 Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. And that power will be put to the test here on K-Check. Hello everyone, I'm Bruce Giang. Apo naman pa si Eterny Gaby Konsepsiang and this is K-Check. The search continues for those na gustong sanayin at palawakin ang brain power nila through competition. Tingnan natin kung kakayani nila ang brain workout na inahanda natin for them this season. Samahan niyo kaman til the final week of competition when we reveal a new K-Check champion. Apat na contestants from UP Dileman ang dada ang sa ating karunungan check sa araw na ito. Firstly, we have Adam. Adam is a physics major. His hobbies are watching movies, hanging out with friends and playing plants versus zombies. He watches Titanic at least once every month. Oh, monthly? Sunod naman si Andre. Andre is a senior landscape architectures student currently working on her thesis. She's a big fan of public transportation and public spaces. Her favorite places to be are museums, galleries, and parks. Sunod naman ay si Shem. Si Shem ay food technology student. He loves watching thrilling series and movies. His hobbies are playing the piano and reading manga. A lover of Taylor Swift. Another Swift? Yes, his favorite song is Daylight. And finally, we have Drake. Drake is a geography student who likes to cook, take photos, and explore random places. He also plays the ukulele. Digitalisa tayo, may drummer na tayo, may ukulele player. So these four will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. Our first expert is Professor Marian Roque, Professor of Mathematics at UP Dileman. Assistant Professor Bernard Kaslib from the Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, UP Manila, is our next expert. And finally, multimedia artist and Professor Emeritus, teaching film at the UP College of Mass Communication Film Institute and communication at the UP Open University. We have Professor Grace Javier Alfonso. And now, contestants, it's time for round number one. Get ready to buzz in and collect those points. But make sure you wait until you are acknowledged by the host. Correct answers are 10 points each. Let's begin. This is round one, question number one. The LTO is the government agency responsible for the registration of motor vehicles. What does LTO stand for? Adam. Land Transportation Office. Land Transportation Office is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number two in anatomy. What do you call the framework of bones and other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or human? Drake. Skeleton. Skeleton is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number three. Taken from the Latin term for down and grade, what is the common name of the unit used in temperature and angle measure? Degrees. Degree or degrees is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number four in mental math. How do you express 40% as a fraction in lowest terms? Two over five. Two over five or two-fifths is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number five in boxing. Which Filipino boxer won the WBC flyaway title in 1999 on the way to winning world championships in seven more weight categories in his professional career? Adam. Manipakayaw. Manipakayaw is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number six. The fifth most popular song of 2023 is Die for You which was recorded by the weekend and which female singer of Seven Rings fame? Shem. Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number seven. In the acronym SOC Sgt. What does SOC stand for? Drake. South Cotabato. South Cotabato is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number eight. What former country in Europe was split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993? Drake. Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia. K-Check. K-Check. Czechoslovakia. Joe Plunk. Question number nine. In art, what do you call the cloth stretched over wooden bars to create a taut surface? Adam. Canvas. Canvas is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number ten. What word may be a popular fruit, bread, spread or a situation where something is blocked like in traffic or a printer? Drake. Jam. Jam is the correct answer. K-Check. Question number eleven. What is the name of the game in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off a required pattern? Drake. Bingo. Bingo is the correct answer. K-Check. Nagtaina si Adam at saka si Drake at this point in our round. Question number twelve for this round. What do you call one of the seven largest land masses found on earth like Asia and Africa? Adam. Continent. Continent is the correct answer. K-Check. And that's it for our first round. Araming salamat at turn ni for that round. So let's do a scores recap. Adam is leading with 60 points, followed by Drake with 50 points. Si Shem naman ay may ten points at si Andrey pwede pang humabol sa mga susunod na rounds. So bago tayo magpatuloy para sa mga contestants natin. May chikahan tayo dito. Para zempre, mga bawasan yung kaban natin. Sa simulan natin si Adam. So Adam, bakit mo naman pinapanood ang Titanic at least once a month? At may specific date to ba dito? Wala na. Interested lang dalaga ako dun sa Titanic na, na movie. Pamburito ko yung mga artiste dito. So, physics student ka diba? Nakokonek mo ba yung physics dun sa bag sink ng boat? Hindi. Nakomplete mo yung time bago siya magdexize. Hindi walay ko kasi yung movie sa pag-aarang. Hindi ko na iniisi. Para stress-free nga. Pinapasok na naman ng pag-aarang. Favorite ko rin yan. 1997 yan ano eh. Inered atin. Mga yung interview ka na talagay. Andre, how's the thesis going? Ano ba ang topic mo sa yung thesis and why? I'm producing an alternative aggregate to compete in production, in promotion of sustainable construction materials. Parang award-winning yan. Parang talagang mahanap nga. Sustainable construction yan ay mga anong trend para zempre. Green building. Green building. Para mas mapangalagaan yung... Wow, we wish you well in all your endeavors saan nga ay magawam mo ang iyong. Gustoong ma-accomplish sa thesis na yan. So thank you very much for your interesting stories, mga contestants. Get ready because we're going to go into round two next sa pagbabalik ko ng K-Track. Tuloy pa rin ang ating karunungan check but before we go into our next round we have Adam leading at 60 points, followed very closely by Drake with 50 points and Shem with 10 points and Andre with a lot of catching up to do. Kaya po yan. Okay, so tuloy pa rin ang ating cikahan. Ngay naman si Shem. So very interesting yung name mo, Shem. Bakit Shem ang iyong nickname? Shem po kasi, yung full name ko po ay Shemwell po and yung Shemwell po, galing po siya sa Bible. This is yung Samwell po. Yun. Yung niba na lang po yung spelling po ng parents ko po parado po unique. Very unique naman talaga. Unique naman talaga. That's true. Accessible sila doon. Pero bukod pa dahil. Isakan Swiftie. Yes po. At ang favorite song mo ay Daylight. Sa bakit Daylight ang favorite mo? May tumatutap ko ka sa akin na parang lyrics budo na parang now I can see in Daylight po. Parang sa mga struggles ko po sa buhay tapos pag pinapkingged po po yung kantang yun. Parang it gives me strength po. Parang mayroon pa po ang panibagong arao or panibagong Daylight ngangyari po siya. Ang sasabing ko lang sana. Yung nang tamang outlook sa buhay. Nagigalang ngangay Daylight. Pero ang Daylight pareng... Maganday na turning. Yung suliyan yung song naginagamit sa mga weddings. Yes. Just in Daylight. Sige, irreserct natin yan mamaya but that is a good outlook in life to always remember that there will always be Daylight after a very dark night. In any case, Drake! Ka-dandanan. Ano naman ang future? Nangisang geography student natunod mo. What do geography students usually look forward to? Geography is a versatile course. So kaya tenok, pwede na may puntahan. Pero yung iniiimpong sa ngayon, yung sa mapping sa GAS and sa mapping, or di kaya sa diplomacy and international relations. Wow. So that's good and interesting to know, but now it's time for round two. Contestants get ready to buzz in, but make sure you strategize, lagin tandaan, wait to be called before you answer because your answer might not be given any credit. Because correct answers in this second round are worth 20 points each, but you lose 10 points if you answer incorrectly. Let's begin. Question number one. What breed of medium-sized dogs having a white short-haired coat with many black or brown spots is named after a native of an East European region? Great. Dalmatian. Dalmatian is correct. Okay, check. Question number two. Which Filipino revolutionary leader overthrew Spanish rule in the north to establish