(celestial music) (joyful music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Jordan Spotville and today we are joined by two returning teams from our first two matches.

On the bottom row we have our reigning champs Carbondale with Christopher, Giifti and Marta, and then we have our winners Freeburg Alison, Noah and Camden.

Before we begin our game, let's go over the rules.

I'm gonna be reading a series of toss-up questions, worth 10 points a piece.

If a toss-up is answered correctly, that team will be able to answer a 20 point bonus question.

However, if they answer that bonus incorrectly, the other team will have a chance to steal for 10 points.

The interruption rule is effect in today's game, so if a contestant interrupts me while I'm reading a question and they answer incorrectly the other team automatically receives five points and a chance to hear the full question.

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

We know the rules, we've met our contestants, is time to put on our thinking caps and let's get down to quizzes.

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

What author created a talking wolf named Maugrim who helps the White Witch to fight against the godlike lion Aslan?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- C.S.

Lewis?

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

Contestants tried to identify songs in the bid-a-note and golden medley rounds of what game show?

Which Fox received in 2029, or 2021, excuse me, with Jane Krakowski as host.

- Wait, "Jeopardy!"?

- Oh, wait, that makes sense.

"Jeopardy!".

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- No answer.

- The correct answer for that was "Name That Tune".

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

What quantity whose first-time derivative is the jerk equals force over mass by Newton's second law and is the rate of change of velocity?

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- Acceleration.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here is your 20 point bonus question.

What long-time leader of the Teamsters union, who may have been killed by the mafia disappeared in Detroit in 1975?

- Al Cappino?

Al Capone?

- Al Capone.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- No answer.

- It's okay, the correct answer was Jimmy Hoffa.

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

What man, who was fired as First Lord of Admiralty after the let believe campaign, is to see to Neville Chamberlain in 1940 as UK prime minister?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Winston Churchill.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

A young mother named Nora Helmer realizes that she has duties to herself and decides to leave her husband Torvald in what 1879 play by Henrik Epson?

- "A Doll's House."

- That's correct for 20 points.

On to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What artist, who showed a beam of light illuminating a tax collector's face (buzzer rings) and the- Giifti.

- Caravaggio.

That is correct for 10 points.

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

What law named for a Dutch scientist relates the angle of incidents and angle of refraction of waves at a boundary between two materials?

(girls whispering to each other) - Go with that.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- No answer.

The correct answer for that one was Snell's law.

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

What poet, who described a "sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beasti" in the opening line of "To a Mouse"?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Burns?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What first name is shared by the nun who becomes a governess in "The Sound of Music" and the Puerto Rican girl loved by Tony in "West Side Story"?

- (whispers) Maria.

- Sorry?

- Maria.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

This is a video question, let's take a look.

This YouTuber is also- (beep) Noah.

- Neistat?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up question.

What planet had its orbit predicted by John Couch Adams and Urbain Leverrier?

Is orbited by the moon Triton and is the first planet- (buzzer rings) Alison.

- Neptune.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Freeburg, here's your 20 point bonus question.

The CIA back operation PBSuccess aided Carlos Castillo Armas and overthrowing what Central American country's president Jacobo Arbenz?

- Bay of pigs.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Carbondale, you have a chance to steal.

- (whispers) El Salvador maybe.

- El Salvador.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry?

- El Salvador?

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The correct answer was Guatemala.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What treaty, which was replaced by the USMCA may have led to growth in maquiladora factories and lower trade barriers in Canada and Mexico?

(buzzer rings) Christopher.

- NATO?

- [Jordan] I'm sorry?

- NAFTA?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What Argentine mountain, which lies near the country's border with Chile is the tallest mountain in South America?

- It has to do with the Andes, I'm not sure about the names.

I don't know.

No.

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

- Argentina?

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was a Mount Aconcagua.

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

What American author who wrote about Lily Bart's death in "The House of Mirth" wrote about a sledding accident in her novella "Ethan Frome"?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Wharton?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What composer wrote a symphony in which plays blow out candles and leave the stage and turn at the farewell symphony?

- (whispers) Mueller.

- Mueller.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Freeburg, you have a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we were looking for was Joseph Haydn.

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

What man, who told stories while in a Genoese prison that resulted in a book called "Il Milione" was a Venetian Explorer who visited Asia?

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- Marco Polo.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here is your 20 point bonus question.

The territory of what modern country was united for the first time in 1802 under emperor Gia Long of Nguyen dynasty?

- Maybe Korea?

Korea.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- China.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The correct answer was Vietnam.

- Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What musical in which the butcher Lazar Wolf unsuccessfully tries to marry Tzeitel centers on milkman's devious life in a Russian Jewish town?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- "Fiddler on the Roof."

That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner discovered what phenomenon in which a single nucleus decomposes into two smaller nuclei?

- Nuclear fusion.

- That is correct for 20 points of next.

Next we have another media question, this is a still question.

Let's take a look.

This English actress- (buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Florence Pugh.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

Which Greek mathematician, the first to accurately calculate the circumference of the earth devised a sieve used to find prime numbers?

