(upbeat music) (camera clicks) (upbeat music) - Welcome to the 31st season of Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we're gonna have a great season this year kicked off by two incredible teams.

So let's go ahead and introduce them.

On the bottom, we have Team Alton Fortitude with Joshua, Blake, Sara Beth, and Jacob, and they have the unique honor of being our first homeschooled team to ever compete in Scholastic Hi-Q.

And on the top, we have the returning champs from last season.

The first team to knock off Carbondale in quite a few years.

We have Calloway County with Ellie, Cesar, Ethan, and Isaac.

Now before we get into the game, let's just real quick get into the rules.

We'll start off our game with some toss up questions.

Each toss up question will be worth 20 points.

If a team gets it correct, they'll get a chance to go to a bonus question worth 10 points.

If any team interrupts me in the middle of a question, and gets the question wrong, the other team will receive five points.

So, if both of our teams are ready, let's get right into the questions.

What man was the subject of a massive seated sculpture by Daniel Chester French, that is surrounded by white columns in a Washington, D.C. Memorial?

(bell rings) Blake.

- Abraham Lincoln?

- [Ethan] Abraham Lincoln is correct.

Alton Fortitude getting the first bonus question.

In 1807, tensions between the U.S. and Britain increased when what American frigate was attacked and boarded by the HMS Leopard near Virginia.

- Was it the Chesapeake?

- Yes, The Chesapeake.

- The Chesapeake.

- The Chesapeake is correct, very well done.

Alton Fortitude getting off to a hot start.

All right, we'll go to our next toss up.

What city were a British diplomat was kidnapped by the FLQ in the October Crisis, is home to McGill University, and is Quebec's most populous city?

(bell rings) Blake.

- What is Toronto?

- Toronto is incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to answer.

(bell chimes) Cesar.

- Ontario?

- Ontario is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Montreal.

- Oh, yeah.

- Let's go to our next toss up.

What poem whose elderly narrator vows "not to yield" was written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and has a Latin title referring to the hero of the Odyssey?

(bell rings) Blake.

- Ulysses?

- Ulysses is correct, very well done.

Our next bonus question, what Netflix show set in the 1980s starred Alison Brie and a Betty Gilpin as members of the title league for women's wrestlers?

(indistinct conversation) - Wrestling Champs?

- Wrestling Champs is unfortunately incorrect.

Calloway, you do have the chance to steal here.

- The Women's League.

- The Women's League is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Glow.

Show is a few years old at this point, so kind of faded from memory to be sure.

Our next toss up, what type of animal with impenetrable skin was strangled to death by Pericles in Nemea (bell ringing) and was placed- Oh.

Jacob.

- Lion.

- Lion is correct, well done.

We'll move on to our next bonus question.

What politician became speaker of the house after his "Contract with America" helped Republicans win control of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections?

- Gingrich.

- Newt Gingrich is correct, very well done.

Off to a hot start Alton Fortitude.

Next toss up.

What structural protein that compromises much of the intermediate filaments in animal cells also makes up horns, feathers, fingernails- Isaac.

- Keratin?

- Keratin is correct.

Getting on the board for Calloway.

Our next bonus.

A man as a cab driver, a man works as a cab driver to take revenge on two former Mormons in what novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, which introduced Detective Sherlock Holmes?

- Hounds of Baskerville.

- I'm sorry that is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude, you do have the chance to steal here.

- No, it's the Valley of Death.

The Valley of Death.

- Valley of Death is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is A Study in Scarlet, A Study in Scarlet.

On to the next toss up.

What founder of the Deist cult of Supreme Being lost power- Cesar.

- Robespierre.

- Robespierre is correct.

And onto the bonus question.

In 2022, what former White House press secretary under Donald Trump won the Republican primary for Governor of Arkansas?

- Sarah Huckabee Sanders?

- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is correct, very well done.

And now we're off to our first media question audio.

This theme song can be heard in Episode One, The Phantom Menace of the Star Wars film franchise.

(tense ominous music) - Clone wars.

- [Ethan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

It is played during the final lightsaber battle.

- Dual of Fates.

- [Ethan] Dual of Fates is correct.

The next toss up, what state whose Lehman Caves and Wheeler Peak are in Great Basin National Park, shares Lake Tahoe and Death Valley?

- Nevada.

- Nevada is correct.

All right, what astronomer developed a tuning fork diagram to classify galaxies, discovered a law for the recession velocity of distant galaxies?

- Hubble?

- Calloway, that is correct.

And let's go to the next toss up.

What NFL team, which plays at First Energy Stadium, made a trade in 2022 for quarterback Deshaun Watson?

Cesar.

- Browns.

- The Cleveland Browns is correct.

On to your bonus.

