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(cheers and applause) >> COSTA: Hi, everybody, and welcome to High School Quiz Show.

I'm Billy Costa, your host.

Now last week we kicked off the season with a wildcard match between Concord-Carlisle High School and Melrose High School.

Melrose defeated Concord-Carlisle to claim the final spot in the bracket.

In today's match, we welcome Andover High School and South High from Worcester.

On the Andover team we have: Luke, Liam, Mahathi, and Aniketh, with alternates William and Sampath and coach Alan Hibino.

And competing for South High we've got: Benedict, Helen, Phoebe, and Luca, with alternates Muriel and Laura and coaches Kayla Avellino and Kitren Farrell, everybody, let's go.

(cheers and applause) So the competition has four rounds: a toss-up, a head-to-head, a category round, and a lightning round.

And we'll start with the toss-up round.

All answers are worth ten points.

There are no point deductions for wrong answers and players may confer.

So teams, if you're ready, good luck and here we go.

The U.S. Capitol insurrection has been described as the worst attack on American democracy since the Civil War.

A mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol Building on what date in 2021?

Yes, Mahathi.

>> January 6th.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What is the pen name of author and illustrator Theodor Geisel?

Yes, Liam.

>> Dr. Seuss.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Also known as Dionaea muscipula, what plant is notable for its unusual habit of catching and eating small insects and spiders?

Yes, Mahathi.

>> Venus flytrap.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Take a look at your screens and this picture.

When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, what Supreme Court justice, seen here, was one of three justices who wrote a 66-page dissent?

Yes, Luca.

>> Sotomayor.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2022, with her Tony Award for A Strange Loop, who joined the short list of artists who have achieved EGOT status, meaning she has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award?

(buzzer) Jennifer Hudson is the answer there.

What constitutional amendment protects the right to peaceful protest and the right to political dissent?

Yes, Helen.

>> The first amendment.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What type of crabs are harvested for their blue blood, which contains a rare clotting agent critical for the development of safe vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines?

Yes, Luke.

>> Horseshoe crab.

>> COSTA: Yes.

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.

Remember, all Men would be tyrants if they could."

What future first lady wrote this to her husband in 1776?

Yes, Luke.

>> Abigail Adams.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Take a look at your screens.

A very special guest with the next question.

>> Hi, I'm Nicholas Ralph.

I play veterinarian James Herriot in the Masterpiece series All Creatures Great & Small.

Here's my question: James Herriot is actually a pen name.

What is the real name of the Yorkshire vet who wrote the semiautobiographical stories upon which our series is based?

Is it Eric Arthur Blair, James Alfred Wight, or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?

>> COSTA: Liam.

>> Blair.

>> COSTA: No.

South, you want to take a chance, South High?

>> C?

>> COSTA: James Alfred Wight is the correct answer.

And now we move on.

In June of 2022, after six seasons with the team, who was fired as head coach of the Boston Bruins?

Yes, Liam.

>> Bruce Cassidy.

>> COSTA: Yes, Bruce Cassidy is correct.

Hottest team in the NHL right now, by the way, the Boston Bruins.

In 1901 who won the very first Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of x-rays?

(buzzer) Wilhelm Röntgen is the answer there.

Though it has almost no native mammals, what island nation is home to an unusually large number of flightless birds including the kiwi, its national bird?

Yes, Luca.

>> New Zealand.

>> COSTA: Correct.

In June of 2022, the Biden administration announced a nationwide vaccination strategy to curb the U.S. spread of what viral disease that is similar to smallpox?

Yes, Phoebe.

>> Monkeypox.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Archeological evidence suggests that Egypt's pyramids were built by which of the following?

Was it A, skilled workers who earned decent wages, B, enslaved people, or C, no one knows for sure?

Yes, Phoebe.

>> A.

>> COSTA: Yes, skilled workers who earned decent wages.

The world mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 of 2022.

She died at age 96 at what Scottish castle, the summer holiday home of the Royal Family?

Yes, Liam.

>> Balmoral Palace.

>> COSTA: Balmoral is correct.

In 2022, the U.S. Mint released the first quarter honoring a Black woman.

The 25-cent piece depicts what author of the poem "Still I Rise"?

Yes, Phoebe.

>> Maya Angelou.

>> COSTA: Correct.

In atomic structure, the term "shell" refers to the arrangement of electrons around the atomic nucleus.

The shell with the lowest energy is occupied by a maximum of how many electrons?

Yes, Luke.

