Daisuke!
Jinko!
The Regular Meet Thus Far
The regular meet thus far!
The second round was a barn burner!
Shiki-kun got paired up with Sonohara Akira-kun from Sekigawata Middle School,
and they stormed through to Round 3!
Not bad, considering he's Koshiyama!
But his pardner, Akira-kun, seemed a handful in so many ways...
Plus, we realized he was the guy we saw in Akiba dressed as a girl!
Round 3
We don't wanna miss Round 3, no way!
Question 10: "The Unparalleled Super Ace"
I'm sorry for the way he behaved in Round 2.
No, I should apologize for the trouble my foolish brother has caused.
We'd like you to refrain from such combative behavior from now on.
Is that a challenge?
Sonohara!
He's one energetic middle schooler, isn't he?
What's the problem, anyway? He didn't break any rules.
I kinda like that play style.
It's true that he didn't break any rules, but...
Yeah.
This is Kannami's club president, Hanabusa-san, a third-year,
and Shibuya-san, who's also a third-year.
They're Kannami's top two students and place high in the meet every year.
My club's members are very particular about etiquette.
The next time he takes things too far, we will make a complaint.
I see you Leoneil guys are as uptight as ever!
We just want to take this contest seriously.
Yokohama's Kannami and Chiba's Leoneil have always shared an intense rivalry.
Oh...
All of you lack discipline.
Whether that novice participates or not,
he's no match for Kaijou.
The guys from Kaijou somehow seem really intimidating...
Boy, you guys have a presence like no other team here.
Of the 18 players in Round 3,
six are from Kaijou.
Hmph. You reek of old man stench.
Are you really second-years?
Come on, not again!
That's enough baiting one another.
Settle this fair and square through quiz bowl.
We will now announce the groups for Round 3.
Winner
Final
Asagaoka Regular Meet
Stage Progression
The 18 participants in Round 3 have been divided
impartially into groups based on your paper quiz results.
Semifinal
Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada | Kawabata | Fukami | Yagi Ohkura | Ashiya | Shibuya | Shibata | Mikuriya | Koizumi | Koshiyama | Sonohara | Hirosue
3R Quarterfinal
We'll start with the first group,
so if you're in the second group, you can sit in the audience for now.
It may be impartial, but those are both pretty brutal groupings...
Sasajima.
Obviously, we'll be in separate groups, since we placed first and second.
I'll be waiting for you in the semifinal.
You're in the second group, aren't you?
So he'll be the one waiting.
Yeah. I look forward to it.
Wow...
This should be fun, huh?
You won't be able to do a thing.
You're not a quiz freak, after all.
Good luck in the first group!
Koshiyama.
Yes?
Watch closely.
The time has come.
Round 3, "All Who Draw the Sword Will Die by the Sword," will now begin.
Round 3
"All Who Draw the Sword Will Die by the Sword" Multiple Answers Quiz and Fastest Finger Board Quiz
Participants in the first group, please step up here.
From left to right, we have:
Buzou High School second-year, Sasajima-kun.
He beat out the prestigious Kaijou Academy with the top score on the paper quiz.
Sasajima, I still remember the day you joined our club very clearly.
Last spring, when Kaijou's quiz team was lauded as the champions of the east,
and the club's morale was starting to slip,
you blew in like the wind.
Perfect numbers.
Correct.
Question.
Japan's only desert, the Ura-sabaku, is—
Tokyo.
Q: Japan's only desert, the Ura-sabaku, is in which prefecture? A: Tokyo
Correct.
Ohkura's being totally out-buzzed by the rookie...
Don't you guys want to join in?
Ah, no, we'll pass.
President, I brought him.
Please don't waste my time.
I still have student council work to do.
Hey, don't be like that.
You can find time to meet our newest member, can't you?
Question.
With the atomic number 107, and sym—
Bohrium.
Correct.
Q: With the atomic number 107, and symbol Bh, which transuranium element is named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922? A: Bohrium
Who's he?
Sasajima Gakuto, a first-year.
He only started here in high school,
after coming in from a different middle school.
He obviously has some experience of quizzing.
Question.
"With great power comes great responsibility" is the lesson—
Sword of Damocles.
