- Welcome to the studios of WCMU Public Media.

This time the Grand Championship final in season 20.

It's between Traverse City Central and Roscommon.

It's coming your way next.

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(heroic music) - Hello again, everyone.

I'm David Nicholas, and it's Championship Week here on "Quiz Central."

Our final pair of students from Traverse City Central and Roscommon High Schools.

They're the last two teams standing in our 16 team 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.

And now let's get our championship game started.

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 an opportunity to answer the question.

Teams may not consult during this round.

Throughout our game, correct answers are worth 10 points a piece, no deduction for incorrect answers.

Everybody take a deep breath.

(chuckles) Buzzers ready.

All set?

Here comes your first question.

What film character pretends to be Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago.

(bell dings) Ferris Bueller.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) What California landmark which was built on Mount Lee to advertise a real estate development in the 1920s, once included- (bell dings) - Hollywood.

- That is correct.

- Thought so.

(chime resonating) - The Hollywood sign.

What poet of "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat" claimed "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" in his 1751 "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

(bell dings) - Mallory.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Roscommon.

(bell dings) - Williams.

- [David] Also incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) The question for both teams, what unit of mass named for an English chemist equals 1/12 of the mass of an atom of carbon 12?

(bell dings) - Moles.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Traverse City Central.

(bell dings) - Femtogram.

- [David] Also incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) What city which was ruled by the Thirty Tyrants after losing a war was the site of a funeral oration given by Pericles during their war with Sparta?

(bell dings) - Troy.

- [David] Incorrect.

Roscommon.

(bell dings) (buzzer buzzes) - Athens.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) What German term whose name translates to joining refers to the 1938 annexation of Austria?

(bell dings) - Anschluss.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) What quantity, which is 3/2R for an ideal gas and 4.184 joules for water, is the heat needed- (bell dings) - Specific heat.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) What author of the alternative history novel "The Man in the High Castle" wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

(bell dings) - Rick.

Or Dick!

(bell dinging) - That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) - [David] And chance?

(bell dings) Traverse City Central here at the bell.

- Isaac Asimov.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) The author we are looking for there is Philip K. Dick.

The unit of mass named for the English chemist was the dalton.

- Oh.

- And the poet of "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat" was Thomas Gray.

We wrap up the Maroon and Gold Rush.

It's a close game.

Off to the start, Traverse City Central holds the early lead, 30 to 20.

But before we get to our next round, let's learn a little bit more about our teams competing for the championship today.

First we welcome back our students from Traverse City Central.

- My name Nillo Asiala.

I'm a sophomore at Traverse City Central High School.

- I'm Helly Taylor.

I'm a junior at Traverse City Central, and I play on the tennis team.

- My name is Henry Sullivan.

I'm a junior at Traverse City Central, and I play the oboe and the clarinet.

- My name is Arthur Lijewski-Lee.

I'm a junior at Traverse City Central.

- Thank you, TCC.

And now let's meet your opponents as we welcome back our team from Roscommon.

- My name is Faith McNeil.

I'm a junior at Roscommon High School, and I'm in musical and cheer.

My name is Eva Goldman.

I'm a junior at Roscommon High School, and I'm in Quiz Bowl, and I like to tutor those who need it (chuckling).

My name is Tristin Estep.

I'm a senior at Roscommon High School, and I play a lot of jazz.

- My name is Owen Barnes.

I'm a senior at Roscommon High School, and I play soccer, basketball, and baseball.

- Thanks to all of our students competing in the championship today.

The next round on "Quiz Central" is the Kickoff round.

The Kickoff 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.

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

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

No stealing on the bonuses.

However, teams can confer, and we'll take the answers from the captain.

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

Buzzers ready?

Here comes your first question.

What white material which Phidias used along with gold to create the statue of Zeus at Olympia- (bell dings) - Limestone.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Roscommon.

(buzzer buzzes) (bell dings) - Marble.

- [David] Incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) You're looking for ivory.

Toss-up for both teams, what two word phrase for an embarrassing social remark comes from the French term for misstep.

(bell dings) - Faux pas.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) And your bonus question, what war, which is the subject of James Michener's novel "The Bridges of Toko-Ri," included the Battle of Inchon and was fought on an Asian peninsula?

- Korean War.

- Yeah, I would think Korean.

- Korean War - That is also correct.

(chime resonating) Toss-up, or yes, toss-up for both teams.

In what Alabama city did police brutally attack protestors (bell dings) on the Edmund- - Selma.

- Selma is correct.

(chime resonating) And your bonus question, what devices, whose function is described by the Shockley equation, are designed to conduct current in one direction and have a light-emitting type?

- Isn't that monopole?

No.

- Try it.

- Monopoles.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) - Let's play.

- Go to a toss-up then for both teams.

What kind of crescent-shaped lake is left behind- (bell dings) - Oxbow?

