(upbeat music) (camera clicking) (upbeat music) (bright music) - Welcome back to "Scholastic HI-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

Our Halloween episode today, where our kids are scary smart.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and let's get in with meeting our teams.

On the bottom, we have Carterville, with Nick, Ursa, Ava and Gabe.

And on the top, we have Fortitude, with Ezekiel, Blake, Andrew and Jacob.

Now, before we get into our questions, let's go over our rules.

So I'm gonna ask you guys a series of toss-up questions, and then if you get it right, you'll have a chance to answer a bonus question.

If you get that wrong, the other team has a chance to steal.

You can interrupt me at any time, but it will be five points to the other team if you get that question wrong.

So do the best you can, and don't be wrong, as Ethan would say.

All right, let's get into the questions.

What American chemist defined acids as substances capable of donating an electron pair and its namesake of diagrams that depict electrons as dots?

(beeper chimes) - What's Lewis?

- That is correct.

All right, Fortitude, for your first bonus question.

The outdoor sculpture's Endless Column and the Table of Silence are by what Romanian sculptor of the series "Bird in Space?"

- Kafka?

- Kafka.

- [Host] That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

- Garonski?

(timer beeping) - All right, we were looking for Constantin Brancusi.

Onto our next toss-up question.

What Egyptian God who replaced Montu as the patron deity of thieves was identified with Jupiter and Zeus and was famously fused with the Sun God Ra?

(beeper chimes) - [Blake] What's Amun?

- That is correct.

Onto our next bonus.

The Tour de France traditionally ends along what street in Paris whose western end is at the Arc de Triomphe?

- Just guess a random street.

- Rue de Jacob?

- That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

(timer buzzes) All right, that's all the time we have.

We were looking for the Champs-Elysee.

Champs-Elysee.

Our next toss-up question.

What emperor ruled as his country conquered Burham and the Philippines, established Manchukuo, and lost to the Allies in the Pacific World War II?

- Hirohito?

- That is correct.

- Mm, good job.

- All right, Carterville, your first bonus question.

What state has a uniquely pennant-shaped flag featuring five red and white stripes and 17 white stars?

- [Gabe] Ohio.

- Ohio?

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up question.

What English poet included a poison tree in his collection "Songs of Experience" and described the fearful symmetry- (button chiming) - What's Blake?

- That is correct.

(Blake chuckles) All right, your next bonus question.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the smallest positive even number that is divisible by both three and seven?

- That'll be 42.

- Okay, 42.

- That is correct.

(Blake whispers) All right, our next toss-up question.

What country which contains most of the Apennine Mountains is home to an active volcano on Stromboli Island and Mount Aetna on Sicily?

(button chiming) - Italy?

- That is correct.

All right, Carterville, your bonus question is what 1947 book by Margaret Wise Brown describes an old lady whispering in hush in a great green room and is a classic bedtime story?

(team whispering) (timer buzzing) I'm sorry, you are all out of time.

Fortitude, a chance to steal.

- "Goodnight Moon."

- That is correct.

- [Carterville Team Member] Oh, why didn't we say it?

- A classic.

All right, our next toss-up.

A letter to Lorenzo de' Medici opens what book that compares rulers to lions and foxes, warns against flatteries and is by Niccolo Machiavelli?

(button chimes) - What's "The Prince"?

- That is correct.

For your bonus question.

In 2020, Mark Meadows held what position later held by Ron Klain, which often described as a gatekeeper for the president?

- Who was the chief of staff?

(Andrew whispers) - Defer to Zeke.

- Chief of staff.

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What conspiracy which is commemorated by Bonfire Night every November 5th- (button chimes) - [Blake] What is Guy Fawkes Day?

- That is incorrect, and it will be five points to the other team.

What conspiracy which commemorated the Bonfire Night every November 5th was failed plot by Catholics, including a Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament?

(button chimes) - 5th of November?

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for the Gunpowder Plot.

Gunpowder Plot.

Our next toss-up.

What organ expresses large amounts of cytochrome P450 enzymes to metabolize drugs, make fat emulsifying bile, and lies beneath the diaphragm?

(button chimes) - The gallbladder?

