- Welcome again to the studios of WCMU Public Media.

This time a first round game between Onaway and Traverse City St.

Francis.

We will have that for you next.

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

This time, students from Onaway are taking on a team from Traverse City, St.

Francis.

It is a 16-team, single-elimination tournament.

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

And now let's get to our game.

The first round is the Maroon and Gold Rush.

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

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

Teams may not consult during this round and players will receive a one second penalty if they ring in before a toss-up question has been read completely.

We'll indicate that by an orange light above their name.

Answers as always are worth 10 points a piece.

There is no deduction for incorrect answers.

For our teams and all of our players are ready, here comes your first question.

What value which is exceeded by tachyons is the same in all inertial frames in special relativity and is about 300 million meters per second.

(buzzer buzzes) - The speed of light.

- [David] That is correct.

What six-letter adjective describes a tumor that is not cancerous and typically does not metastasize unlike a malignant tumor?

(buzzer buzzes) - Benign.

- That is correct.

What Scotsman who was found living in the village of Ujiji in 1871 was a missionary who went missing in Africa until Henry Stanley found him?

Next question.

What character who rides the donkey Rousseau serves as a squire of Don Quixote.

Moving on, what composer wrote a piano concerto in D, in D major rather, for the one-armed Paul Wittgenstein, and utilized a Spanish dance form in his 1928 work "Bolero"?

(buzzer buzzes) Onaway.

- Beethoven?

- [David] Incorrect.

Traverse City with a guess.

(buzzer buzzes) - Gershwin.

- [David] Also incorrect.

Toss-up for both.

Ashurbanipal was a king of what empire that was ruled from Nineveh, near present-day Mosul in Iraq?

(buzzer buzzes) - Ottoman?

- [David] Incorrect.

Traverse City to guess.

Next question... (bell dings) Up to the end of that round, let's go back over the ones that were missed.

The Scotsman who was found living in the village, that was David Livingston, I presume.

The character who rides the donkey and worked alongside Don Quixote, we were looking for Sancho Panza.

The composer who wrote that piano concerto, Maurice Ravel.

And the king of what empire?

We are looking for the Assyrian Empire.

And with the close of that first round, the Maroon and Gold Rush, we've got a tie game.

Both teams at 10 apiece.

Now before we start our next round, let's learn a little bit more about our students competing today as we say hello and welcome first to the team from Onaway.

- Hello, my name is Zach.

I'm part of the football and baseball team.

- Hi, my name is Natalie.

I'm a part of the cross-country team and robotics team.

- Hi, I'm Harley and I am part of the robotics team and marching band.

- Hi, my name is Greta.

I'm on the varsity volleyball team and marching band.

- Thank you, Onaway.

It's great to have you here.

Let's give that same welcome to our students from Traverse City St.

Francis.

- Hi, my name is Maddie and I'm one of the drum majors for our marching band.

- Hi, my name is Phillip.

I'm on the baseball team and I do theater.

- Hi, my name is Amanda.

I play rugby and I am on the environmental club.

- Hi, my name is Mara and I'm on the robotics team and in theater.

- And a big thank you to all of our students competing today.

Our next round on Quiz Central is the kickoff round.

And this round includes a combination of toss-up and bonus questions.

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

There's no stealing on the bonuses.

After a bonus question, we'll go back to a toss-up for both teams.

Players do receive that one-second penalty if they ring in before a toss-up question has been read completely.

Both of our schools, all of our players are ready.

Buzzers ready, here comes your first question.

What quantity is directly proportional to volume by Charles' Law and can be measured on the Rankine scale?

(buzzer buzzes) - Mass.

- [David] Incorrect.

Shot for Traverse City.

Back to a toss-up for both teams.

What kind of institution was Clonmacnoise whose inhabitants copied manuscripts on vellum and stayed confined out of devotion to the Catholic Church?

(buzzer buzzes) - A monastery?

- That is correct.

Bonus for Traverse City St.

Francis.

The islands of New Britain and New Ireland belong to what country, whose capital is Port Moresby?

- Port Moresby.

(whispering) - You go ahead.

- Granada.

- [David] Incorrect there on the bonus.

Back to a toss-up for both.

What sculptor who did not finish the series of prisoners he sculpted for Julius II's tomb showed Mary mourning her dead son in his sculpture Pieta?

(buzzer buzzes) - Raphael.

- [David] Incorrect there.

Onaway, take a shot.

(buzzer buzzes) - Da Vinci.

- [David] Incorrect on that guess.

Toss-up for both teams.

What is the name of the proposed geological epoch defined by significant human impact on Earth's systems?

Next question.

