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We're in the quarter finals round of this season and getting close to crowning a season five champion, which meets that one of tonight's teams could take home the thousand dollars grand prize for their school's project graduation.

And a reminder that this year you'll have the chance to win $500 for the school of your choice with our Quiz Show conundrum contest.

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In today's match, we have the Eagles of Windham high school taking on the Capers of Cape Elizabeth high school.

So let's get things started by meeting the players.

For Windham, we have Al, Greta, Kailyn, and Francesca which alternate will and coached by John Ziegler.

And for Cape Elizabeth, we have Sarah, Evan, Ryan, and Emma and they're coached by Joe Wagner.

Now the competition has three rounds, a tossup round, a category round, and a lightning round.

Now we're gonna start with the tossup round.

Now all answers are worth 10 points, and this is the only round with no point deductions for wrong answers.

Players, you must wait for me to complete the question and if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given a chance to answer.

All right, gang.

You guys ready to go here?

Good luck to both of you and let's have a little fun.

Here is the first question.

El Paso is on what big river that forms a border between Texas and Mexico?

(buzz) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- The Rio Grande.

- That is correct.

The recipe for chicken wings cooked in pepper sauce and served with blue cheese dressing and celery might have originated at the anchor bar in what Upstate New York city?

(buzz) - Evan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Ithaca.

- That's incorrect.

(buzz) Windham Greta.

- Albany - Also incorrect.

It's Buffalo, Buffalo wings, guys.

You know the spicy ones.

In a web address what do the letters URL stand for?

(beep) All right, it's okay if I don't know it cause I'm old, but you guys definitely should know it.

Uniform resource locator.

All right, Chiron was the eldest in wisest of what Half-man half-horse creatures from Greek mythology?

(buzz) Sarah, Cape Elizabeth.

- Centaurs.

- That is correct.

Up next we have a picture question, so take a look at the monitor right over here.

Name this coastal African country that was originally established in 1822, by more than 18,000 freed slaves and Freeborn African Americans who face social illegal oppression in the us and Caribbean islands.

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Liberia.

- That's awesome, that's correct.

Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons, but a different number of what?

(buzz) Al, Windham.

- Neutrons - Neutrons is also correct.

Riley, joy, anger, fear, sadness, and disgusted are the main characters in what 2015 animated film?

(buzz) Francesca.

- Inside out.

- Inside out, yes.

Daniel Chester French's statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial and Michael Angelo's David are sculpted from what material?

(buzz) Ryan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Marvel.

- Marvel is right.

The commutative property of multiplication states that A times B equals what?

(buzz) Francesca, Windham.

- B times A.

- That is correct.

Up next, we have a video question.

So once again, take a look at the monitor right over here.

- Hi, I'm Kelsey Stoyanova, 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year.

What is the smallest country in the world with an area of only 0.49 square kilometers.

(buzz) - Francesca, Windham.

- Vatican city.

- That's right, we move on.

Sharing its name with a nine year old Texas girl who was abducted in 1996, What emergency alert system was created to broadcast information about missing and abducted kids in the US.

(buzz) Evan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Amber, Amber alert.

- Amber alert is right.

In the equation P equals M times V, M is mass V is velocity, what is P?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Speed?

- That is incorrect.

Cape Elizabeth, would you like a shot?

(buzz) Evan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Momentum - Momentum is correct.

All right, what Rodgers and Hammerstein musical tells the story of the Von Trapp family and their governance Maria.

(buzz) That'd be Kaitlyn in Windham.

- The sound of music.

- Yes, of course.

Which of these is an organic compound water, salt or glucose?

(buzz) Al Windham.

- Glucose.

- Glucose is right.

This is a math question now.

So get ready in cubic centimeters.

What is the volume of a cube with an edge that measures 11 centimeters?

(buzz) Sarah, Cape Elizabeth.

- 1,331.

- That is correct.

You guys, I could hear all your brains working and the pencils going.

That was great.

