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This time our second season 20 semi-final.

It's between Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart and Roscommon coming up next - [Narrator] Support for "Quiz Central" is provided by the CMU bookstore.

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(upbeat music begins) - Hello again everyone, I'm David Nicholas, and it's semi-final time again here on "Quiz Central."

This time students from Mt.

Pleasant Sacred Heart are taking on the team from Roscommon in our 16 team single elimination tournament.

At the end of the season, four lucky "Quiz Central" seniors will receive a book scholarship provided by the CMU bookstore.

Plus top teams from "Quiz Central" will qualify for the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament.

A little point to clarify here, Roscommon had been eliminated earlier in our tournament by Sandusky, but a band trip to Florida prevented the Sandusky team from continuing to compete.

We do look forward to seeing the Sandusky Wolves maybe in a future season of "Quiz Central."

We welcome in Roscommon.

Thank you for taking the opportunity to join us again.

Our first round is the maroon and gold rush.

Teams will have two minutes to answer as many toss-up questions as they can.

If a team answers incorrectly, the opposing school has the opportunity to answer the question.

Teams may not consult during this round.

Throughout our game, correct answers are worth 10 points a piece, and there is no deduction for incorrect answers.

All ready, players on both teams gets set.

Here comes your first question.

What Monarch, who introduced the table of ranks to incentivize civil service by voyeurs, was an early 18th century czar who modernized Russia?

- Nicholas.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Mt.

Pleasant Sacred Heart with the guess.

And we'll go on to the next question - Sorry.

- [David] What sticky black viscous form of petroleum is used in servicing roads?

- Tar.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Servicing roads and parking lots to make them waterproof?

Go on to the next question.

What quantity, one form of which is normality, is denoted by square brackets and is often expressed as moles of solute per liter solution?

And we'll go on to our next question.

What story, whose narrator imagines a person crawling behind the title decoration before she goes insane, was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?

And next question, what author wrote about Septus Smith's death by suicide in a novel that describes Clarissa's preparations to host a party titled "Mrs.

Dalloway?"

And we'll move on to the next.

Inari is an example of what spiritual beings or deities who are worshiped at Jinja temples in the Shinto religion?

- Kami.

- [David] That is correct.

What agreement, which promises the creation of a civil body politic, was signed aboard a ship in 1620 by the founders?

- The Mayflower Compact?

- [David] That is correct.

And the bell signals the end of our first round.

We've got a tie game, 10-10 as we go back over some of these that were missed.

The monarch we were looking for was Peter the Great and we did have the answer tar, but that wasn't what we were looking for.

It's asphalt or concrete.

Pavement would've also worked.

Also the quantity, oh, that one we did get.

No, what quantity, one form of which is normality, we were looking for concentration.

And the story whose narrator imagines a person crawling, the book was "The Yellow Wallpaper."

The author of "Mrs. Dalloway" was Virginia Wolf.

Now before we get to our next round, let's learn a little bit more about our students competing today.

First, we welcome in the students from Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart.

- Hello, my name is Owen Middleton.

I'm a junior at Sacred Heart Academy and I participate in varsity quiz bowl and I love sports.

My name is Noah Dubritch.

I am a sophomore and I go to Sacred Heart Academy and I love to do cross country and track.

- I'm Aiden Baker, I'm a senior at Sacred Heart Academy, and I love to participate in Quiz Bowl, National Honor Society and I love sports.

- Hi, my name is Ishwarya Shanker, I'm a senior and I go to Sacred Heart Academy and I like quiz bowl and golf.

- Thank you Sacred Heart.

Great to have you here.

Now let's meet your opponents today, the team from Roscommon.

- My name is Faith McNeil, I'm a junior at Roscommon High School, and I participate in cheerleading and musical.

- My name is Tristan Estep, I'm a senior at Roscommon High School and I participate in quiz bowl and band.

- My name is Jacob Zubella, I'm a senior at Roscommon High School, and I like sports.

- My name is Eva Goldman.

I'm a junior at Roscommon High School and I'm in student council and I like to tutor kids in need.

- Great to have you all here, and again, Roscommon, thank you for the flexibility and being able to rejoin us here on "Quiz Central."

Now the next round is the kickoff round.

The kickoff round includes a combination of toss-up and bonus questions.

The team that correctly answers the toss-up will get the opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

Missed toss ups can be stolen, but there is no consulting on these questions.

A correct answer on the toss-up allows for a single follow up bonus question.

No stealing on the bonuses, however teams can confer and we'll take those answers from the captain.

After a bonus question, we'll go back to a toss up for both teams.

Players ready, buzzers set.

Here comes your first question.

What politician who served as James Monroe's Secretary of War, was a South Carolina senator who defended the principle of nullification?

