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I'm your host, Todd Guntner.

Last week Orno secured their spot in the finals.

One of today's teams will join them in the quest for the season eight championship.

Yarmouth is hoping that three is their magic number, having tried in two previous seasons to make it to the final, but they still need to get past Deering, who would like their fourth year on the show to end with their first championship.

Everyone is eager to get semi-final two underway.

So let's set things going by meeting the teams.

(exciting music playing) For Yarmouth, we have: Caroline, Maddie, Matthew, and Elise, with alternates, Kevin and Chester, and coached by Sarah Wilson.

And for Deering we have: Violet, Asa, Connor, and Eve, with alternates, DeLuca and Issa, and coached by Kyle Davenport.

The competition has four rounds.

The tossup round, the head to head round, the category round, and the lightning round.

We'll start with the tossup round.

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

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

Good luck to both teams, you both ready?

- Yeah.

- Okay, here comes the first question.

In 1912 presidential election, the progressive party, also known as the Bull Moose Party, selected what man to be its presidential candidate?

(bell dinging) Caroline.

- Theodore Roosevelt.

- That is right.

What TV medical drama that aired its first episode in 2005 takes its name from a reference book first published in England in 1858?

(bell dinging) Matthew.

- Grey's Anatomy.

- Right.

In the scientific method, what term, that comes from Greek words meaning to put under, refers to a supposition, that can be tested by a scientific experiment?

(bell dinging) Asa.

- Hypothesis.

- That's right.

Ronda Rousey and Anderson Silver are two of the all time top athletes in the sport of MMA.

In this context, what does MMA stand for?

(bell dinging) Connor?

- Mixed martial arts.

- Nice job.

Up next we have a picture question.

Take a look at the monitor here.

Name this legendary puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker, who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of "The Muppets," "Fraggle Rock," and several characters from the children's series "Sesame Street."

(bell dinging) Matthew?

- Jim Henson.

- That's correct.

What lake, that is the largest lake in Utah, has been shrinking an area over the past few decades due to the effects of drought and climate change?

(bell dinging) Caroline?

- Great Salt Lake.

- You got it.

"Give me your tired, your pore, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are lines from an 1883 sonnet by Emma Lazarus that was inspired by what national monument?

(bell dinging) Connor?

- The Statue of Liberty.

- You got it.

What 16th century queen was imprisoned and sentenced to death by her cousin, queen Elizabeth the first of England?

(bell dinging) Caroline?

- Mary, Queen of Scots.

- That is correct.

Panthera onca is the scientific name for what spotted big cat that is native to the Americas.

(bell dinging) Matthew?

- Leopard.

- That's incorrect.

Deering, you wanna try?

(bell dinging) Go ahead, Connor.

- Puma?

- Also incorrect.

It's a jaguar.

Next up we have a video question again to the monitor.

- I'm Senator Angus King and here's the question.

What amendment to the United States Constitution requires a public and speedy trial, an impartial jury, and the right to counsel?

(bell dinging) - [Todd] Connor.

- The fourth.

- [Todd] Incorrect, Yarmouth?

(bell dinging) Elise.

- The sixth.

- The sixth is the right answer.

A 1964 civil rights program, known as Freedom Summer, was focused on increasing voter registration among black people in which southern US state?

(bell dinging) Matthew.

- Mississippi.

- That is also right.

What two word holiday themed term was coined around 1980 to describe secret messages, images, or actions that are embedded in video games for entertainment purposes?

(bell dinging) Caroline?

- Avatars.

- Incorrect.

Deering?

(bell dinging) Go ahead, Violet.

- Easter eggs.

- That's the right answer.

On the morning of June 27, townspeople start collecting stones as part of an annual ritual described in what short story by Shirley Jackson?

(bell dinging) Eve.

- "The Lottery?"

- Yes.

Which of these is a halogen element: chlorine, chromium or cobalt?

(bell dinging) Asa.

- Chlorine.

- Chlorine's the right answer.

Now a math question.

Get ready.

Here it is.

The measure of angle A is five times greater than the measure of angle B.

