- Welcome to the studios of WCMU Public Media.

This time it's a matchup between DeWitt and Traverse City Central.

That is coming up next.

(upbeat music) Hello again everyone, I'm David Nicholas and welcome to Quiz Central.

This time students from DeWitt are taking on the team from Traverse City Central.

This is a 16 teams single elimination tournament.

Top teams from Quiz Central will qualify for the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament.

Let's get to today's 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 answers incorrectly, the opposing school has an opportunity to answer that question.

Teams may not consult during this round.

New this year, players will receive a one-second penalty if they ring in before a tossup question has been read completely.

That's indicated by an orange light that will appear above their name.

Answers are worth 10 points a piece.

There is no deduction for incorrect answers.

If all of our players are ready, get those buzzers set and here comes your first question.

What term that describes laws mostly repeal in 594 BC by Solon refers to an Athenian lawmaker whose legal code carried many severe punishments?

- Draconian?

- [David] That is correct.

In 1811, what Catholic priest delivered the Cry of Dolores, which sparked Mexico's War of Independence from Spain?

- Ali Guadalupe?

- [David] That is incorrect.

Mount Pla- or Traverse City, do you have a guess?

- Juarez?

- Incorrect.

What title character washes bottles at Mr.

Merstone's warehouse, marries Agnes Wickfield, and foils Uriah Heep in a novel by Charles Dickens?

- Oliver Twist.

- [David] Is incorrect, DeWitt?

- Nicholas Nickleby?

- Also incorrect.

- [David] A dark surface region called Galileo Regio is found on what largest Galatian moon, which has its own magnetic field?

- Titan?

- [David] Incorrect, DeWitt, do you take a stab?

- Io?

- [David] Incorrect.

What king of Phrygia kindly took care of the drunk setter Silenus, which caused Dionysus to bless him with a touch that could turn anything into gold?

- Midas.

- That is correct.

And that signals the end of that round off to a start.

DeWitt and Traverse City Central both tied at 10.

Before we meet the players competing today, let's fill you in with the correct answers to questions that were missed in that first round.

That Catholic priest we needed was Hidalgo y Costilla.

The character in the Dickens novel was David Copperfield.

And the moon with its own magnetic field, we were looking for Ganymede.

Now before we start our next round, let's learn some more about our students competing today.

First we say hello to the team from DeWitt.

- Hi, I'm Matthew, I'm a junior at DeWitt and I run cross-country and I'm in the marching band.

- Hi, I'm Callen.

I'm a senior for DeWitt and I play the trumpet in band.

- My name is Tim, I'm a senior at DeWitt.

I play snare drum in the marching band and I'm on swim team.

- Hi, I'm Jay, I'm a sophomore at DeWitt and I also play snare drum in the marching band.

- Thanks DeWitt, good to have you here.

Let's learn a little bit more of our students here today from Traverse City Central.

- I'm Niilo Oselo, I'm a junior at Traverse City Central High School, I'm six foot five.

- I'm Henry, I'm a senior at Traverse City Central and I play the oboe and the clarinet.

- I'm Arthur Lee, I'm a senior at Traverse City Central High School and I'm co-captain of the debate team.

- My name's Dawson, I'm a senior at Traverse City Central.

I run track and I'm part of the pickle ball club.

- A big thank you to all of our students.

Now moving on to the next round in Quiz Central and that is the kickoff round.

The kickoff round includes a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

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

A missed tossup can be stolen by the opposing team.

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

There's no stealing on the bonuses.

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

Remember, players will receive a one-second penalty if they ring in before a tossup question has been read completely.

If you've got your buzzers ready, here comes that first question.

Toss up for both teams.

The haka is a ceremonial performance in the culture of what people who are indigenous to New Zealand?

- Maori.

- [David] That is correct.

Bonus question for Traverse City, what state is home to Mount Katahdin, the northernmost point on the Appalachian Trail and the town of Bar Harbor which is near Acadia National Park?

- Maine.

- [David] That is also correct, toss up for both teens.

What man survived being shot in 1981 by John Hinkley Jr.

Who tried to kill him to impress actress Jodi Foster?

- Reagan.

- [David] That is correct.

Bonus question for DeWitt.