>> Two.

>> COSTA: Two is correct.

French explorer Jacques Cartier totally missed the St. Lawrence River on his first trip to Canada.

When he returned in 1535, what Native people in present-day Quebec City helped him find it?

Was it A, the Abenaki, B, the Iroquois, or C, the Cherokee?

Yes, Liam.

>> Abenaki.

>> COSTA: No.

You want to try, South High?

Phoebe.

>> B.

>> COSTA: B, the Iroquois, is correct.

The world's highest-paid entertainer at the height of his fame, what pianist who popularized classical music is profiled in the biographical film Behind the Candelabra?

Yes, Luke.

>> Scott Joplin?

>> COSTA: No.

South High, you want to try it?

(buzzer) Liberace is the answer.

Electronegativity refers to the ability of an atom to attract shared electrons in a covalent bond.

After fluorine, what is the second-most electronegative chemical element?

Yes, Mahathi.

>> Chlorine?

>> COSTA: No.

South High, you want to try it?

>> (whispering): What's next?

>> (whispering): I don't know.

>> (whispering): I don't remember.

I should know this.

(buzzer) >> COSTA: Oxygen is the answer.

In 2022, a baseball card featuring Mickey Mantle was sold at auction for a record $12.6 million.

Mantle spent his entire 18-year career with what major league team?

Yes, Luke.

>> The Yankees.

>> COSTA: New York Yankees.

With an average rainfall of about 0.6 inches per year, what desert in northern Chile is the driest non-polar desert in the world?

Yes, Mahathi.

>> The Atacama.

>> COSTA: Yes.

The back of a one dollar U.S. bill shows an eagle holding an olive branch in its right talon, representing peace.

What does it hold in its left talon, representing war?

Is it A, a sword, B, a shield, or C, arrows?

Yes, Benedict.

>> Arrows.

>> COSTA: Arrows is correct.

What former governor of Alabama and staunch segregationist ran for president in 1968 as a third-party candidate?

Yes, Helen.

>> George Wallace.

>> COSTA: George Wallace is correct.

Which... (bell ringing) Oh, that's the bell that ends the toss-up round.

The score right now-- Andover High School, 100 points; South High, 90 points.

This is a close match.

Let's hear it for both teams, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, the head-to-head round is next, but first we're gonna take a few minutes to get to know the players.

And we do it with a question.

I have the question and you folks are gonna have to answer-- each of you.

And we'll start over here with Andover High School, and you, Luke.

Referencing Jeopardy!, are you a true Daily Double all-in kind of person or not and why?

>> I'm not really a true Daily Double because I don't really want to lose everything that I have.

>> COSTA: So very rarely all-in.

Okay, how about you, Liam?

>> I got to say I'm a true Daily Double guy, right?

Like you can't do anything 50%.

It's gotta be all the way.

>> COSTA: Go big or go home.

>> Exactly.

>> COSTA: Mahathi, how about you?

>> Usually I'm not because I like to play it safe and not take a risk unless I'm truly confident.

>> COSTA: All right, and Aniketh?

>> I gotta go with Luke and Mahathi on this one.

I'm very hesitant.

I'm too scared to go all in.

>> COSTA (chuckling): Yeah, I'm probably the same as you.

But, Benedict, over to South High, how about you?

>> Yeah, absolutely.

Life is nothing without risk.

>> COSTA: There you go.

Just put it all in there.

Helen?

>> You know, when we watch Jeopardy!, we always yell at the TV and we tell them to bet everything.

But if I was there I'd probably be a little more conservative.

>> COSTA: I'm sure you would.

How about you, Phoebe?

>> I'd say so.

I mean, it's not my money.

If I go in with no money, and I leave with no money, I didn't lose anything, so.

(audience laughing) >> COSTA: Yeah, I pictured you, Phoebe, as kind of all-in.

(laughter) Luca, how about you?

>>> All I have to say is, if it comes to traveling, then I'm absolutely a risk-taker.

But if it comes to something like calculus, then I'm out.

>> COSTA: All right, here's the deal, it's time to go head-to-head.

Which means all of you are going to be coming forward, and all of you are going head-to-head.

We'll do that right now.

Let's go.

(cheers and applause) Okay, in this round, the correct answers add ten points to the team total.

And there is a ten-point deduction for incorrect answers.

And if a player doesn't answer, there is no impact on the score.

So the clock is set at 90 seconds.

So, teams, good luck.

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in the 2022 film Death on the Nile, based on the novel of the same name by what author?

