Brain Game, Nov. 25: Chapel Hill High School vs. Research Triangle High School
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competing today are Chapel Hill High School and Research Triangle
High School
All right
H us all around with this bumps
Good job
Everybody on that for doing well there
That good check in there
Well hello everyone
It's time now for brain game
I'm your host Mark Roberts
Welcome to everyone and thanks so much for joining us
here at Wake Tech Scott Northern Campus
Uh Let's get started right away and meet the players
who are here today to play brain game
First up from Research Triangle High School we have Chris
Drove and Cora that is Research Triangle high school everyone
And from Chapel Hill High School we have Nathan Robert
and Abigail
That is Chapel Hill
Everyone
All right
Remember in brain game each team will have first crack
at three questions for each category
Correct answers in brain game earn you 20 points
Uh get it wrong
We take 20 away
If a team can't answer a question they can pass
So the other team should always be ready with a
response
Our players look ready to go today
So let's go ahead and jump into our first set
of questions here
We're starting today with pop up culture
Each correct answer will be the name of a celebrity
who shares a first or last name with a member
of the animal kingdom
All right sounds good to me
Let's begin with research triangle pop up culture people with
animal names
One of the most recognized and accomplished golfers in the
world shares a name with an endangered big cat
Who is he Our team's answer is Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is correct
Staying with research triangle an ambassador for research into Parkinson's
disease
He made his fame in the back to the future
series of movies
We know what he says
Our team's answer is Michael J Fox
That is correct
And last pop up culture for Research Triangle
She was a daily show correspondent and produced her own
show Full frontal
Who is this Canadian and political activist with an apiary
name Our team's s pass over to Chapel Hill
If you want to try that one our team's answer
is pass answer
There is Samantha Bee
All right we're sticking with Chapel Hill for pop up
culture famous on social media for not being recognized
He's probably the most famous skater of all time
Our team's answer is Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk is right
Staying with Chapel Hill
This rapper fits this category twice
His original and current name and the name he adopted
in 2012 when he became a Rastafarian
Our team's answer is pass over to research triangle
If you want to try that our team's answer is
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg is correct
And let's round this out Chapel Hill last pop up
culture
One of many basketball greats to wear
Number 33 he led the Boston Celtics to several championships
in the 19 eighties
Our team's answer is Larry Bird
Larry Bird is correct
Well good job players
It's time now for our next category
And that means an around the world journey for today's
edition of headliners
We'll need our players to be on top of current
events both foreign and domestic
We're covering states and nations in the news
All right we're gonna begin headliners with Research Triangle a
former ambassador to the UN and Governor of South Carolina
She's running for the Republican nomination for president
Who is this political figure Our team's answer is Nikki
Haley
Nikki Haley is right
All right
Sticking with Research Triangle for question two and headliners a
last minute 45 day federal spending bill avoided
What occurrence at the end of September
Uh I defer to Chris the debt ceiling
Ah that is incorrect
Chapel Hill our team's answer is a government shutdown
Government shutdown is correct
All right
Coming back to Research Triangle for your last headliners that
North Carolina legislature proposed a bill creating rural tourism districts
In order to allow the creation of what recreational gaming
sites our teams enter his pass over to Chapel Hill
Our team's answer is arcade answer we were looking for
There is casinos casinos
All right let's stay with Chapel Hill and do headliners
What former North Carolina Congressman and chief of staff to
former president Trump is under indictment in Georgia related to
the 2020 election
Our team's answer is pass over to research triangle
Our team's answers will pass answer there is Mark Meadows
All right
We're staying with Chapel Hill now in headliners a federal
office to prevent what phenomenon was created in September
Vice president Harris is the supervisor
Our team's answer is passed over the research triangle
Our team's answers also passed gun violence
The answer there
And let's do our last headliners with Chapel Hill
What country suffered devastating floods and loss of life after
the collapse of several dams
need something over there
Our team's answer is pass over to research triangle
Our team censors pass answer there is Libya
