(upbeat music) - Welcome to season five of High School Quiz Show Maine, where 16 schools are competing to be this year's champion and take home that 1,000 for their school's project graduation.

In our fourth qualifying match, it's the Eagles of Windham High School.

(upbeat music) Taking on the Panthers of North Yarmouth Academy.

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(upbeat music) - Welcome to season five of High School Quiz Show Maine I'm Todd Gottner welcome to our fourth match of the season, where we continue to whittle down from 16 teams down to one champion who will take home the $1,000 grand prize for their school's project graduation.

And a reminder that this year you will have the chance to win $500 for the school of your choice with our quiz show conundrum contest that's coming up later in the show.

And our fourth match of the season.

We have Windham High School taking on North Yarmouth Academy.

Let's get things started by meeting the players for Windham.

We have Greta, Kaitlyn,, Francesca, and Al with alternates, Victoria and Will and coaches, John Ziegler and Nicole Densmore.

And for north Yarmouth we have Claire, Tyler, Genevieve, and Luke with alternate kaitlyn they're coached by Jennifer McKayla.

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

We'll start with the toss up round.

Now here, all answers are worth 10 points, and this is the only round with no point deductions for wrong answers.

Players this is important you 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 were ready to go?

- [Boys] Let's do it.

- All right.

Let's have some fun.

Let's have a good competition here.

Here's the first question, which branch of us federal government includes the president, vice president and the cabinet?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- The executive.

- The executive branch yes.

What tough looking breed of dog that origin in England is the mascot for sports teams at Yale university and Georgia?

(bing) Kaitlyn Windham, the bulldog.

- The bulldog yes.

A passage in the biblical book of Jeremiah asked whether what animal can change its spots.

(bing) Greta again, a leopard.

- A leopard yes.

The energy your body gets from food is measured in what units whose name means heat?

(bing) Tyler, North Yarmouth Academy.

_ Calories.

- Calories yes.

Up next we have a picture question.

So you're gonna wanna watch this monitor right here.

Name this three time Tour De France champion and anti-doping advocate who is now considered the greatest American cyclist in the aftermath of Lance Armstrong's doping scandal?

(bing@) Answer Greg LeMond.

All right we move on.

The Louisiana purchase was a land transaction between the US and what European country tree?

(bing) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- France.

- France is correct.

Carl Fredrickson has a plan to fly his house to south America with helium balloons in what Oscar winning movie from 2009?

(bing) Claire, North Yarmouth.

- Up.

- Up is correct.

What name that means right or straight in Spanish refers to a long lasting storm system like the one that traveled straight through Iowa in the summer of 2020?

(bing@) This is kind of a weather question this is my wheelhouse derecho, derecho.

A solution moves through a semipermeable membrane until areas of high salute concentration and low salute concentration are equal.

What is this passive process called?

(bing) Francesca.

- Osmosis.

- Osmosis yes.

Up next, we have a video question.

So please take a look at your monitors right here.

- Hi I'm Robbie Feinberg reporter and host here at Maine Public.

What is the nickname given to Margaret Thatcher, referring to her uncompromising political and leadership style.

(bing) - Greta Windham.

- Iron Made.

- [Todd] That is incorrect.

(bing) Claire North Yarmouth.

- The Iron Lady.

- That is correct.

What man who is the former governor of Massachusetts and a current Senator from Utah ran against Barack Obama for president in 2012.

(bing) Tyler, North Yarmouth.

- Mitt Romney.

- Yes Mitt Romney.

Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen played for what team that won six NBA championships in the 1990s?

(bing) Tyler again.

- The Chicago Bulls.

- Yes.

What explosive two word name did British astronomer, Fred Hoyle give to a well known theory about the origin of the universe?

(bing) Al, Windham.

- The big bang.

- That's correct, big bang.

Where is your sciatic nerve?

A your back, B your eye or C your heart.

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Back.

- Yes, A you're back.

