(instrumental music) (camera lens clicking) (instrumental music continues) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Welcome back to another episode of Scholastic IQ.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have another great episode in store for you tonight.

So let's go ahead and introduce those great teams.

On the bottom, we have Herrin, with Gavin, Cameryn, Tyler, and Nathan.

And on the top, we have Central, with Joseph, Kyle, Chris, and Tia.

Now before we get into our questions, let's just do a quick recap of our rules.

We'll start off with some toss up questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they move on to a bonus question that's worth 20 points, and can be stolen for 10.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt me and get a question wrong, it is five points for the other team.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, just make sure you're right.

All understand the rules, we're all on the same page?

Great.

Let's get into the questions.

What Prince of Phthia, the leader of the Myrmidons, was inspired by the death of his companion Patroclus, to slay Hector at the end of the Trojan War?

(buzzer chiming) Joseph?

- Achilles?

- [Ethan] Achilles is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what composer used a section called, "I Feel the Earth Move" and several "knee plays" in an opera from his portrait trilogy, "Einstein on the Beach"?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) (teammates whispering indistinctly) (teammates whispering indistinctly) - No answer.

- [Ethan] Heron, the chance to steal.

- No answer.

- [Ethan] All right, the answer we're looking for there was: Philip Glass.

Philip Glass.

I'll take us to our next toss up.

What tissue that has a trabecular and cortical forms, contains collagen and calcium, Hydro... (indistinct) Oh my God, Hydroxyapatite, and sometimes contains blood cell forming marrow.

(buzzer chiming) Chris?

- Bones?

- [Ethan] Bone is correct, or bone tissue is what we're looking for.

For your bonus, if Great Britain's Prince William succeeded his father as expected and keeps the Regnal name William, what Regnal name William would he become?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Second?

- [Ethan] William the Second is incorrect.

Heron, the chance to steal.

- Sixth.

- [Ethan] Sixth is incorrect.

The answer is William the Fifth.

William the Fifth.

The next toss up.

What actress who played the drug-addled daughter of Regan Thompson in Birdman played aspiring actress Mia, alongside Ryan Gosling in Lala Land?

(buzzer chiming) Cameryn?

- Emma Stone.

- [Ethan] Emma Stone is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what common names given to any insect in the order Lepidoptera that is not a butterfly?

- Larvae.

- [Ethan] Larvae is incorrect.

- [Kyle] A moth?

- [Ethan] Moth is correct.

Well done, Central.

For your next toss up, what American painter who showed two women in a Chinese restaurant in "Chop Sui" portrayed the lonely patrons of a late night diner in "Nighthawks"?

(buzzer chiming) Cameryn?

- Warhol.

- [Ethan] Warhol is incorrect.

(buzzer chiming) Kyle.

- Green.

- [Ethan] Green is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for there was Edward Hooper.

Edward Hooper or it might be Hopper.

I knew a guy named Hooper in middle school, might be Hopper.

For your next tossup, what novel in which Arthur Homewood donates blood to Lucy Westenra at the end, at the- (buzzer chiming) Tia?

- Dracula.

- [Ethan] Dracula is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what German composer of the Baroque era wrote a piece featuring the eight note base ostinato D-A-B-F sharp, G-D-G-A which was paired with a large gigue?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Bach.

- [Ethan] Bach is incorrect.

Heron, the chance to steal.

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - No answer.

- [Ethan] The answer we're looking for there was Pachelbel, or a Pachelbel's Canon.

Canon in D, I believe.

Back to the toss ups.

What letter can denote the ball shaped atomic orbital closest to the nucleus or a value that can be plus or minus- (buzzer chiming) Nathan.

- S. - [Ethan] S is correct, well done.

For your bonus, which of the classical simple machines can be created by wrapping a tilted inclined plane around a cylinder?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Pulley?

- [Ethan] Pulley is incorrect.

Central chances to- - [Kyle] Screw.

- [Ethan] Screw is correct, and quite possibly the most complicated way to describe a screw.

And that'll take us to our first media question.

This cartoon shows us a glimpse into the life of- (buzzer chiming) Kyle?

