(upbeat piano music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to our last Quarterfinals matchup of the 31st season of Scholastic HI-Q.

The game where knowledge rules.

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

So let's introduce our teams.

On the bottom we have the hometown heroes, Carbondale, with Jay, Danial, Theodor, and Dillon.

And on top we have Fairfield with Aiden, Chase, Cale, and Cody.

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

We'll start off with some toss up questions, those will be worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they move on to a bonus question that's 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 if you're gonna interrupt me, just interrupt me correctly.

All right, you guys all ready?

All right, let's get into the questions.

What programming language was developed by Sun Microsystems, is now owned by Oracle, runs in a virtual machine and has a coffee cup as its logo?

(Buzzer beeping) Daniel - Java.

- Java is correct.

For your bonus, in 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot four black teenagers on what city's transit system whose ridership dropped under mayor's like John Lindsay and Ed Koch?

(indistinct talking) - New York City.

- New York is correct, well done.

Onto the next question.

What playwright depicted a gorilla crushing Yank in "The Hairy Ape" and Edmund Tyrone revealing he has tuberculosis in "Long Day's Journey into Night?"

(buzzer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was Eugene O'Neill.

Eugene O'Neill.

For your next toss up, what city whose Kingdom Centre skyscraper has a large opening at its top, is in the historic region of the Najd and is the capital of Saudi Arabia?

(buzzer rings) Dylan - Um.

Um, Jetta.

- Jetta is incorrect.

- Riyadh?

(buzzer rings) Riyadh?

- That is correct.

Riyadh is correct.

Yes.

For your bonus, what epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which opens with the phrase, "this is the forest prime evil" is named for an Acadian girl?

- Ozymandias?

- [Ethan] Ozymandias is incorrect.

Carbondale has a chance to steal.

(indistinct talking) - "Dear Do You Follow Sorrows."

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Evangeline."

Your next toss up.

What artistic medium which was used, by James Van Der Zee to portray members of the Harlem Renaissance, was also used by Robert Kappa and Ansel Adams.

(buzzer beeps) Dylan.

- Photography.

- Photography is correct.

Well done.

Here's your bonus.

In 53 BC, Crassus died fighting at the Battle of Carrhae against what empire that controlled Persia from the third century BC to the third century AD.

(indistinct talking) (buzzer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

Fairfield.

- Roman Empire.

- Roman Empire is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the Parthian.

The Parthian Empire.

For the next question, what country's president, whose nickname means crocodile in the Shona language, is the Zanu-PF member Emmerson Mnangagwa, who succeeded Robert Mugabe?

(buzzer beeps) Chase.

- Zimbabwe.

- Zimbabwe is correct.

For your bonus, what tyrannical nurse played by Louise Fletcher on film and Sarah Paulson on a Netflix TV show appeared in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?"

- Typhoid Mary.

- Typhoid Mary is incorrect.

- Kesey.

- Kesey is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Nurse Ratchet.

Nurse Ratchet.

Onto our next question.

What title character who shocks Mr. Bumble by asking for more gruel and is recruited to?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Oliver Twist.

- Oliver Twist is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, get your pencil and paper ready.

How many pieces of candy will be in the larger pile if 45 pieces are separated into two piles that have a ratio of a five to four?

(indistinct talking) - 25.

- 25 is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, what property found in the denominator of the Reynolds number characterizing flow is very high for molasses?

(buzzer beeps) Jay?

- Viscosity.

- Viscosity is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus.

In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt signed what law that provided educational benefits and mortgage incentives for veterans returning from World War II?

- GI Bill.

- [Ethan] The GI Bill is correct.

Well done.

- Nice.

- On to the next toss up.

What former country, whose first president was Ngo Dinh Diem merged with its communist northern neighbor in 1976 following?

(buzzer beeps) Chase.

- South Vietnam.

- South Vietnam is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus.

What artist, who painted Max Schmitt rowing in a Philadelphia river, depicted an operation at Jefferson Medical College in the Gross Clinic?

- Chandler - Chandler is incorrect.

Carbondale, a chance to steal.

(indistinct talking) - Kamu.

- Kamu is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Thomas Eakins.

Thomas Eakins.

Next toss up.

What philosopher, who thought that the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, developed a mind body dualism and wrote I think therefore?

(buzzer beeps) Jay.

- Descartes.

- Rene Descartes is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus.

What German speaking author wrote about Buddhist philosophy in his novel "Siddhartha" and depicted Joseph Knecht education in "The Glass Bead Game?"

(indistinct talking) - Gerta - Gerta is incorrect.

Fairfield, a chance to steal.

- Faust - Faust is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Hermann Hesse.

Hermann Hesse.

Back to our next toss up.

What devices have a period given by the formula two pie root?

(buzzer beeps) Daniel.