Crispus Attucks was one of the five people killed by British soldiers.

In what incident that occurred on March 5th, 1770?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- The Boston massacre.

- That's right.

Now under construction, a bridge across the Detroit river, connecting the US and Canada will be named for what Canadian born hockey player who wore the number nine for the Detroit Red Wings?

(beep) He was one of the best Gordie Howe, Gordie Howe.

From 1940 to 1944, Philip Pita was the head of the French state based in what city?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- For SI.

- That's incorrect.

Cape Elizabeth, you want a shot?

(buzz) - Paris.

- Emma Paris is also incorrect.

It's Vichy, Vichy.

A national historic trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco, California marks the root of what overland delivery service that operated from April, 1860 to October, 1861.

(buzz) Kaitlyn.

- The Pony Express.

- Pony Express is correct.

Published in 1930, The Secret of the Old Clock is the first mystery novel to feature what Teenage detective?

(buzz) Emma, Cape Elizabeth.

- Nancy Drew.

- Yes.

Nancy Drew.

In Norway's Svalbard's archipelago is a fail safe vault that stores what things?

A, Viking artifacts, B, nuclear weapons or C seeds.

(buzz) Greta, Windham - Seeds.

- Seeds is correct.

The Supreme Court declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional in the 1954 case of brown versus the board of education of what city in Kansas?

(buzz) Evan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Topeka.

- Yes, Topeka.

Meaning the way of the warrior.

What code of ethics governed the behavior of Samurai in feudal, Japan?

(buzz) Evan, Cape.

- The Shinto code.

- That's incorrect, Windham.

(beep) Answer.

Bushido.

The Battle of Balaclava and the siege of Sevastopol were conflicts in what 19th century war?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- The Crimean war.

- You got it, Crimean war.

All right, another math question.

Another math question, a car and a bus leave the same place at the same time.

The car travels at 60 miles per hour in one direction, the bus travels at 50 miles per hour in the opposite direction.

How long will it take for them to be 275 miles apart?

(beep) That's tough to do all in about five seconds.

It's two and a half hours, two and a half hours.

In Prokofiev's symphony Peter, and the Wolf.

The Wolf is represented by what bras instrument made from about 12 feet of bras tubing, coiled into a circle?

(buzz) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- A saxophone.

- No, not a saxophone.

Cape, you wanna try (buzz) Evan?

- French horn.

- Yeah, that's right.

French horn, nice job.

What name from the Greek for naked seeds describes non flowering seed producing plants, such as conifers (beep) Answer.

Gymnosperms.

Three states of Mexico and much of Belize and Guatemala are located on what central American peninsula?

(buzz) Sarah, Cate, - The Yucatan.

- The Yucatan is right.

(alarm rings) All right, that is the end of our first round.

We have Windham at 120 and Cape Elizabeth at 90.

We are off to a great start and we'll meet the teams when we get back.

(upbeat music) Welcome back a reminder that we're not doing the head to head round this season, but we will still take a couple of minutes to get to know our contestants with our special question, which this evening is, you guys ready?

If you could add a 13th month to the calendar, what would you call it?

We're gonna begin with Windham and Al you're on the hot seat for this one.

- All right, I would call it I need a break because I know a lot of people are doing AP testing right now and - I need a break.

- How many AP tests you got?

- I had four.

- Four?

- Two this week, two last week, so.

- Good luck.

- It's been a rough week.

- Yeah, I hope to do well on 'em.

- Thank you.

Greta, how about your month?

- Well, the weather in September is so nice, I think I just extend it.

I'd call it Sequelvember.

- I do love September too.

You still got the warmth, but the humidity's outta here.

So we're the tourists, by the way, too.

Kaitlyn, you're up.

- I would call it purgatory and it would just never end.

- Well, so does that mean we would never age, like we'd never have a, another birthday, right?

- Sure - I kinda like it, Francesca.

- I would call mine frogie month because leap year deserves its own.