- (whispers) Wheeler?

(buzzer rings) - Christopher.

- Archimedes?

- I'm Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- Pitagoras?

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

The answer we were looking for was Eratosthenes.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What state whose house of representatives called Mike Nierman in 2021 is governed by Kate brown and includes the liberal city of Portland?

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- Oregon.

That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question?

During the Iraq war, U.S. officials used what word paired with "awe" to describe their strategy of using overwhelming force to demoralize the enemy?

- (whispering) Shock.

- I think it's shock.

- Shock.

- That is correct for 20 points.

- [Giifti] Shock awe?

- [Christopher] Shock and awe.

- On to our next 10 point toss-up question.

Bishop Pierre Caution condemned what French commander who broke the siege of Orlon but was burned at the stake and part for dressing like a man?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Joan of arc.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

The precession of gyroscopes is explained by the conservation of what quantity equal to the cross-product of position and linear momentum?

- [Giifti] Conservation of mass?

No, that's not right.

- Mass.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- Motion?

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

We were looking for angular momentum.

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

Foliated rocks such as gneiss, schist and slate are layered examples of what class of rock created by exposure to heat and pressure over time?

(buzzer rings) Christopher.

- Igneous?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Freeburg, you have a chance.

(buzzer rings) Noah.

- [Noah] Metamorphic?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Freeburg, here is your 20 point bonus question.

Benjy reflects that his sister Caddy, quote, "Smelled like trees in the rain."

in what novel about the decline of the Compson family written by William Faulkner?

- No answer.

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

- I'm gonna go with "As I Lay Dying."

- "As I Lay Dying."

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "The Sound and the Fury."

- [Marta] (whispering) I need to study Faulkner.

On to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What country who's city of Arusha lies near the Olduvai Gorge, controls the island (buzzer rings) of Zanzibar, Giifti.

- Tanzania?

That is correct for 10 points.

- Perfect.

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

What African country's Tigray region is the site of a war, which has still over onto its Amhara region?

- Ethiopia.

- That is correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next media question, this one is an audio question.

Let's take a listen.

("I Dreamed A Dream") (buzzer rings) Marta.

- "Les Miserables".

- That is correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What sec school became the first for which a female football player scored a point (buzzer rings) when Sarah Fuller- Noah.

- Vanderbilt?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Freeburg, here's your 20 point bonus question.

At what naval battle in 31 b.C.

did the forces of Octavian defeat Antony and Cleopatra?

- Green?

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- No answer.

And the answer we were looking for for that was the battle of Actium.

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

What man, the only person to be governor of two different U.S. states won the battle of San Jani, excuse me, Jacinto, while leading the Republic of Texas?

(buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Santa Ana?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Freeburg?

(buzzer rings) Alison.

- Sam Houston.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Freeburg, here's your 20 point bonus question.

In 1912, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across what body of water, which Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across?

- English channel.

- That's correct for 20 points.

And we're now gonna move on to our lightning round.

- Okay.

(lightning strikes) (wind whooshes) Freeburg, you do get to choose your category first in this round.

We have four options to choose from, you may pick whichever sounds most interesting to you to answer questions about.

First category is holy books, second is colorful history, the third is three consecutive vowels, and fourth is wizards.

- The colorful history.

- Colorful history it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to answer the following about people, places or things known by colorful names.

Freeburg, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Let's do it.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1 Pandemic that may have killed half of Europe.

- Black Death.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

Holy Roman emperor with a nickname meaning red beard.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Sensationalist press exemplified by "The New York World".

- Yellow journalism.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

Floral emblem of the house of York.

- Rose.

- [Jordan] Can you be more specific?

- Red rose?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

The military of communist Russia.

- Red Army.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

Dutch Royal house that included England's William the third.

- Orange.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

Island given an appealing name by Erik the Red.

- Finland.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Ship used for Francis Drake circumnavigation.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Serbian nationalist group whose ranks included (indistinct) - "Black Hand".

- [Jordan] That's correct.

U.S. third-party that advocated paper currency.

- Green party?

(buzzer rings) - Did you have an answer for the last one?

- [Noah] Greenback party?

- That was correct.

We'll now go over the ones that you passed and or missed.

Holy Roman emperor with a nickname meaning red beard was Frederick Barbarossa.

The floral emblem of the house of York was a white rose, is what we were looking for.

Island given an appealing name by Erik the Red was Greenland, and the ship used for Francis Drake's circumnavigation was The Golden Hind.

Overall, great lightning round guys.

Carbondale, is now your term to choose a category.

We have left holy books, three consecutive vowels and wizards.

- Holy books.

- Holy books it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to provide what religion, venerates these scriptures.

Give the broad name of the religion, not a specific denomination.

For example, Christianity, not Methodism.

Carbondale, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- I'm ready to ask you these questions.

Y'all's lightning round starts in a 3, 2, 1.

"Quran."

- Islam.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

"Torah."

- Judaism?

- [Jordan] Correct.

"Avesta" - Yeah.

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

"Granth Sahib."

