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>> COSTA: Coming up on season six
of High School Quiz Show, we have B.U. Academy!
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Taking on Lexington High School!
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And that's next on High School Quiz Show!
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>> COSTA: Hi, everybody,
and welcome to High School Quiz Show.
I'm Billy Costa, your host.
Now, back in November, 120 high school teams
across the state of Massachusetts competed
at our Super Sunday qualifying event
to earn one of only 16 spots in this year's competition.
So the goal now is to become the next High School Quiz Show
State Champion, and take home this beautiful trophy.
And our Quiz Show Champions will then move on
to compete against the winners
of New Hampshire Public Television's
Granite State Challenge
in the third annual Governor's Cup Competition.
Today's matchup, we've got B.U. Academy
taking on Lexington High School.
So let's get right to it and meet the B.U. Academy team.
We have Damien, Tynan, David, and Weston.
The alternate on the sidelines is Jonah,
and the coaches are Rosemary White and Alicia Meyer.
Nice round of applause, B.U. Academy.
(applause)
And now the team from Lexington High School.
We've got Colin, Devin, Arjun, and Liam.
Alternate on the sidelines is Krishna.
And the coaches, Bill Cole and Carrie Darling.
(cheers and applause)
The competition has four rounds: a toss-up,
a head-to-head round, a category round,
and the lightning round.
And we start with the toss-up round.
All answers are worth ten points.
And this is the only round, by the way,
with no point deductions for any wrong answers.
So if the teams are ready, so am I.
Let's play.
In January 2014, a 2.6-inch snowfall
paralyzed what capital city of Georgia?
Colin?
>> Augusta. >> COSTA: No.
B.U. Academy, David?
>> Atlanta? >> COSTA: Atlanta is right.
On August 20, 1866, what successor to Abraham Lincoln
formally declared the Civil War over?
Yes, Arjun?
>> Andrew Johnson. >> COSTA: Correct.
Meaning "turned to stone," what term describes wood
whose normal cells have been replaced with mineral deposits?
David?
>> Petrified. >> COSTA: That's correct.
The story of the Trojan Horse is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey
and what epic poem by Virgil?
Yes, Colin?
>> The Aeneid. >> COSTA: That is correct.
Now, take a look at your screens.
You will see a photograph.
This colorful parade float is part of what
carnival-like holiday celebrated in New Orleans
just before the Christian season of Lent?
Yes, Tynan?
>> Mardi Gras?
>> COSTA: That is correct.
Soon after CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was fired
in June of 2014, thousands of employees went on strike
at what New England supermarket chain?
Yes, Liam?
>> Market Basket. >> COSTA: Correct.
Buddhism, which spread across Asia via trade routes
such as the Silk Road, originated in what country?
Yes, David?
>> India. >> COSTA: Correct.
After carbon dioxide, what is the second most prevalent
greenhouse gas emitted in the United States
from human activities?
Yes, Tynan?
>> Methane?
>> COSTA: Correct.
The Bully Pulpit is a book about Theodore Roosevelt
and William Howard Taft.
It's by what presidential historian
who lives in Concord, Massachusetts?
Colin?
>> Doris Kearns Goodwin.
>> COSTA: That is correct.
Now the next question will be up on your video screen,
so pay close attention.
Here it comes.
>> Hi, I'm Cady Coleman.
I'm a chemist and a NASA astronaut.
Here's my question.
What element named after a dwarf planet was discovered
by nuclear scientists in Berkeley, California, in 1941?
>> COSTA: Liam?
>> Plutonium. >> COSTA: That is correct.
Since 1845, what two schools have competed
in the annual university boat race,
a course that spans approximately four miles
along the Thames River?
Yes, Colin?
>> Oxford and Cambridge. >> COSTA: That is correct.
In exercise physiology,
catabolic refers to muscle breakdown.
What term refers to muscle buildup?
Yes, Devin?
>> Anabolic. >> COSTA: That is correct.
In George Orwell's Animal Farm,
what treacherous and tyrannical pig is based on Josef Stalin?
Yes, Devin?
>> Napoleon? >> COSTA: Yes.
