(bright upbeat music) (energetic music) - Welcome back to Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir and we have another great episode in store for you with two more great teams.

So let's go ahead introduce those teams.

On the bottom we have Cisne with Michael, Alex, Joshua, and Tisha.

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

But before we get into the game, let's get into our rules.

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

Each toss up question will be worth 10 points.

If they answer right, they'll get the chance to go to a bonus question which will be worth 20 points.

If any team interrupts me before I finish a question and they get the answer wrong, the other team will be awarded five points.

So as we got that outta the way, if both of our teams are ready, let's get right into the questions.

And then we're starting off with a pencil and paper-ready question, if each base angle of an isosceles triangle measures at 57 degrees, what is the measure of the Vertex angle?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Kevin?

- 66 degrees.

- 66 degrees is correct, well done.

And Effingham, you'll take us to our first bonus question.

In 1782, what Asian countries currently reigning Chakri Dynasty, was founded by Rama The First after a coup deposed Taksin The Great?

(students whispering) - Indonesia.

- [Ethan] Indonesia is incorrect.

Cisne, you do have a chance to steal here.

(students whispering) - China.

- China is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Thailand, Thailand, all right, for our next toss up, what country in which the Perfume River flows through the former capital of Hui contains the delta of the May Kong River south of- (buzzer beeps) Jonah.

- Vietnam.

- Vietnam is correct, for your bonus: What poem whose speaker describes eating like, quote, men like air claims that art that dying is an art and is by Sylvia Plath.

- Daddy?

- [Ethan] Daddy is incorrect.

- Art is dying.

- Art is dying, is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Lady Lazarus, Lady Lazarus, for our next toss up, what Comic Strip featured a psychiatric booth run by a girl as well as an imaginary World War I fights between- (buzzer beeps) Tisha.

- Peanuts.

- Peanuts is correct getting Cisne on the board there.

And for your bonus, what effect which vanishes at the equator arises from a two times angular velocity crossed with velocity term in rotating reference frames?

- Coriolis Effect.

- Coriolis Effect is correct Cisne getting that bonus question, well done.

For our next toss up, what mathematical surface for which seven colors is always sufficient to color a map is topologically equivalent to a mug and shaped like a donut?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Tisha.

- The color wheel.

- [Ethan] The color wheel is incorrect.

Effingham you have a chance to answer here.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Kevin.

- Mobius Strip?

- Mobius is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Torus, Torus frame.

All right, for our next toss up in June, 2022 what one time public defender who clerked for Stephen Breyer was sworn in as Breyer's replacement as a justice on the Supreme Court?

(buzzer beeping) So you guys are out of time.

The answer we were looking for was the most recent Supreme Court addition, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

All right, for our next toss up.

What numerical name is given to the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions including college sports?

(buzzer beeping) And the answer we're looking for on that one was Title Nine, Title Nine, and now we're on to our first media question.

This movie made in 2000 starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix is about a powerful general that is chosen to become the heir to the emperor.

When the emperor's son finds out he murders his father and the general is sold into slavery, (buzzer beeps) they must train to become a fighter, Kevin.

- Gladiator?

- Gladiator is correct.

And on the media questions you guys do not receive a bonus so we'll just take it to our next toss up.

What play whose characters include Donna Bain and Malcolm has a title that is considered a bad look in theaters where it is called, quote, "The Scottish Play?"

(buzzer beeps) Tisha.

- Macbeth.

- Macbeth is correct.

For your bonus, what Chief Justice who served over 25 years starting in 1836 wrote that African Americans could never be citizens in his decision, Dread v Scott?

(buzzer beeping) - [Ethan] I'm sorry, Cisne, you are out of time.

Effingham you do have the chance to steal here.

- Justice Smith.

- Justice Smith is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Roger Tany, Roger Tany.

For our next toss up what letter, which names a Marvel comics character called The Unknown is the final letter of the Greek alphabet and is paired in a phrase with Alpha?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Joshua.

- Omega.

- Omega is correct, well done, and you'll take us to our next bonus.

What 17th century Englishman regretted that he lacked, quote, world enough and time to pursue a lengthy courtship with his Carpe Diem poem to his coy mistress?

(buzzer beeping) I'm sorry, Cisne you are out of time.

Effingham, you have a chance to steal.

- Shakespeare.