an Ilocano state in 1872 but was assassinated in 1873? Great. Diego Silang. Diego Silang is correct. Okay, check. Question number three. On New Year's Day 2024, what is the name of the famous clock or bell in London that celebrated the 100th year of its bong? Adam. Big Ben. Big Ben is correct. Okay, check. Question number four. In physics. What do you call the change in direction of a wave passing from one medium to another caused by its change in speed or simply the bending of light as it passes through a window? The correct answer is refractor. Question number five. What is the name of a small sea crustacean with a shell that sticks very tightly in numbers to rocks in the bottom of boats? Drake. Barnacles. Barnacles or barnacle is correct. Okay, check. Question number six. The world-renowned Vienna Boys' Choir is based in what European country? Drake. Austria. Austria is correct. Okay, check. Question number seven. Who won several best director awards for the film, Argo, and starred as an actor in Armageddon, The Sum of All Fears, and Batman vs Superman? The correct answer is Ben Affleck. Question number eight. In sports. What do you call the annual championship game of the National Football League of the United States? Drake. Super Bowl. Super Bowl is correct. Okay, check. Question number nine. What do you call the aristocratic Japanese warrior class that rose to power in the 12th century and dominated the Japanese government until the 19th century? Drake. Samurai. Samurai is correct. Okay, check. Question number ten. Billy Eilish is what was I made for, won a best original song award at the 81st Golden Globes for what movie starring Margot Robbie? Andre. Barbie. Barbie is correct. Question number eleven. What do you call the plastic packaging material in sheets containing numerous small air cushions designed to protect fragile goods? Andre. Bubble wrap. Bubble wrap is correct. Okay, check. Final question for this round. Using artificial intelligence, the UK company Layered Reality brought back to life which famous king of rock and roll who had the hits Love Me Tender, Blue Suede Juice and All Shook Up. Adam. Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley is correct. Okay, check. And that ends round number two. Points check after that round. Bumulusok na si Drake with 170 points followed by Adam with 100, Andre with 40 and Sam with 10 and a lot of catching up to do. Yes, pero siyempre, hindi pa tapos ang labay. Ultimate Pagalingan na sa pagbabalik ng Kcheck. Welcome back to Kcheck. Of course, after that round, we have Drake with 170 points followed by Adam with 100, Andre with 40 and Sam with 10. Pero hindi pa tapos ang lahat. Hindi pa natin alam kung sinoang ating magiging ultimate winner. Kasi meron pa tayong parating na ultimate Pagalingan round. Let's go for those points and for the win. Remember sa ating panel of experts man gagaling ang mga katanungan. Dito, correct answers are worth 30 points each at my 15-point deduction for wrong answers. Let's begin. And let's start our ultimate Pagalingan round with the first question by Prof. Marion. Ultimate Pagalingan, chemistry, the chemical symbol SB stands for stibnum or stibnite. What is the modern name for this element? A. Arsenic. B. Antimony. C. Siborgium. D. Tin. Or E. Samarium. Sim. Letter D. Tin. Malek. Letter B. Antimony. Stibnum was used to make a black eye makeup. Now it's used in paints, glass and pottery. The chemical symbol for antimony is SB, which stands for stibnum. Kay, Jack? Okay, who among the following emphasized biological instincts and unconscious processes as the main determinant of self-identity? Letter A. Carl Rogers. Letter B. Alfred Adler. Letter C. Sigmund Freud. Letter D. Eric Erickson. And letter E. Carl Jung. Okay, the correct answer is Sigmund Freud. Kaya di ba meron tayong term in English? Freudian slip. Wanda na naman tayo sa sining. Who painted the persistence of memory featuring melting clocks? A surrealist artwork introduced the image of softness and hardness entwined symbols of relativity of space and time. A, Albrecht Durell. B, Salvador Dali. C, Michelle Duchamp. D, Toluore Lotric. And E, Leonardo da Vinci. Big. B, Salvador Dali. This famous painter, Spanish surrealist painter was meditating on the collapse of the notion of a fixed cosmic order. Okay, check. Dalian Na Dan. Tapot Alangito. Native