(happy music) - It's semi-final time.

We're down to just four schools who are competing to move on to the final and hopefully take home that thousand dollars for their school's project graduation.

In our second semi-final match, we have the Eagles of Windham High School, (joyful music) taking on the Witches of Brewer High School.

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

We're down to our second semi-final, which means that one of tonight's teams will advance to the season five championship and maybe take home the thousand dollars grand prize for their school's project graduation.

As you know, it's been a challenging time to make and keep plans with many events still having to be postponed.

Well, Quiz Show is no different.

Due to many schools having to deal with the ongoing pandemic, we've had to cancel a couple of our planned matches.

Because of that, Brewer has been advanced directly to the semi-finals as their opponent had to bow out at the last minute.

Let's hope that season six allows us to get back to normal and have our full slate of programs.

But right now we have our season five semi-final number two.

In today's match, we have the Eagles of Windham High School taking on the Witches of Brewer High School.

Let's get things started by meeting the players.

For Windham we have Al, Greta, Kaitlyn, Francesca, with alternate, Will, and coached by John Ziegler and Nicole Densmore.

And for Brewer, we have Lindsey, Swaroop, Cooper and Ryan, with alternate, Omer, and coached by SueAnne Gainings and Andrea Martin.

The competition has three rounds, a toss up, a category round, and a lightning round.

We'll start with the toss up 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, gang.

You guys ready to go?

- Let's do it.

- Let's do it.

- All right, let's do it.

Round one, here's the first question.

In 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first U.S. city to add what tooth decay fighting mineral to its drinking water?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer - Fluoride.

- Yes, fluoride.

When he turned for Bay Bay left the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and went to live in China.

What kind of animal is Bay Bay?

(bell dings) - That would be Caitlin, Windham.

- A Panda.

- A Panda is correct.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of what larger mountain system that extends from Eastern Canada to Alabama?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- The Appalachian Mountains.

- Yes, nice job.

Dobson units are mainly used to measure the amount of what gas with the chemical formula O3 in the atmosphere?

(bell dings) - Francesca, Windham.

- Ozone?

- Ozone, you got it.

Up next we have a video question, so please take a look at the monitor right over here.

- Hi, I'm Congressman Jared golden.

Which U.S. Speaker of the House from Maine is credited with abolishing the so-called Disappearing Quorum in effort by opposing lawmakers to prevent votes by not admitting their presence in the House?

(bell dings) - That'd be Ryan, Brewer.

- Margaret Chase Smith.

- That's incorrect.

Windham, you wanna take a shot at it?

(buzzer buzzing) - Answer, Thomas Bracket Reed.

Next question.

The second deepest lake in the U.S. is what large freshwater lake on the border between California and Nevada?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Lake Tahoe?

- Lake Tahoe.

Yes.

The official state fruit of Wisconsin and the official state Berry of Massachusetts is what tart red berry that's harvested from flooded bogs?

(bell dings) - Al, Windham.

- Cranberry.

- Yes, you got it.

Kevin McAllister's family goes off to spend Christmas in Paris and mistakenly leaves him behind in what 1990 movie comedy?

(bell dings) - Cooper, Brewer.

- "Home Alone".

- Yes, it's a classic.

All right.

From the Greek, from near in sun, what word refers to a planetary orbits closest point to the sun?

(bell dings) - Cooper, again.

- Periepsis?

- Incorrect.

Windham?

(buzzer buzzing) - Perihelion, perihelion.

Once again, we have a video question.

So once again, take a look at the monitor right over here.

- Hello.

I'm Senator Angus King.

Name this maynor from Brewer by way of Brunswick who commanded the Union troops during the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia on April 12th, 1865.

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Joshua Chamberlain.

- You nailed it.

You nailed it.

Onward we go.

What two word name is used for the public health strategy of slowing the spread of infectious disease by identifying everyone who has been exposed to a person suffering from that disease.

(bell dings) - Greta, Windham.

- Close Contact.

- Yeah, uh.

- Close contacting.

- Judges?

Incorrect, Brewer.

(bell dings) - Cooper - Contact tracing.

