1 - Don't You Want to Become a Quiz King?
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SIGN Buzou Prefectural High School
SIGN Quiz Bowl Circle
New Students Welcome!!
100-Question Paper Quiz
[00:17] Guy
The quiz bowl circle?
[00:20] Guy
Do you study quizzes?
[00:21] Guy
You're just a circle?
[00:23] Gakuto
Question.
[00:24] Gakuto
What is quiz bowl?
SIGN Quiz Bowl Circle
New Students Welcome!!
100-Question Paper Quiz
[00:31] Gakuto
Quiz bowl is a game known by
everyone around the world.
[00:38] Gakuto
There are those who take it quite seriously!
[00:41] Gakuto
Now follow in the footsteps of the pioneers
who upheld the quiz bowl craze long ago!
[00:44] Gakuto
You, too!
[00:45] Gakuto
Don't you want to become a quiz king?!
[00:51] Shiki
Huh?!
[01:12] [SONG] Title
Fastest Finger First
SIGN Question 1: "Don't You Want to Become a Quiz King?"
[02:24] Shiki
Quiz king? What is that?
[02:27] Shiki
And who is this huge guy?
[02:29] Gakuto
Give this a try.
[02:31] Gakuto
You try it, too.
[02:33] Gakuto
And you two.
[02:34] Gakuto
Here. Try this.
[02:35] Guy
Sasajima! Back off!
[02:37] Guy
Circles don't belong here!
[02:39] Guy
New students, join the baseball team!
[02:43] Shiki
It's my second day of high school.
[02:45] Shiki
And today is the day the battle between
the school clubs for new students begins.
[02:50] Shiki
This is a world that I,
Koshiyama Shiki, don't belong in...
[02:57] Shiki
Quiz, huh?
[03:10] Guy
Kuroda? From the Nishi
Middle basketball team?
[03:12] Guy
Still playing in high school, too?
[03:14] Kuroda
You better believe it!
[03:16] Kuroda
My first goal is to take nationals!
[03:18] Teacher
Take your seats.
[03:22] Teacher
So what did you all think about
yesterday's entrance ceremony?
[03:26] Teacher
Three years of high school may
seem long now, but it'll fly by.
[03:30] Teacher
You can focus solely on your studies,
[03:32] Teacher
or you can work hard at your clubs.
[03:34] Shiki
If I had a large physique
or some kind of skill,
[03:38] Shiki
would I have worked hard at some club, too?
SIGN Quiz Bowl Circle
New Students Welcome!!
100-Question Paper Quiz
[03:45] Shiki
A paper quiz?
[03:51] Shiki
What in the world?
They're all quiz questions?
[03:53] Shiki
So people who like quizzes get together and
spend their time answering quiz questions?
[03:57] Shiki
Is that supposed to be fun?
[04:00] (Flashback) Gakuto
Don't you want to become a quiz king?
[04:02] Shiki
And that guy was part of it?
[04:05] Shiki
I'm not sure I want to...
[04:06] Teacher
We'll spend first period choosing
your class representatives.
[04:10] Teacher
Let's start with the class officers...
[04:11] Shiki
Question 1.
[04:13] Shiki
Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles are "to
neither possess, manufacture, nor..." what?
[04:18] Shiki
"Introduce." That's common sense.
[04:21] Shiki
Question 2... Let's see...
[04:23] Shiki
"I think, therefore I am" is a quote by...
Descartes, of course.
[04:27] Shiki
What desert in Africa is the
largest hot desert in the world?
[04:32] Shiki
Even elementary school kids know that.
SIGN Introduce René Descartes Sahara Desert
[04:36] Shiki
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one
morning out of restless dreams"
[04:40] Shiki
is the opening line of which
novel by Franz Kafka?
[04:44] Shiki
Well, I guess some of these are
fairly specialized questions,
[04:47] Shiki
but if even I know the answers,
this must be pretty low-level...
[04:52] Teacher
Next up, librarians.
We'll need one boy and one girl.
[04:55] Teacher
Any volunteers?
[04:58] Shiki
Here... Here... Here, here... Here...
[05:02] Inoue
Sure, I'll do it.
[05:05] Teacher
All right, Inoue Daisuke. It's all yours.
[05:08] Shiki
But I was the class librarian through
all three years of middle school!
[05:13] Girl
Did you see that?
[05:14] Girl
I guess he wanted to do it.
[05:19] Teacher
Now, how about a girl?
[05:22] Mari
Me.
[05:23] Teacher
A volunteer?
[05:25] Mari
Yes. I'm Fukami Mari.
[05:28] Sashi
Does she like books, too?
