 Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. Now, let's put that power to the test. It's time for K-Check! I'm Jonella Boer. And I'm Gabby Concepcion, the attorney, not the artista. And this is K-Check. The smartest game show on television is now in its home stretch. Welcome everyone to day four of the K-Check semifinal round. There is one more spot left in our grand finals and today we'll find out who gets it. Weekly winners are back para sumagot ng mga tanong na magdadala sa kanila sa ating grand finals at the end of this week. At sa araw na yun, isa lang ang tatanghaling K-Check champion. Pero hindi lang ang weekly winners ang sasabak sa araw na ito. Joining them will be our wild cards na pinile mula sa mga runners-up ng bawat weekly competition. And of course, kasama din namin kayong lahat na imbitadong makisagot sa mga tanong na haharapin ng ating mga contestants. Let's meet our four contestants sadadaan sa ating K-Check sa araw na ito. Celine is a graduating BS Electronics Engineering student of UP Dilemon. A proud batanggenya, she was the only woman in her weekly finals and today she is a proud semifinalist too. Dias was once an engineering student who is now a performance major in theater. But it was his performance in week number five competition that earned him his semifinal spot. Nard is a third-year business math education student, part-time math tutor, Korean language enthusiast and now a K-Check semifinalist. And finally, we have Tamara, a BA creative writing student who wrote her ticket to the semifinals nung hindi niya halos pinasagot ang kanyang mga contestants o kalaban nung dailies. These four will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. First, we have Professor Glesy Atienza of the College of Arts and Letters of UP Dilemon. We also have Professor Neil Santillian, Chairperson of the UP Dilemon Department of History. And last but not least, we have Professor Marian Roche, Professor of Mathematics also at UP Dilemon. And now contestants, papasok na tayo sa K-Check paramihan where each correct answer is worth ten points. This is your chance to bank as many points as you can and take the all-important early lead. Let's begin! The English Channel separates England from the northern part of what country? Correct answer is France. Dias in Math. What is the product of 25 and 8? 200. K-Check. Nard, what do the first two letters in Kalabarzon stand for? Cavite. K-Check. Tamara, in what continent can you find the Alps mountain range? Asia. Malaysia. Europe. Celine, in math, what is one half the sum of 13 and 33? 23. K-Check. Dias, alabang, is a large barangay in what metro manila city? Muntinlupa. K-Check. Nard, Vienna is the capital of which country? Austria. K-Check. Tamara, in math, what is 75% of 8? 6. K-Check. Celine, on what island can you find the province of Antique? Migos. Malay. Panay. Dias, what sovereign city state of the French Riviera is famous for casinos? Malay. Monaco. Nard, in math, what is the fraction 5 over 20 in lowest terms? 1-4. K-Check. Tamara, Hulok is the capital of which province? Correct answer is Sulu. And that's it for our first round, the K-Check para mihan round. And that's it for our first round, the K-Check para mihan round. Points, recap mo na tayo. Na una, sa round nito si Nard with 30 points, kasunod si Dias with 20 points, and Thay, sa third place, is Celine and Tamara with 10 points each. And of course it's just the first round and we're all waiting kung sino ba ang magiging finalist ang last finalist natin for the grand finals. Ngayon, re-need ba kayong lahat for our pabilisan round? Next, here on K-Check. Ang ating karunungan check. Mag points, recap mo na tayo. Na una, sa Nard with 30 points, kasunod si Dias with 20 points, Celine and Tamara both have 10 points each. And of course it's too early to tell kung sino nga ang magiging last finalist natin for the grand finals round here on K-Check. Yes, na? Pero ngayon, gusto ko lang tanong yan na curious naman ako. Itong Sinard, who is our leading finalist for round one, bakit ka naman na interest sa Korean language? Matagal na po kung interested talaga sa Korean culture and nung mga before high school, or mga high school pala, nag-start ko kung mag-learn ng Korean, pero hindi po siya naging tulit-tulit, pero ngayong college mo, nakapag-start po ulit ako. And ngayon nag-titik na po ng mga introductory pa lang po na Korean