(upbeat music) (camera lens beeping) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Welcome back to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q", the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have a great show in store for you tonight with two great teams, so let's go ahead and introduce them.

On the bottom, we have West Frankfort with Adonis, Royal, Courtney and Kaitlyn.

And up top, we have Edwards County with Adriel, Brayden, Jason and Isaiah.

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

We'll start out with some toss-up questions, those are worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they move on to a bonus question which is worth 20, 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 just be right all the time and we don't got any problems.

All right, if everybody's ready, let's get into the questions.

What city whose namesake sky tree is over 2000 feet tall, contains the Ginza Shopping District, was formerly called Edo, and is the capital of Japan?

(buzzer sounding) Jason?

- Tokyo?

- Tokyo is correct.

For your bonus, what senator and senior pastor at Atlanta's Ebeneezer Baptist Church won reelection in 2022 by defeating Herschel Walker in a runoff election?

(indistinct conversation) - No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer, all right.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we were looking for there was Raphael Warnock.

Raphael Warnock.

For your next toss-up, what organ, in which Purkinje fibers conduct electrical signals, contain the tricuspid valve between the right atrium and ventricle and blood pumps?

(plastic clicking) Are you buzzing?

- Buzz.

- [Ethan] Okay, yeah.

I think we were having a buzzer issue there.

Brayden.

- Heart.

- Heart is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what man wrote about Charles Condomine, whose first wife is unintentionally resurrected as a sarcastic ghost in his play "Blithe Spirit"?

(indistinct conversation) - "Cats".

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- Smith?

- That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Noel Coward.

And that'll take us to our next toss-up question.

What American company, whose sales of Paxlovid plummeted in 2023, partnered with BioNTech to create the first FDA-approved COVID vaccine?

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- Pfizer?

- Pfizer is correct, well done.

For your bonus, during what president's administration did alcohol distillers bribe treasury department officials in the Whiskey Ring Scandal?

- Prohibition?

- [Ethan] Is incorrect.

Edwards County, chance to steal.

- Hoover?

- That's incorrect, the answer we were looking for was Ulysses S Grant, Ulysses S Grant.

Next toss-up.

In September 1870, Henry Washburn named what aquatic landmark, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park, that is known for it's regular eruptions?

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- Old Reliable?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- [Brayden] Old Faithful?

- Old Faithful is correct.

For your bonus, what painter, who showed surrendering Confederate officers in "Prisoners from the Front" also made such seascapes as "Breezing Up" and "The Gulf Stream"?

- Vermeer.

- [Ethan] Incorrect.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- Michelangelo?

- That's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Winslow Homer.

Winslow Homer.

Your next toss-up.

What mathematical things have eigenvalues and are eigenvectors, are invertible if they have a non-zero determinant and are rectangular arrays of numbers?

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- Matrices?

- Matrices is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what blue video game character lends his name to a protein that directs formation of the brain and spinal cord and is opposed by Robotnitkin?

- [Brayden] Sonic.

- Sonic's correct, well done.

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

Released on May 12, 2023, this adventure action and role-playing game continues a popular series from Nintendo, this single-system, Jason.

- Tears of the Kingdom?

- Tears of the Kingdom is correct.

Well done.

And since that was a media question, there is no bonus question, so we'll take it back to the toss-ups.

What man wrote the "Blue Back Speller" textbook and an 1828 work later owned by the Merriam brothers, his American dictionary of the English language.

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- Webster?

- Webster is correct.

For your bonus, John Wayne was best known for acting in what film genre, exemplified by the movies, "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"?

- Western?

- Western is correct, well done.

For your next toss-up, in 2022, what island nation expanded it's military service requirement, citing increased military exercises across it's namesake strait by China?

(buzzer sounding) - Jason.

- Taiwan?

- Taiwan is correct.

For your bonus, in July 2023, what country's central bank kept interest rates at 97% ahead of elections in which incumbent president Alberto Fernandez is not running?

(indistinct conversation) - Spain?

- [Ethan] Spain in incorrect.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- Is it Mexico?

- Mexico is incorrect, the answer we're looking for was Argentina.

Argentina.

Next toss-up.

What metal scattered electrons in the Davisson Germer experiment, likely joins with iron to form earth's inner core and has an atomic symbol, NI?