[05:31] Guy
Fukami-san's really pretty, huh?
[05:33] Guy
Looks like you got some side perks.
[05:34] Inoue
Man, quit teasing me!
[05:37] Shiki
Whoops, that was close.
[05:39] Shiki
If I'd gotten the same
job as the popular girl,
[05:42] Shiki
I'd never hear the end of it.
[05:48] Shiki
Our eyes met!
[05:50] Shiki
Oh...
[05:52] Shiki
I ended up answering all the quiz questions.
[05:56] Shiki
This might not be a bad way to kill time.
[06:00] Shiki
No, no, no, no! No way!
[06:05] Guy
Let's hit the school shop.
[06:07] Girl
I'll push our desks together.
[06:08] Guy
Seriously?
[06:11] Girl
He should just speak up.
[06:13] Girl
Isn't he lonely?
[06:15] Girl
Don't!
SIGN Library
[06:37] Shiki
They have a lot of minor series, too.
[06:41] Shiki
There are so many more genres than
the middle school library had!
[06:46] Shiki
The library is where I got my start.
[06:48] Shiki
Ever since elementary school, I've spent
more time reading than playing with friends.
[06:54] Shiki
I didn't want to play with the kids who
called me "shrimp" and "dunce," anyway.
[07:00] Shiki
It was just the only way I
knew to have fun on my own.
SIGN Buzou Prefectural Library
[07:04] Shiki
Since my mom worked at
the library, I spent every day
[07:07] Shiki
there reading until she got off work.
[07:11] Shiki
In middle school, I became
the class librarian.
[07:13] Shiki
By then, I was nothing but a bookworm.
[07:16] Shiki
I used to read a lot of classical literature and non-fictional works back then...
[07:22] Shiki
It stimulated my imagination and
opened up new worlds before me.
[07:26] Shiki
But I was never able to find any friends
to share the joy of reading with.
[07:32] Shiki
I thought that was fine, though.
[07:36] Shiki
Of course, it meant I had no
connection to any girls, either...
[07:46] Mari
Let's see...
[07:48] Shiki
Isn't she the class librarian, Fukami-san?
[07:55] Shiki
Wait, does she even see me?!
[08:00] Shiki
U-Um, watch—
[08:01] Mari
Huh?
[08:08] Shiki
A-Are you o—
[08:10] Shiki
Oh!
[08:11] Shiki
P-P-Pan—
[08:13] Teacher
Everything okay?
[08:14] Mari
I-I just tripped! That's all!
[08:20] Teacher
No running!
[08:24] Teacher
You can't eat your lunch here!
[08:26] Shiki
I'm sorry!
[08:27] Shiki
Man, that startled me...
[08:31] Shiki
Forget about that!
[08:32] Shiki
My safe haven will be tainted
with this crazy memory!
[08:37] Shiki
Is this Fukami-san's?
[08:43] Shiki
What are these marks?
SIGN ...long house / is known as...
SIGN ...refer to betting money / on a single...
SIGN ...marks left / behind in the snow...
[08:50] Guy
And finally,
[08:52] Guy
the best perk of being in
the hardball tennis club
[08:55] Guy
is that you get to see sights like this
at the girls' court next to ours!
[08:56] ---
There!
[08:58] ---
There!
[08:59] Shiki
So wrong...
[09:01] Guy
And that concludes the introduction
of all the school clubs.
[09:04] Shiki
Me getting in to a sports club is a joke,
[09:06] Shiki
but I'm not that interested
in the culture clubs, either.
SIGN Welcome, New Students!
[09:10] Guy
Next, we'll introduce the
school associations.
[09:13] Guy
Here's the quiz bowl circle. Go ahead.
[09:16] Shiki
Oh, the quiz king...
[09:18] Gakuto
Ah. Test, test.
[09:20] Gakuto
I'm the president of the quiz bowl
circle, Sasajima Gakuto, second-year.
[09:26] Gakuto
Who wants to go to New York?!
[09:33] Gakuto
There was once a quiz show by that
name on TV. Do you remember it?
[09:37] Gakuto
It was, indeed, a world in which
people competed in quiz bowl.
[09:42] Gakuto
Even today, there is a major quiz
show called High School Quiz,
[09:46] Gakuto
in which high school students engage
in a heated competition every year.
[09:51] Gakuto
Any high school student may participate.
[09:55] Gakuto
Quiz bowl, as everyone knows,
[09:58] Gakuto
is a game anyone can play where
one simply answers questions to win.
[10:02] Gakuto
However, adding a competitive
aspect makes it a sport.
[10:06] Shiki
A sport? Quiz bowl?