If angle A and angle B are supplementary angles, what are the measures of both angle A and angle B?

And we'll need both values.

(bell dinging) Matthew.

- 30 and 150.

- You nailed it, nice job.

Next question.

From Greek words meaning same sound, what term refers to two words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same, such as weight, meaning a type of measurement, and wait, meaning what you might do if you arrive early for an appointment.

(bell dinging) Violet?

- Homophone.

- Nice job.

Which philosopher of the 18th century French Enlightenment was chief editor of the reference work called "The Encyclopedia," a compilation of all the important scholarly knowledge of the time.

(bell dinging) Go ahead, Caroline.

- Diderot?

- Nice job.

What four letter word, that means tail in Italian, refers to the end of a piece of music?

(bell dinging) Asa?

- Coda?

- Yes.

Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zepo were four brothers who wrote and starred in comedy films during the 1930s.

What is their last name?

(bell dinging) Caroline.

- Marx.

- Yes.

What abolitionist from Newburyport, Massachusetts, published an anti-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator?"

(bell dinging) Caroline, again.

- Frederick Douglas.

- That's incorrect.

Deering.

(buzzer chiming) The answer is Garrison.

William Lloyd Garrison.

Olympic Triathlon Competition is a sequence of three events.

Which comes first in the sequence?

Cycling, running, or swimming.

(bell dinging) Asa.

- Swimming.

- Swimming is right.

Burning fossil fuels releases sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere where they mix with water and fall to earth.

This toxic precipitation is most commonly known by what name that refers to its pH?

(bell dinging) Connor.

- Acid rain.

- Acid rain, yes.

Sometimes called "The Rock," the name of what prison island in San Francisco Bay comes from the Spanish word for "pelican?"

(bell dinging) Go ahead, Eve.

- Alcatraz.

- You got it.

One amendment to the US constitution that isn't challenged very often is which amendment that limits the federal government's ability to force private citizens to house soldiers in their homes?

(bell dinging) Go ahead, Asa.

- Fifth?

- That's incorrect.

(bell dinging) Elise.

- Third amendment.

- Third, nice.

Here's our second math question.

Find the mean in this set of numbers.

3, 4, 11, 14, 7 and 6.

Simplify your answer.

(bell dinging) Asa.

- Seven and a half.

- Yes, nice job, Asa.

Next question.

Dating back to 2,500 BCE, a statue called Indus Dancing Girl, in the National Museum of India, is one of the world's oldest statues cast from what metal alloy of copper and tin?

(bell dinging) Elise.

- Bronze.

- Bronze, nice work.

What, oh, (alarm beeping) and that is the end of our first round.

Oh boy, folks, this is a good one.

We've got a tie between Yarmouth and Deering.

Don't go anywhere.

We'll meet the players when we get back.

(exciting upbeat music playing) (wind whooshing) Before we go to the head to head-to-head round, we'd like to pause and get to know our players with a slightly off the wall question.

And this one is, what is your go-to karaoke song?

And I expect you to also sing it.

I'm just kidding.

(laughing) Just gimme the song, we'll start with Yarmouth, Caroline.

- I would have to go "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.

- Oh, that's a classic.

- Yeah.

- Okay, I like that.

Maddie?

- I'm gonna go with the "Sophia the First" theme song.

- "Sophia the First," um.

- It's a Disney.

It's a Disney kids show.

- [Todd] Like a cartoon show kind of thing?

- Yeah with a purple dress, yeah.

- There it is, yes, my daughter loved that show.

Okay, thank you, Maddie.

Matthew?

- "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

- Oh.

That's a oldie, right?

- That's a good one though.

- It's a goodie though, yes.

Elise, you?

- Yeah.

I would go with "California Girls."

- "California Girls" like the Van Halen version?

- No, no.

Like the Katy Perry one.

- Katy Perry.

- Oh.

(laughing) Oh man, I am so old.

Deering, Violet, you go ahead.

- I think I'd do "The ABCs."

"The ABCs?"

Like literally?

- Like the alphabet.

