(gentle music) (camera beeping) (lively music) (lively music continues) - Welcome back to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q."

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

So, let's introduce our teams.

On the bottom, we have Freeburg with Max, Cameron, Edison and Noah; and up top, we have Fairfield with Chase, Gabriel, Maveryck and Jacob.

Now before we get into our questions, let's just do a quick recap of the 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 you'll be good.

All right?

Let's get into the questions.

What ruler who led the attacking army at the Siege of Vienna, was the sultan who expanded the Ottoman Empire and is known today as The Magnificent?

(buzzer dings) Noah.

- Suleiman.

- Suleiman is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what American's doctor's name is given to the technique using abdominal thrust to relieve airway obstruction in choking?

- Heimlich.

- Heimlich is correct.

Well done.

Next toss-up, what author depicted a prodigy who dates 19 girls of the same name in "An Abundance of Katherines" and wrote the YA tearjerker, "The Fault in Our Stars."

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- John Green.

- John Green is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what woman married Menelaus and was kidnapped before the Trojan War?

- Helen.

- Helen of Troy is correct, well done.

Now let's back up for our next question.

What movie in which the giant baby Boh escapes from Yubaba, depicts Chihiro's Adventures in a bathhouse for Kami and was directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

- Also- (buzzer dings) Noah.

- "Parasite?"

- "Parasite" is incorrect.

I was about to say, also, I believe won an Oscar in 2001, I think.

(buzzer dings) Cameron.

- Am I allowed to buzz?

- No you're not.

- [Ethan] Oh yeah.

I do not believe you're allowed to buzz, no.

(buzzer dings) Gabriel.

- Dragon Ball Evolution.

- Dragon Ball evolution is incorrect.

We were looking for the Oscar award winner for the animated category, 2001, "Spirited Away."

Studio Ghibli movie, "Spirited Away."

Great movie.

If none of you have seen it, fantastic.

Really, really good.

Next question, what painter who used his wife Saskia as a model painted Sindics of the Draper's Guild and showed the men of Frans Banninck Cocq in The Night Watch?

(alarm buzzes) Sorry.

You guys are all outta time.

The answer we're looking for was Rembrandt.

Rembrandt.

The next question, what transition metal which is used in most white paints as well as in hip replacements and the bodies of airplanes has the atomic symbol, Ti?

And the buzzers aren't working, but Max.

- Titanium.

- Titanium is correct.

Well done.

- For your bonus, according to the UN, as of August 1st, 2023, what country is the world's most populous?

It's bonus round, yeah.

(players commenting) - India.

- India is correct.

Yeah.

Well done.

For your next question, what general who is defeated at the battle of Zama by Scipio Africanus at the end of the Second Punic war used elephants to cross the Alps?

Noah - Hannibal?

- Hannibal's correct.

Well done.

- For your bonus.

Semelparous organisms such as salmon and the agave cactus, performed what behavior once in their lifetime?

(players whispering) - Reproduction?

- Reproduction is correct.

Well done.

Next question.

What economic concept which has friction, cyclical and structural types also denotes the status of people who are seeking but cannot find work?

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- Unemployment?

- Unemployment's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 2022, what video game developer behind Fortnite was fined $520 million for collecting personal information from children under 13?

- Epic Games?

- Epic games is correct.

Well done.

Onto our next question.

What scientist who wrote the 2022 book, "Starry Messenger" presented the 2020 series "Cosmos: Possible Worlds."

Max.

- Neil DeGrasse Tyson?

- Neil DeGrasse Tyson's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Herbert suffers a fatal workplace accident after Mr. White uses the cursed title object to wish for 200 pounds in what short story by W.W. Jacobs?

- No answer.

- No answer.

Fairfield's chance to steal.

- [Fairfield Player] The monkey's Paw.

- The monkey's Paw" is correct.

Well done.

For your next question.

Which man who captained Queen Anne's revenge and may have had the real name Edward Teach was a pirate who's- (buzzer dings) Noah.

- Blackbeard?

- Blackbeard is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What leader whose father served as the first prime minister of her country declared a period known as The Emergency when she held absolute power?

- Kinoshe?

- Kinoshe is incorrect.

- Sandra Gandhi.- Sandra Gandhi is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi.

For our next question.

What type of object which includes one created in 1840 known as the Penny Black is collected by philatelists and is used to pay postage?

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- Stamps.

- Stamps is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

In 1952, David Tudor sat at a piano and closed its lid while premiering what John Cage piece?

