Brain Game, Dec. 2: East Chapel Hill High School vs. Cardinal Gibbons High School

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Wake Tech Community College get your crania in gear

It's time to play brain games competing today are Cardinal

Gibbons High School and East Chapel Hill High School

This one by the end I'll write to MGI

I'll ride East Chapel Hill

Fair enough

Good difference

Well all right

Well hello and welcome to Brain Game

I'm your host Mark Roberts

Welcome to our enthusiastic group that has joined us here

at W Tech at the Scott Northern W campus

Let's get started and meet the players who have come

here today to play Brain Game

First up from East Chapel Hill High School are defending

brain game champions

We have Vicky Malcolm and Liam

That is East Chapel Hill High School everyone

And from Cardinal Gibbs High School here in Raleigh we

have Oscar Elena and Danny

That is Cardinal Gibbs

Everyone

All right lively audience

That's great

All right

Remember in brain game each team will have first crack

at three questions for each category

Correct answers score you 20 points incorrect answers lose your

total 20

If a team can't answer on a question they can

pass

So the other team should always be ready with their

response

Let's get this game rolling

Now with our first set of questions why wait in

today's pop up culture

We're looking at rings while staying away from the jewelry

store players

Each correct answer will be the number of rings associated

with a popular logo brand or institution

So let's start this round of pop up culture with

East Chapel Hill

The circus is generally built around how many rings

uh our interests pass uh that goes over to Cardinal

Gibbons

O team's answer is three

Yes a three ring circus

You got it

All right

Sticking with East Chapel Hill pop up culture Shang Chi

and Iron Man both fought a shadowy terrorist organization represented

by this many rings

Our team's answer is seven

That is incorrect

Cardinal Gibbons

Our team's answer is 1010 is right

All right

Last pop up culture for East Chapel Hill Drive an

Audi and you'll see their logo showing this many interlocking

rings

Our team's answer is 44 is correct

Now we're doing pop up culture with Cardinal Gibbons

The Olympic logo features how many different colored rings representing

the continents

The team's answer is seven

that is incorrect East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is 55 is correct

Now back to Cardinal Gibbons for pop up culture Michael

Jordan is known for having this many rings for his

NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls

O teams is 66 is right

And last pop up culture for Cardinal Gibbons

A 2019 Ariana Grande hit interpolating a song from the

sound of music refers to this Many Rings 077 is

correct

It is time now for our next category but in

great and pop up culture

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 happening across the country

Be sure to listen carefully for the clues again

This is headliners and we're going to start off with

East Chapel Hill

This California Congressman is the first speaker of the House

of Representatives who have been removed from office during a

legislative session

Who is he Our team's answer is Kevin mccarthy

That is correct

All right we're sticking with these Chapel Hill for headliners

Sean Fain is the head of what national organization whose

workers went on strike in September

Our team's answer is the United Auto Workers United Auto

Workers is correct

And last headliners for East Chapel Hill since June of

2023 the US Supreme Court has twice rejected what state

proposed congressional maps due to racial gerrymandering

Our team's answer is the state of Alabama

Alabama is right

All right

Now we're gonna segue over to headliners with Cardinal Gibbons

What Harvard graduate and businessman from Ohio is seeking the

Republican nomination for president

Ok's answer is fake

Ramaswami

You got it

The vague Ramaswami you got it there

You're good

All right

Sticking with Cardinal Gibbons for headliners

What technology firm is being investigated by Congress for having

a monopoly

o team

Santos pass over to East Chapel Hill if you want

to try our team's answers pass Google the answer we're

looking for

And last headliners for Cardinal Gibbs what state's governor instituted

an emergency ban on public carrying of guns due to

safety concerns

No team's answer this pass over to East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is Maine

That's incorrect

New Mexico

The answer we're looking for good job James

We're off to a good starting pace

But uh let's move on to our next category now

today and across America we're looking for us cities that

share their names with something in the animal kingdom

All right going back to East Chapel Hill doing across

America City's name for animals located on the shore of

Lake Erie

This New York City also has an association with chicken

Our team to answer is Buffalo

Buffalo is right

Uh Sticking with East Chapel Hill

This Colorado City is the entrance to a namesake National

Park known for very large bones and footprints

Our team's answer is dinosaur

Dinosaur is right and last across America for East Chapel

Hill

A little version of this Montana City's name is where

General Custer made a grave error

The nearby river is named for the sheep

Our team's answers Bighorn

Bighorn is right now going over to Cardinal Gibbons for

your across America

This small town in Dare County swells with summer visitors

It's between Kitty Hawk and Corolla

Our team's answer is pass over to East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is pass

Uh you guys will own beach property later

Duck is the answer there

All right

Uh This is we're sticking now with Cardinal Gibbons

The animal part of this Tennessee City's name comes from

a river not a bird

Dollywood isn't far

Team's answers over to East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is Pigeon forge

