HHQ 1/2

John Patrick Kruise

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00:00We deduct 10 points. Our opening round is called Start Smart. Start Smart. And no matter what your

00:06age, see if you can identify the following. All words or names that end with the letters A-G-E.

00:13Think age at the end. You'll do fine. Starting with this. This was the quality desired by the

00:18cowardly lion in Oz. Albert Gallatin. Courage. Courage, yes. This small city is actually the

00:26largest city in Alaska. Albert Gallatin. Anchorage. Right. This can be a French jet fighter or an

00:34illusion in the desert. North Allegheny. Mirage. Right. In As You Like It, Shakespeare wrote that

00:41all the world is? North Allegheny. State. Right. This city-state fought Rome in the Punic Wars.

00:50Albert Gallatin. Carthage. Carthage is right. Most homes are purchased with this type of

00:56continuing. Albert Gallatin. Mortgage. Monthly payment. Mortgage. Right. This point follows

01:01deuce in a tennis match. Shaler. Advantage. Advantage. Right. This word identifies the tubular

01:09body of an airplane. Shaler. Peaceful. Right. This type of tough connective tissue is found in your

01:16joints. Albert Gallatin. Cartilage. Also in your outer ear. Cartilage is right. And last question in the

01:22opening round. This vegetable is the main ingredient of coleslaw. Albert Gallatin. Cabbage. Right. And that's

01:28the end of our opening round. Westfield Insurance Hometown Hi-Q is brought to you by

01:35Westfield Insurance. Sharing knowledge. Building trust. Many thanks to Westfield Insurance which

01:42will award a total of $32,000 in grants to this season's top schools. Our team positions

01:48randomly assigned for this game of Hi-Q in the number one position. We welcome North Allegheny

01:52Senior High. Hello there and tell us about yourself. Nate. Hi, I'm Nate. I play cello in a string quartet

01:58and I love running cross country. Great. Kate. Hi, I'm Kate. I'm a senior at North Allegheny and

02:03I do math team and quiz bowl team. Very good. And Jill. Hi, my name is Jill. I'm a member

02:09of the

02:09National Honor Society, my school's concert choir, and I tutor through my school district's tutoring

02:16program. Very nice. Okay, North Allegheny, you can relax your buzzer thumbs. All the questions

02:21coming up here are for you and no penalty. So even if all you have is a guess and it's

02:25wrong,

02:26it doesn't hurt you in this round. It's the Hometown Hi-Q database. 20-point questions starting

02:31with this phrase on your monitor. Lads or. Now lads or lasses can earn 20 points here by rearranging

02:38these letters to identify what specific fin that rises from the back of a shark or other

02:44fish. Dorsal. Dorsal fin, right. Sensitive, agile, rude. Which one of these words would best

02:51describe someone who is nimble? Agile. Right. You'll win 20 points here if you can complete

02:58the last name of what British scientist noted for his theory of evolution. Darwin. Charles Darwin,

03:04right. In Shakespeare's play, Lady Macbeth keeps washing her clothes. This is one of those sentences

03:10that isn't quite right. But if you change one word, you can make the sentence correct. What

03:15one word would you change? Hands. Clothes. Change clothes to hands. Yes. I knew where you were going

03:23with that. You're right. Modern poetry, atomic energy, animal habitats. If Enrique Fermi were

03:29to reappear on today's scene, he might most appropriately be asked to lecture on which

03:34of these topics? Atomic energy. Right. And here's the last question in the round for N.A. It's

03:39a quote. Millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty. This description of the rebellious

03:45colonists was spoken in 1775 by what Virginian who also said, give me liberty or give me death?

03:53Patrick Henry. Nice job. North Allegheny. Good round. You have to 240 points. In the number

04:01two position, Shaler High School is here. Hello there. Tell us about yourself, David. My name

04:05is Dave Colarusa. I'm a sophomore at Shaler and I'm involved in baseball, French Honor Society,

04:10and multi-traveled. And you love to travel? Yeah. Oh, great. So do I. James. My name's Jim

04:16Kleppen. I'm a senior at Shaler area. I'm a member of the National Japanese Honor Society. I do

04:21track and field. I enjoy lifting weights. Well, then Kenichiwa to you, my friend. Julianne. Hi,

04:27I'm Julianne. I'm the captain of the girls lacrosse team. I'm a senior class officer and I'm a member

04:33of the National Honor Society. Great. Okay, here you go, Shaler. Your 20-point database question,

04:37starting with this phrase on your monitor. It's punk. To get rid of this punk phrase,

04:43rearrange the letters to name what first artificial satellite launched by the Russians in 1957.

