(relaxed music) (camera beeps) (upbeat music) - Welcome back to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir and we have truly a clash of the titans happening.

I believe the champion from two years ago against last year's champ.

It's gonna be a good one, so let's introduce our teams.

On the bottom, we have Callaway County with Ezra, Connor, Aubrey and Nathaniel and up top, we have the returning champs Metro East with Ethan, Harry, Mary and Peter.

Now before we get into the questions, let's just do a quick recap of our rules.

We'll start out with some toss-up questions.

Those are worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they move on to a bonus question which is worth 20 and can be stolen for 10.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time but if you interrupt me and get a question wrong, it is five points for the other team.

So just be right all the time and it won't matter.

Let's get into the questions.

What fictional group whose members include Baby John and Action sings "Gee, Officer Krupke" and are the rivals- (buzzer beeps) - Jets.

- The Jets is correct.

Also a fantastic NHL team, let's go Peg City.

For your bonus, during what uprising in 17th century Virginia did rebels opposed to Governor William Berkeley issue the Declaration of the People and burn Jamestown?

- Whiskey.

- Whiskey is incorrect.

Calloway County, a chance to steal.

- Shays.

- Shay is incorrect.

We were looking for a different food, a Bacon.

Bacon's Rebellion.

- Bacon's Rebellion.

- Your next question, what part of the human upper extremity is known as the pollicis, has two phalanges and, (buzzer beeps) Peter?

- Foot.

- Foot is incorrect.

I will reread the question for you, Calloway.

What part of the human upper extremity is known as the pollicis, has two phalanges and has a saddle-shaped joint that allows it to be opposable?

(buzzer beeps) Connor?

- Thumb.

- Thumb is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel "Brave New World," what 20th century industrialist is venerated for philosophical teaching such as "history is bunk?"

- Carnegie.

- Carnegie is incorrect.

Metro East, chance to steal.

- Ford.

- Henry Ford is correct, well done.

For your next question, what playwright wrote about Septimus tutoring Thomasina in "Arcadia" and about two characters from Hamlet in "Rosencrantz and Guild-" (buzzer beeps) Aubrey?

- Stoppard.

- Tom Stoppard is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Manama is the capital of what Middle Eastern country that is linked to the mainland by the King Fahd Causeway?

- Qatar?

Qatar.

- Qatar is incorrect.

Metro East, a chance to steal.

- Bahrain.

- Bahrain is correct.

Well done, Metro East.

For your next question, what city is home to Arima Onsen Hot Springs, was devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and is the source of a prized Japanese beef?

(buzzer beeps) Ezra?

- Wagyu.

- Wagyu is incorrect.

- Ethan?

- Kobe.

- Kobe beef is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what non-SI unit of an area is equal to about 2.5 acres or a square 100 meters on a side?

- Square mile.

- Square mile is incorrect.

Calloway County, you have a chance to steal.

- Square kilometer.

- Square kilometer is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was hectare, hectare.

For your next question, what man fired CEO Parag Agrawal and shared a picture of himself carrying a sink in October 2022?

(buzzer beeps) Ezra?

- Elon Musk.

- Elon Musk is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what alliterative nickname arose for the 47-ton German M-Gerat Howitzer artillery guns that were used at the battle of the Liege and Verdun?

- Big Bertha.

- Big Bertha is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what show whose season four soundtrack opens with "Separate Ways" and includes Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill?"

(buzzer beeps) Aubrey?

- "Stranger Things."

- "Stranger Things" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what singer whose solo albums include "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" joined Rapper Anderson .Paak to form the super duo Silk Sonic?

- Bruno Mars.

- Bruno Mars is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what region which extends from Woods Hole in the Southwest to Provincetown is to the north of Martha's Vineyard and is a cape in Massa- (buzzer beeps) Nathaniel?

- Cape Cod.

- Cape Cod is correct, also fantastic chips and well done.

For your bonus, the optimal reaction for fusion reactors requires what unstable isotope of hydrogen that has two neutrons?

- Deuterium.

- Deuterium is incorrect.

Metro East, chance to steal.

- Tritium.

- Tritium is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what President authorized Operation Ajax to overthrow Iran's Prime Minister, created NASA to kick off the Space Race- (buzzer beeps) Harry?

- Kennedy.

- Kennedy is incorrect.

I will reread the full question.

What President authorized Operation Ajax to overthrow Iran's Prime Minister, created NASA to kick off the Space Race in 1958 and was nicknamed Ike?

