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This time we've got a first round game between Sandusky and White Cloud coming up next.

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(bright music) - Hello everyone, I'm David Nicholas, and I'm pleased to welcome you to the 20th season of "Quiz Central."

This time, students from Flushing are taking on the team from Mount Pleasant, the first game of our tournament featuring 16 teams in a single elimination format.

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.

And now let's get to our game.

Our first round is the Maroon and Gold Rush.

Teams will have two minutes to answer as many tossup questions as they can.

If a team misses a tossup question, the opposing team has the opportunity to answer that 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?

Have your buzzers ready.

Here comes your first question.

In March 2024, what country elected the leader of its banned PASTEF party Bassirou Faye as president, allowing him to govern from Dakar?

(buzzer rings) - Senegal?

- You are correct.

What book of the Bible that details the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount is the first book of the New Testament?

(buzzer rings) - Matthew?

- That is correct.

What insects engage in behaviors like keeping aphids for their honeydew and growing fungi in underground- - Ants?

- You are correct.

What country which celebrates the Barranquilla Carnival before Lent is the birthplace of actress Sophia Viguera and Singer Shakira?

- Brazil?

- [David] That is incorrect.

White Cloud for the... (buzzer rings) - Olivia?

- [David] That's also incorrect.

What woman wrote about a dog who becomes a football hero in "Ribsy" and portrayed an Oregon girl known as the Brave and the Pest in the "Ramona" series?

Next question.

In 1971, an uprising at what kind of place in Attica, New York was suppressed by state police who killed over 40 people?

(buzzer rings) - University?

- That's incorrect.

- Was it a street?

- That's also incorrect.

Next tossup for both teams.

What composer whose cello concerto in E minor made Jacqueline Dupre famous?

Included the tune "Land of Hope and Glory" in his "Pomp and Circumstance."

(buzzer rings) - Elgar?

- That is correct.

(bell chimes) Mass spectrometry, excuse me.

(bell rings) And the bell signals the end of that round.

All right, we are off to a good start.

Both teams with 20 points on the board.

Excellent start, players.

Looking back at the questions that we did not get answers to, the country that celebrates the Carnival, that is Columbia.

The woman who wrote about the dog becoming the football hero is Beverly Cleary.

And the uprising at what kind of place, we were looking for prison, the Attica Prison.

Sandusky and White Cloud finished the first round today tied at 20 points a piece.

Before we start the next round, let's learn a little bit more about our students competing today.

First, we say welcome to our team from Sandusky.

- Hello, my name is Timothy Adder.

I am a senior at Sandusky High School, and I'm also part of the band and drama department.

- Hi, my name's Alicia.

I'm a senior at Sandusky.

I love cheese, baking, and I'm excited for us to take on this adventure.

- My name is Sebastian Siferline, I'm a sophomore.

I participate in track, cross country, band, Quiz Bowl, and this fall's theater production.

- Hi, I'm Lucas Daliker.

I'm a freshman from Sandusky, and I'm in football, baseball, and wrestling.

- Thank you, Sandusky.

Good to have you here.

Now let's say hello and welcome to White Cloud.

- Hello, I'm Mason Delamater, I'm a freshman at White Cloud High School, and I participate in marching band and football.

- Hi, my name is Wyatt Carnes.

I am a senior at White Cloud High School and I work in Big Rapids Culver's, and I like to do cross country and track.

- Hello, my name is Liam Puffy.

I am a junior at White Cloud, and I participate in football, track and field, Quiz Bowl, and BPA.

- Hello, my name is Brian Loveless.

I'm a student at White Cloud High School.

I participate in Quiz Bowl and band.

Thank you, White Cloud.

Thanks to all of our students here today.

It's great to have you here.

Our next round on Quiz Central is the kickoff round.

A kickoff round is a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

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

Missed tossup questions can be stolen, but there is no consulting on these answers.

A correct tossup question answer allows for a single follow-up bonus question.

There's no stealing of the bonus questions.

However, teams can confer, and will take those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus answer means we'll ask a tossup again to both teams.

Buzzers set.

Good luck.

Here comes your first question.

Joseph Fourier first described what effect in which water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, and certain other gases trap some of the sun's energy?

(buzzer rings) - Greenhouse effect.

- That is correct.

In 2021, what wide receiver led the NFL in receptions, receiving touchdowns, and receiving yards as a member of the Los Angeles Rams?

- Cooper Cupp.

- Cooper Cupp.

- It's Cooper Cupp.

- Cooper Cupp.

- That is also correct.

Tossup then again for both teams.

What event which led to Giles Corey's death by pressing began with accusations made by girls like Abigail Williams?

- Salem witch trials?