04:50Sputnik. Right. Elation, regret, exhaustion. If you were filled with remorse, you would be feeling

04:57the effects of which of these? Regret. Yes. Gone with the blank, the blank in the willows. What same

05:04word would fit here to name literary works by Margaret Mitchell and Kenneth Graham? Wind.

05:09Gone with the wind. Wind in the willows. Right. The mythical Cerberus was a dog with three fleas.

05:15This is one of those sentences that needs a fix. What one word would you change?

05:19Fleas changes to heads. You got it. Two admirals, two railroads, two ex-presidents. It made headlines all over the

05:27country in 1869 when which of these met at Promontory Point, Utah after years of work and planning.

05:36Two railroads, completion of the transcontinental railroad. Right. Last question in the round for

05:41Shaler, a quote. In war, man, not weaponry, forms the decisive factor. This was the opinion of what 20th

05:49century Chinese leader who for years held the post of party chairman long after he had led the long march.

05:57Mao Zedong. Nice job. Shaler, good round. You're right there with North Allegheny, 240 points.

06:06And in the number three position from Fayette County, Albert Gallatin High School is here. Welcome and tell

06:11us about yourself, Nathan. Hello, my name is Nathan Gruden. I'm a senior at Albert Gallatin High School. I'm

06:19president of the student council. I play football. I throw for track and I participate in the school's

06:24musicals. Outstanding. And Leanne. Hi, I'm Leanne Rercow, a senior at Albert Gallatin High School.

06:30I participate in the Albert Gallatin Bible Club, the Brethren Youth in Christ, and I'm also a member

06:35of the Odyssey of the Mind team. Great. Nice to have you here. And Andy. Hi, my name is Andy

06:40Craig and I'm

06:41a senior at Albert Gallatin High School. I am involved in many organizations and clubs within my school

06:48and community, and I'm a thorough subscriber to the belief that it is through others that we grow

06:53and discover ourselves. How about that? Profound too. All right, very nice. Albert Gallatin, here come

06:58your 20-point database questions, starting with this phrase on your monitor. Glue. Pop. Now, European

07:05society came unglued during the 14th century epidemic of what disease, whose name is scrambled here,

07:11and it can be bubonic or pneumonic. Play. Right. Colorful, beautiful, fearful. Someone who is

07:19apprehensive would best be described by which of these adjectives? Fearful. Yes. Meter means to measure,

07:27and you can complete this word by filling in the blanks to name what scientific instrument that Torricelli

07:32invented to measure air pressure. Barometer. Right. Oscar Wilde wrote the play,

07:38the importance of being sincere. Yet another sentence that needs a fix. What one word would you

07:43change? Change sincere to earnest. That would do it. Importance of being earnest. Caracas, Lisbon,

07:50Havana. In February of 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded and sank in the harbor of which of these

07:57cities? Havana. Havana's right. Last question in the round for A.G. A quote, right but repulsive.

08:05One historian wrote this description of 17th century English Puritans who supported what leader who

08:10became Lord Protector of England? Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell is right. Good job. Albert Gallatin,

08:20you're up to 280 points. Everybody's doing well, but it's Gallatin in the lead. We'll take a break.

08:25More Hi-Q coming up right after this.

08:32So far this season, Westfield Insurance Hi-Q teams and audiences have donated 33 grocery bags of canned

08:39foods and dry goods to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Keep streaming. Hometown

08:45Hi-Q Classics continues in a moment only on CBS News Pittsburgh.

09:02We're back with more Hometown Hi-Q Classics on CBS News Pittsburgh.