[10:09] Gakuto
The first step is to experience quiz bowl.
[10:12] Gakuto
Hence this impromptu quiz meet!
[10:15] Gakuto
The first six to raise their
hands will get to participate!
[10:18] Gakuto
The true thrill of quiz bowl is
competing to buzz in the fastest!
[10:21] Gakuto
Nothing can match the rush that
comes from pressing this buzzer!
[10:25] Shiki
Where do they even sell those things?
[10:27] Guy
Me, me! I wanna do it!
[10:30] Guy
Yeah, me too!
[10:32] Mari
Here.
[10:34] Shiki
Fukami Mari?
[10:36] Gakuto
Please come up to the stage.
[10:38] Mari
R-Right.
[10:40] Shiki
She looks so meek,
[10:43] Shiki
but she's so assertive!
[10:47] Shiki
I could never do that.
[10:49] Gakuto
In the interest of time,
[10:51] Gakuto
I'll select the remaining three
participants at random.
[10:54] Gakuto
Class A, female, student number 6.
[10:57] Girl
What?!
[10:57] Gakuto
Class C, female, number 8.
[10:58] Girl
You're kidding! No way!
[10:59] Gakuto
Class D, male, number 11.
[11:02] Kuroda
Koshiyama, isn't that you?
[11:04] Kuroda
Class D, male, student number 11.
I'm number 10.
[11:08] Shiki
Huh?
[11:09] Shiki
What?! I have to go up there?!
[11:13] Shiki
With all these people watching?!
[11:16] Shiki
I can't! I can't! I can't! I can't!
[11:18] Shiki
This isn't even funny!
SIGN Flail
SIGN Flail
[11:24] Shiki
How did this happen?
[11:30] Shiki
And the mood up here is so awkward...
[11:33] Gakuto
Question.
[11:35] Gakuto
"Avril" in French, "aprile" in Italian, and
"April" in English refer to which month?
[11:43] Shiki
April?
[11:46] Guy
April!
[11:47] Gakuto
Correct, but that was terrible!
[11:49] Guy
Huh?
[11:50] Gakuto
You didn't do it right at all.
[11:51] Gakuto
You weren't taking it the
least bit seriously.
[11:54] Gakuto
You could have buzzed in much faster!
[11:56] Guy
Uh... Well...
[11:58] Gakuto
The key to being the fastest finger
is just what it sounds like:
[12:00] Gakuto
to move your finger the fastest!
[12:03] Gakuto
If you don't earn the right to respond,
you can't give the right answer!
[12:06] Shiki
I get what he's saying, but...
[12:09] Gakuto
Question.
[12:10] Gakuto
There are stars on the American flag—
[12:13] Shiki
That was fast! Someone pushed it already?
[12:15] Girl
The Stars and Stripes.
[12:17] Girl
Huh?!
[12:18] Gakuto
There's more to the question.
[12:21] Gakuto
There are stars on the American flag,
one for each state. How many are there?
[12:27] Gakuto
The correct answer is 50.
[12:30] ---
A trick question?
[12:33] Gakuto
Some questions are very straightforward,
[12:35] Gakuto
but others can't be answered until
you hear the complete question.
[12:38] Gakuto
You must be careful.
[12:39] Shiki
See? You have to listen until
the end before you can answer.
[12:44] Gakuto
From this point on, try using
your imaginations more.
[12:48] Shiki
As in try to predict the
last part of the question?
[12:51] Gakuto
Here's the question.
[12:53] Gakuto
The nation with the largest
land area is Russia,
[12:57] Gakuto
and the nation—
[12:59] Shiki
The nation... with the
second largest land area?
[13:03] Shiki
Second is Canada, and third is America...
[13:06] Gakuto
...with the smallest land area is which?
[13:09] Shiki
Vatican City!
[13:11] Guy
Vatican City!
[13:12] Gakuto
Correct.
[13:13] Guy
Yes!
[13:14] Shiki
So it was the opposite of the largest!
[13:18] Shiki
I know the answers, but...
[13:23] Mari
Are you new to fast buzzing?
[13:27] Shiki
Uh... It's my first time.
[13:30] Mari
If you buzz after you know the
answer, you'll be too late.
[13:33] Mari
Fast buzzing can determine the winner
by a margin of 0.01 seconds.
[13:37] Shiki
R-Right...
[13:39] Mari
There's no time to waste
on thinking things over.
[13:43] Shiki
Wh-What is she talking about?
[13:45] Shiki
She volunteered for this, but she
hasn't pressed the buzzer once!
[13:50] Shiki
N-No, her panties have
nothing to do with this!
[13:58] Shiki
Her face changed...