courses, but hopefully mag-tulit-tulit po siya. What about Korean cooking? Korean cooking, since hindi po ko masyadong nag-explore pa ng food, so limited pa lang po yung alam ko sa cooking. May time ka pa, di ba? Time saan. Prof. Marian, may mga katanungan ka ba mga sagyandin natin? Parang bigladi na ako, parang gusto kong tanungin yung cutting from electrical, electronic engineering. So, bihira ba ang mga babae sa electronics engineering or madami natin? Marami po, yung bihira po ay sa electrical, pero sa electronics, siguro, ikwa lang yung population ng mga babae at lalaki. Oh, interesting. Pogi naman ba ang mga ka-classy mo? I don't want to incriminate myself. Safe answer, very good. Matalino. So ito ka lang yung gusto mo mula bata, or at least high school. Hindi po, nag-method of elimination lang ako. Basta gusto ko po mag-engineering, tapos elimination. Ay, ayokon ito, ayokon ito. Asigay, ito yung natira. Wow, magandang classy ang pag-eliminate. At sana ay mag, ano ka, ako ay mag-prosper jens ng field na pinili. Parang warning sa ating kabataan, that might not always be the best way to make a decision. Pero parang gano'ng ginaginaw ako, eh. Kung saan ako mahi na, ay gusto ko ito. But in any case, we're now going into the K-check pabilisan round. Buzz in first for the right to answer the question. Correct answers are worth 20 points, pero sa round na ito, minus 10 points ang maling sagot. Kaya contestants, pag-isipan ng mabuti muna bago i-press ang buzzer. Let's begin. Born in 2003, which young Swedish environment activist founded the movement Nard? Greta Thunberg. Which young Swedish environment activist founded the movement Fridays for a Future when she was only 15 years old? Greta Thunberg, K-check. In which popular Jane Austen movie adaptation did Kira Knightley star as Elizabeth Bennet? Tamara? Little Women? Malik. Meron bang hahabol? The correct answer is Pride and Prejudice. Question number three. What is the local nymph that has the same name as the first satellite built and designed by Filipinos? Nard? Maya. Duwata. Question number four. Coming from the Latin term for small key, what is the anatomical name for the color bone? The anatomical name for the color bone is the clavicle. Which billionaire fired half of Twitter's 7,000 dais? Elon Musk. Elon Musk, K-check. Question number six. Which town in Cebu is known for the Saadayan Festival as well as for whale shark watching? The correct answer is Oslo. Question number seven. First coming to power in 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu is the longest serving prime minister of what country? The correct answer is Israel. Question number eight. Carrie is the title of the first novel of which famous author. Tamara? Stephen King. Stephen King is the correct answer. Question number nine. Which mineral composed of calcium, magnesium, carbonate is usually used in salt water aquariums to help buffer changes in the pH of the water but can also substitute for sand in local beaches? Tamara? Dolomite. Very popular dolomite. K-check. Question number ten. What 2001 Dreamworks film earned the first ever Academy Award? Tamara? Shrek. K-check. Question number eleven. Which former leader of Myanmar was sentenced to three years in jail for electoral fraud last September, adding to the 17 years in prison that she was already handed? Nard. Aung San Suu Chi. Aung San Suu Chi is the correct answer. K-check. Last question. Benny Blanco, BTS and Snoop Dogg pulled their talents into what song that made it to the top ten in the billboard charts in 2022? Bad decisions is the correct answer. And that's the end of our K-check Pabilisan round. Let's recap the points mo na at orni. Tamara has 80 points. Nard has 60 points. Dias has 40 points. K-check Pabilisan has 10 points. Nag-cool. Nag-fast yung ano. Mga pagsagot na kanya bang. Pero hindi pa natin talaga malalaman. It's too early to tell kung sino ang mananalo sa ating contest for the day. Correct. Let's ask Prof. Let's sitin mo sino yung mga kapasok sa kanila. May nakifil ka bang energies? Ang nararam naman. Microphone. Ang nararam naman ko, mananalo yung pinaka malakasang loob sa pagsagot. May question ka ba sa kanila? Oo. Mayro na kung question sana kaya Dias. Kasi Dias mukhang nasa pareho tayong field na sa theater din ako. At kandina pinagjichismi sa nanamin na mayroong kanganong gravitas. Ano mo yung sa performance kasi yung pag nakita mo