From studio *** this is W. G *** L. ***. Brainbusters. Now here's your host, Rich Rosen. Hello everybody. Welcome to our show. I hope you enjoy the next half hour of challenging questions and answers. Today we welcome two new teams, Waynesboro and Northeastern who will undock undoubtedly impress you with their knowledge and brainpower. Well, let's not waste any time. Let's get to work now because here comes today's opening round. We have 10 point questions and one big brain buster brought to you by Turkey Hill. Good luck to all six of you. Let's get to work now with this 10 point question Caleb Williams was named college football's most valuable player. What is the 2022 trophy he received? Heisman Heisman Trophy is correct for 10 points. He has *** hat with *** white plume, *** large cloak and *** long sword and *** big nose. Who is this literary character? No, not he saw Lauren, no, sorry. It seemed like the Bergerac. In 1947 the department tried to change its image by changing its name. It's now the Department of defense. What did it used to be called? Department of war. You are correct for 10 points. Plants produce the sweet fluid to attract pollinating insects. In greek mythology. It was considered the drink of the gods. What is it Reese? It is nectar. Yes. Wooed by many, including Philip the second of spain. She never married. Who was the virgin queen of England Emma Elizabeth. You are correct because he tried to control the excesses of some big businessmen conservatives called this president *** trustbuster who Roosevelt. Which one please Theodore Theodore Roosevelt. He was the rough rider over the malefactors of great wealth. The reciprocal of three quarters is four thirds. What is the reciprocal of the decimal 40.125 Lauren eight. Good for you. Good mathematical expression on your term. Yes. Music is full of italian terms, but the language of ballet is largely taken from another language. What language Emma from friends? You are correct. His christmas tales include the chimes, the cricket on the hearth and the battle of life. The haunted mad and *** christmas carol. Who is this victorian author Again, you are correct again and now it's time for the big brain buster brought to you by Turkey Hill for 10 points and *** gift certificate for Turkey Hill ice cream for everyone on the team. Elizabeth Holmes, founder and Ceo of Theranos has been sentenced to 11 plus years in prison for defrauding investors. What did Theranos is design technology promise to accurately test Emma blood sugar levels. I can't accept that. Sign any idea. Reese. No, it's just blood, not just particularly sugar level. So I cannot accept it is blood. So nobody wins. The big brain buster today. Built in the third century Bc to prevent invasions by northern nomads. It was, it's *** long winds along the edge of the Mongolian plateau, Calvin china. The great wall of china is correct. Three world words sound alike but are spelled differently. So we're looking for *** hominum here. It's the 13th letter of the greek alphabet. It's an african antelope. It means unfamiliar or modern. We stumped you on the word new and you G N U and N E W respectively manuscript manage and command. All come from the latin word man news. What does man news mean? Emma, No, sorry and correct. Any idea Northeastern Lauren. And is the correct answer. Yes. This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me who wrote this poetic line in more than 1000 other short poems. Emma, she's the 155 years ago. In January 1967, this city held *** gathering of the tribes for the summer of love. It took place in the neighborhood of Haight Ashbury in what city? Peter paris not paris. No, sorry, Northeastern. I guess none of you were around when hippies were around because this was San Francisco. The summer of love, invented in 1817. This tubular toy consists of two flat mirrors which meet at an angle, producing repeated symmetrical reflections of an object. What is this device? Peter is correct. This film contains more species than any other animals group combined, including the centipede grasshopper in the spider Reese. No, sorry, it was arthropods. Well, that sound takes us to the end of the round and to our first break we're going to get ready for the one on one rapid fire and team lightning rounds. While you watch these very important messages. W G *** L. *** brain busters will return after this participants on W G ***. L. *** brainbusters. Each receive *** portable power bank for mobile devices and the top four winning teams will share grants totaling $10,000. So good luck teams. Now here's rich with our coaches and alternates. Well, hello everybody and welcome back to W. G. ***. L. *** brain busters. I'm here with mrs Stacey. She's *** gifted support teacher at Waynesboro. Great to have, I've been *** coach before. Thank you. Thanks for bringing such *** great team to studio eight. But let's take advantage of this moment and find out *** little bit about you. Um, so you've been *** teacher for several years and did somebody or something inspire you to become *** teacher? That's really nice when you say several years because it's been 30 but I know when I was in fifth grade, my fifth grade teacher, her name was Barbara schumacher. She was phenomenal and I knew from that point on, I wanted to be *** teacher and just touched you and said, this is what I want to do and 30 years later still teaching and I'd like to give *** shout out to the other person that's important in my life. My dad. Alan Shealy, you'll watch this later. Get it. All right. Mr Shealy. Great. Let's move on. We have *** lot of work to do. Let's