[Music] [Applause] hello and welcome back to the arkansas governor's quiz bowl association state championships we are back here at the arkansas pbs studios for quiz bowl 2021 i'm dawn scott and so far today we've seen four of the slated seven matches and we've got more to come right now over at the university of central arkansas our teams are taking their places and they're getting final instructions for the 5a state championship featuring the high schools from morrilton and bologna let's turn now to our commentator bill davis and what can you tell us about this match bill a couple of words come to mind for me and one is experience moralton i think has been here more times than anyone if anyone's been here more than them it would be fort smith north side or perhaps benton but they've been here at one time i remember they were here nine years in a row the other thing i think about is balance both of these teams will be coached where you will see answers coming from almost every one of the players i'll be surprised if not all five of the contestants aren't answering so there's balance it's going to be an exciting game it'll move very very fast can't wait to watch it bill thanks so much it seems we're about ready to begin our match so let's meet the teams okay for moralton we have senior grace hendricks senior emery wilson senior daniel zhang and sophomore grail pruitt the captain is senior jackson brown and the substitute player is sophomore will mowbly brad parks is their coach and for valonia we have senior gabriel goodwin senior lucas yarborough junior john schultz and sophomore eric amold the captain is senior caitlin oldie and the substitutes include senior david adams senior matt goodwin junior sadie bomar and sophomore gabriel mclaughlin their coach is marilyn pond and assistant coaches melba coffin and we want to thank our volunteer judges today for giving their time they include melinda pitts nita wimberly barry burns vicki johnson carolyn schrei and sandra elliott is our scorekeeper we've met our competitors it is time now to turn it over to our quiz master steve patterson to find out who's going to be our 5a quiz bowl champion steve take it away thank you dawn it has been an exciting day here at arkansas pbs and we're excited now to see these 5a folks moralton versus velonia and here in just a few short minutes one of them will be crowned our 5a runner-up and one special group of young people will be our 5a state champion in quiz bowl 2021. so i wish both teams good luck we're going to go ahead and get started with our questions and here's our first toss-up for both teams based on the authors of first-hand experience of trench warfare in world war one all right jason i'm sorry i say it again anyway no um it realistically chronicles the hardships endured by a group of young german soldiers the most sensitive of whom is killed shortly before the armistice identify this 1929 novel by eric maria remark all right devalonia that's going to be eric all quiet on the western front you're right question number two an extremely stable ball-shaped carbon molecule whose structure looks like a geodesic dome named this substance which is believed to occur naturally in soot and was the first fullerene to be discovered okay the answer there was buckminster fullerene named after uh buckminster fuller of course all right question number three bo b.f skinner was one of the first researchers to use a training technique that involved presenting an animal with a reward at this same time that a lever was pushed over time the animal learned that the two things were connected all right that's going to be jackson opera conditioning jackson you're absolutely right and thank you for giving me a minute to get your name right all right uh question number four is going to be math computation all right here's the math we've got 20 seconds on the clock for you and it says this give the result of the expression the quantity x squared plus 24x plus 143 divided by the quantity x plus 13. all right grace quantity x plus 11 close quantity you are absolutely right grace thank you all right question number five what american fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science fiction genres created mars adventurer john carter and a jungle hero he named tarzan right that's going to be daniel kipling no our other team now the correct answer is edgar rice burroughs burroughs all right question number six researchers use these when testing new drugs giving them to some participants while others all right that's going to be eric placebo eric you could have gone one of two directions and placebo was the right way to go okay question number seven the sultan was given absolute authority over his people in this islamic-run superpower all right it looks like that's going to be grail ottoman empire yes good job grail number eight what word starting with the letter b it describes the parallel sides of a trapezoid okay caitlin aces basis is correct question number nine queen victoria said of his death in 1870 it is a very great loss he had the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes to what beloved victorian era novelist and social critic all right looks like eric is buzzed in dickens yes what term refers to the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one pound okay caitlin specific heat that's correct this national park is located in navajo and apache counties in northeastern arizona name this park known for its fossils especially those okay jackson petrified forest yes all right that takes us to question number 12. what lengthy piece of music usually having force and four movements is written for a full orchestra okay eric symphony yes what does the second derivative of a function tell you about the function all right that was a grace this concavity uh yes i'll accept that the function is concave up to that point would be the specific answer this russian novelist wrote the gambler ironically as a solution emery dostoyevsky yes which law states that the enthalpy change in a reaction is the same regardless of whether it takes place in a single step or a series of steps all right that is uh grace hess's law yes number 16. this military formation consisted of a block of heavily armed okay very quickly eric alex eric you're right math computation to celebrate that right answer all right here we go give the x comma y coordinates of the midpoint of a segment whose endpoints are negative 8 comma 7 and two comma fifteen uh grace negative three comma eleven yes right the constitution prohibits these kinds of laws