- [Host] That is incorrect.

(button chimes) - [Blake] What is the liver?

- That is correct.

For your bonus question.

A woman in the far future named Weena belongs to what group of small beings who were preyed upon by Morlocks in H.G.

Wells' novel "The Time Machine"?

(team whispering) - Aliens.

- [Host] Say it one more time?

- Aliens?

- Oh.

No, that is incorrect.

We're looking for Eloi.

Eloi.

Our next toss-up question.

In what African country did All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu succeed Muhammadu Bu...

Excuse me, Buhari as president at a 2023 inauguration in Abuja?

(button chimes) - South Sudan?

- [Host] That is incorrect.

(button chimes) - Tanzania?

- That's also incorrect.

We were looking for Nigeria.

Nigeria.

Our next toss-up.

What NFL team which was led by quarterback Bart Starr and coach Vince Lombardi to win in the first Super Bowl plays at Lambeau Field in Wisconsin?

(button chimes) - Green Bay Packers.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Carterville., What revolutionary war officer's use of guerilla tactics against the British led him to be nicknamed the Swamp Fox?

- Smith.

- Smith.

(timer buzzes) - [Host] That is incorrect.

Fortitude, a chance to steal.

- Daniel Morgan?

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for Francis Marion.

Francis Marion.

All right, our next toss-up question.

Big Cypress National Preserve is part of what wetlands region extending southward from Lake Okeechobee?

(button chimes) - [Ezekiel] What is the Everglades?

- That is correct.

All right, Fortitude, for your bonus question.

Cassy pretends to be a ghost to escape the plantation of what villainous character who orders Uncle Tom's death in a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel?

- What?

- See if it's Uncle Tom.

- "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"

- That is incorrect.

(Jacob whispering) Carterville, a chance to steal.

(timer buzzes) You are all out of time.

The answer we were looking for was Simon Legree.

Simon Legree.

A good Halloween question about ghosts.

All right, onto our next pencil and paper ready.

What is the slope of the line defined by the equation 2x plus y equals seven?

(button chimes) - What is negative two?

- That is correct.

All right, Fortitude, your bonus question is what analytical technique typically uses a magnetic field to separate molecules based on their M to Z ratio?

- Electromagnetic substitution.

- That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

- Electromagnetism.

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for mass spectrometry.

Mass spectrometry.

Our next toss-up.

What empire whose Jaguar and Eagle warriors fought ritual Flower Wars ruled from Tenochtitlan until it was conquered by- (button chimes) - Aztec?

- That is correct.

For your bonus question, what Spanish word named the centuries-long conflict that ended in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella captured the moorish city of Granada?

(Blake whispering) (timer buzzes) - You are all out of time.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

- Reconquista?

- That is correct.

Onto our next toss-up question.

What playwright depicted Harry Hope's Saloon in "The Iceman Cometh" and wrote about the fracturing Tyrone family in "Long Day's Journey into Night"?

(button chimes) - Tennessee Williams?

- That is incorrect.

(timer buzzes) Sorry, we're out of time.

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

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill.

Our next toss-up question.

What word that harms Monty Python's Knights Who Say "Ni!"

also names a two-part film set in Maine that features Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Clown?

(button chimes) - Ni?

- [Host] That is incorrect.

(button chimes) - It?

- That is correct.

All right, Carterville, for your bonus question.

Pencil and paper ready?

What is the fifth term of a geometric sequence whose first term is two and whose third term is 10?

(team whispering) - 18?

- That is incorrect.

Fortitude, a chance to steal.

- 20.

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was 50.

50.

Onto our next toss-up question.

Which country that declared independence in the Cry of Ipiranga was ruled- (button chimes) - What is Brazil?

- That is correct.

All right, Fortitude, your next bonus question.

In 2023, what country led by Joko Widodo was worked with SpaceX on the Satria-1 satellite which will boost internet access for its 280 million residents?

(team whispering) - Defer to Zeke.

- Turkey?

- [Host] That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Indonesia?

- That is correct.

All right, our next toss-up question.

Continuing our space theme, what constellation which contains the M87 black hole and the star Spica lies between Leo and Libra in the Zodiac and depicts a maiden?

