- Welcome to the studios of WCMU Public Television, as we continue our 18th season of Quiz Central.

Ludington takes on Traverse City Central in a semi-final match, coming up right after this.

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(music fades) - [Quiz Master] Here is your first question on Quiz Central.

(bell dings) - C.S.

Lewis.

- [Quiz Master] C.S.

Lewis is correct.

(bell dings) - Charlotte's Web.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

(bell dings) - Nylon.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

Our Season 17 grand champions are the students from Roscommon High School.

Hello everyone, I'm Matthew Ozanich, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to Quiz Central here on WCMU.

We near the end of our tournament today, with the first game in our semi-final round, as Ludington takes on Traverse City Central.

We have a lot of questions to get to, and hopefully a lot of correct answers, but first, let's do a quick recap on how the game works on Quiz Central.

Our two competing teams will be independently challenged with an identical set of questions.

The school that answers the most questions correctly in the time allotted advances to the next round.

At the end of the season, four Quiz Central seniors will receive a book scholarship provided by the CMU bookstore.

Our first round is the Maroon and Gold Rush, where our teams will have two minutes to answer as many questions as they can.

Each correct answer is worth 10 points.

There is no deduction for incorrect answers.

Students will be able to consult with their teammates on each question, but the final answers will be coming from the team's captains.

Ludington, you're gonna start things off for us today, so here comes your first question in the Maroon and Gold Rush.

What businessman who founded The Boring Company and proposed the Hyperloop is the CEO of - - Elon Musk.

- [Quiz Master] Elon Musk is correct.

What is the profession of a character who is taken to a valley by a roc, Gives a cup to Haroun al-Rashid, is named Sinbad, and goes on seven voyages?

- Sailor.

- Sailor.

- [Quiz Master] A sailor is correct.

What political unit, supposedly organized by the Great Peacemaker, added the Tuscarora in 1722 as its sixth member in a North American confederation?

- NATO.

- [Quiz Master] NATO is incorrect, onto the next question.

What legume is used whole in the Indian dish chana masala, ground into a flour in Middle Eastern falafel, and cooked and mashed in the dip hummus?

- Chickpeas.

- Chickpeas.

- [Quiz Master] Chickpeas is correct.

What author portrayed a clairvoyant boy in his story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," and privately published his controversial novel, "Lady Chatterley's Lover?"

- Dickens.

- [Quiz Master] Dickens is incorrect.

What Queen, who was wrongfully accused of fraud in the Diamond Necklace Affair, married Louis XVI and was guillotined in the French Revolution?

- Marie Antoinette.

- Antoinette.

- [Quiz Master] Antoinette is correct.

What poet described seeing "the margin of a bay" covered with a "never-ending line" of daffodils in the 1807 romantic poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?"

- Whitman.

- [Quiz Master] Whitman is incorrect.

What British scientist coined the word "cell" after being the first to observe one with a microscope, and names a law for a spring's restoring force?

- Hooke.

- Hooke.

- [Quiz Master] Hooke is correct.

What painter, who painted a portrait of Thomas More while living in England in the 1520s, included a highly distorted skull in his "The Ambassadors?"

(other student heard indistinctly offscreen) - Picasso.

- [Quiz Master] Picasso is incorrect, onto the next question.

Vienna lies only about 35 miles from what...?

(bell dings) Ooh, sorry, that bell's gonna signify the end of the round, so we're not gonna be able to get to that last question.

Ludington finishes out the Maroon and Gold Rush with 5 correct answers and 50 points.

Now, Traverse City Central, it's your turn in our opening round, let's put 2 minutes back on the clock.

What businessman, who founded The Boring Company and proposed the Hyperloop, is the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, and is the world's wealthiest man?

- Elon Musk.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What is the profession of a character who is taken to a valley by a roc, gives a cup to Haroun al-Rashid, is named Sinbad, and goes on seven voyages?

- Sailor.

- Sailor.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What political unit, supposedly organized by the Great Peacemaker, added the Tuscarora in 1722 as its sixth member in a North American confederation?

- Iroquois.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What legume is used whole in the Indian dish chana masala, ground into a flour in Middle Eastern falafel, and cooked and mashed in the dip hummus?

- Chickpea.

