That's the thorax.

>> COSTA: And that would be correct.

Now for 15 points: widely marketed as a dietary supplement, what nutrient-rich, gelatinous substance is produced by honeybees to feed the queen bee and her young?

>> (whispering): Royal jelly.

>> Is that royal jelly?

>> COSTA: Royal jelly is correct.

Now for 20 points: what North American insects are associated with prime numbers, emerging from their underground habitats every 13 or 17 years?

>> (whispering): Cicadas.

>> That's cicadas.

>> COSTA: Cicadas is right.

Now 25 points: the first insects appeared about 500 to 200 million years ago, during what geologic era that means "ancient life"?

(whispering indistinctly) >> (whispering): Toss?

>> COSTA: Need an answer.

>> (whispering): Can we pass?

>> Let's pass.

>> COSTA: The answer is Paleozoic.

And now for 30 points: insects don't breathe through their mouths as we do, and they don't have lungs.

Instead, they take in air through what tiny holes on the abdomen?

>> (whispering): I don't know.

>> (whispering): You can toss it.

>> (whispering): We might not be able to toss it.

>> (whispering): Don't toss it.

>> COSTA: And we need an answer, Sammy.

>> Let's pass.

>> COSTA: You're gonna pass?

Spiracles is the answer there.

And now we move over to Mansfield High School.

You'll need a category.

What's it gonna be?

>> You guys want to do Island Hopping?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, we'll do that.

>> We're gonna do Island Hopping.

>> COSTA: Island Hopping.

These are gonna be questions about islands.

And for ten points: more than three times the size of Texas, what island in the North Atlantic is the largest island in the world?

>> Greenland.

>> Okay.

Yeah.

>> Our answer is Greenland.

>> COSTA: Greenland is correct.

Now 15 points: pop singer Rihanna is from what Caribbean island that left the Commonwealth and removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state in 2021?

>> (whispering): St. Lucia?

Do we think St. Lucia?

(whispering indistinctly) Do you have an idea?

>> No.

>> I think it's St. Lucia.

>> COSTA: Answer, please.

>> I'm gonna go St. Lucia.

>> COSTA: No, Barbados is the answer.

Now for 20 points: lemurs are native to what large island off the southeastern coast of Africa?

>> Our answer is Madagascar.

>> COSTA: Madagascar is correct.

Now 25 points: Sakhalin is Russia's largest island.

It's located just 25 miles from the tip of what northernmost island of Japan?

>> (whispering): Hokkaido.

>> Hokkaido?

Our answer is Hokkaido.

>> COSTA: Hokkaido is right.

Now 30 points: in an act the United Nations called a flagrant violation of international law, in 1983 the United States invaded what Caribbean island allied to Cuba and the Soviet Union?

>> (whispering): Grenada.

>> (whispering): Grenada.

>> Our answer is Grenada.

>> COSTA: "Greh-nah-duh" or "Greh-nay-duh" and that is correct.

And now, Melrose High, you'll need a category.

What's it gonna be?

>> What are we thinkin'?

>> Snark Week.

(whispering indistinctly) >> Snark Week.

>> COSTA: Snark Week.

Questions about farce and satire.

And for ten points: "Tomorrow Is a Latter Day" and "All American Prophet" are songs from what Tony-winning farce written by the creators of South Park?

>> The Book of Mormon.

>> The Book of Mormon.

>> Book of Mormon.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Now for 15 points: former Massachusetts State Senator Eric Lesser once worked as a consultant on what HBO political satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus?

>> Veep.

>> Veep.

>> Veep.

>> COSTA: Veep is correct.

Now for 20 points: "To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."

Oscar Wilde wrote this in what famous satire of Victorian society?

>> (whispering): The Importance of Being Earnest maybe.

>> (whispering): Go for it.

>> COSTA: We'll need an answer, Sammy.

>> Um... we're gonna pass.

>> COSTA: You're gonna pass.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the answer.