And we're looking for John Calhoun.

In January, 2024, what team hired its former first round draft pick, Jerod Mayo as head coach, replacing.

- JJ Reddick.

- [David] That is incorrect, I'll finish the question.

Replacing six time Super Bowl winner, Bill Belichick?

- The Patriots?

- [David] That is correct.

That is the team we are looking for.

Jerod Mayo hired for them.

Your bonus question in art, what term, from the Italian for my lady, signifies a depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus?

- Oh Madonna.

- [David] Answer?

- Madonna.

- [David] That is correct on the bonus.

Back to a toss up for both teams, what financial products were the subject of 2023's Save plan are offered by Navient and Sally Mae and are debts taken out?

- Student loans?

- [David] That is correct.

And your bonus, what substance which is secreted in part by the parotid gland, and is alpha amylase to hydrolyze sugars is a watery secretion found in the mouth?

- Saliva?

We don't buzz, saliva.

- [David] That is correct.

- It's a bonus.

- [David] That was a bonus question, no biggie.

Now back to the toss up for both.

What character whose parrot repeats the words, "Pieces of Eight," leads a hunt for Captain Flint's plunder and is a pirate in "Treasure Island" - Black beard?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Sacred Heart?

Long John Silver is what we were looking for.

Toss up for both.

What God who is trapped under a golden net while having an affair with Aphrodite was the father of Deimos and Phobos and was a Greek God of war.

- Mars.

- [David] That is incorrect, Sacred Heart.

- That's so unfortunate.

- Aries.

- [David] Aries is correct.

And the bonus question, in what 1890 event did US soldiers, trying to suppress the ghost dance movement, kill hundreds of Lakota civilians on the Pine Ridge reservation?

Answer?

- No answer.

- [David] Looking for the Massacre at Wounded Knee or the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Toss up for both teams.

What villain who competes with Valere for Maryanne's hand after ingratiating himself to Oregon is the title Charlatan of a 1664 comedy by Moliere?

- "Candida?"

- That is incorrect, Sacred Heart?

That villain was Tartuffe.

What class of organic compounds, formed when carbolic acid reacts with alcohol, are known for their fruity aromas, such as the odor of bananas?

- Ethers?

- [David] Once again please - Ethers?

- [David] That is correct.

And the bonus question, what former country, isolated rather by the Stein Doctrine, operated the Stasi and it was led by Erich Honecker before reuniting with a western counterpart?

- Germany?

- [Faith] I believe so, yes.

- Germany.

- [David] More specific?

- Eastern Germany.

- [David] East Germany is correct, yes.

And the toss up for both, what 2023 movie in which, excuse me, Coriolanus Snow mentors a tribute.

- "Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes."

- [David] That is correct.

And the bonus question, what objects, which include the Japanese obi, used in martial arts, are clothing accessories often made of a strip of leather and worn at the waist?

- [Eva] Belt.

- Belt.

- [David] That is correct.

Toss up for both teams.

What Medieval Norse warriors, named for their tendency to wear bearskins into battle, fought in an intense.

- Bjorn.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Sacred Heart to steal.

We'll finish that question.

The tendency to wear bearskins into battle, fought in an intense, possibly drug induced rage.

- Vikings.

- [David] That is incorrect.

You're looking for Berserks.

Toss up for both, and the bell signals the end of that round.

Roscommon, you are in front 90 to 20 as we get set for the Perfect 10.

And in the Perfect 10 you'll have 60 seconds to answer questions from a choice of clues to three categories.

The opposing team will have 30 seconds to answer any unasked, incorrect, or skipped questions.

You can consult throughout this entire round.

We'll take the answers from the captain.

The team that's trailing will get the first choice to pick a clue to a category.

All right teams, your Perfect 10 clues for today are the first 13, GOATs, and first, last, it's all the same.

Sacred Heart, you're currently trailing in our game.

You get your first choice from those three clues.

- We'll take first, last, and all the same, please.

- [David] Identical initials.

Identify these people known by names with the same first and last initial, only the last names are required.

60 seconds on the clock for your Perfect 10 that begins with this, Spanish painter of "Guernica."

- [Ishwarya] Oh, Picasso, maybe I don't know.

- [Owen] Just guess Picasso.

- Picasso.

- [David] That is correct.

US President in World War I.

- Guess?

- Truman.

- Truman.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Dictator of Spain after World War II.

- [Ishwarya] Guess something or skip.

- No answer.

- [David] Outlaw killed by Robert Ford.

- No answer.

- [David] Protagonist of a tongue twister about pickled peppers.

- Peter?

- Peter.

- [David] More specific please.

- Peter Piper.

- [David] Peter Piper is correct.