- Chickpea.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What author portrayed a clairvoyant boy in his story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," and privately published his controversial novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover?"

- Pass.

- [Quiz Master] Pass, next question.

What Queen, who was wrongfully accused of fraud in the Diamond Necklace Affair, married Louis XVI and was guillotined in the French Revolution?

- Marie Antoinette.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What poet described seeing "the margin of a bay" covered with a "never-ending line" of daffodils in the 1807 romantic poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?"

- Frost.

- [Quiz Master] Frost is incorrect, next question.

What British scientist coined the word "cell" after being the first to observe one with a microscope, and names a law for a spring's restoring force?

- Hooke.

- [Quiz Master] Hooke is correct.

What painter, who painted a portrait of Thomas More while living in England in the 1520s, included a highly distorted skull in his "The Ambassadors?"

- Pass.

- [Quiz Master] Pass, onto the next question.

Vienna lies only about 35 miles from what other European capital city, which became a capital following the 1990... (bell dings) Ooh, that bell's gonna signify the end of the round.

After the Maroon and Gold Rush, our score is Ludington 50 and Traverse City Central 60.

Before we move on, let's take a look at the questions that we missed in that round.

The author of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is D.H. Lawrence.

The poet who penned "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was William Wordsworth.

The painter of "The Ambassadors" was Hans Holbein.

And finally, the city that became a capital after the "Velvet Divorce" was Bratislava.

Only one round in the books, and it's still anyone's game.

But before we continue, let's take this moment to meet our players from both of today's schools.

We'll start with the students from Ludington.

- Hi, I am Nathan Dix, I'm representing Ludington in the Quiz Bowl today and I love cornbread.

- Hi, I'm Randy and I'm with Ludington High School, and I also like cornbread.

- I'm Jackson, I'm a sophomore at Ludington High School, and I play the trombone in the jazz and marching band.

- Hi, my name is Malachi, I'm a senior at Ludington High School and I'm a section leader for the bass line in the marching band.

- Thank you, Ludington.

Now, let's meet the team from Traverse City Central.

- I'm Jackson Price, I'm a junior at Central High School.

- I'm Helly Taylor, I'm a freshman at Traverse City Central.

- I'm Henry Sullivan, I'm a freshman at Traverse City Central.

- I'm Arthur Lijewski-Lee, I am also a freshman at Traverse City Central.

- Now that everyone's made their introductions, let's head into our next round of the day, the Perfect Ten.

In the Perfect Ten round, our teams will be given a category, and they'll have 60 seconds to answer 10 questions pertaining to that category, and our Perfect Ten category for today is Q-U-E. Give these words that either begin or end with the consecutive letters "q, u, e." Ludington, you're up first in the Perfect Ten round.

So let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

One of a kind.

- Unique.

- Unique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A long journey with a noble mission.

- Quest.

- Quest.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A very old-fashioned item.

- Antique.

- Antique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

Non-transparent.

- Opaque.

- Opaque.

- [Quiz Master] Opaque is correct.

A Mexican dish of melted cheese and a grilled tortilla.

- Quesadilla.

- Quesadilla.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

An exclusionary social group.

- Clique.

- Clique.

- Clique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

Nauseous and dizzy.

- Queasy.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

The condition of someone's body.

- Physique.

- Physique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

To satisfy a thirst or desire.

- Quench.

- Quench.

- Quench.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A French soup made with crustaceans.

- Bisque.

- Bisque.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

And Ludington, you have gained a perfect 10 today in our Perfect Ten round with 10 correct answers in a row for 100 points.

Ludington does not miss a step in that round, getting all 10 Perfect Ten round questions correct, and upping their score to 150.

Let's turn now to Traverse City Central in the Perfect Ten as we put 60 seconds back up on the clock.

One of a kind.

- Unique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A long journey with a noble mission.

- Quest.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A very old-fashioned item.

- Antique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

Not transparent.

- Opaque.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A Mexican dish of melted cheese and a grilled tortilla.

- Queso.

- [TCC Student] -dilla.

- Que...?

- [Quiz Master] Sorry, that is incorrect.

We're gonna have to go onto the next question.

An exclusionary social group.

- Clique.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

Nauseous and dizzy.

- Queasy.