What fluid, which is overproduced and relatively dilute in people with diabetes insipidus, is a waste product humans store in their bladders?

(buzzer buzzes) - Urine?

- [David] That is correct, Onaway.

And the bonus question, what Native American chief who fought the US in an 1832 war that Abraham Lincoln participated in names a kind of American military helicopter?

(group whispering) - Black Hawk?

- Black Hawk is correct.

Back to a toss-up for both teams.

What group started the free breakfast for children program and was founded in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to promote Black nationalism?

(buzzer buzzes) - The Black Panthers?

- That is correct.

Traverse City with the bonus now.

Euclid's algorithm is used to calculate what quantity, which for two numbers is the product of the numbers over their least common multiple?

(group whispering) And do we have a guess?

- No answer.

- All right.

Back to a toss-up for both teams.

What novel in which the drunkard Hindley tries to obstruct the stormy romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff was written by Emily Bronte?

(buzzer buzzes) - Wuthering Heights.

- [David] Correct, bonus question now.

What Austrian composer used a Friedrich Klopstock poem in his Resurrection Symphony, which follows his Titan Symphony?

(group whispering) - Mozart.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Toss-up now for both.

What class of compounds whose phosphotypes form the primary structure of cell membranes are water-insoluble compounds that include oils and fats?

(buzzer buzzes) - Phospholipids.

- Correct.

Now to the bonus question.

During the American Revolution, what militia group led by Ethan Allen who worked with Benedict Arnold to capture Fort Ticoranda?

- The Green Mountain Boys.

- [David] That is correct on the bonus there.

Back to a toss-up for both.

What country where the ship NCL Sultan crashed into a garden in 2025 is where the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at Oslo City Hall?

(buzzer buzzes) - Norway.

- [David] Correct.

And for your bonus, in 1880, John Philip Sousa was named director of the band of what branch of the military whose official march is titled Semper Fidelis?

- The Marine Corps.

- That is correct.

And we get to the close of that round, a good one, and we're gonna check the ones that were missed by both.

The quantity directly proportional on the Rankine scale is temperature was the answer we were looking for.

The islands of New Britain and New Ireland, we were looking for the area of Papua New Guinea.

The sculptor who did not finish the series of prisoners for Julius II, that artist was Michelangelo.

And the name of the proposed geological epoch, we were looking for the answer, Anthropocene, excuse me, epoch.

And Euclid's algorithm, we were looking for the greatest common factor, or the GCF.

And the Austrian composer we were looking for was Gustav Mahler.

And the close of that round, Traverse City St.

Francis now has a lead of 80 to 30 over Onaway.

We'll be heading into the Perfect 10 here, and in the Perfect 10, you'll have 60 seconds to answer questions from a choice of clues to three categories.

The opposing team then has 30 seconds to answer any unasked, incorrect, or skipped questions.

You can consult throughout the entire round.

We'll take the answers from the captain.

The team that is trailing will get the first choice to pick a clue to a category.

Onaway, we come to you today for the first choice of our three categories, and they are small, smaller, and smallest.

Old Town Road, or you'll need a passport to play three.

(group whispering) - Old Town Road?

- Old Town Road is your choice.

And the clue there is ancient cities.

Name these cities from the classical Mediterranean world.

Again, ancient cities.

Name these cities from the classical Mediterranean world.

It's your first choice here on the Perfect 10, 60 seconds on the clock as we begin with this.

Pericles commissioned its Parthenon.

(group whispering) - Athens.

- [David] Capital of an empire that fought Rome in the Punic Wars.

(group whispering) - Pass.

- [David] Ptolemaic pharaohs built its enormous library.

- Alexandria.

- [David] Capital of the Byzantine Empire sacked in the fourth crusade.

(group whispering) - No, pass.

- [David] City that led the Boeotian League and had a sacred band.

- Pass.

(bell dings) - [David] And time up, time is up on that part of the Perfect 10.

Traverse City St.

Francis, we're coming over to you.

And again, this is 30 seconds to pick up the answers that were either not answered or were incorrect on the first part.

Again, the category is Old Town Road.

Ancient cities, name these cities from the classical Mediterranean world.

And your 30 seconds starts with this question.

Capital of an empire that fought Rome in the Punic Wars?

- Carthage.

(bell dings) - [David] Capital of the Byzantine Empire sacked in the Fourth Crusade?

- Constantinople.

(bell dings) - [David] City that led the Boeotian League and had a sacred band?

- Pass.

- Winner of the Peloponnesian War, known for strict military training.

- Sparta.

(bell dings) - Where Octavian and Antony led the final defeat of Julius Caesar's Assa... (bell dings) And time up.

