(upbeat music) (cheerful theme music) - Welcome to the 30th season of Scholastic HI-Q.

I'm your host Jordan Spudville, and I'm very excited to be here.

Today we are joined by two teams, who are also excited to be here.

On the bottom row we have returning champions, Carbondale: with Clark, Giifti and Marta.

And then on the top row, we have newcomers Metro East Lutheran: Josh, Blake, and Silas.

Now that we've met our contestants, they're ready to start the season off strong.

But before we can do that, let's refresh our memories and go over the rules.

I will be reading a series of toss-up questions, worth 10 points each that both teams will be able to answer.

If a team answers a toss-up correctly, they have the chance to answer a 20 point bonus question.

However, if they get that bonus wrong, the other team has a chance to steal it away from them, and earn themselves 10 points.

The interruption rule is in effect in today's game.

So if a contestant interrupts me while I'm reading a question and they answer incorrectly, the other team will receive five points automatically and they get to hear the entire question.

As usual, we'll be having a lightning round halfway through the game where I will 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.

We've met the people, we know the rules.

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, What state, where Denmark Vesey planned a slave rebellion, was the first to secede from the U.S.?

(buzzer sounds) - [Jordan] Marta.

- South Carolina.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry?

- South Carolina.

- [Jordan] That is correct.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

We're starting off with a math question, so let's get those pencil and paper ready.

What is the discriminant of the quadratic polynomial, 2x squared plus x minus 7, given the formula is B squared minus 4 AC?

(contestants whispering) (buzzer sounding) - [Jordan] I'm sorry.

That's time.

Metro East Lutheran, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

(contestants whispering) - 29.

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

The correct answer was 57.

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

What five letter word for an Icelandic letter, for an Icelandic letter, representing the TH sound follows "haw-" in the name of a shrub, and can refer to the spines found on roses.

(buzzer sounding) Marta.

- Thorn.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

"Mercredi," which refers to the Roman god Mercury, is the French word for what day of the week?

(contestants whispering) - Monday.

- Monday.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Metro east, you have a chance to steal.

- Wednesday.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Congratulations.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up, what quantity's elementary value was measured in the Millikan oil drop experiment, can be expressed in coulombs- (buzzer sounding) Josh.

- Electro negativity - [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect, and because of the interruption rule, Carbondale, you get five points and I'll read the full question.

What quantity's elementary value was measured in Millikan oil drop experiment, can be expressed in coulombs, and for electrons is negative?

(buzzer sounding) - Marta.

- Charge.

- [Jordan] That's correct.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question: what civil rights organization's legal defense fund, led by Thurgood Marshall, challenged school segregation in the 1954 case Brown vs. Board?

- Yeah, you're right.

- The NAACP?

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

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up question: what pope published the catechism of the Catholic church and officially apologized for the persecution of Galileo during his tenure in the 1990s?

[Buzzer Sounding] - Silas.

- John Paul the Second?

- [Jordan] I'm sorry?

- John Paul the Second?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your 20 point bonus question: the Bhagavad Gita is a Hindu scripture, which originally appeared as a monologue within what larger narrative epic poem?

- Yeah.

(contestants whispering) - Brahmagupta?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Carbondale, you can steal.

- Mahabharata.

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

Moving on to our next toss-up question: what art movement's painters included, Marie Bracquemond, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt as well- (buzzer sounding) - Giifti.

- Impressionism.

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

Carbondale, here's your next bonus question.

The Delmarva Peninsula forms the Eastern border of what inlet of the Atlantic ocean, which is fed by the Susquehanna and Potomac rivers?

- Chesapeake bay.

- That's correct for 20 points.

It's now time for our first media question, and this is an audio question.

So let's take a listen.

(audio playing) This language is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa, and one of the 16 languages of Zimbabwe.

It is a Bantu language that is characterized by click consonants.

Name this language that is featured as a language Wakandan's speak in Black Panther.

- Giifti.

- Wakandan.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

- Blake.

- Swahili.

- I'm sorry.

- Swahili - I'm sorry.

That's also incorrect.

The correct answer was Xhosa.

It's okay, let's move on to our next 10 point toss up question.

What character who was named for Nintendo's lawyer, is a native of Planet Pop Star.

- Josh.

- Mario.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect, and because of the interruption rule, Carbondale, you get five points and I'll read the full question.

What character who was named for Nintendo's lawyer, is a native of planet pop star.

who often fights King Dedede, and is able to inhale his enemies?

(buzzer sounding) - Giifti - Kirby.