- Pendulum.

- Pendulum is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus, what kind of line is used in a test to determine whether a graph represents a function?

- Vertical line test.

- Vertical line test is correct.

Well done.

And that will take us to our first media question.

This actor is the first Bahamian and first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor.

(buzzer beeps) Dylan.

- Sidney Poitier.

- Sidney Poitier is correct.

Well done.

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

What man, who was James Madison's second vice president, approved a salamander shaped region that inspired a term?

(buzzer beeps) Dylan.

- Aaron Burr.

- [Ethan] Can you say that again?

- Aaron Burr.

- [Ethan] Aaron Burr is incorrect.

Madison's second vice president approved a salamander shaped region that inspired a term for politically biased districting.

(buzzer beeps) Chase.

- Jerry.

Alberts, Jerry is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What role-play game series set in post nuclear wasteland was criticized for its first multi-player game, 76?

- Fallout.

- Fallout is correct and Fallout 76 is awful.

What a terrible game.

My God, so bad.

And onto our next toss up.

What figure from Greek myth was created by Hephaestus and given to Epimetheus along?

(buzzer beeps) - Jay.

- Pandora.

- Pandora is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

In the key of G Major, which has only one sharp, the sharp is placed on which note?

- F right?

- Yeah - F. - F sharp is correct.

Well done.

For the next question, pencil and paper ready.

If its first two values are zero and one, what is the mode of the Fibonacci sequence given the mode is the most common number?

(buzzer beeps) - One.

One.

- One is correct.

Well done.

- One.

Whoops.

- Good thing that Daniel buzzed in there quick there too.

Getting to buzz in.

And on to your bonus.

What first great unifier of Japan conquered most of Honshu before being ambushed in 1582 and succeeded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu?

(indistinct talking) (buzzer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

Fairfield.

- Nobunaga.

- Oda Nobunaga is correct.

Well done.

And for your next question.

Toss up question.

One hockey team, which in 2022 made Mike Greer the NHL's first black general manager, is based at the SAP Center.

(buzzer beeps) Dylan.

- San Jose Sharks.

- San Jose Sharks is correct and second time tonight that we have a San Jose Sharks question and you guys got it right this time.

Well done.

Free Bonus.

Miguel Diaz-Canel governs from what Caribbean capital city, where a May, 2022 gas leak caused the deadly explosion at the hotel "Saratoga.?"

(indistinct talking) - Havana.

- Havana is correct.

Well done.

On to your next toss up.

What ruler launched the Harrying of the North after defeating Harold Godwinson at the 1066 Battle of Hastings, which made him King of England?

(buzzer beeps) Daniel.

- William.

- William.

will we accept just William?

We need more than.

- William the conqueror?

- William the conqueror is correct.

(indistinct talking) - For your bonus, what island between Ireland and Great Britain is a crowned dependency that is home to a namesake breed of cat with a short tail or no tail at all?

(indistinct talking) - Isle of Man.

- Isle of Man is correct.

Well done.

Your next question.

What group of vascular plants has a prothallus stage, includes ostrich and brackin types, bares spores, but not seeds?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Fern.

- Fern is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

In the works of Belgian cartoonist Herge, what young reporter walks on the moon with his friend Captain Haddock and his dog Snowy?

- Tintin.

- Tintin is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What 2021 film for which Troy Kotzer won An Oscar has a title referring to Emilia Jones character Ruby who is the daughter of two deaf adults?

(buzzer beeps) Dylan.

- CODA.

- CODA is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus, Carol Weatherford and Floyd Cooper won 2022 Coretta Scott King awards for "Unspeakable," a children's book about what city's 1921 race massacre?

(indistinct talking) - Tulsa.

- Tulsa is correct.

Well done.

On to the next toss up.

What event which was blamed on the Monday Night Conspirators including August Spies saw anarchist bomb an 1886 labor demonstration in Chicago?

(buzzer beeps) - Haymarket Square.

- Haymarket Square riot is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

Statistical tests often try to reject one type of hypothesis denoted H-naught and which suppose that an observed difference is due to chance alone.

- Null hypothesis.

- Null hypothesis is correct.

Well done.

And that will take us to our lightning round.

(static music) 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 Fairfield, since you guys are trailing in this one, you will have the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are particles, new places, sci-fi ships and restaurants on Wall Street.

(indistinct talking) - New places.

- New places it is.

Name these geographic places whose names start with the word new.

I'll give you 60 seconds on the clock and count you down.

3, 2, 1.

Most populous US city.

- New York City.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Capital of India.

- New Delhi.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Louisiana City home to the French Quarter.

- New Orleans.

- That's correct.

US state whose motto is "Live free or die."

- New Hampshire.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Country called AO Terra that stood in for Middle Earth.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Most densely populated US State.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Canadian province whose capital is Fredericton.