The question that was missed by both teams, we were looking, the city that led the Boeotian League, we were looking for the City of Thebes.

That last question needed an answer of Philippi.

But Traverse City St.

Francis, we come to you for your choice now in the Perfect 10.

Your 60 seconds can be used for one of the following remaining two categories, small, smaller, and smallest, or you'll need a passport to play three.

- You'll need a passport?

- Yeah.

- You'll need a passport?

- [David] All right, the choice, you'll need the passport to play three.

The clue here is pass or play.

Give these answers that include either the word pass or the word play.

No answer will contain both.

Again, pass or play.

Give these answers that include either the word pass or the word play, but no answer will contain both.

If we're all set with 60 seconds on the clock, Traverse City St.

Francis, your Perfect 10 begins now.

Sony line of video game consoles.

- PlayStation.

- Jewish holiday commemorating the exodus.

- Passover.

- [David] Umpire's traditional two-word cry to start the first inning.

- Play ball.

- [David] Type of surgery that connects unrelated blood vessels.

- Pass.

- [David] To blame someone else or shift responsibility.

- Pass.

- First Ernest Cline novel about Wade Watts.

- Pass.

- [David] Section of the silk road connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan.

- Pass.

- Childhood modeling putty that can be used in a fun factory.

- Play-Doh.

- [David] Score ranging from 0 to 158.3 for NFL quarterbacks.

- Passing yards.

- [David] Horror movie franchise about the doll Chucky.

(bell dings) That gets us to the end of that round.

Onaway, we're gonna come over to you now with a chance to pick up on any that were answered and any unanswered questions from the first part of the Perfect 10.

Again, the category is, you'll need a passport to play three, pass or play.

Give these answers that include either the word pass or the word play, but no answer will contain both.

If you are set, we will start your portion of this Perfect 10 with this question.

Type of surgery that connects unrelated blood vessels.

- Pass.

- [David] To blame someone else or shift responsibility.

- Is it just like pass on?

- Pass on.

- [David] First Ernest Cline novel about Wade Watts.

- Pass.

- Section of the Silk Road connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan.

- Pass.

(bell dings) - And we get to the close there.

We'll go over the ones that were missed by both teams across that portion.

The type of surgery connecting unrelated blood vessels is a bypass.

Blaming someone else or shifting responsibility, that's the idea of pass the buck.

The first Ernest Cline novel about Wade Watts, "Ready Player One."

And the section of the Silk Road connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan, we were looking for the Khyber Pass.

The score ranging from 0 to 158.3 for NFL quarterbacks, passer rating or passing efficiency.

And at the close of the Perfect 10 round, Traverse City St.

Francis holds the lead 150 to 50 for Onaway.

We'll be heading into the home stretch.

And in the home stretch, I'll ask a combination of toss-up and bonus questions.

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

No stealing on the bonuses.

And after a bonus question, we'll then go back to a toss-up for both teams.

Players do receive the one-second penalty If they ring in before a toss-up question has been read completely, buzzers ready?

Here comes your first question.

Trompe l'oeil, excuse me, was popularized during what period of art which flourished in the 17th century and is exemplified by the works of Caravaggio?

(buzzer buzzes) - Renaissance?

- [David] That is incorrect, Traverse City to steal.

Toss-up now for both teams.

What team, whose pitchers include the NL starter in the 2024 and 2025 All-Star Games, Paul Skeens, plays in PNC Park in Western Pennsylvania?

(buzzer buzzes) - The Pittsburgh Pirates.

- [David] That is correct.

The bonus question.

Cherry red skin can occur as a result of poisoning by what prolonged exposure to what diatomic gas in auto exhaust which bonds strongly to hemoglobin?

(Maddie whispering) - Hydrogen?

- [David] Incorrect there, we'll go back to a toss-up for both teams.

Miguel de Cervantes was wounded in what 1571 battle at which the Holy League's fleet defeated the Ottoman Empire?

(buzzer buzzes) - The Crusades?

- [David] Incorrect.

Traverse City to guess.

We'll go back to a toss-up for both.

What novel, which ends with a description of "Leaden Rain Clouds," centers on Henry Fleming's experience in the Civil War and is by Stephen Crane?

(buzzer buzzes) - The Red Badge of Courage.

- That is correct.

Now to the bonus for you, in September 2023, what nation seized the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Armenia, from Armenia, and displaced thousands of its residents?

(Philip whispering) - North Macedonia.

- Incorrect there.

Back to a toss-up for both teams.

In what country did the 1986 People Power Revolution, partly led by Corazon Aquino, oust longtime dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power in Manila.