(buzzer sounding) Jason?

- Nickel?

- Nickel is correct.

For your bonus, in astronomy, what is the term for the zone around a star within which a planet could support liquid water?

(indistinct conversation) - Atmosphere?

- Atmosphere is incorrect, the answer we're looking, oh no, sorry, West Frankfort, you still have a chance.

- [Royal] Habitable?

- Habitable is correct or the Goldilocks zone, well done, Royal.

Your next toss-up.

What former Tennessee governor called Raven when he lived among the Cherokee, won the Battle of San Jacinto and was the first president of Texas?

(no audio) (buzzer sounding) Isaiah.

- Davy Crockett?

- Is incorrect.

(no audio) (buzzer sounding) The answer we're looking for there was Sam Houston, Sam Houston.

For your next toss-up.

What river contains the massive Rybinsk reservoir, named the city formerly known as Stalingrad and is a Russian river that is the longest in Europe?

(buzzer sounding) Adriel.

- The Volga?

- Volga is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what biblical man who had a disciple with a similar name confronts the prophets of Baal at Mt Carmel and is taken to heaven in a chariot of fire?

(indistinct conversation) - John?

- [Ethan] Is incorrect.

West Frankfort, a chance to steal.

- Elijah?

- Elijah is correct, well done.

For your next toss-up.

What adjective indicates a planet closer to the sun than another or an anatomical feature below another, such as the lower branch of the Vena Cava?

(no audio) (buzzer sounding) The answer we're looking for there was inferior, as in inferior planet.

And that will take us to our next media question.

This animator and screenwriter started her career.

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- Rebecca Sugar?

- Rebecca Sugar is correct, well done.

Your next toss-up.

What king presided over most of Amarna-style art creation, was the husband of Nefertiti and was a pharaoh who started a religion centered on Aten?

(no audio) (buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- Tut?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

(no audio) (buzzer sounding) The answer we're looking for there was Akhenaton, Akhenaton.

For your next toss-up.

What novel, in which Arthur Holmwood provides Lucy Westinra with a blood transfusion, depicts Dr Van Helsing's quested feat, the title.

(buzzer sounding) Jason.

- "Dracula".

- "Dracula" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Peace of Pressburg was signed in the aftermath of what 1805 battle in which Napoleon's victory demolished the Third Coalition?

(indistinct conversation) (buzzer sounding) - Austerlitz?

- [Ethan] You guys are all out of time.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- [Royal] Smith.

- Smith is incorrect.

You guys were just barely out of time, it is, in fact, the Battle of Austerlitz.

For your next toss-up.

What quantity, which is equal to the dot product of force and velocity is defined as the work done per unit time and is measured in watts?

(buzzer sounding) Adonis.

- Joule?

- [Ethan] Joule is incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- Electricity.

- That's also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was power.

Power.

Your next toss-up.

What country which operates the Aramco company, that manages it's massive petroleum reserves, is home to the holy cities of Medina and Mecca?

(buzzer sounding) Adriel.

- Saudi Arabia.

- Saudi Arabia is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Russian composer, whose first symphony is nicknamed "The Classical", wrote a concert-length ballet based on "Romeo and Juliet"?

(indistinct conversation) - Brahms?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

(indistinct conversation) - Smith?

- That's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Sergei Prokofiev.

Sergei Prokofiev.

Your next toss-up.

What animal form is taken by a namesake grandmother-protector figure in Navajo myth and by a cunning storyteller from West African myth named Anansi?

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- A fox?

- [Ethan] Is incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- Baboon.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is spider.

Spider.

And for your next toss-up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the smallest positive integer that when squared produces a value greater than 300 given 15 squared equals 225?

(pencil scratching sounding) (pencil scratching continuing to sound) (buzzer sounding) Jason.

- 16?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Adonis.

- 18.

- 18 is correct, well done.

For your bonus, BR Ambedkar was the leader of what Indian social group who were often ostracized and left out of the Hindu caste system?

(indistinct conversation) - Muslim?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Edwards County, chance to steal.

- [Brayden] Buddhists?

- That's also incorrect, the answer we're looking for was Dalits, or untouchables.

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

The Walt Disney company's long-running.

