>> Join us tonight as Hall High School goes up against Frontier Regional School, the historic 65th season of Western New England's award winning high school quiz show continues tonight.

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I'm your host, Beth Ward, once again.

High schools from throughout our region are going head to head in qualifying matches to see who can score enough points to finish in the top eight and compete in the season's championship tournament.

In tonight's matchup, we have Hall High School going up against Frontier Regional School.

Let's meet the teams starting with Frontier Regional coached by Stacey Chappell.

>> Hi, my name is Isla Vernon and I'm a senior at Frontier Regional.

>> Hi, I'm Wesley Evans and I'm a freshman from Frontier Regional.

>> Hi, I'm Leo Vickery and I'm a senior at Frontier Regional High School.

>> Hi, I'm Preston Evans and I am a junior at Frontier Regional, and I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge our alternate Henry Rafael.

>> And for Hall High School, coached by Jim Crabb and Christina Hunter.

>> My name is Rebecca and I'm a senior at Hall High School.

>> Hi, my name is Molly Bloom.

I'm a junior at Hall High School.

>> Hi, I'm Sophie Barnes and I'm a junior at Hall High School.

>> I'm Kate Graydon and I'm a senior at Hall High School.

And we'd like to acknowledge our alternate, Rachel Simmons.

>> Let's take a moment to look at our current top eight standings.

You can see, hey, last week Pope Francis made it in at 315.

They are currently at number four.

Score to beat tonight 280.

So let's get to it.

We start off each match with the challenge round.

Both teams will have a chance to buzz in and answer questions for ten points each.

Good luck to both teams.

Here we go with the first question of the evening.

Baffin Island is the largest island that is part of what Western Hemisphere country Hall.

>> Canada.

>> Yes, Canada is right.

What mythological nickname is given to the Calcaneal tendon.

Hall.

>> Oh, I don't know.

>> All right.

Hall didn't get that in time.

So frontier regional, that automatically gives you the chance to answer the question.

>> Achilles heel.

>> Yes.

Achilles tendon.

Achilles heel.

Spell the US state whose capital city is Richmond.

Hall High School.

>> VIRGINIA.

>> Yes, that's right.

Which of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity.

Relativity states that the laws of physics are the same for all Non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant.

Hall.

>> E equals mc squared.

>> I'm sorry, that is incorrect.

Frontier regional.

That gives you the chance to answer.

>> Did they say theory of relativity?

>> That is the special theory of relativity is what we're looking for there.

The Western Front Battle of Verdun was fought during which 20th century War hall, high school.

>> World War One.

>> Yes.

That's right.

The novel Jane Eyre follows the experiences of Jane from childhood to adulthood and her love for Mr.

Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.

Which author wrote Jane Eyre?

What hall?

>> Jane Austen?

>> I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Let me finish the question.

Was it Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte or Jane Austen or at Frontier Regional?

Can you answer the question?

>> Charlotte Bronte?

>> Yes, Charlotte Bronte is the right answer.

What do we call two angles whose measures add up to 90 degrees?

Hall.

>> Supplemental.

No.

>> I'm sorry, I have to take the first answer that I hear.

All right.

Regional.

Can you answer.

>> Complimentary.

>> Complimentary?

Yes.

Tough break for Hall, but let's move on with the next one.

Lima is to Peru as what city is to Japan Hall, Tokyo?

Yes.

That's correct.

Name the Winter Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Frontier.

>> Um.

Nordic special.

>> I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Good guess though.

>> Hunting?

>> Not quite.

Correct answer is biathlon.

Let's move on and try this question.

While earth only has one moon, which planet in the solar system has only two moons?

Hall.

>> Venus.

>> I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

Frontier.

Regional.

Can you answer the question?

>> Mars.

>> In the texting world, ROFL is an abbreviation.

For what?

Frontier.

>> Um.

Roll.

Rolling on the.

>> Floor.

I'm sorry.

Time is up.

All right, Hall High school, can you answer the question?

>> Rolling on the floor.

Laughing.

>> Yes, that is correct.

Nice.

If you had a Lamborghini, would you live in it?

Drive it or eat it?

>> Hall would drive it.

>> What mathematical property allows you to change the order of multiplication, such as hall commutative property?

Which of the following Asian countries does not border Israel?

Is it Jordan, Iran or Syria?

Hall.

>> Iran.

>> Yes, Iran is correct.

Listen to this literary line.

You don't know about me without.

You have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

But that ain't no matter.

It's from the book of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

By what author.

Hall.

>> Hemingway.

>> I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

Frontier.

Regional.

Can you answer Mark Twain?

Mark Twain yes, that's right.

This board game is played on an eight by eight grid, similar to a chess board.

Each player starts with 12 round disks placed on dark squares.

