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WGAL 8 Brain Busters episode 16: Central Dauphin vs Annville Cleona

WGAL 8 Brain Busters episode 16: Central Dauphin vs Annville Cleona
from studio ***, this is W G *** L eight Brainbusters Now, here's your host, Rich Rosen. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to studio *** and W G *** L *** Brainbusters. I am so excited you're here because here's another chance for us to witness these fantastic teams compete here. We, we welcome Central Dolphin and Anvil Iona. They won round one. This is round 21 team will return for round three. Who will it be? Well, there's only one way to find out. Let's play Brainbusters. Here comes today's opening round. We have 10 point questions and One big brain buster brought to you by Turkey Hill. Welcome back to all six of you. Pick up those signaling buttons and let's use them frequently beginning now with this 10 point question, October 28th, 2022 people in the news T M Z was the first to start the buzz. The divorce papers were imminent. Now that rumors have been confirmed about model Elle Bin and her famous husband, Tom Brady. Tom Brady is the well known athlete who filed for divorce. Two European countries have flags which are square one is the Vatican City. What's the other or? in Switzerland. Switzerland's correct for 10 points. It's *** G two star about eight minutes from earth at the speed of light. Yeah. So the sun, yes. During this period of us history, bootlegging and rum running became widespread Orion prohibition, prohibition lasted from 1919 to 1933. In some versions of this story, the Learn and hydra had 100 heads who killed this beast as the second Daniel perseus. No, sorry. Uh, and that's, uh, who, who is up next Orion? Hercules Hercules uh who, who killed the beast as the second of his 12 labors. Yes. Despite his nickname, he was actually born in Mississippi. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for cat on *** Hatton Roof and Street Guard named Desire Daniel Oh, sorry. Director Ryan Tennessee Williams is the playwright. Yes. Numbers can be divided into two kinds, real and imaginary. Jack. Oh, sorry. I'm gonna complete quick question for central dolphin. Real numbers can also be divided into two principle kinds. What are they? Ryan Integers and irrational. No rational and irrational in politics. If you want anything said, ask *** man if you want anything done? Ask *** woman? That was the opinion of the Iron Lady who was Prime Minister. or Margaret Thatcher? Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990. In the 19 twenties, he wrote novels about religion, medicine and business. Elmer Gantry was an evangelist Aero Smith, *** doctor and Babbitt, *** businessman who wrote them We stumped you on Saint Clair Lewis and now it's time for the big brain buster brought to you by Turkey for 10 points for *** gift certificate for Turkey ale ice cream for everyone on the team. If you're *** fan of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, you'll want to see them play in. What city is the Brian Denny Jack Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa is the Brian Denny stadium location. Yes, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Congratulations. And Iona Mammoth Hot Springs is the headquarters of Yellowstone National Park. In what state are the Orion? Wyoming. Wyoming is where the Mammoth Hot Springs are located in this city. Famous for its art. The Palazzo Vecchio, the Pitti Palace and the EI gallery are all famous art museums. What is the capital of the Tuscany region? Jack. Uh oh, sorry. No, sorry. It's Florence or the Indian branch of the indo-european civilization gave itself this name meaning pure and white. What name did Adolf Hitler use? For his pure and Orion, *** Arian or Arian. Yes. For the white race. Yes, Texas has more of them than any other 254. Georgia has counted. Counties counties. That's correct. Yes. The PA only has 67. The prime minister of Israel often have to defend their policies before the Israeli legislature. What is that legislative body called Or parliament. No, no, sorry Any we stumped you on diatonic diatomic oxygen and tri atomic ozone, carbon and diamond, red, black and white phosphorus. What are these alter, alternate structural forms of the same element called Jas uh say that again. Isomers. No, they're not. No sorry or is oh no, they're not. They're Alex Ropes is the correct response. The son of Mary Queen of Scots. His name is familiar to most of us from the famous book that was published during his reign. Yeah, Henry. Oh no, sorry. Who was this? Orion? King James King James was the king of Scotland and England. Of course, we're talking about the King James Bible. The Romans thought his workshops were under Mount Etna and other volcanoes where the Cyclops helped him forge Jupiter's thunderbolts. Who was this Orion Oh, sorry. Who was this fiery Roman God or Daniel Vulcan Vulkan is correct. On opening, on opening day 1910, this