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- [Royal] Mickey Mouse?

- Mickey Mouse is correct.

The next toss-up.

What song, which reached Billboard number one in 2019, 25 years after it's release, describes "Just one thing I need" and is a seasonal Mariah Carey hit?

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- "All I Want for Christmas" - [Ethan] We need more than that.

- "Is You"?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, toys are discarded after a boy contracts scarlet fever in what Marjorie Williams book which is named after a stuffed bunny who becomes real?

(indistinct conversation) (buzzer sounding) - Nope.

- [Ethan] You guys are out of time.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- "Peter Rabbit".

- That is incorrect, the answer we're looking for was "The Velveteen Rabbit", "The Velveteen Rabbit".

And that'll take us to our Lightning Round.

(electrical storm sounding) The way our Lightning Round works is each team with have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a particular topic.

Now, West Frankfort, since you guys are trailing this one, you get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are Hercules' Labors, Domes of the World, Shortstops or Arizona.

(indistinct conversation) - Domes.

- All right, domes it is.

In what present day country can one find these domes or domed buildings?

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

Three, two, one.

The Hagia Sophia.

You can pass as well.

- Yeah, pass.

- [Ethan] The Taj Mahal.

- India.

- [Ethan] Monticello.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The Reichstag Building.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The Biosphere, a museum built for Expo '67.

- New York.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

St Basil's Cathedral.

- Rome?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

The Shwedagon Pagoda.

- Italy?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Royal Albert Hall.

(indistinct conversation) - England?

- [Ethan] We need more than just England.

- New England?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

The Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi.

- India?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

The Mausoleum of Timer in Samarkand.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The Hagia Sophia.

Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

And re-looking at my notes here, I believe we would have accepted England, the answer I was looking for was the United Kingdom.

- Yeah, that made more sense.

- We would have accepted that, so we will add that to your points.

We will go through the ones you missed though.

The Hagia Sophia is in Turkey.

The Monticello is in the United States of America.

The Reichstag Building is in Germany.

The Biosphere, a museum built for Expo '67 is in Canada.

The St Basil's Cathedral is in Russia.

The Shwedagon pagoda is in Myanmar.

The Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi is in the UAE.

And the Mausoleum of Timur in Samarkand is in Uzbekistan.

- [Royal] All right, thank you.

- All right, now Edwards County, it is your guys turn.

Your choices are Shortstops, Arizona or Hercules' Labors.

- Hercules' Labors.

- All right.

Answer the following about Hercules' 12 Labors.

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

Three, two, one.

Water monster with regenerating heads he killed.

- Hydra.

- [Ethan] Queen of the Amazons whose girdle he seized.

- Hippopolyta.

- [Ethan] Kind of building owned by Aegeus that he re-routed a river to clean.

- Stable.

- [Ethan] Three-headed dog of the underworld he captured.

- Cerberus.

- [Ethan] Golden fruit he took from Hesperides.

- Golden apple.

- [Ethan] Titan he rescued who brought fire to mankind.

- Prometheus.

- [Ethan] Creatures he drove from their home in a swamp in the Stymphalia.

You can pass as well.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The twin sister of Apollo whose Ceryneia Hind he trapped.

- Artemis.

- [Ethan] Creature imprisoned in the labyrinth whose father, the Cretan bull he captured.

- Minotaur.

- [Ethan] The wise centaur and teacher of Achilles he visited.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Creatures he drove from their home in the swamp in.

Sorry guys, you're all out of time, but we'll go through the few that you missed.

The creatures he drove from their home in a swamp in Stymphalia was the Stymphalian birds.

And the wise centaur and teacher of Achilles he visited was Chiron, Chiron.

All right?

Now, let's take a look at our scores after the Lightning Round.

We have West Frankfort with 80 and Edwards County with 240.

On top so far, but West Frankfort, still plenty of time in the second half to catch up.

We'll take you back to your toss-ups.

What mountain range passes through the city of Ouarzazate, is home to various ethnic Berber groups and switches across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco?

(no audio) (buzzer) Brayden.

- The Andes.

- That's incorrect.

(no audio) (buzzer sounding) The answer we were looking for was the Altas mountains.

The Altas mountains.

For your next toss-up.

