(slow music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q the game where knowledge rules, I'm your host, Jordan Spudville, and today we have two teams joining us.

On the bottom row, we have Calloway, with Caesar, Ellie and Jaden.

On the top row, we've got Woodlawn, with Kennedy, Benton, and Carolyn.

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

I'm gonna be reading a series of 10 point toss up questions that both teams have a chance to answer.

If a contestant answers a toss up correctly, their team gets to answer a 20 point bonus question.

However, if they get that bonus question incorrect, 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 decides to interrupt me and they answer incorrectly, the other team automatically receives five points and they get to hear the entire question.

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

Now that we know the rules and we've met our contestants, it's time to put on our thinking caps and let's get down to quizniz.

Starting with our first 10 point toss up for both teams.

What particles, theorized by George Zweed and Marie Delmon, are held together by glue-ons and haydrons and come in six flavors, including up and charm?

Jayden - Corks.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

In 2007, what countries Cristina Fernandez de Kirschner became it's first woman directly elected as president, representing the Justicialist Party?

- Argentina.

- That's correct for 20 points.

- Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What author story, "The Final Problem" describes a confrontation at Reichenbach, excuse me, falls, that seems to lead to the death of the detective Sherlock Holmes?

(beeps) Ellie?

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

To grow, most arthropods must undergo what process in which they shed their old exoskeletons?

- Molting.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What artists of Monument to Balzac depicted an event from the hundred years war, and the Burghers of Calais, and also sculpted The Kiss and The Thinker?

(beeps) Cesar?

- Raphael.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(beeps) Kennedy?

- Michael Angelo.

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

The answer we were looking for was Auguste Rodin.

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

What state, where the plump Jack group was founded is governed by Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband Gavin Newsome, who was ... Jaden?

- California.

- That's correct for 10 points, Calloway.

Here's your next 20 point bonus question.

What Roman emperor ended the crisis of the third century by creating the tetrarchy?

- Diocletian.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What city is home to the popular Teramachi Street was Japan's capital before it was moved to Tokyo, and names and environmental protocol?

(beeps) Cesar?

- Kyoto.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

The gene that causes Marfan syndrome is an example of what type of gene that affects multiple distinct phenotypic traits?

- Possessive.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- Dominant.

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

The answer we were looking for was the pleiotropic gene.

It's now time for our first media question, this is a video question, let's have a look.

With it's first episode airing in 2014, this CW show follows Barry Allen, who gets struck by lightning due to a particle ... Kennedy?

- The flash.

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

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

What subject of white blood cells that can express the glycoprotein CD four or CD eight, have memory and helper varieties and mature in the thymus?

(beeps) Ellie.

- Gland.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(beeps) The answer we were looking for, for that question was T-cells.

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

What philosopher, who denounced Christian pity in his book, "The Antichrist", also wrote the book, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" excuse me, which declares God is dead?

(beeps) - Cesar.

- Nietzsche - That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

The great dismal swamp lies mostly in what US state, whose SouthEast is also home to the cities of Norfolk and Newport News?

- Virginia.

- That's correct for 20 point.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What playwright of three sisters wrote about Lopakhin's purchase of Madam Ranevskaya state in "The Cherry Orchard", and also wrote "The Seagull"?

(beeps) The answer we were looking for was Anton Chekhov, for that one.

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

What energy that appears in the arrhenius equation is reduced by catalyst, and is the energy that must be added for a reaction to proceed?

(beeps) Carolyn.

- Potential energy.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(beeps) The answer we were looking for was activation energy.

So, okay, we're going to shake that one off, Move on to our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What General, who lost an arm to friendly fire at Chancellorsville let a unit ... Jaden.

- Stonewall Jackson.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

An abstract computer that operates on an infinite tape was theorized by what British polymath, who developed a namesake artificial intelligence test?

(beeps) Woodlawn, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Turing.

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

It's time for our next media question.

This one's an audio question.

Let's have a listen.

(gibberish) - Created by Pierre Coffin, director of Despicable Me.

This language is used by Bruce Henchman, help him on his evil journeys.

The language pulls from other languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and also baby talk in English.

Name this language.

(indistinct) - [Man] You can make it right, just name it.

(gibberish) - And that's time.

The answer we were looking for was Minionese.

It's in the name.

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

What language, which was used to write the work Spiritual Couplets by the poem, Rumi, was as well as the Ruby yacht by Omar Khayyam is spoken in Iran?

(beeps) Jaden.

- Arabic.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(beeps) The answer we were looking for was Persian.

When we move on to our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What artists of Swans, reflecting elephants, painted the Catalonian Coast in the background at the Persistence of Memory, which depicts the melting clocks?

(beeps) Cesar.

- Salvador Dali.

That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

While Arthur, who mocked the reformation in a tale of a tub satirically, suggested that Irish children should be eaten in his essay, A modest proposal?

