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I'm Billy Costa, your host.

In last week's match, Buckingham Browne & Nichols defeated Acton-Boxborough to claim the last spot in the semifinals.

Today we welcome back Brookline High School... (cheers and applause) ...and Mansfield High School... (cheers and applause) ...for the first semifinal match.

On the Brookline team we have: Charlotte, Owen, Cole, and Raza with alternates Bobby and Ben and coach Adam Fried.

(cheers and applause) And competing for Mansfield we have: Dhruv, Vishal, Aleks, and Rishi with mascot Sting, and alternates Yuv and Danielle, and coach Ken Barrett.

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

We 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.

Beloved by the city of Boston and its sports teams, the Standells' 1965 hit song "Dirty Water" is an ode to what river that flows through 23 Massachusetts cities and towns?

Yes, Aleks.

>> Charles River.

>> COSTA: Charles River.

Who released a video apology four months after slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage at the 94th Academy Awards?

Yes, Cole.

>> Will Smith.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 1932, at age 65, who released Little House in the Big Woods, the first of eight Little House books published during her lifetime?

Yes, Cole.

>> Wilder.

>> COSTA: Yes, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

What former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is the current U.S. secretary of transportation?

Yes, Cole.

>> Pete Buttigieg.

>> COSTA: Yes.

And now take a look at your screens.

In 2020, two women shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing: U.C.

Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna and what French scientist pictured here?

(buzzer) Emmanuelle Charpentier.

A former Wimbledon champ and world number one, in 2022 what German tennis player was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for bankruptcy offenses, including hiding assets?

Yes, Owen.

>> Boris Becker.

>> COSTA: Boris Becker is right.

Coined by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, what name was given to a series of English civil wars between the Lancasters and Yorks, two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet?

Yes, Charlotte.

>> War of the Roses.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What 2016 film follows the true story of three African-American mathematicians-- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson-- and the key roles they played at NASA during the Space Race?

Yes, Charlotte.

>> Hidden Figures.

>> COSTA: Hidden Figures is correct.

Author of The Tipping Point and host of the hit podcast Revisionist History, who takes on elite education in a new audiobook titled I Hate the Ivy League?

Yes, Cole.

>> Malcolm Gladwell.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Now take a look at your screens.

Here comes the next question.

>> Hi, I'm Senator Elizabeth Warren, and here's my question: known as the "City of Spindles" in the 19th century, what Massachusetts city that revolutionized the textile industry with a more efficient mill system gave rise to the first union of working women in American history?

Was it Fall River, Lowell, or Springfield?

>> COSTA: Yes, Owen.

>> Lowell.

>> COSTA: Lowell is correct.

In a series of experiments in the late 1500s, what Italian scientist disproved Aristotle's theory that heavier objects will fall faster than lighter ones?

Yes, Rishi.

>> Galileo.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In March 2022, what Federal Reserve chair warned that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would likely drive inflation even higher in the U.S. economy?

Yes, Charlotte.

>> Yellen.

>> COSTA: No, you want to try, Mansfield?

Dhruv?

>> Powell.

>> COSTA: Jerome Powell is correct.

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup bones are found in what part of the human body?

Yes, Rishi.

>> Ear.

>> COSTA: The ear is right.

What classic poem by Tennyson begins, "Half a league, half a league Half a league onward"?

Yes, Charlotte.

>> "Charge of the Light Brigade."

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2022, what former Miami Dolphins coach sued the NFL and three teams-- the Dolphins, Broncos, and Giants-- alleging racial discrimination in hiring?

Was it Mike Tomlin, Michael McDaniel, or Brian Flores?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Flores.

>> COSTA: Brian Flores is correct.

In 2021, after Sesame Street's Big Bird tweeted that he received a COVID-19 vaccine, what Texas senator criticized the character for promoting "propaganda" to children?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Ted Cruz.

>> COSTA: Yes.

A self-portrait titled Diego y yo, or Diego and I, sold in 2022 for $34.9 million, the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a Latin American artist.

