7O3X Fastest Finger First (ナナマル サンバツ)

Sekigawata Middle School Sekigawata High School

4 Schools Quiz Meet Round 2 begins at 13:00

Round 2 will begin at 1 p.m., after lunch.

To get to the convenience store, go out of the gate, turn right, and walk for 200 meters.

That's right... I need to go buy lunch...

Want to share my lunch with me?

Huh?!

I ended up with a little too much.

Koshiyama!

Do you want some, too, Inoue-kun?

Thank you!

I'm so happy I get to eat your homemade lunch, Fukami-san!

Actually, my mom made it. I only packed it.

I'm so happy!

Thank you for sharing.

I'm going to buy a drink and get some fresh air.

I hope he's not planning on cutting and running...

H-He wouldn't do that!

Fastest Finger First

Question 3: "If You Want the Right to Answer /"

What is quiz bowl, anyway?

Quiz bowl is a game known by everyone around the world.

Sasajima-senpai...

Reading a book of quiz questions? That's good.

Question collections like that include a lot of classics.

If I'd known it would be like this, I would've memorized them in advance.

If you don't know the question, you can't buzz in, right?

Disappointed to learn what it's all about?

Not so much disappointed... Just, well...

It's not what I expected quiz bowl to be.

It's true that if you only look at the classics, it seems less like quiz bowl

The fall paddy shacks have rough thatching as my sleeves are wet with dew Emperor Tenji

and more like the Hundred Poets game, where you grab the second verse based on the first.

as my sleeves are wet with dew

But there is one marked difference.

The classics aren't limited to 100.

They're constantly being updated, and there are different ways of asking them, too.

But...

Thousands of questions could potentially be regarded classics.

No one person can memorize them all.

But everyone else was buzzing early.

I don't think I can...

I don't know about that.

Competitions are a matter of chance.

They're fun because you never know what can happen.

There are those who can still buzz in without knowing the classics.

I expect a good showing in the next round.

Easy for him to say...

The second round will see the winners of Round 1 take part in a "fastest finger board."

Only three competitors will advance through to the final round!

Here are the rules. A "fastest finger board"

combines elements from the fastest finger quiz bowl and the board-style quiz bowl.

As in the "fastest finger" format, when a contestant knows an answer, they buzz.

At that point, the question will stop being read.

Then, instead of getting the contestant who buzzed to say the answer,

all six contestants write their answers on a whiteboard.

Right Answer

ht Answer

Wrong Answer

If the person who buzzed guesses correctly, they get three points.

ight Answer

Right Ans

Right Answer

Right A

Even those who didn't buzz can earn one point with a correct answer.

t Answer

Right Answer

nswer

wer

Wrong Answer

But if the one who buzzed guesses wrong, they lose three points.

Right Answer

Contestants who didn't buzz are not penalized for a wrong answer.

You'll have ten seconds to consider your answers.

So everyone has the right to answer, even if they don't buzz in?

Maybe I can do this, after all.

There will be 15 questions.

The three with the most points at the end will advance to the final.

Now, let's proceed with the buzzer test.

Good!

Round 2 will now begin!

Question.

Used in tying knots such as the clove hitch, the figure eight, and the Prusik knot,

what mountaineering rope—

Way to go, Fukami-san!

I know this one now.

Show your boards!

Seil

"Seil." All contestants are correct!

Damn Koshiyama... He's supposed to be a newbie!

Question.

Located in South Dakota, America, the four former presidents: Washington,

Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln are—

The four former presidents listed are...

The correct answer is Mount Rushmore.

Mount Rushmore

Sorry, you two from Sekigawata.

Question.

The first person to reach the South Pole was Norwegian explorer, Amundsen. But which—

Why did he buzz before the determining point?

Looks like Mikuriya's getting going.

Questions continuing from a connector like "while" or "and"

have some kind of connection to the first part,

but the question's asking something different, right?

Uemura Naomi

Scott

Peary

Peary

Scott

The correct answer is Peary!

Peary

The first person to reach the South Pole was Norwegian explorer, Amundsen.

But which American explorer was the first to reach the North Pole?

That's the question in full.

Oh, it was that one...

I thought it was asking who the second person to reach the South Pole was...

How did he know it would be about the North Pole?

Question.

The first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate was Minamoto no Yoritomo. But who—

Huh?

Seriously, dude. Too soon.

Nice going, question reader.

Show your boards!

Hojo Masako

Prince Morikumi

This means...

Hojo Tokimasa

Mikuriya-kun's correct!

Tokugawa Ieyasu

The question was,

"The first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate was Minamoto no Yoritomo.

But who was the first regent?"

I can't even read what Koshiyama wrote.

He wrote "Prince Morikumi."

He heard "first shogun," so he answered with the ninth and last shogun.

How did Mikuriya know that answer?

It's all about accentuation.

"Parallel questions" are a type of question in which a word given as a hint in the first half

is changed in the second half

to ask a different, but related, question.

But sometimes, the person reading the question

will actually emphasize the keyword as a hint.

Since he placed emphasis on "shogun,"

Mikuriya predicted that the second half would ask for "the first something."

The first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate was Minamoto no Yoritomo.

In parallel questions about officials in the Kamakura Shogunate,

The first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate was Minamoto no Yoritomo.

The first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate was Minamoto no Yoritomo. But who was the first regent?

it's common to pair a shogun with a regent.

He scares me, and I'm on his team.

And the way he shows no mercy to newbies shows his lack of maturity as a quizzer.

Not even letting the others hear the whole question

is just another tactic.

Question.

Beethoven's 3rd Symphony is titled "Eroica." Wh—

I couldn't hear the accentuation.

Did I miss it?

Beethoven's 3rd Symphony...

A different question connected to that...

If you think all questions connected by "and" are parallel, you're dead wrong.

The correct answer is Napoleon!

Napoleon

Huh?!

"Who does the title refer to?" was the question in full.

Only Mikuriya-kun guessed correctly!

I get it... That time, the info just prefaced the question.

That's why he didn't emphasize any particular word.

That wasn't the question I was expecting at all.

I can't predict what the questions are going to be...

It's no use! I can't make sense of any of these!

Maybe I should give everyone else a chance to get one right.

This kid next to me is getting even smaller.

His answers have all been really close, though...

Question.

Absent in the Spring is one of many romance novels by—

Absent in the Spring was written by Agatha Christie.

Wait...

Agatha

The question's actually given the title of the novel...

Of course! This must be the answer!

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Mary Westmacott

The correct answer is Agatha Christie.

No way! I was so sure!

He really is...

The question was, "Absent in the Spring is one of many romance novels

by the so-called mother of Hercule Poirot,

Mary Westmacott

a character created by which English mystery writer?"

For him to come up with Mary Westmacott so naturally...

"Mary Westmacott" was the pen name Christie used

when she wrote romance novels, so that readers wouldn't confuse them for mysteries.

Isn't that a correct answer too, then?

The question asked which mystery author created Poirot.

It is still judged as being incorrect.

What is this feeling?

I've never felt like this before.