I always associate leap year with frogs.

So can leap year deserves its own.

It deserves its own month.

- Yes.

Every four years.

- Yeah, of course.

Right.

Let's not give it just like one day, every four years, right?

Isn't that a leap you get one day?

- It's a month.

- Yeah, let's give it a whole month.

- Yeah.

- I like it, okay.

Sarah, Cate, Elizabeth, what do you think?

- I'm rather fond of having 12 months, because 12 is my favorite number.

- Oh.

- So I like that.

Like my favorite number is the number of months in the year.

- So you're gonna name it 12?

- No, I'm going to keep 12 months.

- You're not adding a 13th month, but that's, you're breaking the rules, Sarah.

- Basically, you said if I can, not if you are.

- Oh.

- So I'm choosing not to exercise that power.

- Yes, that's right.

That's how the question reads, you did it correctly .

Thank you, Sarah.

Evan, how about you?

- I really like math, so maybe I'll call my month Mathtember.

- Mathtember.

- I don't know.

It's you just do math all month - Math all month.

That would like, just mess with my mind for sure.

- It'll be people's least favorite month.

- Yeah.

Except yours.

- Except mine.

- Ryan.

- I'd like to add a second month called February, but in middle of the year.

- Why?

- Because I wanna make things worse for people.

- What, come on.

Are you serious?

You like it miserably cold and miserably snowy, and the darkest part of the year?

- Yeah.

- All right, Ryan, you're gonna have a lot of angry people, not too many friends left over after that.

Emma, how about you?

- I would name my month Kenne Baggo after my dog.

- Oh, what kind of dog do you have, Emma?

- I have a Bernese mountain dog.

- Oh, beautiful.

That's a bigger one .

- Yeah.

- Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

- She's pretty big, yeah - I'm a cat dad, so I don't really know much about dogs, but I got the cats.

All right.

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- Next up, the category round with the following choices.

Starring Tom Hanks, you've got mail, splash, cloud Atlas, the Da Vinci code, and sleepless in Seattle.

Now each category has five questions with increasing point values.

To the players here you need to listen up.

You must wait for me to finish the questions before you buzz in.

You can confer with your teammates, but once you buzz in, you're no longer allowed to do that and we'll need your answer.

And like in the tossup round, if one team answers incorrectly, the other team will be given the chance to answer the question.

Now, Cape Elizabeth, you're trailing.

You have control of the board first.

Where would you like to go?

- Could we take cloud Atlas for 10?

- Okay, you can.

Listen up.

This category is all about meteorology and if any of you get it wrong, you're gonna have to answer to me.

I'm just kidding.

You can get it wrong.

It's fine, all right.

Here's the first question for 10, sometimes called MA's tales.

What thin, wispy, high altitude clouds take their name from the Latin for a curl of hair?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Cirrus.

- Air high five.

Yes.

You have control Greta in Windham.

- What do you guys think?

Starring Tom Hanks for 10, please.

- Starring Tom Hanks for 10.

Question is, first of all, these are all questions related to Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks is distantly related to Nancy Hanks.

The mother of what man who became the 16th president of the United States?

(buzz) Greta again.

- Abraham Lincoln.

- Abraham Lincoln is correct again.

And you still have control.

- Tom Hank?

- Yeah.

- 15 Tom Hanks, please.

- All right.

It's Tom Hanks for 15.

Tom was a student intern at The Great Lakes Theater in what Ohio city, that's also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

(buzz) Francesca, Windham.

- Cleveland, Ohio.

- That's right.

Cleveland, Ohio.

Go for it.

Where'd you like to go now?

- Tom Hanks.

- Tom Hanks again for 20.

- All right.

We'll stay with starring Tom Hanks for 20.

Tom has been actively involved in many projects related to D-Day, the military operation on the beaches of Normandy that took place on June 6th, Of what year?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- 44.

- Judges.

- 1944.

- That's correct.

1940.

Yeah, you got it.

And you still have control Greta.