Q: "With great power comes great responsibility" is the lesson King Dionysus of Syracuse taught his retainer, Damocles, in what famous parable? A: Sword of Damocles
Correct.
Hey, Fukami joined in!
I haven't seen him press a buzzer in ages!
The two of you were perfectly matched.
From then on, you demonstrated your true abilities,
and produced stellar results in a number of meets.
And from Group A in Round 2, we have this duo:
Buzou High School first-year Fukami-san...
Good luck!
Yeah, you too!
...and Kannami High School first-year Yagi-san.
So after workin' together as a pair, now they're facin' off...
They're still so friendly, though.
These are the nine participants in the first group of Round 3.
I will now explain the rules.
Round 3 will combine the total scores
of a multiple answers quiz and a fastest finger board quiz with 20 questions.
You'll earn points toward your initial score for each correct answer
in the multiple answers portion, but if even one of your answers is incorrect,
you get zero points.
Man, that's strict!
So it's a bad idea to go all out.
We'll begin Round 3 with the multiple answers quiz to determine your initial scores.
You'll have 60 seconds to think about your answers.
Question.
Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting is The Last Supper.
List the names of the twelve apostles depicted in this painting.
Apostles.......?
"Apostles?"
Should've known a question like this would crop up.
You know this one?
It's a famous painting,
and those twelve people are fairly well-known.
I don't understand by what standards you consider that "well-known."
The painting illustrates the moment that Christ...
tells his twelve apostles that one of them will betray him.
The first one that springs to mind is the traitor, Judas.
The twelve apostles showed up in the Christianity-related questions
Sasajima-senpai came up with to prepare us for this meet.
Time's up.
Let's see your answers. Reveal your boards!
Michael Gabriel Raphael Uriel
Oh, too bad!
Those are angels, not apostles.
Aw, I should've known...
Next: Fukami-san.
Judas Peter James
Five points!
I did it, Sasajima-senpai!
Judas
Kawabata-kun gets one point.
Judas James
Kumada-kun, two points.
Hosokawa-kun, unfortunately, has two wrong answers, so that's zero points.
Judas Matthew
Mark John Luke
You're kidding!
Hanabusa-kun, painfully, also earns zero points!
Judas Luke Mark James
Matthew John Peter Paul
Don't say "painfully"!
Judas Matthew John Simon
James (Son of Alphaeus) James (Son of Zebedee) Peter Philip
Tozuka-kun, well done! Eight points!
Judas Iscariot Thaddeus Matthew
Konoe-kun earns six points, and Sasajima-kun...
Bartholomew James (Son of Alphaeus) James (Son of Zebedee) Andrew Judas Iscariot Peter
John Thomas Philip Matthew Thaddeus Simon
Excellent! A perfect answer!
He earns twelve points!
Sasajima-senpai!
Your team president's amazing.
Total
Multiple Answers
Now, you will enter the fastest finger board quiz with these initial scores.
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada | Kawabata | Fukami | Yagi
The crucial bit of the fastest finger board quiz is that...
...buzzing in with a correct answer earns you three points.
Answer incorrectly, and you lose three points.
Answering correctly without buzzing earns you one point.
An incorrect answer will not change your score.
Also, being the only player to answer correctly is worth a bonus point, right?
Yes. And the following is at the core of this round's rules:
If you buzz in and answer correctly,
you earn the right to alter the points earned by the other players.
Alter their points?
All three, or even four, of the points you earn for a correct answer
can be added to your own score or subtracted from another player's score at your discretion.
So you can add them all to your own score if you want?
Of course.
You can also keep two points for yourself and subtract one from another player.
Total
Multiple Answers
The first player to 20 points wins.
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada | Kawabata | Fukami | Yagi
If your score enters negative numbers, you are disqualified.
Three players from each group will advance to the semifinal.
What happens if we don't have three winners at the end of 20 questions?
The players with the highest scores will be declared the winners.
If there's a tie, we'll enter sudden death.
How they choose to distribute their own points will be crucial, for sure.
The fastest finger board quiz will now begin.
Question.
On this day, June 3, in 1950, Herzog—
The first to buzz was...
Oh, it was me?
Sasajima-senpai did say he always keeps a buzzer in his pocket,
but he buzzes from the hip during meets, too?
Players, please write down your answer.
You'll have 15 seconds to think.