(buzzer beeps) Nathaniel?

- Eisenhower.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in the Black Hawk Down Incident, 18 American soldiers died fighting in 1993 against insurgents in what East African capital city?

(students whispering) (buzzer blares) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

Metro East, the chance to steal.

- Addis Ababa.

- Addis Ababa is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Mogadishu, Mogadishu.

Your next question, what quantity whose vapor type appears in Raoult's Law is inversely proportional to a gas' volume and can be measured in pascals or atmos- (buzzer beeps) Nathaniel?

- Pressure.

- Pressure is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what volcano which erupted in December 2022 for the first time since 1984 makes up much of the big island of Hawaii?

- Kilauea.

- Kilauea is incorrect.

- Motu Nui.

- Motu Nui is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Mauna Loa, Mauna Loa.

For your next question, in 2022, Dina Boluarte became what South American country's first female President after Pedro Castillo was impeached and detained in its capital?

(buzzer beeps) Ethan?

- Peru.

- Peru is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the AES and RSA algorithms perform what task which encodes a message so that only those with a certain key can read it?

- Encryption, right?

- Yeah.

- Encryption.

- Encryption is correct, well done.

Your next question, what Roman politician was the target of Cicero's Philippicae and lost the battle of Actium to Octavian, after which he- (buzzer beeps) - Mark Antony.

- Mark Antony is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what work by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize?

- Maus.

- Maus is correct, well done.

The next question, what artist painted a crumbling pillar inside a torso in "The Broken Column" and included hummingbirds in a self-portrait inspired by her Mexican- (buzzer beeps) Harry?

- Kahlo.

- Frida Kahlo is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what name is shared by an outdoor apparel company founded by Yvon Chouinard and an arid region of Southern Chile and Argentina?

- Patagonia.

- Patagonia is correct.

Well done.

For the next question, what novel whose protagonist works at the Liberty Paint Factory and lives in Harlem features- (buzzer beeps) Mary?

- "Invisible Man."

- "Invisible Man" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

For any positive value of X, the base three logarithm of X equals what integer times the base nine logarithm of X?

- Two?

- Yeah.

- Two.

- Two is correct, well done.

For your next question, what denomination, the main target of the Know Nothing movement, had no adherents elected president until 1960?

(buzzer beeps) Mary?

- Catholic.

- Can you say that again?

- Catholic.

- Catholics is correct.

Well done.

- Nice.

- For your bonus, what three-word term whose first word begins with S denotes the splitting up of responsibilities within a government into branches?

- Separation of powers.

- Separation of powers is correct, well done.

Next question, what substances formed by the hemolysis of CFCs contribute to the breakdown of atmospheric ozone and contain one or more unpaired electrons?

(buzzer beeps) Ethan?

- Free radicals.

- Free radicals is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" is about what calamitous century during which millions died of the Black Death?

- 14th.

- The 14th century is correct, well done.

- Yes.

- For the next question, what book which contains a list of costs totaling over $28 in a chapter titled "Economy" depicts the life in the woods of Henry David Thoreau?

(buzzer beeps) Aubrey?

- "Walden."

- "Walden" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what author noted "They also serve who only stand and wait" in his sonnet "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" about his blindness?

- Keats.

- Keats is incorrect.

Metro East, chance to steal.

- Stevie Wonder.

- Stevie Wonder, noted blind person, not the answer you're looking for.

The answer you're looking for was John Milton, John Milton.

For the next question, what country's politics were controlled from 1929 to 2000 by the PRI?

(buzzer beeps) Ethan?

- Mexico.

- Mexico is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what law which can be derived from from Fermat's Principle of Least Time relates the sines of the angles of incidents and refraction?

- Law of sines.

- Law of sines is incorrect.

Calloway County, chance to steal.

- Law of cosines.

- That's also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Snell's Law, Snell's Law.

For your next question, what kind of celebrations include the Iranian Nowruz, the Vietnamese Tet and the Chinese festival that takes place in January or February?

(buzzer beeps) Ethan?

- New Year's.

- New Year is correct.

Well done.

- Yes.

- For your bonus, in May 2023, what Major League Baseball franchise announced a new stadium agreement that allows the team to move to Las Vegas by 2025?

- A's.

- The Oakland A's is unfortunately correct.

Poor Oakland, they just lose every team.

I feel so bad for them.

