(pleasant music) (camera clicking and beeping) (upbeat music) - Welcome back to another episode of Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and tonight we have two of our returning teams looking to advance a little bit further in our bracket.

So, let's go ahead and introduce them.

On the bottom this time we have Calloway County with Ellie, Cesar, Ethan, and Isaac.

And as our top team we have Effingham with Evan, Addy, Kevin, and Jonah.

But before we get into the questions let's just do a quick reminder of the rules.

We'll start off our game with some toss up questions.

Each toss up question will be worth 10 points.

If the team gets it right they'll get the chance to answer a bonus question.

That bonus question will be worth 20 points.

If a team gets a bonus question wrong the other team does have a chance to steal for 10.

If either of the teams interrupt me before I finish a question, and they get the answer wrong, the other team will be awarded five points.

If everybody understands the rules, and is ready, we'll get right into the questions.

What scientist who coined the term "statistical mechanics", named a quantity that is negative for spontaneous reactions, his free energy- (buzzer beeping) Ethan.

- Gibbs.

- Gibbs is correct.

And for our first bonus of the day, In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won a Nobel Prize for using what analytic technique described by Bragg's Law to study crystal structures?

- X-ray crystallography?

- [Ethan Host] X-ray is correct, and well done there.

For our next toss up, what country's invading troops overthrew Haile Selassie, during its conquest of Ethiopia in 1936- (buzzer beeping) Cesar?

- Italy.

- Italy is correct, and well done on the interrupts so far.

As your bonus, Esteban ultimately regrets helping overthrow Salvador Allende's government in what 1982 Isabel Allende novel, about Trueba family?

- "House of the Spirits".

- "House of the spirits" is correct.

Calloway County off to a hot start this game, and for our next toss up, what author who wrote about the Tulliver siblings in "The Mill on the Floss" used a pen name starting with, George, for novels such as "Middle March".

(buzzer beeping) Ellie.

- Mary Ann Evans.

- Mary Ann Evans is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Diadochi fought for control after the death of what king and general who won the battle of Issus?

- Alexander the Great.

- Alexander The Great is correct, very well done Calloway.

And now for our first pencil and paper question.

What is the common logarithm of 10 million given the common logarithm uses a base of 10, and the logarithm of 1 million is six.

(buzzer beeping) Evan.

- 10 to the seven.

- Answer is seven, correct.

For your guys' first bonus, in Greek myth, Oedipus defeated what monster with the head of a human and the body of a lion, by answering her riddle.

- Sphynx.

- Sphynx is correct.

What Author of the 1909 book, Hind Swaraj, led a group to Dundee, during the 1930 Salt March, and was va- (buzzer beeping) Cesar.

- Mahatma Gandhi.

- Mahatma Gandhi is correct.

For your bonus, Ray Bradbury stories, "The Long Rain", and "All Summer in a Day" are set on what planet whose surface was mapped in the 1990s by the Magellan probe?

- Venus.

- Venus is correct.

You guys' next toss up, what architect who designed Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, and Cleveland's Rock and roll Hall of Fame- (buzzer beeping) Cesar.

- I.M.

Pei.

- I.M.

Pei is correct.

For the bonus, Baron Haussmann, redesigned Paris under what French monarch who was elected as president in 1848 before declaring himself Emperor.

- Louis Napoleon.

- Louis Napoleon is correct, (buzzer sounding) well done just before the buzzer there.

And now we're here for our first media question.

In 1975, this English musician and actor rose to prominence through his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Since then, he has taken on dozens of roles in voice acting and the theatrical world.

(buzzer beeping) There we go.

- [Ellie] Tim Curry.

- Tim Curry is correct.

And, now, no bonus question on that media question.

So, back to the toss ups.

What country who Mount Aconcagua, is one of the seven summits, contains the southern portion of the Pampas, and has its capital at Buenos Aires.

(buzzer beeping) Caesar.

- Argentina.

- Argentina is correct.