Great job.

- So sorry.

- Tom Hank, - Tom Hanks for 25, please.

- Tom Hanks for 25.

1 2 8 1 8 Tom Hanks is what kind of Rocky celestial object that orbits the sun in the main belt between Jupiter and Mars?

(buzz) Evan, Cape.

- Asteroid.

- That's right, now you have control, Cape.

- We'll do splash for 10.

- Splash for 10.

The following questions are about swimming, which American swimmer won the first of his 23 Olympic gold medals at the 2004 summer games in Athens?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Michael Phelps.

- That's correct, now you have control.

- Finish off starring Tom Hanks, please.

- All right.

Starring Tom Hanks for 30 to wrap up the category.

Tom's brother Lawrence Hanks is an entomology professor at the university of Illinois studying insects in the order Coleoptera the largest order of organisms on earth.

What's the common name for insects in the order Coleoptera?

(beep) The answer's beetles, from beetles.

Windham with control still.

- Splash for 15, please.

- Splash for 15.

Compounds that contain what chemical are most often used to keep swimming pool water free of algae and contaminants.

(buzz) Evan, Cape Elizabeth - Chlorine.- - That's right.

What would you like to do, Evan?

- We'll do splash for 20.

- Splash for 20. in 2013, Diana Nyad swam 111 miles of open sea, from what island nation to Key West, Florida?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Cuba.

- Cuba is correct.

Now, where would you like to go.

- Splash for 25, please.

- Splash for 25.

What American freestyle swimmer won her first Olympic gold medal in 2012 at age 15 and won four more golds at the Rio Olympics in 2016?

(buzz) Sarah, Cape.

- Katie Ledecky.

- That's correct.

Katie Ledecky.

All right, Sarah, how about you?

- Where do you go?

- The Da Vinci code.

- Da Vinci code for 10.

These are questions about Leonardo Da Vinci.

Question is, Leonardo's most famous work is a portrait that's sometimes called LA Geocon, but is best known by what name?

(buzz) Sarah, Cape.

- The Mona Lisa.

- That's right.

Where'd you like.

- The Da Vinci code for 15, please.

- The Da Vinci code for 15.

At one time, Leonardo proposed engineering a canal between Florence and what city that's known for its so-called leaning tower?

(buzz) Al, Windham.

- Piza.

- Piza is right.

All right, Windham, you got it.

- Let's do splash for 30.

- Splash for 30.

A medley relay always begins with which of the four competitive swimming strokes?

(buzz) Kaitlyn, Windham.

- The butterfly.

- That is incorrect.

Cape Elizabeth.

(beep) It's the backstroke, the backstroke.

Let's see Windham with control.

- You got mail for 10.

- Okay, you got mail for 10.

These are questions about people who've appeared on US Postage stamps.

A stamp issued in 1907 depicts what Native American woman who was the daughter of Powhatan and had a diplomatic role in the founding of the Jamestown colony?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Pocahontas.

- Pocahontas is correct.

Yes.

All right, Greta, where are you gonna go?

- Cloud Atlas for 15, please.

- Cloud Atlas for 15.

Raindrops in a summer thunderstorm may be carried upward into the cold atmosphere where they merge with other super cool rain drops to form icy clumps that fall to earth, as what form of precipitation?

(buzz) Greta, again, Windham.

- Hail.

Hail is correct again.

All right, Greta.

- Cloud Atlas for 20, please.

- Cloud Atlas for 20.

In fall and winter cold air from Canada moves across the great lakes and draws their warmth and moisture into the atmosphere.

Forming clouds that produce severe precipitation known by what descriptive name?

(beep) So disappointed.

Lake effect snow.

Greta, it's still yours.

- Sleepless for 10 please.

- Okay.

Sleepless in Seattle for 10.

This category asks questions about Seattle.

Locals call Seattle's main airport, sea TAC, for Seattle and what other nearby city?

(buzz) I think we got it in, right?

Yep.

