BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King simply secured a spot within the semifinals on the NBC recreation present “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King on the set of “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King compete in opposition to Penn State on NBC’s “School Bowl.” Steve Swisher, NBC
Brigham Younger College simply received one step nearer to claiming its first “School Bowl” trophy.
On Friday evening, BYU college students Ben Potter, Frani King and Craig Walker performed their third recreation on the trivia recreation present “School Bowl,” going in opposition to Penn State College for a spot within the semifinals.
What occurred in the course of the BYU vs. Penn State recreation on ‘School Bowl’?
The Cougars had momentum going into their match in opposition to Penn State, having not too long ago claimed a thrilling victory in opposition to Notre Dame within the quarterfinals.
The primary spherical of the sport, referred to as the Kickoff, started with the three BYU college students displaying off their information of Greek and Roman Mythology: “Naiads, who preside over lakes and rivers, and Dryads, who maintain dominion over forests and bushes, belong to what class of minor Greek deities?”
BYU got here up with the proper response: nymphs. “School Bowl” host Peyton Manning then confirmed the scholars a sculpture of Hercules battling a Learnean monster and requested for the identify of the monster. That one went to Penn State — Hydra — however the BYU college students received again on the board once they have been proven a vase portray and accurately recognized the monster the Athenian hero Theseus was killing: the minotaur.
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King on the set of “School Bowl.”
Steve Swisher, NBC
Following the mythology class, each BYU and Penn State every swept a class. The Cougars opted to play the class “On a mission for diet,” and accurately answered the next three questions (all solutions might be discovered on the backside of the article):
- “What leafy inexperienced that features the Tuscan or curly varieties is taken into account probably the most nutrient-dense meals you possibly can eat?”
- “Present in colourful vegetables and fruit, beta-carotene, Vitamin C and Vitamin E are what kind of substance that protects cells from injury attributable to free radicals?”
- “Doubtlessly inflicting muscle weak spot and an irregular coronary heart rhythm, hypokalemia is a deficiency of what important mineral?”
Penn State then went on to brush the class “The 2020s,” answering the next three questions:
- “A 2020 Author’s Guild of America Award went to the “Subsequent Moviefilm” of what Sacha Baron Cohen character?
- “When the chief of Cuba’s Communist Celebration resigned in 2021, it ended greater than six a long time in energy by brothers with what final identify?”
- “In 2021, what pastor made historical past as the primary African American to characterize Georgia within the U.S.?”
On the finish of the Kickoff spherical, the place every query is value 10 factors, BYU had 50 factors — a slight, 10-point lead over Penn State.
Then it was time for the two-minute drill, the place groups are tasked with attempting to accurately reply as many questions as doable in two minutes.
That is actually the place BYU got here to life.
BYU college students Craig Walker, Ben Potter and Frani King compete in opposition to Penn State on NBC’s “School Bowl.”
Steve Swisher, NBC
Potter, King and Walker have been on a task throughout this fast-paced a part of the sport, in the end answering 15 questions — essentially the most questions which were answered throughout this a part of the sport all season lengthy.
Throughout this spherical, every query is value 25 factors, with groups incomes a further 100 factors for each 5 questions answered accurately. This introduced the Cougars’ remaining rating to 725.
Though they received shut, Penn State was unable to overhaul the Cougars, answering 14 questions in the course of the two-minute drill and ending the sport with 590 factors.
And similar to that, BYU landed a spot within the “School Bowl” semifinals.
Who else is competing within the ‘School Bowl’ semifinals?
Throughout Friday’s episode of “School Bowl,” the College of Georgia beat Syracuse College in a good match and claimed the second spot within the semifinals.
Columbia College then defeated UC Santa Barbara to assert the third spot. The fourth and remaining spot went to BYU’s opponent, Penn State, which was the runner-up with the best level whole.
For the semifinals, BYU will compete in opposition to Columbia, and it’ll be powerful — Columbia was the 2021 winner of “School Bowl.”
The semifinals and championship recreation of “School Bowl” air Oct. 28 on NBC at 7 p.m. and eight p.m. MT.
(Solutions: 1. Kale; 2. Antioxidants; 3. potassium; 4. Borat; 5. Castro; 6. Raphael Warnock)