- That's correct.

for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

Saturnism refers to poisoning by what heavy metal, whose Latin name is the origin of an English word, reflecting its former use in water pipes?

- Yeah, lead.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What organelle in which RuBisCO catalyzes carbon fixation as part of the Calvin cycle, contains thylakoids and carries (buzzer sounding) - Giifti - Uh, chloroplasts.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point Bonus question.

What cryptocurrency based on an internet meme lost nearly 30% of its value in the hours after Elon Musk referred it to it on Saturday night live?

- Dogecoin.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Onto our next 10 point toss up In what year was the Schlieffen Plan activated after Germany declared war on France?

(buzzer sounding) - Josh.

- 1914.

- That's correct, for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your 20 point bonus question.

Which man, who commanded British forces at the battle of the Nile, died aboard the HMS Victory during a battle in 1805?

[Whispering] - Nelson.

(buzzer sounding) - That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to the next 10 point toss up.

Vinson Massif is on what continent that has the highest average elevation?

(buzzer sounding) - Blake - Antarctica.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your bonus question.

The Subaru straight separates Honshu from what northern-most of the Japanese main islands, whose capital is Sapporo?

- Hokkaido.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss up question.

What force whose study is called Tribology, has a magnitude of atmost, a coefficient Mu, times the normal force.. (buzzer sounding) - Marta.

- Friction.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

The opening line of To Kill a Mockingbird refers to the broken arm suffered by what character and his altercation with Bob Ewell?

- Jem, Jeremy, Jem.

- Jem.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Good.

It's time for our next media question.

This one is a video question.

So let's take a look.

This TV series is adapted... (buzzer sounding) - My Hero Academia.

- That is correct for 10 points.

(laughing) - No hesitation.

That's how we like it here.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss up question.

What city was home to Templehof Airport, which was used to receive goods during a 1940 Soviet blockade?

(buzzer sounding) - Josh.

- Berlin.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your 20 point bonus question.

Henry the fifth led English forces at what battle of the Hundred Years' War, which occurred on St. Crispin's day in 1415?

(whispering) - Corleone.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Carbondale, you have a chance to steal.

(whispering) - Battle of Bosworth Field.

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

It was the Battle of Azincourt.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss up.

What character meets Tom O' Bedlam on a heap, has daughters named, Regan, Goneril... (buzzer sounding) - Um, King Lear.

- That's correct for 10 points Here is your 20 point bonus question, Carbondale.

What principles states that a system in equilibrium will shift to counteract certain changes, such as changes in pressure or volume?

- Le Chatelier's principle.

- That's correct for 20 points, Carbondale.

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

What decade in which Mr. T starred on NBC's action series, The A team, is that... (buzzer sounding) - Josh - the 1980s.

That's correct.

For 10 points.

Here is your 20 point bonus question.

What mustachioed Belgian detective uses the little gray cells of his brain to solve murders in novels by Agatha Christie?

- Perrow - I'm sorry?

- Perrow.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

- I forgot [whispering] - And the correct answer for that was Hercule Poirot.

- Oh!

- Onto our next 10 point toss up.

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

How many seconds does it take to wash one dish, if 15 dishes can be washed in three minutes?

(buzzer sounding) - Blake.

- 12.

- That's correct.

12 seconds for 10 points.

Here is your bonus question for 20 points.

What modernist painter, who was born near the town of Vitebsk in present day Belarus, showed a green human facing a goat and eye in the village.

- Picasso.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

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

- That is correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next toss up question, which king who may have ordered the deaths of the princess in the tower was succeeded by Henry the seventh.

- Blake.

- Richard The 3rd.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your 20 point bonus question, which Germanic people were ruled for over 50 years by King Gaiseric, who captured Roman Carthage in AD 439 and sacked Rome in 455.

- The Visigoths..

The Visigoths.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer for that was Vandals.

It is now time for our lightning round.

[Wind Whirring Noise] Metro East, you are just a little bit behind, so we're going to let you choose your category first.

We have four categories to choose from.

You can either answer questions about literary terms, teams not ending in S, double O or S-H. - Let's do double O.

- Double O.

All right.

Metro East, in this lightning round, I need you to give these words that either begin or end with a double O.

Are you ready for your lightning round?

All right.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

Synonym for a lot - Oodles.

- I'm sorry.

Oh, that's correct.

I apologize An act that is culturally forbidden.

- Taboo.

- That's correct.

To slowly flow out or substance that does so.

- Ooze.

- That's correct, fast growing plants eaten by pandas - Bamboo.

- Correct.