Sarah, Cape Elizabeth.

- Tacoma.

- Tacoma is correct.

How about you, Sarah?

Where do you like to go?

- Sleepless in Seattle for 15 please.

- Okay.

Sleepless in Seattle 15, the most visited landmark in Seattle is what 605 foot tall tower built for the 1962, World's fair, (buzz) Sarah again.

- The Space Needle.

- The space needle is again, correct.

All right.

- Sleepless in Seattle for 20, please.

- Sleepless in Seattle for 20.

The most populous city in British Columbia is named for what British Naval officer who led the first European expedition that visited Seattle in the 1790s?

(buzz) Al, Windham.

- Vancouver.

- Vancouver, yes.

All right, Al, where do you wanna go?

- Let's do the Da Vinci code for 20.

- The Da Vinci code for 20.

Leonardo based is designed for an early version of a military tank on the armored body of what reptile and the taxonomic order Testudines?

(buzz) Ryan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Turtle.

- A turtle is right.

Whew was a tough one.

All right, Ryan, you got it.

- Da Vinci code for 25 please.

- All right, Da Vinci code for 25.

Leonardo's design for the aerial screw was a human powered version of what aircraft?

Here's a hint.

The Sikorsky Blackhawk and Bell Jet ranger are two modern versions of it.

(buzz) Francesca, Windham.

- The helicopter.

- Helicopter, yes.

Where would you like to go?

- Da Vinci code for 30, please.

- All right.

Da Vinci code for 30.

How many people are depicted in Leonardo's painting of Jesus in the apostles at the last supper?

(buzz) Sarah, Cape.

- 14.

- 14's incorrect.

Windham.

(buzz) - 13.

- 13 is correct.

(alarm rings) Oh, okay.

That's the end of round two.

We have a score of Windham at 290, Cape Elizabeth at 180.

Everything can change though, in the lightning round.

So sit tight.

We'll be right back.

(upbeat music) Okay, we're heading into the final 90 seconds of game play.

The lightning round, players listen up.

You can buzz in any time, you get 20 points for each correct answer.

Incorrect answers though will also cost you 20 points.

And the other team does not get a chance to answer the question.

The clock is set.

Here we go, gang.

What physicist was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel prize?

(buzz) Kaitlyn, Windham - Marie Curie.

- Yes.

Wile E coyote is the nemesis of what?

(buzz) Ryan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Road runner.

- Yes.

- Road runner.

- Human blood consists of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets suspended in what yellowish fluid?

(buzz) Greta, Windham.

- Plasma.

- Plasma is correct.

What historic mission near San Antonio was the site of a 13 day siege in 1836?

(buzz) Greta again.

- The Alamo.

- Yes, the Alamo.

what's so called divine Republic is the setting for Margaret Atwoods the hand?

(buzz) Greta again.

- Oh, shit.

I thought was gonna be the book title.

(beep) - All right.

The answer's Gilead, Gilead, the Rhine river flows through the Netherlands and empties into what Sea?

(buzz) Greta.

- The north.

- The north sea, yes.

What city was scheduled to host the 2020 summer Olympic?

(buzz) Greta.

- Tokyo.

- Yes.

In May, 2017, who became the youngest person to be elected president of France.

(buzz) Evan, Cape Elizabeth.

- Emmanuel Macron.

- Yes.

You broke it up.

Shakespeare was born in a town called Stratford on what?

(buzz) Ryan, Cape.

- Avon.

- Avon, yes.

What process that strengthens rubbers named for the Roman God of the forge?

(buzz) Ryan.

- Vulcam.

- Yes, yes.

According to, (alarm rings) oh, that's the end of the lightning round and our winning team, This week is Windham at 370.

Wow.

(spectators claps) And they'll be moving on to the semifinals.

Our runner up Cape Elizabeth with 260 points.

Wow, what a match you guys?

Thank you.

Both for playing and congratulations to both teams.

We hope to see you next week for another great match.

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