- A, B, C, D, E, F, G. (laughing) That's really easy to do, Violet, we shouldn't let you off that easy.

Asa, your turn.

- You know I haven't listened to music for that long, so I'll say "Happy Birthday" because I don't know many lyrics to many songs so.

(Todd laughing) This one know I can do.

- I'm gonna make one of you guys sing this if Connor, are you gonna mess with me too?

What do you got?

- I do "American Pie."

- "American Pie?"

- Yes.

- I love that, Don McLean?

(Connor humming) Oh, can you do the whole song?

- No.

- No.

Because there's like a million verses.

- So many references I can't do it.

- Okay but a great song indeed.

All right, Eve?

- I would say anything from "High School Musical."

- Oh, all right.

That's out of my league there.

And for the record, if this question were asked to me, it would be "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns N Roses all day long.

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(triumphant exciting music playing) - It is time for the head-to-head round where players alternate facing off, one-on-one, right here at the desk.

Correct answers worth 10 points, incorrect answers will cost you 10 points.

There are 90 seconds on the game clock.

Players ready, here we go.

(tense upbeat music) What Japanese word that means cute or adorable?

(bell dinging) - Kawaii.

- You got it.

Of the three main layers of earth, the crust, the mantle, and the core, which is the thinnest?

(bell dinging) - Crust.

Crust, yes.

The US Declaration of Independence mentions the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of?

(bell dinging) - Happiness.

- Yes.

What comic strip created by Bill Waterson follows the adventures of a 6-year-old boy, and his trusty Tiger Companion?

(bell dinging) - "Calvin and Hobbes."

- Nice.

The three domain system of classification organizes living organisms into three domains, Archaea, Bacteria, and which domain?

(bell dinging) - Anamalia?

- Eukarya.

Eukaryotes.

Between 1915 and the early 1920s, the Ottoman Empire conducted a campaign of murder and forced deportation against people of what nationality?

(buzzer blaring) Armenian.

How many semitones are in a chromatic scale?

(buzzer blaring) 12.

The first book of the Bible has what name that come.

(bell dinging) - Genesis.

- Nice.

The main ingredients of the condiment aioli are oil and which?

(bell dinging) - Garlic.

- Garlic is correct.

In math, what term is defined as the result when two factors are?

(bell dinging) - Product.

- Product, right.

What is the name of the French queen who was executed on October 6th?

(bell dinging) - Marie Antoinette.

- Marie Antoinette.

Luzon and Mindanao now are the largest islands of what country?

(buzzer blaring) Philippines.

(alarm ringing) Ooh, that's the end of the head to head round.

Let's check the score.

Right now it's Yarmouth 160, Deering 150.

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(triumphant exciting music playing) - Next up is the category round with the following choices.

"I" spy.

(wind whooshing) You can quote me.

(wind whooshing) Imagine dragons.

(wind whooshing) A sticky situation.

(wind whooshing) Science happens here.

(wind whooshing) And just coasting.

(wind whooshing) Each team will alternate control of two categories.

Questions have increasing point values and with each question they can choose to either answer it, and neither gain or lose points, they can skip it, and neither gain nor lose points, or once per category they can toss it to the other team and force them to answer.

Players will have five seconds to confer (wind whooshing) and decide what to do.

Deering, you trail just by 10 points.

Connor, you have control of the board.

Where do you want to go?

- [Connor] We will go with "I" spy.

- "I" spy.

All answers begin with the letter I.

Here's the first.

What two word name is given to the period of rapid change in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries when the basis of the economy shifted from farming to machine-based manufacturing?

- Industrial evolution.

- That's right.

"I" Spy 15.

What term that begins with "I" refers to the policy of a country to abstain from political, economic, and military relationships with other nations?

It's often mentioned as a reason for the reluctance of the United States to enter World War I and World War II.

- Isolationism.

- That is correct.

"I" spy 20.

What planned city became the official administrative capital of Pakistan in 1967.

- We'll skip this one.

- Skip it, it's Islamabad.

"I" spy for 25.

The British called them the coercive acts.