meet today's coach? And this is uh I'm sorry Aiden Coulter, you are *** junior and we're all good at several things you know, but you're good at *** particular activity that I find so intriguing. And where do you dance at City Ballet School in Hagerstown Maryland? And how long have you been? I've been dancing for around seven years now, since I was about nine years old. And I got into it when uh I saw my sister dancing and I was like, I want to do that too. So build such strength, such focus. Fantastic. Thank you very much for sharing. Thanks for being here. And now let's meet our coach and alternate from Northeastern. This is Mr Edward Aubrey. He teaches math and uh if um If I would ask you something uh something unusual, is there something that might surprise your students to find out about you if you're willing to share? I am. I often surprise my students when I when I get new classes to tell them that I am *** published novelist. Um I have six books in print right now. Um the one that I'm known for is *** time travel story called on happenings. Uh and it's got about 2000 reviews on goodreads. I'll look it up. Thank you very much. I don't I'm sorry, I forgot your name. Could you tell us what your name is? Alyssa and what's your last name and what grade are you in? Junior? Junior. and tell us something interesting about yourself. Um, I've been doing cheerleading for 10 years. And is that something when you go to college that you want to pursue perhaps? Um, yeah, it takes *** lot of work to, you know, it's an athletic sport. I mean people don't think it's *** sport but it is, it really is. Well thanks for being here. Thanks for supporting your team and now let's get back to work. It's time now for today's one on one rapid fire where we put our individual players against each other and find out what happening in their busy lives. Emma cult nice to have you did very well in that first round of play. You are the sister of the young man who was the alternate and it's great to have you both here with Aiden and you're *** junior over at Waynesboro and you know, there's *** lot happening in this world today and and I know as *** teenager there's *** lot of things that worry about you, not the least of which would be homework, but something really profound bothers you could you tell us about that? Yeah, I would say that I think the greatest issue of my generation's time right now is definitely climate change. You asked us what keeps us up at night and that definitely keeps us up at night. Nature has always been my safe space and I worry that someday other kids won't have that same safe space for themselves. And also, overall that we just won't have *** very safe place to live. So I hope that we can make the right policy changes in the future interest. That's really important for young people to really embrace important things that mean *** lot to them and fight for them. Let's meet uh the Reese Golden and he's *** senior from north Northeastern and it's great to have you here and obviously you're *** good player because you like to read, we have seen that over and over again, people to read and you have *** particular series that you're most fond of. Uh yeah, Storm Might Archives by Brandon Sanderson. It's my favorite. Also the longest I've ever read each book is like 1300 pages, but I love it. It's the president and I'm not familiar with it. What genre? It's *** fantasy fantasies. Okay, excellent, well thank you very much for being here, both of you. Let's put you to one on one. He's the sinister voice of Darth Vader since 1977. Who is this actor? We stumped you both on James Earl jones. All of the following lines are from the same play brevity, brevity is the soul of wit Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio and something is rotten Emma, no, sorry Reese something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Any idea Oh boy, we stumped you on Hamlet by William Shakespeare and finally the Allegheny and the Monongahela, these rivers come together at Pittsburgh pennsylvania. What river do they form? Emma? Not, no, sorry Reese. Any idea. They formed the Ohio River 80 to 40. Let's now meet our two captains. So first from Waynesboro, it's *** pleasure to welcome Kyle Swanson. Kyle is *** sophomore and you're the captain of the team and you already have *** specific goal and *** specific cool that you are determined to get admitted to if you'll please share this with us. Yes, I would like to attend the Naval Academy to become an astronaut. It's just *** fantastic goal. It takes *** lot of work. I've known students that have gotten in there. Are you prepared for what it takes to get in and what are some things that you might be doing contributing to this effort? Um, I play three sports and I take Russian o and you're *** great student and you're here on brain busters. That's another activity. Fantastic. We wish you the best of luck with that effort. Lauren Edgar as *** junior from Northeastern and it's great to have you here and you know, we all dream and we have hopes and you have *** particular dream that you're willing to share with us. Yes, I dream of becoming *** renowned scientist one day and I would like to travel the world do research and maybe write science books and I just hope to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Fantastic. And like Kyle, I would ask you, are you doing everything at school and focusing on the right course work and stuff to make sure that this can happen. Yes, I think I am, I'm taking *** lot of math and science courses and I'm really passionate about this subject. Fantastic. Okay, well