(gentle tones) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host Jordan Spudville, and we are getting closer and closer to the end of this season.

We have officially made it to the semi-finals.

We have two intelligent teams returning back with us.

On the bottom row we have Carbondale with Clark, Gifti and Marta, and on the top row we have Calloway with Cesar, Ellie and Jayden.

Now that we know our contestants, it's time to go over the rules, as always.

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

If a contestant gets a toss-up correctly, their team has the chance to answer a bonus question for double the points.

However, if their team gets the bonus question incorrect, the other team can steal it away from them and earn themselves 10 points.

The interruption rule is in effect in today's game, so if someone is brave enough to interrupt me but they get the answer incorrect, the other team automatically receives five points and they get to hear the full question.

Of course, we'll have 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 and we know our players, I think it's time to put on our thinking caps, and let's get down to quiz-ness.

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

What first name is shared by current Italian prime minister Draghi, ice hockey legend.

(buzzer rings) Jayden.

- Mario?

- Mario is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your first bonus question.

What novel by William Styron centers on a Catholic woman who is forced to decide which of her children will die at Auschwitz?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Carbondale, you have a chance to steal.

- Sophie's Choice?

- Sophie's Choice is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on for our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What woman, whose father Thomas D'Alesandro was mayor of Baltimore?

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Nancy Pelosi.

That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What person's effigy is burned in bonfires on November 5th, a holiday that celebrates the failure of his plot to blow up Parliament in 1605?

- Guy Fawkes?

- That is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up question for both teams.

What property, which Henry's law says is proportional to a gasses partial pressure, is quantified by KSP and is a substance's ability to dissolve?

(buzzer rings) Gifti.

- Solubility?

- Solubility is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your first bonus question.

What American composer arranged the slow movement of his Opus 11 string quartet Adagio for Strings?

- Samuel Barber.

- Samuel Barber is correct for 20 points.

All right, now it's time to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What leader, who was briefly married to Zachary Taylor's daughter, served alongside Vice President Alexander Stevens as President of the Confederacy?

(buzzer rings) Jayden.

- Pass.

(buzzer dinging) - [Jordan] Gifti, do you have an answer?

- Yes, Jefferson Davis?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

What molecular geometry is exhibited by sulfur dioxide in which the central sulfur atom has two lone pairs?

- Sure, go with that.

- Bipyramidal.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal.

- Bent or V-shaped?

- Bent is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What character, who sells a boy named Xury to a sailor and who gives a companion.

(buzzer rings) Gifti.

- Robinson Crusoe.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

What poem by Christina Rossetti is named after the place where the title monsters try to sell delicious but cursed fruit to a pair of sisters?

- [Gifti] Goblin Market.

- That is correct for 20 points.

It's now time for our first media question.

This is a still question.

Let's take a look.

(buzzer rings) Clark.

- [Clark] Skype.

- Skype is correct for 10 points.

You use Skype a lot, Clark?

- [Clark] Never.

- Never, okay.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

In 2021, France protested what non-European country's new security pact with the US and Britain, which may include US submarines.

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Australia?

- Australia is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

In 2021, the Caldor Fire and Dixie Fire became the first wildfires known to have crossed the peaks of what mountain range in Eastern California?

- Sierra Nevada?

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What man, who led the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and had followers known as Red Shirts was the military leader.

(buzzer rings) Jayden.

- Giuseppe Garibaldi?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

After he was incapacitated by a stroke, what democratic president's duties were largely assumed by his wife, Edith?

(students whispering) - Woodrow Wilson?

- That is correct with 20 points.

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

What city's landmarks include Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building and a steel structure shaped like.

(buzzer rings) Jayden.

- New York City.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect, and because of the interruption rule, Carbondale, you'll get five points and I'll finish the question.

Include Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building and a steel structure shaped like a weighted catenary called The Gateway Arch?

(buzzer rings) Clark.

- St. Louis?

- St. Louis is correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Carbondale.

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

What is the greatest common factor of the integers 60 and 96?

- 12.

- 12 is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What scientist, who names a unit measuring air ionization due to radiation, won the first Nobel Prize in Physics?

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- Curie?

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

Because of the interruption rule, Calloway, you'll get five points and I'll finish the question.

What scientist, who names a unit measuring air ionization due to radiation, won the first Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays?

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Geiger?

Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer that we were looking for was Wilhelm Rontgen.

That is a difficult one.

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

What city, described as lying on Lake Parime, was the objective of two Walter Raleigh voyages and was often conflated with the Seven Cities of Gold?

(buzzer ringing) Jayden.

- El Dorado?

- El Dorado is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What Roman emperor, who executed his wife Fausta and son Crispus, proclaimed the Edict of Milan which officially granted toleration of Christianity?

- Constantine?

- Constantine is correct for 20 points.

It's now time for our next media question.

