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This time, we have a second round game between Alma and Ludington.

That's next.

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(dramatic epic music) - Hello again, everyone, I'm David Nicholas, and welcome to "Quiz Central."

This time, students from Alma taking on the team from Ludington in this 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.

So let's get to our game.

Our first round, it is the Maroon and Gold Rush.

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

If a team misses a toss-up 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 set, players?

Here comes your first question.

What body of water receives the Shatt al-Arab River system is connected to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz (buzzer dings) and is south- - Persian Gulf.

- You are correct.

(scoreboard chimes) What country, whose monarch is called the Dragon King, is home to many Buddhist structures- (buzzer dings) - Bhutan.

- That is also correct.

(scoreboard chimes) What painting featuring a lute next to a globe includes an anamorphic skull and is a double portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting diplomats- (buzzer dings) - "The Ambassadors."

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) In what 1516 book by Thomas More does Raphael Hythloday- (buzzer dings) - "Hunchback of Notre Dame"?

- [David] We'll finish the question for you, Ludington.

(scoreboard dongs) Yes, Raphael Hythloday traveled to the title island and observed an ideal society and form of government.

(buzzer dings) - "Fool"?

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) In what city's 2023 mayoral race did Paul Vallas lose to Progressive Brandon Johnson after helping unseat its first Black woman leader, Lori Lightfoot?

(buzzer dings) - Pennsylvania.

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Chance Alma.

No answer there.

All right, toss-up for both.

In 1543, Andreas Vesalius discussed the digitalis, a drug used to treat what condition of abnormal electrical patterns in the heart?

(buzzer dings) - Heart disease.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Alma with a shot.

Okay, back to a toss-up for both.

What object launched in 1957 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome was the first- (buzzer dings) - Sputnik.

(bell ringing) - That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And the bell signals the end of that round, but we will take that answer.

All right, Ludington out to an early 40 to nothing lead.

We'll check the answers that stumped both sides.

The book by Thomas More was "Utopia," and the city was Chicago, Illinois, where Lori Lightfoot was the first woman mayor.

And finally, the abnormal electrical patterns in the heart, those are arrhythmias.

And with their buzzer-beating answer, Ludington jumps out to an early 40-point lead.

Now, before we get back to the game, let's take a moment to meet our students competing today.

First up, our team from Alma.

- Hello, my name is Ayden.

I'm a junior at Alma High School.

I'm in band as well as track and field.

- Hello, my name is Brooke.

I do Quiz Bowl and Model UN, and I'm a senior at Alma High School.

- Hey, I'm Bennet.

I'm a senior at Alma High School.

I do Quiz Bowl, NHS, and Boy Scouts.

- Hello, my name is Vincent.

I'm a senior at Alma High School, and I do Quiz Bowl.

- Thank you, Alma.

Welcome again.

Now let's take a chance to meet our team from Ludington.

- Hi, my name is Quinn Merchant.

I'm a senior at LHS.

I'm in NHS, and I'm the drummer in our jazz band.

- My name is Jackson Skipper.

I'm a senior at Ludington High School, and I'm a part of the marching band and NHS.

- Hello, my name is Joe Klein.

I'm a junior at Ludington High School and I'm the senior patrol leader of Boy Scout Troop 1190.

- Hello, my name is Gabriel Ho.

I'm a senior at Ludington High School, and I do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

- Thank you, Ludington.

Thank you to all of our students competing today.

Our next round here on "Quiz Central" is the kickoff round.

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

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

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

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

There's no stealing the bonus questions.

However, teams can confer.

We'll take those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus answer means we'll go back to a toss-up for both teams.

Buzzers all set?

Here comes your first question.

Goats were often sacrificed when people consulted the Pythia at what temple dedicated to Apollo?

(buzzer dings) - Delphi?

(scoreboard chimes) - [David] That is correct.

Your bonus question, what emperor built the Golden House, or Domus Aurea, in the aftermath of the AD 64 Great Fire of Rome, during which he was said to have fiddled?

- Nero.

- [Team Member] Nero.

- Nero.

- That is correct.

Back to a toss-up.

What playwright who wrote "Homebody/Kabul" made the AIDS crisis the background for supernatural events in his two-part play "Angels in America"?

(buzzer dings) - Tennessee Williams.

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Alma with a chance here.

We're looking for Tony Kushner.

Toss-up for both teams.

What author, who depicted the death of socialite Lily Bart in the novel "The House of Mirth," wrote about Ellen Olenska in "The Age of Innocence"?

(buzzer dings) - Lorraine Hansberry.