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) And your bonus question.

What king was killed by Charles-Henri Sanson after being convicted of treason by the National Convention in 1792 during the French Revolution?

- Louis XVI.

- [David] Louis XVI is the king.

Yes.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both teams.

In February, 2021, the Biden administration said it planned to remove the US' terrorist designation for what anti-Saudi, Yemini rebel group?

(bell dings) - Ansar Allah.

- [David] That is correct.

The Houthis (chime resonating) or the Ansar Allah.

And your bonus question, what religious founder sat in a spot now marked by the Vajrasana, or Diamond Throne, under the Bodhi tree to achieve enlightenment about Nirvana.

- Buddha.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both teams, what last English king of the House of Wessex, who died in 1066, received- (bell dings) - Harold Godwinson.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Roscommon.

- Can you finish the question?

- [David] Yes, died in 1066, received his epitaph because he lived a saintly life but did not die as a martyr?

- I don't know.

Fredrick (chuckles).

- Hit the button.

(bell dings) - Oh, Fredrick (chuckles).

- [David] You're looking for Edward the Confessor.

(buzzer buzzes) - I knew that.

- Oh, it's okay.

You're good.

- [David] What author of the novels "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant-" (bell dings) - Charlotte Bronte.

- [David] That is incorrect.

- Keep going.

(buzzer buzzes) - [David] Yes, the author of "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" used a pseudonym Acton Bell and was the younger sister of Emily or Charlotte?

(bell dings) - Elizabeth.

- Was Anne Bronte, (buzzer buzzes) was the author we were looking for.

- We thought of her.

- There are two of 'em.

- [David] What type of object obscures the face of the subject in Rene Magritte's painting "The Son of Man"?

(bell dings) - A green apple.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) And your bonus question, what project facilitated by the 1986 Treaty of Canterbury and completed in 1994 connects Kent with France by going under the Strait of Dover?

- The Channel.

- [David] Yes, the Channel or the Channel Tunnel.

That is also correct.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both teams.

What English author who wrote about the Prince of Abissinia in the allegorical story "Rasselas" was the subject of a 1791 biography by James Boswell?

(bell dings) - John Dunn.

- [David] You're looking for Samuel Johnson.

(buzzer buzzes) Toss-up for both teams.

What state which is home to the resort town of Kennebukport includes Acadia National Park?

(bell dings) - Maine.

- Maine is the correct state.

(chime resonating) And the bonus question, what European country's mythology do the dead cross a river to get to Tulonea, the land of the dead, as told in the text the "Kalevava"?

- That's Finland.

- Finland?

- [David] Kalevala," excuse me.

- Finland.

- [David] Finland is also correct.

(chime resonating) Yes.

Toss-up for both teams, what author who wrote the story "The Open Boat" wrote about the cowardly private Henry Fleming in his Civil War novel, (bell dings) "The Red-" - Keller.

- [David] That is incorrect.

I'll finish the question (buzzer buzzes) for Traverse City.

The Henry Fleming in is Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage"?

(bell dings) - Stephen Crane.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) And your bonus question, in the 16th through 18th centuries, French Canadian laborers called (speaking in foreign language) and voyageurs made a living in what industry?

- Fur.

- Fur trade.

- Fur.

- The fur trade is correct.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both- (bell dinging) Bell signals the end of that round, and we get to the close of that Kickoff.

Traverse City Central is in front, 130 to 50, as we get set to go on to the Perfect Ten.

Now here in the Perfect Ten, 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.

We'll take the answers from the captain.

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

Let's take a look at those Perfect Ten categories for today: What's Up, X Marks the Spot, and B Student.

- What's Up.

- [David] What's Up is the clue, and the category, What's Sup.

Give these words that start with the consecutive letters S-U-P. Again, What's Up, give these words that start with the consecutive letters S-U-P. 60 seconds on the clock for Roscommon, your Perfect 10 that starts with this: evening meal.

- Supper.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) Amount of something available.

- Supply.

- Supply.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) Highest court in the US.

- Supreme.

- Supreme.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) Extra or unnecessary.

- Pass.

- Pass.

(buzzer buzzes) - To ask for something humbly, especially of God.

- I don't know.

- [Faith] Pass.

- Pass.

- Pass.

(buzzer buzzes) - The highest degree of comparison, such as brightest.

- Superb.

- Incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Soft and pliant.

- Supple.

- Supple.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) Lying down on one's back.

- Pass.

(buzzer buzzes) - Capable of exceeding Mach 1.

- Super speed.

- Supersonic.

- Supersonic.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) To take the place of something, as in indictment, as in an indictment.

- [Tristin] Oh, superimposed?

Yeah.

- Wait.

- Superimposed.

(bell dinging) - Supersede.

- [David] The bell signaled the end.

We can't take that answer, so we will move it over to Traverse City Central for 30 seconds to pick up on some of these that were missed.