For your bonus, Cramer's rule solved systems of equations using determinants of what arrays of numbers which are invertible if the determinant is not zero.

- Matrices.

- Matrices is correct.

Very well done so far for Calloway.

For the next toss up, what activists who shouted, "How dare you" in a speech- (buzzer beeping) Cesar.

- Greta Thunberg.

- Greta Thunberg is correct, (indistinct).

And for your bonus, in July, 2022, what leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, replaced Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister of Israel?

- Yair Lapid.

- Yair Lapid is correct, point's to you.

Your guys' next toss up, what Old Testament book says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart," is traditionally credited to Solomon follows Psalms- (buzzer beeping) Isaac.

- Proverbs.

- Book of Proverbs is correct, very well done there, Isaac.

And for your next bonus, the newspaper, "The Daily Examiner", first published what poem by Ernest Thayer that claimed that quote, "There is no joy in Mudville."

- Casey at the Bat.

- Casey at the Bat is correct.

Ellie, you really seem like the expert on literature at Calloway, answering all, well done.

For your next toss up, what name is shared by a law filibustered by Strom Thurmond for 24 hours in 1957, and a 1964 law- (buzzer beeping) Cesar.

- Civil Rights Act.

- Civil Rights is correct.

And now for your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

Two answers required.

Which two of the six basic trigonometric functions are undefined at x equals zero.

- Tangent and cotangent.

- [Ethan Host] Cotangent, and what was the follow?

- Tangent.

- [Ethan Host] Tangent and cotangent is incorrect.

Effingham, you do have a chance to steal.

- Cotangent and cosign?

(buzzer sounding) - [Ethan Host] What was that?

- Cotangent and cosign?

- Cotangent and cosign is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was cotangent and cosecant, cotangent and cosecant.

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

What diseases caused by the vericella-zoster virus can occur- (buzzer beeping) Ethan.

- Chickenpox.

- Chickenpox is correct.

For your bonus question, Iman Vellani plays the title character of what Disney Plus show which is the first work in the MCU to focus on a Muslim superhero.

- Ms. Marvel.

- Ms. Marvel is correct.

Back to the toss ups, what musical whose characters include Lazar Wolfe, and the matchmaker at Yenta includes the song, "Tradition" which is sung by a Jewish milkman, Tevye.

Or, excuse me- (buzzer beeping) Ellie.

- Fiddler of the Roof.

- Fiddler on the Roof is correct.

For your bonus, the nightlife destination of Ibiza is part of what Mediterranean archipelago, whose largest islands are Majorca and Menorca.

- It's not the Canary Islands.

- The Zories.

- [Ethan Host] Incorrect, Effingham, you do have the chance to steal here.

- Crete.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Balearic, Balearic.

And now to our next pop-up question, what author wrote about a trouble making dog named Ribsy, whose young owner Henry Huggins lives in Portland, Oregon near Beezus and Ramona Quimby?

(buzzer beeping) Ellie.

- Beverly Cleary.

- Beverly Cleary is correct.

And now for your bonus, in what state did Americans occupy Sonoma, and proclaim the Bear Flag Republic in 1846?

- California.

- California is correct.

Back to the toss ups.

What scientists whose namesake constant is about 6.626 times 10 to the negative 34th- (buzzer beeping) - Avogadro.

- On the answer, Avogadro is incorrect.

6.626 times 10 to the negative 34th power joules seconds derived a law for black body radiation using the quantum hypothesis.

(buzzer beeping) Jonah.

- Would that be Hawking?

- Hawking is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Max Planck, Max Planck.

- [Player] I should have answered that - Next one is a toss up, what country soldiers perpetrated the Parsley massacre on orders from dictator Rafael Trujillo to exterminate migrants from neighboring Haiti- (buzzer beeping) Caesar.

- Dominican Republic.

- Dominican Republic is correct.

For your bonus, what quantity equals the change in a system's mechanical energy is produced at a rate known as power, and equals force times parallel displacement?

- Work.

- Work is correct, and with that we will take ourselves to the lightning round.