- Newfoundland.

- [Ethan] Newfoundland is incorrect.

Second largest island by area in the world.

- New Zealand.

- [Ethan] New Zealand is incorrect.

Connecticut city home to the US Coast Guard Academy.

- Newport.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

- [Ethan] French territory in the South Pacific whose capital is Noumea.

- New Caledonia.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Country called AO Terra that stood in for Middle earth.

- New Zealand.

- [Ethan] New Zealand is correct.

Most densely populated state in the US.

- New Hampshire.

- New Hampshire is incorrect.

And that is all of the questions.

So we'll go over the ones that you guys missed there.

Most densely populated state in the US is New Jersey.

The Canadian province whose capital is Fredericton is not New Finland but New New Brunswick.

The second largest island by area in the world is New Guinea and the Connecticut city home to the US Coast Guard is New London.

Alright, so well done there Fairfield.

Now Carbondale, it's your guys' turn.

Your remaining choices are sci-fi ships, restaurants on Wall Street or particles.

- Particles.

- Particles it is.

Name these particles.

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

3, 2, 1.

They're transferred or shared in chemical bonds.

- Electron.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Charge particles found in nuclei.

- Proton.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Quanta of light energy.

- Photon.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Fired at gold foil in the Rutherford experiment.

- Alpha particle.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Boson discovered in 2012 that gives most other particles mass.

- Higgs.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Their absorption and release drives fission chain reactions.

- Beta particle.

- Neutron.

- [Ethan] Neutrons is correct.

Any particle of the electron.

- Positron.

- [Ethan] Positron is correct.

They have flavors like strange and.

- Quark.

- [Ethan] Quark is correct.

Undiscovered carrier of a fundamental force described by general relativity.

- Graviton.

- Graviton.

- [Ethan] Graviton is correct.

Uncharged leptons that barely interact with matter.

- Oh Neutrino.

- Neutrino is correct.

Going 10 for 10 in very quick fashion.

Well done on that one Carbondale.

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

We have Fairfield with 135 and Carbondale with 440.

So Carbondale seems to be in pretty firm control here, but Fairfiled no reason you guys can't catch up.

Back to our toss ups.

What state, which the Trump administration tried to strip of its Clean Air Act waiver announced?

(buzzer beeps) - California.

- California is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

Over harvesting led to the 1993 closure of what prized fishing grounds formed by an underwater plateau off the southern coast of Newfoundland?

(indistinct talking) - Fishing house.

- [Ethan] Fishing house is incorrect.

Fairfield with a chance to steal.

- Main harbor.

- Main harbor is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Grand Banks.

The Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

Onto the next toss up.

What university hosts the International Center for Automotive Research is on Lake Hartwell in western Southern Carolina and fields the ACCs Tigers?

- Dylan.

- Clemson.

- Clemson is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in what city, which US forces evacuated in 2021, was Al-Qaeda's leader Iman Asiri killed in a 2022 drone strike?

(indistinct talking) - Kabul.

- Kabul is correct.

Next question.

What state where the delicate arch is in its arches National Park near Moab is home to?

- Dylan.

- Utah.

- Utah is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Jeronimo was a leader of what Native American tribe of the southwest US that fought a decades war against American forces?

- Cheyenne.

- Cheyenne is incorrect.

Fairfield, chance to steal.

(indistinct talking) - Lakota.

- Can you say that again?

- Lakota.

- Lakota is incorrect and Danial I think you know the answer.

Apache.

- Yeah.

- Yeah Apache.

Okay (indistinct talking) That'll take us to our next toss up.

What structure is the largest in the nucleus of eukaryotes is responsible for the assembly of ribosomes and has a name meaning little nucleus?

- Nucleolus.

- Nucleolus is correct.

For your bonus, what pigment found in the thylakoid membrane lends part of its name to an organelle in plants?

(indistinct talking) - Chlorophyll.

- Chlorophyll is correct.

Well done.

On to our next toss up.

What TV show whose theme song describes humble folks without temptation living in Colorado is a comedy central cartoon named for the carton's hometown?

- Dylan.

- South Park.

- South Park is correct.

Free bonus.

What African country which lends its name to a bite in the Gulf of Guinea is governed from Cotonou although it's capital is Porto-Novo?

(indistinct talking) - Andor.

- You guys are all out of time.

Fairfield's chance to steal.

- Zambia.

- Zambia is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Benin.

Benin.

Onto our next question.

What story in which Madame Sofronie pays $20 on Christmas Eve for hair allowing Della?

- Gift of the Magi.

- Gift of the Magi is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What 1648 peace ended the 30 years in central Europe and helped originate the concepts of geopolitical sovereignty?

(indistinct talking) (buzzer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

Fairfield.

- Treaty of Paris.

- Treaty of Paris is incorrect.