In 1624, what cleric replaced Charles de La Vieuville as chief minister of France under Louis the 13th?

- Mazarin?

- Mazarin is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude chance to steal here, get some points back.

- Richelieu.

- Richelieu is correct, Cardinal Richelieu.

Now, let's take it to the next toss up question.

What element whose trioxide is added to Pyrex and other glassware to increase their thermal resistance- Ethan.

- Boron.

- Boron is correct, onto your bonus.

W.W. Jacobs wrote what 1902 short story whose cursed title object fulfills the wishes of Mr. and Mrs. White in an ironic and horrifying manner?

- The Monkey's Paw.

- The Monkey's Paw is correct.

On to the next question.

What novel in which Basil Hallward creates an object that becomes increasingly low- Jacob.

- Picture of Dorian Gray?

- Picture of Dorian Gray is correct.

On to your bonus.

What adjective describes collisions in which momentum is conserved, but kinetic energy is not conserved?

- It's transfer energy.

- Transfer energy?

- Transfer is incorrect.

Calloway County chance to steal.

- Elastic.

- Elastic is correct, well done on the steal there.

All right, our next toss up.

What Monarch, who is named the successor of Charles the VI in the pragmatic sanction opposed Frederick II in the war of the Austrian succession?

Jacob.

- Gustavus Adolphus.

- Gustavus Adolphus is incorrect.

Calloway, Cesar.

- Maria Teresa.

- Maria Theresa is correct.

Very well done there.

Onto your bonus.

What surname is shared by ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie, and the American author of the novel No Country for Old Men?

- Jones.

- Jones is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude.

- Henson.

- Henson is also incorrect, answer we're looking for was McCarthy, McCarthy.

Right, onto our next toss up.

What mountain range has its eastern terminus at the Cape de Creus, is the home of the Basque people and separate- Cesar.

- The Pyrenees Mountains.

- The Pyrenees Mountains is correct.

Really well done on these interruptions here.

All right, onto your bonus.

What jazz singer discussed her 1939 recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" in an autobiography titled after her album, The Lady Sings the Blues.

- Bessie Smith.

- Bessie Smith is incorrect.

Alton fortitude, you got a chance to grab some points.

- Angelou?

- Angelou is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Billie Holiday.

On to our next media question.

This well known filmmaker is responsible for many strange Claymation creations but also blockbuster movies like Alice in Wonderland from 2015, Edward Scissor Hands, and - Ellie.

- Tim Burton.

- Tim Burton is correct.

Very well done, and we'll throw it now to the next toss up.

What poem, which is dedicated to Carl Solomon, describes the "best minds" of my generation?

- Ellie.

- Howl?

- Howl is correct, and your bonus.

In 1943, US forces killed what Japanese admiral who planned and oversaw the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?

- Yamamoto.

- Yamamoto is correct, well done.

All right and next, to our next tossup.

What man whose namesake "time independent equation sets H(psi) = E(psi)" propose a thought experiment about a box with an alive and dead cat.

- Schrödinger.

- Schrödinger is correct and onto your bonus.

In what class of reactions that includes disproportionation reactions are electrons transferred from one species to another?

- Polar.

- Polar is incorrect.

Alton.

- Redox.

- Redox is correct.

And with that question getting through, we're now gonna take it to our lightning round.

(thunder rumbling) Now the way the lightning round works is both teams will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions about a certain topic as they can.

Alton Fortitude, since you guys are trailing here, you will have the chance to pick your first topic in the lightning round.

Your topics are African leaders, good read-"ing", eyes, and "A-B-C." - A-B-C. - A-B-C, all right.

So I'll start out with you Alton Fortitude, 60 seconds on the clock.

I'll count you down three.

Oh, excuse me, I'll give you the description first.

Give these words that contain the letters A, B, and C in any order.

Now I'll count you down.

3, 2, 1, color that absorbs all light.

- Oh, black.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Hasbro game involving making words with tiles.

- Scrabble.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Seafood used in a cake, popular in Merrill.

- Crab.

- Crab's correct.

- [Ethan] Counting device with columns and beads.

- Abacus.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Having a pH of greater than seven.

- Acid.

- [Ethan] that's incorrect.

A signal fire or lighthouse?

- Oh, skip.

- [Ethan] Skip.

The B in a B.A degree, stands for this.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] All right.

Handheld instrument that composed of two telescopes.

- Binocular.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Type of Italian vinegar made from grape must.

- Balsamic.

- [Ethan] Balsamic is correct.

A person who received the proceeds of a life insurance policy.

- Beneficiary.

- [Ethan] That is correct.

A signal fire or lighthouse.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] The B in B.A degree stands for this.

I'm sorry you are out of time.