Around the year 450 AD, which of the following began
their invasion and conquest of Southwestern Britain?
Was it, A, the Normans, B, the Anglo Saxons,
C, the Celts?
Colin?
>> The Celts, C? >> COSTA: No.
B.U. Academy, David?
>> A, the Normans.
>> COSTA: No, the Anglo Saxons was the correct answer.
We move on to a math question.
In miles per hour, what is the average speed of a car
that travels 171 miles in three hours?
Devin?
>> 57 miles per hour?
>> COSTA: That is correct.
In 2014, Liberia and Sierra Leone
had outbreaks of what rare but deadly virus
that causes bleeding inside and outside the body?
Yes, Devin?
>> Ebola. >> COSTA: Correct.
With a stunning extra time goal by a substitute,
what country defeated Argentina to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Yes, Colin?
>> Germany? >> COSTA: Correct.
Which of these words-- talisman, shibboleth, or harbinger--
refers to a lucky charm?
Yes, Weston?
>> Talisman. >> COSTA: Correct.
Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, one of the world's great monuments,
was built under the direction of what Byzantine emperor?
Devin?
>> Justinian. >> COSTA: Yes.
In 2014, NASA gave its highest civilian honor,
a distinguished public service medal,
to what actor who originated the role
of Star Trek's Captain Kirk?
Yes, Colin?
>> William Shatner. >> COSTA: Yes.
If you were to go down into a mine shaft
below the earth's surface,
your weight would do which of the following?
A, increase slightly, B, decrease slightly,
C, remain the same?
Yes, Damien?
>> Increase slightly.
>> COSTA: No, Lexington?
Arjun?
>> C.
>> COSTA: No, it would be B, decrease slightly.
Weight and gravitational pull decrease as you get closer
to the center of the earth.
And we move on.
In 2013, what former world chess champion
and vocal critic of Vladimir Putin fled Russia
amid fears of political persecution?
Yes, Tynan?
>> Gary Kasparov?
>> COSTA: That is correct.
What bestselling book by Laura Hillenbrand
chronicles the life of Louis Zamperini,
an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner
by Japanese forces during World War II?
Yes, David?
>> Unbroken. >> COSTA: Correct.
What star of the Iron Man film franchise
was the highest paid actor of 2013 and 2014?
Yes, Colin?
>> Robert Downey, Jr.? >> COSTA: Yes.
Math question.
What is the volume of a cube if each side measures three feet?
Weston?
>> 27 cubic feet? >> COSTA: Correct.
Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts, an actual pirate
from the 1700s, was the inspiration for the fictional
Dread Pirate Roberts in what cult film from 1987?
Damien?
>> The Princess Bride. >> COSTA: Yes.
In February 2014, Boston's South Station unveiled
a new ATM machine that dispenses what digital currency
affiliated with no country or bank?
Yes, Liam?
>> Bitcoin. >> COSTA: Yes.
Although native to the Amazon basin, most cocoa beans
are now produced on what continent?
Damien?
>> Africa. >> COSTA: Yes.
What long-running and extremely popular theatrical show
was started in 1994 by Irish dancing champions
Michael Flatley and Jean Butler?
Yes, Liam?
>> Riverdance.
>> COSTA: Riverdance.
Rainstorms, lighting, and snowfall typically occur
in which layer of the earth's atmosphere?
Devin?
>> Stratosphere? >> COSTA: No, B.U. Academy?
Yes, Damien?
>> The Troposphere? >> COSTA: That is correct.
Alexander the Great was born in what present day country
situated north of Greece?
Devin?
>> Macedonia? >> COSTA: Yes.
What early African American poet is remembered for her poem
His Excellency, General Washington?
Colin?
>> Phillis Wheatley? >> COSTA: Yes.
In the 1850s, what anti-immigrant political party
was associated with slogans like, "No Irish Need Apply"?
Colin?
>> Know Nothing Party. >> COSTA: Yes.
On September 15, 1963, four girls were killed
when a white supremacist bomb
destroyed the 16th Street Baptist Church
in what Alabama city?
David?
>> Birmingham. >> COSTA: Yes.