- Queasy.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

The condition of someone's body.

(indistinct discussion heard) - Pass.

- [Quiz Master] Pass, next question.

To satisfy a thirst or desire.

- Quench.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

A French soup made with crustaceans.

- [TCC Student] (whispered) Bisque.

- Bisque.

- [Quiz Master] Bisque is correct.

Traverse City Central performs quite well in the Perfect Ten with 8 correct answers bringing their score to 140, and after two rounds our score is now Ludington 150 and Traverse City Central 140.

Only one correct answer separates our two teams as we enter our third round of the day, the Homestretch round.

In the Homestretch, I'll be asking each team a series of random questions.

Correct answers are still worth 10 points a piece, and final answers will be coming from our team's captains.

We're gonna start with Ludington in the Homestretch round.

So Ludington, here comes your first question.

What element, whose carbonate salt was used in white paints before its neurotoxicity was proven, is used in sh... - Lead.

- [Quiz Master] Lead is correct.

What future U.S. president defeated a British invasion of Louisiana in January, 1815?

- Jack... - Jack... - Jackson.

- [Quiz Master] Jackson is correct.

What philosopher, whom Averroes called the "First Teacher," founded the Peripatetic school, taught at the Lyceum, and tutored Alexander the Great?

- Aristotle.

- [Quiz Master] Aristotle is correct.

What type of machine is an emulation layer used by Java to run platform-independent compiled bytecode?

(indistinct answer from another Ludington student) - Computer?

- [Quiz Master] Ah, sorry, that is incorrect, onto the next question.

What disaster, which coincided with a similar event in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and in 1871 destroyed an Illinois city?

- Chicago... - Chicago Fire.

- [Quiz Master] Chicago Fire is correct.

While the interval from C to G is a perfect fifth, what adjective describes the interval of a fifth from C to G sharp, which is a half-step larger?

- [Ludington Student] Augmented.

- Augmented.

- [Quiz Master] Augmented is correct.

What baseball stadium is home to a mascot named Wally, has a left-field wall called the Green Monster, and is home to the Boston Red Sox?

- Fenway Park.

- Fenway Park.

- [Quiz Master] Fenway Park is correct.

In 2022, Gavin Newsom blocked the release of what Palestinian man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?

(one of the other Ludington students answers indistinctly) - Harvey Lee Oswald?

- [Quiz Master] Incorrect, onto the next question.

The Itaipu Dam is shared between Brazil and what smaller of South America's two landlocked countries?

(other students heard mumbling "Paraguay") - Paraguay?

Paraguay.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

In 2022, what set of nations planned to cap the price of petroleum from Russia, a nation its predecessor expelled after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine?

- Russia?

- [Ludington Student] Russia.

- Russia.

- [Quiz Master] I'm sorry, that is incorrect, onto the next question.

An innkeeper pretends to knight what character, who is assassinated by Sancho Panza, and mistakes windmills for giants in a novel by Miguel... - Don Quixote.

- Don Quixote.

- [Quiz Master] Don Quixote is correct.

What property, whose name comes from the Greek word for "hand," is possessed by molecules that cannot be superimposed on their mirror images?

- Reflection.

- [Quiz Master] Sorry, reflection is incorrect.

What vehicle, which the Rogers Commission found had suffered O-ring failure, held astronauts including Christa McAuliffe when it exploded in 1986?

- Challenger.

- Challenger.

- [Quiz Master] Challenger is correct.

What character reads "Dover Beach" to his wife Mildred and her friends, in a book-burning "fireman," (distorted answer from Ludington students) Say again?

- Guy Montag.

- [Quiz Master] Guy Montag is correct.

Ruby and sapphire are forms of what aluminum oxide mineral that has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale?

- Quartz.

- [Quiz Master] Quartz is incorrect.

(bell dings) Ooh, that bell's gonna signify the end of the round.

Ludington finishes out the Homestretch round with 10 correct answers for 100 points.

We now turn to Traverse City Central to see how they'll fare in the Homestretch.

TCC, here comes your first question.

What element, whose carbonate salt was used in white paints before its neurotoxicity was proven, is used in shielding for X-rays and in car batteries?

- Lead.

- [Quiz Master] Lead is correct.