Semi-arid region of Southern Africa.

- Pass.

- Type of tea, whose name means Black Dragon.

- Oolong.

- I'm sorry?

- Oolong - Correct.

Droning instrument played by the Aboriginal people of Australia.

- Didgeridoo.

- Correct.

The study of birds eggs.

- Zoology.

- Correct.

The praise extravagantly or the act of doing so.

- Pass.

Vocalization of sports fans who disagree with a call - Boo.

- Correct Going back to ones you passed, semi-arid region of Southern Africa.

- Zulu.

- Sorry, that's incorrect To praise extravagantly or the act of doing so.

- Pass.

And that's time on that.

The ones that you passed and missed, the semi-arid region of Southern Africa was kuru and to praise extravagantly or the act of doing so is Ballyhoo.

But not bad, you guys got eight out of ten, very impressive.

But now it's Carbondale's turn, and the remaining categories are literary terms, teams not ending in S or S-H. - We're going to go with literary terms.

- Literary terms it is.

In this lightning round, I need you guys to give me these terms related to plots characters, and other elements of narrative literature.

Are you guys ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Perfect.

All right.

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

A story's time and place.

- Setting.

- Correct.

- An out of order scene set before the main storyline.

- Flashback.

- Correct A character whose traits starkly contrast with another.

- A foil.

- Correct.

Presenting hints about future action.

- Foreshadowing.

- Correct.

A conversation between two or more characters.

- A dialogue.

- Correct.

A protagonist who lacks conventional heroic qualities.

- Antihero.

- Correct.

Background info or the very beginning of a story.

- Epilogue.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

Extreme pride that may serve as a tragic flaw.

- Hubris.

- Correct.

A work directly mocking or lampooning other works or genres.

- Satire.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

A story's resolution from the French for unknotting.

- Um.

- And unfortunately that's the last question.

So a story's resolution from the French for unknotting.

And that's time.

The ones that you missed, a background info or the very beginning of a story was exposition.

- Oh right.

- A work directly mocking or lampooning other works, was a parody.

And then a story's resolution from the French for unknotting was denouement.

- Oh.

- Still a good lightening round, seven out of ten questions answered correctly.

Both teams, you did a great job.

And now we're going to move back to our toss-up and bonus questions.

Starting with our first 10 point toss-up.

Which king who may have ordered the death of the princess in tower?

I'm sorry, we've already read this question.

I apologize about that.

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

This is a still question.

Let's take a look.

This American novelist and SAS gifted (buzzer sounding) - Tony Morrison.

- That's correct for 10 points We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss up question for both teams.

What playwright created the fathers, Eddie Carboni, and a view from the bridge, Joe Keller?

- Arthur Miller.

- That's correct for 10 points East Metro, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What country scandal involving 26,000 parents falsely accused of childcare benefit fraud led to the 2021 resignation of Prime Minister Mark Rhoda.

- No answer.

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

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the Netherlands.

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

What composer of the thunder or fairest of the fair and... - Giifti - Um, Sousa.

- That's correct for 10 points Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What gas with tetrahedral molecular geometry is the lightest alkane?

- Benzene?

I don't know.

- Sorry?

Benzene.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

- Methane.

- Methane is correct for 20 points.

I'm sorry for 10 points for stealing.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up question.

What condition whose fixation type is a symptom of Korsakoff syndrome has anterograde and a retrograde types, and involves deficits and memory?

- Marta.

- Dementia.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

- Blake.

- What is Alzheimer's - I'm sorry, that's also incorrect we were looking for Amnesia.

It's okay.

We're going to move on to our next 10 point tossup question.

What ruler replaced the Han system with prefectures in 1871, a few years after he took power as emperor of Japan and his namesake restoration?

(buzzer sounding) - Josh.

- The... no answer.

(buzzer sounding) - Carbondale.

- Meiji.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 10, or 20 point bonus question.

Although let it be was released later.

What 1969 album containing Something and Come Together was the last studio album recorded by The Beatles?

- Abbey road.

- Abbey road is correct for 20 points Onto our next 10 point toss-up question.

What object whose debris causes the Orionid meteor shower was observed by its namesake in 1682 will pass near... (buzzer sounding) - Blake - Haley's Comet.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here is your bonus question.

What country whose capital lies at the confluence of the Logone and Chari rivers is governed from N'Djamana and named a large African lake?

- Chad.

- That is correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next media question.

This one is an audio question.

So let's take a listen.

This theme song is for a mass media company... (buzzer sounding) - Josh.

- Disney.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our next toss up question.