Another date-based question... I'm glad I didn't buzz in.
Show your boards.
The correct answer is Annapurna.
Annapurna
Q: On this day, June 3, in 1950, Herzog led a French mountaineering expedition to reach the peak of which 8,000-meter-tall mountain? A. Annapurna
Sasajima-kun, since you buzzed in and answered correctly,
you can distribute your three points as you like.
I'll keep them all.
Sasajima
Total
Wow, he didn't subtract any from anyone.
He could've plunged some of those guys into negative figures and got them disqualified.
You just don't get it, do you?
Competitors with scores that far below his aren't even worth worrying about.
Rather than taking others out, he chose to win it quickly.
If he buzzes in and answers right two more times, he wins!
Once again, the first to buzz was Sasajima-kun.
Ice cream headache
The correct answer gives him three points.
I'll keep them all.
Total
Sasajima
Sasajima-kun buzzes in for the third time in a row!
Church of the Holy Cross
Correct! He earns three points!
That was fast!
That gives him 20 points!
Konoe-senpai's usually more aggressive on the buzzer.
Trying specifically to beat Sasajima to the buzzer would be the same
as buzzing reflexively, and likely to result in a wrong answer.
When up against someone you know is at a higher level than you,
sometimes, it's wisest to let them win first.
What's important is to end up in the top three.
Total
Multiple Answers
Sasajima-kun, how will you distribute your points?
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada | Kawabata | Fukami | Yagi
With three points, couldn't he just keep them, smash the 20-point barrier, and win?
He sure could.
He has one point left over.
I see.
So the person who buzzes in and answers correctly has the right
to use his points effectively, to the very last one, yes?
Exactly.
Does that mean he's forced to subtract a point from someone?
That's brutal...
He's already won.
What do the other guys' scores matter?
No, he said "to use them effectively."
The way he chooses to subtract a point will be significant.
Getting a point taken away by Sasajima now means...
...he could stop a specific person from going through!
It'll be someone he doesn't want to face in the next round.
In other words, someone he acknowledges as being a threat.
Then, I'll take a point from Tozuka-san of Leoneil.
Total
Multiple Answers
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa
Well, I can't fault you for that.
Sasajima
Total
Sasajima-kun has reached 20 points,
finishing in first place!
Congratulations!
Way to go, ex-Kaijou kid!
I can't see...
So it's true, then?
I wasn't certain before, but now...
Yep. He's the Sasajima Gakuto who was in our club up until last year.
He used to go to Kaijou?
He's the Sasajima that went to Kaijou?
The unparalleled super ace.
"Super ace"?
Did he really have to say that?
Huh? Did I say something I shouldn't have?
Silence, please. The competition is still ongoing.
I am now Sasajima of Buzou.
I'll continue with the questions.
Sasajima-senpai went to Kaijou?
The super ace of the quiz team?
Quiz bowl is pointless.
Fukami-san...
Please show your board.
Oh... Sorry.
I didn't even hear the question.
Sasajima-senpai, is it true?
That you were on Kaijou's quiz team?
Yes, I was. But only for six months.
But you still left your mark on the Kaijou quiz bowl team.
You hadn't told the members of your new club?
There was no opportunity, nor any need, to bring it up.
There wasn't?
The topic of Kaijou did come up a few times.
It wouldn't have seemed out of place to tell us then.
What now? I can't concentrate...
That Fukami girl... Is she Fukami Seiji's...
It seems so.
So you do know Fukami-san's brother?
Fukami and Sasajima were the best of rivals.
Huh?!
They competed against each other every day
to polish their skills in a battle to be Kaijou's star player.
The atmosphere when they faced each other was always volatile.
Stop making it sound so dramatic, Ohkura.
No, let me say it, Sasajima!
The day you joined our club
and you two faced off on the buzzers, I knew.
I knew you two would carry Kaijou's quiz team...
No, the entire world of high school quiz bowl.
But six months later,
something happened between you that only the two of you know about.
Then, you left Kaijou, and Fukami quit quiz bowl altogether.
What the heck happened?
Nothing, really.
All right! 20 points on the nose!
Human Beatbox
Hanabusa-kun of Kannami University High School goes through.
Total
Multiple Answers
Only one more player can join the winners.