What future U.S. president defeated a British invasion of Louisiana in January 1815, weeks after the Treaty of Ghent officially ended the War of...?

- Jackson.

- [Quiz Master] Jackson is correct.

What philosopher, whom Averroes called the "first teacher," founded the Parapetic school, taught at the Lyceum, and tutored Alexander the Great?

- Aristotle.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What type of machine is an emulation layer used by Java to run platform-independent compiled bytecode?

- Pass.

- [Quiz Master] Pass, next question.

What disaster, which coincided with a similar event in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and in 1871 destroyed an Illinois city?

- Fire.

- [Quiz Master] I'm sorry, we're gonna need more specific.

- Great Chicago Fire.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

While the interval from C to G is a perfect fifth, what adjective describes the interval of a fifth from C to G sharp, which is a half-step larger?

- Augmented fifth.

- [Quiz Master] Augmented is correct.

What baseball stadium is home to a mascot named Wally, has a left field wall called the Green Monster, and is home to the Boston restaurant?

- Fenway.

- [Quiz Master] Fenway is correct.

In 2022, Gavin Newsom blocked the release of what Palestinian man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?

- What?

- Sirhan Sirhan.

- Sirhan Sirhan.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

The Itaipu Dam is shared between Brazil and what smaller of South America's two landlocked countries?

- (whispered) Paraguay.

- Paraguay.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

In 2022, what set of nations planned to cap the price of petroleum from Russia, a nation its predecessor expelled after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine?

(TCC's answer is distorted) Say it again, sorry?

- OPEC.

- [Quiz Master] OPEC is incorrect, onto the next question.

An innkeeper pretends to knight what character, who is assassinated by Sancho Panza, and mistakes windmills for giants in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes?

- Don Quixote?

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What property, whose name comes from the Greek word for "hand," is possessed by molecules that cannot be superimposed on their mirror images?

- Chirality.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

What vehicle, which the Rogers Commission found had suffered O-ring failure, held astronauts including Christa McAuliffe when it exploded in 1980?

- Space shuttle.

- [Quiz Master] You need to be more specific.

- Challenger.

- [Quiz Master] Challenger is correct.

What character reads "Dover Beach" to his wife Mildred and her friends, is a book-burning "fireman," and is the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451?

- Montag.

- [Quiz Master] Montag is correct.

Ruby and sapphire are forms of what aluminum oxide mineral that has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale?

- Corundum.

- [Quiz Master] Corundum is correct.

What seven-letter term refers to materials described by Young's modulus that return to their original shape after deformation, such as rubber... (bell dings) Oh, sorry, that bell's gonna miss you, so we're not gonna be able to get an answer on that last question.

Traverse City Central able to snag away the lead in the Homestretch with 13 correct answers for 130 points.

And before we give you an update on the score, let's go ahead and take a look at the questions that were missed during the Homestretch.

The machine used to run compiled bytecode is a virtual machine, and the set of nations that capped Russia's petroleum prices was the Group of Seven, or G7.

Our score after three rounds is Ludington 250, Traverse City Central 270, and it all comes down to our final round of the day, the Final Countdown.

Our teams will have just two minutes to answer as many questions as they can, with correct answers still being worth 10 points a piece.

Ludington, we start with you in the Final Countdown.

We're gonna put two minutes up on the clock, and here comes your first question.

Trumpet, the winner of "Best in Show" at the 2022 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, is what breed whose name may be used to refer to detectives?

- [Ludington Student] Bloodhound.

- Bloodhound.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

What book, which contains the line "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity" is a memoir about life near a pond "in the woods" by Henry David Thoreau?

- [Ludington Student] Walden.

- Walden.

- [Quiz Master] Walden is correct.

What TV character, who grew up in Nebraska before becoming a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena, marries Leonard on "The Big Bang Theory?"

- Penny?

- [Ludington Student] Penny.

- Penny.

- [Quiz Master] Penny is correct.

What President, whose Secretary of State died in an explosion aboard the USS Princeton, replaced his cabinet after succeeding William Henry Harrison?

- [Ludington Student] Taft.

- Taft.

- [Ludington Student] Taylor?

- [Quiz Master] Final answer, Ludington?

- Taft.

