(upbeat game show music) - [Announcer 1] Welcome back to High School Bowl.

Our second game features the Republic-Michigamme Hawks taking on the Cedarville Trojans.

Now back to your host, Jim Koski.

(audience applauding) - And welcome back to the second half of tonight's show.

Who's moving onto our Cerebral 16 to face the Sioux Ste.

Marie Blue Devils?

It's one of these two teams.

Let's meet them and let's start with the Republic-Michigamme Hawks.

- Aiden Volesky, freshman.

- Creagan Gransinger, freshman.

- Sam Dyer, junior and team captain.

- Keeley Gransinger, sophomore.

- Those are the Republic-Michigamme Hawks.

Now their opponents, the Cedarville Trojans.

- Zach Izzard, Senior.

- Raine Gates, sophomore.

- Ben Davis, senior and captain.

- Lane Vagts, junior.

- Those are the Cedarville Trojans along with the Republic- Michigamme Hawks, the two teams in the second half of tonight's High School Bowl.

(audience applauding) - Now let's meet the alternates for the two teams for Republic-Michigamme, it's James Collins and Leif Grippen-Trodd, while for Cedarville, it is Isaiah Frank and the coaches for the two teams, for Republic-Michigamme, it's Mary Koski.

For Cedarville, it's Hank McClure.

Good luck coaches.

(audience applauding) Now, before we start tonight's game, we do have a question sponsor.

We would like to thank the Republic Community Services Youth Organization for sponsoring tonight's questions in hopes that their hometown Hawks do well.

So thanks to the group for that.

(audience applauding) (three descending tones) - Okay.

Seeing as how they're paid for, we might as well use them.

Here, teams is your first toss-up question.

A clef name for this word is a stylized C placed on the second highest line (buzzer) - Ah, Davis.

- Bass?

- Second highest line of the staff, a saxophone name for this word is pitched in B flat and has a range between the baritone and Alto sax.

(buzzer) - Gates - Tenor.

- Tenor, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay Trojans here is your first bonus round.

Studies of the sea floor spreading helped confirm that these enormous structures exist.

For 10 points each, name these sections of the earth's lithosphere that moves slowly over time.

- [Izzard] Tectonic plates - Yup.

Plate boundaries around the Pacific ocean form this rim of high seismic and volcanic activity.

- Ring of Fire Ring of Fire?

- Uh huh!

And plate tectonics grew out of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, which he developed after noting how the coast of South America and this other continent seemed to fit together.

- Africa - Africa.

Correct.

So 30 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Okay.

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

During a 2020 game, this team had no available quarterbacks due to COVID protocols.

After this team won Super Bowl 50 over the Panthers behind a defense led by linebacker Von Miller, quarterback, (buzzer) - Gransinger - Denver?

- Denver Broncos, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Hawks.

Here's your first bonus round for 10 points each, answer these questions about the classification of sciences.

Here's the first one.

What science is often called the central science because it connects the physical and life sciences, studies elements, compounds, and their reactions.

- Chemistry - Chemistry.

Yep.

What four letter acronym refers to a group of scientific fields that are contrasted with the humanities and social studies.

- Any idea?

Earth Science - Not earth science.

Cedarville?

- STEM.

- STEM, yep.

And Republic-Michigamme, some scientists argue the theory can only be classified as scientific if it has what property, meaning that in principle, it can be contradicted by evidence.

- Stimuli?

Stimuli?

- Not stimuli.

Cedarville?

- Testable?

- No.

How about a false-ability or refutability?

Either one would work.

So 10 points for Republic, 10 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

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

These particles are ejected from a metal surface with light shining on it in the photo electric effect.

These particles can flow within a conductor.

Two of these particles can fit (buzzer) - Vagts - Electron?

- Electron, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Trojans.

Here's your next bonus round.

The main characters of this novel are cared for by their mother, Marmee, as their father is serving as a chaplain in the civil war.

For 10 points each, name this novel whose title characters are the four March sisters, including Jo and Meg.

- Little Women?

- Are you sure?

- No.

- Well, it's a good guess 'cause it's correct.