For your next toss up, what six-letter term describes saturated hydrocarbons that have the maximum possible number of attached hydrogen atoms such as methane or propane?

(buzzer beeps) Aubrey?

- Stable.

- Stable is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Ethan?

- Aldehydes.

- Aldehydes is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was alkanes, alkanes.

And that will take us to our lightning round.

(thunder booms) The way our lightning round will work is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a certain topic.

Now Calloway, since you guys are trailing in this one, you guys get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are 'A' in Literature, Age of Discovery, Judges on the Voice or 'M.'

- The discoveries.

- Age of discovery, all right.

Answer the following about European naval exploration in the 15th, 16th and 17th century.

60 seconds on on the clock, I'll count you down.

Three, two, one.

Initial captain of the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe.

- Magellan.

- Correct.

South African Cape reached by Bartolomeu Dias.

- Good Hope.

- [Host] Portuguese Prince known as the Navigator.

- Henry.

- [Host] Magnetic orienting device essential to ocean exploration.

- Compass.

- [Host] First European to reach India by sea.

- Vasco da Gama.

- [Host] A main triangular sail hung at 45 degrees.

- Schoon.

- That's incorrect.

Modern day country explored by John Cabot.

- Pass.

- [Host] Mythical water feature that Juan de Ponce Leon- - Fountain of Youth.

- That's correct.

Columbus' Nina and Pinta were this type of speedy ship.

- Schooner.

- That's incorrect.

Italian mapmaker and namesake of America.

- Amerigo Vespucci.

- That is correct.

A main triangular sail, oh no.

Modern day country explored by John Cabot.

- Canada.

- That is correct.

I believe that is all of the questions.

So we will go through the ones that you guys missed.

The triangular sail hung at a 45 degree angle is a lateen sail.

The "Columbus' Nina and Pinta were this type of speedy ship" was caravel, caravel.

But very well done, going I believe eight for 10 there.

Nothing to sneeze at at all.

But now Metro East, you guys get the chance to respond with your choices being Judges on the Voice, 'M' or 'A' in Literature.

- 'A' in Literature.

- 'A' in Literature it is.

Name the authors of these English language works whose titles start with the letter A.

60 seconds on the clock.

I'll count you down, three, two, one.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

- Carroll.

- "Animal Farm."

- Orwell.

- [Host] "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

- Twain.

- [Host] "As I Lay Dying" and "Absalom, Absalom!"

- Faulkner.

- [Host] "Anthem" and "Atlas Shrugged."

- Rand.

- [Host] "Age of Innocence."

- Wharton.

- [Host] "The Awakening."

- Chopin.

- [Host] "Anne of Green Gables."

- Montgomery.

- "Angela's Ashes."

- Pass.

- [Host] "The Ambassadors."

- James.

- "Angela's Ashes."

(upbeat music) - Smith.

- Smith is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Frank McCourt.

Frank McCourt.

But very well done there, going nine out of 10.

So now let's take a look at our scores after the lightning round.

We have Metro East on top, 360 to Calloway County's 210.

But with each question being worth 30 points, plenty of time to come back in the game.

Let's get back to our questions.

What title character thwarts the plans of his employer Count Almaviva in a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comic opera about his marriage to Susanna?

(buzzer beeps) Nathaniel?

- "Figaro."

- "Figaro" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, which grandson of Chandragupta and third ruler of the Mauryan Empire converted to Buddhism after winning the Kalinga War and wrote many Rock Edicts?

- Ashoka.

- Ashoka is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what poet wrote about a man guttering, choking, drowning with froth-corrupted lungs from a gas attack in his anti-war poem "Dulce and Decorum?"

Oh, if I said this is a bonus question, this is a toss up.

So you can both answer.

(buzzer blares) So you guys are all out of time.

The answer you're looking for was Wilfred Owen.

Wilfred Owen.

For our next question, what business which is the world's largest music publisher makes Bravia-branded televisions, Xperia phones and the PlayStation console?

(buzzer beeps) Harry?

- Sony.

- Sony is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what weather phenomenon "rubs its back upon the windowpanes" in a love song by T.S.

Eliot and "comes on little cat feet" in a Carl Sandburg poem?

- Fog.

- Fog is correct, well done.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the length of each long side of a rectangle whose short sides each measure 10 and whose perimeter is 44?

(buzzer beeps) Connor?

- 12.

- 12 is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Calabria lies at the eastern end of what strait that separates Sicily from the Italian mainland?

- Gibraltar?

