Number one, a precursor to this country was called the Helvetic Republic. The southeastern part of this country contains many speakers of the Roman language. It is divided into 26 regions called Cantons. A historic neutrality policy? >> China. >> Mice 5 is held by for 10 points. What country home to Zurich and Geneva? >> Switzerland. >> Correct. No need to no need to have it in the form of the question. >> Sorry, I've been watching every number two. These two elements make up a furine ring. [clears throat] There is a double bond between these two elements in acetone. Faulty heaters can emit an odorless poisonous gas containing these two >> carbon and oxygen. >> Correct. That's 10 points. [clears throat and cough] >> Yes. [laughter] Uh uh tossup. Uh buzzer tossup number three. Buzzers ready. This man apologized for a 2024 Super Bowl commercial produced by Nicole Shanahan that remixed a 1960 political ad. In August 2024, this man sued swing states such as Michigan to remove his name from ballots. For 10 points, who endorsed Donald Trump after ending his independent >> uh whose arc? >> Correct. >> Very good. >> Toss up number four. >> Have a shot at that. >> This novel's protagonist is repeatedly told to leave me be by the dying Jim Conklin. In this novel, a private from New York laments his failure to become a hero after he is wounded while running away. Henry Fleming eventually shows bravery in For 10 points. What Civil War novel by Steven Crane? >> Red Bouri. >> Correct. >> Wow. [laughter] >> Toss up number five. An opera by this composer has a two-minute French horn solo depicting a horn call in front of a cave. The immolation scene in another opera by this man may be the source of the idiom and ain't it and ain't over till the fat lady sings. Ziggfrieded is a part of for 10 points what German composer's rain cycle >> correct. >> I was going with the time >> toss up buzzers ready. This team lost a series clenching 2024 game after a questionable foul call put PJ Washington on the line. In June 2024, this team traded an Australian guard to the Bulls for Alex Caruso. >> Correct. 10 points. >> I actually would have had a shot at that one. [laughter] >> I was looking at it. >> Yeah, I would have had a shot at that one. Yeah. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. This man's conquests were chronicled by his soldier Bernal Diaz del Castillo. This man who was aided by the Nawa interpreter Lamaline was briefly defeated by Twe Twila [clears throat] Twilaw. The Quawwok in the Night of Soros Tan Titlan was captured by For 10 points what kind >> correct 10 points. Do we have a substitution? [laughter] >> I'll I will take the opportunity to do a score check. Uh current score is Armstrong 45, school board 20. Andrew actually, >> hi, welcome. This is Hill. >> We're glad you're here. >> And you press right here. And you're in the third one right here. >> You can try with the muscle if you want. >> Not out of there. But that's right there. >> And that's if we get it wrong and plus 10 when we get it right. >> If you get it wrong early. >> Oh, >> yeah. Before the question is over. >> So you don't lose points for being wrong after the question. >> Oh, so then you guys question. Thank you for that clarification. >> Okay. Oh, I'm Yeah, I'm sorry. I should That was my fault. I should have mentioned that. >> So, um would you like to introduce yourself to director? >> Sure. I'm Aiva Helen Brand. >> Um good. >> Yeah. I'm a school board member. >> All right. >> Chill on. >> Okay. All right. Toss up number eight. Buzzer's ready. This poem depicts a friend of the title character who wanders and watches for him with eager ears. The title man issues a cry of defiance in this poem that begins, "Listen my children and you shall hear." For 10 points, name this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a patriot midnight. >> What is midnight ride? You mean midnight ride? >> I'm sorry, I cannot accept that. Patriots midnight ride. >> I can't accept that either. The answer is Paul River's ride and it is very specific and it does say to reject the midnight ride of Paul Rivere. I think the title is Paul River's ride. It's very close though. >> Uh toss up buzzers ready. Daniel Werefl began a 5-year term as this agency's commissioner in 2023. In 2024, this agency launched a 12state pilot of its direct file program. This agency issues commonly used forms called the 1040, 1099, and W2. >> The IRS, >> correct? >> Or the internal. >> Okay, sir. >> Thanks, the chair. I got that. [laughter] >> Toss [clears throat] up. Buzzer's ready. This man accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Atal after a snap election in which his ensemble coalition placed third. After raising the retirement age, this man's government lost seats to the farright national rally led by Marine