(sound whooshing) Now, for our lightning round, Effingham, since you guys are trailing this one, you will have the ability to choose your topic first.

Those topics are halogens, ancient Greek cities, ID words, and Smiths - Halogens.

- Halogens, okay.

So, halogens, give these answers related to halogens, very self-explanatory.

I'll give you 60 seconds on the clock, do answer as many questions as you can.

I'll count you down, three, two, one.

A two atom molecule like all the stable halogens.

- Helium - [Ethan Host] That is incorrect.

Third halogen, which is a reddish liquid at STP.

- Skip - [Ethan Host] Halogens have this many valence electrons, one less than a filled shell?

- Seven.

- [Ethan Host] Seven is correct.

Fluorine containing nonstick polymer also called PTFE?

- Skip - [Ethan Host] Going directly from a solid to a gas as iodine can do?

- Deposition.

- [Ethan Host] Deposition is incorrect.

HF, this is the kind of acid that does not fully dissociate in a solution.

- Skip - [Ethan Host] Gland in the neck that requires iodine.

- Thyroid - [Ethan Host] Thyroid's correct.

Fluorine reacts with some of these groups of 18 elements?

- Skip - [Ethan Host] Energy required to remove an electron which is high for halogens.

- Skip - [Ethan Host] The newest halogen named after- (buzzer sounds) I'm sorry you are out of time.

The answer to the first question is two atom molecule like all stable halogens, was diatomic.

Third, halogen which is a reddish liquid at STP, bromine.

Fluorine containing non-stick polymer also called PTFE, Teflon.

Going directly from a solid to a gas as iodine can do was sublimation.

HF is this kind of acid that does not fully dissociate in a solution, weak.

And fluorine reacts with some of these group 18 elements, noble gases.

Energy required to move an electron which is high for halogen's, first ionization, and the newest halogen named after a state, is tennessine., named after Tennessee.

Now, I will reread the options here for you, Calloway.

Ancient Greek cities, ID words, and Smiths are your choices.

- Id words.

- Id words, all right.

So, for Id words, give these words that end with the consecutive letters I and D. 60 seconds on the clock for you, I'll count you down, three, two, one.

Roman equivalent to the god Eros?

- Cupid - [Ethan Host] Cupid's correct.

Scared or fearful, ,ore than one answer is accepted.

- Timid.

- [Ethan Host] Timid's correct.

Like weather where there is a lot of water vapor in the air.

- Humid.

- [Ethan Host] Humid's correct, an ill or bedridden person - Pass - [Ethan Host] A baby goat - Kid - [Ethan Host] Plastic like material used in early stock film, or film stocks.

- Pass - [Ethan Host] Pre-molar tooth located behind the canines?

- Cuspid - [Ethan Host] That is incorrect.

Checkered textile pattern known as tartan in Britain.

- Pass.

- [Ethan Host] An arthropod, such as a tick or scorpion.

- Arachnid.

- [Ethan Host] Arachnid's correct.

A plate of intertwined hair?

- Braid.

- [Ethan Host] Braid is correct.

An ill or bedridden person.

- Pass.

- Plastic-like material used in early film stock.

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

For an ill or bedridden person, we were looking for invalid.

For a plastic-like material used in early film stock, we were looking for celluloid.

Pre-molar tooth located behind the canines, you were so close it wasn't cuspid, it was bi-cuspid.

A checkered textile pattern known as tartan in Britain, was plaid, and you got the rest correct.

So, with our lightning round over, let's take a quick look at the score, and Callaway showing why they won last season.

A very dominant performance so far, 400 to 55.

Now, let's take it back to the toss up questions.

The next toss up, what author who created the trivia game, Extinctathon, in Oryx and Crake, described at the Republic of Gilead, in her novel The Handmaid's Tale?

(buzzer beeping) Isaac.

- Atwood.

- Margaret Atwood is correct.

And now for your bonus.