But what American colonists used, what descriptive term for the four laws that the British imposed in 1774 as punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

- The Intolerable Acts?

- That is right.

"I" spy 30.

What word that comes from the Latin for between reigns refers to the period between the end of one monarch's reign and the start of the reign of the year of their successor.

(timer beeping) - We'll toss this one.

- You wanna toss it.

All right, Yarmouth.

Here comes the question again.

What word that comes from the Latin for between reigns refers to the period between the end of one monarch's reign and the start of the reign of their successor?

- Interim?

- No, we cannot accept that, it's interregnum is the right answer.

But that wraps up the first category.

We're gonna go back to Yarmouth now, and Matthew, you have control, and you can select your first category.

We'll take you can quote me.

Alright, you can quote me for 10.

Questions about quotations from literary works.

"I could tell you my adventures beginning from this morning, but it's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then," says what title character in a book by Lewis Carroll?

- Alice.

- "Alice in Wonderland."

- Alice?

- Yeah.

- Alice?

- Alice is right.

You can quote me 15.

In George Orwell's novel, "1984," Winston Smith sees a poster in his apartment building that shows the face of a man of about 45 with a heavy black mustache, and what five word caption underneath it?

- What five word caption.

- Big Brother.

- Is watching.

- Is watching you.

- Big Brother is watching you.

- Matthew, what do you think?

- Big Brother is watching you.

- You guys got it and you worked together as a team.

It was beautiful.

(team laughing) It was beautiful.

You could quote me for 20.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away," is a quote from the conclusion of Walden in 1854 book by what essayist from Massachusetts?

- Henry David Thoreau.

- Thoreau.

- Henry David Thoreau.

- That's correct.

You can quote me 25.

"Help each other.

That is the only way to survive," is a quote from what literary memoir of the Holocaust written by Ellie Weasel, and published in English for the first time in 1960?

- "Night."

- "Night."

"Night" is right.

Now we have you can quote me for 30.

In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Polonius explains that expressing an idea in just a few words is a sign of intelligence.

What word, that is a synonym for conciseness, does he say in the soul of wit?

- Brevity.

- Brevity?

- Brevity.

(Elise laughing) Great work in that category, guys.

All right, Deering, your turn, what's your second category?

- [Connor] We will do science happens here.

- Science happens here.

These are questions about scientific research facilities.

Here's the first one.

A surface wind speed of 231 miles per hour is recorded at the weather observatory on what mountain in New Hampshire that is the highest peak in the northeast?

- Mount Washington?

- You got it.

Science happens here for 15.

Located on the island of Curacao, the Caribbean Marine Biological Institute studies what kind of underwater ecosystem that supports about 25% of all known marine species?

- Coral reef.

- Right.

Science happens here 20.

Located near the South Pole, an observatory called Ice Cube has an enormous telescope designed to detect what electrically neutral subatomic particles emitted by our galaxy?

- Neutrinos?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Neutrinos?

- You guys got it.

Science happens here 25.

The gull population biology research project is conducted at what marine laboratory on Appledore Island near Kittery, Maine?

- Oh, is it Jackson or Bigelow?

- Marinal labs.

- Bigelow?

- I don't know.

(timer beeping) - [Todd] What do you think, Connor?

- Bigelow.

- That's incorrect.

It's Shoals Marine Laboratory.

Here's the last one though in the category for 30.

An important group of research institutes in Germany is named for what theoretical physicist who was credited with originating quantum theory and who received the Nobel prize in physics in 1918?

- Plank.

- Plank?

- I don't know, sure.

- I don't know.

(beeper beeping) Plank.

- That's the right answer.

That wraps up that category.

Yarmouth, you have one more.

Matthew, what's it gonna be?

- [Matthew] Imagine dragons.

- Imagine dragons.

These are questions about dragons.

The first one is in "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien what enormous red gold dragon with a jewel encrusted belly is first seen sleeping surrounded by piles of precious things, gold gems, and jewels, and silver?

- Smaug.

- Smaug is correct, okay.

Imagine dragons 15.

Goku and Vegeta are the main characters in what anime franchise?

- "Dragon Ball."