- [Team] Nice.

- Cedarville, this author was inspired by her childhood to write Little Women.

- Anne Wells?

- No.

Republic-Michigamme?

- Hillary Clinton.

- No, not Hillary Clinton, although I'm sure she probably read the book by Louisa May Alcott.

And Cedarville, Meg ends up marrying this man who tutors the Marches neighbor, Laurie.

- Jimmy.

- Not Jimmy.

Republic-Michigamme?

- Steve.

- No, how about John Brooke?

(teams laughing) - So 10 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

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

This king who convened the Hampton Court Conference was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot planned by Guy Fawkes.

The successor of Elizabeth the First was this first Stewart king to rule England.

For 10 points.

What king sponsored a translation.

(buzzer) Dyer.

- Henry - sponsored a translation of the Bible.

(buzzer) - Vagts - Constantine - of the Bible in the early 1600's.

(buzzer) - Gransinger.

- Charles - Not Charles.

Anyone on Cedarville want to give it a shot?

(buzzer) - Davis - King James - You're guessing again, aren't you?

- Yes - You're correct.

- Oh my God!

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Trojans, here is your next bonus round for 10 points each, answer the following about anticommunist revolutions in Europe in 1989.

Here's the first one.

This structure built in 1961 was toppled in November of 1989, paving the way for the reunification of Germany.

- Berlin wall.

- The Berlin wall.

Yep.

In this country, free 1989 elections resulted in the Solidarity Party easily defeating the communists.

The following year, Lech Walesa was elected this country's president.

- Germany - Not Germany.

Republic-Michigamme?

- Russia.

- No.

How about Poland.

And Cedarville, the only violent overthrow of communism in 1989 came in this country where the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was killed after fleeing Bucharest, - Russia?

- Not Russia.

Republic-Michigamme?

- Czechoslovakia?

- No, not the old Czechoslovakia, how about Romania?

So 10 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) Here is your next toss-up question, teams.

In one book from this series, Carly Beth becomes meaner after putting on a repulsive Halloween costume.

(buzzer) - Vagts - R L Stine, Hung Mask?

- and another book, (buzzer) - Dyer - Goosebumps.

- Goosebumps, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Hawks, here's your next bonus round.

The killing of this man on May 25th, 2020 sparked worldwide protests.

(buzzer) - For 10 points each, name this African-American man who was killed after a police officer kneeled on his neck.

- George Floyd.

- George Floyd, yep.

Floyd was killed in this Midwestern city, which forms the Twin Cities with St. Paul.

- Minneapolis - Minneapolis, yup.

And protestors of Floyd's killing often recited this three word phrase, which is also part of the last words of Eric Gardner during his 2014 death at the hands of police officers in New York.

- Black lives matter.

- Not black lives matter.

- Cedarville?

- Let him breathe?

- No, it's "I can't breathe."

So 20 points for Republic-Michigamme in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

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

Molecules called nanobuds combine two allotropes of this element.

Those allotropes of this non-metal include fullerenes, which are roughly spherical.

Other allotropes of this element include graphene and graphite.

For 10 points, name this element whose atomic symbol is C. (buzzer) - Gates.

- Carbon.

- Carbon, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Trojans, here's your next bonus round.

For 10 points each, answer the following about carnivorous plants.

(team responds "oooooo") I know!

Here's the first one.

These plants native to the Carolina's snap shut when insects come in contact with their trigger hairs, they are named after a Roman goddess.

- Venus fly trap.

- Uh huh.

- Yeah.

This element is the primary nutrient that carnivorous plants need to obtain from prey, nearly all live in soils that are markedly deficient in it.

- Glucose - Not glucose.

Hawks?

- Nitrogen - Nitrogen, correct.

And Cedarville, the first notable treatise on carnivorous plants, 1875's Insectivorous Plants was written by this naturalist better known for On the Origin of Species.

- Darwin - Charles Darwin.

Yep.

So 20 points for Cedarville, 10 points for Republic- Michigamme in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) - Here's your next toss-up questions.

Along with dolomite, this rock makes up North Dakota's Bakken formation, a hotbed of fracking.