- Jonathan Swift.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What city near the confluence of the Sohn Sharyle and St. Lawrence Rivers is the namesake and Capitol of the largest province in Canada?

(beeps) Jaden.

- Quebec.

That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What Greek letter has a lowercase version used in defining limits with excellent and an uppercase version that represents change?

- Delta.

- That's correct for 20 points.

(beeps) Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What novel, in which Dr Maneet is freed from Bastille begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Ellie, - "A Tale of Two Cities".

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

An Italian word meaning sustained, names what piano pedal, the metal one on a modern piano, which allows a player to sustain some but not all notes?

- Path.

- All right, Woodlawn.

Here's your chance, you can steal for 10 points.

- Staccato.

Sorry, that's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was a sostenuto pedal.

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

What club wielding character who attacks Merope is turned into a constellation after he is killed by a scorpion, and is a mythical Greek hunter?

(beeps) Jaden.

- Orion.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

The so-called Babylonian captivity of the Papacy began in 1309 when Pope Clements VI set up his court in what city in Southern France?

- Avignon - That's correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next media question.

This one is a still question.

Let's have a look.

This app was a social networking short form video hosting service.

It was known for users to post six second videos ... Kennedy?

- Vine.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What name given to a fertility figurine found in Willendorf, Austria also refers to the Roman goddess of love and the second planet from the Sun.

(beeps) Ellie.

- Venus.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

What five letter physics term describes an idealized body with zero deformation, so its shape and size remained constant when a force is applied?

- Pass.

Alright, Woodlawn, you can steal for 10 points.

(beeps) It's okay, the answer we were looking for was a rigid, as in a rigid body.

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

What element whose value of 3.98 on the Pauling scale makes it the most electronegative element?

Cesar.

- Fluorine.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What title is held by the monarchies representative and former British colonies, such as Canada and New Zealand?

- Dominion.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Woodland, you have a chance to steal.

- Prime Minister.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was governor or general.

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

What president who just set these on Gara, tried to assassinate and posed a bank holiday and signed the National Recovery Act while launching the new deal?

(beeps) Caesar.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

In 1958, businessman Harry Winston donated what Blue Jim stone, which has over 45 carats to the Smithsonian institution?

- The Hope Diamond.

- That's correct for 20 points.

And we have now made it halfway through our game.

So it's time for our lightning round.

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

I got a little too excited on that lightning round, guys.

Woodlawn, you do get to choose your category first.

I have four categories for you to choose from.

You can pick any one that sounds most interesting to you.

Our categories are Alliterative Names, Latin Phrases, Constitutional Amendments, and Joe Biden's Cabinet.

(indistinct) - Latin phrases.

- Latin Phrases it is.

In this category, I need you to answer what Latin phrase often used in English can be translated as, fill in the blank?

Woodlawn, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Okay, perfect.

If you don't know an answer, you can pass.

If time allows, we'll go back to it.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

Seize the day?

- Carpe diem.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Great work or greatest work?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] And so on?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Stiffness or death?

- Rigormortis.

- [Jordan] Correct.

My fault?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] This for that?

- Quid pro quo.

- [Jordan] Correct.

For the good?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] The other way around.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] It does not follow.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Remember that you must die.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] We're gonna go back to the ones you passed.

Great work or greatest work?

(beeps) That is time.

Overall, still a good lightening round.

I'm gonna go over the ones that you did pass, starting with great work or greatest work, was Magnum Opus, and so on, was et cetera, my fault, mia colpa, for the good, pro bono, the other way around was vice versa, it does not follow, non-sequitur and remember that you must die was memento mori.

Overall, still a good lightening round.

It is now Calloway's turn to choose a category.

We have left for you, Alliterative names, constitutional Amendments, and Joe Biden's cabinet.

Which would you like today?

- Joe Biden's Cabinet.

Joe Biden's Cabinet it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to answer what member of Joe Biden's cabinet is, fill in the blank.

Calloway, are you ready for your lightning round?

All right, same rules apply.

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

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

The first female, vice president?

- Kamala Harris.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Secretary of transportation and a former mayor of South Bend?

- Pete Buttigieg - [Jordan] Correct.

Attorney general and a former Supreme court nominee?

- Merrick Garland.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Treasury secretary and a former chair of the Federal Reserve?

- Janet Yellen - [Jordan] Correct.

Secretary of state?

- Anthony Blinken.

- [Jordan] Correct.

The first African-American defense secretary?

- Lloyd Austin.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Secretary of agriculture and a former governor of Iowa?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] The Cuban born secretary of Homeland security.

- Mayorkas - [Jordan] Correct.

Secretary of labor and a former mayor of Boston?

- Marty Walsh.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Secretary of education?

- Cardona.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Going back to the one you passed, secretary of agriculture and the former ... - Bill Sack.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry?

- Bill Sack.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

And that is all the questions we have for this lightning round.