It was painted in 1949 by what Mexican artist?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Frida Kahlo.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Which Canadian province is the world's top producer of maple syrup, accounting for 71% of the global supply?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Québec.

>> COSTA: Québec is correct.

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is a famous example of what 19-line poem, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, that shares its name with a character from the TV series Killing Eve?

Yes, Rishi.

>> Dylan.

>> COSTA: No, you want to try, Brookline?

(buzzer) Villanelle is the answer.

A PET scan can detect early signs of cancer, heart disease, and brain disorders.

The P in PET stands for which of the following?

positron, proton, or pathogen?

Yes, Rishi.

>> Positron.

>> COSTA: Yes.

On the night of June 20th, 1791, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children fled what palace in the heart of Paris in a failed attempt to escape to Austria?

Yes, Charlotte.

>> Versailles.

>> COSTA: No, you want to try, Mansfield?

Dhruv.

>> Bastille.

>> COSTA: No, Tuileries is the answer.

Tuileries Palace.

Which planet in the solar system has the fastest orbital speed, revolving around the sun in about 88 Earth days?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Mercury.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania all have coastlines on what sea?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> Baltic.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Named after the German scientist who invented it in 1908, what device is used to measure radiation?

Yes, Cole.

>> A radiometer.

>> COSTA: No.

Mansfield, you want to try?

>> (whispering): I do not know.

(buzzer) >> COSTA: Geiger counter is the answer there.

Which of the following lobes of the brain is primarily responsible for vision?

Is it the occipital lobe, the temporal lobe, or the frontal lobe?

Yes, Raza.

>> A.

>> COSTA: A, occipital lobe is correct.

What author of The Princess Bride named two characters-- Miracle Max and his wife Valerie-- after his parents?

(buzzer, ringer dings) You just missed.

The answer is William Goldman.

Completed in 1970 at a cost of about $1 billion, the Aswan High Dam controls the annual flooding of what river in the Middle East?

Yes, Raza.

>> Nile... Euphrates.

>> COSTA: Yes, your first answer was correct, the Nile.

(audience laughter) And we'll move on.

Two of the most successful comedy directors of all time, what two brothers who hail from Rhode Island released their first film, Dumb and Dumber, in 1994?

Yes, Cole.

>> The Coen Brothers.

>> COSTA: No, you want to try, Mansfield?

(buzzer) The Farrelly Brothers out of Rhode Island.

The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued in 1917.

It revealed Germany's plan to entice which country to join it against the United States?

Yes, Owen.

>> Mexico.

>> COSTA: Correct.

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."

What Irish author wrote this in his poem "The Second Coming"?

Yes, Owen.

>> Yeats.

>> COSTA: William Butler Yeats is the answer.

(bell ringing) And that's the end of the toss-up round.

The score right now-- Brookline High School, 130 points; Mansfield High School, 110 points.

This is a very close semifinal, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, the head-to-head round is next.

First, of course, we take a few minutes to get to know the players a little bit better.

I have a question in my hand.

Each of you will answer.

We'll start with Brookline High School, and you, Charlotte.

History tends to repeat itself.

Are we in an era when it's cool to be smart or smart to be cool?

>> I do feel like I'm obligated to say it's cool to be smart considering right now I'm competing on High School Quiz Show.

(laughter) But keep in mind that answer could change depending on the context.

>> COSTA (chuckling): Okay.

But, then again, you are in the semifinals on High School Quiz Show.

Owen, how about you?

>> My answer is gonna be similar.

I think it is cooler to be smart because being smart gives me the opportunity to do great things like being here today.

>> COSTA: There you go.

Another shoutout to High School Quiz Show.

Cole, how about you?

>> I would hope that it's cooler to be smart because that's sort of the only thing I have going for me.

(laughter) >> COSTA: Oh, I doubt that, Cole.

I'm sure you've got a lot going on.

Raza, how about you?

>> I would say it's cooler to be smart because you can only really control one.

>> COSTA: That's right.

That's right.

Well, great job, Brookline High School.

And good luck going forward.

Now Mansfield, how about you, Dhruv?