What tight end who leads the New England Patriots in career touchdown receptions retired a second time in 2022, after two years with Tampa Bay?

- Gronkowski.

- Gronkowski.

- Big Gronk, Rob Gronkowski is correct.

And for the next toss up, what heavenly body was visited by the Phoenix Lander in 2007 by Mariner Nine and the Viking probes in the 1970s, and in 2020 by perseverance?

(buzzer beeping) Jonah.

- Mars?

- Mars is correct, well done.

And for your tossup question, what Austrian composer nicknamed the father of the symphony used a sudden fortissimo chord in his surprise symphony?

- Bach.

- Bach is incorrect.

Calloway, you have the chance to steal it.

- Haydn.

- Joseph Haydn is correct.

For our next toss up, what music genre which comes in modal, cool, and bebop types also names an NBA team that moved in 19- (buzzer beeping) Isaac.

- Jazz.

- Jazz is correct.

For your bonus question, A monochromatic green radiation source is used to define what SI base unit of illuminous intensity.

- Candela - Candela is correct, well done, Calloway.

The next toss up, what organization whose first president was Samuel Gompers was a group of unions that split from the knights of labor, and later merged- Cesar.

(buzzer beeping) - AFL.

- AFL, American Federation of Labor, is correct.

Your bonus, Jack Worthing used the title, Alias, while living a Double Life in London in what comedic play, by Oscar Wilde?

- "The Importance of Being Earnest".

- "The Important of Being Earnest" is correct.

The next toss up, what function is extended to complex numbers by the gamma function, is used to calculate pure mutations, and is denoted with an exclamation mark?

(buzzer beeping) Caesar.

- Factorial - Factorial function's correct.

For your bonus, in what state was the head of ERCOT, which operates its electrical grade, fired in 2021 after the state suffered a massive power outage.

- California?

- [Ethan Host] California is incorrect.

Effingham, you do have the Chance to steal here.

- Texas.

- Texas is correct.

And well done on the steal, get yourself 10 points there.

We'll move now to another toss up.

What Asian country's native arts include, the cloth dying, batik, and the percussion heavy ensembles called Gamelans, which both developed on Java?

(buzzer beeping) Caesar.

- Indonesia.

- Indonesian is correct, well done.

And for your bonus question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the only value of X that satisfies the equation, Nine x, plus two, equals four x, plus twelve.

- Two.

- X equals two is correct, well done.

Next toss up, what material that forms on the anther of a stamen, is a powdery- (buzzer beeping) Isaac.

- Pollen.

- Pollen is correct.

Now for your next bonus, what title character of a play by Edmond Rostand is afraid to profess his love for Roxanne due to his anxiety over his larger nose.

- Everybody nose.

- Everybody nose is a fantastic name for a play that I hope somebody makes, but is not the right answer.

Effingham, you have the chance to steal.

- Big nose Larry.

- Big nose Larry is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Cyrano de Bergerac.

I'll take it back to the toss ups.

The period from roughly 3,300 BC to 1,200 BC is named for what alloy of comprehensive- (foreign language speaking in background) (buzzer beeping) Ethan.

- Bronze.

- Bronze is correct.

For our next bonus, in 1932, what army of World War I veterans converged on Washington DC to demand intermediate cash payments from Congress?

- [Cesar] Bonus Army.

- Bonus Army is correct, and I believe you got a little bit of a sneak peek here of our next media question.

It will be an audio one.

This language is the native language for over 80 million people in the southern and northern region of this country.

It is sometimes recognized as a minority language in parts of China.

(buzzer beeping) Kevin.

- [Kevin] Korean.

- Korean is correct.

I'll take it back to the toss ups.

What author of the book, "The Conduct of Life" proclaimed, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," in his essay, "Self-Reliance"?

(buzzer beeping) Ellie.

- Thoreau.

- [Ethan Host] Thoreau is incorrect.

Effingham, you have a chance to answer.

(buzzer beeping) Jonah.

- Smith.