While recovering from back surgery in 1954,
what future President worked on a book called
Profiles in Courage?
Yes, Weston?
>> JFK? >> COSTA: Yes.
What U.S. state is home... (bell ringing)
Oh!
And there is the bell ending round one.
We'll take a look at the score.
B.U. Academy right now, 140 points.
Lexington High School, 190 points.
We've got ourselves a competition here.
(cheers and applause)
All right, we're coming up on the head-to-head round.
But first, we take a little break, get to know the players.
And this is how we do it.
I've got a question, each of you will give us your answer,
and we're going to start with B.U. Academy
and Damien, so here goes.
If you were selected to participate in the Hunger Games,
which of your strengths would you rely on to survive,
and why, Damien?
>> I would use my excellent cooking skills to make friends
with all the better fighters, at which point I would poison them.
(laughter) >> COSTA: Tynan?
>> I'd use deceit and trickery
to turn everyone against each other.
>> COSTA: All right, short and sweet, David?
>> I would use my bad jokes and constant weird performances
to hope someone in the audience had as bad a sense of humor
as I did, and they would send me food.
>> COSTA: Boy, how weird are the performances?
>> Very.
>> COSTA: Never mind, David, never mind.
Weston?
>> I'd just grow a better beard than my opponents.
>> COSTA: You've got some growing to do.
No, you're doing fine.
Lexington High, Colin, how about it?
>> I'd use my immense size, just intimidate them all.
They wouldn't want to mess with me.
>> COSTA: Devin?
>> I'd use my attractiveness, because I would love someone
like Katniss Everdeen on my side early in the game.
>> COSTA: All right, Arjun?
>> I'd use my giant muscles here to outmuscle anyone.
>> COSTA: There you go, and Liam?
>> Just the opposite of Colin's.
I'm just so skinny no one would be able to hit me.
>> COSTA: And you wouldn't have to duck or move or anything.
All right, so here we go, head to head.
The way it works, each team sends a representative forward
to go head to head.
So B.U. Academy, who's it going to be?
Damien.
Lexington High School?
Colin.
Damien, Colin, come on down.
We're going head to head.
(cheers and applause)
Okay, we are ready to go head to head.
I've got Colin to my left, from Lexington High School,
Damien is here from B.U. Academy.
You guys want to shake hands, make it gentlemanly?
And here we go.
A reminder-- in this round,
you guys get ten points for correct answers.
Incorrect answers are going to cost you ten points.
You can buzz in as soon as you know the answer.
So if you guys are both set, the clock is set at 90 seconds.
Here we go.
What is the chemical formula of ozone?
Yes?
>> O3. >> COSTA: Yes.
The Bass Strait separates Victoria, Australia
from what island directly to the south?
Yes?
>> Tasmania. >> COSTA: Yes.
The Silkworm is the second book written by J.K. Rowling
under what pen name?
(buzzer sounding)
>> Robert Galbraith is the answer.
What song that dates from the French Revolution
is the French national anthem?
>> La Marsellaise. >> COSTA: Yes.
Isaac Newton was obsessed with what Medieval science
of trying to turn... yes?
>> Alchemy. >> COSTA: Yes.
>> In response to a historic drought, what U.S. state
adopted emergency water regulations in July?
Yes?
>> California. >> COSTA: Yes.
What country is the largest exporter of oil
to the United States?
>> Saudi Arabia.
>> COSTA: No, Canada.
What nocturnal animal group makes up about one-fourth
of all mammal species on earth?
>> Bats. >> COSTA: Yes.
Green Bay is an inlet of what Great Lake?
>> Michigan. >> COSTA: Yes, Lake Michigan.
In Around the World in 80 Days,
what city is the starting point of Phileas Fogg's... yes?
>> Paris. >> COSTA: No, London.
A bill granting future independence to the Philippines
was signed by what U.S. President in 1934?
Yes?
>> FDR. >> COSTA: Yes.
What country in the Bay of Bengal
was formerly known as East Pakistan?
>> Bangladesh. >> COSTA: Yes.
Around the year 950, what became the first country
to use gunpowder in warfare?
>> China. >> COSTA: Yes.
