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This time it's a second round game between Sandusky and Roscommon coming up next.

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(dramatic music) (dramatic music continues) - Hello again everyone.

I'm David Nicholas and welcome to Quiz Central.

This time students from Sandusky are taking on the team from Roscommon.

It's a 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 the top teams from Quiz Central will qualify for the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament.

Okay, let's get to our 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 misses a tossup 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, have the buzzers ready.

Good luck, here comes your first question.

What country's strongest recorded earthquake struck in September, 2023 in (indistinct) and with its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains southwest of Marrakesh?

(bell dings) - Italy.

- [David] Incorrect, Sandusky for the guess.

(bell dings) - India?

- Turkey's.

- [David] Also incorrect.

In May, 2023, Bola Tinubu was inaugurated as president of what most populous country in Africa?

- Nigeria.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) What river's course depends on the water levels of Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and runs from Tibet south to South Vietnam.

(bell dings) - Yellow River.

- [David] Incorrect.

(failure chime) Sandusky for the steal.

(bell dings) - The Ganges River.

- [David] That is also incorrect.

(failure chime) Toss up for both teams.

What two adjectives in English denote the two main forks of the Nile River which converge near the city of Khartoum.

(bell dings) - Upper and lower.

- [David] Incorrect.

Roscommon.

(bell dings) - Blue and white.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) Toss up for both.

What author who wrote about a love lorn artist suicide in the sours of, "The Sorrows of Young Werther", was a German who portrayed a scholar's temptation in Faust.

(bell dings) - Kafka.

- [David] Incorrect, Sandusky.

(failure chime) All right, next question.

The title for top man, punches and kills Claggart in what novella by Herman Melville?

(bell dings) - Moby Dick.

- [David] Incorrect.

(failure chime) Roscommon with a guess?

- No.

- [David] Next question.

What royal House which acquired the, (bell dings) and the bell signals the end wind of the round.

The earthquake was in the country and we were looking for was, Morocco.

The river's course in Southeast Asia, it's the Mekong River.

The author who wrote about the love lorn artist was Goethe.

And the one who punched the other, Claggart, is the novella by Herman Melville was, "Billy Bud".

Roscommon grabs an early 20 point lead in this game.

Before we kick off our next round, let's take a moment to meet our students competing today.

Let's start with our team from Sandusky.

- Hello, my name is Timothy Eddart III and I am a senior at Sandusky High School and I'm also part of the band and drama.

- Hi, my name's Alicia Cassada.

I'm a senior at Sandusky.

I love talking, trivia, and transforming tetrahedrons.

- Hello, my name is Sebastian Serpline, I'm a sophomore.

I participate in cross country, track, the band, quiz bowl, and the drama department.

- Hi, I'm Lukas Daleker, I'm a freshman from Sandusky.

I'm in wrestling, baseball, and football.

- Thank you Sandusky, good to have you here.

Now let's meet your opponents today from Roscommon.

- Hi, my name is Gavin Gross.

I'm a junior at Roscommon High School and I'm an advanced star in quiz bowl.

- Hi, my name is Tristin Estep.

I'm a senior at Roscommon High School.

I participate in band, student council, and quiz bowl.

- Hello, my name is Tanner.

I'm still a sophomore at Roscommon High School and I volunteer for our interact club.

- Hi, my name is Faith McNeil and I'm in musical and cheerleading.

- Welcome to you Roscommon and thank you students.

Now the next round here on Quiz Central is the kickoff round.

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

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

Missed tossup questions can be stolen but there is no consulting on these questions.

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

No stealing of the bonus questions.

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

An incorrect bonus means we'll go back to a tossup for both teams.

Okay, buzzers ready.

Good luck, here comes your first question.

A venturi meter illustrates what principle named for a Swiss scientist, which often means that as a fluid's velocity increases its pressure decreases.

(bell dings) - Viscosity.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(failure chime) Roscommon with a guess.

(bell dings) - Buoyancy.

- [David] Also incorrect.