In 2025 special elections took place in what state to fill house seats vacated by Matt Gates and Mike Waltz, who were nominated for cabinet positions?

- Minnesota?

- Incorrect.

Toss up for both, what opera composer depicted Manrico being saved from execution in El Trovatore and was an Italian who wrote about Violetta Valery in La Traviata?

- Verdi.

- [David] That is correct.

DeWitt with a bonus.

What Belgian surrealist painting Galconda depicts nearly identical men in bowler hats raining down from the sky?

- No answer.

- [David] Okay, toss up for both teams.

In what sport whose legends have included Shane Warn and Sachin Tendulkar do bowlers try to take wickets from batsman who use flat fronted bats?

- Cricket.

- That's correct.

Bonus question for DeWitt.

What element isolated by Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segre has a name denoting that it was the first element to be produced artificially?

- Defer.

- Technetium.

- [David] Correct, toss up for both.

What girl who hides a parrot in a chimney and uses telekinesis to scare Mrs.

Trunchbull is a brilliant title character of a novel by Rual Dahal?

- Matilda.

- [David] That is correct.

Bonus question for DeWitt.

What Canadian athlete was named the NBA's MVP in the 2024 to 25 season when he led the Oklahoma City thunder to a title?

- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

- [David] That is correct.

Toss up for both teams.

What quantity adds up to zero at any circuit node according to Kirchhoff's junction rule and equals voltage over resistance in Ohm's law?

- Current.

- [David] That is correct and a bonus for Traverse City Central, Jacques Cartier was the first European to map what Gulf whose waters flow into the Atlantic through the strait of Bell Isle and the Cabot Strait?

- Hudson Bay?

- Incorrect.

Back to a toss up for both teams.

What city is overlooked by Montjuic Hill, contains the Park Güell, and is a capital of Catalonia, and is the second most populous city in Spain?

- Barcelona.

- That is correct.

Bonus for Traverse City Central.

What country where Chevron drills in the Tengiz oil field near the Caspian Sea is a central Asian nation led by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev from Astanta?

- Kazakhstan.

- [David] That's correct.

And the bonus, what Amer- Toss up for both, what American artist who included a green fire hydrant in early Sunday morning depicted four people in a corner diner in his painting Nighthawks?

- Hopper.

- [David] That is correct, and the bonus for Traverse City.

In 1170, Thomas Beckett was serving in what highest religious office in England when he was murdered by knights acting on behalf of King Henry II?

- Archbishop of Canterbury.

- [David] That is also correct.

Toss up for both teams, what ruler who was succeeded by Theodore I ordered the oprichniki to sack Novergard- Excuse me, Novgorod was the czar of Russia nicknamed for his fearsome demeanor?

- Ivan the Terrible.

- Correct.

Bonus for Traverse City Central, what author described of a sieged city in his book, Sevastopol Sketches and portrayed a woman's affair with count Vronsky in the novel Anna Karenina?

- Tolstoy.

- Also correct.

And that signals the end of the round.

And we have a score currently Traverse City Central 100, DeWitt 70, good close game.

Good job so far players, well done.

Well let's take a quick look back and answer the questions that were missed.

The state holding the election to fill Matt Gaetz's seat, that was Florida.

The Belgian painter depicting bowler hats was Rene Magritte.

And finally, the body of water we needed was the Gulf of St.

Lawrence.

Our next round today is the perfect 10.

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 the answers from the captain.

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

All right, we'll start this perfect 10 round with DeWitt.

You get the first crack at these three categories.

Italian music terms, the head and neck, or animal terms?

- Italian music terms please.

- All right.

And the clue to this category For Italian music terms, give these musical terms derived from Italian, none of which refer to tempos.

Musical terms derived from Italian, none of which refer to tempos.

And we start with the highest vocal part in a standard SATB chorus?

- Soprano.

- [David] Brass instrument with a long slide?

- Trombone.

- [David] To play strings by plucking?

- Pizzicato.

- [David] To play softly abbreviated P.

- Piano.

- [David] Smaller higher pitched version of a flute.

- Piccolo.

- To gradually get louder.

- Crescendo.

- [David] Music for unaccompanied chorus.

- Solo, right?

- Sure.

- Solo.

- Seven-letter honorific for a conductor or composer?