(buzzer) - Davis - Granite.

- Unlike mudstone this rock typically breaks into very flat (buzzer) - Dyer - Sandstone - into very flat small plate (buzzer) - Izzard - Basalt - very flat small plate-like pieces.

For 10 points name this most common sedentary rock, which metamorphoses into slate.

(buzzer) - Vagts.

- Ash - Not Ash.

Anyone on Republican-Michigamme want to buzz in?

(buzzer) - Gransinger.

- Limestone.

- No, how 'bout shale?

So let's move on to our next toss-up question.

That is this.

General James Wilkinson testified at this man's trial claiming that he was guilty of treason.

This man became vice-president in the election of (buzzer) - Dyer.

- Nixon.

This man became vice-president in the election of (buzzer) - Vagts - Aaron Burr?

- Aaron Burr, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay Cedarville, here's your next bonus round.

This company is the American publisher of the Harry Potter series under its imprint, Arthur A Levine books, for 10 points each, name this company that organizes book fairs and book clubs in school.

- Scholastic - Scholastic, yep.

Scholastic includes game cards with books in this series, which was written by multiple authors, Amy and Dan Cahill seek an heirloom ring in its final installment, Vespers Rising.

- 39 clues - Uh huh!

And Scholastic's mascot is this big red dog, the children's book author Norman Bridwell originally planned to call this character Tiny.

- Clifford - Of course!

It has to be Clifford, right?

So 30 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) (three descending tones) - And we have come to the end of the first half of tonight's first game.

Cedarville with a 160 to 60 lead over Republic-Michigamme, we'll be back to meet the students, find out who's moving onto our Cerebral 16, right after this.

(upbeat music) - [Announcer 1] Thank you, Jim.

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Now back to Jim for the second half of High School Bowl.

- And welcome back the second half of tonight's second game, Cedarville with a 160 to 60 lead over Republic-Michigamme, we'll be back to get into the questions in a few minutes, but let's spend a few actually meeting these students.

Let's start with Aiden Volesky of Republic-Michigamme.

Aiden, you say that if you could live in the world of any book or movie, it would be the world of the Hunger Games?

- Yeah.

- Why?

- 'Cause I've always liked being in the woods and I think it would be fun to survive, like on my own.

- How do you think you would survive on your own?

- I don't know, get food, water?

(Jim laughing) - Well, I tell you what, in one way, I hope you get the chance, and in another way, I you never get the chance, if you know what I mean.

Creagan Gransinger, you are a freshman.

You say one of the things that kind of defines you is basketball, right?

- Yeah.

- Why do you like it so much?

- 'Cause it just like, kind of, it's just fun and like you need skill to play it.

- And what position do you play?

- I usually play shooting guard.

- Oh, okay.

Is that something that you hope to get into more as you go through high school and maybe even college?

- Yeah.

Maybe.

- Okay.

Well, good luck with that.

Who knows?

Maybe someday you'll end up like a Steph Curry or something like that.

- [Gransinger] Yeah.

- And we'll keep our fingers crossed for you there.

Sam Dyer.

You are a junior and a team captain.

And unlike Aiden, you have a very different world in which you would like to live.

You want to live in the world of Seinfeld.

- I do.

Yeah.

(audience laughing) - I mean, Hey, it's the best show around and I don't, who wouldn't want to live next to Cosmo Kramer?

(Jim laughing) - Do you see yourself in any of the characters in that show or would you be a totally unique character?

- I kind of see myself in Elaine's boyfriend (audience laughing) - I guess.

Yeah.

- Oh, okay.

Okay.

(audience laughing) - Well, Sam, I hope someday you get the chance to live in the world of Seinfeld, live out all your dreams, yada yada yada.

(audience laughing) - And finally, Keeley Gransinger, you are a sophomore, and you say that you actually have an interesting hero to someone to whom you are looking up these days.

And that's your best friend.

Why don't you tell me about her?

- She's funny.

She's kind and she's always thinking of other people before anybody else.

So.

- And that's what you like about her.