>> Hall checkers?

>> Yes, checkers is right in the medical world.

Diastolic and systolic are terms referring to what?

Organ frontier?

>> The uterus.

>> I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

Hall high school.

That gives you the chance to answer.

Kidney is the heart.

Let's move on.

Joseph and Jack Montgolfier were credited with inventing the hot air balloon.

Was this invented in the 1600s, 1700s or 1800s?

Hall.

>> 1800s.

>> I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Frontier.

Regional.

Can you answer.

>> 1600s?

>> It's actually the 1700s.

1783.

Name the capital city of the state of Ohio.

Hall.

>> Columbus.

>> What is the slope of any horizontal line?

Hall.

>> MM.

>> I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Frontier.

Regional.

Can you answer?

>> Y2Y minus y1 over x2 minus x1.

>> Actually, the answer is simply zero.

And that marks the end of our challenge round.

Let's take a moment now to meet the team from Frontier Regional School.

>> Hi, I'm Mackenzie from Westfield State University.

We asked the team from Frontier Regional what something students are way more capable of than adults think.

>> I think adults underestimate students ability to ask their own questions.

>> I think that we are extremely capable at recognizing when we have bad ideas and still following through with them anyway.

>> I think students are more capable of learning about current events than adults think.

>> Students are more capable of having in-depth discussions and making reasonable compromises than adults give us credit for.

>> Let's move on now to the first lightning round of the match.

Each team will have a chance to buzz in and answer questions for five points each.

Buzz.

In answer correctly, you win five points.

Answer incorrectly.

Your team loses five points.

Well, it's time to face off in this lightning round.

Each answer ends with the letters A, c, e. You have 90s starting right now.

Synonym for a hug.

Frontier.

>> Embrace.

>> Communication over computer networks occurs here.

Hall.

>> Interface.

>> Cyberspace is the right answer.

Synonym for anywhere.

Frontier.

>> Any place.

>> Yes.

Any place is right.

You might heat your house with this hall.

>> Furnace.

>> Furnace is correct to bring shame or discredit on someone.

Hall.

>> Disgrace.

>> Disgrace is right.

To rub out or remove.

Frontier.

>> Erase.

>> Efface is the right answer.

There.

A barely detectable amount of a chemical trace.

It's what the S stands for in the acronym NASA frontier space.

Space is right.

An example is the Kentucky Derby Hall race.

Horse race is the right answer to remove from a position or office.

Hall.

Replace, replace or displace is correct the location where you were born.

Hall.

>> Birthplace.

>> Birthplace is right.

Pick up your running speed.

Also known as this Hall pace.

Pace is right.

A program which enables two computers to communicate.

>> Frontier interface.

>> Yes.

Interface is right.

Ease and suppleness of movement.

>> Frontier ease.

>> Grace is the right answer.

You might use this irritant chemical to disable an attacker frontier.

Got that?

In time.

>> Mace.

>> Mace.

Yes.

That's right.

And that marks the end of our first lightning round.

Time now for our capitalization round.

That's where teams get the chance to pick a category and a point value.

They'll need to answer a qualifying question first before they can continue on for points.

Now, if they fail to answer that qualifying question correctly, their opponents will have the opportunity to capitalize and get those points.

At the moment, frontier you are behind.

That also means you get the very first opportunity to pick a category and a point value.

What's it going to be?

>> General knowledge for 30, please.

>> General knowledge for 30.

Here's your qualifying question, which is a video question.

So please take a look at your screen.

>> Hi, I'm Russ Pyotr, former General Manager of GB.

With your qualifying question.

The Stone age is subdivided into three periods based on technological and societal changes.

The earliest period of the Stone age was marked by the use of simple tools and a minimally structured society of hunter gatherers to qualify.

What is the name of the earliest period of the Stone age?

>> I'm sorry.

Time is up.

All right.

Hall High school, can you capitalize Neolithic?

The answer is Paleolithic.

All right, let's move on with Hall High School.

First time of the evening to please pick a category and a point value.

>> Arts and entertainment for 30.

>> Arts and entertainment for 30 to qualify.

Take a look at your screen.

This 2023 musical fantasy film stars Timothée Chalamet in a musical prequel to the storyline of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

Name this movie.

>> Wonka.

>> Yes, simply Wonka.

That is correct.

Let's move on in this category.

More movies from the year 2023.

For ten points each, take a look at your screen first.

Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi are wrapped to our warped.

That is, to the magical Mushroom Kingdom, and Mario must team up with Princess Peach, toad, and Donkey Kong to save Luigi from the evil Bowser.

What was the full title of this movie?

>> Super Mario Brothers?

>> Yes.

That's right.

All right, here's the next one.