- That is correct.

Now White Cloud, your bonus question.

What country, whose highest peak is named after Arthur Conan Doyle, contains ancient Maya ruins at Caracol and is governed from Belmopan?

- Belmopan, it's gonna be in South America.

- Where's the mines at?

- Oh, I don't know Peru?

Peru?

- Answer?

- Peru?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Tossup for both teams.

What country contains both Gear Forest, the last wild habitat of the Asiatic lion, and a tiger reserve on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra?

- India?

- That is correct.

And your bonus, Sandusky.

In an annual Virginia tradition suspended due to Covid, what animals swim across the channel between Chincoteague and the Assateague Island?

- You guys have any idea?

It's gonna be like some like (indistinct) animal - Bear or something like that.

- Answer?

- Cows.

- They're cows.

- Cows.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Tossup for both teams.

The answer we were looking for were ponies.

What type of materials, which Lee and Kim claimed LK99 was in 2023 have no losses from heating due to their electrical resistance being zero?

(buzzer rings) Superconductor?

- You are correct.

And the bonus now for White Cloud, what liberal party head, whose government passed the Official Languages Act enshrining bilingualism was Canada's prime minister throughout the 1970s?

- [Liam] Oh, Trudeau, is that the guy's name?

- Winston Churchill?

- [David] That is incorrect.

We were looking for Pierre Trudeau.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

- [David] Tossup for both teams.

What Duchess of Aquitanian was married to both Louis the 17th of France and Henry II?

- Eleanor of Aquitaine?

- [David] You are correct.

And the bonus question for Sandusky.

What anthropologist, whose methods in the 1920s were criticized by Derek Freeman, described adolescent girls on Tau Island in coming of age in Samoa?

- It's an island.

- It's not Solomon.

- Answer?

- Solomon.

Just guess Solomon.

- Solomon?

- It's incorrect.

The anthropologist we were looking for was Margaret Mead.

Back to a tossup for both teams.

A modern aristocrat mimics the title emperor in "Henry IV," a drama by what absurdist Italian writer of the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author?"

- Pirandello?

- That is correct.

- Good job.

- [David] And your bonus question, what property is possessed by vectors whose cross product is zero and is possessed by lines in a plane with equal slope since they never intersect?

- Parallel?

- Yeah, parallel.

- Parallel?

- That is also correct on the bonus.

Tossup for both teams.

What teenage boy who watches interdimensional cable TV with his sister Summer appears on an adult- - Morty?

- That is correct.

Morty Smith.

And your bonus question.

In the 1990s, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization made steps toward peace by signing a pair of accords named for what European capital?

- Paris?

- Paris?

- Paris?

- That's incorrect.

They were the Oslo Accords.

Tossup for both, what lake that receives the Shari River is found in Sahel region and borders four African nations, including its namesake, governed from N'Djamena?

(buzzer rings) - Chad?

- You are correct.

And the bonus question now, Earth's magnetic field deflects what stream of charged particles coming from the sun's Corona whose entry into earth's atmosphere creates aroyas?

- Solar flare?

- [Liam] What was it made of, photons?

- Photons?

- Incorrect.

It's a solar wind.

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

We close the kickoff with a score right now.

Still a very tight game.

White Cloud, you're at 80, Sandusky at 60.

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 the entire round, and we'll take answers from the captain.

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

And let's take a look now at those Perfect 10 clues for today.

Surrounded by water, there's no place like home, and high five, what is your choice?

(students whispering indistinctly) - High five.

- High five.

All right.

You'll have in your Perfect 10 round, the clue is high five, the category, groups of five.

Answer the following about groups of five people or things.

Again the category, groups of five.

Answer the following about groups of five people or things.

60 seconds on the clock as we begin your Perfect 10 with this.

First of five books of the Torah.

- Is it the Old Testament?

The Old Testament.

- That is incorrect.

Pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam.

- We're not gonna get this- - Mecca.

Mecca?

- Incorrect.

Largest of the Great Lakes.

- Superior.

- Superior.

- [David] Correct.

Five member boy band that included Justin Timberlake.

- NSYNC?

- That is correct.

Mathematician who proposed five postulates in the elements.

- Newton?

- Yeah, just go Newton.

- Newton?

- Incorrect.

Nation led from Wellington that is in the Five Eyes Alliance?

- New Zealand?

- Correct.

US city in which the five families ran the Mafia.

- New York?

- Correct.

Psychiatrist who developed five stages of grief.

(bell chimes) Time, we can't take an answer on that particular question, so good start on those.

You raised your score to 100.

White Cloud, we come to you, 30 seconds on the clock to go and see how many of these you can pick up.