- Gibraltar.

- Gibraltar.

- [Host] Gibraltar is incorrect.

Metro East, a chance to steal.

- Palermo.

- Palermo is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Strait of Messina.

Strait of Messina.

For your next question, what hero who was awarded the Hide of Calydonian Boar by Meleager lost- (buzzer beeps) Harry?

- Atalanta.

- Atalanta is correct.

- Nice.

- For your bonus, as of 2022, women such as a Wilma Mankiller and Anna May Wong can be seen on what objects issued by the US government?

- Dollar coin.

- Dollar coin is incorrect.

Calloway County, a chance to steal.

- Half dollar.

- Half dollar is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was quarter, a quarter.

For your next question, during what war did a secret study leaked by Daniel Ellsberg known as the Penta- (buzzer beeps) Nathaniel?

- Vietnam.

- Vietnam War is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what man became the youngest ever Presidential nominee of a major party after giving his Cross of Gold speech in 1896?

- [Nathaniel] William Jennings Bryan.

- William Jennings Bryan is correct, well done.

For your next question, poems in what form, many of which appear in "Narrow Road to the Deep North," have lines of five, seven and- (buzzer beeps) Aubrey?

- Haiku.

- Haiku is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what name is sometimes given to 2/2 time, which can be denoted by a C with a vertical line through it?

- Cut time.

- Cut time is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, in what film whose protagonist runs a savings bank in Bedford Falls does an angel- (buzzer beeps) Harry?

- "It's a Wonderful Life."

- "It's a Wonderful Life" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what physicist worked with Harvey Fletcher to first determine the charge of the electron by making oil drops hover in a capacitor?

- Boyle.

- Boyle is incorrect.

Calloway County, the chance to steal.

- [Nathaniel] Milliken.

- Robert A. Milliken is correct, well done.

For your next question, what animal, The largest reptile in North America is an apex predator native to the entire Gulf Coast and shares an order with crocodiles?

(buzzer beeps) Harry?

- Alligator.

- American alligator is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what playwright created backstabbing real estate salesman Dave Moss, Shelly Levene and Ricky Roma in his 1983 play "Glengarry Glen Ross?"

(buzzer blares) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

Calloway, a chance to steal.

- Miller.

- Miller is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was David Mamet, David Mamet.

Next question, what alleged member of the Khlyst sect tried to treat Tsarevich Alexei's hemophilia before being shot in- (buzzer beeps) Nathaniel?

- Rasputin.

- Grigori Rasputin is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in the 12th century, what city of about one million people was capital of the Khmer Empire and had a namesake temple complex or wat?

- Angkor Wat.

- Angkor Wat.

- Angkor Wat is correct, well done.

For your next question, what creature which is supposedly depicted in the so-called Surgeon's Photograph taken in 1934 is said to live in a lake- (buzzer beeps) Peter?

- Nessie.

- Yeah, Nessie is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in October 2022, Nury Martinez resigned as a member of what city's city council after recording leaked of her making racist remarks?

- St. Louis?

- Oh yeah.

- St. Louis.

- St. Louis is incorrect.

Calloway County, the chance to steal.

- New York City.

- New York is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

The next question, what type of bird which cannot hear its master's call in the poem "The Second Coming" partly titles a docile Hamlet novel about a Maltese?

(buzzer beeps) Mary?

- Falcon.

- Falcon is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the area of an annulus formed by two concentric circles whose radii are 10 and five respectively?

- 125 plus two pi.

- [Host] That is incorrect.

Calloway County with a chance to steal.

- 37.55.

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was 75 pi, 75 pi.

For your next question, what Chinese dynasty which was led by the Aisin-Gioro clan faced the Boxer Rebellion and was led by Pujie, the final Emperor of- (buzzer beeps) Harry?

- Ching.

- Ching Dynasty is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what YA author wrote about Lyra Belacqua's conflicts with the repressive Magisterium in the fantasy series "The Book of Dust" and "His Dark Materials?"

(students whispering) (buzzer blares) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

Calloway, a chance to steal.

- Claire.

- Claire is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Philip Pullman, Philip Pullman.

And that is all the time we have for on today's show.

So let's take a look at our scores.

On top, we have Metro East over Calloway with a very tight 450 to 350 in honestly, a series that could have very easily been the finale.

Very well done to both you guys, great job.

So that is all the time we have for on today's show.

For all of our contestants here today as well as the people working hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much and goodnight.

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