- [Quiz Master] Taft is incorrect.

What country contains most of the world's Wolof speakers, is the westernmost country on the African mainland, and is governed from Dakar?

(Ludington students are heard discussing indistinctly) - Mauritania.

- [Quiz Master] That is incorrect, onto the next question.

Dutch van der Linde and John Marston each appear in multiple games in what... - Red Dead Redemption.

- [Quiz Master] Red Dead Redemption is correct.

What country controls the Lighthouse Reef and Great Blue Hole in the only English-speaking country in Latin America, that is governed from Belmopan?

- French (indistinct)?

- [Ludington Student] Belize.

- Belize.

- [Quiz Master] Belize is correct.

What force must have a strength of mass times velocity squared over radius for uniform circular motion, and points inward, unlike centrifugal force?

- Centripetal.

- Centripetal.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

What book series, that began in 1992, depicted the ventriloquist dummy Slappy, and a "haunted mask" in... - The Goosebumps.

- [Quiz Master] Goosebumps is correct.

What man, who spoke about his dog Checkers when he was Dwight Eisenhower's running... - Nixon.

(bell dings) - [Quiz Master] Ooh, you were able to get the answer, I heard Nixon just before the bell, so we are gonna be able to accept that one, that was Nixon right there, you really beat the bell on that one.

Ludington performs very well in the Final Countdown with eight correct answers, but will that be enough for them to regain the lead?

Well, we're gonna find out right now as Traverse City Central enters our Final Countdown.

Students, here comes your first question.

The winner of Best in Show at the 2022 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is what breed whose name may be used to refer to detectives?

- Bloodhound.

- [Quiz Master] Bloodhound is correct.

What book, which contains the line "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity," is a memoir about life "near a pond" in the woods by Henry David Thoreau?

- Walden.

- Walden.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What TV character grew up in Nebraska before becoming a waitress at a Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena, and marries Leonard on the Big Bang Theory?

- Penny.

- [Quiz Master] Penny is correct.

What President, whose Secretary of State died in an explosion aboard the USS Princeton, replaced his cabinet after succeeding William Henry Harrison?

- Tyler.

- [Quiz Master] Tyler's correct.

What country contains most of the world's Wolof speakers, is the westernmost country on the African mainland, and is governed from Dakar?

(distorted) Say again?

- Senegal.

- [Quiz Master] Senegal is correct.

Dutch van der Linde and John Marston each appear in multiple games in what open-world action series set around the turn of the 20th century?

- (whispered) Red Dead Redemption.

- Red Dead Redemption.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What country controls the Lighthouse Reef and Great Blue Hole, is the only English-speaking country in Latin America, and is governed from Belmopan?

- Belize.

- [Quiz Master] That is correct.

What force must have a strength of mass times velocity squared over radius for uniform circular motion, and points inward unlike centrifugal force?

- Centripetal.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What book series, that began in 1992, depicted the ventriloquist dummy Slappy, and a "haunted mask" in young adult horror novels written by R.L.

Stine?

- [TCC Student] Goosebumps.

- Goosebumps.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

What man, who spoke about his dog Checkers when he was Dwight Eisenhower's running mate, left the White House in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal?

(answer is distorted) Say again?

- Nick... Nixon.

- [Quiz Master] Correct.

(bell dings) Ooh, that bell's gonna signify the end of the round.

Trevor City Central is infallible in the Final Countdown with 10 in a row correct for 100 points.

After four rounds of competition, our final score is Ludington 330, Traverse City Central 370.

And I would have to say that this is without a doubt one of the highest-scoring games we have ever had here on Quiz Central, but the congratulations goes to the team from Traverse City Central for being today's victors, and on advancing to the Season 18 Grand Championship.

And we of course wanna send our thanks to the exceptional team from Ludington for joining us this season.

Seniors, good luck to all of you in the future, and underclassmen, we hope to see you you next season right back here on Quiz Central.

And we invite all of you to join us again in the next episode of QC as two more Michigan schools vie to be our Season 18 Grand Champions.

And as a reminder, all episodes of Quiz Central are archived online at wcmu.org.

From the crew here at WCMU Public Television, thank you so much for watching, and we'll see you all right back here for the next episode of Quiz Central.

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