Again the category, groups of five.

Answer the following about groups of five people or things.

Your 30 seconds begins with this question.

First of five books of the Torah.

- Genesis.

- Genesis?

- Correct.

Pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam.

- Hajj.

- Hajj?

- Correct.

Mathematician who proposed five postulates in the elements.

- Euclid?

- Also correct.

Nation, excuse me, psychiatrist who developed five stages of grief.

- Freud?

- Incorrect.

Stoic philosopher and last of the five good emperors.

- Marcus Aurelius.

- Marcus Aurelius?

- [David] Correct.

And we'll count that answer the one...

The psychiatrist who developed the five stages of grief, that was Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

And the Marcus Aurelius we did get to, the one question that we didn't get for either team, Meso-American civilization that believed in the cycle of five sons was the Aztec Empire.

All right, we're at 120 to 100 at this point in the Perfect 10, and we come to you, White Cloud, for your choice from surrounded by water and there's no place like home.

Surrounded by water or there's no place like home.

- It's gonna be like geography stuff.

- So do you wanna do geography or?

- Or probably some book- - No place like home probably.

I was gonna say that's probably literature.

- Okay.

There's no place like home.

- There's no place like home.

For your Perfect 10, the category US houses, give the name, not the address of these residences.

Again, from there's no place like home, we're looking for US houses.

Give the name, not the address of these residences.

Your 60 seconds begins with this.

President's home in Washington DC.

- White House?

- Correct.

Virginia Estate of George Washington.

- Mount Vernon.

- Mount Vernon?

- [David] Correct.

Pennsylvania House on a river designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufman.

- Falling water?

- Correct.

San Simeon estate, a castle built for a publishing tycoon.

- Scholastic?

- Incorrect.

Thomas Jefferson's plantation that appears on the nickel.

- Monticello?

- That is correct.

Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

- [Liam] Oh, I can't think of what it's called.

- The MLK memorial?

- That is incorrect.

Maryland lodge that is a retreat for the president.

- [Mason] Camp David.

- Camp David?

- Correct.

California Ranch that was Michael Jackson's home and amusement park.

- Jacksonville?

- Incorrect.

Residence of New York City's mayor?

(bell chimes) And the bell signals the end.

We didn't get an answer there, so we will shift over to you, Sandusky.

We now have White Cloud at 170, Sandusky at 100, but you can get some of those points back as we shift this over to you.

With 30 seconds on the clock, again, our category, there's no place like home, that's the clue, US houses, give the name, not the address of these residences.

And your 30 seconds starts with this.

San Simeon estate, a castle built for a publishing tycoon.

- Pass.

- [David] Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

- Pass.

- [David] The California ranch that was Michael Jackson's home and amusement park.

- Try Sugar Hill.

- Sugar Hill?

- [David] That's incorrect.

And the bell signals the end of the round.

Well the ones that stumped both teams in that category, the San Simeon estate built for the publishing tycoon, Hurst Castle, built for William Randolph Hurst.

Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis is Graceland.

And the California ranch, Michael Jackson's home and amusement park is the Neverland Ranch.

Residence of New York City's mayor is the Gracie Mansion, and a mystery house near San Jose with hundreds of rooms is the Winchester Mystery house.

And at the close then of the Perfect 10, we have a score of 170 for White Cloud, still 100 for Sandusky as we head into the home stretch.

In the home stretch, we have a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

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

Missed tossup questions can be stolen, but there is no consulting on those.

A correct tossup question answer allows for a single follow-up bonus question.

No stealing of the bonus questions.

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

An incorrect bonus sends us back to a tossup for both teams.

All right, buzzers ready, here comes your first question.

What philosopher established a school in Athens known as the Lyceum and wrote the poetics and metaphysics?

(buzzer rings) - Plato?

- Incorrect.

White Cloud, a guess.

- Aristotle?

- That is correct.

Your bonus question then, what God who pulled a sword from the tail of the eight headed dragon Orochi is the sibling of the Moon God Sukiyomi and the Sun Goddess Amaterasu.

- That's a Orley question.

- Osiris?

- Incorrect, it was Susano.

Tough question.

Tossup for both teens.

A 494 BC secession was fomented by what land owning class of ancient Rome which had lower rank?

- The Plebeians?

- That is correct.

All right, Sandusky, your bonus question.

What element, whose deficiency causes goiter, is a dark purple solid that sublines at room temperature and is a halogen with atomic symbol I.

- Iodine.

Iodine?

- That is correct on the bonus there.

Back to a tossup for both teams.

What author of the two line poem "In a Station of the Metro" included Chinese characters in his long poem, "The Cantos?"

(buzzer rings) - Osa?