How many degrees are in one-eighth of a full circle?
Yes?
>> 22 and a half.
>> COSTA: No, 45 degrees would be the answer.
Do you think this is easy for these people?
That's the end of round two, the head-to-head round.
And we take a look at the score.
B.U. Academy right now, 150 points.
Lexington High School, 250 points.
Let's hear it for both teams.
Guys, great job.
Colin, Damien.
(cheers and applause)
Next up for the contestants is the category round.
We have six categories, and they are:
Foreign Affairs, Once Upon a Bad Time,
Face the Music, Are We Alone?, These United States,
and Namesakes.
Each category has five questions with increasing point values,
so there is, again, a lot at stake in this category round.
You can confer with your teammates in this round.
Once you do buzz in though, you are no longer able to confer
and we will need your answer.
B.U. Academy, you've got a little ground to make up.
You get to choose the first category.
So what's it going to be?
>> Namesakes, please?
>> COSTA: Namesakes, questions about things named after people.
And for ten points: what tactile writing system
is named after its creator, a Frenchman,
who went blind following a childhood accident?
Yes, Devin?
>> Braille? >> COSTA: That is correct.
So you get the board, category, please.
>> Namesake for 15.
>> COSTA: 15 points.
What verb that means "to bully" is named after the Trojan prince
killed by Achilles in the Iliad?
Yes, David?
>> Hector. >> COSTA: Hector is correct.
B.U. Academy, you get the board back.
Category? >> Namesakes, please.
>> COSTA: Namesakes for 20 points.
What chemical process that strengthens natural rubber
is named after the Roman god of fire?
Yes, Colin?
>> Vulcanization? >> COSTA: That is correct.
You've got the board, Lexington, category?
>> Namesakes for 25.
>> COSTA: 25 points.
What verb, meaning "to jolt into action,
especially by an electric shock,"
is named after an 18th-century Italian physician
who experimented with electricity?
Yes, Damian? >> Galvanize.
>> COSTA: That is correct, you've got the board, category?
>> Namesakes, please.
>> COSTA: We'll stay with Namesakes for 30 points.
What type of early photograph produced on a silver plate
is named after the French chemist who invented it in 1839?
Yes, Damian? >> Daguerreotype.
>> COSTA: That is correct,
you'll need a new category B.U. Academy.
>> Are We Alone?
>> COSTA: Are We Alone?
Questions about life beyond earth.
And for ten points: the search for life
has driven virtually every mission to Mars.
What Mars rover is currently exploring Gale Crater,
which was a huge lake billions of years ago?
Yes, Liam?
>> Mars cu-- ahh, Curiosity.
>> COSTA: Curiosity, you got it out.
All right, you've got the board.
Category, Lexington.
>> Are We Alone? for 15.
>> COSTA: For 15 points: initiated by NASA in the 1970s
but now privately funded, what program searches
for nonrandom radio signals as possible signs of alien life?
Yes, Weston.
>> SETI?
>> COSTA: SETI is correct, you've got the board,
B.U. Academy, category?
>> Are We Alone? again, please.
>> COSTA: Are We Alone?, this time for 20 points.
Ganymede and Europa are ice-covered moons
thought to have hidden oceans that could sustain life.
They are both satellites of what planet?
Yes, Weston?
>> Jupiter? >> COSTA: That is correct,
you've still got the board, category?
>> Are We Alone? again, please.
>> COSTA: Are We Alone?, 25 points.
What moon of Saturn might harbor life because it's the only place
in the solar system, besides Earth,
with stable liquids on its surface?
Yes, Weston?
>> Titan? >> COSTA: Correct.
B.U. you've got control, category?
>> Are We Alone? again, please.
>> COSTA: Okay, this time 30 points.
Formulated in 1961 and named for its inventor,
what equation estimates the number of alien civilizations
that might exist among the stars?
(buzzer)
The Drake equation is the answer there.
B.U. you've still got the board,
you'll need a new category, though.
>> Once Upon a Bad Time, please.
>> COSTA: Once Upon a Bad Time,
questions about dystopian novels.