The answer we were looking for for having a pH greater than seven is not acid, but basic.

Jacob, I see you nodding your head.

You knew that one.

A signal fire or lighthouse, beacon.

The B in B.A, I almost said it.

Bachelor is the answer we're looking for.

And handheld instrument composed of two telescopes was binoculars.

- Now Calloway County, you have the chance to answer, and you get even more points, gotta extend that lead.

I'll go through your choices again.

African leaders, Good read-"ing" and eyes.

- Good reading.

- [Ethan] Good reading, all right.

Name these literary works whose titles contain a word which may not be the last that ends in i-n-g. 60 seconds on the clock for you and I will count you down.

3, 2, 1, first sequel to the Hunger Games.

- Catching Fire.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Absurdist play about Vladimir and Estragon.

- Waiting for Godot.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Shel Silverstein book whose title object becomes a stump.

- The giving tree.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Shakespeare play about the ill-tempered Katharina.

- Taming of the Shrew.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Novel about Janie Crawford by Zora Neale Hurston.

- Their Eyes Were Watching God.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

2018 memoir by Michelle Obama.

- Becoming.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Steven King novel set at the Overlook Hotel.

- The Shining.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Irvine Welsh novel about Scottish drug addicts.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The third book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Michael Chabon novel about makers of superhero comics.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Irvine Welsh novel about Scottish drug addicts.

Sorry, you guys were all out of time.

The three that you skipped.

That Irvine Welsh novel, Train Spotting.

The third book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Michael Chabon's novel about makers of superheroes.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

All right, now let's take a look at our points after our lightning round.

And we see Calloway, after a bit of a slow start really taking on a strong lead here.

275 to 170, but still about half a game to catch up Alton Fortitude, by no means are you out of it.

All right, let's take it back to our toss-ups.

In July, 2022, what number went into effect nationwide as the three digit toll free shortcut to mental health hotlines as a compliment to 9-1-1.

Cesar.

- 9-8-8.

- [Ethan] 9-8-8 is correct, onto your bonus.

In what island kingdom did a January, 2022 volcanic eruption, whose blast was heard in Alaska, generate tsunami waves across the entire Pacific Ocean?

- Japan.

- [Ethan] Japan is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude, you have the chance to steal.

- Thailand.

- [Ethan] Thailand is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Tonga.

Onto our next toss-up.

What surname does Oklahoma and rodeo choreographers Agnes share with the director of- - De Mille.

- De Mille is correct, onto your bonus.

What president's name was removed from the former National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis when it became Gateway Arch National Park in 2018?

- Thomas Jefferson.

- Thomas Jefferson is correct, very well done.

And your next question.

What language was used to write a novel about a parallel earth with two moons tilted, 1Q84, as well as Norwegian Wood, two books by Haruki Murakami.

- Japanese.

- Japanese is correct, and for your bonus, what operation takes two input vectors and produces a new vector perpendicular to the inputs, whose direction can be found with the right hand rule?

- Dot product.

- [Ethan] Dot product is incorrect.

- Cross product.

- Cross product is correct, very well done.

Get some points back with that steal.

All right.

What man who promoted philanthropy in his 1889 essay The Gospel of Wealth?

Cesar.

- Andrew Carnegie.

- Andrew Carnegie is correct, onto your bonus.

What achievement accomplished in June, 2022 by singer Jennifer Hudson, takes its name from the four competitive awards that must be won to do so.

- Quadruple Crown.

- Quadruple crown is incorrect, but I like where your head was at.

Alton Fortitude, get some points back here with a steal.

- Nobel Prize.

- Nobel Prize is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was EGOT's.

And now for our first pencil and paper ready question.

What integer equals the value of the quantity one third raised to the negative two power?

Blake.

- Nine.

- Nine is correct, that was very quick.

All right, onto your bonus.

Sankore Madrasah was the center of learning in what city that was a major trading hub in the Mali Empire?

- Songhai.

- [Ethan] Songhai is incorrect.

Calloway.

- Timbuktu.

- Timbuktu is correct, well done Cesar.

Onto our next question.

What university is home to the Ashmolean Museum and the Bodleian Library, publishes an English dictionary, and has a rival with Cambridge?

Isaac.

- Oxford.

- Oxford's correct.

For your bonus, what Queen who co-ruled with her stepson, Thutmose III, was the second woman after Sobekneferu to become Egyptian Pharaoh?

- Hatshepsut.

- [Ethan] Hatshepsut is correct.

And we'll throw it to our next toss-up question.

What country's 2022 election to replace President Iván Duque Cesar.

- Chile.

- Chile is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude, I'll finish the rest of the question.

- was won by one time M-19 Guerrilla Fighter Gustavo Petro, a former leftist mayor of Bogotá?