- Shakespeare is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Andrew Marvell, Andrew Marvell, for our next toss up, what general, who led the fake first US army group after slapping two shellshocked soldiers during World War II, Jonah.

- George Patton.

- George Patton is correct, well done.

For your bonus, What word refers to the bottom part of a fraction?

For example, the number nine in a fraction seven ninths.

- Denominator.

- Denominator is correct and you secure that bonus.

For your next toss up, what city, The home of the youngers in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, is called Hog Butcher for the world in a namesake Carl Sandberg poem?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Tisha.

- Baton Rouge.

- [Ethan] Baton Rouge is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - Kevin.

- Chicago?

- Chicago is correct.

Sweet Home Chicago.

For your bonus, what amendment superseded the Supreme Court's ruling in Chisholm v Georgia and for forbid citizens of one US state from suing another state (students whispering) (buzzer beeping) I'm sorry, Effingham, you are all out of time.

Cisne, you do have a chance to steal though.

- 11th.

- 11th is correct, very well done Cisne, securing that steal.

For our next toss up, what scientists proposed the idea of hybrid orbitals rated fluorine a 4.0 on his namesake electro negativity scale and advocated for vitamin C?

(buzzer beeps) Kevin.

- Bore?

- Bore is incorrect.

(buzzer beeping) And I'm sorry you, guys, are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was Linus Pauling, Linus Pauling.

And for our next toss up, what knight, who helps Sir Agravain expose Gwynevere's affair with Lancelot fights, a mutually fatal duel at Camelot with his uncle, King Arthur?

(buzzer beeps) - Jonah.

- Sir Richard?

- [Ethan] Sir Richard is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Tisha.

- Sir Galahad?

- Sir Galahad is also incorrect.

The answer is Mordred or Modred.

And now for our next media question.

This 21-year-old daughter of a famous actor has made a name.

Tisha.

(buzzer beeps) - Willow Smith.

- Willow Smith is correct, very well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What president derided the quote "Do nothing, Congress" for opposing his fair deal and surprisingly won the election of 1948 by defeating Thomas Dewey?

The winner of the 1948 election.

(buzzer beeping) The answer we're looking for there was Harry S. Truman, Harry Truman.

For the next toss up, which city is the primary setting of the operas Don Giovanni, Carmen, and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as another opera with Figaro as a barber?

(buzzer beeps) - Kevin.

- Prague?

- [Ethan] Prague is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - Tisha.

- Venice.

- Venice is also incorrect.

Barber is the important word there, we were looking for Barber of Seville, Barber of Seville.

For the next toss up, what material often coded with kaolinite to make it more opaque and made by pressing cellulose fibers from wood into thin sheets is used in books?

I'm gonna be honest this question seems way more complicated than it actually is.

(buzzer beeps) - Michael.

- Paper.

- Paper is correct.

It's such a long worded question for such an easy answer.

That's how they're trying to cook you out.

All right, for your bonus, Cisne, Bodrum Castle is built from the remains of what ancient structure, a tomb for a ruler of Caria that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?

(students whispering) (buzzer beeping) - [Ethan] Sorry Cisne, you are out of time.

Effingham, a chance to seal here get some more points on.

- The hanging gardens.

- The hanging gardens is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Back to the toss ups.

After what country's 2021 elections did a coalition of the FDP Greens and social Democrats allow Olaf Schultz to replace Anglo Merkel as chancellor?

(buzzer beeps) - Kevin.

- Germany.

- Germany is correct.

For your guys' bonus, what character becomes stuck in the front door to rabbits house after eating too much milk and honey in a book by A.A. Milne?

- Winnie the Pooh.

- Winnie the Pooh is correct, well done there Effingham.

For your next question, what poet who wrote about objects that keep, quote, time in a sort of runic rhyme in "The Bells," depicted a bird that repeats never more in The Raven?

(buzzer beeps) - Kevin.

- Edgar Allen Poe.

- Edgar Allen Poe is correct.

For your guys' bonus, a religious organization known as the Vishva Hindu Parishad, or VHP, supports what Indian political party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

- India Nationalist Party?

- [Ethan] India nationalist party is incorrect.

(buzzer beeping) Cisne, the chance to steal here.

Get closer to time to standby.

- No answer.

- No answer, the answer we're looking for was Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP.