- [Kyle] "Ed, Ed and Eddie."

- [Ethan] "Ed, Ed and Eddie" is correct.

Well done.

And because that is a media question, there is no bonus.

We'll just take it back to the toss ups.

What man, who appointed every member of Barebone's Parliament, was nicknamed Old Ironsides and became Lord Protector after the English Civil War?

(buzzer chiming) Tia?

- Cromwell.

- [Ethan] Oliver Cromwell is correct.

Universally hated by all the Irish.

For your bonus, 10 characters tell stories over 10 days in what 14th Century book by Giovanni Boticello, or Boccaccio, whose title is partly derived from the Greek word for 10?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Diacime?

- [Ethan] Di- Can you say that again?

- Diacime.

- [Ethan] Diacime is incorrect.

- "The Decameron"?

- [Ethan] "The Decameron" is correct.

Over to Gavin.

Your next toss up, what series which began in 1927 when Leslie McFarlane wrote the "Tower Treasure" under the name Franklin- (buzzer chiming) - [Ethan] Tyler?

- The Hardy Boys.

- [Ethan] The Hardy Boys is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what city, whose metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of the CONMEBOL Soccer Federation is the capital of Paraguay?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - No answer.

- [Ethan] Central, a chance steal.

- Asunción.

- Asunción is correct.

Well done, Central.

Back to the toss ups.

What country, the site of the 2022 Abu Sifin Church fire is led by Abdel Fattah El-Sisi?

And is where the ship "Evergiven" blocked the Suez Canal?

(buzzer chiming) Nathan?

- Egypt.

- [Ethan] Egypt is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating what 1905 treaty that ended the Russo Japanese War?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Treaty of Nan King?

- [Ethan] Treaty of Nan King is incorrect.

- [Kyle] Treaty of Götz.

- [Ethan] Treaty of Götz is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Treaty of Portsmouth.

Treaty of Portsmouth.

For your next toss up, what statement, often written as H-bar over two, is less than or equal to Sigma X times Sigma P, limits knowledge of a particle's position and momentum?

(buzzer chiming) Kyle.

- Velocity?

- [Ethan] Velocity is incorrect.

(buzzer chiming) Nathan.

- Density.

- [Ethan] Density is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

I'll take us to the next toss up.

In what country, where three tiers of windows were included in the Fagus factory did Architect Walter Gropius found the Bauhaus in Weimar?

(buzzer chiming) Kevin.

- Germany.

- [Ethan] Germany is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Maria Agnesi, Emmy Noether, and Field's medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani are all women most noted for their work in which scientific discipline?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Biology?

- [Ethan] Biology is incorrect.

Central, a chance to steal.

- Chemistry.

- [Ethan] Chemistry is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was mathematics.

Mathematics.

For your next tossup, what man whose ship, The Liberty, was seized in 1768 was the first governor of Massachusetts and prominently signed the Declaration of Independence?

(buzzer chiming) Gavin?

- John Hancock.

- [Ethan] John Hancock is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1934, officers from what non-federal law enforcement agency ambushed and killed Bonnie and Clyde?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - FBI.

- [Ethan] FBI is incorrect.

Central, a chance to steal.

- CIA - [Ethan] CIA is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was the Texas Rangers.

Texas Rangers.

And I'll take us to another media question.

This British singer and songwriter- (buzzer chiming) Kyle?

- [Kyle] Harry Styles.

- [Ethan] Harry Styles is correct.

For your next tossup, what subject, whose Positive Theory was developed by HLA Hart has a natural form in many philosophies and is practiced by members of the bar?

(buzzer chiming) Cameryn?

- Law?

- [Ethan] Say that again?

- Law.

- [Ethan] Law is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what American Pop artist emulated the style of comic books in such paintings as "Drowning Girl" and "Wham!"?

- Warhol.

- [Ethan] Warhol's incorrect.

Central, your chance to steal.

- Bartholomew.

- [Ethan] Bartholomew is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Roy Lichtenstein.

Your next question, what city, the capital of the Spanish province of Navarre, is home to the annual festival of San Fermin, which contains the Running of the Bulls?