We were looking for the Bernoulli Principle or the Bernoulli Equation.

Toss up for both.

What metal which can be smelted in the Hall, excuse me, The Hall-Heroult process is found in the ore box site and is a lightweight metal used in namesake foils?

(bell dings) - Aluminum?

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) And your bonus question.

The first European explorer to reach New Zealand was what Dutch man with the namesake of another country's largest island?

- [Tanner] Cook was the, Cook was the... - [Faith] Cook wasn't (indistinct).

- Are you sure?

All right.

Cook.

- Answer?

- Cook.

- [David] Incorrect.

(failure chime) We were looking for Abel Tasman for leading to Tasmania.

Toss up to both teams.

What city whose continent, whose centennial park contains a replica of the Parthenon, hosts country music shows at the Grand Ole Opry, and is Tennessee's capitol?

(bell dings) - Nashville.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) And your bonus Roscommon.

In May, 2024, (indistinct) reduced the creation rate of what commodity which is limited to 21 million units?

- [Tanner] 21 million units?

- (indistinct), what comm-- - (indistinct), recent shortage, maybe it's baby formula?

- That's not that recent, pass.

- [David] We were looking for Bitcoin.

(failure chime) - Oh, I can't do that.

- [David] You have a popular-- - Very hot commodity.

- [David] All right, toss up for both.

What president whose popularity fell after he repressed the bonus Army was in office in 1929 on black Thursday, which sparked the Great Depression?

- Herbert Hoover.

- [David] You are correct.

(triumphant chime) And the bonus question for Sandusky.

What character who claims he doesn't share food and uses the pickup line, "How you doing?"

Is a struggling actor played by Matt LeBlanc in "Friends"?

- [Timothy] Oh um, LeBlanc, Joey.

- Defer to Timmy.

- Joey.

- [David] That is correct, Joey Tribbiani.

(triumphant chime) Toss up for both teams.

What British scientist helped lay the first transatlantic cable and name's a temperature scale that begins at absolute zero.

(bell dings) - Kelvin.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) Lord Kelvin and the Kelvin the scale.

Bonus question.

What colorless but not odorless compound of hydrogen, carbon, and chlorine with a molecular formula CHCL3 is a volatile liquid used as a solvent?

- Is it hydrochloric acid?

- [Gavin] Is it ammonia?

- It could be ammonia.

- [Tanner] I think ammonia is a smart choice.

- Sure.

- Answer?

- Ammonia.

- [David] We were looking for chloroform.

(failure chime) - Oh.

I can see that.

- [David] Toss up for both.

What author wrote that, "Beauty is its own excuse for being," in his poem, "The Rhodora" and wrote an essay titled "Nature" about his transcendentalist views.

(bell dings) - Emerson.

- [David] You are correct.

(triumphant chime) And the bonus question for Sandusky.

What US auto manufacturer was acquired by Fiat in 2014 before merging with Peugeot in 2021 to form Stellantis.

- Chrysler.

- [David] That is correct on the bonus as well.

(triumphant chime) Toss up for both.

What US Navy Commodore signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854?

- Perry.

- [David] That is correct, Matthew Perry.

(triumphant chime) Bonus question then.

What American composer whose music of changes was inspired by the E Chang, had pianist David Tudor sit not playing at the 1952 premier of his four minutes, 33 seconds?

- [Timothy] Oh, I don't remember about this.

I don't remember.

- Answer please.

- You don't remember?

- No, I don't remember.

- Guess.

- George Gershwin.

- [David] We were looking for John Cage.

(failure chime) Four minutes and 33 seconds on stage, no music.

All right, toss up for both.

A vellum is a fine version of what thin material made from untanned sheep, goat, or calf skins that can be bound into a codex.

(bell dings) - Leather.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Sandusky for the steal.

(bell dings) - Silk?

- [David] Oh, we were looking for parchment on that one.

Tossup for both teams.

(bell dings) Bell says that we will not get to another toss up for both teams.

- Parchment versus papyrus.