yung isang performer, yung may weight on stage. Pwede pa natin i-develop. Meron ka bang dream role na gustoong gawin in the future? Joker po. Or Spider-Man fashion. Why not? Pero again pa tulad din po nung nasabi ko naman. Any role po gusto ko rin magampanan. I want to explore as much as possible po. Mas elastic man kaya. Pwede. Maganda yun. Pero maganda yun. Yes. Pero maganda ang attitude yun kasi sa atin di ba, walang malit na role pagka nasa performance. Good luck to you. Thank you po. Si Prof Neal gusto namin ipasampol din yan ba? Ano ba? Ano ang dream role mo Prof Neal if everyone may opportunity ka mo kumarte sa stage? Gusto kong maging Joker. Nangopin ang sagotin. Nangopin. Nangopin. Pinagusapan natin yung dream role. Gusto kong magtanong kay Tamara kung mabibigan ka ng publication grant ano ang yung dream creative writing project? Well, I don't know. Either novel or comic book specifically talaga because yun yun talaga ang gusto ko talagang gawin datip pa talaga. But mahirap talaga ako sa long form writing. Poro short pa lang gaya gawang ako this time. Kaya yung isaring tanong? Ano yung topic kayo? Out topic. I don't know. Usually yung mga nagiging topic kasi nang gawa ko a lot of it. Poro like queerness, identity stuff then mga ibang interest ko naman. Like yung isang interest ko nga. Saabi ko ang comics interest ko rin mga superhero stuff in general. So like gusto ko parang may intersection ng mga bagay-bagay. Especially since wala nang masyadong at least compared sa sa mga ibang bagay sa comic talaga. Nga yung palan talaga dumadating yung mga queer elements within comics. Very promising. Good luck. Interesting talaga ang mga contestants natin. And this time, our contestants will face their toughest challenge yet dahil ang ating ultimate pagalingan round. Susunod na. Here on K-Check. Nating, creative writer Kamala has 80 points. Korean language lover Nard has 60 points. The Joker Dias has 40 and our electronic specialist Salim has 10. Oh, mga kahawal pa ang contestant. Kasi may time pa, di ba? Oh, it's too early to tell kung sino ang susunod natin finalists sa ating grand finals. Correct. At ngayon, nandito na tayo sa ating K-Check Ultimate Pagalingan where correct answers are worth 30 points, wrong answers get a 15 point deduction. At para mas madagdagan ang kaalaman ng ating mga contestants at viewers sa round na ito sa mga professors ng ating panel of experts magagaling ang mga tanong. At the end of this round, malalaman na natin kung sino ang huling papasok sa K-Check Grand Finals. Contestants, let's begin. Question number one magagaling kay Prof. Glessie. Salamat. Oh, usapang history at sinin who composed na katipunan revolutionary song marangal na dalit ng katagalugan. Ang segot ay si Julio Nakpil. Ito yung pinagawani Andres Bonifacio sa kanya para sa katipunan. Marami silaman. Prof. Nil, second question. Trivia lang si Julio Nakpil ang asawa pangalong asawa ng Gregoria de Jesus na asawa ng Andres Bonifacio. Controversial. Pero ito yung tanong ko. Ano ang declaration ng Gran Britannia na nangakong magtatatat ng Jewish homeland sa Israel? Ipinangalan ito sa isang British diplomat na si Arthur Balfour. Ang tamang sagot ay Balfour declaration. Question number three from Prof. Marian. Science. Science. Noble gases are the chemical elements in group 18 of the periodic table. They were called rare gases also because they were believed to be rare. But they're actually relatively abundant, some of them. Now, my question is what is the rarest noble gas? Organison. Sinon. Okay. Noble gases masabi ko lang are tasteless, natikman mo na ba, odorless, colorless with very low chemical reactivity under standard conditions. So, ang example to ay mga hilyu, neon, argon, krypton, sinon, radon which are naturally occurring and organism which is synthetically produced. But the rarest of them all, rarest, not fairest, is sinon. K-check. Thank you so much. But how do you know they're there, Prof. Marian? Thank you. Prof. Lessie. Next question. Rami. Salamat. Usapang mythologya. The Aswang Project recently published a translation of the book Dictionario Mythologica de Filipinas or Yung Dictionary of Philippine Mythology. Who is the author of this reference material on Philippine mythology? Tamang sagot, ay si Ferdinand Blumentritt kai-biga ni Jose Riza. Rami, salamat po. Yung susurot na tanong ay mangagaling mula sa continente kung saan nakaugat So ito