Congratulations Calloway, you answered all of them correctly and it's very impressive 'cause I know nothing about secretaries of anything.

So great job on your part.

We're now gonna move that to our toss up and bonus questions, starting with our next 10 point up for both teams.

What NBA team, which plays home games at Capital One Arena made a trade with the Houston Rockets (beeps) and the ... Jaden.

- Washington Wizards.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

- Seoul, South Korea, lies on what river, which empties into the yellow sea near Incheon?

- The Han river.

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

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

Oval BA lies beneath what structure and anti cyclonic storm, approximately twice as wide as the Earth, that is in the Southern hemisphere of Jupiter?

(beeps) Jaden.

- The Great Red Spot.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

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

What quotient results when three raised to the seventh power is divided by nine squared?

- 81.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- 27.

- That's correct for 10 points.

We're gonna move on to our next media question.

This is a video question.

Let's have a look.

- This first film in this trilogy came out 10 years ago.

It follows a super villain who plans to steal the moon, but as sidetracked after adopting three orphan girls.

Since it's released two more films and a spinoff film about Gru's minions have been released.

Name the first film of the trilogy.

Carolyn.

- Despicable Me.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

The one country, two systems policy was enacted in what region as a condition of its handover in 1997 from the United Kingdom to China?

(beeps) - Binton.

- Hong Kong.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Woodlawn.

What European countries namesake national party is led by first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who supports a second independence referendum?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] All right, Calloway, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Scotland.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What country disputes the region of Nagorno-Karabakh with its Western neighbor, Armenia?

(beeps) - Cesar.

- Azerbaijan - That's correct for 10 points.

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

A book of stories about life in the fictional town of Morgan, Mississippi, titled "The Golden Apples", is by what author of "Why I Live At The PO"?

- Toni Morrison.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- Pass.

- All right, that's okay.

The answer we were looking for was Eudora Welty.

Wanna move on to our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What country whose major cities include its economic center of Abidjan is west of Ghana and is named after a material derived from elephant tusks?

Jaden.

- Cote d'Ivoire.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

In 1898, Congress passed the New Lands Resolution, allowing the US to annex what territory two years later?

- Puerto Rico.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

Woodlawn, you have a chance to steal.

- Texas.

Texas.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Hawaii.

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

What particle is a charged (indistinct) less massive than the neuron is admitted by beta minus decay, and occupies orbitals around atomic nuclei?

(beeps) Jaden.

- Electrons.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Calloway.

What sprinter who ran the 100 meter dash in 10.72 seconds in April 2021, was barred from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana?

- Sha'Carri- Richardson.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 toss-up for both teams.

The Monteagle letter help to expose what 1605 plot, which was led by Robert Catesby and aimed to kill King James I by blowing up polymides?

(beeps) Caesar.

- Gunpowder Plot.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

Special relativity is partly based on an ACM stating that what's physical quantity is the same in all reference frames?

- Mass.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- Energy.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was speed of light.

It's time for our next media question.

This is an audio question, let's have a listen.

(dramatic music) - This theme of belongs to an animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon.

The series is about a boy named Ang, who is joined by friends ... - Cesar.

- Avatar, The last Airbender.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What color which represents a Northern Irish Protestant fraternal order is the actual color of airplane Black Boxes and the symbol of the Netherlands.

(beeps) Jaden.

- Orange.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

Tens of thousands of women protested, what mostly Catholic European nations, October 2020 Supreme court ruling, banning most abortions?

- Poland.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What author of the story, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" wrote about an Italian scientist whose daughter is poisonous and his story at Rapa Cheney's daughter?

(beeps) Ellie - Proffered.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

In what presidential election, in which Lloyd Benson called Dan Quayle, "No Jack Kennedy", did George HW Bush defeat Michael Dukakis?

- 1992.

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

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

- 1996.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

You guys were just a decade off.

The answer we were looking for was 1988.

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

This is a math question so get those pencils and paper ready.

What expression in simplified radical form is equivalent to the square root of 50, given that 50 equals two times five, times five?

(beeps) - Caesar.

- Five radical two.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Calloway.

The practice of dividing a larger state into smaller states is named after what European peninsula?

- The Balkan peninsula.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up for both teams.

What two men who hired to Saint Charbonneau at Fort Mandan and led the court ... (beeps) Cesar.

- Lewis and Clark.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

The land of Tortell is at the setting of many young adult fantasy novels, By What Woman, whose song at the Lioness Quartet depicts a night named Alana?

- Sandra Connor.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Woodlwan, you Have a chance to steal.

- Pass.

- Right.

The answer we were looking for was at Tamra Pierce.

And unfortunately that is the end of our game of Scholastic HI-Q.

Calloway, you guys are our winners.

Congratulations, thank you for being here and playing a good game.

Woodlawn, thank you for being here as well.

And of course thank you all for watching at home.

Tune in with us next time and we'll see you then.

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