trees. Which of the following is a native Philippine tree? A, Akasha. B, Mahogany. C, Ipil Ipil. D, Talisae. Or E, All of the above. E, All of the above. Malik. Adam, Mahogany. Malik din po. Andre. D. Lahat to na hikilat sa Pilipinas, tiba? Example, Akasha, marami sa UP, pero yan ay native to Australia. Ang Mahogany ay invasive actually dangerous sa ating environment. Native to Central and South America. Ddin ang Ipil Ipil. Talisae or umbrella tree is the correct answer. Letter T. Cross Bernard. Okay, the next question is from economics. In economics, what term is used to describe the total value of all goods and services produced in a country within a specific time period? A, gross national income. B, gross domestic product. C, net domestic product. D, national income. Or E, personal income. B, gross domestic product. Letter B, gross domestic product is Kate Check. Balikulit ayo sa Pilipina. Which technique did the Vincent van Gogh use to paint sunflowers where the paint is thickly applied by brush or palette knife, which left many bumps on the painting surface? A, dabbing. B, splattering. C, impasto. D, underpainting. E, stippling. Tim, A dabbing. No. C, impasto. This technique heightens the element of texture in Van Gogh's words. Correct, Kate Check, impasto. Ibang naisip ko. Okay to na, serious na, serious. Mathematics. Para madali na. If five terms of a sequence are one, three, four, seven, eleven, what is the next term? Eight. Adam, 18. Okay ito yung sinasabing Lukas sequence na parang Fibonacci sequence. At mo lang yung two terms before. So the correct answer is C, 18 from seven plus eleven. Kate Check. Parang question lang yan sa Ukat. Prof Bernard, you are next. From mathematics, philosopher, mathematician din yung next question. Who is often referred to as the father of modern philosophy and famously stated the quote, I think therefore I am. Letter A, Immanuel Kant. B, René Descartes. C, John Locke. B, Friedrich Nietzsche. Or E, Aristotle. René Descartes B. Letter B, René Descartes is Kate Check. Mam Gigi. Yes. Ato, popular culture naman tayo. Who won the best actress in the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival? A, Alessandra Darosi. B, Sharon Coneta. C, Eugene Domingo. And D, Vilma Santos. And E, Mayan River. D, Vilma Santos. Vilma Santos won for her performance in the film When I Met You in Tokyo. So the answer is D, Vilma Santos, Kate Check. Last round for the ultimate pagaling and round. Which of the following is not needed for the process of photosynthesis? A, Carbon Dioxide. B, Oxygen. C, Water. D, Sunlight. Or E, Nanang B above. Ayan naman ang ngayon. Rick. B, Oxygen. Ang kailangan sa photosynthesis ay chlorophyll, sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. Oxygen is a byproduct so the correct answer is B, Oxygen. Kate Check. Thank you, attorney. My last question is on sociology. According to Karl Marx, what term describes the social class that owns the means of production and exploits the labor of the proletariat? Letter A, bourgeoisie. Letter B, proletariat. Letter C, middle class. Letter D, elite. Or letter E, aristocracy. Rick. A, bourgeoisie. Letter A, bourgeoisie. Tali ang si SSP siya. Kate Check. Ma'am Gigi. What artwork by the Spanish cubist painter, Pablo Picasso, was inspired by the bombings of civilians during the Spanish Civil War by the Nazi planes, killing hundreds and destroying three-quarters of the town. A, girls of Avignon. B, child with Dov. C, Guernica. D, figures at the seaside and E, the picador. C, Guernica. Dating, Guernica is a powerful symbol of the evils of war and the resilience of a people. So, the answer is C, Guernica Kate Check. And that's it for our Kate Check ultimate pagaling and round. Congratulations to Drake, our Kate Check daily winner with a final score of 380 points might just be the highest score for this round. But anyway, we'll see Drake again on Friday when he competes with our other daily winners for a spot in our semifinals. Gusto rin natin pa-salamatan ng ating ma-contestants, Adam, Andre and Shem. Palakakan natin sila. Parami salamat sa bagsalit at sa ating members ng panel of experts, Professor Marian, Professor Bernard and Professor Gigi. Marami salamat po, ako po si Jules Guia. At ako naman po ay si Anthony Gabby Concepcion. We'll see you again tomorrow for another round of Kate Check.