Le Pen. For 10 points, who is president of France? >> Macron. >> Correct. >> I was going to say that, but I didn't want to get one. [laughter] >> No, Macron is underlined, so that is an acceptable answer. Toss up. Buzz buzzer is ready. A triangle's area equals 1/2 of the product of the lengths of adjacent sides times this function of the angle between them. This function of 2x = 2 * this function of x * the cosine of x. For 10 points, name this trigonometric function equal to opposite over hypotenuse. >> Correct. >> Oh, I just like watching your face. [laughter] >> It's like the way they worded. Your face was exactly how I felt. [laughter] >> Tossa, buzzers ready. This group was targeted by Deusius in 250, leading to the death of its leader, Fabian. Gallerius later attempted to suppress these people whom Nero blamed for the great fire of Rome. Constantine's edict of Milan ordered toleration of for 10 points, what group once persecuted in the Roman Empire? [clears throat] >> Christians. >> Correct. Uh, toss up. Buzzer's ready. This sculpture, whose original title was the poet, was originally put on a tempenum directly below the three shades. A bronze boulder in this component of the larger the gates of hell is the seat of a man with his chin on his hand. For 10 points, >> correct? >> Did you go to the rod museum? I didn't think to steal the jewels. >> Well, my location to buzzer is ready. >> This place partly titles a 2021 novel by Coulson Whitehead, named for its shuffle. This neighborhood's cotton club often hosted Duke Ellington. Poets such as Ky Cullen and Langston Hughes lived here in the 1920s. For 10 points, what New York m >> correct? Thank goodness you got here. [laughter] >> Yeah, we have a school board here. >> Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. A team based in this city featured such stars as Eddie Collins and Home Run Baker in its $100,000 infield. For 50 years, Connie Mack managed an AL franchise in this city that later moved to Kansas City and Oakland. The athletics were first based in what? First based in for 10 points. What home city of the Phillies? >> Philadelphia. >> Correct. [snorts] [clears throat] >> Toss up. Muzzers ready. Several months prior to a campaign in Georgia, the center of this state was devastated by William Sherman's Meridian campaign. John C. Peton surrendered in this state on July 4th, 1863 after a siege by Ulissiz Grant. The Union won the Battle of Vixsburg. And for 10 points, what GF Coast state? No, no penalty. >> Alabama. >> I'm sorry. It was Mississippi. >> Uh, no points on the bonus. >> Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. This mountain range is traversed by the world's longest passenger rail tunnel, the Gartard base tunnel. A form of carbonate rock names a branch of this range called the Dolommites. For 10 points, what mountain range of central and western Europe is home to the Matterhorn and Mount Blanc? >> Mouse. >> Correct? >> Buzzers ready. Chromium is the main element that gives the mineral barrel this color. This color in fireworks is produced by barerium salts. In a flame test, this color signifies boron or copper. Oxidized copper forms a layer of this green. Sir, >> green. >> Correct. Green is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzer is ready. This playwright created Ramy Mitchens, a poor woman who fakes being a prostitute to get Salvation Army aid. In another play by this author, Colonel Pickering takes up Henry Higgins on a water on a wager regarding lowerass flower girl Eliza Doolittle. For 10 points, who wrote Major >> George Berners? >> Correct. 10 points. Pavilion. Actually, my hair was >> That was the movie. Yeah. But yeah, it was based on >> uh tossup. Buzzer is ready. At the very end of the first line of to a mouse. These two letters form a Scottish dimunive suffix. These two letters form a Latin abbreviation meaning that is. A pneummonic about their order includes the words except after C. For 10 points, name these third and second vowels. >> I correct. >> Except answer. >> Toss up. Buzzer's ready. On the morning of this man's execution, he wrote that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood. A marching song titled for this man describes his body a mouldering in the grave. >> Correct. Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. This psychologist's theory of man's in his linguistic text, verbal behavior, was rejected by Nome Chsky. This psychologist used food reinforcement to train pigeons to guide missiles. >> That minus five. >> Uh, and play table tennis. A namesake box for operant conditioning was used by For 10 points. What American behaviorist? >> Schroinger. >> I'm [clears throat] sorry. Uh, >> I'm going to throw that out just so I I didn't explain this rule, but once somebody on your team gets a question wrong, then uh >> then they get a turn. >> Then they then it goes exclusively to the other team. >> So, eliminating another wrong answer for you. >> All right. No, it was Skinner. >> No, I said >> Oh. Oh, got it. I heard somebody say >> I said Skinner. Okay, got it. Uh, toss up. Buzzer's ready. This minimum number of Miller indices characterizes the structure of calite whose chemical formula includes this number of oxygen atoms. Calite also represents this number on the MO scale. Sedimentary and ignous are two types are two of for 10 points. What number of main class? >> Three. >> Three is correct. >> Uh, toss up number 24. Give me a second to read some pronunciations. >> Okay. Thrim demanded this deity as a spouse. After returning Mjolnner to Thor. [clears throat] After spending nights with four dwarves, this deity gained the necklace Breezing Amen. This goddess presides over Fulkvonger, a hall receiving half the warriors slain in battle. For 10 points, name this Norse goddess of love. >> Correct. >> Shoot. I thought she cats. >> That is the end of packet number one. And our score is currently uh Armstrong 125, school board 70. 70 >> 75. >> There was a minus five on the Skinner. >> Take them to 75. >> I Well, there was an earlier minus five. >> I would like to point out that Rose is keeping her father honest. Oh, >> it doesn't matter. Anyway, >> there were two minus fives on the school board, right? >> No, she does that regularly. >> Uh, okay. So, these questions now are from 2023. Sometimes that can be relevant. Um, and they're shorter. So, all right. Toss up number one. What particles which are the heaviest outputs of beta minus decay consist of two up quarks and one down quark and are positive positively charged nucleons? >> Protons. >> Correct. >> Toss up. What Midwestern city whose police were accused by a 2023 DOJ report of bias against black and native residents is where George Floyd? >> Minneapolis. >> Correct. Tossup. What singer collaborated with Shawn Paul on the song No Lie and released the 2020 album Future Nostalgia which contains levitating and >> dual. >> Correct. >> Oh tossup. What 1999 coming of age novel in which the English teacher Bill introduces the teenager Charlie to classic books was written by Steven Shaboski. >> Uh no no penalty. Can you take it Armstrong? >> I need a >> time. The answer is the perks of being a wallflower. >> Uh tossup. What type of animal is represented by the constellation that includes Polaris and by the constellation containing >> dog >> minus five and by the constellation containing the big dipper namely Ursa Major >> correct >> connections this morning. >> Thank you. >> Hello. Welcome back. [laughter] All right, toss up. What god whose temples in Rome were closed in times of peace was a two-faced god of beginnings and is the namesake of the first month of the year? >> Janice. >> Correct. Janice is correct. Tossup. What building designed by Shreve Lamb and Harmon features a spire designed for moing airships and when built in 1931 was New York City's tallest >> Empire State Building. >> Correct? >> No. >> Toss up. What quantity represented by a curve that slopes downward in a price versus quantity graph is often pl plotted by economists alongside supply? Demand. >> Correct. Demand is correct. [laughter] >> Toss up number nine. What effect which is used by weather radars and speed guns explains why an ambulance siren appears to change pitch as it >> correct. Shappler is >> Did you guys all just learn that with everyone? [laughter] >> It's It kind of comes up a lot, does it? >> Yeah, there are certain topics that they like to ask about. Um, toss up. What novel in which a proposal from farmer Robert Martin is unwisely rejected by Harriet Smith is named for a matchmaker and is by Jane Austin? >> Emma. >> Correct. Emma is correct. Uh, toss up. They're just fast. You're [laughter] just fast. Like, I know this stuff. You're just fast. Flex. [laughter] >> What agreement, which drew a line across the Louisiana territory above which slavery was banned allowed Maine and a namesake? >> Missouri Compromise. >> Missouri Compromise is correct. >> Uh, tossup. What state is represented by both the oldest person to become a freshman senator, Peter Welch, and the Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders? >> Um, Vermont. >> Correct. Vermont is correct. Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What Dutch artist painted the last judgment into his woman holding a balance and showed a woman in a turban in girl with a pearl earring? Is it Verier? It is Vermeir. Wow. >> Welcome back. >> I was even at the museum. >> Came back with authority. Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What layer below the Gutenberg discontinuity hosts a dynamo powered by its convection that creates Earth's magnetic field and is made of liquid iron? >> Core. >> I need more. >> Outer core. Outer core is correct. So the question sometimes will tell you to prompt on a partial answer. >> I said I can [laughter] that is a good strategy. [snorts] Uh excuse me. Okay. Foot's falling asleep. Toss up. Buzzer's ready. What event for which Hugh Montgomery was tried for manslaughter but defended by John Adams saw Chris Adams shot by the >> Boston Massacre? >> Boston Massacre is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. Which playright who wrote about Nag and Nell living in trash cans in Endgame created the tramps Vladimir and Estreon in Waiting for GDU? time. The answer is Samuel Beckett. >> Wayne Bernado comes up like every college cinema that was 100 years ago. >> I think they're coming out with a new like a movie version of it with some bigname actors. I forget. >> I'm happy to go out if somebody wants to come in. [clears throat] >> All right, we're all good. [snorts] Okay, toss up. Buzzer's ready. Also, pencil and paper ready. If x is a positive number, what is the minimum value of x for which the sum of 18 + x is a perfect square? >> Um, seven. >> Seven is correct. [laughter] >> So 18 + 7 is 25, which is a perfect square. Ready? >> Toss up. Buzzer's ready. What film, which opens as a woman gets attacked off the coast of Amity Island, was directed by Steven Spielberg? >> Jaws. >> Jaws is correct. >> Sorry. >> Buzzers ready. In what country will the iconic tower be part of a yet unnamed new administrative capital that Abdul Faza Elsisi's regime is building near Cairo? >> Egypt. >> Egypt is correct. >> Uh toss up buzzers ready. What poet beseeched a goddess to fight by my shoulder in the ode to Aphrodite? The only extent complete poem by this ancient Greek woman from Lesbos. >> Sappo. >> Sappo is correct. [snorts] >> Toss up. Buzzer's ready. What country whose fleet lost the battle of Tsushima seated half of Sakalen in 1905 after losing a war to Japan? >> Russia. >> Russia is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzer's ready. What chemical principle named for a French chemist determines how a system in equilibrium responds to changes in temperature or pressure? I'm sorry that is not correct. No penalty. Can you take it? School board. >> Let me guess. >> Uh I'm sorry that is also not correct. It is Lhatalier's principal. >> I was getting a question. I was just >> uh toss up. Buzzer is ready. What country whose capital borders two other countries is governed from Bratislava and was once part of a union? M Slovakia. >> Slovakia is correct. It's about time. >> Uh, toss up. Buzzer's ready. What poem set on the darkest evening of the year ends with its speaker declaring, "I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep." >> Night Before Christmas. >> Sorry, no penalty. Can you take it? Armstrong. >> Oh, I know what it is. >> Time. What do you think it is? It's Robert. Yeah. >> No, that's a different one. >> Stopping by snowy snowy evenings. >> Yeah, these poetry title ones are hard cuz you have to get the exact wording. >> All right, toss up. Buzzers ready. What theologian commented on abortion and euthanasia in the encyclical evangelium vite and in 1978 became the first nonItalian pope in centuries. >> Pope Francis >> I'm sorry that is not correct. Can you take it? School board. >> 1978 John Paul. >> Not John Paul. >> I need more. >> The sixth. I'm sorry. It's John Paul II. No penalty. Uh, toss up. Buzzer is ready. What city whose Aanita Noe de Julio is the world's widest avenue lies on the Rio de la Plata west of Monte Vido and is the capital? >> I'm sorry, minus 5. It is the capital of Argentina. >> Oh, what's the city? >> Uh, school board. Just guess. [clears throat] >> Crazy. Okay. >> Time. >> Oh, love it. Go ahead. >> Correct. >> I was like trying to go through all [laughter] >> I think you >> toss up. Buzzers ready. What event, the first of which was won by Frank Newhauser in 1925, had eight co-ch champions in 2019, one of whom correctly gave the letters in slot. >> Spelling me >> correct. >> Toss up. Buzzer's ready. Also, pencil and paper ready. What is the empirical formula of butane or C4H10 given that empirical formulas reduce molecular formulas to lowest terms? >> C2H5. >> Correct. >> All right. Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What author who wrote that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds was a transcendentalist who wrote the essay self-reliance >> the ro >> uh no no penalty can you take it school board time it is Ralph Waldo Emerson I love that word >> toss up buzzers ready in what year did France's February revolution replace Louisie Phipe with the second republic, triggering a series of other European revolutions. >> It's hard. >> 1787. >> Nope. No penalty. Can you take it? School board >> time. The answer is 1848. I don't know. Any reason that was right after >> the second time the second >> toss up buzzers ready. What compound the starting point of reverse transcription has messenger ribosomeal >> RNA. >> RNA is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What state which is home to the Teapot Dome oil field also contains Devil's Tower as well as such? >> Wyoming. >> Correct. >> Fun place to visit. Uh, toss up. Puzzers ready. What golfer who became the oldest ever major champion at the 2021 PGA Championship joined the Liv Golf Tour in 2022 and is nicknamed Lefty. Tiger Woods. >> Nope. No penalty. Can you take it? >> Oh, Palmer. >> No, I'm sorry. It is Phil Mickelson. >> I think is dead. I don't know if he died. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> I don't know. I should have known that one. >> All right. Toss up. I guess golfers. I think that's legit. That's what I would have done. [laughter] Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. Which prime minister who led Britain during the phony war pursued a policy of appeasement before he was replaced by Winston Churchill in May 18 1940. Let me give this one a few extra seconds cuz both teams look like they're on the verge of getting in. >> I'll call time. It's Neville Chamberlain. I knew that too. >> Um, this is a little less formal. Normally, you have a set time, but uh, toss up number 35. What musician whose 1926 recording of heeie-jeebies with his hot five band popularized scat singing was a jazz trumper trumpeter? >> Armstrong. >> Yep. Louisie Armstrong is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What writings which may end with the Latin abbreviation QED turn a conjecture into a theorem and can be argued using contradiction or induction. >> A hypothesis? >> No. No penalty. Can you take it Armstrong? >> I don't know what to ask. >> Thank [laughter] you. >> They are looking for proofs or mathematical proofs. >> Uh toss up. Buzzer is ready. What president proposed global arms reduction and an international peacekeeping organization in his 14 points at the >> uh Woodro Wilson is correct? >> President's toss up. Buzzers ready. >> What last name is shared by a British driver who has won a record tying seven Formula 1 titles and the first US Secretary of the Treasury? >> Hamilton. >> Hamilton is correct. should make a musical that [laughter] was a great idea. >> Toss up pencil and paper ready. What mixed number is equivalent to the improper fraction 967 given that 98 / 7 = 14. >> 13 and 67. >> Uh, not correct. No penalty. 13 and 5 seconds. >> Correct. 13 and 57 is correct. >> You're really close. I going the wrong way. Uh >> toss up. Buster is ready. >> Let me just check. >> What general m ordered the golad massacre, signed the treaty of Alaska after the battle of San Justinto, and was victorious at the Alamo for Mexico? Houston. >> Sorry, >> Houston. >> Uh, Houston is not correct. Can you take it? School board. >> Time. The answer is Santa Anna. >> Oh, so uh that is the end of this packet. The current score is uh Armstrong 335 and school board 140. Does that match your uh >> I stopped really narrowing into it and I started keeping track of who it was >> and there's there's a pattern. [laughter] >> Yeah. Um how is everyone feeling? >> Want to keep going? Anyone need a break? >> I think it's interesting how the questions are worded. Yeah, >> it's like this almost like this weird winding path to confuse you and confound you before >> and then you're like, "Oh, the question what the actual question is." Yeah. What you have to think about and then it's like, >> "Do you like the shorter questions? I could try some of the longer ones. >> It's just kind of interesting. It's like it's like Jeopardy or any of them, right? You have to get used to the way the questions are phrased and then once you understand that, then you can >> then it's all easy. So, I want to do one more packet." these feel so I wasn't crazy. >> These questions are much shorter than uh than the turn ones >> because they start with like what is and they're all one sentences are like >> Yeah, this I don't know what this is. It says speed checks. There's must be some tournament that has faster shorter questions. >> Um okay, so these are again from 2023. All right. Uh, toss up. Buzzer's ready. What man who was the first person ever to resign from the Soviet pullet bureau defeated Nikolai Rishkov in 1991 in Russia's first presidential election. >> Langan, >> I'm [clears throat] sorry that is not correct. >> Gorbach, >> sorry. It is Boris Yelson. >> Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What man stated that a certain line segment sweeps out equal areas in equal times and that >> Kepler? >> Kepler is correct. Very fast. >> Toss up. Buzzer is ready. What prehistoric period whose late portion