And with that we will take it to our lightning round.

Now the way our lightning round works is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a particular topic.

Cisne since you guys are trailing here you will have the opportunity to pick first out of our lightning round options.

And your options will be American novels and wars, holy places, state flags or old things.

Very descript on that last one, old things - State flags.

- [Ethan] State flags is your choice, all right.

State flags, name the state whose flag includes these things, I'll get you 60 seconds on the clock and I will count you down, three, two, one.

A white crescent and a palmetto tree.

(upbeat music) - Florida.

- [Ethan] Florida's incorrect, the words Mount Rushmore State.

- South Dakota.

- [Ethan] South Dakota is correct.

A green background and an image of its presidential namesake.

- Washington.

- [Ethan] Washington correct.

A white star between letters and N and C - North Carolina.

- [Ethan] North Carolina is correct.

A white shield with three grape vines and the Latin motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet.

- Pass - [Ethan] 17 stars and a white O that resembles a Buckeye ounce.

- Ohio.

- [Ethan] Ohio is correct.

A white magnolia blossom which was adopted in 2021.

- Pass - [Ethan] Gold stars in the shape of the Big Dipper - Alaska.

- Alaska is correct.

A beaver on the reverse side.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Green sage brush and the words battle born.

- Pass.

- A white shield with three grape vines and the Latin motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet.

(buzzer beeping) I'm sorry you guys are out of time for that answer.

It was Connecticut A white magnolia blossom which was adopted in 2021 was Mississippi after they had to change their flag 'cause it had the confederate flag on it.

And a beaver on the reverse side was Oregon, and green sage brush and the words battle born was Nevada.

Now Effingham, you guys get to the chance to pick here.

I'll reread them for you, holy places, American novels, and old things.

- Old things.

- [Ethan] Old things it is, all right.

Let's just get reorganized a little bit here.

So old things, name these things that include the word old.

60 seconds on the clock for you.

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

Geyser in Yellowstone National Park.

- Old Faithful.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Title dog of a Fred Gibson children's book.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] University in Richmond whose sports teams are the Monarchs.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] Nickname for the American flag.

- Old glory.

- That's correct.

Nursery rhyme character with a pipe bowl and three fiddlers.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] A debut single of Lil Nas X.

- Old Town Road.

- [Ethan] Old Town Road is correct.

Charles Dickens novel featuring Little Nell.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] Nickname for the central criminal court of England and Wales.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] Home of the Manchester United football team.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] Stephen Foster song that is Florida's official state song.

- Skip.

- [Ethan] The title of a Fred Gibson children's book.

- Old Yeller.

- That's correct.

(buzzer beeps) University...

I'm sorry, you are out of time.

The remaining ones were, University in Richmond whose sports teams are the Monarchs, Was Old Dominion University.

Nursery rhyme character with a pipe bowl and three fiddlers was Old King Cole.

Charles Dickens novel featuring Little Nell was Old Curiosity Shop.

Nickname for the central criminal court of England and Wales was Old Bailey.

Home stadium of the Manchester United football team was Old Trafford, and Stephen Foster song that is Florida's official state song was Old Folks at Home.

All right, now that our lightning round is over, let's take a look at our points before we head back to the toss ups.

And it's Effingham holding onto a slight lead here.

150 to 130.

So still plenty of time and game left for Cisne to catch up here or for Effingham to extend that lead.

I'll take it back to the tossups.

What author wrote a book whose chapters are named after the muses detailing the Persian wars leading to his nickname, quote, "The father of history?"

(buzzer beeps) - Jonah.

- Homer?

- [Ethan] Homer is incorrect.

Cisne, you have a chance to answer here.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Alex.

- Jackson.

- Jackson is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Herodotus.

All right, for our next toss up, what element whose atoms have two neutrons in its isotope called tritium, forms at the- (buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Jonah.

- Hydrogen.

- Hydrogen is correct.

You guys' bonus, what short-lived socialist government ruled a European capital for two months in 1871 before being suppressed in, quote, the "Bloody week?"

- The Commune of Paris.

- [Ethan] Paris Commune is correct, very well done.

Back to the toss ups.

what composer of the middle period (speaking in French), and the Waldstein Sonatas wrote a piece marked (speaking in foreign language) in his moonlight sonata?

(buzzer beeps) - Kevin.