- [David] That's incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Alma, you get the chance for the steal.

Edith Wharton was the writer that we were looking for.

Toss-up for both.

What Marian apparition, a popular subject of veneration in Mexico, appeared to peasant- (buzzer dings) - Our Lady of Guadalupe.

- [David] That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And the bonus for you, Ludington, what city, whose neighborhoods include Anacostia, Adams Morgan, and Foggy Bottom, is circled by the Capital Beltway and is on the Potomac River?

- What, Maryland?

- Maryland?

- Annapolis?

- Annapolis or Virginia.

- Annapolis.

- Go for Annapolis.

- Annapolis.

- It's incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) We're looking for Washington, DC.

- Oh.

- Oh gosh.

Oh my God.

- What ingredient, which is used to color Coca-Cola and in the sauce for flan, is made by heating sugars- (buzzer dings) - Caramel.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Bonus question now.

In 2024, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo probe had a glitch en route to what planet visited in 2011 by NASA's MESSENGER probe?

- [Team Members] Mars.

- Mars.

- [David] Incorrect.

We're looking for Mercury.

- [Team Members] Oh.

- [David] Toss-up for both teams.

What Civil War general, who supposedly declared war as hell, used scorched earth tactics- (buzzer dings) - Sherman.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) William Tecumseh Sherman.

And your bonus question, what activist became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize honoring a settlement house she created in Chicago called Hull House?

- Anthony?

- [David] That is incorrect.

We're looking for Jane Addams.

(scoreboard dongs) - [Team Members] Oh.

- [David] Toss-up for both teams.

What particles are the main product of spallation sources are made up of quark and two down quarks and protons from an atom's nucleus- (buzzer dings) - Neutron.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And your bonus question, according to VSEPR theory, what molecular geometry is exhibited by the triatomic molecule carbon dioxide?

- Pyramidal.

Pyramidal?

- [David] Oh, we're looking for linear molecular geometry.

What orphan is mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert- (buzzer dings) - Oliver Twist?

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Ludington with a chance.

(buzzer dings) - Pip?

- [David] It's also incorrect.

Anne of Green Gables is our answer there.

Toss-up for both.

What last name is shared by Phil, the current governor of Vermont.

and a senator from Florida who is the state's governor from 2011 to 2019?

(buzzer dings) - Newsom?

- [David] Incorrect.

Alma with the shot.

Scott is the answer.

Phil Scott, Philip Scott, or Rick Scott, the two that we are looking for.

Toss-up for both.

What politician whom Joseph Welch asked if he had no sense of decency during a 1954 hearing was a Wisconsin senator- (buzzer dings) - McCarthy.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Joe McCarthy.

And your bonus question, what state's Arches National Park contains a 52-foot tall delicate arch which is depicted on its license plates?

- Isn't it in Utah?

- Yeah.

- Utah.

- Utah?

- Utah is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) - Oh.

- Toss-up for both.

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

So after two rounds, it is Ludington, 110, Alma on the board with 10.

We still got a lot of game left, and we'll be heading to the Perfect Ten next.

Teams, in the Perfect Ten, you'll have 60 seconds to answer question from a choice of three 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.

We'll take answers from the captain.

The team that's trailing will get the first choice from our clues to pick a clue to the category, and here are your Perfect Ten clues to those categories today: Note the Number, Netflix and Chill, and Closed for the Season.

Alma, you're currently trailing, you get your first pick from those.

- Netflix and Chill.

- [David] Netflix and Chill.

Then your category is Classic Film Titles.

Give the word that completes the titles of these films.

60 seconds on the clock for you, Alma, as we begin your Perfect Ten.

"The Wizard of," blank.

- Oz.

- Correct.

(scoreboard chimes) 1952, "Singing in the"?

- What?

- Rain.

- Rain?

- Correct.

(scoreboard chimes) 1939, "Gone with the," blank.

- Wind.

(scoreboard chimes) - [David] Correct.

1959, "Some Like It," blank.

- Hot.

Hot.

- Correct.

(scoreboard chimes) 1968, "Night of the Living," blank.

- Dead.

- Correct (scoreboard chimes) From 1946, "It's a Wonderful," blank.

- Life.

- Correct.

(scoreboard chimes) 1939, "Mr. Smith Goes to"?

- Washington?

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) (Bennet gasps) From 1967, "Guess Who's Coming to"?

- Dinner.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) From 1948, "The Treasure of the Sierra"?

- Nevada?

- That's incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) From 1957, "The bridge"- (bell ringing) Up.

We got to the end of that and did not have time to get that one in.