president became the first to throw out the first ball. Who was this portly pitcher? Jack Taft Taft William Howard Taft Arthur Kornberg won the 1959 Nobel Prize for synthesizing it. Watson Crick and Wilkins won the Orion DNA DNA is correct. Created In the eighth century BCE. It's the oldest work of European literature that we have. What is this epic poem or again? Oh, no, sorry. What is this epic poem by Homer Jack Odyssey? Oh, no, sorry. It's the Iliad. What name is given to the mathematical relationship in which there is one and only one value Y for every value of X Orion function. It is *** function. Yes. But with that correct answer or Ryan, that sound takes us to the end of the round and to our first break gives us *** chance to catch our breath, which is *** very good thing because we have the one on one rapid fire and team lightning rounds coming up when W G *** L *** brain busters continues following this. W G *** L *** Frame Busters will return after this. The final four teams in the W G *** L eight Brainbusters tournament will win cash grants. The 3rd and 4th place teams will receive $1000 each. The second place team will receive $3000 and the W G *** L eight Brainbusters champions will receive $5000 in grant money. Now, here's rich with our coaches and alternates People always ask me what makes *** good brain busters team? Well, you need good students, of course, but you also need *** dedicated coach. such is the case next to me, Mr Jeffrey Veni, you have multiple roles at central to environmental science, chemistry or systems. And of course, the coach he's been teaching five years. I can tell you the kids just adore him. But so I ask you what's uh with being such *** young teacher? What to you is, is one of the best things about being *** teacher to you. Uh just working with the students um being able to come in each and every day. and have *** captive audience and be able to perform your students and help them to learn *** little bit about science, learn *** little bit about life and kind of work through each and every day and probably run into *** bunch of different things that you end up teaching students that, you know, they would have not thought about originally coming into class and you learned *** lot about yourself too and, and try to better your own relationships. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thanks for being here. Thanks for bringing such *** great team to studio. Hey, and now let's head over to an, it's *** pleasure to welcome back M Laurie. Uh Lingenfelter. You are the principal. Uh you're here standing in for Mr Mark De who is the English teacher at Anvil and we appreciate it so much. Uh So, uh I'll just ask you just because you're in education. Let's say you won the lottery. That seems to have been in the news lately. Um, what would you do in place of being in education? The first thing I would do is I would give back to the Dutchman Education Foundation, which is our education Foundation at Annville. I would wanna make sure I leave *** legacy of scholarships and money for kids because you you can't take the kid out of me. Uh Then I would probably go see the world because I have not been outside the US other than Canada and Jamaica. So it's time to explore the world. It's time to get that passport and get it out and get it ready for you. I hope you have the opportunity to reach those dreams. And now let's meet today's alternate from Anvil Iona, Henry W Wald Housen. and you are *** senior. Great to have you here and it's now time to start thinking about some goals and certainly immediate goals. Can you, uh, help, uh, enlighten us? Yep. So, the immediate goal right now is to go to college. Um, I have *** list, I'm still undecided about it though, but I have *** nice list to pick from. Can you give us like *** sampling? So, the top three are University of Virginia Penn State and then University of Michigan. Um Majors undecided but probably like math or something stem. Oh fantastic. All three of those schools are fantastic. U of M is my alma mater. So good luck in going to Ann Arbor. But good luck to our teams because it's now time for today's one on one rapid fire where we pit our individual players against each other and find out what's happening in their very busy lives So first, it's *** pleasure to say hello once again to Caitlin Wilson Caitlin. You are *** senior. It's great to have you back here and I understand that you're quite the musician. Yeah, I play French horn. How long have you been playing French horn? I've been playing since I was in fourth grade. So, like eight years. So that means you've been playing in the school band from middle school to high school, boy. I bet they're gonna miss you. Just out of curiosity. How did you pick this French horn out of all the instruments? I don't know. I mean, it looks pretty cool, And it sounds good too. Yeah. Well, thank you very much. It's good answer, Daniel Balls and you are *** junior at an and it's great to have