- Mozart.

- [Ethan] Mozart is incorrect, Cisne.

Tisha.

- Beethoven.

- [Ethan] Beethoven is correct.

For your bonus, Mount Whitney and the giant forest which contains the enormous general Sherman tree, are in what national park in California?

- Redwood.

- [Ethan] Redwood is incorrect.

- Sacramento National Park.

- [Ethan] Sacramento National Park is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Sequoia National Park, Sequoia.

We'll take it back to our toss ups.

What author described a vacationing bankers affair in his story, The Lady with the Dog, and portrayed Russia's theater scene in his play "The Seagull?"

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Jonah.

- Tolstoy?

- [Ethan] Tolstoy is incorrect.

(buzzer beeping) - There I suppose, Cisne you are unfortunately out of time to answer there.

The answer we're looking for was Anton Checkoff, Anton Checkoff.

And now for our next tossup, what military contingent which was defeated at the Battle of Grave Lines, was sent by Philip II in a failed Spanish attempt to invade England in 1588?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Jonah.

- The Spanish Ramada.

- [Ethan] Spanish Ramada is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Earl Scruggs developed a namesake style of using finger and thumb picks to play what instrument which usually has between four and six strings.

(students whispering) - Guitar.

- [Ethan] Guitar is incorrect.

Cisne, you have a chance to steal.

- Banjo.

- Banjo is correct, both of you knowing that one, Michael and Tisha.

Well done on there getting the steal.

For the next toss up, what Peninsula which is east of Buzzard's Bay and north of Martha's Vineyard is in southeastern Massachusetts and takes its name from White- (buzzer beeps) Kevin.

- Chesapeake?

- [Ethan] Chesapeake is incorrect, and I did not finish the question, and it takes its name from a white fish.

(buzzer beeps) - Joshua.

- Cod.

- [Ethan] Cape Cod is correct.

I believe there's also some chips called Cape Cod.

Very tasty.

For your bonus, what first vice president under Richard Nixon resigned in 1973 amid charges that he took bribes during his time as governor of Maryland?

- Ford.

- [Ethan] Ford is incorrect.

Effingham, you do have the chance to steal here.

- Johnson.

- [Ethan] Johnson is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Spiro Agnew, also very popular character on Futurama, for some reason he's in that show.

All right, now for our next media question.

In 2009, Fifth Cell developers released this action puzzle series of games.

The player can summon a variety of tools and items using the notebook to solve an array of tasks.

Name this video game franchise.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Jonah.

- The Puzzle Solvers.

- [Ethan] Puzzle Solvers is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - Tisha.

- Doodle Bot.

- Doodle Bot is also incorrect.

I'm now realizing my age that this game might be kind of before your guys' time.

The answer is "Scribblenauts."

Fantastic game on the DS and Wii.

Alex, I feel like your motioning like you might have known that one.

- I actually had a copy on Wii.

- You had a copy?

Nice, it was a fun game.

- [Alex] Yeah, it was.

- All right, for our next tossup, what romantic poet who wrote "Hail to the Blithe Spirit" in To a Skylark described a traveler from an antique land in his poem, Ozymandias.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Kevin.

- Shelly?

- [Ethan] Shelley is correct, well done.

And for your bonus, what playwright was inspired by two minor characters from Hamlet to write "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead?"

- William.

- Williams?

- [Ethan] Williams is incorrect.

Cisne, you do have a chance to steal here.

- No answer.

- The answer we were looking for was Thomas Stoppard, Thomas Stoppard.

And for our next toss up, what organization which is led by Angela McArdle nominated Joe Jorgenson for president in 2020 and is a third party that promotes limited- (buzzer beeps) - Jonah.

- The Libertarian party.

- [Ethan] Libertarian party is correct, and for your bonus, the weak interaction is mediated by the W and Z types of what particles which have an integer spin?

- Leptons?

- [Ethan] Leptons is incorrect.

Cisne, with the chance to steal here.

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- The answer we were looking for was bozons, or W or Z.

And that is, I believe, unfortunately all the time we have here today.

And it looks like Effingham able to hold onto that lead that they gathered there in the lightning round.

Effingham holding it 210 to Cisne's 165.

So for all of our lovely contestants here today, for all of the people working behind the scenes and watching, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much and goodnight.

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