>> (whispering): That's fine.

>> COSTA: Now for 25 points: thought to be Shakespeare's earliest comedy, what slapstick farce is about the mistaken identities of two different sets of identical brothers, one set named Dromio and the other Antipholus?

>> (whispering): Timon of Athens I think.

>> (whispering): Sure?

>> Just go with it.

>> Timon of Athens.

>> COSTA: No, The Comedy of Errors is the answer.

For 30 points: what 17th-century French dramatist wrote Tartuffe, a satire about religious hypocrisy that was so controversial it was banned in Paris for five years?

>> (whispering): Voltaire, maybe?

Yeah, let's go... >> Voltaire.

>> COSTA: Molière is the answer.

And now we go back to Mansfield High School.

You'll need a category.

What's it gonna be?

>> We're gonna do Who's the Boss?

>> COSTA: Who's the Boss?

Questions about world leaders.

For ten points: in February 2022, what Canadian prime minister invoked rarely used emergency powers to disperse anti-government protesters in Ottawa and at border crossings?

>> We're gonna go with Trudeau.

>> COSTA: Need a first name.

>> Justin.

>> COSTA: Justin Trudeau is correct.

For 15 points: after Russian forces invaded his country in 2022, what Ukrainian president turned down an offer to evacuate, telling a U.S. official, "I need ammunition, not a ride."

>> Our answer is Volodymyr Zelensky.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

And now for 20 points: widely praised for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic, in January 2023 what prime minister of New Zealand made the surprise announcement that she was resigning from office?

>> Our answer is Jacinda Ardern.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

For 25 points: after more than a year of mass protests, in November 2021 what Indian prime minister said he would cancel three controversial farm laws?

(whispering indistinctly) >> (whispering): Narendra?

(whispering indistinctly) >> COSTA: Answer please, Aleks.

>> Our answer is Modi.

>> COSTA: Narendra Modi is the answer.

Now for 30 points: in April 2022, what authoritarian leader and staunch Putin loyalist won a fourth term as the prime minister of Hungary?

(whispering indistinctly) >> Our answer is Viktor Orbán.

>> COSTA: Yes, Viktor Orbán is the answer.

And-- (bell ringing) Oh, that's the end of the category round.

The score right now-- Mansfield High School, 340 points; Melrose High School, 125 points.

So let's hear it for both teams, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, we are heading into the final round of play, it is the lightning round.

Correct answers add 20 points to the team total.

And there is a 20-point deduction for incorrect answers.

If a player doesn't answer, there is no impact on the score.

So the clock is set.

Good luck, teams, and here we go.

Marble is an example of which of the three major rock-- yes, Sammy?

>> Metamorphic.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Brunei is a small equatorial country located on the northern coast of what island... yes, Dhruv?

>> Borneo.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What Scottish actor has two Emmy nominations for his lead role as media mogul Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession?

(buzzer) Brian Cox.

In 2022, Finland and Sweden were officially invited to join-- yes?

>> NATO.

>> COSTA: No, Turkey is the answer.

The Greek letter tau stands for what quantity in physics, an application of force-- yes, Sammy?

>> Torque.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2021 what investigative journalist and co-founder of the news site Rappler became the first Filipino recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize?

(buzzer) Maria Ressa.

In 1860, to rally public support for the Union against secession and slavery, who wrote the poem "Paul Revere's Ride"?

(buzzer) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

After Asia, what is the second-largest continent in land area?

Sammy.

>> Africa.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 1987 who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Fences?

Yes, Aleks.

>> August Wilson.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What does the P stand for in a corporate accounting statement called P and L?

Yes, Spencer.

>> Payment and loans?

>> COSTA: No, profit.

(bell ringing) And that's the bell.

And the winning team this week is Mansfield High School with a final score of 380 points.

And Melrose High finishes with a total of 145 points.

Congratulations to both teams, everybody, great job, teams.

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