Blake.

- Oh, what is Columbia?

- Columbia is correct.

Hold on there for your bonus.

What author wrote about Mr. Hopper, a clergyman who refuses to let his faith be seen by his fellow townspeople in his story, "The Minister's Black Veil."

- Don Giovanni.

- [Ethan] Don Giovanni's incorrect, Calloway County.

- Hawthorne.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne is correct, snagging the steal there.

Very well done.

All right, what rule that explains the common ion effect is named for a Frenchman and says an equilibrium will shift to counter- Isaac.

- Le Chatelier's Principle.

- Le Chatelier is correct.

For your bonus, what adjective of nationality describes a film camera angle set on a diagonal, and a "treat in which each person pays for himself?"

- Split.

- [Ethan] Split is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude, you have a chance to snag the buzzer on a steal.

- Spartan.

- Spartan.

Unfortunately the answer we're looking for was Dutch.

Dutch angle, and I guess Dutch treat.

Onto our next toss up.

What King who executed Robert Aske for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace, counted Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn among his six total- Jacob.

- Henry VIII.

- Henry VIII is correct.

For your bonus, the slope of the straight part of a stress strain curve equals what modulus, which quantifies a material's tensile stiffness?

- Strength.

- [Ethan] Strength.

I'm sorry, that is incorrect.

Calloway County.

- Young's - [Ethan] Young is correct, well done.

All right, for our next toss-up.

What country whose very large telescope is an observatory in the Atacama Desert, controls Easter Island, and is governed from Santiago.

- Chile.

- [Ethan] Chile that time is correct.

Got it on the next one.

All right, for your bonus.

In 1946, Lucky Luciano organized a summit of mafia leaders at a hotel in what non-American capital city that was long popular with U.S. mobsters?

- Casa Blanca.

- [Ethan] Casa Blanca is incorrect.

Alton Fortitude, you have a chance to steal.

- Mexico City?

- Mexico City is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Havana.

For your next toss-up.

What YA novel whose sequels include The River, was written by Gary Paulsen about Brian's efforts to survive- - Hatchet.

- [Ethan] Hatchet is correct.

All right, and I believe onto our media question now.

This film, actually, you know what?

I think I cut it off wrong.

I'll throw it to your bonus first because you'd get that toss-up correct, then we'll do the media question.

What 19th century American novelist wrote a number of "rags to riches" novels such as Ragged Dick.

- Mark Twain?

- [Ethan] Mark Twain is incorrect.

Calloway County, the chance to steal here.

- Fitzgerald.

- [Ethan] Fitzgerald is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Horatio Alger.

And I think now I'll throw it to our media question.

And this film premiered in a May, 2015, and is the fourth movie in the franchise directed by George Miller.

- Mad Max Fury Road.

- [Ethan] Mad Max Fury Road is correct, well done there.

I'll throw it back to some toss-ups.

What particles were discovered through a deep inelastic scattering?

Experiments have flavors including up and charm.

- Isaac.

- Quarks.

- [Ethan] Quarks is correct, and now for your bonus.

Lightning strikes are an abiotic cause of fixation of what element, whose fixation is also accomplished by a bacteria in a genus ribes- Oh, excuse me, rhizobium.

- Nitrogen.

- Nitrogen is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What President who sent marines to occupy Haiti and the Dominican Republic outlined his "14 points?"

- Wilson.

- [Ethan] Woodrow Wilson is correct.

Now for your bonus.

The photograph of Earth, known as The Blue Marble, was taken by Harrison Schmidt and Ronald Evans during what final Apollo mission to the moon in 1972?

- Apollo 14.

- [Ethan] Sorry, Apollo 14 is incorrect.

- Apollo 15.

- [Ethan] Apollo 15, also incorrect.

It was actually Apollo 17.

For our next toss-up.

What Singer who sparked a boycott of Pepsi after the Vatican condemned a commercial featuring her song "Like A Prayer" also recorded "Like A Virgin."

Isaac.

- Madonna.

- Madonna is correct.

For your bonus, what German philosopher who did anti-Semitic remarks in his black notebooks discussing the concept of Dawson in his 1927 book, Being and Time?

- Max Weber.

- [Ethan] Max Weber is incorrect.

Fortitude, you do have the chance to steal.

- Niche.

- [Ethan] Niche is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Martin Heidegger.

And unfortunately, that question is the last one that we will have time for, as that bell signifies.

As we take a look at our score, Calloway County really run away with it after that bonus round, but still a very strong showing for your first time here on Scholastic Hi-Q, so nothing to be ashamed of there.

But that is all we're gonna have time for, for all of our lovely contestants, for all the people behind the scenes and behind the cameras, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you and goodnight.

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