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!
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