- Director?

- [David] To play notes in a connected style unlike staccato.

- Legato.

- [David] An unaccompanied section in which a soloist demonstrates their skill as in a concerto?

Time gets the end of that round.

Okay, Traverse City Central, again, it's Italian music terms and you have 30 seconds to see which ones you can pick up.

We start with music for unaccompanied chorus.

- Hem.

- [David] The seven-letter honorific for a conductor or composer.

- Maestro.

- That's correct.

Finally an unaccompanied section in which a soloist demonstrates their skill as in a concerto?

- Defer to Arthur.

- Cadenza.

- [David] That is correct.

140 to 120 currently.

The only question missed there was music for unaccompanied chorus, and that answer we were looking for, acapella.

Traverse City Central, we will give you then your choice from the head and neck or animal terms.

- Can we have head and neck please?

- [David] Yes you can.

For the category, the head and neck this clue, answer the following about the head and neck.

The following about the head and neck.

Sense relayed from the nose through olfactory nerves.

- Smell.

- [David] Bones also called the mandible and maxilla.

- Jaw.

- [David] Facial structures whose outer edges are marked by the vermilion border?

- Cheek?

- Cheekbone.

- Cheekbones?

- [David] Fleshy structure that prevents food from entering the windpipe.

- Defer to Dawson.

- Epiglottis - [David] That is correct.

Lymphoid organs with adenoid and palatine types.

- Tonsils.

- Correct.

Veins in the neck that drain blood from the head.

- Jugular.

- [David] Fluids surrounding the brain that is collected in a spinal tap.

- Defer to Dawson - Amniotic fluid.

- [David] Lobe of the cere- And time.

Through a good chunk of those, we'll head over to DeWitt.

You have 30 seconds to pick up on the ones that were answered incorrectly and perhaps finish out the category.

Facial structures whose outer edges are marked by the vermilion border?

- Eye sockets.

- Incorrect.

Fluid surrounding the brain that is collected in a spinal tap.

- Defer to Jay.

- Cerebral spinal fluid.

- [David] That's correct.

Lobe of the cerebrum that processes vision.

Time, that was going to be the occipital.

Now let's take a look at the answers both teams missed.

The facial structures we needed were the lips, and the lobe of the cerebrum that processes vision, that was the occipital lobe.

Traverse City Central now at 170, DeWitt 150.

A good close game as we move on to the homestretch.

The homestretch is a round that includes a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

A team that correctly answers the tossup, they get an opportunity to answer a single bonus question.

A missed tossup can be stolen by the opposing team and a correct answer on a tossup allows for a single follow up bonus question.

No stealing after the bonuses, and after the bonus question we will go back to a tossup for both teams.

Players will receive a one-second penalty if they ring in before a tossup question has been read completely.

Buzzers ready players.

Here comes the first question.

The final caprice by what violin virtuoso inspired a set of 24 variations in a Rhapsody by Sergei Rachmaninoff?

- Paganini.

- That is correct.

Bonus question for DeWitt.

What particle discovered by James Chadwick is composed of one up and two down quarks, has a 0.1% more mass than a proton and has zero charge.

- Neutron.

- That's also correct.

Toss up for both teams, what party led by Cyril Ramaphosa lost its majority in South Africa's parliament in 2024 for the first time in three decades?

- African National Congress.

- That is correct.

Traverse City Central's bonus, what video game company, once known as Jellyvision, created the games Mad Verse City, Trivia Murder Party and Fibbage for their namesake party packs?

- Jackbox.

- [David] That is correct, toss up for both teams.

What Southern Baptist minister advise 13 US presidents and hosted many namesake Evangelical crusades?

- Fred Phelps.

- That is incorrect.

- Smith.

- Also incorrect.

Toss up for both teams.

What officer commanded the seventh cavalry regiment when he was defeated in 1876 by a crazy horse's army at the Battle of Little Bighorn, his last stand?

- Custer?

- That is correct.

- Bonus for DeWitt, what group which organized the 1976, 1980 and 1984 presidential debates succeeded the suffragist lobby NAWSA after the 19th amendment was ratified?

- Seneca Falls.

- Incorrect.

Toss up for both, in what city did Comptroller Brad Lander call for the resignation after a September, 2024 federal criminal indictment of Mayor Eric Adams?