names a civilizational collapse of the 12th century BC occurred between the Stone Age and Iron Age? >> Bronze Age. >> Bronze Age is correct. I almost said it, too. >> You almost said what? [laughter] >> Oh, okay. [clears throat] Something from Minecraft. >> Yes. >> Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What city, which contains the glass making island of Mirano, is home to the Rialto Bridge? >> Venice. I was just there last month. >> That sounds lovely. Venice is correct. Toss up. Buzzers ready. In what state was architect Rex Hoyerman arrested in 2023 after being linked to the murder of four women discovered on Gilgo Beach in Long Island? >> New York. >> New York is correct. >> Uh toss up pencil and paper ready. What is the arithmetic mean of the four numbers 13 -3 6 and 8 given it is their sum divided by >> six >> six is correct four [clears throat] >> see it's just like straightforward math >> uh toss up buzzers ready though >> what country which was the location of the prison S21 was the site of the killing fields of pole whole pot during the reign of the >> Laos. Cambodia Laos >> I cannot accept that. Uh during the reign of the Camar Rouge Cambodia >> Cambodia is correct. >> Sorry I got to go with the first answer given. >> I know. >> Uh toss up. Buzzers ready. What philosophical concept the subject of Plato's theotitus has been defined as justified true belief and is studied by the field of epistemology? >> Knowledge. >> Knowledge is correct. Toss up. Buzzers ready. What author of the play The Skin of Our Teeth depicted smalltown American life in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire in his play Our Town. >> Sincer. >> I'm sorry that is not correct. Can you take it? Armstrong. >> Time. The answer is Thornton Wilder. >> Toss up. Pencil and paper ready. What is the combined weight in pounds of three identical bricks if five such bricks have a total weight of 20 lb? >> 12. >> 12 is correct? >> Toss up. Buzzer is ready. What state which contains the eastern part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to Duke University and the city North Carolina? >> North Carolina is correct. Is there no one right now? >> Apologies. [laughter] >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What case in which Williams Jennings William Jennings Bryan was asked about biblical morality by Clarence? >> Scopes trial. >> Scopes trial is correct. >> She's got fast fingers and faster brain. >> Tossa buzzer is ready. What particles which were discovered via deep inelastic scattering form berons and have flavors including charms? >> Sorry, >> quarks. >> Quartz is correct. >> I'm sorry. They have flavors. [clears throat and cough] >> The flavors include >> stone charm. Strange top and bottom. >> What? [laughter] [clears throat] >> Yes. >> Sounds tasty. >> Tossup. What island lies west of Sulawa Sulawezi and north of the Java Sea and is divided between the three countries of Brunai, Malaysia, and Indonesia? >> Borneo is correct. Toss up. Buzzer is ready. What center who lost in the 1993 Stanley Cup finals while leading the Los Angeles Kings is the NHL's all-time leader? >> Wayne Gresky. Wayne Gretzky is correct. >> I know the names of like five times. >> That's the one. We needed that one. >> All we needed was they assume uh quizable people don't know sports very well. So they usually go with like the top five names. [clears throat] >> All right. Uh toss up. Buzzer's ready. What state was governed by segregationist Orville Fabas when in 1957 nine students attempted? >> Arkansas. >> Arkansas is correct. Tossa buzzer is ready. What sevenletter adjective denotes reproductive processes such as parthonogenesis and budding which create identical offspring with >> asexual? >> Asexual is correct. Toss up. Buzzer is ready. What body chaired in August 2023 by Linda Thomas Greenfield is tasked with preserving international peace and has five permanent members with vetos >> you. >> I cannot accept that [clears throat] >> time what UN security >> that that is yes it says prompt on UNC it says reject UN or United Nations alone. Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What novel in which the wealthy child Amir witnesses the assault of his servant's son as they play with the title object is by >> Kron? >> That is correct. >> Uh, toss up. Buzzers ready. What state which is the setting of the movie's 51st dates and the descendants? >> Hawaii. >> Hawaii is correct. I talked to him. >> That's great. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What senator who left a woman to drown during the chapquitic incident? >> Edward Kennedy. >> Correct. Toss up. Buzzers ready. What photographer whose wartime assistant was named Alexander Gardner took over 10,000 photos capturing the reality of the Civil Wars battle civil wars battlefields? time. The answer is Matthew Brady. Toss up. What organels which contain membrane bound structures called philyloids where light dependent >> chloroplast >> chloroplasts is correct. Tossup. Buzzer is ready. What author was interrupted by a person from Porlock while writing a poem about a pleasure dome built in Xanadu by the title Emperor Kubla Khan. Time. The answer is Samuel Taylor Cridge. This is another one they like to ask questions about. Uh toss up. Buzzers ready. Would you like We still have five minutes. If you'd like to Okay, you can share buzzers if you want. You want you say >> I can say [laughter] >> I think we'll allow the val you know the answer. Uh just press Director Bowman's buzzer >> my hand. >> All right. Uh toss up buzzers ready. Uh what name is shared by a king known as Bluetooth? a Norse king who lost the battle of Stamford Bridge and the Anglo-Saxon king who died at Hastings time. The answer is Herald. Uh toss up number 26. What sitcom in which Dr. Leo Spachamon gave dubious medical care to Tracy Jordan and NBC sketch comedy writer Liz Lemon was created by Tina Fay? Saturday Night. >> Sorry, no penalty. Will you take it? >> Armstrong. >> 30 Rock. >> 30 Rock is correct. >> It was kind of an awkwardly worded question, too. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What painting whose setting is a road in Echerberg depicts a tumultuous orange sky behind an agonized figure covering his ears? >> The [clears throat] scream. >> The scream is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What process which heats then rapidly cools a liquid to kill bacteria is named for its French in >> minus five. >> Pasteurization. >> Pasteurization is correct. >> Named for Mr. Boil. [laughter] >> I'm just kidding. >> Whoops. I hit the other button. >> It's white now. >> Okay. Uh, some Can you buzz in? >> We have We have to get rid of >> Is it still away? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. I remember that. Did something weird. Um, >> toss up. Buzzer's ready. What military leader who had a scandalous affair with Lady Hamilton was commanding the HMS victory in 1805 when he died at the battle of Trafalgar? Time. It is Lord Horatio Nelson. Toss up. Buzzer's ready. [laughter] What character whose bounty is as boundless as the sea is courted by Paris, has a cousin named Tibultt, and is the star crossed? >> Who buzzed it? >> Yes. >> Is quarted by Paris. >> Sorry. >> Romeo. >> No, it's Juliet. >> Oh, sorry. [laughter] >> I had the idea. I had the right idea. >> All right, toss up. Buzzer's ready backwards. >> What beings described in the theogyny as divine craftsman who forged Zeus's thunderbolts included Polyphimas and were notable? >> Cyclops is correct. >> Toss up. Buzzers ready. What state, which in 2019 launched an anti-drug campaign called meth, we're on it, is governed by mask mandate opponent Christy Gnome from Pier, >> South Dakota. >> South Dakota is correct. >> Meth. [laughter] Yeah. >> Toss up. Buzzer's ready. What [snorts] force which is generated by a difference in pressure on the two sides of an air foil opposes the weight of an airplane lift is correct. >> Uh toss up buzzers ready. See if we can finish this packet in the next few minutes here. What Oscar-winning actress played domestic worker Abelene Clark in The Help and portrayed General Nanisca of the Deomi Kingdom in the Woman King. I'm sorry, no penalty. Can you take it? School word >> time. The answer is Biola Davis. Tossup. What novel in which Cidell Pilasi sings America the Beautiful is at at a gathering of 16 heirs was written by Ellen Rascin about a peculiar competition? The Westing game. >> The Westing Game is correct. Tossup. What man killed by a mob in a Carthage, Illinois jail claimed to have seen the angel Moroni who led him to plates that became the book >> Adam [clears throat] Smith. >> I'm sorry. My >> It's Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith. >> It's Joseph Smith for the Mormons. You're right. Who's Adam? >> Oh, he's the economist. >> Yeah. Uh, toss up. What composer of a mass in B minor in the ortorio St. Matthew Passion showed his mastery of counterpoint in his sixth Brandenburgg conerto mock? >> Yes. >> Witch. >> Yeah, >> it doesn't it doesn't ask to clarify. That is why I double check. >> Here's a tip. Inquisible. If they ever ask for clarification, it's not Johan Sebastian. one of his kids. >> Uh, T. Well, this will be our last one. Toss up. What story in which General Lal's army saves the narrator from a cell in which the Spanish Inquisition had tortured him is by Edgar Alan Poe time. The answer is the pit and the pendulum. Well done everybody. from pulls ahead during the fast [laughter] tossing questions. The final score is 510 to 200. >> Oh yeah, you guys you guys respect. >> Well, thank you. >> Keep up the great work.