- Smith is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

For the next toss up, what product line was introduced in October, 2001, had its touch model discontinued by Apple in May, 2022.

(buzzer beeping) Ellie.

- iPod.

- iPod is correct.

For your bonus, what American artist often painted animal skulls, flowers, and Western landscapes, as in, her Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills.

- O'Keeffe.

- O'Keeffe is correct, well done Calloway there.

The next toss up, what devices can consist of a dielectric inserted between two parallel plates, have a strength- (buzzer beeping) Ethan.

- Capacitors.

- Capacitors is correct.

For your bonus, during what war were US soldiers convicted of torturing naked prisoners of war at the Abu Ghraib Prison?

- Iraq War.

- Iraq War is correct.

For your next toss up, what document drafted by Archbishop Stephen Langton was signed at Runnymede- (buzzer beeping) Cesar.

- Magna Carta.

- Magna Carta is correct, very well done.

Quick on the buzzer, you are.

For your bonus, what two countries are connected by the Khyber Pass, which was once part of the ancient Silk Road.

(indistinct whispering) - China and Afghanistan?

- [Ethan Host] China and Afghanistan is incorrect.

Effingham, a chance to steal some points here.

- Afghanistan and Iran.

- Afghanistan and Iran is also incorrect.

The correct answer was Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

For the next toss up, what state whose only member of the House of Representatives is Peter Welch is represented- (buzzer beeping) Cesar.

- Vermont.

- Vermont is correct.

For your bonus, what actor who died in 2022, played Virgil Tibbs in "The Heat of the Night", and a woman's black fiance in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"?

(indistinct whispering) (buzzer sounding) - [Ethan Host] Sorry, Calloway, you are out of time.

Effingham, chance to steal some points.

- Rogers.

- Rogers is incorrect.

(buzzer sounding) The answer we're looking for was Sidney Poitier, Sidney Poitier.

For the next toss up, what author's series of Waverly books included an historical novel in which a Jewish physician, Rebecca, is rescued by the title Saxon Knight, Ivanhoe?

(buzzer beeping) Isaac.

- Jones.

- Jones is incorrect.

And as we see (buzzer sounding) no answer from Effingham, the answer we were looking for was Sir Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott, I see Ellie nodding your head.

You might have had that one on the tip of your tongue there.

For the next toss up, what civilization, which was organized into Calpulli, and grew food on the Chinampas- (buzzer beeping) Caesar.

- Aztec.

- Aztec is correct.

Thank God you got that right, so, I didn't have to read the city at the end of that question, 'cause I was really not looking forward to that.

For the next bonus, what whip-like structure is used by many bacteria, and by sperm cells for propulsion are longer than cilia?

- Flagella.

- Flagella is correct.

For your guys' next toss up, what semiconductor devices provide renewable energy through the photovoltaic effect, which allows them to produce electricity from sunlight- (buzzer beeping) Ethan.

- Solar panels.

- Solar panels is correct .

For the bonus, what poet claimed, quote, "They also serve who only stand and wait," in the 1673 sonnet, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent," which describes his blindness.

- John Milton.

- John Milton is correct, well done, Ellie.

Back to the toss ups, what author who wrote about the death of Socialite, Lily Bart, in the House of Mirth, won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "The Age of Innocence".

(buzzer beeping) Ellie.

- Edith Wharton.

- Edith Wharton is correct.

For your bonus, the Shunka is a traditional cloth worn by what African ethnic group known for their height who live in Kenya and Tanzania?

- Dinka?

- Dinka is incorrect.

Effingham, you do have a chance to steal some points back here.

(buzzer sounding) I'm sorry, you are all out of time.

The answer we were looking for was Maasai, and I believe, if I'm right, that is all the time we have.

(bell dings) Yep, that bell signifies, as all the questions we have time for here on today's show.

As we take a look at our score, Calloway really showing why you came in first last year, a dominant performance at 730 to 85.

And for all of our lovely contestants that are here on the set with us, for all of the people behind the cameras, working very hard.

I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much, and goodnight.

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