[13:59] Gakuto
Question.
[14:01] Gakuto
French for "flash of lightni—"
[14:08] Gakuto
Please give your answer.
[14:12] Mari
Éclair.
[14:13] Gakuto
Correct.
[14:18] Gakuto
Question.
[14:19] Gakuto
"Et tu, Brute—"
[14:21] Mari
Julius Caesar.
[14:23] Gakuto
Correct.
[14:25] Shiki
Wait...
[14:25] Gakuto
Question.
[14:26] Gakuto
"Jumping flea—"
[14:28] Mari
Ukulele.
[14:29] Gakuto
Correct.
[14:31] Shiki
Wait a minute... How does she know
what the question's going to be?
[14:39] Mari
What? I'm not cheating, okay?
[14:43] Shiki
I-I wasn't...
[14:45] Mari
There's a point in questions you can answer
early where the answer becomes certain.
[14:50] Mari
Of course, these have all
been really basic questions.
[14:53] Shiki
Points? Basic?
[14:56] Gakuto
Question.
[14:57] Gakuto
The three great festivals of Kyoto—
[14:59] Shiki
Whoa, that was fast!
[15:00] Shiki
Wait, it wasn't Fukami-san!
[15:02] Guy
Yes! I got it!
[15:03] Gakuto
Please give your answer.
[15:05] Guy
Oh...
[15:06] Guy
Um...
[15:07] Gakuto
The time limit is five seconds.
[15:10] Guy
No, that—
[15:12] Gakuto
An interesting answer, but incorrect.
[15:15] Shiki
That rattled me.
[15:18] Gakuto
I will read the question one more time.
[15:21] Gakuto
The three great festivals of Kyoto are...
[15:23] Shiki
The three great festivals of Kyoto are
[15:25] Shiki
the Gion Festival, the Festival of
Ages, and the Hollyhock Festival.
[15:28] Gakuto
...May's Hollyhock Festival, Jul—
[15:30] Shiki
"Jul"? That'll be July, the Gion Festival!
[15:33] Shiki
So the only answer remaining is...
[15:35] Mari
The Festival of Ages.
[15:36] Gakuto
Correct.
SIGN ..."to neither possess, ma/nufacture, nor..." what?
[15:40] Shiki
So that's it...
SIGN ...orange, gr/een, and...
[15:41] Shiki
I'm starting to get it now!
SIGN ...melody, rhy/thm...
SIGN ..."to neither possess, ma/nufacture, nor..." what?
...three elements of music are melody, rhy/thm, and...
...orange, gr/een, and what?
...cannot move are the bi/shop and what?
[15:44] Shiki
What should I do? Should I try to buzz in?
[15:47] Shiki
I want to try answering!
[15:48] Gakuto
Now, let's try some harder questions.
[15:51] Shiki
Harder?
[15:53] Shiki
What's important is to
earn the right to answer.
[15:56] (Flashback) Mari
Fast buzzing can determine the winner
by a margin of 0.01 seconds.
[16:00] (Flashback) Mari
There's a point in questions you can answer
early where the answer becomes certain.
[16:04] Shiki
If I can predict the question,
[16:05] Shiki
I'll have five seconds
to answer after buzzing.
[16:08] Shiki
There should be time to think about it then.
[16:12] Gakuto
Question.
[16:13] Gakuto
"I fell in love. This was something new."
[16:18] Shiki
I did it! I buzzed!
[16:20] Mari
Wait, he knows this one? Was it intuition?
[16:25] Gakuto
Please give your answer.
[16:28] Shiki
I know this! It's the opening
line of that novel!
SIGN ...by which French author?
[16:32] Shiki
There were other literature questions
like this on that paper quiz, too!
SIGN ...which novel by Franz Kafka?
SIGN ...which female Heian Period author?
[16:37] Shiki
If this question is also looking
for the title or author,
[16:40] Shiki
which is it?
[16:41] Gakuto
Three seconds.
[16:43] Shiki
If this is really a "hard" question...
[16:46] Gakuto
Two.
[16:49] Shiki
The answer is...
SIGN eniemeG saD
[16:52] Shiki
1}Das Gemeine*!
[17:00] Gakuto
Correct!
[17:04] Gakuto
This is the opening line of which
literary work by Dazai Osamu?
[17:08] Gakuto
The answer is Das Gemeine*.
[17:09] Gakuto
I'm impressed you knew such
a lesser-known title!
[17:12] Shiki
Everyone's really looking at me now...
[17:15] Guy
Sasajima, you're running over!
[17:19] Gakuto
Just when it was getting good...
[17:22] Gakuto
You! What's your name and class?