30 seconds on your round now, as we start with extra or unnecessary.

- Supplement.

- Supplementary.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) To ask for something humbly, especially of God.

- Suppose?

- Try it.

- Suppose.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) The highest degree of comparison, such as brightest.

- Superlative.

- Superlative.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Lying down on one's back.

- Supine.

- Supine.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) And to take the place of something, as in an indictment.

- Supersede.

- Supersede.

(bell dinging) - [David] We'll take that at the bell there.

- You're always correct.

(chime resonating) - And that is- - Batting up.

- Okay.

- That is correct.

The ones that stumped both, extra or unnecessary is superfluous, to ask for something humbly, especially of God, is to supplicate.

That were the ones that were missed.

All right, so (chuckles) we now go to the Perfect 10.

We shift it over to Traverse City Central.

You have 60 seconds to choose from our remaining two clues, X Marks the Spot and B Student.

- B.

- I like it.

- B Student.

- More B words, the next words.

B Student.

(team chuckling) - [David] Your category is the letter B.

What does the B stand for in?

- Oh, I like this.

- And we will fill in the blank there.

Again, the category is the letter B.

What does the B stand for?

60 seconds as you begin your Perfect Ten.

The colloquialism BFF.

- Best.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) The sandwich BLT.

- Bacon.

- The literary identifier (chime resonating) ISBN.

- Book.

- Book.

- Correct.

(object thudding) (chime resonating) Television channel NBC.

- Broadcast.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) The oil company BP.

- British.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) The date specifications BC.

- Before.

- Before.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) The long range weapon ICBM.

- Ballistic.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) The postgraduate degree MBA.

- Bachelor.

- Bachelor?

- Incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) The baseball stat RBI.

- Batted in.

- Batted.

- Correct.

(chime resonating) The investigative agency NTSB.

- Bureau?

- Bureau.

- Incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) All right, Roscommon, you've got a chance to grab a couple of these in our category.

30 seconds on the clock.

The postgraduate degree MBA.

- It's not bachelor's.

- No.

- Pass.

- Pass.

- Business.

(buzzer buzzes) - Oh, it's business.

- And the investigative agency NTSB.

- NTSB, nobody knows?

Pass.

- Okay, I give it up.

(buzzer buzzes) - Ones we were looking for, the postgraduate degree is a Masters of Business Administration, and the investigative agency NTSB, that is the National Transportation Safety Board.

All right, we wrap up the Perfect Ten.

Traverse City is in front, 240 to 100.

We will move on to the Homestretch as we continue in our championship game on "Quiz Central."

Here in the Homestretch, it's a combination again of toss-up and bonus questions.

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

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

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

No stealing on those bonuses.

However, teams can confer and we'll take answers from the captain.

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

If our players are ready, buzzer set, good luck.

Here comes the first question.

What coefficient ranges from -1 to +1 measures the strength- (bell dings) - Correlation coefficient.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) And your bonus question, in 2023, what policy which had been upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger was gutted by the Supreme Court in cases about admissions to UNC and Harvard?

- I don't know.

Tuition fraud.

- Tuition fraud.

- [David] Oh, you're looking for affirmative action.

(buzzer buzzes) - Oh, I should have guessed that.

- [David] Toss-up for both The 1982 song "Ebony and Ivory" was a collaboration between Paul McCartney and what blind singer who's- (bell dings) - Stevie Wonder.

- Stevie Wonder is correct.

(chime resonating) And the bonus question, what color appears in the title of a novel about Jack Gladney by Don DeLillo and is a title of a book about a namesake wolf dog hybrid by Jack London.

- White?

Oh, yeah.

- I want to say.

- White.

- [David] White is the correct color.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both teams.

What author of the novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities" depicted the so-called merry pranksters in his 1968 book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"?

(bell dings) - William S. Burrows.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Roscommon.

(bell dings) - Abbie Hoffman.

- [David] Incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) We were looking for Thomas Wolfe.

Toss-up for both.

What decade during which the Wagner Act established the right to unionize featured the formation of the WPA and the CCC as part of the New Deal?

(bell dings) - '30s, 1930s.

- Thirties was the decade.

(chime resonating) Bonus question, what properly possessed by bonds with small non-zero differences in electronegativity is an unequal sharing of electrons as seen in water?

- Like polarity?

- I like that, polarity.

- Polarity.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Polar bonds or polarity.

Toss-up for both, in 1898, the USS Maine sank in the harbor of what city?

(bell dings) - Havana.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Havana, Cuba.

Bonus question, in what country where Mount Merapi, Merapi, excuse me, erupted in 2023 did a 2024 landslide kill at least 14 people of Sulawesi, an island northeast of Java?

- Oh, Indonesia.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) - It's good you know this.

- [David] Toss-up for both.

