(soft music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to "Scholastic Hi-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Jordan Spudville, and today we have two returning teams with us who are ready to duel it out but still have fun.

On the bottom row, we have Calloway with Cesar, Ellie, and Jayden.

And on the top row, we've got Salem with Breanna, Alyssa, and Daniyal.

Now that we've met our contestants, it's time to go over the rules.

I'm going to be reading a series of 10 point toss-up questions that any contestant can answer.

If a contestant answers a toss-up correctly, their team gets a bonus question worth 20 points.

However, if that team answers the bonus incorrectly, the other team can snatch it away from them and earn themselves 10 points.

The interruption rule will be in effect in today's game.

So if someone interrupts me and answers a question incorrectly, the other team automatically earns themselves five points, and they get to hear the entire question.

As usual, we'll be having our lightning round halfway through our game where I'll be reading a series of questions in any given category that both teams will have a chance to answer as many as they possibly can in 60 seconds.

Now that we know the rules, it's time to put on our thinking caps.

Let's get down to quiz-ness, starting with our first 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What musician behind the album, "Father of Asahd," featured Rihanna on the 2017 hit "Wild Thoughts" and is a DJ who uses catchphrases... (buzzer sounding) - Ellie.

- Khaled.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your first 20 point bonus question.

What actor, who hosted the 2020 CBS game show, "Game On," previously starred in a Comedy Central sketch comedy series with Jordan Peele?

- Key.

- Key.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry.

- Key.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, oxygen enter cells through what process in which molecules cross the cell membrane passively, going from regions of high to low concentration?

(buzzer sounding) Daniyal.

- Osmosis.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) The answer we were looking for was diffusion.

It's okay, we're going to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

In 2016, what state's residents approved the new name Utqia!vik for the city of Barrow, giving an Inuit name to a... (buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Alaska.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next 20 point bonus question.

This is a math question, so let's get those pencils and paper ready.

Two answers are required.

What two prime numbers are factors of 147, given that 147 is divisible by a perfect square, 49?

- Seven and three.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what disease for which the FDA gave a June 2021 approval to the $50,000 a year drug, Aduhelm, is the most common cause of dementia in the US?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- Alzheimer's.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What island, which names an orange flavored but blue colored liqueur, is a Dutch owned Caribbean island that is the C and the so-called ABC islands?

- Curacao.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, which English king conquered Cyprus from Isaac Komnenos during the Third Crusade, one of many military feats that earned him the nickname Lionheart?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- Richard the Lionheart.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

The treaties that ended the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War were both signed in and named for what city?

- Paris.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

It's time for our first media question of the game.

This is a still question.

Let's have a look.

This logo is for a service from Amazon that allows you to read- (buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Kindle.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our 10 point toss-up for both teams, what boy is mistreated by his aunts, Sponge and Spiker, and befriends talking insects in a Roald Dahl novel about this voice travels in a giant peach?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- James.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What satirical World War II novel, whose sequel, "Closing Time," was published in 1994, includes such characters as Milo Minderbinder?

- Catch-22.

- Catch-22.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point.

toss-up for both teams, what Greek God who creates a net to ensnare the adulterous Ares and Aphrodite is the equivalent to the Roman god, is equivalent of the Roman Vulcan and is the god of blacksmiths?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- Hephaestus.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

Static friction is related to what phenomenon in which electric forces tend to attract two different materials, such as a liquid and glass?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Salem, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Lightning.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was adhesion or adhesive forces.

That's okay, we're going to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What elements, the namesake of a contraction and the atomic radius of heavy elements, lies beneath the transition metals and above the alkalis?

(buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Lanthanides.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

What author of the philosophical novel, "Emile," also wrote "The Social Contract?"

- Rousseau.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what event, whose pretext was Ernst vom Rath's assassination, was a 1938 pogrom in Germany in which windows of Jewish owned buildings were smashed?

(buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Kristallnacht.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

Bloemfontein, which means fountain of flowers, is in what country whose other cities include Pietermaritzburg and Durban?

- South Africa.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what American author wrote, "The imitation is suicide," and that, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," in his essay, "Self-reliance"?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- Thoreau.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) And the answer we were looking for was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

- It's okay, we're going to lighten the mood, Move on to our next and media question.

This is a video question.

Let's have a look.

This YouTube series is by the channel "First-" (buzzer sounding) Daniyal.

- "Hot Wings."

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what NBA team, which won its first title in 1999 with the twin towers of David Robinson- (buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- San Antonio Spurs.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

Ms. Whatsit, Ms. Who, and Ms.

Which help Meg Murry find her father by tessering through the universe in what 1962 novel by Madeleine L'Engle?

- "Wrinkle in Time."

- "A Wrinkle in Time."