- 12 empty movements.

- [Ethan] 12 empty movements is incorrect.

Freeburg, chance to steal.

(players whispering) - No answer.

The answer we're looking for was 433.

433.

For your next question.

What event whose leader was appointed on Mount Horeb by a burning bush occurs after plagues, enables- (buzzer dings) Chase.

- Exodus.

- Exodus is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What author who wrote about an epidemic that devastates the French Algerian city of Oran in his 1947 novel, "The Plague?"

- Vonnegut.

- Vonnegut is incorrect.

Freeburg, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- No answer.

- No answer?

The answer we're looking for was Albert Camus.

Albert Camus.

For your next question.

What Habsburg Monarch who was the subject of Charles VI's 1713 Pragmatic Sanction waged the war of Austrian succession to secure her rule?

(alarm buzzes) Sorry, you guys are all outta time.

The answer we're looking for was Maria Theresa.

Maria Theresa.

For the next question.

What simple machine used once in an Atwood machine and multiple times in a block and tackle consists of a rope wrapped around a wheel- (buzzer dings) Gabriel.

- A pulley?

- Pulley is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What former Canadian prime minister who served nearly continuously from 1968 to 1984 was born in Outremont, Quebec.

- Pierre Trudeau.

- Pierre Trudeau is correct.

Well done.

Your next question.

What animals, some of whom host the Pevensies when they enter Narnia are the mascot for Oregon State University and- (buzzer dings) - Noah.

- Beavers.

- Beavers is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What religious denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddie operates reading rooms and a namesake newspaper whose title ends in Monitor?

- Quakers.

- Quakers?

Incorrect.

Fairfield, chance to steal.

- Christian Science.

- Christian science is correct.

Well done, Chase.

For your next question.

What play in which Mitch plays poker in the French Quarter with Stanley kowalski and briefly dates Blanche DuBois is by Tennessee Williams?

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- "A streetcar Named Desire."

- That is correct.

Well done, Fairfield.

For your bonus.

Aunt March bequeaths her estate to what character who runs a school with her German husband Friedrich Bhaer in the novel, "Little Men?"

- No answer.

- No answer.

Freeburg, chance to steal?

- No answer.

Answer we're looking for was Josephine March.

Josephine March.

For your next question.

What structures surrounded by guard cells and found mostly on leaves allow gas exchange in plants and are named after the Greek word for mouth?

(buzzer dings) Maverick.

- Stomata.

- Stomata is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what British explorer who died on the quest while en route to Antarctica captained the Endurance in 1915 and had earlier traveled with Robert Scott?

- Stockton.

- Stockton is incorrect.

Freeburg, chance to steal.

- Magellan?

- Magellan is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was not Stockton but Earnest Shackleton.

Shackleton.

Your next question.

What country which embraced democracy in The Carnation Revolution after- (buzzer dings) Chase - Portugal.

- Portugal is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What particle which impacts mass via its namesake mechanism was discovered in 2012 at CERN and is sometimes nicknamed the God particle.

- Higgs Boson.

- Higgs Boson is correct.

Well done.

For your next question.

What national capital on the Spree river has suburbs such as Potsdam, was once home to Checkpoint Charlie, and- (buzzer dings) Chase.

- Berlin?

- Berlin is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, "The Celestial Railroad," was based on what 1678 allegory by John Bunyan in which Christian journeys to the celestial city?

- "A Divine Comedy."

- It is incorrect.

Freeburg, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was "The Pilgrim's Progress."

"The Pilgrims Progress."

For your next question.

What former crime for which Connecticut exonerated 45 people in May, 2023 was most infamously the subject of- (buzzer dings) Chase.

- Witchcraft.

- Witchcraft is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What last name was shared by Edmond, the first attorney general and Asa Philip, a civil rights leader who organized the march on a Washington?

- Fitzgerald.

- Fitzgerald is incorrect.

Freeburg, your chance to steal.

- Edwards.

- Edwards is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for there was Randolph.

Randolph.

And that'll take us to our lightning round.

(air whooshes) (thunder rumbles) 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.

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

Your choice is plastics, famous Romans, homophones or T in initials.

- T in initials could have thumb, right?

- (chuckles) T in initials.

- Initials it is.

All right.

Given the word that the letter T stands... Or give the word that the letter T stands for in these three-letter Initialisms.

- Oh, gosh.

- Initialisms, very nice word.

Six seconds on the clock, I'll count you down.

3, 2, 1.

NYT, a newspaper.

- Times.