What man, who described life as "A crack of light between two eternities of darkness" in his book, "Speak, Memory" wrote about Humbert Humbert in "Lolita"?

(plastic clicking) - Buzz.

- [Ethan] Buzz, all right, Jason.

- Nabokov?

- Nabokov is correct.

For your bonus.

William McKinley spearheaded a tariff passed during the presidency of what man whose term was sandwiched between those of Grover Cleveland?

- Benjamin Harrison.

- Benjamin Harrison is correct, well done.

That'll take us to our next toss-up.

What phylum, whose members have an internal skeleton of spicules and use filter feeding, consist of simple invertebrates once used to absorb liquids?

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- Sponges?

- Will we accept sponges?

Yeah, that is correct.

It was sponges or Porifera.

- [Royal] Yeah, I was about to say I don't know the scientific name.

- Sponges works.

Sponges works.

For your bonus.

Eda the witch was nicknamed after the title bird on which Disney Channel show who's 2023 finale depicted Luz Noceda's battle to save the boiling isles?

- Owl?

- [Ethan] We need more than just owl.

- Eda the owl?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Edwards County, a chance to steal.

- "The Owl House"?

- That is correct.

Well done, Brayden.

And I know our producer, Aaliyah, losing her mind that there was an "Owl House" question.

For your next toss-up.

What document, which consists of 63 clauses and was made in response to a rebellion by powerful barons, was signed by King John and has a Latin name?

(buzzer sounding) Jason.

- Magna Carta?

- Magna Carta is correct.

For your bonus.

The pituitary and pineal glands are part of what body system?

- [Brayden] Endocrine.

- Endocrine system is correct, well done.

For the next toss-up.

Willy steals money from Walter Younger in what play that inspired Bruce Norris' play, "Clybourne Park" and was written by Lorraine Hans?

(buzzer sounding) - [Royal] "A Raisin in the Sun"?

- "Raisin in the Sun" is correct, well done.

For your bonus.

The Tlatelolco massacre of student protestors in 1968 happened less than a week before the start of what international event in the same city?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

Edwards County, a chance to steal.

- Olympics?

- That is correct, the Olympics in Mexico City.

Well done.

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

This artist released her first EP at the end of 2016 and played with her band in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert in early 2023, name this artist.

(buzzer sounding) Adonis.

- Phoebe Bridges?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

♪ If you'd be so kind to fall in love with me ♪ ♪ You see, I'm trying ♪ ♪ I know you know that I like you but that's not enough ♪ ♪ So if you will ♪ ♪ Just fall in ♪ ♪ How will you know ♪ You guys are out of time.

The answer we're looking for was Dodie.

Dodie.

And that'll take us back to our toss-ups.

Pencil and paper ready.

What integer equals the value of 48% of 75 given that the same integer equals 75% of 48?

(pencil scratching sounding) (pencil scratching continuing to sound) (buzzer sounding) Adriel.

- 36?

- 36 is correct, well done.

For your bonus.

What term for a specific type of young bird is also the surname of a Canadian actor who played Neil Armstrong in the 2018 film, "First Man".

(indistinct conversation) - Hatchling?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

West Frankfort, chance to steal.

- Chick?

- That is incorrect.

The answer is "Just Ken" himself, Ryan Gosling.

That'll take us to our next toss-up.

In 2023, what country launched the slim lunar lander nicknamed "The Moon Sniper", which was developed by the JAXA organization headquartered in Tokyo?

(buzzer sounding) Brayden.

- [Brayden] Japan.

- Japan is correct.

For your bonus, what largest of the Greek Dodecanese Islands was formerly the site of an ancient Colossus?

(indistinct conversation) - [Brayden] Rhodes.

- Rhodes is correct, well done.

For your next question, what author of "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" studied animals in his namesake box and was a behavioralist psychologist who researched operant conditioning?

(buzzer sounding) Jason.

- Pavnov?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) Royal.

- Smith?

- Smith is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was BF Skinner.

Skinner.

(doorbell sounding) And that bell means that we are all out of time on today's show, so let's take a look at our scores.

We have Edwards County on top over West Frankfort, 360 to 100.

Well that's all we have for on today's show, for our lovely contestants here today and the people working hard behind the camera, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much and good night.

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