(buzzer buzzes) - The Philippines.

- That is correct.

Now the bonus.

What city in southern India, the country's third most populous, is known as India's Silicon Valley as it is home to a large software industry?

- Dhaka.

- [David] Incorrect there.

Back to a toss-up for both.

Japanese kinako is what kind of foodstuff that is mixed with butter to create a roux and is made by grinding grains like wheat into a fine powder?

(buzzer buzzes) - Flour.

- [David] That is correct, and bonus question now for you.

Hello is the opening song of what musical which is set primarily in Uganda and was written by South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone?

(group whispering) - The Book of Mormon.

- [David] That is also correct.

Toss-up now for both teams.

What poet gave agricultural advice in his Georgics and wrote about a Trojan hero who becomes the ancestor of the Romans in his epic poem, The Aeneid?

(buzzer buzzes) - Georgia?

- [David] That is correct.

Now to the bonus.

What Englishman mused, "Had we but world enough and time" in his carpe diem poem "To His Coy Mistress?"

(group whispering) - Pass.

- [David] Back to a bonus, or excuse me, the toss-up for both teams.

What event in which a naval quarantine was imposed by John F. Kennedy began in 1962 after the US discovered Soviet weapons on what Caribbean island?

(buzzer buzzes) - The Cuban Missile Crisis.

- [David] Correct, bonus question.

In 2022, an image was released of the black hole at the Milky Way's center, which lies in what zodiac constellation?

(group whispering) - Capricorn.

- That is incorrect.

And we come to the close of that round.

And we'll go back over the questions that were missed by both teams.

The trompe-l'oeil was popularized during the Baroque period of art.

The cherry-red skin can occur as a result of poisoning that's through carbon monoxide.

Miguel de Cervantes was wounded in the Battle of Lepanto.

In September 2023, the nation that seized the disputed region, we were looking for Azerbaijan.

The city in southern India, their Silicon Valley, is Bangalore, excuse me.

What Englishman mused, "Had we but world enough in time," we were looking for Andrew Marvell.

And the image released at the black hole of the Milky Way Center, Sagittarius, was the constellation there.

And at the close of that round, our score right now, Traverse City St.

Francis, 220, Onaway 50, as we get set for the final countdown.

And in the final countdown, teams will have two minutes to answer as many toss-up questions as they can.

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

Teams may not consult during this round.

Players do receive a one-second penalty if they ring in before a toss-up question has been read completely.

We'll indicate that by an orange light above that competitor's name.

Okay, players, if everyone's ready, buzzer's ready, Here comes your first question.

What CEO who named Greg Abel as a successor in 2025, lives in a five bedroom house in Omaha and is a long time head of Berkshire Hathaway?

Next question, what philosopher argued that woman is made not born in her book, "The Second Sex"?

Next, what type of polygon is subject to Pascal's theorem, which inscribed in a conic has internal angles that sum up to 720 degrees and has six sides?

(buzzer buzzes) - Hexagon.

- [David] That is correct.

At room temperature and atmospheric pressure, dry ice undergoes what phase transition, going directly from a solid to a gas?

(buzzer buzzes) - Sublimation.

- [David] Correct.

What director depicted UFOs arriving at Devil's Tower in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and directed a film about a killer shark titled "Jaws?"

(buzzer buzzes) - Spielberg.

- [David] Correct.

During Operation Dynamo, several hundred boats evacuated hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers from the beaches of what French harbor?

(buzzer buzzes) - Dunkirk.

- That is correct.

What African country who once adopted the policy of Ujamaa under Julius Nyerere was created by the 1964 unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar?

(buzzer buzzes) - Mozambique.

- [David] Incorrect there.

Chance for Onaway to guess.

Next question.

What musician announced that his 2024 soundtrack album for Bandos... (bell dings) And we get to the close of the round.

Let's check those that stumped both of our teams in that final round.

The musician we were looking for, we did not get through the whole question.

But the answer we were looking for was Childish Gambino.

The CEO who named Greg Abel as his successor, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffet.

The philosopher who argued that woman is made, not born.

We were looking for Simon de Beauregard.

And the African country that adopted the policy of Ujamaa.

We were looking for Tanzania.

And at the close of that round in our game, our final score, Traverse City St.

Francis, and Onaway, with a score of 250, Onaway, 60.

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

(audience applauding) And Onaway, good job, thanks very much for competing with us here today.

It was good to have you here.

Traverse City St.

Francis, congratulations on winning this game.

We'll welcome you back down the road, And we'll welcome all of you back as well very soon for another edition of Quiz Central here on WCMU for all of us.

I'm David Nicholas, you have a great evening.

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