This 2023 fifth and final Indiana Jones movie was a sequel to the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal skull.

The title of the 2023 film was Indiana Jones and the What.

>> Dial of Destiny?

>> Yes.

That's right.

And finally, these two characters are having the time of their lives in their colorful and seemingly perfect world.

However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Name this 2023 movie Barbie.

Barbie.

All right, frontier, once again, it's your turn.

>> Literature for 30, please.

>> Literature for 30.

Here's your qualifying question.

The Tell-Tale heart, The Gold Bug and The Mystery of Marie Roget are all short stories by what 19th century American author.

>> Edgar Allan Poe.

>> Yes, that's right.

Let's move on.

Here are plot summaries for three of Edgar Allan Poe's more familiar tales.

These are for ten points each.

Here's the first one.

The narrator of this classic tale seeks revenge upon a man named Fortunato by taking advantage of his ego and luring him down into the recesses of an underground vault to taste a rare wine.

Name this story.

>> The Cask of.

>> Amontillado.

>> Amontillado?

>> Yes, that is correct.

Nice teamwork.

All right, let's move on.

In this category.

In an attempt to separate themselves from a horrible plague which has killed half the population of his kingdom.

Prince Prospero and a thousand people from the knights and royalty seal themselves off in an extensive castle named the story.

The Masque of the Red death is that name.

And finally, try this one considered a foundational work of the genre and featuring Poe's recurring detective, C Auguste Dupin.

The plot of this short story involves the theft of a compromising letter from a queen, which the police failed to find.

Name the story.

>> The red letter.

>> Good guess.

However, the correct answer is the purloined letter.

Good job on the other one.

So.

All right.

Hall High school, once again.

Your turn.

>> World events for 30.

>> World events for 30.

Your qualifying question.

You have picked the Westfield State University entrance exam question.

Answer the qualifier and all the category questions correctly.

Your team wins an additional ten points.

All right.

Here we go.

Take a look at your screen.

What 20th century year was Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated to serve his first term as US president?

Was it 1943, 1953 or 1963?

>> 1953.

>> 53?

Yes.

That's right.

Keep the year 1953 in mind.

All name an event from general history.

You tell me whether it occurred before, during or after the year 1953 for ten points each.

Take a look at your screen first.

The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution.

Limiting the number of terms a president may serve is ratified.

>> Before.

>> Before.

Yes, 1951.

Tried this one Alan Shepard.

Alan Shepard, that is becomes the first United States astronaut to fly in space.

After after 1961.

And finally, the nation of Israel is proclaimed.

>> Before.

Before.

>> Before.

Yes, 1948.

Very nice job.

You got all the answers correctly.

So that means your team wins an additional ten points for winning the Westfield State University entrance exam.

Question.

Congratulations to you.

Let's move on now with frontier.

Once again, please pick a category and a point.

>> Value math and Science for 30, please.

>> Math and science for 30.

Here's your qualifying question.

Converted to radian.

Measure what is 30 degrees.

I'm sorry.

Time is up.

Right.

High school.

Can you capitalize.

>> Pi over six?

>> Yes.

Pi over six.

That is correct.

Staying with conversions to radian measure.

These are for ten points each.

First, what is 120 degrees converted to radians.

>> Pi over three.

>> The correct answer is two.

Pi over three.

Let's try this one.

What is 270 degrees converted to radians.

>> Three pi divided by two.

>> That is correct.

All right.

Finally, let's try this.

What is seven pi over six radians converted to degrees.

>> 210 degrees.

>> Yes.

That's correct.

All right, let's move on once again.

Hull High School, it's your turn.

>> Social studies for 30.

>> Social studies for 30.

Here's your qualifying question.

Take a look at your screen.

We'll show you the outline of the country and name the capital city.

You tell me the name of the country.

Rabat.

>> Western Sahara.

>> I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

Frontier.

Regional.

Can you capitalize?

>> Morocco.

>> More with African capitals for 15 points each.

Take a look at your screen first.

Same idea.

>> Tunisia.

>> Yes.

Tunisia.

And finally.

Mogadishu.

>> Somalia.

>> Let's move on with frontier.

Please pick a category and a point value.

>> Arts and entertainment for 25, please.

>> Arts and entertainment for 25.

To qualify.

What sport is featured in all of the following films Space Jam A New Legacy.

Air and rise.

>> Basketball.

>> Sticking with sports films, what sport is central to each of these movies?

For ten points each?

First, a classic from 1989.

Field of Dreams.

>> Baseball.

>> How about the 2002 movie Bend It Like Beckham?

>> Soccer.

>> Soccer is correct.

And finally, this one's for five points.

The 2009 movie The Blind Side.

>> Basketball.

>> Football was the blind side.

Good job on the other ones.

All right.