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Diamond and Lotus sutras.

- Buddhism?

- I'm sorry?

- Buddhism?

- [Jordan] That's correct.

"Rigveda."

- Hinduism.

- Hinduism?

- [Jordan] That's correct.

"Kojiki."

- Yeah, no, no, no.

That's true.

- "Kebra Nagast", "The Holy Piby".

- It's like Ethiopian religion.

- Absolutely.

- It's like Ethiopian- - Pass.

- [Jordan] A text whose title means "The book of the way and its power."

(indistinct) - [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

"Agamas."

- Oh, geez.

- Pass.

- We're gonna go over the ones that you passed.

"Granth Sahib" (buzzer rings) We're out of time.

Still a very good lightning round Carbondale.

We're gonna go over the ones that you missed or past.

"Avesta" was Zoroastrianism.

"The Granth Sahib" was Sikhism.

"Kojiki" was Shintoism.

"Kebra Nagast" was rastaf...

I'm sorry.

- Rastafarianism.

- Rastafarianism.

A text whose title means "The book of the way and its power" was Taoism and "Agamas" was Jainism.

Overall, good lightning rounds to both of you.

We're now gonna move on to our 10 point toss-ups and bonus questions.

What river, which flows south east from the confluence of the Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers in Montana joins the Mississippi near St. Louis?

(buzzer rings) Noah.

- Missouri?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Freeburg, here's your 20 point bonus question.

In 1995, the FDA approved a vaccine against what childhood disease?

which in adults can reactivate as shingles.

- Chicken pox.

- That's correct for 20 points.

On to our next 10 point toss-up question for both teams.

What SI unit is used to measure luminosity?

Equals one joule per second, is the SI units of power.

(buzzer rings) - Camden.

- The Lux.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here is your 20 point bonus question, Freeburg.

During the Holocaust, Victor Frankel and Elie Wiesel survived being held at what largest Nazi concentration camp?

- Auschwitz.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What device, which was invented by Percy Spencer, uses a cavity magnetron to excite water molecules, generating radiation used to heat food.

(buzzer rings) Camden.

- Microwave.

That's correct for 10 points.

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

A book about the conversion process titled "Religious Affections" was written by what preacher who gave the sermon, quote, "Sinners in the hands of an angry god."?

- Edwards.

- Edwards?

That is correct for 20 points.

Next we have a media question, this is a video question.

Let's take a look.

As the first female led superhero movie for Marvel, this film had the sixth biggest opening in the history of cinema.

(buzzer rings) - Marta.

- "Captain Marvel".

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

What country, under Francisco Solano Lopez, lost much of its population in the War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay?

(buzzer rings) And for that one, we were looking for Paraguay.

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

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers 6 and 15?

given that they have a common factor of 3.

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- 60?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer rings) - Noah.

- 30.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Freeburg, here is your 20 point bonus question.

Ahmad Baba was a scholar in what African city, where the university of Sankore was established in the 14th century under Mansa Musa?

- Timbuktu.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Up next, we have another media question.

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

(photoplayer music) Developed in between the years 1912 and 1925, this musical instrument assisted in creating background music for silent movies.

This instrument became unnecessary with the rise of sound films and only 12 playable versions of this instrument exists today.

Name this instrument that shares a name similar to the company that created it.

(photoplayer continues playing) (buzzer rings) We're out of time.

The correct answer was the photoplayer.

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

What writing system, whose use of cartouches led it to its decipherment by Jean- (buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Hieroglyphics?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

In September, 2020, a newspaper in what city put out an editorial apologizing for it's history of racism, including coverage of the Rodney King riots?

- Newspaper?

- Washington Time, New York.

- "The New York Times."

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- The Washington Post.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

We were looking for the city and that was Los Angeles for that question.

- [Giifti] Oh, Los Angeles.

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

What thinker, who was declared an outlaw by Charles the fifth, following the diet of worms criticized the sale of indulgences- (buzzer rings) Giifti.

- Martin Luther.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

"Poems Pennyeach" and "Chamber Music" are poetry collections by what Irish author whose last novel was named after the ballot "Finnegans Wake"?

- It's James Joyce.

- Joyce.

- That's correct for 20 points, Carbondale.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up.

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

Expressed as a fraction, What is the quotient of the mixed number 5 and 1/2 divided by the mixed number 8 and 1/2?

(buzzer rings) Marta.

- 11/17.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question, and it's another math question.

What, I know it's a tough one.

What is the area of a trapezoid whose parallel bases have lengths of 10 and 14 respectively and whose height is 3?

And we are looking for the area.

- So it's 1.5 times 140 'cause like, it's 1/2 times three, and then like times... - 36, Giifti?

- Yeah.

- 36.

- That's correct for 20 points.

(doorbell rings) And that is the end of our game.

Carbondale, congratulations, you are our winners.

Freeburg, that was a great game that you guys played, you were right behind them, you'll caught up.

Thank you guys both for being here today.

Thank you all for watching Scholastic HI-Q at home, and we'll see you next time.

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