Lauren and Kyle, I hope you're passionate about these three questions as we put you to one on one article one, section two of the constitution states that an actual enumeration shall be made every 10 years In such manner as Congress sell by law direct. What is that enumeration of the us population called Lauren. It is the census for 10 points. Yes, if you add one infinite set of numbers to another infinite set of numbers, what's your total? Yes, I know it was *** little trick crushing but it is indeed infinity. And finally carbon is found in more than 90% of all known compounds. What is the most abundant carbon compound Lauren? Again, you are correct. Again, good for you. Science came in handy and certainly with those questions 80 to 70 we're not going to meet our final players in today's competition. So first from Waynesboro Pleasure to welcome peter chilled Childers and you're *** freshman, the youngest of the group here. But even as *** freshman you are focused and determined to head to *** single special college. Tell us about that. Um I would like to attend BYU Brigham Young University in provo Utah. And I'd like to become *** civil or structural engineer there. And why? BYU why are you determined to go there? It's uh, it's the one of the top colleges in the country for civil engineering And other types of engineering as well as other interests that I'd like to present and Utah is *** great state, no doubt good luck in your efforts then then when great to have you here you are from northeastern 15 years old. And you know, I leave my house and I always make sure I have my keys, my wallet and my cellphone, my glasses. But there's something else besides that that you are determined to make sure you always have like before I leave to go to another place, I always have my pen in my notebook because I usually don't try not to like abuse my short term memory. So I just write down things on *** job and then look back on it. Good for you. So do you make lists? Yeah, I make, I make bullet points and *** listen. Like what I have to do for each day. Do you give yourself check marks when you get them accomplished? I could have started employing that strategy because I know it. All right then Peter let's put you to one on one. The answer is in the address. How many years were between the signing of the declaration of independence and Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Peter 87 87 years. Of course the hint was for scoring. It was published in 18 48 to rally the workers of europe. What is this? Long Peter was this long essay by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Good anticipation. And finally bozeman, Missoula and billings are all cities in this western state. It's capitalist, Helena. What state is it? Peter? No, not Washington. Start vin. Do you have any idea? Oh sorry because the correct the correct answer is Montana. So I take that is incorrect. I'm so sorry. 100 to 70. Let's pick up the pace now and play today, 62nd team lightning round. Okay, Lauren, your team is behind at this point but only by 30 points. But you will have the pleasure and luxury of selecting first among these three quizzes, potpourri workout letterbox monopoly here and now. It's nice to get letters sometimes, especially these letters because you can earn 10 points each for identifying the letter of the Alphabet suggested by each of the clues Laura and I take your answers. The team's answer. Reese and vin are ready to help you along 60 seconds on the clock which will begin after I finish reading the first question. Good luck and here we go. It's the Roman numeral for 500 D. To *** chemist. It's the symbol for element number five boron, correct. Henry Ford's best selling model T model T ford hawthorne's scarlet letter correct? Vanna White's favorite vowel, correct. The first word in the Canadian national anthem. Oh, Canada, yes. For Einstein. This letter represents the speed of light, correct. First person singular pronoun correct. Harry Truman's middle name, correct. In two Dotson it's *** kind of car to Zorro. It's his signature Z in the movie Skyfall. Inspector ralph finds plays this character mm the chromosome that separates the boys from the girls. Why doesn't baseball? It's *** symbol for *** strikeout And that was Kay *** little faltering. But you came through with eight, correct. So 80 points came your way. Waynesboro, is this *** break for you? We're gonna find out shortly with potpourri workout and monopoly here and now. Pre workout. It's time to stretch your mind in *** few simple mental exercise is no sweat for 10 points. Each identify the following variety of people, places and things Kyle. I take your answer to the team's answer. Em and Peter are ready to help you along 60 seconds on the clock, which will begin after I finish reading the first question. Good luck and here we go. These are the bones in your spine, correct. This is the imaginary line at latitude zero, correct. The number of amendments in the Bill of rights tennis correct. The war of roses was fought in this country, correct. He lived near Walden pond and wrote about it, correct. This is the largest state east of the Mississippi Georgia. It's 10% of 10% one. That's correct George and Lenny are characters in the short novel by John Steinbeck of mice and men. It's the most common instrument in *** symphony orchestra. Violin, violin, yes, he ruled the soviet union during World War Two. He's the one, an artist range of color or the board on which she mixes them palette, palette. Yes, the crystal is used to separate light into *** spectrum prism is correct, Shakespeare set the play