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

Treaty of Westphalia.

Your next question.

What technique that has HPLC and thin layer types has a mobile phase moving through a stationary phase and is used to separate mixtures?

(buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Filtration.

- Filtration is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Chase.

- Dilution.

- Dilution is also incorrect.

Answer we're looking for was chromatography.

Chromatography.

For your next question, what man who resigned as an assistant secretary of the Navy in 1898 to lead the rough riders assumed the presidency?

(buzzer beeps) Chase.

- Theodore Roosevelt.

- Theodore Roosevelt's correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What poet described a wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie in his 1785 poem to a mouse?

- Wordsworth - Wordsworth is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal.

(indistinct talking) - William Blake.

- William Blake is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Robert Burns.

Robert Burns.

For your next question, what novel in which immersive sensory movies called "feelies" are enjoyed by Lenina Crowne but not by John the Savage was written by Aldous Huxley?

(buzzer beeps) Chase.

- Brave New World.

- Brave New World is correct.

Well dones.

Free bonus.

What plural noun appears in both the title of a 1775 play featuring Mrs. Malaprop and a Doris Kearns Goodwin book about Abraham Lincoln's cabinet?

(indistinct talking) - Men.

- [Ethan] Men is incorrect.

Carbondale a chance to steal.

(indistinct talking) - People.

- People is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was rivals.

Rivals.

Onto the next question.

What physicist names the time before which the law of physics breakdown and constant equal to about 6.6 times 10 to the negative 34 jewel seconds?

(buzzer beeps) Daniel - Plank.

- Max Plank is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

Brewster's angle equals the inverse tangent of a ratio of two values of what quantity that describes how much light bends when entering a medium?

(indistinct talking) - Refraction.

- Do we need, will we accept that or we do need more than that.

- Index of refraction.

- Index of refraction is correct and onto our next toss up.

What country whose main states's Capital Territory governs Jervis Bay is home to the state of Queensland and has its capital down?

(buzzer beeps) - Australia.

- Australia is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What author wrote about a child of scorn who cursed the commonplace and eyed a khaki suit with loathing in his poem "Miniver Cheevy?"

(indistinct talking) - Smith.

- [Ethan] Smith is incorrect.

Fairfield, a chance to steal.

- Williams.

- Williams is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Onto the next question.

What document whose first item concerns the meaning of repentance was allegedly nailed to a wooden bird church door?

(buzzer beeps) Dylan.

- "95 Theses."

- "95 Theses" is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

In 1470, what deposed English King was briefly restored to the throne after the Earl of Warwick's rebellion forced Edward IV to flee the Netherlands?

(indistinct talking) (buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] So you guys are all out of time.

Fairfield.

- James.

- James is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Henry VI.

Henry VI.

For your next question, what artist who created "Love is in the Bin", when his "Girl with Balloon" shredded itself, as an option?

(buzzer beeps) - Banksy.

- Banksy is correct.

Well done Dylan.

Free bonus.

What term from the Greek for a handedness describes a pair of molecules that are non super-imposable mirror images of each other?

(indistinct talking) - Isomers.

- [Ethan] Isomers is incorrect.

Fairfield, a chance to steal.

- Entangled.

- Entangled is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Chiral.

Chiral.

Okay, next question.

Alexandra wears a sock puppet to high burns in want graphic novel about Jordan Banks' experiences at Riverdale Academy Day School by Jerry Craft?

(buzzer beeps) - Archie.

- Archie is incorrect?

(buzzer beeps) - One Piece.

(guys laugh) - The One Piece is real, but it's not the right answer.

We're looking for New Kid.

New Kid.

And for your next question, pencil and paper ready.

Three answers required.

What are the three prime factors of the number 66?

(buzzer beeps) Jake.

- 2, 3, 11.

- 2, 3 and 11 are correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What Germanic people sacked Rome in AD 455 under their king Gaiseric turning their name into vine word for want and destruction?

(indistinct talking) - Vandals.

- Vandals is correct.

Well done.

- [Jay] Nice.

- Next question.

What empire whose final monarch, Francis II, abdicated in 1806 sometimes trace its origin to Pope Leo III's Christmas AD 800 clowning of Charlemagne?

(buzzer beeps) Danial.

- The Holy Roman Empire.

- The HRE is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What third son of Adam was born after Kane was banished for killing Abel?

(indistinct talking) (buzzer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

Fairfield.

- Seth.

- Seth is correct.

Well done.

(bell rings) And that bell means we are all out of time on today's show.

So let's take a look at our score.

Carbondale with 640 and Fairfield with 165.

So a very dominant performance by Carbondale.

It's gonna secure you guys a spot in the semi-finals.

So well done to you guys.

Now for both of our teams here today and all the people working hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much and goodnight.

(upbeat music)