- That's correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

This is a math question, so it's time to get those pencils and paper ready.

If the vertex angle of an isosceles triangle measures 56 degrees, what is the measure of either of the congruent base angles?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- 61.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Daniyal.

- 62.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Salem.

A frequency ratio of two to one underlies what musical interval whose two tones have the same letter name?

(buzzer sounding) Calloway, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- 4, 4.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was an octave.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What African country's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, excuse the pronunciation, was killed in a plane crash after which almost a million Tutsis were killed in the 1994 genocide?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- Rwanda.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

Edmund Burke's defense of tradition and skepticism of revolutions are usually considered the intellectual start of what broad political philosophy?

- Isolationism.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Salem, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Communism.

- I'm sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was conservatism.

It's okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What author of an essay on eloquence and the vernacular wrote "La Vita Nuova" to express his love for Beatrice and depicted hell in his poem, "Inferno"?

(buzzer sounding) Daniyal.

- Dante Alighieri.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Salem.

The Burgess Shale is home to many fossils from what geologic period that saw a massive increase in biodiversity in its namesake explosion?

- Cambrian.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what set denoted queue consists of numbers whose decimal expansions terminate or repeat and which can be expressed as fractions of two integers?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- Rational numbers.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

After establishing the Little America Base on Antarctica in 1929, what navigator and his crew were the first to fly over the South Pole?

- Scott.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Salem, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Admunsen.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Richard Byrd.

It's time for our next media question.

This is an audio question.

Let's take a listen.

(upbeat music) We are looking for the artist.

This song is by French electronic duo formed in 1993.

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- Daft Punk.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what country who's a Port of Mokha names a style of coffee is north of the Gulf of Aden and has Houthi forces occupying its capital of Sana'a?

- Yemen.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What Shakespearian villain, who describes the green-eyed monster of jealousy, plots against the brings about the downfall of Othello?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Salem, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

(buzzer sounding) It's okay, the answer we were looking for was Iago.

We've now made it halfway through our game, so it's time for our lightning round.

Salem, we're going to let you choose your category first.

All right, Salem, you have four categories to choose from, as last time.

Choose the one that is most interesting to you.

Your categories are 15th century kingdoms, countries on the equator, L words, or numerical names.

- L words.

- [Jordan] L words it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to give these words that contain at least three Ls.

Salem, are you ready for your lightning round?

Perfect.

As usual you can pass if you don't know the answer, and we'll go back if time allows.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

Two coplanar lines that never intersect.

- Colinear.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Security given to guarantee a loan.

- Collateral.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Olympic sport played by Karch Kiraly and Kerri Walsh Jennings.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" during which the audience traditionally stands.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Adjective that describes language used in casual conversation.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Term for excluding someone from a group.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] One or two more forms of a gene variant.

- Allele.

- [Jordan] Correct.

(buzzer sounding) And that is time on the lightning round.

I'm going to go over the ones that you've passed or missed or that we didn't have time to get to, starting with two coplanar lines that never intersect.

We were looking for parallel.

Olympic sport played by Karch Kiraly and Kerri Walsh Jennings was volleyball.

Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" during which the audience traditionally stands was hallelujah.

Adjective that describes a language used in casual conversation was colloquial.

Term for excluding someone from a group was blackball.

And then ones we didn't get to, term for a person born from about 1981 to 1996 was a millennial.

North American fish name for a colorful facial feature, blue gill.

And term for a man's wallet would be a billfold.

Overall, good lightning round to you, Salem, but it is not the time for Calloway to have their lightning round.

We have three categories remaining for you, starting with 15th century kingdoms, countries on the equator, or numerical names.

- Countries on the equator.

- [Jordan] countries on the equator it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to give me what country on the equator.

Are you ready for your lightning round, Calloway?

Same rules apply.

If you don't know the answer, we'll pass and go back if time allows.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

Contains the islands of Java and Sumatra.

- Indonesia.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Is the most populous South American nation.

- Brazil.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Has a name for the Spanish for equator.

- Ecuador.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Is home to the Medellin, where drug war Pablo Escobar once operated.

- Columbia.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Contains the autonomous state of Puntland on the tip of the horn of Africa.

- Somalia.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Is governed from Brazzaville.

- Republic of the Congo.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Contains two spears and a shield of the Maasai people on its flag.

- Kenya.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Is home to the Entebbe on that the north shore of Lake Victoria.

- Uganda.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Contains the volcanic Mount Nyiragongo near its city of Goma.

- Tanzania.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

Is governed from Libreville.

- Gabon.

- [Jordan] That is correct, and that is all the questions we have for that lightning round.

With only one incorrect answer, we'll go over that.