And for ten points:
What ruthless, tyrannical president of Panem
is the main antagonist of The Hunger Games trilogy?
Yes, David?
>> President Snow.
>> COSTA: Yes, and you've got the board, category?
>> Once Upon a Bad Time again, please.
>> COSTA: All right, we'll stay there for 15 points.
What Ray Bradbury novel features firemen
who don't put out fires, but instead burn books?
Devin.
>> Fahrenheit 451.
>> COSTA: Yes, you've got the board, Lexington.
>> Face the Music, please.
>> COSTA: Face the Music, questions, well, about music.
And for ten points: in the early 1800s,
German musician Johann Mälzel invented what device
that keeps a regular beat and may be adjusted to any tempo?
Yes, Damian. >> The metronome.
>> COSTA: Yes, you've got the board, B.U. Academy.
>> Once Upon a Bad Time, please.
>> COSTA: This time for 20 points.
Beatrice Prior is a 16-year-old
living in post-apocalypse Chicago
in what debut novel by Veronica Roth?
Yes, Colin. >> Divergent?
>> COSTA: That is correct, and now Lexington
you've got the board.
>> Foreign Affairs.
>> COSTA: Foreign Affairs, questions about foreign affairs.
And for ten points: as commander in chief
of one of the largest militaries in Europe,
what current French president has sent troops to address
conflicts in Africa and has supported U.S. efforts in Syria?
Yes, Colin? >> François Hollande?
>> COSTA: That is correct,
you've still got the board, Lexington.
>> Foreign Affairs for 15? >> COSTA: 15 points.
In 2014, the U.S. and the European Union
imposed economic sanctions on Russia
over its annexation of Crimea from what country?
Yes, Damian? >> Ukraine.
>> COSTA: That is correct, you've got the board back,
B.U. Academy.
>> Once Upon a Bad Time, please.
>> COSTA: For 25 points.
Who wrote about capitalists getting oppressed
by excessive taxation and government regulation
in her novel Atlas Shrugged?
Yes, Liam.
>> Ayn Rand.
>> COSTA: That is correct, and Lexington has the board back.
>> Foreign Affairs, please.
>> COSTA: Foreign Affairs for 20 points.
In the summer of 2014, following the breakdown
of U.S.-backed peace talks, violence erupted between Israel
and what militant Islamist group that controls Gaza?
Yes, Colin? >> Hamas?
>> COSTA: Hamas is correct, you've got the board, Lexington.
>> Foreign Affairs for 25.
>> COSTA: 25.
In 2014, after 39 years on the throne,
what Spanish king abdicated in favor of his only son,
Crown Prince Felipe?
Yes, Arjun? >> Juan Carlos?
>> COSTA: Juan Carlos is correct.
You've still got the board, Lexington.
>> Foreign Affairs for 30.
>> COSTA: Foreign Affairs, 30 points this time.
In June 2014, what moderate cleric won a surprise victory
in Iran's historic presidential elections after campaigning
on a promise to increase Iran's engagement
with the outside world?
Yes, Arjun. >> Hassan Rouhani?
>> COSTA: That is correct, you've still got the board.
Where are we going on this, Lexington?
>> Music, music.
>> Yeah, Face the Music.
>> COSTA: Face the Music, this time for 15 points.
On sheet music, the notation "pp"
stands for what Italian word that means “very soft”?
Yes, Devin? >> Pianissimo?
>> COSTA: Yes, you've still got the board.
>> Music, please?
>> COSTA: Music for 20 points.
In Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf,"
what double-reed woodwind is used for the duck?
Yes, Damian?
>> The oboe.
>> COSTA: Oboe is correct.
Now B.U. Academy, you're back on the board.
>> Once Upon a Bad Time, please.
>> COSTA: Once Upon a Bad Time, this time for 30 points.
In George Orwell's novel 1984, O'Brien takes Winston
to the dreaded Room 101 and threatens him
with a cage full of what?
Yes, Liam. >> Rats.
>> COSTA: Rats is correct.
You've still got the board.
Where are we going?
>> Face the Music.
>> COSTA: Face the Music for 25 points.
What French word popularized by Chopin refers
to a dreamy musical composition inspired by the night?