- And right now we have a tie game at the end of that kickoff round.

Sandusky and Roscommon tied at 50 as we get set for the perfect 10.

Teams, 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 this entire round.

We'll take those answers from the captain.

Doesn't always happen, but today it did.

Our game is tied.

So we had a coin toss, Roscommon won and gets the first choice to pick a clue to a category.

Here are your perfect 10 categories for today.

Writer's block, civil discourse, window dressing.

- I'm inclined to say writer's block purely by my own knowledge, but I'm curious what you guys think you'd be better at.

- (indistinct).

- Writer's Block seems a little bit-- - Between me and Faith, I think we can knock out some books if it's that.

- It seems a little too-- - We'll take writer's block just to keep you from being held up.

- Take Writer's block, that is the clue.

The category, fictional authors.

- Ah.

- [David] Name the author who created these fictional writers, journalists, or diaries.

Again, the clue writer's block gives us a category.

Fictional authors.

You'll be naming the author who created these fictional writers, journalists, or diaries.

60 seconds on the clock please for Roscommon in this perfect 10 round that begins with this.

Travel writer, Lumio Gulliver.

- [Tanner] "Gulliver's Travels".

- Swift.

- Swift.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) Jo March in "Little Women".

- Oh, Alcott.

- [David] Correct.

(triumphant chime) Kilgore Trout in-- - Oh Vonnegut.

- [David] I'm sorry, again?

- Vonnegut.

- Vonnegut is correct.

(triumphant chime) Steven (indistinct) in a portrait of the artist as a young man.

- Pass, I'm not sure.

(failure chime) - [David] Emmanuel Goldstein, whose book is read by Winston Smith.

- Orwell.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) You're right.

Diaress Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra.

- Is that "Pride and Prejudice"?

- [Tanner] Just name something.

- Austin.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(failure chime) Playwright, Claire Quilty.

- I don't have anything, pass.

- [David] All right.

(failure chime) Jack Torrance in "The Shining".

- Oh, King.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) The title poet, (bell dings) and the bell signals the end of that.

We're going to shift it over now to Sandusky.

You've got 30 seconds to pick up the ones that were missed in that round starting off with Roscommon.

And you also have a chance then to finish out the category of writer's block, the category, then fictional authors.

And you're trying to name the author who created these fictional writers, journalists, or diaries.

30 seconds on the clock for Sandusky's grab at these.

And we begin with Steven (indistinct) in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

(indistinct whispering) - Pass.

(failure chime) - [David] All right.

Diaress Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra.

- Pass.

(failure chime) - [David] Player, excuse me, playwright Claire Quilty in "Lolita".

- [Alicia] Nabokov.

- Defer to Alicia.

- Nabokov.

- [David] A little clarification please?

- Vladimir Nabokov.

(bell dings) - [David] Correct.

(triumphant chime) And Jack Torrance, oh, bell signals the end of the round.

So you picked up a couple there.

We have a score right now of 100 to 60.

The ones that stumped both teams, Steven (indistinct) in the "Portrait of the Artist", that's written by James Joyce.

Talking about the diaress Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra, that was Bram Stoker of "Dracula" fame.

All right, we send things back over to Sandusky.

You have 60 seconds in your perfect 10 round, first of all.

Choosing from either civil discourse or window dressing.

- Civil discourse.

- Civil discourse.

- We sure about this?

- Yes.

- Okay, well-- - Well what do we know about windows?

- No, no, no, no.

It's gotta be more than that.

It's like window dressings are like fashion.

- [David] And what's the clue you'd like to choose?

- What do we do?

- Civil discourse.

- Civil discourse.

- What?

Civil discourse.

- [David] Civil discourse it is.

From that clue comes this category, civil rights leaders.

And we have a phrase, "What civil rights leader?"

And you are, as I end the phrase with each question, then you will be naming that Civil Rights Leader.

Civil discourse, civil rights leaders.

60 Seconds then on the clock for Sandusky in their perfect 10 as we start with this.

Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963-- - Martin Luther King Jr. - [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) Founded the Tuskegee Institute.