(bell chimes) Bell signals the end of that round.

Roscommon, you'll have 30 seconds to pick up on a couple of these, and perhaps move on to finish off the category.

We'll put 30 seconds on the clock for you as we begin first with this.

US president in World War I.

- Hoover.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Dictator of Spain after World War II.

- Pass - [David] Outlaw killed by Robert Ford.

- Jesse James.

- [David] That is correct.

Actress who starred in "Some Like it Hot" and "The Seven Year Itch."

- [Faith] Marilyn Monroe.

- Marilyn Monroe.

- [David] That is correct.

Photographer of "Monolith" and other works about Yosemite National Park.

- Oh crap I forgot, nevermind.

- Pass.

(bell chimes) - [David] And that signals the end there.

That photographer we were looking for was Ansel Adams.

The US president in World War I was Woodrow Wilson, and the dictator of Spain after World War II, Francisco Franco.

All right, we will go to you, Roscommon, for your Perfect 10.

You have a choice of the first 13 or GOATs.

- GOATs is probably something with sports.

- [Tristan] Or like actors.

- So are we trusting Jake or are we just trusting Tristan.

All right.

- You thought that.

- I don't know.

GOATs.

- [David] Going with GOATs.

- Better be famous GOATs.

- That is the clue that is this category, Hall of Famers.

Given a Hall of Fame athlete, name their primary sport.

As we start off with Michael Jordan.

- Basketball.

- [David] Correct.

Lou Gehrig.

- Baseball.

- [David] Correct.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. - Oh, NASCAR.

- [David] That is correct.

Terry Bradshaw.

- Football.

- [David] Correct.

Secretariat.

- Horseback riding, equestrian.

- [David] Incorrect.

Arnold Palmer.

- Golf.

- [David] That is correct.

Ric Flair.

- Boats.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Michelle Kwan.

- Tennis - [David] Incorrect.

Patrick Roy?

Anything?

- Pass.

- And Mia Hamm.

- Tennis.

- [David] Incorrect.

All right, Sacred Heart, you've got a chance to pick up on some steals from this category.

Again, the clue is Goats, and the category is Hall of Famers.

Given a Hall of Fame athlete, name their primary sport.

And we'll put 30 seconds on for your chance to steal as we start with Secretariat.

- Just say skip.

- No answer.

- [David] Ric Flair.

- No answer.

- [David] Michelle Kwan.

- Archery.

- [David] incorrect.

Patrick Roy.

- [Ishwarya] Just say a sport, baseball.

- Ping pong.

- [David] Incorrect.

and Mia Hamm.

(bell chimes) Bell signals the end.

Mia Hamm is a soccer player, Patrick Roy plays hockey, is a former goaltender.

Michelle Kwan a figure skater and Olympic champion.

Ric Flair was a wrestler, and Secretariat, horse racing.

Great Secretariat from 1973.

And Roscommon extends the lead and is out in front of Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart by a score of 160 to 40 as we head down the home stretch for a combination, again, of toss-up and bonus questions.

The team that correctly answers the toss-up will get the opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

Missed toss-ups can be stolen but there is no consulting on these questions.

A correct answer on the toss-up allows for the single follow-up bonus question.

There's no stealing on the bonuses.

However, teams can confer and we'll take the answers from the captain.

After a bonus question we'll reset, we'll go back to a toss-up for both teams.

Buzzers ready, players ready?

Here comes your first question.

What author depicted a trip to the Marabar Caves, after which Dr. Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested in his novel, "A Passage to India?"

- Forster?

- [David] That is correct.

And the bonus question, what author depicted young Esperanza Cordero in her semi autobiographical novel, "The House on Mango Street?"

- I haven't read this book, I have no idea.

- No answer.

- [David] Sandra Cisneros.

What stars, whose masses are constrained by the TOV limit, have a rotating subtype called pulsars and are mostly made of namesake uncharged particle?

- Neutron stars.

- [David] That is correct.

And a bonus question, what is the Spanish derived name for a large bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms by collapse after a magma chamber empties?

- You took French.

- Any geologists?

Nothing, pass.

- [David] That is calderas we were looking for.

Toss up for both teams, what war in which the US supplied one side through operation Nickel Grass began when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on a Jewish holy day in 1973?

- Six day war.

- [David] That is incorrect, Roscommon?

- Yom Kippur War.

- [David] That is right, the Yom Kippur War.

In June, 2023, for your bonus, a dam over what river in Ukraine was damaged by likely Russian sabotage, reducing water supply to Crimea?

- Kyiv River?

Is there a Kyiv river?

We'll say Kyiv.

- [David] That is incorrect.

We were looking for the Nepro River.

Toss up for both teams.