Yes, Arjun? >> Nocturne.
>> COSTA: Nocturne is correct, you've got the board.
>> Face the Music.
>> COSTA: Face the Music for 30 points.
Meaning "Day of Wrath," what two-word Latin phrase
refers to what is often the most dramatic section of a requiem?
Yes, David.
>> "Dies Irae".
>> COSTA: That is correct.
And now we've got the remaining category: These United States.
And for ten points...
These are questions about the 50 United States.
What is not only our largest state,
but is larger than California and Texas combined?
Yes, Arjun?
>> Alaska.
>> COSTA: Alaska is correct.
For 15 points, what state is the birthplace of two presidents
on opposite sides of the Civil War:
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
Yes, Liam. >> Illinois.
>> COSTA: No, B.U. Academy, you want to try it?
(buzzer rings simultaneously)
He's in, Damian?
>> Virginia.
>> COSTA: No, Kentucky is the right answer there.
For 20 points: On February 14, 1912, what became the 48th state
to be admitted to the Union?
Yes, Arjun?
>> Arizona? >> COSTA: Yes.
And for 25 points, what state is named
after England's Queen Elizabeth the First?
David?
>> Virginia. >> COSTA: Virginia is correct.
(buzzer)
Oh, I had one more question left,
but that is the end of the category round.
We take a look at the scores right now,
B.U. Academy 375 points,
Lexington High School 520 points.
Let's get a nice round of applause.
(cheers and applause)
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Okay, we are heading into the final 90 seconds of game play.
We call it the Lightning Round, and for good reason, too.
You get 20 points for correct answers,
incorrect answers, gang, will cost you 20 points.
The clock is set, good luck, here we go.
What is the longest mountain chain in North America?
Tynan. >> Rockies.
>> COSTA: Yes.
After five decades in television, what pioneering
newswoman and creator of The View retired in 2014?
Colin.
>> Barbara Walters? >> COSTA: Yes.
A new public statue in Boston's Back Bay honors what author...
>> Edgar Allan Poe. >> COSTA: Yes.
What color is produced by the shortest visible light waves?
Yes, Damian.
>> Red.
>> COSTA: No, violet.
What Spanish conquistador led the overthrow
of the mighty Inca Empire... yes, Devin?
>> Pizarro? >> COSTA: Yes.
The Río de la Plata is an estuary that separates Argentina
from what smaller country to the...?
Yes, Arjun?
>> Uruguay. >> COSTA: Yes.
According to one theory,
Humpty Dumpty is based on what humpbacked English king?
Yes, Devin?
>> No, sorry.
>> COSTA: Richard III.
The U.S. Electoral College comprises how many electors?
Yes, Colin?
>> 573.
>> COSTA: No, 538.
People from what U.S. state are nicknamed "cornhuskers"?
>> Nebraska? >> COSTA: Yes.
Jude the Obscure is the last completed novel...
>> Thomas Hardy? >> COSTA: Yes.
What so-called "dragon" is the largest living lizard
in the world?
>> The Komodo dragon. >> COSTA: Yes.
In 1854, what American naval officer forced Japan
to open two ports to American...?
>> Matthew Perry? >> COSTA: Yes.
What bird that sings after sunset was celebrated
by poet John Keats?
>> Nightingale? >> COSTA: Yes.
What French heroine was nicknamed the Maid of Orléans?
>> Joan of Arc. >> COSTA: Yes.
What is the official currency of Mexico?
(bell ringing)
Devin? >> Peso?
>> COSTA: Yes, the Peso is correct.
Okay, but that is the bell, that is the end of the game.
The winner this week of High School Quiz Show
Lexington High School.
(cheers and applause)
Total score of 660 points.
B.U. Academy this week, 415 points.
Keep making noise in this studio.
This was a good game, congratulations to both teams.
Just making it here is unbelievable.
Well anyway, so yes, Lexington High School
will move on to play now in the quarterfinals.
So be sure to tune in, and let's hear it one more time
for these teams: B.U. Academy and Lexington High School.
That is it for this week, but we'll see you all,
and that includes you, right back here next week
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