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada | Kawabata | Fukami | Yagi
Do those two know the real reason my brother quit quiz bowl?
Being a part of quiz bowl has never felt like such a burden...
Fukami-san, look up!
Focus on the match!
Listen to the questions!
Damn straight! You're just gettin' started!
Question.
Hebrew for "God heal—
It lit up!
Can she get it from just that?
Yeah. We know this one.
I buzzed almost reflexively, but...
The questions Sasajima-senpai put together to prepare us
for this meet involved a lot of Christian topics.
Show your boards.
Messiah
The correct answer is Raphael.
Gabriel
Raphael
Manna
Fukami-san is the only one to answer correctly!
Q: Hebrew for "God heals," the Christian patron of travelers and the ailing, one of three Archangels along with Michael and Gabriel, was known by what name? A: Raphael
That gives you a bonus point, for a total of four points.
I did it!
She did it!
I'm curious about my brother's past,
but that has nothing to do with my own quiz bowl career!
This is my first regular meet,
and I'm up against so many players.
A lot of them are really good.
There have been questions I've never heard before, too.
Fukami-san, how will you distribute your points?
This is all a waste if I don't enjoy it.
I'll keep two for myself,
and subtract one each from Konoe-san and Tozuka-san.
What?!
She subtracted points!
She took points from the two who were on the verge
of making it to the next round if they scored three points on the next question.
Total
Multiple Answers
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada | Kawabata | Fukami | Yagi
Fukami-san hasn't given up yet!
Maririn...
Question.
Of the 88 constellations in the night sky,
the one that covers the largest area is Hydra, and—
He beat me to it...
This one's a parallel question,
and "largest" was emphasized in the reading.
Crux
Show your boards.
Scorpio
Virgo
Crux
The correct answer is Crux.
Q: The one that covers the largest area is Hydra, and the one that covers the smallest area is what? A: Crux
Well done!
Fukami
Question.
Continents of the world: The "cradle of humankind"—
"The cradle of humankind..."
Humanity's roots...
I don't know the answer,
but if it's one of the seven continents...
Show your boards.
Africa
The correct answer is Africa.
Q: Continents of the world: The "cradle of humankind" is a nickname for which continent? A: Africa
A nickname, huh?
Fukami
Question.
When an umpire has difficulty making a call,
he covers his eyes with both hands—
Yes!
Why is she suddenly...
Show your boards.
Badminton
Correct. Fukami-san earns three points.
Q: When an umpire has difficulty making a call, he covers his eyes with both hands in a signal meaning "I couldn't see what happened," a trademark of what sport in which players hit a shuttlecock to each other? A: Badminton
Fukami
The final player to win from the first group in Round 3 is...
Total
Multiple Answers
Sasajima | Konoe | Tozuka | Hanabusa | Hosokawa | Kumada
Konoe-kun!
With those three points, he reclaims the lead from Tozuka-kun and goes through!
Yes!
Come to think of it, there was a time
when a girl took part in the Kaijou Festival quiz meet.
She said she started quiz bowl because of her older brother.
That was before you came to Kaijou.
Congrats, Marippe! You did great!
That rally toward the end was incredible!
You almost had it.
Yeah.
I lost, though.
Ba-dum!
You damn normies!
We will now move on to the second group in Round 3.
Participants, please take to the stage.
Finally...
I was getting sick of waiting.
It's time.
Good luck, Koshiyama!
Go get 'em!
Yeah.
It's finally time, huh, Koshiyama-kun?
If we weren't at Asagaoka,
I would've been up against Yukicchi.
I wonder if Sasajima-senpai has anyone like that.
I wonder if my brother did...
President, bad news!
Sonohara-kun is missing!
What?!
His stuff's gone, too!
There.
I apologize for the wait.
We're still missing a contestant, but let's get started anyway.
The second group is now entering the fray.
Welcome, students of Mrs. Green Apple High School!
Hi!
We're here today to present a question to the quiz master!
Oh, really? Let's hear it!
Here we go! Question!
The "apple" included in the name of our high school...
...is from which family of fruit?
Rosaceae!
Ding ding ding! That's a quiz master for you!
Yes! I got it right!
Try asking your friends that question tomorrow, everyone!
And check out "On My Mind"!