- That's correct.

ATM, a machine that dispenses cash.

- Transaction?

- That's incorrect.

TCU, a university in Fort Worth.

- Texas.

- That's correct.

EMT, a profession of first responders.

You can pass.

- Transport?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

TLD, the final part of a website's domain name such as .com.

- Pass.

- TNG, a TV series in the Star Trek franchise.

- Time.

- That's incorrect.

STI or STD, a category of disease.

- Transmitted.

- That's correct.

TSA, an agency of Department of Homeland Security.

- Transportation.

- That's correct.

CBT, a psychological treatment.

- Therapy?

- That's correct.

VAT, V-A-T, a type of levy based on value added.

- Theorem?

- That's incorrect.

TLD, the final part of- (alarm buzzes) All out of time so let's go through the ones that you guys missed.

ATM, a machine that dispenses cash was teller.

EMT, a profession of first responders was technicians.

TLD, the final part of a website's domain name such as.com was top.

TNG, a TV series in the Star Trek franchise was the, as in "The Next Generation."

And VAT, V-A-T, a type of levy based on value added was taxes.

Taxes.

All right, Freeburg, that was your turn, now Fairfield, you guys get the chance to respond.

Your choices are plastics, famous Romans or Homophones?

- Homophones.

- Homophones it is.

Given two definitions, name these homophones meaning words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently.

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

3, 2, 1.

A flying vehicle or a two-dimensional surface.

- Plane.

- That's correct.

Lacking strength or seven days.

Weak.

- That's correct.

Denim pants or hereditary material?

- Jeans.

- That's correct.

A center of operations or a low string instrument.

- Base.

- That's correct.

To expire or to color.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Financial gains or a visionary.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A public gathering or the cost of travel.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Motionless or paper for writing.

- Still.

- That's incorrect.

Grain use for food or something that occurs repeatedly.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A key in geography or a small grommet.

(light music) - Pass.

- [Ethan] To expire or to color.

- Fill.

- That's incorrect.

Financial gains or a visionary.

- Profit?

- That's correct.

A public gathering or cost for travel.

(alarm buzzes) You guys are all out of time.

Believe it or not, we are nothing but professionalism on this show meaning I do know how to read, believe it or not.

Let's go through those questions.

See which ones you got and which ones you missed.

For to expire or to color, we were looking for to die.

And a public gathering or the cost for travel was fair.

Motionless or paper for writing was a stationary.

Grain used for food or something that occurs repeatedly was cereal.

Or a key in geography or small grommet was eyelet.

Eyelet.

All right, now let's take a quick look at our scores after the lightning round.

We have Freeburg with 170 and Fairfield with 250 so Freeburg definitely still within striking distance.

Each question's worth 30 points.

That's just three questions and you guys are back in it.

Let's see if you can get there.

What author of "Up From Slavery" who encouraged racial conciliation in his Atlanta Compromise led Tuskegee University and rivaled W.E.

Du Bois.

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- George Washington Carver.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer dings) Noah.

- Booker T. Washington?

- Booker T. Washington is correct.

Well done, Noah.

For your bonus.

What mass number of the most common isotope of nitrogen is also the number of electrons in a filled F subshell?

(players whispering) - 14.

- 14 is correct.

Well done.

The next question.

What opera whose title character sings that love is a rebellious bird, features Escamillo, the Toreador, and was written by Georges Bizet?

You guys are all outta time.

The answer we're looking for was "Carmen."

"Carmen."

For your next question.

What substances whose electron density can be measured using a Langmuir probe are made up of ionized gas and are called the fourth state of matter?

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- Plasma.

- Plasma is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

The cities of Kingston and Toronto are on the shores of what Great Lake which receives the Niagara River?

A little bit of Canadian geography.

- Lake Ontario.

- Lake Ontario is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss up.

What language used to write the poem, "The Drunken Boat," and the book, "The Flowers of Evil," was spoken by poets Arthur Rimbauld and Charles Baudelaire?

(buzzer dings) Chase.

- French?

- French is correct.

Well done.

Free Bonus.

Edwards syndrome is a fatal example of what type of genetic condition that occurs when an extra copy of a chromosome is present?

- Down syndrome?

- Down syndrome is incorrect.

Freeburg, chance to steal.

Trisisome.

- Tris... Will we accept that?

Yeah, that is correct.

Your next question.

What disease whose avian form caused the culling of large numbers of birds to deal with a 2022 outbreak?

(buzzer dings) Chase?

- Flu.