Contains the volcanic Mount Nyiragongo near its city of Goma was the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Overall, great lightning round as well, Calloway, but we're now going to move back to our toss-up and bonus questions of the game, starting with our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What biblical character, a tent maker, is first described praising the stoning of Stephen, but converts on the road to Damascus and becomes an apostle?

(buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Paul.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next 20 point bonus question.

Saraswati is the consort of what Hindu creator god who forums the Trimurti along the Vishnu and Shiva?

- Brahma.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, the Pioneer Courthouse is a landmark in what city that title's a Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein sketch comedy show, the most populous in Oregon?

(buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Portland.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What triple star system in a southern constellation is the closest star system to the sun?

- Alpha Centauri.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

(buzzer sounding) We move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

(buzzer sounding) What term that describes the proteins targeted by COVID-19 vaccines (buzzer sounding) is also used by epidemiologists to describe rapid increases in the cases of a disease?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- Pandemic.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Daniyal.

- Surge.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was a spike.

It's okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What composer of a set of Hungarian dances for piano four hands used a vernacular text for his "A German Requiem" and wrote a namesake lullaby?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- Brahms.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

What Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting completed in 1881 shows a group of friends relaxing on the balcony of a restaurant along the Seine?

- "Luncheon of the Boating Party."

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next media question of the game.

This is a still question.

Let's have a look.

This one-eyed sailor was created- (buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Popeye.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What Greek city, which massacred Melos and dominated the Delian League, was led by- (buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Athens.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

Oktoberfest is celebrated annually in what European city, the capital of the state of Bavaria?

- Munich.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what novel, whose characters include the pianist Mademoiselle Reisz and a woman who drowns herself, centers on Edna Pontellier and is by Kate Chopin?

(buzzer sounding) It's okay, the answer we were looking for on that one was "The Awakening."

We're going to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What modern day country, where Delftware ceramics developed during the 17th century Golden Age, was the birthplace of Rijn, Vermeer, and Rembrandt?

(buzzer sounding) David.

- The Netherlands.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

In 1937, the German Condor Legion bombed what Spanish city whose destruction was depicted in a Pablo Picasso painting?

- Granada.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what aircraft named for the second president of the Weimar Republic was destroyed in 1937 when the hydrogen with which it was filled caught fire?

(buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- The Hindenburg.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

In the Spanish Colonial Era, the Manila galleons linked to the Philippines and what Pacific port city in western Mexico, now a tourism center?

- Cabo San Lucas.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Salem, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Acapulco.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what objects, one of which contains the pillars of creation, are exemplified by the horse head and the crab and our clouds of dust and gas and space?

(buzzer sounding) Jayden.

- Constellation.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Alyssa.

- Nebulus.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Salem, here's your bonus question.

What actress starred in a 2020 film based on HG Wells' "The Invisible Man" and stars on a Hulu show based on Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"?

- Emily Blunt.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Pass.

- It's okay, the answer we were looking for was Elizabeth Moss.

It's time for our next media question of the game.

This is a video question.

Let's have a look.

The first film in this series was released- (buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- "Home Alone."

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, the second most populous city of Lebanon has what name, which is derived from the ancient Greek for three cities and which also names Libya's capital?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- Tripoli.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

In 2021, prosecutors accused what former CEO of destroying evidence relating to the business practices of her company, Theranos?

(buzzer sounding) Salem, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Pass.

- Okay, the answer we were looking for was Elizabeth Holmes.

It's okay, we're going to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What country, whose creation was proposed by Theodor Herzl, declared independence in 1948?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- Israel.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

This is a math question.

Get those pencils and paper ready.

What is the dot product of the two vectors whose components are 1,7 and negative 14,2 given they are perpendicular to each other?

- Negative 14, 14.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Salem, you do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Zero.

- That's correct for 10 points.

We're now going to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What title character rejects the proposal of Sinjin Rivers and instead marries her former employer, Edward Rochester, and the novel by Charlotte Bronte?

(buzzer sounding) Ellie.

- Emma.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Daniyal.

- "Wuthering Heights."

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Jane Eyre."

It's okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What politician appointed Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the Exchequer was London mayor from 2008- (buzzer sounding) Cesar.

Cesar, I'm so sorry.

- Boris Johnson.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

What member of the rude mechanicals is the weaver who has his head turned into a donkey by the sprite Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

- Bottom.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams, what generic word names a box office bomb at that is the subject of the disaster artist in a film about a kidnapping for which Alison Brie won an Oscar?

(buzzer sounding) Cesar.

- "Taken."

- I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) And that is time on the question.

The answer we were looking for was "The Room," and that is actually the end of our game.

Congratulations to Calloway.

You are the winners.

Thank you, Salem, for coming and joining us again.

You guys played a great game as always.

Thank you, Calloway, for being here as well.

And of course, thank you all at home for watching, and make sure to tune in and see us next time.

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