Math question now.

What is the area of a trapezoid whose bases are five in 16 and whose height is 14?

(bing@) Answers, 147, 147.

Kathmadu Valley is a UNESCO world heritage site in the foothills of which mountain range?

(bing) - Francesca, Windham.

- The Himalayas.

- Himalaya yes.

The US Marines known as code talkers, transmitted messages in what native American language for the US military during World War 2?

(bing) Claire North Yarmouth.

- Navajo.

- Navajo.

In a Reddit interview.

The abbreviation AMA has a specific meaning.

What is that meaning?

(bing) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- Ask me anything.

- You got it ask me anything.

What Broadway musical tells a story inspired by the wizard of Oz from the witches point of view?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Wicked.

- Wicked is correct.

In vascular plants phloem carries sucrose down from the leaves to the roots, what issue carries water and nutrients up?

(bing) Greta again.

- The xylem.

- That is correct.

A tanner is a person who works with what material, A leather B stone or sea wood?

(bing) Al, Windham.

- Leather.

- Leather is correct.

What dramatic style of the all room dancing is on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list for Argentina and Uruguay?

(bing) Claire, North Yarmouth.

- Tango.

- Tango yes.

The title of a book by Paulo Coelho refers to what sort of scientist magician who tries to turn ordinary metal into gold?

(bing) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- Alchemist.

- Correct Alchemist.

Another math question.

Mitchie Brusco was the first pro skateboarder to land a trick with three and a half full airborne revolutions.

How many degrees are in three and a half revolutions?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- 1,260.

- Yes nice job.

From the Latin for two heads.

What is the name for the two headed flex muscle at the front of your upper arm?

(bing) Francesca, Windham.

- Bicep.

- Correct, bicep.

Annapolis is on what bay that stretches from Maryland down to Virginia?

(bing)(bing@) We did get it in Kaitlyn, Windham.

- Chesapeake Bay.

- That's correct, Chesapeake.

Built in the 15th century.

Topkapi Palace in Istanbul was the seat of what empire for the next 400 years?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- The Ottoman.

- That's correct, the Ottoman empire.

Her father is drafted into the army, but he's too old to fight.

So what heroin from Chinese folklore and Disney films dress a man and takes his place as a soldier.

(bing) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- Mulan.

- Mulan yes.

What first century Greek scholar wrote lives of the Nobles Grecians and Romans also known as parallel lives?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Socrates.

- Incorrect North Yarmouth.

(bing) - Plato.

- Luke that's incorrect.

Plutarch, Plutarch.

George Seurat was known for what painting technique that takes its name from the French for dots?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Impressionism.

- Incorrect.

(bing) North Yarmouth, Genevieve.

- Pointillism.

- Pointillism, good job.

In Chess what word is defined as a calculated risk, like an opening move that sacrifices a pawn to gain an advantageous position?

(bing) Luke, North Yarmouth.

- Gambit.

- Good job gambit.

(timer rings) All right that's the end of the first round, good job teams.

Windham we're at 180, North Yarmouth Academy is at 90 great start to season five.

We'll meet the teams when we come back.

(upbeat music) And we are back a reminder that we are not doing that head-to-head on this season, but we will still take a couple of minutes to get to know our contestants with our special question.

And this evening it is, if you were a wrestler, what would your name and theme song be and why?

And good luck with this one.

We're gonna start over here with Windham.

Greta what do you got?

- Think I would go with Won't Back Down and I'd have Prelude and G played on electric guitar.

- That is brilliant.

Really good.

Very, very nice answer.

Kaitlyn, what do you got for us?

- I would be Loud and Proud and I would have Hayloft by Mother Mother.

- I haven't heard that one I don't think.

- Oh, you should.

- Okay all right.

That sounds good.

Francesca.

- I would probably be Chess The Best because that's what I do for Quizlets.

And I would probably have Underground by Cody Fry playing because it's unexpected but still pretty cool.