Hall High School once again, please pick a category and a point value.

>> World events for 25.

>> World events for 25 to qualify.

Take a look at your screen.

Once again.

Though he died before completing the journey, this Portuguese navigator is credited to be the first man to circumnavigate the globe.

Name him.

>> Ferdinand.

>> Please be more specific.

>> Um.

>> I'm sorry.

Time is up.

All right.

Regional.

Can you capitalize?

>> Magellan.

>> Ferdinand.

Magellan.

Yes.

Tough break for Hall.

You were so close.

But let's move on.

Frontier in this category.

More on famous explorers for ten points each.

Take a look at your screen first.

This Venetian merchants travel log book of the marvels of the world, described to early 14th century Europeans the wealth and great size of China and its capital, Peking, as well as other Asian cities and countries.

Name him.

>> Marco Polo.

>> Yes.

That's right.

The Americas were generally thought to be named after this Italian explorer, after he demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts, as was initially thought from Columbus's voyages.

Name him.

>> Americano.

>> Repeat, please.

>> Americano.

>> Correct answer is Amerigo Vespucci.

That was very close.

And finally, this one's for five points, according to legend.

What gnaws man discovered North America 500 years before Columbus.

>> Leif Erikson.

>> Yes.

That's right.

Okay, frontier, once again, your turn.

>> General knowledge for 25.

>> General knowledge for 25.

To qualify.

The city of Springfield serves as the county seat for what Massachusetts County is at Franklin, Hampshire, or Hampden.

>> Hampden County, Hampden County.

>> Yes, that's right.

Continuing on now with Massachusetts County seats.

I'll name a Massachusetts city or town.

You tell me which county it is in for five points each.

Here's the first one.

Pittsfield.

>> Berkshire.

>> Berkshire is right.

>> Franklin.

>> Franklin County.

Yes.

How about Northampton?

>> Hampshire.

>> Hampshire County is correct.

>> North shore.

>> Good.

Good guess.

Suffolk County is the right answer there.

And finally, how about Worcester?

>> Worcester County.

>> Yes.

That's right.

And that marks the end of our capitalization round.

Let's take a moment now to meet the team from Hall High School.

>> Hi, I'm McKenzie from Westfield State University.

We asked the team from Hall High what advice would you give the next generation of high school students?

>> One piece of advice I would give to the next generation of high school students is that it's never too late to make new friends.

>> Learn what tasks you can outsource to AI, and learn what tasks you don't want to outsource to AI.

I would tell them to use their textbook and especially study with the practice problems from their textbook.

>> Don't just take hard classes for the sake of doing it.

Take hard classes and things you're actually interested in.

>> Let's move on now to the final lightning round of the match.

Each team will have a chance to buzz in and answer questions for five points each.

Buzz.

In answer correctly, you win five points.

Answer incorrectly.

Your team loses five points.

Hopefully this round will take minimum effort.

The answer to each question in this lightning round is a word that begins and ends with the letter M. You have 90s starting right now.

The greatest quantity available.

Frontier.

>> Maximum.

>> Maximum.

A place to view objects of lasting interest.

>> Frontier Museum.

>> Museum is correct.

Device used to send computer data over phone lines.

>> Hall modem.

>> Modem is the right answer.

The halfway point of a semester frontier midterm.

Midterm is right.

Some mothers are called this hall.

>> Mom.

>> Mom is right.

The force that allows something to grow stronger as time passes.

>> Hall momentum.

>> Momentum is correct.

Lunar light ray, as seen on earth Hall.

>> Moonbeam.

>> Moonbeam is correct.

The property of attracting certain metals.

>> Frontier magnetism.

>> Yes.

That's correct.

Fungus shaped like an umbrella hall mushroom.

It's between large and small.

>> Medium.

>> Medium is right.

Sign of identity formed by the combined initials of a name.

Monogram is the right answer.

A stone building for entombment of the dead hall.

Mausoleum is the right answer.

One who adheres to the teachings of Islam.

Frontier.

>> Muslim.

>> A system used to produce a particular result.

Hall.

Medium mechanism is the right answer.

There.

A colorful flower usually seen in Autumn gardens hall.

Mum, mum.

Yes, that's right, just under the buzzer.

But that bell marks the end of our last lightning round.

It also marks the end of our match.

We had a great match up tonight.

I want to say to Frontier Regional strong work.

You really picked it up in the capitalization round and the lightning round.

Good job to you.

Tonight's winner.

Hall High School.

Congratulations on a job well done.

Really a fun match tonight to see this season's roster.

And for more information, be sure to log on to our web page@nepm.org or you can look for us on Facebook and Instagram.

I'm your host, Beth Ward.

Good night.

And be sure to tune in again next time as schools match wits.

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