(buzzer chiming) Nathan?

- Barcelona.

- [Ethan] Barcelona is incorrect.

(buzzer chiming) Kyle.

- Tomatino.

- [Ethan] Tomatino is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for there was Pamplona.

Pamplona.

I'll take us to another toss up question.

What $15 million deal, negotiated by Robert Livingston and James Monroe with agents of Napoleon gained- (buzzer chiming) Gavin.

- The Louisiana Purchase.

- [Ethan] The Louisiana Purchase is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Hera was often described as having the eyes or face of a which animal, which was also often used to represent the Egyptian goddess Hathor?

- Cow.

- [Ethan] Cow is correct.

Well done.

- The next toss up, what type of radiation, which can give rise to dark lightning during namesake bursts, has higher energy than x-rays and is named for a Greek letter?

(buzzer chiming) Tia.

- Gamma.

- [Ethan] Gamma is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, A type of pantameter often used for blank verse employs what Metrical foot, which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

- Iambic.

- [Ethan] Iambic is correct.

We also would've accepted Iams.

Back to the toss ups.

What show, which received a 2022 Emmy nomination for actress Rhea Seehorn starred Bob Odenkirk as a wiley- (buzzer buzzing) Gavin.

- "Better Call Saul".

- [Ethan] "Better Call Saul" is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the average speed, in miles per hour, of a bicyclist who travels 4.5 miles in 15 minutes?

(pencils scribbling) (teammates whispering indistinctly) - 18 miles per hour.

- [Ethan] 18 miles per hour is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, what island, whose highest peak is Cerro de Punta, is home to Coqui Frog and El Yunque National Forest, and is a US territory led from San Juan?

(buzzer chiming) Kevin?

- Puerto Rico.

- [Ethan] Puerto Rico is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what university did a Phillips Zimbardo lead an experiment in which participants were randomly assigned to groups of either guards or prisoners?

- Stanford.

- [Ethan] Stanford prison experiments.

Correct, well done.

And that'll now take us to the lightning round.

(thunder crashing) (thunder rumbling) The way our lightning round works is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a certain topic.

Now, Central, since you guys are trailing in this one, you will have the chance to pick your topic first and your choices are inorganic compounds, "A" in music, I- E, or jails and prisons.

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - I-E. - [Ethan] I-E.

So, give these words that end in the consecutive letters IE.

60 seconds on the clock, and I will count you down.

Three, two... One.

A five litter word for an impish Sprite or fairy.

- Fairy.

- [Ethan] Yeah, an impish Sprite or fairy, yes.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A childish word for a germ or head louse, head lice.

- Just say it.

- Cootie?

- [Ethan] Cootie is correct.

In Marxist theory, the capitalist non-royal owning class.

- Bourgeoisie.

- [Ethan] Bourgeoisie is correct.

A shady figure who handles money for gambling debts.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A relatively flat, treeless grassland.

- Prairie.

- Prairie.

- [Ethan] Prairie is correct.

A device that cooks food by constantly revolving it.

- Rotisserie.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

A Shield-maiden who guides the heroic dead in Norse myth.

- Valkyrie.

- [Ethan] Valkyrie is correct.

A bakery specializing in fine French pastry.

- Patisserie.

- [Ethan] Patisserie is correct.

A score of one below par in golf.

- Birdie.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

A colorful elastic hairband.

- Scrunchie.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

(buzzer buzzing) And you guys are all out of time.

So a five letter word for an impish sprite or fairy is pixie.

A shady figure who handles money for gambling bets is a bookie.

A- oh you guys got that one, right?

And then I think the last one you guys might missed out on, on a colorful elastic hair band was scrunchie.

Scrunchie.

So well done, and we will now take it to Herrin.

And your choices are inorganic compounds, "A" in music and jails and prisons.

- "A" in music.

- [Ethan] "A" in Music it is.

Give these musical terms, not all of which come from Italian, that begin with the letter A, 60 seconds on the clock, and I'll count you down.

Three, two... One.

Elaborate vocal solo at an opera.