All right let's bring this whole thing back stateside if
we can now and head out on the highway for
our next category across America teams today
Each correct answer will be the name of a major
US city
Your questions will contain the interstate highways that serve the
city as well as other clues
So listen carefully here
Uh We'll begin research triangle across America across America with
Research triangle is the way to say that
All right I 20 will take you to Alabama I
75 to Ohio and I 285 will take you around
the city to Spaghetti Junction with I 85
What southern city is this Uh Our team's is Atlanta
Atlanta is right
All right
Staying with Research Triangle
40 will take you to Memphis or Albuquerque and 35
can take you to Dallas or Wichita 44 can take
you to Tulsa
What is this city Our team's answer is pass Chapel
Hill
Would you like to try Our team's answer is passed
All right Oklahoma City the one we're looking for there
and last across America for research triangle the 405 will
take you from the airport to Brentwood
The five will take you to Mexico and the 10
will take you to Santa Monica
What city is this Need something over their research triangle
Our team's answers pass over to Chapel Hill
Our team's answer is Los Angeles
Los Angeles is right
All right
We're doing across America with Chapel Hill
Now the 55 will take you south to Bloomington and
the 94 can take you to Kalamazoo or Milwaukee bypass
the city all together on the 294
What midwestern metropolis is this Chapel Hill Our team's answer
is Chicago
Chicago is right next one
The 90 will take you to Worchester and the 95
goes around this city altogether
On its way to Portsmouth
The 93 takes you down by the waterfront via the
big dig
Where is this Chapel Hill Our team's answer is pass
over a research triangle
Our team's answer is Boston
Boston is correct and we're rounding out across America with
Chapel Hill
495
Takes you around the city all together
295 will take you up into Maryland 395 and 66
will take you out to Virginia
What city is this Our team's answer is Washington DC
That is correct
All right
Uh Players you've made it safely off the highway
So good chip stop
Uh We'll take a rest stop
Now for today's show
When we return we'll give you an eye test with
word power plus some out of this world music and
arts and lit brain game
We'll be right back
Everyone
Welcome back to brain game
Everyone got a good one going on up here at
Wake Tech
After our first round of play
We have research triangle High School on the board at
100 Chapel Hill High School also on the board at
100
That is a tie
The host is determined at this time
All right players
Our next category is word power
It's a brain game
Eye test
Each correct answer will contain the word I that's eye
You'll also get the number of letters
So keep your eyes peeled and you can earn some
points here
Let's begin with research triangle
Again
Word power words containing the word I this seven letter
word describes an offensively unappealing object
Our team's answer is iso iso is correct
Question two
For Research Triangle
The testimony of these 10 letter people is often surprisingly
incorrect but courts still consider it to be the best
accounting of an event
Our teams eyewitness eyewitnesses rights and last word power for
Research Triangle
If you went to Paris you might get this six
letter word for seeing a lot
need something over their research triangle
Our team's answer is pass over to Chapel Hill a
question he loaded with
Our answer is Eiffel
Eiffel is correct
All right
Now we're doing word power with Chapel Hill
It's a chocolate and peanut butter candy as well as
the nickname for residents of Ohio
What is this seven letter tree Our team's answer is
Buckeye
Buckeye is correct
Uh Question two for Chapel Hill a wide angle lens
distorts images and is known by this seven letter term
for an animal body part
Our team's answer is fishy fish eye is right and
rounding out word power for Chapel Hill once containing antimony
and lead this eight letter makeup was applied to protect
the skin
Today
It is used to highlight especially if you're goth I
do
Our team's answer is eyeliner eyeliner is correct
You're not golf
You just knew that
So
All right
Well let's plan to see our teams and made it
through another set of questions
That's a good thing
Let's get on now to our next category arts and
literature where today we're touching on some of the classics
and some modern day page turners there's a lot of
ground to cover
So remember work together players that is always good advice
in life as well
We're going to begin uh arts and lit with research
triangle table for 13 and we all need to be
on the same side
Da Vinci imagined what seen from the book of Matthew
chapter 26
Our team's answer is Last Supper
The Last Supper is correct
And what There was a great description there
All right
Question two for Research Triangle and Arts and lit
Gustav Holtz also wrote a piece named for this planet
but Mozart Symphony 41 is the more famous one with