Ludington, you'll get 30 seconds to try to grab these two.

30 seconds on the clock.

Back to the 1948 film, "The Treasure of the Sierra"?

- Madre.

- Correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And from 1957, "The Bridge on the River"?

- Kwai.

- Also correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Okay.

Now, Ludington, we do move to you next.

Your choices remain, Note the Number and Closed for the Season.

- [Quinn] Closed for the Season, I think, is sports.

- Which one do you think should be sports?

Note the Number?

- Closed for the Season.

- Closed for the Season, then.

- [Gabriel] Yeah, Closed for the Season.

- Closed for the Season.

- Closed for the Season.

That clue leads to this category, Seasons.

- Oh.

- Give these answers that include the name of a season.

- [Quinn] Okay.

- [David] Again, give these answers that include the name of a season.

60 seconds as we begin your Perfect Ten with, part of Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" that depicts chattering teeth.

- [Team Members] "Winter."

- "Winter."

- Correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Protests in the Middle East in the 2010s.

- [Team Members] Spring.

- Spring.

- More specific, please.

- Arab Spring.

- Arab Spring.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) International sporting event held in Paris in 2024.

- [Team Members] Summer Olympics.

- Summer Olympics.

(scoreboard chimes) - [David] Correct.

Igor Stravinsky Ballet, who is 19- - "The Rite of Spring."

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Chinese festival in which mooncakes are eaten.

- [Team Member] Lunar New Year?

- I think it's a season- - Yeah.

- they are looking for.

- Autumn?

- Autumn.

- More specific, please.

- Autumn annuals?

- Autumn annuals.

- [David] Hmm.

(clicks tongue) (scoreboard dongs) Right, we can't take that answer.

We'll set that one aside.

Next, the asterism with three vertices including Deneb, which is overhead in July.

- Summer... - Solstice.

- [Team Members] Summer Solstice.

- Summer Solstice.

- Incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Rachel Carson book that warned against DDT.

(bell ringing) - "Spring Silent Spring."

- "Spring Silent Spring."

- No good on that last one.

Sorry.

We ran out of time.

We're gonna shift it over to you, Alma, for 30 seconds back on the clock.

See if you can pick up on the following and potentially finish off the category.

30 seconds for your Perfect Ten shot at these.

A Chinese festival in which mooncakes are eaten.

- Pass.

- [David] The asterism with three vertices including Deneb.

- Polaris?

- Is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Rachel Carson book that warn against DDT.

- "Silent Spring."

"Silent Spring."

(scoreboard chimes) - [David] That is correct.

Seven-word opening line of Shakespeare's "Richard III."

- I ain't read that one.

- [Team Member] So am I.

- Pass.

- Aaron Copeland ballet titled- (bell ringing) Time, we didn't get to that final one.

The Deneb overhead in July was a Summer Triangle.

Solstice, we were close, but...

The seven-word opening for Shakespeare, "Now is the winter of our discontent."

The Aaron Copland ballet was "Appalachian Spring."

At the end of our Perfect Ten, we've tightened up the game a bit.

Ludington, you are still out in front, 170 to 100.

Let's find out if Alma can mount a comeback in the Home Stretch.

In the Home Stretch, we'll have a combination of toss-up and bonus questions.

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

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

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

There's no stealing the bonus questions.

However, teams can confer.

We'll take those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus means we'll head back to a toss-up for both teams.

All right, buzzers ready.

Here comes your first question.

What opera, which is based on a novel by Prosper Merimee, includes an "Habanera" sung by the title, seductive gypsy woman- (buzzer dings) - "Carmen."

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Your bonus question, what constitutional amendment requires probable cause for the issuing of warrants and- (buzzer dings) - [Team Member] It's bonus.

It's bonus.

It's Fourth Amendment.

- It's the Fourth.

- Fourth Amendment.

- Fourth.

- [David] Fourth is the correct answer.

(scoreboard chimes) Remember, no need to buzz in on the bonus questions.

Toss-up for both teams.

What region, which is home to twotinos and cubewanos, is closer to the sun than the Oort Cloud and is a belt named for a Dutch astronomer?

(buzzer dings) - Copernicus.

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Alma for a chance.

That's the Kuiper Belt.

Toss-up for both.

What artist painted his wife Anne Charigot playing with a dog in a balcony in "Luncheon of the Boating Party"?

(buzzer dings) - Renoir.

- Renoir is the artist.

(scoreboard chimes) Yes.

And your bonus question, what war, which is the setting of Anthony Doerr's novel "All the Light We Cannot See," is also the subject of John Hersey's 1946 book "Hiroshima"?