- Totally yeah.

What are Quizlets?

I'm not, familiar with Quizlets and I'm getting a lot of side eye right now, apparently what's a Quizlet?

- It's something that like teachers can do.

It's like a -- - Online flashcard.

- Yeah online flashcards.

And you can also do like Quizlet live and like against your team.

- All right that did not exist when I went to school, which was like four decades ago.

Al what do you got?

- I would be The Challenger and I would play twinkle twinkle little star and try to put my challenge to sleep.

- (laughs) Brilliant well done.

Let's go to North Yarmouth, Claire.

- Mine would probably be something like classical calamity.

I'd just play classical music and try to bore them.

- Lull them to sleep again, this seems to be a theme, a strategy for you guys.

Tyler.

- I'd be El Hefe, which means the boss.

- Yeah, yeah.

- And my song would be runaway by Kanye west.

- Ah, nice.

Well done all right.

Genevieve.

- Probably be Unathletic because I am unathletic.

- Okay.

- And my theme song probably be, it sounds similar to the jaws theme song, but it's made by Devor Jack.

- Okay.

So to scare your opponent, right.

- Yeah but it's also just a fun piece.

- Yeah fun piece, all right thanks Genevieve.

And Luke to wrap it up.

- I'd be Bigger Mac and my theme song would be the main theme from punch out.

- (laughs) Okay all right.

The category round is coming up next, but first here is your chance to win $500 for the school of your choice with our quiz show conundrum of the week.

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Grace Levit, president of the Maine Education Association.

And this is your quiz show conundrum.

- [Woman] Unscramble the phrase rowboat shrink.

Your clue is their boats are really big.

That's rowboat shrink their boat are really big.

- [Man] Unscramble the word or phrase to reveal a main location.

Send your answer along with your name and a Maine pre-K through secondary school of your choice to quiz Show at mainepublic.org.

We'll choose two of the correct answers at random.

And the nominated schools will each win $500.

A different conundrum will be revealed each week.

Entries limited to one entry for household per question.

Contest ends June 22nd at 11:59 PM Eastern.

Winners will be revealed during the season five championship episode for full contest rules and alternate entry information go to mainepublic.org/quizshow and good luck.

- Welcome back to High School Quiz Show Maine next up the category round with the following choices.

Monkey business.

Can you dig it?

Island time.

Speak up.

Eat your vegetables and a spot of T. Each category has five questions with increasing point values.

Now players, 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 confer and we'll need that answer.

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

North Yarmouth you are trailing right now.

So you get to choose the first category.

What's it gonna be?

- [Student] A spot of T, please?

- A spot of T for 10 all right.

All the answers will start with the letter T. Robin, Raven and Beast Boy are members of what superhero group that that protects Jump City.

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Teen Titans.

- Teen Titans yes.

You have control now.

Greta in Windham.

- Stick with this?

- Yeah we'll stick with this.

- All right a spot of T for 15.

Lara Croft the main playable character in which video game franchise?

(bing) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- Tomb Raider.

- Tomb Raider yes.

Where would you like to go?

- Let's stick with this.

- Okay.

A spot of T for 20.

Simon Halep and Ashleigh Barty are highly ranked players of what sport?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Tennis.

- Tennis yes.

What would you like to do?

- Let's stay with this.

- Stay with it.

A spot of T for 25.

In the newspaper comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes what kind of animal is Hobbes?

(bing) Claire, North Yarmouth.

- A tiger.

- A tiger is right.

Where would you like to go Claire?

- A spot of T for 30, please.

- All right we'll wrap up the category.

"Midnight Sun" is the newest novel in what Saga by Stephenie Meyer?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Twilight.

- Twilight yes.

You have control again.

- Let's go with, eat your vegetables for 10 please.

- Got it eat your vegetables for 10.

Questions about veggies.