- George Washington Carver.

- [David] Incorrect.

(failure chime) Declined to move from a bus seat in-- - Rosa Parks.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) Gave the speech, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

- [Timothy] Is it Malcolm X?

- Malcolm X.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(failure chime) Left the Nation of Islam in 1964 before being assassinated.

- Malcolm X.

- [David] Again please?

- Malcolm X.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) Wrote "The Souls of Black Folk," and co-founded the NAACP.

(indistinct whispering) - Pass.

- Pass.

(failure chime) - [David] Led the Rainbow Push Coalition and won the 1984 Democratic primary in Louisiana.

- Pass.

(failure chime) - [David] Led a march from Selma and became a congressman from Georgia.

(bell dings) The bell signals the end of that round.

All right, we swing it over to Roscommon.

You have 30 seconds then this time around to pick up on the questions that were not garnered in that attempt by Sandusky.

So 30 seconds on the clock for Roscommon as we once again go to civil discourse.

These are civil rights leaders, what civil rights leader?

And there will be your question.

We begin with this with 30 seconds on the clock.

Founded the Tuskegee Institute.

- [Gavin] Franklin Douglas, or.

- Franklin Douglas.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(failure chime) Let's see, gave the speech, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

- You could-- - Pass.

(failure chime) - (indistinct) anything.

- [David] Wrote "The Souls of Black Folk," and co-founded the NAACP.

- Harriet Tubman.

- (indistinct).

- Tubman.

- [David] Incorrect.

(failure chime) Led the Rainbow Push Coalition and won the 1984, (bell dings) and the bell signals the end there.

The founder of the Tuskegee Institute was Booker T. Washington.

The speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?'

was given by Frederick Douglas, and who wrote, "The Souls of Black Folk", that was W.E.B.

Du Bois.

And the leader of the Rainbow Push Coalition, '84 Democratic primary winner in Louisiana, that was Jesse Jackson.

And we also had, led a march from Selma and became a congressman from Georgia, that was John Robert Lewis.

So at the end of the perfect 10, with both teams getting some good work done there, Roscommon is at 100, Sandusky is at 90.

Our next round today is the home stretch.

And in the home stretch we'll have a combination of tossup and bonus questions.

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

Missed tossup questions can be stolen, but there is no consulting on those questions.

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

There's no stealing of bonus questions, however, teams can confer and we'll take those answers from the captain.

An incorrect bonus answer means we head back to the tossup for both teams.

Good luck, buzzers ready.

Here comes your first question.

Toss up for both.

What team which won the World Series in both 1992 and 1993 now stars first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (bell dings) - The Blue Jays.

- [David] Toronto Blue Jays is correct.

(triumphant chime) Your bonus question, Sandusky.

In what state was actor Hill Harper supposedly offered $20 million to end a Senate campaign and run against its Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

- Just had Michigan.

Michigan.

- [David] That is correct.

It was right here in Michigan.

Toss up for both teams.

What state, (David clears his throat) excuse me, what state which is named for an alternative name, an alternate name of the Lenape people, is governed by John Carney and was the first state to ratify the Constitution.

(bell dings) - Delaware.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) And a bonus question for you, Sandusky.

Henry VIII's fourth wife who hailed from the German Duchy of Cleves, had what first name?

- Anne.

- Yeah.

- Anne.

- [David] Anne of Cleves is correct.

(triumphant chime) Toss up for both teams.

What island to the northeast of Cabot Strait contains the remains of L'Anse aux Meadows and comprises a Canadian province with Labrador.

(bell dings) - Newfoundland.

- [David] You are correct.

(triumphant chime) And the bonus question for Sandusky.

What effect which occurs when the energy of a certain particle exceeds the work function was mentioned in Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize citation?

- Oh wasn't it, implosion?

- Implosion.

- [David] Answer for the bonus?

- Implosion.

- [David] Incorrect.

We were looking for (failure chime) photo electric.

Back to a tossup for both teams.