- Yeah - And so then how, if she is kind and always thinking about other people are the two of you similar or did the two of you work off each other in different ways?

- We kind of just build off each other.

It's never a dull moment.

- But that's what you wanted a best friend, right?

Okay.

Those are the Republic-Michigamme Hawks.

Now let's go down to the Cedarville Trojans.

Zach Izzard, you have something that I think would be great.

The one thing that you would want to do to make the world a better place would be to have price tags include sales tax on them.

- This is true.

- I take it that that's a sore point with you, huh?

- It is, it's rather annoying because I have to calculate the tax in my head before I know if I can actually buy something that's 4.99 or not.

- So are you just opposed to the math part of it or just the fact that they don't do it?

- Both.

- Okay.

Well, I tell you what, you know what you should go to the European Union because they actually have tax included on the price.

So when you see something for 4.99, it actually costs 4.99.

- I'll book the ticket!

- Okay.

Raine Gates, you are a sophomore and I find this real nice.

Your hero is your dad, tell me why.

- He's always been there for me through thick and thin.

I could always rely on him.

- Okay.

And actually, technically there were times when he was not there for you too, right.

- Yup.

- And you want to tell us how that is actually inspiring you to perhaps join the Army?

- My dad was deployed in the Army since I was a little kid, but recently he was given the option, Army or family.

He chose family.

Granted, I still don't see him as much, but I want to know what his life was like, so I have a basic understanding of what I want mine to be like.

- Oh, that is cool.

So he's basically the best role model that you could find.

- Yes - And that, I think that is so cool.

So well, good luck in pursuing what your dad pursued.

- [Gates] Thank you - Ben Davis, you are a senior and a team captain.

And unlike Zach, you have a little more lofty goal for changing the world in that you want world peace, which is real easy right?

- Yeah - Right?

What's your first step toward that?

- Well, that's a big question isn't it?

(Jim laughing) - I don't know.

I guess the first and foremost thing you'd try and do is try and end the wars and then you can figure out internal stuff in countries, you know.

- Okay.

Do you think that that'll ever happen?

- If I'm being honest?

Probably not.

- Yeah.

It's like I said, it's a lofty goal.

It may take centuries, perhaps even millennia, but maybe someday we can do it and maybe you can start the work on it.

So that's your goal.

Okay?

Okay.

Finally, Blaine Vagts, you are a junior and you say that if you can live in the world of any book or a movie, it would be the world of SpongeBob The Movie.

- Yeah (audience laughing) - Well, I think in a lot of the fictional universes, I would end up dead because I don't have any particularly good survival skills.

And in those universes I would still be me.

So not the main character.

- Okay.

And why did you pick SpongeBob The Movie as opposed to say SpongeBob, the TV show?

- Because I love the idea that all the sea creatures know David Hasselhoff.

(audience laughing) - Which makes me wonder, were all those sea creatures born in Germany?

- I don't know.

There's a good chance though.

- Okay.

Well, good luck.

I hope you get to do that someday, Blaine.

Those are the Cedarville Trojans, along with the Republic- Michigamme Hawks, the two teams in the second half of tonight's High school Bowl.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

One of you has to go onto our Cerebral 16 and let's find out who with this next toss-up question, a plan for this process code-named operation Yellow Hammer would have been implemented in the case of a no deal version of this process.

This process resulted from a 2016 referendum with remain and leave options, for 10 points name this.

(buzzer) - Davis - Brexit - Brexit, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) Okay Cedarville, here is your next toss-up question.

Answer the following about world leaders who gave very long speeches.

Here's the first one, this leader's 2014 speech justifying a military presence in Crimea lasted almost an hour.

A year earlier, he notoriously gave a five hour long press conference.

- Martin Luther King.

- Say that again?

- Martin Luther King - Nope, Republic-Michigamme?

- Obama?

- No.

How about Vladimir Putin?

Cedarville, in 2019, Donald Trump gave a two plus hour speech at this annual right wing conference.

- RNC?

- Not the RNC.

Republic-Michigamme?

- Macy's parade (all laughing) - Although they probably would have lasted longer than the parade itself.