- That is incorrect.

Sandusky, you've got the chance for the steal.

- Hasuki?

- That is incorrect.

It was Ezra Pound was the poet we were looking for.

Tossup for both teams again.

What composer who referenced gossip in the title of his "Trish-Trash Polka" was an Austrian who wrote many waltzes, including "The Blue Danube?"

- Strauss II?

- [David] That is correct, and specific to the second.

Now your bonus question, stomach contents empty into what section of the small intestine which precedes the ileum and jejunum?

- The duodenum?

- That is also correct.

Tossup for both teams.

What party, whose members discussed secession during the Hartford Convention, rivaled the Democratic- - The Federalists?

- That is correct.

And your bonus once again.

A number of US cities have banned new dollar stores from opening to reduce what areas which feature limited access to affordable fresh food?

- Low income?

- No, this is like the, like it's a food desert or something like that.

Food desert?

- That is correct.

Back to the tossup for both teams.

What city which names a trilogy that includes "Sugar Street" and "Palace Walk" by Naguib Mahfouz contains?

- Cairo?

- That is correct.

And the bonus for White Cloud, the death of the childless Charles II in 1700 began what war that ended with a signing of the Peace of Utrecht?

- [Mason] It's the Spanish succession.

- War of Spanish succession?

- [David] You are correct on the bonus.

Tossup for both teens.

What fundamental interaction, which is carried by gluons, holds together the protons and neutrons in an atom's nucleus?

- Strong force.

- That is correct.

Bonus question now for Sandusky.

What novel which describes how 96 humans are produced from one egg via Bokanovsky's Process is a satirical 1932 dystopia written by Aldous Huxley?

- "Brave New World."

- [David] That is correct on the bonus.

Now to a tossup for both teams.

Since 2021, what country has cracked down on alleged monopolistic practices by companies such as Tencent and Alibaba?

- China?

- You are correct.

And another bonus, what state's 2022 gubernatorial election, the closest of the year, saw former TV anchor Kari Lake defeated by Katie Hobbs who took office in Phoenix?

- Arizona.

- Arizona.

- Arizona?

- That is also correct.

Tossup for both teams.

Bell signaling the end of the rounds.

We have a tie game, and that's pretty exciting going into our final countdown, White Cloud and Sandusky both tied at 200 points a piece.

And the two minutes coming up in the final countdown will decide today's match.

Teams, you'll have two minutes to answer as many tossup questions as you can.

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

Teams may not consult during this round.

Are you ready, players?

Get those buzzers set.

Here we go with your first question.

What war during which retreating troops used the highway of death and set many oil fires followed the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990?

(buzzer rings) - Persian Gulf War?

- That is correct.

What author who wrote the alternative history novel "The Plot Against America" depicted fictional writer Nathan Zuckerman in many of his books?

- That's you guys.

(buzzer rings) - John Grisham.

- That is incorrect.

What religion whose concept of Miri Piri combines temporal and spiritual authority regards the Adigrom as a holy text and was once led by gurus?

(buzzer rings) - Buddhism?

- That is incorrect.

In 2020- - Sorry sir.

Sorry, I thought it was a fill in the question.

- [David] Nope, yep, you've got the chance.

- Hinduism?

- Is also incorrect.

Tossup for both.

In 2024, Kenya called on Tanzania to stop issuing hunting licenses for what large animals to curb cross-border poaching in Amboseli Wildlife Park?

(buzzer rings) - Elephants?

- That's correct.

What novel whose protagonist writes to her sister Netty and becomes Shug Avery's lover centers on a girl named Sealy and is by Alice Walker?

(buzzer rings) - "The Color Purple."

- Correct.

Theobromine and caffeine are examples of what molecules, which two fused aromatic rings, two of which bind pyrimidines in DNA?

- Stimulants?

- Incorrect.

Chance?

- Bases?

- Also incorrect.

What actress who appeared in "ET" and... And the bell signals the end of the final countdown.

And what a close finish.

Sandusky wins 220 to 210 over White Cloud.

Let's have a nice round of applause for two teams.

A really good game today.

(audience applauding) We'll look here briefly at the questions that stumped both teams.

What religion whose concept of the Miri Piri, that was Sikhism or Sikh.

Also the caffeine examples of what molecules, we are looking for purines.

And that last question we were just about to get to, what actress in "ET" has their own daytime talk show?

Drew Barrymore.

Again, congratulations to both teams on a great game today.

White Cloud, thanks very much for playing with us.

Congratulations, Sandusky.

We will see you in an upcoming round.

And thanks to all of you for joining us again here on "Quiz Central."

We'll see you next time.

Have a good night, everybody.

(upbeat music)