- That's correct.

Imagine Dragons 20.

What purple skinned dragon in the X-Men comic book universe shares its name with a US aircraft manufacturer?

- Lockheed?

- Purple skin dragon?

(beeper beeping) - Pass.

- Matthew?

- We're gonna skip this one.

- Skip it, it's Lockheed is the answer.

I thought I heard you say it, Matthew.

What legendary.

Here's the next one, what legendary martial arts film star died unexpectedly, in 1973, shortly before his feature film, "Enter the Dragon" was released?

- If you're sure.

- If you're sure, go for it.

- No, I'm not.

- Wait, what did you say?

- Jackie?

- That's what I think.

- It's really close.

(timer beeping) - [Todd] What do you think Matthew?

- Pass, pass.

- We're gonna skip.

- Okay, so you wanna skip?

The answer is Bruce Lee.

Imagine Dragons for 30, the last one in the category.

In the game Dungeons and Dragons, a certain class of character is described as a warrior who swears an oath to uphold justice.

The name for this class of character is also the name for a group of medieval knights who serves Charlemagne, and is derived from the name of one of the seven hills of ancient Rome.

What is the name?

- Paladin.

- Paladin.

- Paladin?

- Paladin is correct.

And that wraps up our category round.

Right now the score is Yarmouth 285 and Deering right behind them at 250.

Everything can change in the lightning round, (wind whooshing) so sit tight.

We'll be right back.

(exciting music playing) Okay, we're heading into the final 90 seconds of gameplay, the lightning round.

Players, you do not have to wait for me to finish the question.

You can buzz in at any time, but do not answer until I call your name.

You get 20 points for each correct answer.

Incorrect answers will cost you 20.

(wind whooshing) And the other team will not get a chance to answer.

(wind whooshing) The clock is set.

Good luck both of you, (exciting music) here we go.

In Disney movies what kind of animal is Dumbo?

(bell dinging) Caroline.

- Elephant.

- Yes.

Which legendary King had a sword called Exca?

(bell dinging) Caroline.

- Arthur.

- [Todd] Yes.

Which 15th Century Empire had its capital at Cousco in.

(bell dinging) Go ahead, Connor.

- The Incan.

- [Todd] Inca.

FBI Agents, Fox Molder and Dana Scully were main characters in what TV series that premiered in 1993?

(bell dinging) Asa.

- "X-files."

- Yes, Asa.

What is the pH of a neutral solution at room.

(bell dinging) Violet?

- Seven.

Seven.

- Seven, yes.

What programming language, launched by Sun Microsystems in 1995, shares its name with (bell dinging) an island in Indonesia?

Violet.

- Java.

(buzzer blaring) - Java is right.

Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr served in what US cabinet position during the Trump administration?

(buzzer blaring) Attorney General.

What Latin word meaning shallow dish is the scientific name for the.

(bell dinging) Elise.

(exciting music continuing) (buzzer blaring) It's patella.

In "The Brother's Grim Fairytale," Snow White is poisoned by a bite of what fruit.

(bell dinging) Elise.

- Apple.

- [Todd] Yes.

What prison Fortress in Paris was stormed by.

(bell dinging) Caroline.

- Bastille.

- [Todd] Bastille.

What class of triangle has sides of three different lengths?

(bell dinging) Asa.

- Scaline.

- [Todd] Scaline.

What ancient religion of Asia takes its name from a Chinese word meaning the way?

(bell dinging) Elise.

- Daoism.

- Right.

(alarm blaring) Ooh and that's the end of the lightning round.

And our winning team, and heading to the finals is Yarmouth with 365 points.

(team shouting and laughing) They're moving on to the season eight championship.

Deering, you had 350 points.

So, so close and you made it so far.

(wind whooshing) We're so proud of you and we hope to see you again next year.

Well, it all comes down to one last game.

Join us next time for the season eight finale, as Orno takes on Yarmouth, and we crown a new champion, and we'll reveal the winner of our viewer question of the week contest too.

You will not want to miss it.

Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time for the season finale of "High School Quiz Show: Maine."

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