- That's it, that's it.

Yes, we've done it a lot lately, unfortunately.

A 10th grader named Davey is the main character in what teen comedy TV series created by Mindy Kaling?

(buzzer buzzing) The answer is "Never have I Ever".

Onward.

Named for a Medal of Honor recipient who died in World War II, O'Hare International Airport is in what city?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Chicago.

- Chicago is right.

A doctor uses a Snellin chart to evaluate what?

A, height, B, blood glucose levels, or C, vision?

(bell dings) - Al, Windham.

- Vision.

- Vision, you got it.

Math question now, get your hats ready?

The math hat, get it on.

If 12 workers complete a job in four hours, how long will it take 15 workers to complete the same job?

(bell dings) - Cooper, Brewer.

- Three hours.

- Three hours is incorrect.

Windham?

(bell dings) - Caitlin.

- 150 Minutes.

- That is incorrect.

The answer is three hours and 12 minutes, three hours and 12 minutes.

An archipelago in South America has what name that means Land of Fire in Spanish?

(buzzer buzzing) - Tiara Del Fuego.

What multiple Grammy winning country singer/songwriter started the Tennessee based, Non-profit, Imagination Library to give free books to kids?

(bell dings) - Lindsey, Brewer.

- Dolly Parton.

- Yeah, you got it.

What style of Martial Arts was developed in Israel and gets its name from the Hebrew words for contact and combat?

(buzzer buzzing) - Krav Maga.

Avogadro's number 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd is the number of particles in what?

(bell dings) - Cooper, Brewer.

- A mole.

- A mole.

Yes.

What name for a humanoid machine comes from the play "R.U.R."

by Karel Capek?

(bell dings) - Kaitlyn, Windham.

- A robot?

- Yeah, you got it, robot.

Hominy grits come from which grain?

A, wheat, B, rice or C, corn?

(bell dings) - Caitlin?

- Wheat.

- Wheat is incorrect.

Brewer, 50 50 shot.

(bell dings) - Ryan - Rice.

- Oh, you flipped the coin and it came up the wrong side.

It's corn, C corn.

All right.

Recruits to which branch of the U.S. Military typically go through a 13 week bootcamp at Paris Island, South Carolina or San Diego, California?

(bell dings) - Cooper.

- Navy Seals.

- Incorrect, Windham?

(bell dings) - Al.

- The Marines.

- Yeah, you got it.

Nice job.

Our Arrangement in Gray and Black No.

1 is an 1871 work by what artist who often gave his paintings musical titles?

(bell dings) - Greta, Windham?

- Picasso?

- Incorrect, Brewer.

(buzzer buzzing) - Whistler, Whistler.

Another math question.

Another math question.

What does the geometric mean of the numbers two, four and eight?

(buzzer buzzing) - Four.

Four.

All right, we're going on here.

What media company known for satirical news and named for a vegetable was started by Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson when they were students at the University of Wisconsin?

(bell dings) - Looks like Swaroop, Brewer.

- Onion.

- The onion, yeah, nice.

Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, is a coastal plain type of what Marine ecosystem that exists where freshwater meets salt water?

(bell dings) - Francesca.

- Brackish water?

- Incorrect, Brewer.

(bell dings) - Cooper?

- A Delta?

- An estuary, estuary.

Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir were founding members of what band who released the album "American Beauty" in November, 1970?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- The Grateful Dead.

- Yeah, you got it.

All right.

What word is missing from the titles of these works by Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure blank and Critique of Practical blank.

(bell dings) - Ryan, again.

- Reason.

- Reason, yes, again.

(timer buzzing) All right, that's the end of the first round.

We have Windham at 60 and Brewer at 120.

It's a great start to this semi-final.

We're gonna meet the teams when we get back.

(upbeat music) All right, welcome back.

We're gonna take a quick break from the game to chat with our players but instead of the usual slightly off kilter question that we normally do, the tables are gonna be turned apparently on me and I'm gonna read this question for the first time.

This is a complete surprise to me, what I'm about to read.

So we're gonna go over to Windham and start with Al with this question, Ugh, let's play charades, act out your personality type and I will try to guess what it is.