In 2024, the widespread theft of what metal led Los Angeles to put some statues in storage and cause major streetlight outages?

(bell dings) - Steel.

- [David] Oh, incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Traverse City.

(bell dings) - Copper.

- [David] Copper is correct.

(bell dings) Bonus question, what city is home to the Sankore Mosque, was a major trading center in the Mali Empire, and has a name that refers to any remote exotic location.

- Timbuktu.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both teams.

What force is proportional to velocity by Stokes' law and is balanced by gravity when an object- (bell dings) - Normal force.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Roscommon.

- Finish the question please.

- [David] Balanced by gravity, when an object falls at terminal velocity?

(bell dings) - Mass.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) We're looking for drag force.

In what Olympic event whose world record holders include Sergey Bubka and Mando Duplantis do athletes use a long fiberglass rod?

(bell dings) - High jump.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) (bell dings) Roscommon, we'll finish.

The long fiberglass rod to jump over a bar?

(bell dings) - Pole vault.

- [David] That is correct.

- Crazy.

(chime resonating) - Obviously.

- And your bonus question, what Utah senator, whose father George was a governor of Michigan, was himself a governor of Massachusetts, and ran for president in 2012?

- Romney.

- [Tristin] Yeah, I think so.

- Romney.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) - I don't know.

(chime resonating) - [David] Toss-up for both, what type of number has an odd number of positive factors, outputs an integer when taken to the power of 1/2, and includes 16 and 25?

(bell dings) - Perfect square.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Bonus question, what country musician released the 2023 album "One Thing at a Time," which included the chart-topping single "Last Night"?

- [Owen] Is it Mack Ryan?

Mack Ryan.

- Morgan.

- Morgan Wallen.

Morgan Wallen.

- Morgan Wallen.

- Morgan Wallen.

- [David] That is correct.

- Okay (laughing).

- Hm, be careful.

- [David] Toss-up for both, what language is the original language of the opera "William Tell" (bell dings) as well- - French.

- Yeah, that is correct, the French language.

(chime resonating) (Arthur sighing) (Arthur chuckling) And the bonus question, what kind of place is translated in Spanish as playa.

and in French as plage?

- Beach.

It's beach.

- Beach.

- That is correct.

(chime resonating) Toss-up for both teams, what religion- (bell dinging) And the bell signals the end of that round.

They're in the Homestretch.

Traverse City Central is at 340, Roscommon is at 150, as we get set for the Final Countdown to decide our season 20 champion.

In this Final Countdown, 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?

Buzzer set?

Good luck.

Here comes your first question in the Final Countdown for today.

What religion's hymns, the Gathas, are credited to its namesake founder, who described the good god Ahura Mazda, and who lived in ancient Persia?

(bell dings) - Zoroastrianism.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Quantum gravity aims to unify quantum physics with what mainstream theory of space, time, and gravity?

(bell dings) - General relativity.

- You are correct.

(chime resonating) What Titan who was tricked by Heracles into retrieving the golden apples of the- (bell dings) - Atlas.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Max Wertheimer co-founded what German School of Psychology which holds that objects can be perceived as more than the sum of their individual parts?

(bell dings) - Structuralism.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Roscommon.

(bell dings) - Marriage, is it?

Oh, my gosh, I forgot.

- That is also incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) All right, what journey which went from Sabarmati Ashram to Dundee was made to protest the British monopoly (bell dings) on a namesake- - The Salt March.

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) Arthur Waley's "Monkey" is a partial translation of what 16th-century Chinese novel credited to Wu Ch'eng-en, whose protagonist is a traveling monk?

(bell dings) - "Journey to the West."

- [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) What disease, which is transmitted by the genus Aphospheles, is caused by Plasmodium parasites carried by mosquitoes and is common in the tropics- (bell dings) - Malaria.

- [David] Malaria is correct.

(chime resonating) What Chinese revolutionary who formulated the three principles of the people (bell dings) was the first leader- - Confucius.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) Traverse City.

(bell dings) - Sun Yat-sen. - [David] That is correct.

(chime resonating) What broad field- (bell dinging) And the bell signals the end of that Final Countdown.

We end our game today with Traverse City at 400, Roscommon, 160.

A big round of applause for both of our teams here in the championship.

(audience applauding) - Congrats.

- Was that German school, was it Gestalt?

- [David] And as we look back to the incorrect answers in today's game, Max Wertheimer co-founded Gestalt.

That was the only incorrect answer on both.

Roscommon, well done, a good run through our series this year, and thanks very much for playing with us.

Congratulations on a great effort.

Traverse City Central, congratulations to you, our champions here in season 20 on "Quiz Central."

That wraps it up for this season 20, a great season by all of our students.

We hope that you're giving all of them from all of our games a big round of applause at home.

From all of us here at WCMU, thanks for joining us in season 20.

I'm David Nicholas.

We'll see you next time.

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