you here. And uh you already know what school you want to attend when you graduate, of course and what you wanna study, tell us about that. So I would love to attend Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and major in either biochemistry or molecular biology. And out of curiosity, there's *** plethora of uh opportunities for *** student like you. Why Messiah? Well, um, I just visited there. It's *** great school. It's rooted in Christian faith and everyone in my family has gone there. That's *** good reason, Daniel and Caitlin. Let's put you to one on one. It was the fourth in the series, but it was episode one. What was this 1999 Star Wars movie? Caitlin? Uh, New Hope. Oh, no, sorry, that's incorrect. Oh, we stumped you on the Phantom Venice. Um If you are interested in medicine, you earn an MD. If you are pursuing *** career as an accountant, you would need *** CPA. What are you pursuing? If you want *** DB M to be *** vet, you want to be *** vet doctor of veterinary medicine? Good for you for 10 points. And finally, on the night of June 17th, 1972 police arrested five men who had broken into the headquarters of the Democratic National committee in what, Washington DC office and apartment complex Watergate. It was Watergate. Good for you for another 10 points. 1 20 to 60. Now, let's meet our two captains. So first from Central Dolphin, *** pleasure to welcome back Orion. Heller Orion. You were *** senior did really well in that first round of play and it's great to welcome you back. But besides studying and I'm sure you study regularly. You're *** busy man outside of school. Tell us about some of those activities. Yeah. Um I do *** bunch of stuff. I participate in the school band programs. So, you know, I obviously practice and do some of those things outside of school. I also am *** member of the school Science Olympiad team which has competitions like in different events based around science. And I'm also *** member of *** boy scout troop. Fantastic. Well, you're *** busy young man, Jack Litke is *** senior at Anvil Iona and you're the captain and it's great to have you back and uh you're um *** successful musician and you've had *** victory that you'd be willing to share with us. Yes. So recently, um Festival. There were auditions for um the district band and district chorus. So I made both um on percussion and on the tenor part. So those are coming up soon, the festivals are coming up soon. So I'm really excited to go and, you know, make music with other really talented musicians. No kidding. And they all come together and they coalesce together in one group. Uh So the school is really gonna miss you *** student like you and your dedication to the band. I'm sure. Well, Jack and o'ryan, let's put you to one on one. Earl Warren Warren Berger, William Rehnquist who is next in this series. Oran Marshall. No, not he sorry. Well, it's the current Supreme Court chief justice and that would be, of course, John Roberts, the book is called Spare and it is being sold as an account told with raw, unflinching honesty and filled with insight, revelation, self examination about the eternal power of love over grief, who is the author of this royal memoir. or Queen Elizabeth. I was like, no, sorry. Yeah, Prince Harry, Prince Harry is the correct answer. Good for you for 10 points. And finally, one is *** former Soviet Republic now *** member of the Commonwealth of independent States. The other is *** former confederate state. Now, *** member of the United States or Georgia, Georgia is the name that they share. Good for you. 1 30 to 70. We're not going to meet our final players in today's competition. So first from Central dolphin. *** pleasure to say hello. Once again to Connor o'neill, Connor. Welcome back. You are *** senior. You've got *** lot on your mind, schools, uh *** P and making decisions. So, what kind of goals do you have coming up for the next year? Um I mean, my main goal at this point is just to figure out what college I wanna go to. And do you have any ideas yet or any? I'm either R I T or at the moment, both? Fantastic. So, so obviously you're interested in the stem and the science and mathematics and engineering. Well, thank you very much for being here. Um Max Lika is *** junior and it's great to have you uh back here and you know, we all read *** lot, but there's uh one book that really stands out as perhaps one of your favorites. I really enjoyed the book, The Godfather. It's obviously more known for its movie, but I really enjoyed reading the book as well. It really gives more insight into *** great story. The movie can't really show it. It, it, it's so true and, but once you read the movie and then you see uh how well Coppola did with the movie, you can really appreciate what *** director can really do. Max and Conor, let's put you to one on one. The 2022 world Cup host was eliminated from the tournament after *** loss to Senegal o'connor Qatar Qatar. Yeah. Making it the host country, the earliest host country to be knocked out. Qatar is *** correct answer. They reached to the conformity. Uh They reacted sorry to the conformity of the 19 fifties with an unconventional lifestyle and an interest in jazz and Zen Buddhism. They included Gregory Corsa, Alan Ginsburg and Jack Hero. What were these writers called? Max? Sorry. Just, I'm gonna take that just in time. You're lucky. Beach Nicks or beats is correct for 10 points. And finally completed in 2013. 