Lovely, I'm so bad at this guys and girls, I wanna apologize ahead of time, but we're gonna start out with Al at Windham, go for it.

- I'll make this easy for ya.

- Let's see if I can do it.

You're a guitarist.

- Yes, yes, yes.

- All right, okay.

Thank you for going easy on me Al.

- Rockstar, yeah.

- Greta, go for it.

- Did you know that there are over 900,000 bikes in Amsterdam or feats as they call it in Dutch?

Which actually reminds me of this hilarious Frazier episode where they had a Dutch guy in.

I don't know why, but that also remind... Oh wait, no, I can't remember.

- I'm lost.

- No, no, no, no, hang on, uh-oh.

- Are you like a no at all?

- No, no, no.

You know these buzzers are like my favorite buzzers.

They're much better than the other buzzers.

We have other buzzers.

- Remind me of the kid in.

- I would love to keep talking to you, but it's tea time so I should have to go.

- So you're like, oh wow.

I have no idea, Greta, please fill me in, I've lost.

- Am I allowed to tell him?

- No?

Yes, you can tell me.

They're telling me to tell you.

- It's me.

- It's you?

(laughs) - You're very entertaining Greta.

- Thank you.

- You're very entertaining.

Caitlin, go for it.

- Okaym so I'm gonna start down here.

- Oh.

- A dancer.

- Rising from the ashes like a Phoenix.

- There it is, or that.

Francesca, please go easy on me.

You're super cool like, "Hey dude."

- The word I was thinking of was snazzy but I mean, I guess they're synonymous.

- Okay, yeah.

I think we're on the same wave length, thank you, Francesca.

We're going over to Brewer now.

Lindsey, take it away.

You're like super happy.

All right, why?

- I don't know, I just always am.

I think it's always good to be happy so it makes other people happy.

- You know what?

Everyone should have that attitude.

Everybody should have that attitude, stay happy, right?

Alright, Swaroop, it's your floor.

You're doing shots of hand sanitizer?

- Yeah.

- For energy?

- Why not?

(laughing) - Cooper, go for it.

You're thirsty.

Wow, you just spilled all over yourself.

You're dehydrated.

That was awesome Cooper.

Now do you need a towel to dry yourself off?

- No, no, I'm fine.

- All right, cool.

Ryan, you got the last one.

You're reading a book.

You're reading a book?

- Yes.

- What book is it?

- My favorite book.

- Which is?

- I'm not telling.

(Todd laughing) - I'm not guessing what your favorite book is, we'll be here all day.

All right, the category round is next.

We'll be right back.

(upbeat music) Next up it's the category round with the following choices, Dino Might, Why Stop At 50?, History In Art, Dear John, Books With Boats, and Spoiler Alert.

Each category has five questions with increasing point values.

All right, players, listen up.

You must wait for me to finish the question before you buzz in, you can confer with your teammates, but once you buzz in, you're no longer allowed to do that and we'll need your answer.

And like in the toss up round, if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given the chance to answer.

Windham, you are trailing so you have choice of the board.

What would you like to start with?

- Yeah, let's do Books With Boat for 10.

- All right, Books With Boats for 10.

These are questions about books with nautical themes.

With nautical themes.

In a classic children's book by Gertrude Crampton, Scuffy is a toy version of what kind of hardworking Harbor boat used to push or pull larger vessels.

(bell dings) - Greta, Windham.

- A tugboat?

- Tugboat is right.

Where would you like to go, Greta?

- Books With Boats for 15, please.

- All right, Books With Boats for 15.

What fictional ship belonging to King Casmean the 10th is mentioned in the title of the third published book in CS Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" series?

(bell dings) - Cooper, Brewer.

- The Dawn drenner, Don drenner.

- Judges.

Nope, we can't take that.

(bell rings) Windham?

- The "Dawn Treader".

- Yes, that is right, the "Dawn Treader".

Yes, okay, we got it.

Windham, you still have control.

- Books With Boats for 20 please.

- Books With Boats for 20.