>> Well, Billy, I would say it's cooler to be smart because a lot of C.E.O.s today are engineers and they're pretty cool.

>> COSTA: So much smarter than me, too.

Engineers, just so much smarter.

How about you, Vishal?

>> I think it's cooler to be smart because as the world rapidly modernizes, there's gonna be new technology which is cool, and you gotta be... you gotta know how to use it.

>> COSTA: Every single day new technology.

Aleks, how about you?

>> I think it's also cooler to be smart just so you know a little bit of everything, you can help... help get you through life if you know at least a little bit of everything.

>> COSTA: And here you are on High School Quiz Show.

Rishi, how about you?

>> I actually think it's smarter to be cool because I feel like being sociable and nice is a lot more important than just knowing things.

>> COSTA: Wow, good one.

All right, little bit different than the rest, but I like it.

Good job, Rishi.

Okay, time to go head to head.

That means all of you are coming forward and you are going head to head.

Let's do it now.

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

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

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

So the clock is set at 90 seconds.

You want to shake hands and we'll get going?

And good luck, teams, here we go.

In 2022, after a televised six-week trial that transfixed the nation, who won his defamation suit against ex-wife-- yes?

>> Depp.

>> COSTA: Johnny Depp, yes.

An element's atomic number is determined by the number of what-- yes?

>> Protons.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What U.S. city is home to a famous observation tower called the Space Needle?

Yes?

>> Seattle.

>> COSTA: Seattle is right.

George Orwell's dystopian novel Animal Farm is a political fable based on-- yes?

>> The Soviet Union.

>> COSTA: No, Russian Revolution.

Wolves and lions are examples of what type of animals that eat only meat?

Yes?

>> Carnivore.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In August 2022, the FBI executed a search warrant for classified documents at what home-- yes?

>> Mar-a-Lago.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Olivia Newton-John passed away in 2022 at the age of 73.

She's famous for playing what role in the film Grease?

(buzzer) Sandy.

Derived from the Greek word for "black," what highly aggressive disease accounts for about 75% of all deaths from skin cancer?

Yes?

>> Melanoma.

>> COSTA: That is correct.

Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law during which-- yes?

>> LBJ.

>> COSTA: No, the 1960s.

In 1526, Babur the Tiger founded the Mughal Dynasty in the northern part of what present-day-- yes?

>> India.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In the tri-color Irish national flag, which color traditionally represents Irish Catholics and the Republican cause?

Yes?

>> White.

>> COSTA: No, green.

The television series Cobra Kai is a continuation of what 1980s-- (ringer dings, bell ringing) Did he get in?

Yes.

>> The Karate Kid.

>> COSTA: The Karate Kid is correct.

And that's the end of the head-to-head round.

Let's take a look at the score-- Brookline High School right now, 160 points; Mansfield High School, 130 points.

Again, a very tight semifinal.

Let's make some noise, everybody.

(cheers and applause) Okay, next up is the category round with the following categories: Acropolis Now, From Sea to Shining Sea, The Book Was Better, A Walk in the Park, The Hub of the Universe, and Send in the Clones.

All categories have five questions with increasing point value.

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

And players are able to confer.

Brookline, who will the spokesperson be?

It'll be Charlotte.

How about Mansfield High School?

It will be Aleks.

Now, Mansfield, you have a little ground to make up.

You get to choose the first category.

What's it gonna be?

>> We're gonna with From Sea to Shining Sea.

>> COSTA: From Sea to Shining Sea.

Questions about the 50 United States.

And for ten points: what New England state is the only state that allows adults to drive without wearing seatbelts?

(indistinct whispering) >> Our answer is New Hampshire.

>> COSTA: New Hampshire is correct.

For 15 points: on December 20th, 1860, what became the first state to secede from the federal Union after all 169 delegates to a special convention voted in favor of separation?

>> Our answer is South Carolina.

>> COSTA: South Carolina is correct.

For 20 points: which state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1846?

>> Our answer is Texas.

>> COSTA: Texas is right.

And for 25 points: in 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in Menlo Park, in what U.S. state?