which seek to retroactively okay that's eric all taxes no retroactively punished someone for a criminal act which was not a crime when it was committed what legal term meaning after the fact is used to describe it all right that's going to be daniel aftermath no it's x post facto all right a deep interest in wildlife from childhood led her to a long career jackson thank you all jackson is here for me again jane goodall no a long career with the u.s bureau of fisheries identify this pioneering environmentalist author of the sea around us who brought worldwide attention to environmental pollutants with their 1962 book silent spring okay that's uh caitlyn arson yes by 1904 russia and japan had endured several years of disputes over control of manchuria which eventually led to the russo-japanese war okay that's going to be jackson the treaty of portsmouth yes and that was the final question of round one jackson so good job all right now um coaches uh do we agree with our score a very tight game morrilton 90 and valonia 80. caitlin do you all agree with that score good jackson all right so what we need to know is are we going to make any substitutions at this point none for velonia and then for moralton all right that we're going to jump straight into round two where if you get a toss-up question right your team gets a chance at a five uh five-point bonuses there are four of those as you know all right so here's the first toss-up question for both schools he is one of the principal deities of hinduism and the supreme being of absolute truth in the hindu tradition name this deity known as the preserver all right that's eric vishnu eric you've won your team a bonus and uh caitlyn i'll take all my answers from you all right are you gathering your folks around you here okay we're good okay your bonus is called snakes snakes such a lovely subject okay identify the following snakes the venom of this snake the most poisonous in north america attacks the nervous system no this snake can produce enough venom to kill an elephant identify this snake the largest of all venomous snakes black mamba black mamba no this large semi-aquatic member of the boa family of tropical south america holds the record as the largest of all snakes anaconda yes this long venomous snake of africa is named for the color of the inside of its mouth rather than its scales black mamba yes so caitlin you got two of those correct the two that you did not get correct the venom of the snake the most poisonous in north america is the coral snake and the other one the largest of all the venomous snakes is the king cobra king cobra well we still have three bonus questions to go let's see if we can get it with this toss-up question for both schools ready what word starting with the letter d describes the portion of the quadratic formula within the radical all right that's going to be caitlyn discriminate caitlyn good job you have earned your team a bonus and let's find that question all right it's called world geography world geography identify the capitals of the following central and south american nations okay the first is suriname yes belize what is it answer please please okay say it again police city no costa rica answer please san juan no and el salvador that one is correct so once again two out of the four uh good job uh those are five points each so a total of ten uh now the ones you missed to belize is belmo pon and costa rica is san jose san jose all right we have two bonuses left let's see who can get this toss-up question to get the bonus according to a carl sandberg poem what atmospheric substance comes in on little cat feet and all right that's going to be jackson fog is correct all right jackson you've earned life science is your bonus category answer the following about plants are you ready jackson you ready okay vascular tissue that transports sap in plants yes vascular tissue that transports water and minerals in plants yes material that composes the cell walls of plants is it the vacuum it's not a material okay answer please no and growth response in plants caused by outside stimulus tropism yes and the one that you uh didn't get correct was cellulose cellulose all right we have one bonus left let's see if we can get it with this toss-up question this scottish chemist is known for work that produced um gabriel fleming no they produced a whole new group to the periodic table most frequently referred to as the noble gases name this man who won the 1904 nobel prize for chemistry all right grace granty yes so we are going to give you the fourth bonus and it's called american composers american composers all right name the composers of the following well-known american music musical classics rhapsody in blue yes appalachian spring andrew copeland yes god bless america [Music] no and you're a grand old flag berlin i don't know that one is george jim cohan god bless america was written by irving berlin all right now you have taken us out of around 2 unless there's a challenge over any of the bonus questions right now i show the scores being marlton 135 and velonia 120. so do we have any challenges caitlyn says no jackson says no okay then i'm going to read the three categories to you and valonia you'll have the first choice of our three categories and both schools will have one minute to decide which category they want all right the first one available to you is called scientific measure give the physical unit which is measured using the following s.i units world religions identified the individual who is recognized as the founder of the following world religions and the number three category is vice presidents identify the individual who served as vice president under the following presidents teams you have one minute to decide all right this match is taking off we've made it to the lightning round bill tell us what we can expect from this round as the students are making their decision well what we had expected at the beginning has come true have you noticed how many of these students are answering and it's not just a one-man team on either one all three of those that steve just read are categories that quiz bowl teams habitually study the s.i units the vice presidents so we'll see a lot of points come out of this particular round i might also interject that the 20 seconds that these students are given to solve these math questions they have to really be prepared for that because they have nothing but a pencil piece of paper and their mind and most of them are solving them without pencil and paper and the lightning round often determines