Nope.

How about CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee.

And Cedarville, this country's former leader, Fidel Castro was known for regularly making hours-long speeches.

- Cuba - Cuba, yup, so 10 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

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

This country borders the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta, most of the disputed Western Sahara is administered by this country, which lies at the south end of the Strait of Gibraltar.

For 10 points name this North African country whose cities include Rabat and Casablanca.

(buzzer) - Izzard - Morocco?

- Morocco, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay Trojans, here's your next bonus round.

Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt when she looks back on this city.

For 10 points each, name this wicked city which is destroyed along with Gomorrah in the Bible.

- Sodom - Sodom.

Yup.

Sodom and Gomorrah is the title of the fourth volume of this author's series In Search of Lost Time.

Also called Remembrance of Things Past.

- Edgar Allen Poe.

- Not Poe, Republic-Michigamme?

- Whitman - Not Walt Whitman either, wow about Marcel Proust?

And Cedarville, Operation Gomorrah was the code name of the 1943 bombing that destroyed much of this second-most populous German city, after which a ubiquitous American food item is named.

- Hamburg - Hamburg, correct.

So 20 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

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

David Farragut sailed his fleet up this river past Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip.

The Anaconda Plan called for an amphibious assault down (buzzer) - Dyer - Nile - Down this river to split the Confederacy into two, a goal accomplished (buzzer) - Vagts - Mississippi.

- Mississippi River, correct for those 10 points.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Trojans.

Here's your next bonus round.

This denomination was founded by Charles Taze Russell in the 1870s.

For 10 points each, name this Christian denomination whose members refuse blood transfusions and military service.

It's noted for it's vigorous door to door evangelism.

- Jehovah's Witness.

- Uh huh.

The Jehovah's Witnesses were founded in this state.

Mormonism was also founded in this state by Joseph Smith in the 1820s.

- Utah?

- Not Utah.

Republic?

- Idaho.

- No, how about New York.

And Cedarville, in the 1943 Barnett Supreme Court case, it was ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses' children could not be compelled to perform this daily statement in schools.

- Pledge of allegiance.

- Correct.

So 20 points for Cedarville in that bonus round.

(audience applauding) - Okay.

Here's your next toss-up question.

A book by this writer recommends that monarchs completely destroy newly republic, newly conquered republics, Lorenzo de Medici was the dedicatee of a book of political philosophy by this man, which claims that it's better to be feared than loved.

(three descending tones) - Davis you buzzed in first, so go ahead.

- Karl Marx.

- Naw, it was actually Machiavelli.

So we have come to the end of the second half of tonight's second game, Cedarville is moving onto our Cerebral 16 defeating Republic-Michigamme by a score of 240 to 60.

(audience applauding) - Well, first of all, Hawks, thanks for giving it the old Western Marquette county try.

The great thing is Aiden, Creagan, Sam and Keely, you're all underclassmen, so we'll get the pleasure of seeing you again next season, so we do look forward to that.

Now, Cedarville, I have some good news and I have some bad news for you.

The bad news is you're going to have to wake up really early again.

I know it's so hard, isn't it?

But the good news is, it's because you're now in our Cerebral 16.

And we actually, for the first time in a long time, get to have an Eastern UP death match, as you're going up against the Sioux Ste.

Marie Blue Devils, so that should be an awful lot of fun.

Now, before we end tonight's show, we do want to thank our question sponsor for this game, the Republic Community Services Youth Organization, they sponsored the questions in the hopes that their Republic, hometown Republic-Michigamme Hawks would do well.

Mojo didn't quite work, but we do thank them for the sponsorship, nonetheless.

(audience applauding) - We would like to thank our timer, scorekeeper, judge, and all around good egg Dakota VanLinden for her fine work.

(audience applauding) Make sure you join us next week as Superior Central takes on Bark River-Harris and Gwinn goes up against Bessemer.

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And remember someone much, much, oh, oh, oh oh oh oh, so much wiser than I once said, "nothing you learn is ever wasted."

I'm Jim Koski, we will see you again next time for High School Bowl.

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