This one is a video question.

Let's take a look.

This video game console was first unveiled on MTV in 2005 and was released in November of the same year.

The system is in the seventh generation of video game consoles and competed with the Wii and PS3.

Name this console.

(buzzer rings) Jayden.

- Xbox 360.

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What company, which was founded in 2010 and received FDA fast track approval in 2021 for an RSV vaccine, is named for its vaccine's modified RNA?

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Moderna.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What letter is the name of a programming language that influenced other languages whose names add sharp and plus plus after this letter?

- C?

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

This is another math question, so get your pencils and paper ready.

What is the discriminate of the quadratic expression X squared plus five X plus one, given the discriminate is B squared minus four AC?

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- 21.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

What co-founder of the consulting firm WestExec Advisors is the current secretary of state?

- Rubio.

- [Jordan] That is incorrect.

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

- Blinken?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

From 1538 to 1541, Geneva banned what reformer who wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion during his exile.

(buzzer rings) Clark.

- Luther.

- [Jordan] Sorry?

- Luther.

- Luther is incorrect, and because of that interruption rule, Calloway, you get five points.

I'll finish that question.

Who wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion during his exile and advocated predestination?

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Calvin?

- Calvin is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

A 2007 book by Charles Taylor is about what process named from a Latin term for a time period in which a society becomes less religious?

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Okay Carbondale, you have a chance to steal.

- Disillusion.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Secularization.

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

What author of the Lair of the White Worm also wrote about Lucy Westenra, who is given a garlic necklace by Dr. Van Helsing?

(buzzer rings) Gifti.

- Bram Stoker.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

What gene editing technique derived from the bacterial immune system uses the enzyme Cas9 to cut DNA?

- CRISPR.

- CRISPR's correct for 20 points.

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

A coordinate system using R, pi and theta is named for what geometric shape, whose surface area is four pi R squared?

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Sphere?

- Spheres is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What author, who died in 2021 at age 104, wrote a series of children's novels about sisters Beezus and Ramona Quimby?

- Beverly Cleary?

- Beverly Cleary is correct for 20 points, and we have now made it halfway through our game, so of course it's time for the lightning round.

All right Carbondale, we are going to let you choose your category first.

We've got four categories to choose from.

Pick the one that sounds most interesting to you.

You can answer questions about Titles in Titles, Cities in Religious History, German Loanwords, or 1968.

(students chattering) - Sure, whatever.

- 1968.

- 1968, in this category answer the following about the year 1968.

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

We'll go back if time allows.

If you get the answer incorrect, we can no longer go back to that question.

Carbondale, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Let's do it.

Put 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

President first elected that year.

- Richard Nixon, it's Nixon.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Civil rights leader killed by James Earl Ray.

- Martin Luther King.

- [Jordan] Correct.

North American city that hosted the Summer Olympics.

- Austin.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

A military offensive began on this Vietnamese holiday.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] This city's democratic national convention.

- Chicago.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.

- Sirhan Sirhan.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Tennis player and future AIDS activist who won the US Open.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia.

- Prague Spring.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Band who released its White album.

- The Beatles.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Japanese author of Snow Country who won a Nobel Prize.

- Kawabata.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Going back to ones you passed, a military offensive began on this Vietnamese holiday.

- New Year's.

- Incorrect.

Tennis player and future AIDS activist.

And that is time on your lightning round.

Still a really good lightning round to you Carbondale, but I'll go over the ones that you passed or missed.

We're gonna go back to the North American city that hosted the Summer Olympics was Mexico City.

A military offensive began on this Vietnamese holiday was Tet, and tennis player and future AIDS activist who won the US Open was Arthur Ashe.

Still a great lightning round Carbondale, but Calloway, it is your turn to do your lightning round.

I've got three categories remaining for you.

You can answer questions about Titles in Titles, Cities in Religious History or German Loanwords.

- Cities in Religious History.

- Cities in Religious History it is.

In this lightning round category, I need you to name these English words borrowed from German.

Again, if you don't know the answer, we can pass and go back as time allows.

- [Cesar] We'd take the cities.

- I apologize.

My mistake.

No one said I was as smart as you guys, okay?

Cities in Religious History.

Name these locations of religiously significant events.

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

If you get it incorrect, we cannot go back.

Are you ready for your lightning round, Calloway?

- Yes.

- 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

City Muhammad fled in 622.

- Mecca.

- [Jordan] Correct.

City where Gaspard de Coligny's assassination sparked the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre.

- Paris.

- [Jordan] Correct.

City whose Potala Palace, the Dalai Lama flied in 1959.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Juan Diego reported Marian visions atop a hill here.

- Mexico City.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Future state capital founded by Mormons in 1847.

- Salt Lake City.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Micro state guaranteed independence in the Lateran Treaty.

- Vatican City.

- [Jordan] Correct.