- Acapella.

- [Ethan] Acapella is incorrect.

The lowest women's part in choral music - Alto.

- [Ethan] Alto is correct.

Choral music performed without instruments.

- Acapella.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

A fast tempo, a bit slower than a viviaci.

- Allegro.

- [Ethan] Allegro is correct.

The science of sound production in singular, a type of guitar.

- Acoustic.

- [Ethan] Acoustic is correct.

Chord tones sounded in succession, rather than all at once.

- Arpeggio.

- [Ethan] Arpeggio is correct.

A device to increase the volume of sound.

- Attenuator.

- [Ethan] Attenuator is incorrect.

Direction to gradually play faster.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Slow, expressive tempo used in a Samuel Barber piece for strings.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] From Latin for "dice", in music in which some aspect of the work is left to chance.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Direction to play gradually faster.

(buzzer buzzing) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

Elaborate vocal solo in an opera was aria, the device to increase the volume of sound is amp or amplifier, direction to play gradually faster was Accelerando, slow, expressive tempo used in a Samuel Barber piece for strings, was adagio, and from Latin for "dice", music in which some aspect of the work is left to chance is Aletory.

or Aleatory, excuse me.

And let's just take a quick look at our scores after the lightning round.

We have Central at 200 and Herrin at 220.

So an incredibly close game after the first half and looking forward to a very competitive second half.

So let's get back into the toss ups.

What author portrayed a woman who borrows money from the merchant Lheureux, before killing herself with arsenic in the 1856 French novel Madame Bovary?

(buzzer buzzing) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was Gustave Flaubert.

So on to our next toss up.

What planet, whose poles periodically go through 42 years of darkness has a 98 degree axial tilt, and a larger- (buzzer chiming) Kyle.

- Uranus.

- [Ethan] Uranus is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, aluminum hydroxide is an example of what type of molecule that can act as either an acid or a base?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Hydroxic.

- [Ethan] Hydroxic is incorrect.

Herrin, a chance to steal.

- Transformative.

- [Ethan] Transformative is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for there was amphoteric.

Amphoteric.

For the next toss up, what language appeared alongside English in Elias Boudinot's "Phoenix"?

A newspaper published in New Echota using a syllabarry developed by Sequoyah?

(buzzer chiming) Gavin.

- Spanish.

- [Ethan] Spanish is incorrect.

(buzzer chiming) - [Ethan] Kyle?

- French.

- [Ethan] French is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Cherokee.

Cherokee language.

On to our next toss up, what author wrote about gambler Jim Smiley and the title animal whose name is Dan, Daniel Webster, in the celebrated, "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

Excuse me, "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

(buzzer buzzing) Sorry you guys are all out of time.

The answer you're looking for was Mark Twain.

Mark Twain.

On to the next question, what food used to make Hawaiian musubi is paired with eggs in a Monty Python sketch and can refer to canned pork made by Hormel foods?

(buzzer chiming) - Spam.

- [Ethan] Spam is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what law named for a French chemist states that at constant volume the pressure of a given mass of a gas varies directly with its temperature?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Charles.

- Say it.

- Charles.

- [Ethan] Charles is incorrect.

Central, the chance to steal.

- Lavoisier.

- [Ethan] Lavoisier is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Gay-Lussac's.

Gay-Lussac's Law.

On to the next question, what country in which the 1700's was a French colony called Saint-Domingue, declared independence in 1804 after a revolt led by- (buzzer chiming) Nathan?

- Haiti.

- [Ethan] Haiti is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what group, which included the Buddhist B. R. Ambedkar lies outside the four varnas of India's caste system and has historically faced discrimination?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Untouchables.

- [Ethan] The untouchables is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, what degree of polynomial whose roots can be found by Cardano's method has at most two local extrema and has a degree one more than a quadratic?

(buzzer chiming) Nathan?

- Three.

- [Ethan] We are not going to be able to accept just three, I believe.

I don't believe we will accept just three.

(buzzer chiming) Joseph.

- Cubic.

- [Ethan] Cubic is correct.

Cubic polynomials, well done.