Yes?

>> Agatha Christie.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Charles Darwin outlined his theory of evolution during the middle part of which century?

Yes?

>> 19th.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Nicknamed "the Mother Road," what opened in 1926 as the first continuously paved road from Chicago to Los Angeles?

Yes?

>> Route 66.

>> COSTA: That's correct.

In taxonomy, what classification ranks just above Kingdom?

(buzzer) Domain is the answer.

What city was the site of George Washington's first presidential inauguration?

>> New York.

>> COSTA: Yes, New York City.

A pair of angles are complementary if the sum of their measures equals how many degrees?

Yes?

>> 90.

>> COSTA: 90 is correct.

What city was built during the 1960s to replace Karachi as Pakistan's capital?

Yes?

>> Islamabad.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Which first lady was the first to win a Grammy Award, for the audio version of her book It Takes a Village?

(buzzer) Hillary Clinton.

What Middle Eastern country has a unicameral parliament called the Knesset?

Yes?

>> Israel.

>> COSTA: Correct.

"Coal Miner's Daughter" is the signature song of what country music legend who passed away in 2022 at 90 years old?

(buzzer) Loretta Lynn.

What country is the world's largest exporter of conventional weapons?

(bell ringing) Oh, that's the buzz that ends the round.

Let's take a look at the score right now.

Andover High School, 140 points; South High, 120.

This is still a very tight round.

Give a nice round of applause, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, next up is the category round with the following categories: Dark Matter, The Molar System, Can I Get an Amen?, L.A. Story, Life of the Pâté, Scam Likely.

Now, all categories have five questions with increasing point value.

Teams will each choose two five-question categories, and will have the option to toss one question per category to the other team.

And players are able to confer.

Now, Andover, who's gonna be your spokesperson?

Liam.

How about you, South High?

Spokesperson will be... Helen, okay.

South High, you have a little ground to make up, and I mean a little ground to make up, so you get to choose the first category.

What's it gonna be, team?

>> (whispering): L.A.?

>> (whispering): Yeah, sure.

>> We'll take L.A. Story.

>> COSTA: L.A. Story, these are questions about Los Angeles.

For ten points: Donald Trump is one of two U.S. presidents to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Name the other.

>> (whispering): Ronald Reagan.

>> (whispering): Reagan?

>> Ronald Reagan.

>> COSTA: Yes, Ronald Reagan is the answer, Helen.

Now for 15 points: the Warner Bros.

Studio Tour in Hollywood features a fully functioning replica of what café from the TV series Friends?

>> Central Perk.

>> COSTA: Central Perk is the correct answer.

Now for 20 points: over 3.5 million fossils from the Ice Age have been excavated from what famous tar pits in urban Los Angeles?

>> (whispering): La Brea.

>> La Brea Tar Pits.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Now for 25 points: the Hollywood Sign is an American landmark and cultural icon.

When it was originally built in 1923 to promote a new housing development, what did it say?

>> (whispering): Hollywoodland.

>> (whispering): Yeah.

>> Hollywoodland.

>> COSTA: Hollywoodland is correct.

Now for 30 points: seen in countless films, including 1955's Rebel Without a Cause and 2016's La La Land, what Los Angeles observatory was built as a WPA project in 1933?

>> (whispering): Pass or toss?

>> (whispering): Pass.

Pass.

>> Pass.

>> COSTA: You're gonna pass.

The Griffith Observatory is the answer there.

And now, Andover, you'll need to choose a category.

(indistinct whispering) >> We'll do The Molar System.

>> COSTA: The Molar System.

These are questions about teeth.

For ten points: derived from the Latin for dog, what pointed teeth are also known as cuspids?

>> Canine.

>> COSTA: Canines is correct.

For 15 points: also known as "laughing gas" or N2O, what gas has been used to control pain from tooth extraction since 1844?

>> Nitrous oxide.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Now for 20 points: atomic number 20 refers to what element that makes up a large part of the human skeleton and teeth?

>> Calcium.

>> Yeah, calcium.

>> COSTA: Calcium is correct.

Now for 25 points: what outer layer of the tooth is the hardest substance in the human body?

>> Enamel.

>> COSTA: Enamel is correct.

And for 30 points: located just beneath the enamel, what dense bony tissue makes up the bulk of a tooth?

>> Pass.

>> COSTA: Dentin or dentine is the answer there.

Back to South High we go.

You'll need to choose a category.

What's it gonna be?