the winner very very important round it will often flip it now we know that since velonia is behind they'll get the first choice if they can gain then these two teams will be very very close when they go into the 20s into the fourth quarter and there's 20 questions left in the fourth quarter that's 200 points but often the 62nd round determines the winner so let's watch real real close and see how they go i'm going to predict that one or both of these will run one of these 60 second rounds and they'll get a 20 point bonus well i can't wait to see and it looks like the students are making their decisions we want to go back to our quiz master steve well welcome back to our very exciting 5a state championship game we're here in the studios of arkansas pbs and we've had a great game so far and this lightning round is going to be another great time caitlyn i'm going to call upon you i don't know if she can hear me or not there she goes uh caitlin what uh topic did you all pick scientific measure scientific measure for velonia okay and jackson oh vice president vice president that's moralton now as you uh remember from playing at our uh regional and then the state level to get here today we're not really timing this as a 62nd round here at aetn we're giving you five seconds per question and just as we did at the regional and state and uh you have that opportunity now to answer but i need your answer within those five seconds okay caitlin we're gonna let you go first with your team uh are y'all gonna gather around again there they go all right you pick scientific measure and the descriptor for that says give the physical unit which is measured using the following s-i units are you ready ready all right here we go ampere electrical current yes candela light uh no hertz frequency yes kelvin temperature more specific temperature absolute temperature no becquerel answer please wait wait no uh kilogram mass mass yes meter length yes newton force yes pascal pressure yes second time yes all right i have that uh they got three uh pardon me uh eight out of the ten uh was for a total of eighty points for velonia now you had two that you weren't able to get and those don't bounce over this year uh so looks like we oh there were three jackson i see you holding up three uh candela was luminous intensity kelvin was thermodynamic temperature thermodynamic temperature and then the becquerel was radioactivity radioactivity all right now 70 points is a great score for the lightning round marlton you have a chance to do equally well or even better perhaps with your category called vice president jackson are you giving the answers here all right here we go it says to identify the individual who served as vice president under the following presidents calvin coolidge answered yes george herbert walker bush h w that's dan quill what answer quail yes gerald rudolph ford rockefeller answer rockefeller yes harrius truman parker answer barkley yes herbert clark hoover curtis you answered curtis yes james monroe clinton answered clinton no john adams jefferson jefferson yes lyndon baines johnson answer humphrey yes ronald wilson reagan h.w answer h w bush yes uh and theodore roosevelt fairbanks answer fairbanks yes very good i got that you got nine correct the one that uh was missed james monroe is daniel tompkins tompkins all right so total of 90 points for morrilton on that category good job both teams did quite well do we have any challenges over those yes who is saying yes walton okay jackson you all are going to challenge all right we'll allow them a chance to fill out their paperwork and to turn that in and while we do so we'll take a short break it looks like we have a challenge so bill what can you tell us about the protocol here what do these teams do well what happens is the coach will lodge a challenge that challenge has to be handled within five minutes that's that's what they but they also have to present proof it has to be substantial proof it can't be just somebody's word saying there's two answers uh team members at this time do not get involved uh a lot of this the research is from players students that we don't see on the camera that are researching this saying this should have been accepted or this should not have been accepted and in a match this close 10 points can make a difference i won't be surprised at all if this game is not determined by 10 points so the challenge is really important uh it it should not take up a lot of time it should the flow of the game should continue this being in this lightning round where they have to give it it's probably about what was how was something pronounced and the judges that are watching these games have to pay real close attention to pronunciation and the other thing is maybe somebody gave a partial answer steve's questions said you had to give this much but it's possible they may have proof that says wait a minute our answer was correct to a point all right well let's go find out the outcome of this we'll send things back over to our quizmaster steve we had a challenge first from valonia about the thermodynamic temperature and our judges have ruled that the chemistry book that they were presented said calvin is the unit for temperature didn't have the word thermodynamic with him and so they have awarded ten points to volonia uh which we have just done on the board and then there was a challenge uh by morrilton uh that um simply affirm the original challenge that was given so uh no points taken or denied on that challenge okay so at the end of three rounds of play a very good very tight game here from these great young people morrilton is leading the game after three of the four rounds they are at 225 and valonia is at 200 so a 25 point game with 200 points up for grabs that's the way that these games ought to go right there all right now jackson and caitlin i need to know do you plan to make any substitutions here before we start none none all right we're ready to go then with round four the final round of our 5a state championship for 2021. good luck to both teams here we go this term got its name from the inter room outside the chamber in which legislators vote on public bills what name is given to the group of individuals often paid uh that's going to be emory lobbyist you're right emery question 32 in what kind of symbiotic relationship does one organism derive benefit while causing little or no harm all right and that's going to be daniel mutualism no while causing little or no harm to the other all right that's going to be caitlyn symbiosis uh no it's communal