yung tanong. Which title provided the highest prestige among medieval Catholic monarchs considered by the Roman Catholic Church malinsagot? Considered by the Roman Catholic Church as the only successor of the Roman Empire monarchs. Yung tamang sagot ay Holy Roman Emperor. Sana po may makasagotole? In food industry, hydrogen is added to oil to make it more solid or spreadable. This process converts liquid oils to semi-solid or plastic fats for special use like margarine and lard and improves the stability of oil. How do you call this process? Hydrogenation. Since the hint was there, hydrogen is added to oil. So hydrogenation, kajang. Thank you so much. Mukhang tumapantay na si Tamara kainard pero pari pang humabol ang iba pa natin contestants. This is the second or the last question of Pamang Bessie. Okay, go ahead. So usapang awit at saka kasi sayan. May isang awit, yung mabuhay ay langit sa sariling bayan kung ang sambayanan ay may kalayaan. This has been actually used to yearning for kalayaan which has been the target of certain movements since the olden times. The song has been inspired by numerous multi-sectoral mass actions since the 70s and has thus been named after this well-known site. What is the name of this well-known junction in the university belt in Maninsagot? Ay Mendyola. Atang awit ay composition ng national artist yung Benito Dundera. Thank you so much. Ralph Neal, next question. Name the International Slavic Terrorist Group. ISIS. Name the International Slavic Terrorist Group Rooted from a group of mujahidins formed in the early 1980s to fight the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. Itinetag ni Osama Bin Laden ang tamang sagot ay Al-Qaeda. Prof. Marian, baka ito na? Ito na? Oh ya, in fairness again. Hindi mo sagot tanong niyo. Parang contestos yun mo na, sagot di pa. Okay, ito. Kayang kaya, dapat. Sana. Storm surge is an abnormal rise of water generated by a storm. How do you call an ocean wave triggered by large earthquakes? Salil. Okay, so triggered by large earthquakes that occur near or under the ocean, volcanic eruptions and sobering landslides. Untidal wave actually is a shallow water wave. Triggered siya by yung mga movement ng moon and the Earth and so on. So the wave triggered by large earthquakes will be called, are called tsunamis. Okay, check. Thank you. Last three questions. Tamara has 80 points, Nard has 75, Diaz 40, Celine 40. Pwede pwede pang umabon ang mga contestants natin. Wala pang kasi gurohan si Tamara. At alas, masagot niya itong mga. Go ahead, Prof. Glesy. Usapang awitin. She was a well-known singer and has earned the title The Nightingale of the Sarswela. She is considered to be the first Filipino recording artist. Who is she? Ang sagot natin ay si Maria Carpena. Sa kanya yung awit na ang maya. Prof. Neil, next question. Ano ang binago sa 1935 Constitution na naging isa sa mga tampok na provision ng Bell Trade Act ng 1946. Dahil lumaya na tayo sa mga americano ng 1946, hindi na sila citizens ng bansa mito. So itong amendment na ito ipinasah para bigyan sila ng equal rights to exploit our natural resources and to engage in businesses related to public utilities. Okay, ang tamang sagot ay parity amendment. Prof. Maria. Uling katanungan. Okay. We use sometimes devices to protect our electronic devices against identity tech or yung mga RFID and we put this in bags para hindi siya maswipe or something, right? So what do you call an enclosure used to block electronic magnetic fields? Parang alam mo dapatin. Nanjan. Na-presure na naman. This enclosure is formed by several layers or mesh of conductive materials. Automobiles actually and airplanes act like these devices also. Kasi a pinoprotect yung passengers from, for example, lightning, right? These devices were named after the inventor Michael Parade and they're called Parade Cage or Shield. Okay. Thank you so much, Prof. Maria. And that ends our third round, the K-Check Ultimate Pagalingan Round. Congratulation to Tamara, our last contestant to get a spot at Grand Finals with 80 points. She will receive power bank from TV UP and will see Tamara again tomorrow for the first ever K-Check Grand Finals. Thanks to Celine, Dias and Nard for joining and to the members of our panel of experts, Prof. Glassi, Prof. Neil and Prof. Maria. This is Attorney Gabby Concepcion. And I am Jonella Bort. Join us again tomorrow for the Grand Finals of K-Check.