Sebastian Junger wrote what work of creative non-fiction based on the true story of the fake fishing boat, Andrea Gale?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Historical fiction?

- Incorrect.

(buzzer buzzing) - "The Perfect Storm", "The Perfect Storm", weather book.

Come on guys.

All right, Windham, you have control of the board.

- We're gonna do Spoiler Alert for 10.

- Spoiler Alert for 10.

These questions involve operas with tragic endings.

The nurse is a mezzo-soprano, and Mercucio is a baritone in a tragic opera composed by Charles Guno based on what tragic play written by William Shakespeare?

(bell dings) - Francesca, Windham.

- "Romeo and Juliet".

- You got it.

What would you like?

- Go to Dear John.

- Dear John for 10 please.

- All right, switching categories to Dear John for 10.

These questions are about people named John.

What 17 term U.S.

Congressman from Georgia, who died in 2020 led a March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

It was in Selma for the 55th anniversary of that event in 2020?

(bell dings) - Greta, Windham.

- John Lewis.

- You got it, John Lewis.

All right, Greta, it's yours.

- Dear John for 15, please.

- Dear John for 15.

On February 20th, 1962, which man named John became the first American to orbit the earth in a spacecraft?

(bell dings) - Greta, Windham.

- John Glen.

- You got it.

What would you like?

- Dear John for 20 please.

- Dear John for 20.

The trophy awarded each year to the outstanding player in NCAA Football is named for a man who coached at Clemson, Auburn, and Georgia Tech.

His first name is John, what was his last name?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Heisman.

- Heisman, yes.

Okay.

Brewer, it's yours.

- Let's go with Dear John for 25.

- Dear John 25.

Mathematician, John Napier coined what name for the exponent that represents the power to which a base number must be raised to produce a given number?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer again.

- Logarithm.

- Logarithm is right, still yours.

- Let's stick with Dear John for 30.

- Wrapping up Dear John for 30.

Physicist, John Bardine, won a Nobel Prize as a co-inventor of what miniature semiconductor device that acts as an amplifier and a switch to control electrical signals?

(buzzer buzzing) - Answer is a transistor, but it's still Brewer's board.

- Let's do Books With Boats for 25.

- Books With Boats, 25.

"The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown is about the U.S. men's rowing team that won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics in what city?

(bell dings) - Greta?

- Berlin.

- Berlin is correct.

Okay, Greta, it's your turn to pick a category.

- Books With Boats for 30, please.

- Books With Boats for 30 to wrap the category up.

What's the name of the elderly Cuban fishermen in Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."?

(buzzer buzzing) I know it's probably on the tip of everyone's tongues.

Santiago.

Windham, it's still your board.

- Why Stop At 50 for 10 please.

- Okay, Why Stop At 50 for 10.

Questions about places proposed to be our 51st state.

Unhappy with the result of gerrymandering in 1977, Martha's vineyard and Nantucket proposed seceding from which state to form a state of their own?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Massachusetts.

- Yep, that's right.

- Why Stop At 50 for 15?

- Why Stop At 50, 15.

In June, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill introduced by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton to make what place the 51st U.S. state?

(bell dings) - Ryan, on the end, Brewer.

- Washington Douglas.

- That's correct, Brewer, you still have control.

- Why Stop At 50 for 20?

- Why Stop At 50 for 20.

Since the 19th century, there have been proposals for the Upper Peninsula to break away from Michigan and form a new state named for which of the great lakes?

(buzzer buzzing) - Superior.

Superior.

Brewer, it's still yours.

- Same category for 25.

- Why Stop At 50, 25.

In 1784, part of North Carolina was set aside to become the State of Franklin.

Today that territory is in the Eastern part of which state?

(buzzer buzzing) - That'd be Tennessee.

It's still Brewer's.

- Well, same category for 30.

- Wrap it up.

Why Stop At 50 for 30.

Ranchers who were angry about not receiving enough benefit from the New Deal in 1939, proposed forming their own state named for what mountain range on the Montana-Wyoming border?

(buzzer buzzing) Absaroka, Absaroka.

Brewer, it is still yours.

- All right, let's do Dino Might for 10.