What European country is called Crna Gora in its native language, is governed from Podgorica, and has a name that translates as Black Mountain?

- Slovenia.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Roscommon to guess.

Montenegro was the country that we were looking for.

Toss up for both teams.

What country whose Ossa Peninsula is home to the Corcovado National Park, includes such cities as Alajuela and is south of Nicaragua?

- Honduras.

- [David] Incorrect, Roscommon?

- Uruguay.

- [David] Incorrect also, Costa Rica you're looking for there.

Toss-up for both teams.

What physicist predicted length contraction as part of his theory of special relativity?

- Einstein.

- [David] That is correct, Albert Einstein.

Bonus question for you.

What second largest branch of Islam holds that Muhammad selected his cousin, Ali, as the first caliph?

- Oh, I forgot this.

- I think it is Sunni, yeah, Sunni.

Could be.

Sure.

- [David] Answer please.

- Sunni.

- [David] That is incorrect.

We were looking for the Twelver Shi'ism.

- Yeah, I don't think I could pronounce that.

- [David] Toss up for both, what commander was joined by the Trinovantes prior to the Battle of Watling Street, excuse me, while leading a revolt of the Iceni against the Romans in Britain?

- Alexander The Great.

- [David] Incorrect, Sacred Heart.

And we are looking for Boudica.

Toss up for both teams.

The letter Q symbolizes what set of numbers that can be?

- Rationals.

- [David] That is correct.

And the bonus question, what instrument was played by the jazz composer of "Ain't Misbehaving," Fatz Waller, who used the stride style of moving up and down its 88 keys.

- Piano.

- [David] That is correct.

Toss up for both.

A boy named Milo must swim in the cold sea of knowledge after jumping to the island of conclusions in what Norton Juster novel named for a magic gate?

- Heaven's Gate?

- [David] Incorrect, Sacred Heart for the guess?

"The Phantom Toll Booth."

What spaces, the first of which lies between Oriental and Vermont Avenue, uses an orange deck of cards in Monopoly.

- Go to jail.

- [David] That is incorrect.

We'll finish for you, Roscommon.

The orange deck of cards in Monopoly and bear a question mark.

- Chance.

- [David] That is correct.

Bonus question now, Bernardo O'Higgins led the independence movement in what present day country, which later defeated Bolivia and Peru in the war of the Pacific?

- [Eva] Argentina?

- I'm thinking Argentina or Brazil.

Argentina.

- [David] That is incorrect, we were looking for Chile.

(bell chimes) And the bell signals the end of that home stretch round.

Ros Common, you currently hold a lead of 220 to 50 for Sacred Heart, and that gets us to the final round of our game.

In the Final Countdown, you'll have two minutes to answer as many toss-up questions as you can.

If a team misses on a question, the opposing team has the opportunity to answer.

Teams may not consult during this round.

All set players?

Buzzers ready, here comes that first question.

What country, whose Pico Duarte is the tallest mountain in the Caribbean, covers the eastern part of Espanola and is governed from Santo Domingo?

- Haiti.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Roscommon?

- The Dominican Republic.

- [David] That is correct.

Sharks can be born through what form of reproduction that involves neither the mother mating nor having her eggs fertilized by sperm?

- Broadcast spawning.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Sacred Heart.

- Asexual - [David] Incorrect, we're looking for Parthenogenesis.

A toss up here, what organ, whose function is measured by the glomerular, excuse me, glomerular filtration rate contains functional units called Nephrons that filter blood to create urine?

- Urial gland?

- [David] That is incorrect, Sacred Heart?

- Kidneys.

- [David] They are the kidneys, correct.

What Nigerian author, whose Nobel Prize citation claimed he fashions the drama of existence, wrote the play, "Death and the King's Horseman?"

- Soyinka.

- [David] That is correct.

What Prime Minister's government, which introduced the PharmaCare Act in 2024 with NDP support, governs with a minority of the parliament of Canada?

- Trudeau.

- [David] Trudeau is correct.

In June, 2024, what tennis player, who rallied from two sets down to win the 2024 Australian Open, became the first Italian to be ranked world number one?

Move on to the next question.

What state, which in 1992 was the site of the Ruby Ridge Standoff?

- Texas.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Roscommon?

- Can you finish the question?

- [David] Yes.

Is nicknamed the Gem State and is governed from its capital of Boise?

- Idaho?

- Is that me?

- [David] We'll count it.

- Idaho.

- [David] Idaho is correct.

And we close out that with a final score of Roscommon 250 70 for Sacred Heart.

A round of applause for both teams in today's game.

(teams applaud) So now our grand championship final is set, Roscommon will take on Traverse City Central.

We've got the final for you next week right here on "Quiz Central."

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