[17:24] Shiki
Uh... Class D, K-Koshiyama.
[17:28] Gakuto
Then let's give a hand to Koshiyama-kun
for answering the last question!
[17:41] Gakuto
In quiz bowl, your age, sex,
and physique are irrelevant.
[17:45] Gakuto
The more you participate, the more
knowledge and experience you gain.
[17:49] Gakuto
That's true for everyone!
[17:52] Gakuto
That's right! Anyone can
take part in quiz bowl!
[17:57] Gakuto
Nailed it.
[17:59] Guy
And that was the quiz bowl
circle's introduction.
[18:03] Teacher
They say quiz bowl is popular
in theological schools lately.
[18:08] Teacher
Come to think of it, that boy,
[18:09] Teacher
Sasajima-kun, transferred here last year.
[18:12] Teacher
From Kaijou High School, I believe.
[18:20] Shiki
Oh, man... My heart is still racing.
[18:23] Shiki
I can't believe I did something
so new in front of that crowd.
[18:27] Shiki
But...
[18:28] Shiki
The moment I pressed that
buzzer felt really good.
[18:34] Mari
Quiz buzzers are surprisingly easy to break,
[18:36] Mari
so try not to press them too hard.
[18:41] Mari
Um, when I tripped in the library...
[18:46] Shiki
I-I'm sorry! That was—
[18:48] Mari
Did I drop that paper
with the quiz questions?
[18:51] Shiki
Huh? Oh...
[18:53] Shiki
Th-That's right. I forgot.
[18:56] Shiki
Here.
[19:01] Mari
Did you look up these answers somewhere?
[19:05] Shiki
Oh, wrong one!
[19:07] Shiki
Here's yours! That one's mine!
[19:10] Mari
Thanks.
[19:12] Shiki
You know...
[19:14] Shiki
I didn't understand what those
little marks were at first.
[19:19] Shiki
But...
[19:20] Shiki
Are they to mark the points
you talked about earlier?
[19:23] Shiki
Where the answer to the question is certain?
[19:26] Mari
Huh?
[19:27] Shiki
S-Sorry if I'm wrong.
[19:30] Mari
You... really are smart, aren't you?
[19:36] Shiki
No, I don't think...
[19:38] Mari
When you answered the last question,
[19:40] Mari
how did you know the title
would be the right answer?
[19:43] Shiki
Oh, because the president said
it'd be a hard question.
[19:47] Shiki
Rather than its famous author, the title
of a minor work is more... well...
[19:52] Shiki
I figured that would be harder to answer.
[19:55] Mari
Did you say that was your first quiz match?
[19:58] Shiki
Yeah, of the fast buzzing kind.
[20:01] Mari
Y-You're forgiven for seeing my panties!
[20:04] Shiki
Where'd that come from?!
[20:06] Mari
But in return...
[20:08] Mari
Join the quiz circle with me!
[20:11] Shiki
Wh-Wh-What is she saying?!
[20:15] Mari
It was your first quiz match,
but in such a short time,
[20:18] Mari
you managed to get the hang of quiz bowl.
[20:21] Mari
And the knowledge you have...
[20:24] Mari
Even if I'd heard that last question
to the end, I couldn't have buzzed.
[20:30] Mari
I didn't know the answer!
[20:32] Shiki
What? I didn't just beat her to the buzzer?
[20:36] Mari
Same with this paper quiz.
[20:38] Mari
There were several questions
I didn't know the answers to,
[20:42] Mari
but you answered almost all of them!
[20:44] Mari
Your abundant knowledge and quick thinking
[20:47] Mari
will be amazing weapons!
[20:50] Mari
I believe you can become the quiz king!
[20:54] Shiki
The quiz king...
[22:30] Gakuto
Everyone, welcome to the world of quiz bowl!
[22:32] Gakuto
I am the quiz master, here to share
the fun of quiz bowl with all of you!
[22:36] Gakuto
Koshiyama-kun, congratulations
on your quiz debut!
[22:39] Shiki
Th-Thank you.
[22:40] Gakuto
This may surprise you, but "7O3X"
is also a quiz bowl term.
[22:45] Gakuto
Fukami-kun, do you know what it means?
[22:47] Mari
Yes! Get seven right and you win,
SIGN 7 Correct Answers
SIGN 3 Incorrect Answers
[22:49] Mari
but get three wrong and you fail.
[22:51] Mari
It's a basic rule of quiz bowl!
[22:53] Gakuto
That's right! The path to victory is steep!
[22:56] Gakuto
Start heading there today,
one step at a time!
[22:58] Both
We'll do our best!
[22:59] ---