Pigeon

Forge is the right deal

And last across America for Cardinal Gibbons

Big bear is in California

But this city on an island of the same name

off the south coast of Alaska shares its name with

a really big bear

Our team's answer is pass over to East Chapel Hill

If you want to try our team's answer is also

pass

Kodiak is the bear that we were looking for

In that case players are scrolling away points like you're

getting ready to hibernate but sleeping during the show is

not good

Bring game strategy at all there

So let's take a break

Instead when we come back we will test your knowledge

of courtroom terms

We will be right back with word power

Everyone

Yeah

Welcome back to brain game

Everyone

After the first round of play we have East Chapel

Hill High School on the board at 140 Cardinal Gibbons

right in there at 80 points

It is time now to find out how well our

players can do at filling in the blanks in today's

word power

We're headed to court

Each correct answer will a word associated with courtrooms

It's time to find out which teams might have some

future lawyers on their roster

So we're going to start over in East Chapel Hill

with word power

The name that usually comes first in a case title

This nine letter word is the entity that brings the

case against another

Our team's answer is the prosecution

That is incorrect

Cardinal Gibbons you wanna try that

os pass plaintiff the answer we're looking for

All right back with East Chapel Hill

This 10 letter word is the formal accusation of a

crime

It's required by the fifth amendment to the constitution

Our team's answer is passed over to Cardinal Gibbons

Ote's answer is indictment

Indictment is right and last word power for East Chapel

Hill

The formal reading of the charges against the defendant whether

they plead or not is known by this 11 letter

word

The team's answers pass over to Cardinal Gibbons

In this our answer we're looking for

There is arraignment arraignments ok We are now doing word

power with Cardinal Gibbons

Lawyers can shop for this to try to get a

more receptive audience

What is the five letter word for where a case

is held Need something over there Cardinals to Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is pass venue change of venue what

we're looking for

All right back with Cardinal Gibbons

Mark told me the defendant said it is not usually

acceptable as evidence as it is this seven letter word

for out of court statements

Ote's answer is Houston hearsay is right

And last word power for Cardinal Gibbons when the outcome

of a case isn't favorable

A plaintiff can try this six letter action involving a

higher court

O teams enter his appeal

Appeal is right

Well we got through that one and uh no one

threw the book at me

So let's call it a win and go on to

the next category in arts and literature

We've got a little bit of everything

So be sure to work with your teammates

That's always good advice and pull your knowledge to earn

points here players

All right

Again arts and literature is the topic we are starting

with East Chapel Hill

The subject of this painting is the artist's late wife

Camille

Later

He would rent a house at GNI and paint its

extensive gardens

Who's he Our team's answer is passed over to Cardinal

Gibbons

O teams answers pass

That is a Monet

All right we're sticking with arts and literature

Sticking with East Chapel Hill

The open end of these instruments are formed by beating

what family of instruments is named for the alloy commonly

used in making them

Our team's answer is Brass

That is correct

And last arts and literature for East Chapel Hill Jazz

and Paradise are the other two novels in a trilogy

named for her most famous work beloved

Who is this pre eminent black author Our team's answer

is Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is the one

All right

We're doing arts and lit with Cardinal Gibbons

It's no secret that she became Empress of India in

1876

In addition to her existing duties over Ireland and the

UK who is the second longest reigning English monarch

ox pass over to East Chapel Hill

Uh Our teams dance is Queen Victoria

Victoria is correct

All right

Sticking with Cardinal Gibbons in arts and literature

In 2010 L A art dealer Tatiana Khan sold a

fake sketch entitled Woman in a Blue hat that she

claimed was created by what 20th century Spaniard

Picasso

That is right at last art and lit for Cardinal

Gibbons

It begins with a statement that is answered sometimes in

another key and it uses counterpoint in multiple voices

What is this type of composition made especially famous by

Bach

to answer this fugue

Fugue is correct

All right good job

When brain game returns we're heading into the garage to

play name game

We'll be right back

Everyone

Welcome back to playing game

Everyone got a great one going on up here at

Wake Tech

After the second round of play

We have East Chapel Hill High School on the board

with 180 Cardinal Gibbons on the board with 180

The host is determined that is a tie

All right we have a substitute joining us for Cardinal

Gibbons

Please welcome Grayson to the game

Everybody

Grayson is in now an expert on many topics

There you go

Ok

We are gonna jump right now

Everyone into name game where today players each correct answer

will be the make of a car named after a

person

We might only know them as a vehicle brand now

but that wasn't always the case

So we'll begin name game cars named for people with

East Chapel Hill James Bond's car of choice has two

names a hill near the factory and the Englishman who

founded it

Our team's answer is pass over to Cardinal Gibbons

Our team's answer is Aston Martin Aston Martin is correct

What Bond that is correct

All right

Now we're going back to East Chapel Hill founded by

a Scottish immigrant

This brand is part of General Motors and has a

tri shield logo

Our team's answer is Buick Buick is right

This high end GM brand is named for the French

explorer who founded Detroit

What is his name East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is Cadillac