Iceberg, Boston, and Romaine are varieties of what vegetable that most people eat and salads?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Lettuce.

- Lettuce is correct.

Now were.

- I like vegetables.

Vegetables for 15.

- Do you really like your vegetables Al?

- [Al] I love my vegetables.

- (laughs) All right, all right.

If you say so.

Allium cepa is the botanical name for the common type of what vegetable that makes you cry when you chop it.

(bing) Luke North Yarmouth.

- Onion.

- Onion yes.

How about you, Luke where do you wanna go?

- [Luke] Let's go for eat your vegetables 20.

- Okay eat your vegetables for 20.

Traditionally coleslaw and (indistinct) are made from what vegetable finally shredded .

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Cabbage.

- Cabbage, yes.

Now where?

- Speak up for 10 please.

- Speak up for 10 questions about languages.

Catalan is the official language of what country that lies between Spain and France?

(bing) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- Andorra.

- Andorra, nice.

You're up?

- [Kaitlyn] Speak up for 15.

- Okay, speak up for 15 Zulu and Africanus are two of the 11 official languages of what African country?

(bing) Claire, North Yarmouth.

- South Africa.

- [Todd] South Africa yes, where would you like to go.

- [Claire] Speak up for 20 please.

- Okay speak up for 20.

Of the six official language of the United nations.

Which one is also an official language of Senegal and Switzerland.

(bing) Greta.

- Germany.

- Incorrect.

- Is it French?

- [Todd] It is French yes.

Well done, where would you like to go.

- [Claire] Speak up for 25 Please.

- Speak up for 25.

The indigenous language Mari was designated in official of what country in 1987?

(bing) Claire, again.

- Australia.

- [Todd] Incorrect.

Windham.

(buzz) Not touching it, huh?

New Zealand, New Zealand you were close.

You still have control of the board though.

Claire in North Yarmouth.. - [Claire] Speak up 30 please.

- Okay speak up for 30.

Australia has Auslan, France has LSF and the US and Canada have ASL.

What kind of languages are these?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Sign languages.

- [Todd] Sign languages, yes.

All right you have control of the board.

- [Greta] Monkey business for 10.

- Monkey business for 10, questions about monkeys.

All right, here we go.

Most monkeys are arboreal, meaning they spend most of their time in what environment?

(bing) Claire.

- Forests.

- [Todd] Forests, correct Yes you have control.

- [Claire] Island time for 10 please.

- Island time for 10, questions about islands of the world.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a summer home on what island that connected by a bridge to Lubec Maine?

(bing) Greta, Windham - Warm Springs.

- Incorrect North Yarmouth you can steal.

(buzz) Campobello.

Campobello island.

North Yarmouth still with control.

- [Student] Island time for 15, please.

- Island time for 15.

The thousand islands region of New York state and Ontario Canada, centers on which river that separates the US and Canada?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- The Hudson.

- [Man] Incorrect North Yarmouth you can steal.

(buzz) The St. Lawrence, the St. Lawrence.

North Yarmouth, you still have control.

- [Student] Can you dig it for 10?

Please.

- Okay can you dig it?

Questions about archeological discoveries?

An expedition led by Heinrich Schliemann unearth the remains of what ancient city, where King Priam, once ruled?

(buzz) This would be Troy.

Troy would be the answer.

North Yarmouth with control.

- Can you dig it for 15, please.

- We'll go to 15.

Can you dig it?

Hirum Bingham is best known for finding what Inca Citadel in the Peruvian Andes?

(buzz) Answer Machu Pichu.

North Yarmouth with control still.

- [Student] Can you dig it for 20 please?

- Can you dig it for 20?

At Thomas Jefferson's Monte cello archeologists found the living quarters of what enslaved woman who was the mother of several of Jefferson's children?

(bing) kaitlyn, Windham.

- Sally Hemings.

- [Todd] That's correct, Sally Hemings.

All right, where do you want to go there Kaitlyn?