- New York.

- That is correct.

Bonus for Traverse City.

In what people's mythology did the hero twins overthrow the lords of the underworld Xibalba?

- Mayan.

- [David] That's also correct, toss up for both.

What quantity which is measured at the meniscus is a namesake for flasks, is inversely proportional to pressure in Boyle's law, and has units of liters?

- Volume.

- Correct.

Bonus for DeWitt, what Venetian woman who loses a handkerchief with a strawberry pattern is suffocated to death by her husband in William Shakespeare's Othello?

- It starts with B, name starts with B.

- Bianca?

- Incorrect.

Toss up for both as we go back to that, what country which worked to repay creditors after 2005 and 2010 credit swaps pushed its claim to the Falkland Islands under Christina Kirschner?

- Argentina.

- That's correct.

Bonus for Traverse City Central.

What novel which is narrated by Chief Brondan and centers on a rebellious Randall McMurphy takes place in a mental institution and is by Ken Kesey.

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

- [David] That is correct, toss up for both schools.

From 1969 to 2004, Yasser Arafat was chairman of what organization whose largest faction is Fatah?

- Palestinian authority.

- [David] Correct, bonus for Traverse City.

What molecule that has minor and major grooves running along its sugar phosphate backbone had its structure study studied by Rosalyn Franklin?

- DNA.

- Also correct.

Back to our tossup.

The towering endless column was designed by what Romanian sculptor who represented the essence of flight in his bird and space sculptures?

Time.

Next question, what monarch whose legendarily wielded the sword joyous was the son of Pepin in the short who ruled as king of the Franks in the late eighth century?

- Charlemagne?

- [David] That's correct, bonus for Traverse City.

A form of cellular movement is named after what single-cell protozoans that extend parts of their cytoplasm called pseudopodia?

- Amoeba.

- Correct.

And the end of that round.

Currently Traverse City Central holds a lead, 270 to 190.

Before we start our last round of the game today, let's look back at the questions that were missed.

That Southern Baptist minister who advised 13 US presidents, that was Billy Graham.

The group who organized presidential debates was the League of Women Voters.

The Venetian woman who loses a handkerchief with a strawberry pattern was Desdemona.

The Romanian sculpture who designed the towering endless column was Constantine Brancusi.

Teams, that brings us to the final round of the day, and that is the final countdown.

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

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

Teams may not consult during this round.

New this year, remember, players will receive a one-second penalty if they ring in before a tossup question has been read completely, and that will be indicated by an orange light above their name.

Answers are worth 10 points a piece, no deduction for incorrect answers.

If all of our players are ready, here comes the first question.

What author of the Passions of the Soul also wrote The Meditations on First Philosophy, where his doubts led him to write, "I think therefore I am."

- Voltaire.

- Incorrect.

- Descartes.

- That's correct for Trevor City.

What future Georgia Congressman and leader of SNC was the youngest speaker during the 1963 march on Washington?

- John Lewis.

- [David] That is correct.

In 1959, Tony War invented what algorithm, which uses a pivot element to partition a list, and is a sorting algorithm named for its speed?

- Binary sort?

- [David] Incorrect, DeWitt the guess.

- Fast.

- [David] Also incorrect, next question.

John Steinbecks of Mice and Men takes its title from a line, in what Scottish poets work to a mouse?

- Burns.

- Correct.

What island contains the city of Payette hosted surfing events during the 2024 summer Olympics and is the largest island of French Polynesia.

- Tahiti.

- That's correct.

What man who names a thought experiment in which a demon violates the second law of thermodynamics collected a set of equations of electromagnetism?

Yes.

- Maxwell.

- [David] That is correct.

What country which was granted land east of the line created by the Treaty of Tordesillas sponsored the explorers Pedro Cabral and Vasco da Gama.

- Portugal.

- Correct.

End of the round, we wind up with a final score Traverse City Central 310 and DeWitt 210.

Congratulations to Traverse City Central.

Well, before we end our show and game for today, let's get an answer to that one missed question.

The algorithm that uses a pivot element was quick sort.

Thanks for joining us this time.

We'll see you right back here next week for another Quiz Central competition.

Have a good night everybody, and thanks for watching.

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