Cadillac is right

All right

Now we're doing name game with Cardinal Gibbons

The founder of this Japanese brand spells his name with

ad rather than the t in its current name but

it sounds the same

O team's answer this pass over to East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is Toyota

Toyota is right now

We're back with Cardinal Gibbons

The company formed by these two brothers was sold to

Chrysler after their untimely deaths

Famous models are the Charger and Ram pickups

Like I've said that before Dodge

Dodge is right

And a final name game for Cardinal Gibbons

What Swiss inventor founded this GM car brand better known

by a shorter version of its French sounding name

O team's answer is Chevy Chevy Chevrolet

You are correct

They know their cars players have your pencils and scratch

paper ready

It is time now for crunching numbers 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 a crack at

it

So students pay attention and be ready to be a

human calculator

All right we're going to start crunching numbers with East

Chapel Hill median of the set

59 12 X 3143 is 15

What is the value of X Our team's answer is

1818 is correct

Sticking with East Chapel Hill

Given that X plus seven times X plus B equals

X squared plus CX plus 63

What is the value of C Our team's answer is

1616 is correct

And last crunching numbers for East Chapel Hill in circle

ABC is 12 units long and CD is five units

long in terms of pie

What is the circumference Just

our team's answer is 13 P

Somebody's good at math over there

13 pie is correct

All right we're sliding at you got a fist bump

there for that

All right

Sliding over to Cardinal Gibbons for the equation X equals

X to the fifth power

How many distinct real solutions are there

need something Cardinal Gibbons

Anything to answer this too That is incorrect

East Chapel Hill

Our team's answer is one that is incorrect

The answer we're looking for there is three

All right

Sticking with Cardinal Gibbons from XL MD Xiix and CV

State

All that are Roman numeral representations of numbers that are

multiples of three need something over there

Cardinal Gibbons

Anything

O team's answer is three

Uh that is incorrect

Uh East Chapel Hill our team's answers pass

All right

The answer we're looking for there is MD IX and

CV

And those translate to 1509 and 105

All right

Final crunching numbers

Question for Cardinal Gibbons for Isosceles trapezoid ABC D with

base angles of 45 degrees

The length of the larger base is 11 and the

leg length is route two

Calculate the area

Our teams answer this pass over to East Chapel Hill

If you wanna take a try at this our team's

answer is 12

Uh That is incorrect

The answer we're looking for there is 10 we're moving

on now

Now we're on to rocket science which means there are

only six questions left before the final round

We're covering biology physics astronomy and more best of luck

in this to all of our players

Of course

All right we're going to begin rocket science with East

Chapel Hill

These are the guts of a quadruple MS a type

of spectrometer that separates chemical species by what characteristic our

team's answer is mass mass is correct

Sticking with East Chapel Hill for rocket science

What infrared Space telescope is the new hotness launched in

2021 and named for a controversial NASA administrator

Our team's answer is the James Webb Space telescope

Nice job

Yeah

Web would have worked but you got them all there

Malcolm

Good job

All right

And uh last rocket science for East Chapel Hill water

vapor that freezes slowly in the atmosphere and then falls

to the ground is known as what kind of precipitation

Our team's answer is snow snow is correct

All right

Now Cardinal Gibbons you are the rocket scientist

Now by what name is the droop or fruit of

the palm tree shown here

Known

team's answer is a coconut

Coconut is correct

All right

Sticking with Cardinal Gibbons in rocket science here

The heaviest chemical element known is organic sun found in

group 18

What is its atomic number 0 118

That is correct

And last rocket science for Cardinal Gibbons

What is the term for the salt content of a

body of water

O team's answer is Sele Soli is right

All right

We got some rocket science

Its very good 48 questions down

Just one more to go

We're globe trotting across the pond to see how much

our players know about Europe

The final question when brain game returns everyone

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Final scores and to watch past episodes our regular round

of play ended with East Chapel Hill on the board

at 320 points and Cardinal Gibbons with 260 up to

200 points are now on the table and it all

comes down to our game's all important

Final question

Each team determined how much to risk on globe trotting

during the commercial break

Teams

Here is your final question known by its German name

Danzig until 1945

It was the birthplace of the solidarity movement in 1980

What is Poland's largest port Stay tuned

The final answer and the final scores when brain game

returns

Welcome back to brain game

Everyone

Let's get one more

Look at today's final question known by its German name

Danzig until 1945

It was the birthplace of the solidarity movement in 1980

What is Poland's largest port Let's go to our teams

Cardinal Gibbons

Please tell us your answer

Ote's answer is no answer

Uh That was incorrect

You risked 200 points that brings your game total to

60

Let's go over now to East Chapel Hill

Please tell us your answer

Um Our team's answer was Gdansk

Uh That is correct and well pronunciate as well

You risked 150 points

That brings your game total to 470

So with that final score of 470 East Chapel Hill

is today's great game winner everyone

How about that All right nice job everyone

Congratulations to East Chapel Hill

Great job out there today

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takes on Lee early college

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