at Prospero's magical island, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. What? Oh, and that takes us to the end 10, correct. So 100 points came your way, 200 to 1 50. It's now time to reveal today's bonus brain buster category. During our break, our teams will wager 0 to 25 points based on their knowledge of employment. So we'll have the bonus brain buster in the all important final frenzy. When W G *** L *** brainbusters continues after this, Watch all this season's episodes of W g *** L eight brainbusters anytime on W G *** L dot com. Our online home also includes our tournament schedule and *** chance to learn more about the show and host Rich Rosen. Go to W G *** L dot com and click on brain busters. Well, hello everybody and welcome back. Okay, Waynesboro is holding onto *** lead, but not by much because everything can change now with today's bonus brain buster. During our break. Our teams wagered 05, 10, 15, 20 or 25 points based on their knowledge of employment. We're going to head into the news? Eight newsroom with Susan Shapiro. She has today's question Susan Welcome to Brainbusters. Thanks rich. Now it's time for your bonus brain buster question. In october 2022 the U. S. Labor department announced *** proposal that would classify millions of home care aides, uber drivers and doordash delivery drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. What three letter term describes these workers again in octo 2022 the U. S. Labor Department announced *** proposal that would classify millions of home care aides, Uber drivers and doordash delivery drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. What three letter term describes these workers. Good luck with your answers and now back to studio. *** rich. Thanks Susan. Good luck. Teams will give you about five seconds. Okay they're still consulting. We'll wait for Kyle. I need you to write something down. This was more challenging than we might have expected. Wait till everybody closes their pen, Lauren, can you write something? Are you finished? We always start with the side of the set. So if you'll kindly show us your response first Drew, I'm sorry but we're going to have to deduct 15 points from your score but only 15 points. So it takes you to 1 85 Lauren. What about you? Did you come up with the right answer blue collar workers. No and 25 point wager. That's *** significant wager? We have to deduct 25 points from your score. The correct answer. This gig. G I G gig workers and Emma and everybody I'm sure acknowledges. Okay, 1 85 to 1 25. Whose game? Who's gonna return for round two? We're gonna find out very shortly because now it's time for today's final frenzy this time. 20 point questions. Good luck to all six of you, larger than *** skunk, smaller other than *** wolverine. It is *** ferocious carnivore with short, thick legs and Reese. *** badger is Wisconsin's mascot. This african country is *** vast emptiness of more than one million square miles larger than texas and Alaska combined with fewer than 30 million people. What stretches from chad to Ethiopia. From Uganda to Egypt, Not the Sahara, No, sorry, Coyote. Sudan Sudan is the correct answer. Her real name is Alice O'Connor? Her novels include anthem, We The Living atlas shrugged and the fountainhead. Who is this author and founder of, of objectivism, Emma. Not she. No, sorry. Any idea. Oh, I know you've read Ayn Brand. One is was William, the other was Arthur. One wrote the words the other wrote the music for the gondoliers. Pirates of Penzance and the Mikado. What were their last names? Rodgers and Hammerstein. Fantastic. Yes, but no. That is incorrect. Any idea The other one you might think of as Gilbert and Sullivan? It's the northwestern part of the indian ocean that borders, Iran Pakistan and western India. What c is it? Bengal? No not the Bengal sea. No, sorry. And the idea of Northeast, oh we stumped you on the Arabian sea. Established in 17 68 under the patronage of King George. The third. Its first president was Sir Joshua Reynolds. What is this honorary society of english artists? It's called the Royal Academy of Art. His paintings of the seascapes include the lifeline, the northeastern Gulf stream. Who was this popular artist of the late 19th century. We stumped you on Winslow Winslow homer on the Celsius scale, absolute zero is negative 2 73 degrees. On what temperature scale is the freezing point? Positive 2 70 kelvin is correct. It's all done with mirrors and lasers. The result three D. Photography. What is this technique or the image produced by it? Again, not C. G. I know sorry. Any idea Northeastern. It's called *** hologram or holography. He was president of the American Philosophical Society for 20 years and president of the United States for eight. Who was this philosopher president. No sorry. The correct answer was thomas jefferson but that doesn't matter because Wayne's borough is triumphant and will return for round two with *** score of 2 25 to 1 45. We had *** fantastic time and we hope we will see you in just *** short moment or two. Score keeping for W. G ***. L. Eight. Brainbusters presented by Jennings college consulting where students discover the right college fit for the future. We'll return after this Waynesboro held onto their lead and they would not let go. They are coming back for round two. Coming up on the next w g *** l. *** brain busters were very excited to welcome two new teams hand over and Bishop McDevitt. We're expecting *** very exciting half hour and we hope to have the pleasure of your company as well from all of us here at studio. *** thanks for watching so long.