this nickname
What is this musical piece Our team's interest pass over
to Chapel Hill
If you would like to try our team's answer is
Jupiter
Jupiter is correct
And we're back for the Last Arts of Lit with
Research Triangle Piper Kerman autobiographical novel about her time in
prison shares its title with a popular Netflix series
What is this colorful title Our team's answer is orange
is the new Black
That is correct
All right
Now we're doing arts and lit with Chapel Hill before
the race was painted by what French impressionist who had
a horse painting phase after his dancer painting phase
Of course our team's answer is pass over to research
triangle High School
Our team's answer is matisse
Uh that is incorrect
The answer we're looking for there is Edgar Degas
We are staying with Chapel Hill in arts and lit
This American transcendentalist author thought of himself as an anarchist
who wrote civil disobedience and the more famous Walden
Our team's answer is Thoreau
Yes
Henry David Thoreau is right and last arts and lit
for Chapel Hill
Minnie is the gun toting heroine of the Girl of
the Golden West an old West opera written by what
composer of Madama Butterfly
Our team's answer is passed over to research triangle
If you'd like to take a shot at that
need something over there
Research trying his pass uh answer we're looking for there
is Puccini
All right
Well check out the game
We have no one here
It's great up here
Next on brain game
We're quizzing our players on famous checks
Then we'll crunch some numbers and head to science class
brain game will be right back
Everyone
Welcome back to brain game
Everyone got a great game going on up here right
now
Research Triangle High School is on the board with 160
Chapel Hill High School is on the board at 220
we have some substitutes that are now in the game
First of all for Research Triangle please welcome Sahel to
the game there
He is wave them to you
Welcome Sahel and we can cheer
Don't be shy there
All right
Now also coming into the game for Chapel Hill is
Justin
There is Justin an excellent hoodie and he's ready to
go
All right you go
Yeah don't be shy
You may applaud here
Great game
Ok
We got our checks of the score
Now let's get some actual checks in today's name game
All correct answers will be the name of some famous
Czechs people from what is now the Czech Republic Czech
Republic
All right
Uh We are starting name game famous Czechs with research
Triangle
Though this Duke of Bohemia was assassinated in 935 people
thought he was a good king and wrote a Christmas
song about him
Needs done to research Trel anything
Our team's answer is pass over to Chapel Hill
If you want to take a shot at that defer
that is correct
Good job over there
Good job
That's correct
All right
Back to Research Triangle for name Game
This author of the Trial and Metamorphosis was born in
Prague is Kafka
That is Franz
You are correct
And last name Game for Research Triangle
He was both the last president of Czechoslovakia and the
first president of the Czech Republic who was this playwright
associated with the Velvet Revolution
Our teams enter it pass over to Chapel Hill
If you want to try our team's answer is passed
the answer we're looking for
There was Vla Havel
Now we will do name game with Chapel Hill
She was a model a CEO and an author as
well as the first wife of the 45th president of
the US
Who is she Our team's answer is Melania Trump
Uh that is incorrect
Research
Strong
You want to try that
Our team's answer is Ivana Trump
Ivana Trump is the correct answer
All right going back to Chapel Hill
Now for name game she served on the National Security
Council was ambassador to the UN and was us Secretary
of State from 1997 to 2001
Who is this American diplomat Our team's answer is pass
research triangle
Our team's enters pass uh answer we're looking for there
Madeleine Albright and last name game for Chapel Hill
She is one of the greatest tennis players of all
time and has won more singles matches than any other
player
I need something over there at Chapel Hill
Our team's answer is pass over to research triangle
Um I defer to Chris Chris
That is incorrect
Martina Navratilova is the answer there
All right players have your pencils and scratch paper ready
It is time now for crunching numbers
They are on the ready
Those pencils are launching you now have twice as much
time to answer your questions
If you're still stumped then you can always pass to
the other team and let them have crack at it
So both teams should be working on an answer at
all times
So let's begin crunching numbers with research triangle
The area of circle A is 13 pi square units
and the length of BD is six units
How long is CD So
need something over there
Research triangle anything need something
Our team's answers pass over to Chapel Hill
Anything over there need something
Our team's answer is 10
Uh sorry
The answer there is four to that
All right coming back to Research Triangle determine the number
of real solutions of the equation two times X equals