commensalism commensalism all right of all the sports played in the united states which one has the highest paid athletes okay that is uh jackson no uh and derek mba yes john muir founded this organization in 1892 name this san francisco-based organization one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world which currently engages in lobbying politicians to promote environmentalist policies okay that turned out to be john sierra club yes good job uh marcel duchesne was the leader of what 20th century art movement that took its name from the french word for hobby horse okay uh katelyn phovison no okay daniel abstract no it is dadaism dadaism let's do a math computation if the volume of a given sphere is 100 cubic units what would the resultant volume be if the radius of the same sphere were doubled in length okay grace it would then be 800 cubic units that's correct a little drawn out but correct all right question number 37 after a prophecy is fulfilled one figure in this work asks can the devil speak true in which play do certain characters plot to murder king duncan after the okay emery yes this instrument is used for detecting or measuring small electric currents and or determining their strength name this instrument which measures the movements of a magnetic needle or a coil in a magnetic field okay that's eric ampometer no and that is emory polygraph no it's a gal it's a galvanometer galvanometer this river runs through hell's canyon and contains twin falls and shoshone falls name this river which is formed by runoff from utah nevada idaho and oregon with its biggest tributary being the columbia river okay jackson jackson you're right in roman catholic and protestant churches what christian festival commemorates the adoration of the infant jesus by the three wise men okay caitlin three king steak no who had come from the east okay jackson epiphany that's correct let's do a math computation all right what is the indefinite integral of the following function f prime of x equals 6x squared plus 2x plus 1 x all right that's going to be caitlyn 2x cubed plus x squared plus x plus you're right on the money number 42 this 1915 short novel includes the line his numerous legs which were pitifully thin okay daniel the metamorphosis yes question 43 these clouds are sometimes called mayor's tales because they resemble a horsetail with okay uh jackson yes this island nation formerly served as formosa uh formerly known as formosa excuse me uh and eric i won yes which korean martial art literally means the way of the foot and fist and taekwondo yes he helped introduce the federal style which dominated american architecture until 1820. name this american all right jackson frank lloyd wright no name this american-born architect who succeeded benjamin latrobe in 1818 as architect of the u.s capitol completing it in 1830. okay that's going to be eric alexis de tocqueville no it's charles bullfinch bullfinch math computation solve the following equation for x the quantity x squared minus 3x minus 10 divided by the quantity x squared minus 4 equals 5 8. okay uh grace x 10 yes a rolling stone gathers no bird in the hand and our dirty laundry is coming home to roost are examples of what grammatical mistake okay uh jackson misplaced modifier no okay eric um subject verbally now they are mixed metaphors mixed metaphors all right this german physicist was the first person to systematically produce and detect electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays name this man who um that is jackson yes it began as a national society but by the mid-1800s its activities were confined to new york city okay jackson no and it was primarily associated with the democratic party machinery of that city identify the society represented in political cartoons of the era by a tiger who's and that is going to be eric tammany hall eric you're absolutely right and that is the last question of the game all right so at the end of our 5a state championship game with a score of 260 villonia will be our 5a runner-up and morrilton will be the 5a state champion congratulations to both schools oh wow what a match congratulations there to morrilton and bill the match was really incredible it included challenges it was fast moving great great match i'm impressed with both teams they were both very well coached it was obvious and even though we had some delays in the game i noticed the students were remaining calm and they were remaining focused that also is a reflection of their good coaching both these teams are excellent teams excellent teams if you played again the two teams you couldn't predict the winner very smart kids at both morrilton and velonia bill thanks so much let's go back to the university of central arkansas for the awards presentation carolyn okay thank you don and let's now find out about our all tournament team for the 5a classification we have caleb kalpbrunner from whitehall grace hendricks over here from morrilton uh jackson brown from morrilton marin mcgilvery from little rock christian mason minden also from little rock christian jackson douglas of pulaski excuse me greene county tech uh george cook of pulaski academy caitlin old over here from bologna ella layton from valley view owen hayes from also from valley view sorry there no owen hayes sorry is whitehall uh and uh brett jones is the other one from valley view chris dye of magnolia um lily broadway of green county tech trevor daddy from whitehall kyle harvey from valley view maggie gal from valley view sam trout of magnolia alex bratton of little rock christian and no i didn't forget uh you hear eric emeld yes come on up you are our mvp all right now i guess we need to present some trophies for the teams and the second place trophy goes to bologna coming up right here come on up somebody to accept that congratulations to bologna making second place here and yes you will get a check it will be coming in the mail for real and our first place team now we want to come up magnolia i'm sorry not magnolia excuse me moralton it is an m word though and our coach here needs to come and get a trophy for his team for first place and they also will be getting a check in the mail and we now go back to dawn all right carolyn thank you congratulations again to morrilton and a big shout out to velonia there's a lot more action to come with arkansas governor's quiz bowl association state championships so stay right here with us up next is the 3a state championship featuring the high schools from mountain view and haas hall fayetteville we'll see you soon [Music] you