- Dino Might for 10, all right.

These questions are about prehistoric creatures.

Which dinosaur's name means three horned face?

(bell dings) - Greta.

- Triceratops.

- Triceratops is right.

- All right, History In Art for 10.

- History In Art for 10.

These questions are about works of art depicting historical events.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emmanuel Leutza shows General George Washington on his way to attack a military garrison in what New Jersey city?

(bell dings) - Greta again.

- Trenton.

- Trenton is correct again.

Okay, it's yours.

- History In Art for 15 please.

- History In Art for 15.

Picasso's painting Guernica was inspired by a horrifying attack on civilians during a civil war in what country?

(bell dings) - Ryan, Brewer.

- Spain.

- Spain, yes.

Your turn.

- History In Art for 20.

- History In Art for 20 French artist, Joseph duPlessis, painted several portraits of which American founding father including one that was used on the $100 bill?

(bell dings) - Greta.

- Ben Franklin.

- Ben Franklin is right.

Your turn.

- History In Art for 25 please.

- We'll go to 25.

Depicting an event from the hundred years war, "The Burghers of Calais" is a work by what French sculptor known for large scale sculptures in bronze?

(buzzer buzzing) - Auguste Rodin.

Windham, your turn, still.

- History In Art for 30, please.

- We'll wrap it up in an 1867 marble sculpture by Edmonia Lewis called "Forever Free" takes its name from a line in what document that went into effect on January 1st, 1863?

(bell dings) - Greta, Windham.

- The Emancipation Proclamation.

- Yes, you're right.

(timer buzzer) And that's the end of the second round.

Our score is Windham at 215, and Brewer at 170.

Obviously everything can change in the lightning round so sit tight, we're right back.

(upbeat music) Okay, we're heading into the final 90 seconds of game play.

It's the lightning round.

Players listen up to the rules.

You can buzz in anytime.

You get 20 points for each correct answer.

Incorrect answers will cost you 20.

And the other team will not get the chance to answer.

The clock is set.

You guys ready?

Here we go.

According to the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall and-- (bell dings) - That would be Caitlin.

- Humpty Dumpty.

- Humpty Dumpty.

Which state is nicknamed the Sooner State.

(bell dings) - Ryan.

- Oklahoma.

- Oklahoma.

The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons surrounding which body joint?

(bell dings) - Ryan again.

- Shoulder.

- Shoulder, yes.

What's up Doc is the catch phrase of... (bell dings) - Kaitlyn.

- Roger rabbit.

- Incorrect, Bugs Bunny.

What is your score if you roll a perfect game in ten-pin bowling?

(buzzer buzzing) (bell dings) I heard the buzzer, 300 is the answer.

Which United nations member state comes first alphabetically?

(buzzer buzzing) - Afghanistan.

New South Wales is the most populous state in what country?

(bell dings) - Ryan.

- Australia.

- Australia, yes.

16th century Pope Leo The 10th was a member of what prominent quarantine family?

(bell dings) - Ryan, again.

- The Medici.

- Yes.

The Hertzsprung Russell or HR diagram is used in the scientific study of what?

(bell dings) - Cooper, Brewer.

- Stars?

- Stars, yes.

Nelson's Column is a monument in what London Square that was named for a Naval battle?

(buzzer buzzing) - Trafalgar Square.

The Bessemer process is used to make what commodity from iron?

(bell dings) - Ryan.

- Steel.

- Steel.

- Steel, yes.

The title of what 18... (timer buzzer) That is the end of the lightning round.

What a comeback, we have our winning team Brewer at 290.

What a final score and what a match.

They'll be moving on to the championship.

Our runner up Windham had 215 points.

You guys were awesome today.

Congratulations to both teams.

Be sure to tune in next time for our season five championship match.

It's gonna be Brewer and Bangor to see who takes home the $1,000 prize.

We'll see you then.

And thanks for watching "High School Quiz Show: Maine".

See you later.

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Standing with educators, ensuring their voices, values, and priorities are respected as they continue to teach and support Maine students during the pandemic and beyond.

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It's about living life as parents, friends, and teammates.

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