- Influenza is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What surname is shared by a female bounty hunter in "One for the Money," Las Vegas Aces superstar Kelce, and a professor in the board game, Clue?

- Plum.

- Plum is correct.

Well done.

Your next question.

What desert contains the very large telescope in the Peranal Observatory is the world's driest non-polar desert and- (buzzer dings) - Cameron.

- Andes?

- Can you repeat that?

- Andes?

- Andes is incorrect.

I'll repeat the question for you, Fairfield.

What desert contains the very large telescope in the Peranal Observatory is the world's driest non-polar desert and lies primarily in northern Chile?

(buzzer dings) - Gabriel.

- Mojave.

- Mojave's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is the Atacama.

The Atacama desert.

Next question.

What effect which is negligible at the equator causes currents and wind to be- (buzzer dings) Chase.

- Tides.

- Tides is incorrect.

I will reread that for you, Freeburg.

What effect which is negligible at the equator causes currents and winds to be deflected sideways and causes the rotation of hurricanes?

(buzzer dings) Cameron.

- Coriolis.

- Coriolis is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

The narrowest portion of the English channel is what Straight which is named after an English city known for its white cliffs?

- Dover.

- Dover is correct.

Well done.

For your next question.

In what battle in which red doubt number 10 fell to Alexander Hamilton did US troops capture Lord Cornwallis and effectively end- (buzzer dings) Chase.

- Yorktown.

- Battle of Yorktown is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What musical, the longest-running Broadway show of all time played its final performance on April 16th, 2023?

- "Phantom of the Opera."

- "Phantom of the Opera" is correct.

Well done.

Next question.

"The Orchard Keeper" is the first novel by what author who died in June, 2023 and who wrote about killer, Anton Chigurh, in "No Country for Old Men?"

(players whispering) (alarm buzzes) You guys are all outta time.

The answer we're looking for was Cormac McCarthy.

Cormac McCarthy.

For your next question.

What composer of (speaking foreign language) repeated a long snare drum ostinato while more and more instruments enter playing the main theme in "Bolero?"

- Bach.

- Bach is incorrect.

(buzzer dings) Noah.

- Vivaldi?

- Vivaldi's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Maurice Ravel.

Maurice Ravel.

Next question.

What man who ordered an attack on rival Bugs Moran's North-Siders in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a Chicago- (buzzer dings) Noah.

- Capone?

- Al Capone is correct.

Well done.

Free bonus.

What economic agreement enacted in 1994 was criticized by Ross Perot who said it would create a giant sucking sound of jobs leaving at the US.

- NAFTA?

- NAFTA is correct.

Well done.

Your next question.

What TV show whose theme song describes clouds being swept away by a sunny day is named for an urban location home to Bert, Ernie and Big Bird?

(buzzer dings) Gabriel.

- "Sesame Street."

- "Sesame Street" is correct, and also on this network.

This is one of the times I wish I knew when it was playing on this network so I could do like a little shill for Sesame Street on PBS.

I don't know that.

But we'll throw it to your bonus question.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the units digits of the integer that equals the product of two raised to the 10th power times five raised to the eighth power?

That is two raised to the 10th power times five raised to the eighth power.

(players whispering) - 10 to the 18th?

- That is incorrect.

Freeburg, chance to steal.

- Two?

- Two is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was zero.

Zero.

Your next question.

What non SI unit has a name first used by Claude Shannon, is the smallest unit of information in computing and- (buzzer dings) Chase.

- Byte.

- Will we accept a byte?

We will not.

So I'll reread the full question for you, Freeburg.

What non SI unit has a name first used by Claude Shannon, is the smallest unit of information in computing, and has a value of either zero or one?

(buzzer dings) Cameron.

- Binary.

(clears throat) Binary?

- Binary... We will accept that.

That is correct.

The answer we're looking for was it bits not bytes or binary digits.

Well done, Freeburg.

For your bonus.

A July, 2022 CIA drone strike resulted in the death of what Amir or a leader of Al-Qaeda who became its leader after the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden?

(players whispering) (alarm buzzes) - Muhammed.

- That is incorrect.

Fairfield, chance to steal - No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was Aman Al-Zawahiri.

Zawahiri.

And that is all the time we have for on today's show.

So let's take a look at our scores.

On top, we have Fairfield with 365 over Freeburg's 290.

So very close game at the end.

Not separating you guys by about much.

So that's it for our show tonight.

For all the lovely people working very hard behind the camera and our contestants here today.

I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much and goodnight.

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