>> (whispering): Amen?

>> Can I Get an Amen?

>> COSTA: Can I Get an Amen?

Questions about world religions.

For ten points: in Islamic tradition, the Koran is the direct word of God, as recited by the angel Gabriel to what prophet?

>> (whispering): Muhammad.

>> Muhammad.

>> COSTA: Muhammad is correct.

For 15 points: according to Christian tradition, Jesus was baptized when he was around 30 years old in what river that has the lowest elevation of any river in the world?

>> The River Jordan.

>> COSTA: The River Jordan is correct.

For 20 points: developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, what religious and political movement combines Christianity, mysticism, and the pan-African political consciousness?

>> Rastafarian.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

For 25 points: India's population is 80% Hindu.

What country has an even higher percentage of Hindus, at nearly 82%?

>> (whispering): Sri Lanka?

>> (whispering): Sri Lanka?

Sure?

>> (whispering): No.

Just pass.

>> (whispering): Pass.

(regular voice): Pass.

>> COSTA: Nepal is the answer there.

Now for 30 points: Mormon temples are topped with a little golden statue of what angel who, in Mormon teaching, gave a revelation to Joseph Smith in 1823?

>> Moroni.

>> COSTA: Moroni is correct.

And now we go back to Andover High School, and you'll need a category, please.

>> We'll do Dark Matter.

>> COSTA: Dark Matter.

Questions about tragedy in literature.

And for ten points: "Grief does not change you, Hazel.

It reveals you."

Gus says this to Hazel in what tragic love story by John Green?

>> (whispering): The Fault in Our Stars.

>> The Fault in Our Stars.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Now for 15 points: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet famously begins, "Two households, both alike in"-- what?

>> (whispering): Verona, right?

>> Dignity.

>> COSTA: Dignity is correct.

Now for 20 points: what tragic short story by Shirley Jackson is about a small New England village where, every year, a townsperson is selected at random and stoned to death?

>> Pass.

>> COSTA: "The Lottery" is the answer there.

Now for 25 points: in the Greek drama Oedipus Rex, what blind prophet plays an active part in the tragic events that unfold?

>> (whispering): Tiresias.

(regular voice): Tiresias.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Now for 30 points: set in the impoverished regions of 1930s Chicago, what novel by Richard Wright follows Bigger Thomas, an underprivileged young man who falls into a life of crime?

>> Pass.

>> COSTA: Native Son.

Native Son is the answer there.

(bell ringing) And that's the bell that ends the category round.

And the score right now-- Andover High School, 260 points; South High, 265 points.

We have a very tight match.

Let's hear it, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, we are heading into the final round of play.

We call it the lightning round.

Correct answers add 20 points to the team total.

And there is a 20-point deduction for incorrect answers.

If a player does not answer, there is no impact on the score.

The clock is set.

This is a close one, teams.

Good luck.

Here we go.

What Nordic city is the world's northernmost capital?

Yes, Phoebe?

>> Oslo.

>> COSTA: No, Reykjavik.

What Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is based on the life of Argentina's most famous first lady?

Phoebe.

>> Eva Perón.

>> COSTA: No, Evita.

Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with what mysterious medieval art of trying to turn base metals...

Yes, Liam.

>> Alchemy.

>> COSTA: Alchemy is correct.

The United States officially entered World War I on April 6 of what year?

Yes, Mahathi.

>> 1942.

>> COSTA: No, 1917.

At the 2022 U.S. Open in Brookline, what British golfer edged out two Americans to win his first major championship?

(buzzer) Matt Fitzpatrick.

Pythia, a priestess at the Temple of Apollo, was known as the Oracle of what ancient Greek town?

Yes, Benedict?

>> Delphi.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, includes what lake named for a daughter of Queen Victoria?

(buzzer) Lake Louise.

After 21 days, a frog embryo develops into what tiny fish-like creature?

Yes, Phoebe?

>> Tadpole.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, the March family has how many daughters?

Yes, Mahathi?

>> Four.

>> COSTA: Four is correct.

In a standard concert orchestra, what is the only string instrument that uses an alto clef?

Yes, Mahathi?

>> Viola.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What is the largest continent by land area?

Yes, Luca?

>> Asia.

>> COSTA: Yes.

The Gutenberg Press... (bell ringing) Oh, that's the bell.

The winning team this week: Andover High School with a final score of 300 points.

(cheers and applause) South High, a close one, finishes with 285 points.

Congratulations to both teams.

A great game.

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