What author of bingeable creditor wrote about Igbo, man who hangs himself during the British colonial rule of Nigeria and his novel, Things Fall Apart?

(buzzer sounding) - Chinua Achebe.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question, Which property of equality states that a equals a or the other words that a number always equals itself?

- Identity.

- Yeah.

- Sorry?

- Identity.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Metro East, you have a chance to steal.

- The fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

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

(buzzer sounds) The answer we were looking for was reflexive property.

- Oh okay.

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

What daughter of Zeus celebrated with her mother and the Eleusinian Mysteries, ate pomegranate seeds that obliged her to leave her... (buzzer sounds) - Persephone.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here is your 20 point bonus question.

What prize that was shared in 2019, by the books, Girl, Women, Other, and the Testaments is awarded to English language novels published in the UK?

- This is just a, not the Pulitzer, but no, not Nobel.

Oh, wait Jake something in Kate Gudden.

I dunno, I dunno.. Gudden - I'm sorry.

- Gudden?

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Metro East, you have a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- And the answer we were looking for for that was Booker prize for fiction.

Okay.

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

What layer of the atmosphere from which Joseph Kittinger made a 20 mile high skydive in 1960, lies above the troposphere and contains the ozone layer?

(buzzer sounding) - Silas.

- Stratosphere.. Stratosphere.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your bonus question.

Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, led which rebellion against the Qing dynasty?

- Okay.

It's Taiping.

- That's correct for 20 points, moving onto our next 10 point toss-up.

The line, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on", is from what play in which the spirit Ariel is ordered by... (buzzer sounding) - Giifti.

- The Tempest.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

What 11 letter adjective describes a kinship system and which descent is traced through a line of female ancestors?

- Matriarchy.. Matriarchy - Sorry, that's incorrect.

Metro East, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Primogenitor.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were actually looking for was a maitre-lineal.

- Oh my.

- Onto our next 10 point toss-up question.

What newspaper named Sally Busby as its executive editor in 2021 has the slogan quote, "Democracy dies in darkness."

(buzzer sounding) - Blake.

- The New York times.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

And because of the interruption rule, Carbondale, you get five points and I'll read the full question.

What newspaper named Sally Busby as its executive editor editor in 2021 has the slogan, "Democracy dies in darkness", and is based in the nation's Capitol.

(buzzer sounding).

- Marta.

- The Washington Post.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

What radioactive element, which has been used as a poison, was named by Marie Curie after her homeland?

- Radium.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Metro East, you have a chance to steal.

- Polonium.

- That is correct for 10 points.

It's time for our next media question.

This one is a video question.

So let's take a look.

This film won... (buzzer sounding) - Clark.

- Into the Spider-verse.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Onto our next 10 point toss-up.

What man who skipped the constitutional convention because he "smelled a rat" (buzzer sounding) - Blake.

- Patrick Henry.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Metro East, here's your bonus question.

What noun that refers to a section of a long poem comes from the Italian word for song and was used in the title of a 116 part poem by Ezra Pound?

- Oh, canto.

- That is correct for 20 points.

Onto our next toss-up question.

Actin and myosin are found in what structures with cardiac.

(buzzer sounding) - Silas - Muscles.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question Metro East.

What Norse God who sacrificed a hand during the chaining of Wolf Fenrir will kill and be killed by the hell hound Gharem, at Ragnarok?

- Thor.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Carbondale?

- Heindal.

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

We were looking for Tyr.

- Oh, okay.

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

What politician who displayed a poster depicting 111 days of hell and a mountain during the COVID crisis resigned as the governor of New York?

(buzzer sounding) - Giifti.

- Andrew Cuomo.

- That is correct at 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your bonus question.

Electrical stimulation of the tongue may help alleviate what common condition in which a person hears "ringing in the ears?"

- Tinnitus.

- That is correct for 20 points.

Onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What river, whose headwaters originate in Lake Itasca, flows through such cities as Memphis and St. Louis?

(buzzer sounding) - Clark.

- The Mississippi River.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Carbondale, here's your 20 point bonus question.

In 2020, the National Science Foundation announced the decommissioning of the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope, in which US territory?

- Maybe the port of Guam.. Guam.

- That's what I thought.

Guam.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Metro East.

(buzzer sounding) And unfortunately that sound means it's the end of our game.

Carbondale, congratulations.

You guys are our winners with 455 points.

Metro east, you guys played a strong game.

A good game.

You guys weren't far behind.

Thank you, Carbondale.

Thank you, Metro East, both for being here.

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

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