1. World Trade Center is the tallest building in the western hemisphere. By what nickname is this towering Tower call. it was built in your lifetime. The Freedom Tower 1 40 to 80 still *** strong lead for Central Dolphin. But everything can change. Now as we pick up the pace and place *** 62nd Lightning round Jack, your team is behind at this point but only by 60 points. So you will have the privilege or luxury of selecting first among these three quizzes. We have C Squared Chinese Checkers and double, double Yeah, C squared C squared. Here's *** quiz that covers the world from C to C for 10 points. Each identify these words that begin and end with the letter C Jack. I take your answer as the team's answer. Daniel and Max are ready to help you along 60 seconds on the clock, which will begin after I finish. Reading the first question. So good luck. And here we go. The volume of *** cube is measuring these kind of feat cubic. Cubic. Yes, this word can follow stand up and precede book and strip comedic comic acronym for this. Uh I'm sorry, it's someone who finds fault, especially with *** player movie, Yeah, that's correct. This describes *** series of circles with *** common center. Eccentric concentric, concentric. Yes, Russian um is written in this alphabet, Cyrillic, sorry. Uh This adjective refers to the heart. It can precede *** rest and muscle, cardiac, correct, persistent continual, especially when referring to *** medical condition. Chronic, chronic, chronic. Yes, *** car that's 25 years old or *** literary work of Ancient Greece or Rome classic. *** classic. Yes, *** superficial change of so or solution. Perhaps with lipstick or skin cream makeup cosmetic, an Ellipse and Parabola. Both of these kinds of geometric sections conic gets mysterious hidden or called written in secret code. cryptic while lead, disordered, unpredictable, jumbled, confused, chaotic. It describes Irish music in the Sea south of Ireland. Correct to us. Uh Celtic Sea was correct on there. Eight, correct, 80 points came your way. Is that *** break for you or? Well, we're gonna find out shortly with Chinese checkers and double, double double, double. If, uh, these answers sound like you're repeating yourself. You are for 10 points. Each identify these people places and things with double names or I take your answer as the team's answer. Caitlin and Connor 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 letters can precede bean and cool J L L. Correct. In basketball. It's 10 or more points plus 10 or more rebounds. double, triple, double, double Mr Bins in the Phantom Menace, ja ja. Correct year in which the Treaty of Versailles ended World War One. 1919. Correct. You won't need glasses if you have this kind of vision. 2020. Correct. *** small metal pellet used in Air rifles, Phoebe Correct year in which Franz Schubert composed his sixth symphony. 18 18. Correct. *** small cutter Bruiser Yogi bear's little buddy. Boo boo boo boo Mia and Sebastian live in this land in *** 2016 movie, La la la la Land. Yes, this anti art art movement flourished after world war one. Pass average run of the mill fair to Midley So, so, so, so yes, year in which Louis the 15th, granted *** charter to Louisiana 17 17. Correct. In human beings, this chromosome pair produces *** female X X X X s. Yes. *** year in which the Catholic church arrested Galileo to keep him from teaching. 15, 15, 16, 16. 11.11, correct? So 110 points came your way. 2 50 to 1 60. It's now time to reveal today's bonus Brainbusters category. During our break, our teams will wager 0 to 25 points based on their knowledge of facts and figures. Well, we'll have the bonus brain buster and of course, the all important final frenzy when W G *** L *** Brainbusters continues following 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 Brainbusters. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the second half of W G *** L *** Brainbusters competition between Central Dolphin and Anvil. We have *** good game going. Yes. Central Dolphin has *** lead right now, but everything can change because right now it's the pivotal round. The bonus brain buster. During our break, our teams wagered 0 to 25 points based on their knowledge of Fox figures. We're going to head into the news, *** newsroom with Jocelyn Howard she has today's question, Jocelyn, welcome to Brainbusters. Thanks rich. Now, here's your bonus brain buster. The flight distance between New York City and Los Angeles is 2475 miles. What two bodies are separated by an average distance of 90. Three million miles. Again, the flight distance between New York City and Los Angeles is 2475 miles. What two bodies are separated by an average distance of 93 million miles. Good luck with your answer. Now, back to studio *** rich, thank you Jo and good luck team. So we'll give you about five seconds. I like this question. OK. Pens are closed. OK? Or you should have two answers on your card. We always start with your side of the set. So if you would kindly show us the earth and the sun, you are correct. Good for you for *** 25 uh *** wager taking you to 2 75 Jack. Did you come up with the sun and the earth, the earth and the sun also 20 points *** little conservative, but that gives us *** great opportunity to head into the final frenzy. Now, with 20 point questions, pick up those signaling buttons. It's anybody's game beginning. Now in 1954. He became the first person to run *** mile in less than four minutes at an average speed of 50 MPH. Who is this English neurologist and runner we stumped you on Roger Banister drafted by *** man. You will say its 17 articles became the preamble of the French constitution. What was the 17 89 document Orion Declaration of rights of man and citizen. You are correct. Good for you. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1969 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1970 Mikhail Gorbachev restored his citizenship in 1990. Who is he? All right, again. So you are correct again. It's *** small rocky island in the Mediterranean about 40 miles west of Italy. It's the island Edmund Das escapes from in Alexander Duma. Daniel Malta. No, not Malta. Leave the question. For central dolphin. He escapes from in Alexander Dumas's novel, The Island. He claims to be count of what is it? Connor Monte Cristo, count of Monte Cristo is correct. He published the skeptical chemist In 1661 which introduced the first modern definition of an element. Who was this English scientist famous for his gas law or Robert. He's the one in nine, in 1839 African captives aboard *** Spanish slave ship escaped their chains, killed the crew and drifted to long island to be defended from the Supreme Court by former President John Quincy Adams. The name of that ship is the name of Steven Spielberg's 1997 movie. What is it? We sued you on great movie. Its strange name comes from the middle English word for free. What privilege allows *** legislature to send unlimited free mail to his or her constituents, It's called ranking. It's appropriate that about *** third of the genes in the human genome are active only in this part of the body. What part of the body is it or brain? It is the brain and Clement Moore's poem, *** visit from ST Nicholas. The names of two of Santa's Reindeer are the German words for thunder and light. Me. Name both of them Donner and Blitzen. Donner and Blitzen Donner is thunder. Blitzen and lightning is lightning. She appeared in Mallory's Mort to Arthur in Sir Gwa and Green Night and in Orlando, FSA Oran Gure. No, not she sorry. Who is the sorceress and sister to King Arthur That's more Ghana major battles in this European war from 16, 16 to 16, 46 included White Mountain and Jack. 30 years. 30 years. War is correct. And that takes us to the end of the round and to the end of the game boy, Central Dolphin would not let go of that lead and they are returning for round three, but we'll be back with some final words in just *** short moment or two. scorekeeping for W G *** L *** Brainbusters presented by Jennings College consulting where students discover the right college fit for the future will return. After this. Welcome back to W G *** L *** Brainbusters. The Susquehanna Valley's longest running high school quiz show. Once again, here's your host, Rich Rosen. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to studio *** Well, I hope you had as much fun as we did. Here, in the studio? What *** great game, great young people to meet. Congratulations, Central Dolphin. They are going to return for round three. We don't know who they're going to play, but we're going to find out on the next W G *** L *** brain busters. We're going to say goodbye to an Iona, but I know that they're happy because they're going home with the Turkey Hill ice cream coming up on the next W G *** L *** Brain Busters. We're welcoming back for *** second time. Trinity and Pen Manor. Now, both of these teams did extremely well in round one and we are expecting *** very competitive half hour. We do hope to have the pleasure of your company as well and we all thank you so much for spending part of your day with us and we hope to see you next time on W G *** L *** brainbusters so long for now,
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WGAL 8 Brain Busters episode 16: Central Dauphin vs Annville Cleona
Central Dauphin takes on Annville-Cleona on WGAL 8 Brain Busters.

Central Dauphin takes on Annville-Cleona on WGAL 8 Brain Busters.

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