(indistinct whispering) >> Our answer is New Jersey.

>> COSTA: New Jersey is correct.

Now for 30 points: Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to serve in Congress.

In 1916, she was elected to the House as a representative from what U.S. state?

(indistinct whispering) >> Our answer is Montana.

>> COSTA: And Montana is a correct answer.

And now we'll go to Brookline High School.

You'll need a category.

What's it gonna be?

>> (whispering): Book.

I think that we can do book.

>> We're gonna do The Book Was Better.

>> COSTA: The Book Was Better.

Questions about recent screen adaptations of books.

For ten points: Emma Thompson stars as the fearsome headmistress Miss Trunchbull in a Netflix musical adaptation of what Roald Dahl novel?

>> Matilda.

>> COSTA: Matilda is correct.

For 15 points: what 1979 vampire novel by Stephen King is getting its third screen adaptation in 2023?

>> (whispering): Stephen King.

>> (whispering): Do you want to just pass?

>> We're gonna pass it.

>> COSTA: Salem's Lot is the answer.

For 20 points: Nicholas Ralph plays a country veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire in what PBS series based on James Herriot's autobiographical novels?

>> (whispering): Do you want to toss it?

Do you want to?

>> COSTA: And we'll need an answer, Charlotte.

>> (whispering): What?

>> (whispering): Just toss.

>> We're gonna toss it.

>> COSTA: You're gonna toss.

Mansfield, do you have an answer?

>> (whispering): This is autobiography.

>> (whispering): No answer.

>> We have no answer.

>> COSTA: All Creatures Great and Small is the answer.

And we're back to Brookline High School, this time for 25 points: based on the novel by Min Jin Lee and titled after a mechanical game, what Apple TV series follows a Korean immigrant family over four generations in 20th-century Japan?

>> (whispering): Oh yeah, I don't know that one.

>> (whispering): We're gonna pass again?

>> (whispering): I've never watched it.

>> All right, we're gonna pass it again.

>> COSTA: Pachinko is the answer there.

Now for 30 points: based on Jon Krakauer's true crime book of the same name, what Hulu series stars Andrew Garfield as a detective investigating a double murder that seems to involve Mormon fundamentalists?

(indistinct whispering) >> (whispering): No.

>> (whispering): Pass again?

>> (whispering): Pass again.

>> All right, pass again.

>> COSTA: And the answer is Under the Banner of Heaven.

And now we go back to Mansfield High School.

You'll need a category.

>> We're gonna go with A Walk in the Park.

>> COSTA: A Walk in the Park.

All answers feature the word "park."

And for ten points: what sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone is the second longest-running animated series in the United States, after The Simpsons?

>> Our answer is South Park.

>> COSTA: South Park is right.

For 15 points: what 1993 blockbuster film was advertised as "an adventure 65 million years in the making"?

(indistinct whispering) >> Our answer is Jurassic Park.

>> COSTA: Correct.

Now for 20 points: an impoverished girl named Fanny Price comes to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt in what Jane Austen novel?

>> (whispering): Mansfield Park.

>> (whispering): Mansfield Park.

>> Our answer is Mansfield Park.

>> COSTA: And that is correct.

For 25 points: Jake Gyllenhaal starred in a revival of what Stephen Sondheim musical inspired by Georges Seurat's most famous painting?

>> (whispering): It's called like An Evening at the Park, or something.

>> (whispering): An Evening at the Park?

>> (whispering): Wait, are you sure?

>> (whispering): I think so, I'm not-- well, actually, pass, pass, pass.

>> All right, we're gonna pass on this one.

>> COSTA: You're gonna pass.

The answer is Sunday in the Park with George.

Now for 30 points: in 1978, Donna Summer topped the U.S. charts with a disco cover version of what song about a park where "someone left the cake out in the rain"?

>> (whispering): I have literally no idea.

>> (whispering): You have no idea?

Do we want to toss?

>> (whispering): Should we toss?

>> (whispering): Sure.

>> We're gonna toss this one.

>> COSTA: You're gonna toss this one.

Brookline, do you have an answer?

