“Adjectives, adjectives, adjectives, adjective particles …?” High school student quiz final problem Internet impact “Battle of different dimensions”: J-CAST News[Full text]

The quiz program “42nd National High School Quiz Championship” (Nippon TV series, high school student quiz) was broadcast on September 9, 2022, and Kaisei High School in Tokyo defeated Nada High School in Hyogo for the first time in 10 years and the highest number ever. It won the 4th victory.

In the finals, questions consisting only of parts of speech such as “adjectives, adjectives, adjectives, adjective particles” were presented, and surprised voices were collected on Twitter, such as “Why do you know” and “Battle of different dimensions”.

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  From the official website of the “High School Student Quiz” program

“Excessive QuizKnock!”

A total of 1,560 teams, each consisting of three active high school students, participated in the tournament, and 12 schools that won the preliminary rounds appeared on the program.

Kaisei High School and Nada High School faced off against each other in the second question. From the following state where only parts of speech are displayed, guess the question sentence and ask for the answer.

“adjective, adjective, adjective, adjective particle
noun particle verb auxiliary verb noun particle noun particle noun? “

While the performers yelled out in surprise, “QuizKnock is too much!” The correct question was revealed as follows:

“Red, round, big, delicious
What kind of strawberry is named after the first letter? ”

Takuya Kawamura, a member of QuizKnock, was amazed at the way he responded, saying, “I didn’t think you’d write an answer so quickly. It’s amazing.”

When the viewers introduced this issue with surprise, it spread widely on Twitter, and there were admiring voices saying, “It’s a different dimension battle,” “I don’t know why. It’s amazing!!” going up In addition, there was an opinion that “It looks like a superhuman to the general public, but it is a good question with a very high level that can be easily solved by people who do quizzes.”

On the same day, QuizKnock also released a video on YouTube that deals with similar questions titled “[Geki Muzu]Quiz with only parts of speech in question”. In the comments section, etc., there are many compliments to the author.