two to the X power
Our team's answer is 22 is correct
And last crunching numbers for research triangle from XL MD
Xiivix and CV state
All that are Roman numeral representations of odd numbers
need something over there
Research triangle anything a lot of calculator
Our team's answer is pass over to Chapel Hill
Our team's answer is Xiix and CV
That is correct
11 9 and 105
You are right
OK
Now we're going over to Chapel Hill for crunching numbers
for Isosceles trapezoid ABC D with the base angles of
45 degrees
The length of the larger base is eight and the
leg length is route two
Calculate the area
need something Chapel Hill anything
Our team's answer is pass over to research triangle
If you would like to try need something you guys
anything
Our team's answer is past seven
The answer we're looking for
Now sticking with Chapel Hill and crunching numbers
The median of the set 8 1619 X 4661 is
21
What is the value of X Our team's answer is
20
Uh That is incorrect
Research triangle
Our team's answer is 23
Uh That is incorrect
The answer we're looking for there is 33
All right
Rounding out crunching numbers with Chapel Hill
Given that X plus three times X plus B equals
X squared plus CX plus 12
What is the value of C Our team's answer is
77 is correct
All right
Well good news players
You've made it through the always difficult math portion of
brain game
The host sometimes has trouble just reading the questions
Uh We're on to rocket science which means there are
only six questions left before the final round
We're testing you on multiple fields of science
So be sure to work together here players
All right as we segue to rocket science we're gonna
start with Research Triangle
What chemical process shown here is used to separate two
compounds with different boiling temperatures such as alcohols
Our team's answer is distillation
Distillation is correct
All right
Sticking with research triangle for question two and rocket science
what is the name for the location of the earth's
crust directly below the center of an earthquake on the
surface Our team's answer is epicenter epicenter is right
And last Rocket Science for research triangle what chemical substances
are composed of chains of amino acids
Our team's answer is proteins proteins is correct
All right
Now we're going to be rocket scientist with Chapel Hill
Power Plants often feature these hourglass shaped towers usually topped
by clouds
What is the purpose of these structures Our team's answer
is passed over the research triangle
Our team sensors nuclear cooling
Yeah that's yes
Cooling
Yeah
Yeah you're very that is correct
All right let's go back now to Chapel Hill for
more rocket science
The principal difference between smooth and rough surfaces for rolling
or sliding objects is the size of what force our
team's answer is friction friction is right
And last rocket science for Chapel Hill in humans it
can be classified using the Andre Walker typing system
Its presence is a defining characteristic of mammals and offers
protection coloration and touch sense
What is this Our team's answer is skin uh that
is incorrect research triangle
Our team sensors pass uh answer we're looking for
There is hair just trying to keep some up here
if I can
Uh All right we are globe trotting all the way
across the Atlantic to test our team's knowledge of geography
and classic rock
Brain game will be right back
Everyone
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fun past episodes during the break we adjusted the scores
The regular round of play ended with Research Triangle High
School at 300 points and Chapel Hill with 220 up
to 200 points are now on the table and it
all comes down to the all important final question of
today's game
Each team determined how much to risk on globe trotting
during the commercial break
Teams here is your final question
It's an island off the coast of Africa in the
Indian Ocean and a part of the part of Tanzania
What is the birthplace of Freddie Mercury Stay tuned
The final answer and the final scores when brain game
returns
Welcome back to brain game
Everyone
Let's get our team's answers to today's final question which
is it's an island off the coast of Africa in
the Indian Ocean and part of Tanzania
What is the birthplace of Freddie Mercury Let's go to
our teams
We'll start with Chapel Hill
Please tell us your answer
Our team's answer is Sanzar
That was correct
You risked 200 points that brings your game total to
420
All right
Now research triangle please tell us your answer to our
team's is Gibraltar that was incorrect
You risked 130 points that brings your game total to
170
So with that score of 420 Chapel Hill is today's
brain game winner
Everybody
How about that
Alright
That was a very good game
People
Very nice
All right good high fives all around
Congratulations to Chapel Hill
Please join us next week when East Chapel Hill High
School takes on Cardinal Gibbons High School
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