(indistinct whispering) >> "The Cake Park."

(laughter) >> COSTA: "MacArthur Park" is the answer.

But now, Brookline, you get to choose a category.

What's it gonna be?

>> We're gonna do The Hub of the Universe.

>> COSTA: The Hub of the Universe.

Questions about Boston, nicknamed the Hub of the Universe.

And for ten points: since 1995, who has been the conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra?

>> (whispering): Boston Pops Orchestra.

>> (whispering): I know his name.

(laughter) >> COSTA: We'll need an answer, Charlotte.

>> Yeah, we're gonna pass.

>> COSTA: Keith Lockhart is the answer.

(Charlotte groans) For 15 points: on January 15th, 1919, a tank exploded in Boston's North End and unleashed a massive flood of what sugary substance that crushed buildings and killed 21 people?

>> Molasses.

>> COSTA: Yes, molasses.

Now for 20 points: during a televised concert at Boston Garden on April 5th, 1968, the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., what "Godfather of Soul" helped keep the peace by calming fans and keeping the police away from the crowd?

(indistinct whispering) >> We're gonna pass this one.

>> COSTA: James Brown, Godfather of Soul.

For 25 points: in the HBO drama series Winning Time, Michael Chiklis plays what legendary manager of the Boston Celtics during the Lakers-Celtics rivalry of the 1980s?

>> (whispering): "Auer-back"?

>> (whispering): Yeah... or "Auer-bock."

>> Auerbach.

>> COSTA: Red Auerbach is the answer.

Now for 30 points: what 1997 Oscar-winning film starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck prominently features two Boston-area institutions: Bunker Hill Community College and M.I.T.?

>> Good Will Hunting.

>> COSTA: And that is a correct answer for 30 points.

(bell ringing) And that is the end of the category round.

The score right now-- Brookline High School, 210 points; Mansfield High School, 255 points.

How about it, everybody?

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

Correct answers add 20 points to the team total.

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

And remember there is no conferring in this round.

So the clock is set.

Teams, good luck, and here we go.

In The Lion King, Timon and Pumbaa are based on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, characters-- Yes, Owen.

>> Hamlet.

>> COSTA: Yes.

After breaking his wrist in a bike accident, what Red Sox pitcher ended his season-- yes, Owen?

>> Chris Sale.

>> COSTA: Yes.

A 1999 law abolished the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in which house of the British Parliament?

Yes, Rishi.

>> House of Lords.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Which continent is home to a U.S. research facility called McMurdo Station-- yes, Vishal.

>> Antarctica.

>> COSTA: Yes.

What eight-letter French word popularized by Chopin refers to a dreamy musical composition-- yes, Dhruv.

>> Nocturne.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In 2022, what famed author of The Satanic Verses was stabbed-- yes, Cole.

>> Salman Rushdie.

>> COSTA: Yes.

Montego Bay is a major city of what Caribbean-- yes, Dhruv.

>> Jamaica.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In the 1970s, animal psychologist Dr. Penny Patterson taught a modified form of sign language to a gorilla named-- yes, Charlotte.

>> Coco.

>> COSTA: Coco is right.

The Netflix series Stranger Things is set in what fictitious-- yes, Charlotte.

>> Hawkins.

>> COSTA: Yes.

In the Harry Potter books, Gringotts Wizarding Bank is owned and operated by what-- yes, Raza.

>> Goblins.

>> COSTA: Goblins is right.

How many sides are on a dodecagon?

Yes, Dhruv.

>> 12.

>> COSTA: Yes, 12.

Born in 1564, the same year as Shakespeare, what English author wrote the tragic play Doctor Faustus?

Yes, Charlotte.

>> Marlowe.

>> COSTA: Christopher Marlowe, yes.

The last stronghold of the Moors in Spain, what city in southern Spain is home to a medieval-- yes, Dhruv.

>> Granada.

>> COSTA: Yes.

(bell ringing) Ooh... (audience sighs) (cheers and applause) The winning team this week: Mansfield High School with a total score of 375 points.

Brookline finishes with 350 points.

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