09:12Welcome back to Hometown Hi-Q. We have a good game here. Three strong teams. Let's take a look at

09:16the scores. North Allegheny with 240 right now. Shaler right there with them at 240. And Albert

09:20Gallatin has the lead. They're at 280. In this round, all the questions are going to have to do with

09:24pictures in your monitors. These are 10-point questions. Once again, buzz in for a chance to

09:28answer. And remember, we take you up or down in this round. Every buzz brings a risk. It's the

09:33pics file. Starting with this. This painting was found on a wall of a villa at Pompeii,

09:40which was destroyed by what erupting volcano? Gallatin.

09:46Vesuvius. Erupted back in 79 AD. Mount Vesuvius is right. The La Heralda Tower is one of the

09:54landmarks of what Spanish city, whose fictional barber appears in several... North Allegheny.

09:59Seville. And several operas. Barbara of Seville, right. The title of this Van Gogh work refers to

10:05a wheat field with what raven-like... Albert Gallatin. Crows. Blackbirds that farmers traditionally

10:11try to frighten with straw figures. That's called crows in a wheat field, and you're right. Take a look

10:17at this now. What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to this line? Giving your answer as

10:24a fraction in lowest terms. North Allegheny. Two-thirds. Right. This is the Washington, D.C.

10:33residence of the ambassador of what Asian country, whose capital is Seoul? North Allegheny. South Korea.

10:40South Korea is right. President Johnson is seen here with what defense secretary? Albert Gallatin.

10:47Robert McNamara. Who discussed his role in the Vietnam War in a documentary called The Fog of War.

10:52Did you see that? Yeah. Yeah. Robert McNamara is right. This is the insignia of the Life Guards,

10:58a British unit that fought in what last major battle of the Napoleonic Wars in... Albert Gallatin.

11:05Waterloo. In 1815, it is Waterloo. And finally, in the PICS file. Since the mid-18th century,

11:11members of the Mandan tribe of Native Americans have lived mostly in what plain state, whose capital is

11:18Bismarck. Albert Gallatin. North Dakota. North Dakota is right. That's the end of the PICS file.

11:25And Albert Gallatin is building on its lead. More Hometown Haiku to come right after this. Don't go away.

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12:04All right. Welcome back to Haiku. We're going to say hello to our coaches here as we check our scores,

12:08starting with Albert Gallatin, which has the lead right now with 330 points. Leanne,

12:12please introduce us. Nathan is going to introduce her. Okay. Go ahead, Nathan.

12:16This is Marianne Hughes. She's our gifted director. She does a lot for our school. Last year,

12:21she led the Aussie of the Mond team and the academic league team to the states. Very good. So an

12:26impressive record comes with you here today. Shaler, 240 points. James. This is Hilary Dimancic. She's the

12:34gifted education teacher at our school. She's a very nice lady. Welcome to you. And North Allegheny has 270

12:41points, which puts you in second place. Kate. This is Bill Jordan. He's the gifted facilitator at our

12:47school. He also coaches the math team and the quiz bowl team. Excellent.

12:51Okay. Thanks to all the coaches for being here today and supporting their teams throughout our season.

12:54In this round, we mix things up just a little bit. Three packets here in front of me on the

12:58Quizmaster podium. And yes, I'm the only one who calls it that. These questions are filled. These

13:03packets are filled with questions on a variety of subjects, history, math, little science. You never

13:07know what's going to be in there. And we have each team to choose a packet for an opposing team.

13:12Shaler, one, two or three for North Allegheny. Three. Okay, NA, here you go. Eight questions coming at you,

13:1820 points apiece. Get them all right. We'll give you a 25-point bonus. It's the Hometown

13:23Hi-Q advantage round. We'll start you off with this. Although Galileo had invented one of these

13:31centuries earlier, in 1851, the U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for what viewing device used by

13:38astronomers? Telescope. Right. Despite historians' claims to the contrary, most Americans like to

13:45believe that what Philadelphia woman sewed the first American flag? Betsy Ross. Yes.

13:51If you were to visit the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, you would be in what country that's

13:56home to Nelson Mandela? South Africa. Yes. On your screen, science question.