- French town where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.

- Orleans?

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

City where Jesus was crucified.

- Jerusalem.

- Correct.

City that Akhetaten tried to make Egypt's capital.

And that is time on that lightning round, and I apologize for the poor pronunciation on that lightning round on your behalf, but still a really great job to you guys, Calloway.

Going back to the ones you passed or missed, city whose Potala Palace the Dalai Lama fled in 1958 was the Lhasa.

French town where John of Arc was burned at the stake was Rouen, but great job to both of you, and now we're gonna go back to our 10 point toss-up and bonus questions.

But first, the next question is a media question.

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

Based on the animated Disney film of the same name, this musical officially opened in 1997.

- The Lion King?

We've been trying to buzz and we said buzz out loud.

- The Lion King is correct for Carbondale for 10 points.

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

What author of the memoir The Roosevelt I Knew served under FDR as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945 and was the first woman cabinet member.

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Francis Perkins.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What singer, who made her Broadway debut as Maureen in Rent, is better known for playing Elphaba in Wicked?

- Jenowith?

- [Jordan] That is incorrect.

Carbondale, you have a chance to steal.

- Idina Menzel?

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What river, which drains Great Slave Lake and is named for a Scottish explorer, empties into the Buford Sea?

(buzzer rings) Clark?

- The Mackenzie?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

In 1496, what European country's Jews were expelled by King Manuel the First as a condition of marrying Isabella of Aragon, the widow of his nephew Alfonzo?

- Spain.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal.

- Castille?

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Portugal.

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

What character, who enjoys eating thistles and is prone to losing his tail, was introduced in AA Milne's book.

(buzzer rings) Ellie.

- Eeyore?

- Eeyore is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What artist, who sculpted Marie van Goethem in his work Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, also created many impressionist paintings of ballerinas?

- Degas.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

In September 2021, Haven, Wisconsin hosted the 43rd edition of what by biennial contest, comprising 28 match play events between US and European golfers?

(buzzer rings) Gifti.

- The Green Coat?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- The Ryder Cup.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What color names both a flower and a girl addicted to chewing gum in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

- Violet.

- Violet is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up questions for both teams.

What plant tissue, which contains tracheids and vessel elements, functions in transpiration pool to transport water, and is found alongside phloem?

Marta.

- Xylem.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

In physics, what term refers to any process that reduces the oscillation amplitude of an oscillatory system?

- Simple harmonic motion.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal.

- Pass.

- That's okay, the answer we were looking for was damping, to damp.

It's time for our next media question.

This is a still question.

Let's take a look.

(buzzer rings) Clark.

- Homer Simpson.

- That is incorrect, and because of that interruption rule, Calloway, you get five points and I'll read the question.

This character's real name is Herschel and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

(buzzer rings) Ellie.

- Krusty the Clown.

- Krusty the Clown is correct for 10 points.

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

What city, the headquarters of the Telecom company Ericsson, names a syndrome in which hostages bond with captors.

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Stockholm?

- Stockholm's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What BBC show's title was a derogatory nickname for the protagonist who ran a Guinea pig-themed cafe and was played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge?

- No.

- Pass.

- All right Carbondale, you have a chance to steal for 10 points - White Trash.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer that we were looking for was Fleabag.

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

What author, who wrote about a clerk who says that he would prefer not to work.

(buzzer rings) Gifti.

- Herman Neville.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Carbondale.

What city, whose Hotel des Mille Collines was featured in a 2004 film, is the capital of Rwanda?

- Luanda.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal.

- Kigali.

- Kigali is correct for 10 points.

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

What element, obtained from the greenish ore malachite, can oxidize to give the verdigris found on old statues and is still used.

(buzzer rings) Clark.

- Copper.

- Copper's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

Tom Canty's resemblance to Edward the Sixth is central to the plot of what Mark Twain novel?

- The Prince and the Pauper maybe.

- The Prince and the Pauper.

- That is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What Greek goddess had an epithet meaning cow-eyed, rode in a chariot pulled by peacocks, set Argus.

(buzzer rings) Ellie.

- Hera.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What 20th century Austrian philosopher created a thought experiment involving a beetle in a box in his book Philosophical Investigations?

- Schrodinger.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

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

- Wittgenstein.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What amendment, which was incorporated to the states by Mapp versus Ohio, protects houses, papers and effects?

(buzzer rings) Cesar.

- Fourth Amendment.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What unicellular protist, whose name comes from the Greek for to change, are known for using pseudopods for locomotion?

- Amoeba.

- That is correct for 20 points, and that means it is the end of our game.

Calloway, congratulations.

You guys are our winners for this round.

Carbondale, thank you for being here and being with us for all these seasons.

Thank you both for being here.

And of course, thank you all for watching at home.

Make sure to play along at home, and we'll see you next time on Scholastic HI-Q.

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