What king who was imprisoned by Leopold the fifth after fighting in the third crusade was a 12th century English king whose nickname celebrated his courage.

(bell dings) - Richard The Lionheart?

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) And the bonus question.

What Trojan Prince, who was the son of Anchises caused the suicide of Dido when he fled Carthage?

- Paris, from the Trojan War.

- [Timothy] Go for it.

- Paris.

- [David] That is incorrect.

(failure chime) - We're looking for Aeneas, as in Dido and Aeneas.

Toss up for both.

In a ballet studio, dancers usually warm up while holding what handrail?

(bell dings) - Bar.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) And the bonus for Roscommon.

What woman whose memoir, "The Woman In Me" details request to end her conservatorship, is a singer who recorded "Toxic" and "Baby One More Time".

- [Tanner] Brittany Spears.

- Brittany Spears.

- [David] You are correct on the bonus as well.

(triumphant chime) Excuse me, bonus question for both teams, or excuse me, toss up question for both teams.

Mount Pico, the highest point in Portugal is in what archipelago of the middle of the Atlantic?

(bell dings) - The Canary Islands.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Roscommon with a guess.

(bell dings) - The Galapagos.

- [David] We're looking for the Azores.

- Yeah, dunno.

- [David] Toss up for both teams.

What event planned in the Green Dragon Tavern was punished by the intolerable acts after the Sons of Liberty threw British cargo into Boston Harbor.

- The Boston Tea Party.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) And a bonus question to follow.

What hydrated magnesium silicate mineral defines a hardness of one on the Mohs scale and is used in baby powder.

- Talcum.

- Talcum.

Do Talcum.

- Talc.

- Talc or talcum, that is correct.

(triumphant chime) Toss up for both.

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

So we get through the home stretch now.

It's a good game.

Sandusky, had the lead 170 to 120 as we get set for the final countdown.

Teams here in the 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.

Hands on the buzzers, good luck.

Here comes your first question.

What Arthurian Knight conceived when his mother, Elaine, was mistaken by Lancelot for Guinevere went with Bors and Percival to seek the holy grail?

(bell dings) - Sir Galahad.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) What European country's army installed in Maximilian as emperor of Mexico in 1862 in a namesake intervention (bell dings) during its... - Austria.

- [David] That is incorrect.

Roscommon.

(bell dings) Gavin.

- Spain.

- [David] That is incorrect, we were looking for France.

All right, what artists who with Paul Morrissey made the film, "Chelsea Girls", founded the factory, and made iconic reproductions of Campbell soup cans?

(bell dings) - Andy Warhol.

- [David] Correct.

(triumphant chime) What author described a magical technique for winning card games in his story, "The Queen of Spades" and depicted a duel in his long poem, "Eugene Oneguine" (bell dings) - Longfellow.

- [David] Incorrect.

(failure chime) (bell dings) Next question.

What novel, which ends with a manuscript delivered by (indistinct), which being read by Aureliano Buendia in Macondo is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

(bell dings) - "100 Years of Solitude".

- [David] You are correct.

(triumphant chime) What devices, the primary application of both platinum and palladium remove polluting gases from automobile exhaust?

(bell dings) - Carburetor.

- [David] Incorrect.

(bell dings) - Catalytic converter.

- [David] That is correct.

(triumphant chime) The toss up here.

Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were members of what committee founded at Yale in 1940 that opposed us entry into World War II?

(bell dings) - Pass, nevermind.

- [David] Sandusky, with a chance.

(failure chime) All right, next question.

What country whose socialist, (bell dings) and the bell signals the end of that final countdown and the end of the game.

Sandusky takes it today by a score of 200 to 130 for Roscommon.

A big round of applause for all of our players today.

(audience and teams applaud) - That second half (indistinct).

- [David] All right, congratulations again.

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

And Sandusky, congratulations to you.

We will see you in an upcoming round as we continue on in our tournament this year on Quiz Central.

And that game coming down the line, another game too next week.

Have a good night everybody.

(upbeat music)