- Eat your vegetables for 25 please.

- Eat your vegetables for 25.

What French stew made with zucchini and egg plant shares its name with a 2007 animated film about a rodent who wants to be a chef?

(bing) Tyler, North Yarmouth.

- Ratatouille.

- [Boys] That's correct, Ratatouille.

All right, you have control.

- [Tyler] Monkey business for 15.

- Monkey business for 15, like hamsters and chipmunks, baboons have pouches to carry food in part of their body?

(bing) Greta Windham.

- The pouch, the stomach.

- [Todd] Incorrect, (indistinct).

- The cheeks.

- [Todd] You got it again nice job Claire.

What would you like Claire?

- [Claire] Monkey business for 20.

- Monkey business for 20?

What species of monkey was used to develop the RH factor test used in blood typing?

(bing) Greta, Windham, - Chimpanzee.

- Incorrect, North Yarmouth.

(buzz) It's the Rhesus monkey, the Rhesus.

North Yarmouth with control.

- [Claire] Island time for 20 please.

- Island time for 20.

By area the biggest island in the Caribbean is which independent nation that's located about 90 miles from Key West Florida?

(bing) Greta Windham.

- Cuba.

- [Todd] Cuba's correct.

All right, you got it.

- Eat your vegetables for 30 please.

- Eat your vegetables for 30 the last one in this category.

By definition, spanakopita is a savor a Greek pastry filled with feta cheese and what leafy green vegetable?

(bing) Francesca.

- Spinach.

- Spinach is correct.

Okay what would you like?

- [Al] Can you dig it?

- [Francesca] Sure can you dig it for 25.

Can you get it for 25?

Thanks Al for helping her out there.

Paleontologist Sue Hendrickson unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of what type of dinosaur at the Hell Creek Formation in 1990?

(buzz) That'd be a T-Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex.

(timer rings) All right that is the end of round two.

And we have a score of Windham at 315, North Yarmouth Academy, though still in this at 190 and we've got the lightning round next and anything can change in the lightning round.

So sit tight.

We'll be right back.

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

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 guys.

Here we go.

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet is the prince of what country?

(bing) Luke North Yarmouth.

- Denmark.

- [Todd] Denmark yes.

What central American country has a name?

That means rich coast.

(bing) Tyler, North Yarmouth.

- Costa Rica.

- [Todd] Costa Rica.

Yes.

How many Watts are in a megawatt?

(bing) Greta.

- A 100 - [Todd] Incorrect.

The correct answer is 1 million.

1 million, yeah.

We don't get a chance to steal in this round sorry.

The Edmund Pettus bridge spans the Alabama river in what city?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Montgomery.

- Incorrect.

The answer Selma.

Summertime is an aria from which Gershwin opera?

(buzz) That'd be Porgy and Bess, Porgy and Bess.

What punctuation mark indicates factorial in math?

(bing) - Tyler, North Yarmouth.

- Exclamation point.

- Correct.

How many lines are on a standard troubled musical staff?

(bing) Greta, Windham.

- Four.

- Incorrect, sorry.

It's five, it's five.

The Tao Te Ching is attributed to which ancient Chinese philosopher?

(bing)(buzz) Greta got in, Windham.

- Confucius.

- Incorrect, the answer is Laozi, Laozi.

The words of the star Spangled banner were inspired by.

(timer rings) Yes, we got that in Claire, North Yarmouth - The revolutionary war.

- Incorrect.

That would be the war of 1812.

Oh man what a close match we have.

The final score, our winning team this week Windham at 235.

They will be moving on to the quarter finals in a few weeks.

The runner up North Yarmouth Academy put up a great fight.

Awesome lightning round finish with 230, 230.

What a match.

Congratulations to both teams.

Be sure to tune in next time as Cape Elizabeth takes on Coney in our next qualifying match.

Thanks for watching High School Quiz Show Maine.

We'll see you again next time.

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