- [Team Members] World War II.

- World War II.

- World War II is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Friedrich Nietzsche's first book considered the birth of what literary genre from the "Spirit of Music"?

(buzzer dings) - Poetry.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Alma?

(scoreboard dongs) (buzzer dings) - Philosophy?

- Incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) There, we are looking for tragedy.

What country reached a 2022 peace agreement with the TPLF under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end a conflict with- (buzzer dings) - Ethiopia - That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And the bonus question, what British author critiqued the lack of educational opportunities for women in her essays "Three Guineas and A Room of One's Own"?

- [Team Member] Malinowski?

- Defer to Gabe.

- Malinowski?

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) We are looking for Virginia Woolf.

- [Team Members] Oh.

(team members chatting faintly) - [David] Toss-up for both teams.

What country, where islanders exchange gifts in the Kula tradition, counts over 800 indigenous languages and is governed from Port Moresby?

- Papua New Guinea.

- You are correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And the bonus question here, what NHL franchise suspended operations in 2024 with its players and staff moving north to become the Utah Hockey Club?

- [Joseph] Arizona Coyotes - [David] That is correct.

- Oh.

(scoreboard chimes) - [David] What woman who led three steamboats in South Carolina during the Combahee River Raid- (buzzer dings) - Harriet Tubman.

- [David] You are correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And to the bonus answer, or bonus question now, what city that was home to the House of the Tragic Poet and the House of the Faun was buried in ash in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

- Pompeii.

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Toss-up for both.

What poem, which describes how poppies blow between rows of crosses, was- (buzzer dings) - "Flanders Fields."

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Bonus question now.

What single cell organisms, which include those in genus candida, are a type of fungi, some of which are used to produce alcohol in fermentation?

- Yeast?

- Yeah.

- Yeast?

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) Back to the toss-up.

Backyard furnaces were encouraged as part of what failed 1958- (buzzer dings) - The Great Leap Forward.

- [David] That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) And your toss-up here, what Romanian playwright based conversations between the Smiths and the Martins on dialogues for the English language learners in his play "The Bald Soprano"?

- Miller?

- I don't know.

- Miller.

(laughs) - That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) We are looking for Eugene Ionesco.

(bell ringing) And bell signals the end of the round.

And now we've got the final countdown on deck for you.

Teams, you'll have two minutes to answer as many toss-up 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.

All set, players?

Okay, good luck.

Here comes your first question.

What data typed, named after an English mathematician, can have only two possible values- - Turing.

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Alma.

After an English mathematician can only have two possible values, usually denoted true or false.

(buzzer dings) - Pascal.

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) What Dynasty, which sponsored Zheng He's travels across the Indian Ocean, ruled China between 1368 and 1644 after it was ousted by the Qing?

(buzzer dings) - The Ming.

- Ming dynasty is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) What country hosts the world's oldest ultramarathon, The Comrades Marathon, an annual race between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg?

(buzzer dings) - Russia?

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Ludington with a guess?

(buzzer dings) - Romania.

- Incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) What quantity proposed by S.P.L.

Sorensen is defined by the negative logarithm of hydrogen ion concentration, and for pure water is typically 7?

- pH.

- That is correct.

- I just learned this.

- What author of "Daughter of Fortune" wrote about the clairvoyant Clara del Valle in "The House of the Spirits," and is a magical realist writer from Chile?

(buzzer dings) - Yorka?

- That is incorrect.

(scoreboard dongs) Alma with a chance there.

No guess.

Okay.

Toss-up for both teams.

What novel whose protagonist presents two white flowers given to him by Weena- (buzzer dings) - "The Time Machine?"

- That is correct.

(scoreboard chimes) The toss up here.

Guy, excuse me, Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby were leaders of what plot that aimed to kill- (buzzer dings) - Gunpowder Plot?

- That is also correct (scoreboard chimes) And end of the round and our game for today.

Let's check a couple of those that stumped.

The data type named after the English mathematician was the Boolean.

The country that hosts that ultramarathon, that is South Africa.

And the author of "Daughter of Fortune" was Isabel Allende.

Brings us to the close of today's game, and we end with a final score of Ludington, 310, Alma, 120.

Let's have a nice round for both of our competing teams today.

(all applauding) All right.

Great job across the board, players.

Alma, thanks very much for playing with us here on "Quiz Central."

Congratulations, Ludington.

You'll be moving on to another round.

And you will be moving along to another round with us, we hope, the next time we get set for "Quiz Central" here on WCMU.

Have a good night, everybody.

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