For the next toss up- Oh actually we get to go to a bonus round on that one.

(paper rustling) Oregon's second most populous city is what nicknamed city, Tracktown, USA, that is home to the University of Oregon?

- Salem.

- [Ethan] Salem is incorrect.

- [Gavin] Eugene.

- [Ethan] Eugene is correct.

Well done, Gavin.

All right, our next toss up, what symphony with an English horn solo in D flat major in its Largo second movement is named for the fact Antonín DvoYák wrote it in the US?

(buzzer chiming) Tia.

- New World Symphony.

- [Ethan] New World Symphony is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Moon Dysnomia orbits what massive known dwarf planet whose discovery led Pluto to be demoted from a planet?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Series.

- [Ethan] Series is incorrect.

Herrin, the chance to steal.

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Titan.

- [Ethan] Titan is incorrect.

I might have misunderstood your pronunciation.

It is, the correct answer was Eris.

I don't know if you're referring to a different one.

Okay, yeah, we're looking for there was Eris.

And on to the next toss up, what institution which issued a namesake consultum ultimum approving death for treason had members chosen by the censor from wealthy Roman citizens?

(buzzer chiming) Gavin.

- Senate.

- [Ethan] The Roman Senate is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in 1945, Japanese officials formally surrendered aboard what American battleship, the last ever commissioned for the US Navy?

- USS Missouri.

- [Ethan] USS Missouri is correct.

Well done.

And for the next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the probability of an event happening if the odds of the event occurring are five to two in favor?

- Five out of seven.

- [Ethan] Five out of seven is correct.

Oh, actually you did not buzz in.

We will buzz in for her.

(buzzer chiming) - Okay.

I'm so sorry.

- [Ethan] Five out of seven is correct.

Yes, just realized I didn't hear the buzzer.

I was like, "Oh!"

- I'm so sorry about bonus.

- You're fine.

You're good.

For the bonus, James Boswell wrote a biography of what British author who compiled a dictionary of the English language and may have had Tourette's syndrome?

- Webster.

- [Ethan] Webster is incorrect.

Central, the chance to steal.

- Miriam.

- [Ethan] Miriam is incorrect.

The answer looking for was Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson.

Back to the toss ups.

What author whose play featuring Joe Keller inspired the name of the band 21 Pilots, was married to Marilyn Monroe and wrote "The Crucible"?

(buzzer chiming) Cameryn.

- Arthur Miller.

- [Ethan] Arthur Miller is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, 17th Century Pirate William Dampier wrote the first English language recipe for what dip that includes mashed avocados, onions, and lime juice?

- Guacamole.

- [Ethan] Guacamole is correct.

Next toss up.

What man whose money was used to buy the field of blood delivers a kiss in the garden Gethsemane after getting 30- (buzzer chiming) Gavin.

- Jesus.

- [Ethan] Jesus is incorrect.

After getting 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus.

(buzzer chiming) - Judas Iscariot.

- [Ethan] Judas is correct.

For your bonus, what 18th century Scottish philosopher wrote about a missing shade of blue in his book and inquiry concerning human understanding?

(teammates whispering indistinctly) - Shaw.

- [Ethan] Shaw is incorrect.

Herrin, the chance to steal.

- Darwin.

- [Ethan] Darwin is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was there was David Hume.

David Hume.

Back to the toss ups.

What federal agency, which is led by former Senator Bill Nelson, is carrying out the Artemis program and supervises a launch of the web- (buzzer chiming) Nathan.

- NASA.

- [Ethan] NASA is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Ohio University was the site of the 1970 massacre in which Jeffrey Miller and three other anti-war students were shot by the National Guard?

- Knox State.

- [Ethan] Knox State is incorrect.

Central, the chance to steal.

- Dayton.

- [Ethan] Dayton is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Kent State, Kent State.

(bell tolling) And that bell means that is all we have time for on today's show.

So let's take a look at the scores.

We have Herrin with 350 and Central with 245.

So a very close game, right down to the end.

Well done to the both of you.

So for all of our people working so hard behind the scenes today, and our lovely contestants here on set, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much, and goodnight.

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