14:03Electroscope. Geiger counter. Oscilloscope. Madame Curie used which of these devices to detect the

14:10presence of radioactive material? Geiger counter. It was an electroscope back in her day. That's what

14:16she used. Some newspaper editors stay aloof from politics, but what Italian editor became Italy's

14:22dictator in the period before and during World War II? Mussolini. Benito Mussolini, right. Were you to try

14:30and find Paradise Lost? You would look through the works of what British poet? John Milton. Right.

14:37On your screen, math question now. Take a look at this. Evaluate this expression where both X and Y equal

14:432. 10. It's 10. Here's the last question in the round for North Allegheny. In 1865, Spain renounced its

14:54colonial claim on what Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti?

15:01Dominican Republic. You got it. Good job. North Allegheny. Good advantage round for you. You're

15:05up to 410 points. Albert Gallatin, will it be one or two for Shaler? Two. They're going for two. Okay,

15:16Shaler, here you go. Eight questions. Get them all for a bonus. Starting with this for 20. You might expect

15:22to see joggers and runners in the Florida town that shares its name with what kind of race that's 26

15:27miles and 385 yards long? Marathon. Right. In the 1870s, a politician named Samuel Randall rewrote the

15:35governing rules for what body of Congress that now has 435 voting members? House of Representatives.

15:43U.S. House, right. In Poe's story, The Pit and the Pendulum, readers get not only a good horror

15:49tale, but also a history lesson about what cruel Spanish church tribunal.

15:56The Inquisition? You got it. On your screen, science question. Iron, zinc, magnesium. Which of

16:03these common metals has the lowest density?

16:11zinc? It's magnesium. Although the vice presidents, the vice presidency is the second highest office in

16:19the United States, John Calhoun gave it up in order to become senator from what home state?

16:26South Carolina. That's it.

16:27An atlas of fictional geographical locations might list what island that titles a Robert Louis Stevenson

16:34pirate novel?

16:39Treasure Island. Treasure Island is right. On your screen, math question.

16:43One base angle of this isosceles triangle equals 80 degrees. What is the size of the vertex angle in degrees?

16:5220. It's 20. Here's the last question in the round for Shaler. If King Mohammed VI invited you

16:58over for dinner, you would fly to Rabat, the capital of what North African country?

17:07Tunisia. The answer is Morocco. So Shaler, you're up to 360 points. Still in good shape.

17:15All right, Gallatin, here you go. Nobody's gotten a bonus yet. See if you can get all eight of these

17:19right. We'd be happy

17:20to bestow one upon you starting with this for 20 points. To sail the Great Lakes in alphabetical order,

17:27you would start with Lake Erie and you'd end on what lake that is also the largest? Lake Superior. Right.

17:33The Gadsden Purchase enabled the U.S. to create Arizona and what neighboring state whose capital is Santa Fe?

17:40New Mexico. Yes. What word that commonly means scared stiff also refers to organic material that has

17:48turned to stone like the trees in the Arizona forest. That's a major tourist attraction. Petrified.

17:54As in the petrified forest, right? On your screen science question, chemical activity, atomic number,

18:00atomic weight. The separation of uranium-235 from uranium-238 is made possible due to their difference

18:08in which of these? Atomic weight. Atomic weight is right. Though Richard the Lionhearted got most of

18:17the headlines, it was what royal brother of his who in 12-15 made real news by signing the Magna

18:24Carta.

18:30No harm for a guess if it's not right. Charlemagne. It's John. John I. The opening lines of Shakespeare's

18:37Macbeth are spoken by what specific number of witches? Three. Yes. On your screen math question,

18:43which of these three numbers is exactly divisible by seven? 91. It's 91. And here's the last question

18:55for Albert Gallatin. One stream that flows northward half the year and southward the other six months

19:02is the Tunle Sap, located in what Southeast Asian country whose capital is Phnom Penh?

19:12Cambodia. Cambodia. Cambodia, right. Good job. Albert Gallatin holding on to her lead,

19:16boosting their score for 470 points. One round to go. We'll get to that right after this. Don't go away.

19:22Keep streaming. Hometown Haiku Classics continues in a moment, only on CBS News Pittsburgh.

19:41We're back with more Hometown Haiku Classics on CBS News Pittsburgh.

19:51Okay, good game so far. We're just about to get into our final round here on Westfield Insurance,

19:55Hometown Haiku. Here's how.

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