(button chimes) - What's Virgo?

- That is correct.

For your bonus question, in Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels," the tiny residents of what country argue over how to crack eggs and go to war with the nearby Blefuscu?

- It's Lilli- - The Lilliputians.

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What novel whose protagonist marries Aouda after winning a bet at the Reform Club with help from Passepartout was written in French by Jules Verne?

(button chimes) - "Around the World in Eighty Days."

- That is correct.

If anyone's seen the "Journey to the Center of the Earth" movies, and they're very good.

Jules Verne.

For your bonus question.

For years, Mary Mallon was quarantined on New York's North Brother Island to prevent her from spreading what infectious disease described as a fever?

- Typhoid Mary.

- Typhoid Mary?

- That is correct.

And with that, we're gonna take it to our lightning round.

(man cackling) So we'll check our scores.

Fortitude, you are ahead with 200 points, and Carterville is trailing with 85.

So since Carterville is trailing, you guys will get to pick your category first.

The options are World Literary Characters, Pacific Islands, Mascots, and Ends in U.

- Ends in U.

- All right.

So you guys will have a minute to answer as many questions in this category as possible.

You can pass a question and I will circle back to it if we have time.

All right, so this category is Ends in U.

Name these words that end with the letter U.

And I'll count you guys down in three, two, one.

List of dishes available at a restaurant.

- Menu.

- That is correct.

Five letter French word for goodbye.

- Adieu.

- That is correct.

Large Australian flightless bird.

- Emu.

- Emu.

- [Host] That is correct.

Flat region within a mountainous area.

- Plateau.

- That is correct.

Greek letter before xi.

- Nu.

- [Host] That is correct.

Swampy creek in the southern US.

- Bayou.

- That is correct.

Coffee-flavored Italian dessert whose name means pick me up.

- Tiramisu.

- Tiramisu.

- [Host] That is correct.

Adjective meaning unplanned.

- Pass.

- Impromptu.

- [Host] That is correct.

Popular Linux distribution developed by Canonical.

- Pass.

- [Host] Word formed by merging the start and end of two other words.

- Portmanteau.

- That is correct.

Popular Linux distribution developed by Canonical.

(bright music) This is the last one.

(laughs) Popular Linux- (timer buzzes) All right, I think you guys got all of them right except that one.

The popular Linux distribution developed by Canonical was Ubuntu.

Ubuntu.

All right, very good job, guys.

All right, so next we have the categories left are World Literary Characters, Pacific Islands or Mascots.

- World characters.

- World Literary Characters.

- All right.

So again, you guys will have a minute to answer as many as you can and you can pass and we'll circle back.

So World Literary Characters.

Name the non-American author who created these literary characters.

And I'll count you guys down in three, two, one.

The unfaithful Anna Karenina.

- Pass.

- [Host] The hunchback Quasimodo.

- Pass.

- [Host] Hedda Gabler, the title figure of a Norwegian play.

- Pass.

- [Host] The Handmaid Offered.

- Pass.

- [Host] Raskolnikov who kills a pawn broker.

- Pass.

- [Host] The Shining Prince Genji.

- Pass.

- [Host] Colonel Aureliano Buendia.

- Pass.

- [Host] Dr. Yuri Zhivago.

- Pass.

- [Host] Hacker Lisbeth Salander.

- Pass.

- [Host] Mr. Biswas who builds a house.

- Pass.

- The unfaithful Anna- - Dostoevsky.

- [Host] That is correct.

The hunchback Quasimodo.

(Blake whispering) - Pass.

- Hedda Gabler, the figure of a Norwegian play.

All right, we'll go over the ones you guys missed.

These were pretty difficult.

The hunchback Quasimodo was Victor Hugo.

Hedda Gabler, the title figure of a Norwegian play is Henrik Ibsen.

The Handmaid Offered is Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale."

Raskolnikov who kills a pawn broker was Fyodor Dos... Oh my goodness.

Dostoevsky in "Crime and Punishment."

The Shining Prince Genji was Lady Murasaki in "The Tale of Genji."

Colonel Aureliano Buendia was Gabriel Garcia Marquez in "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Dr. Yuri Zhivago was Boris Pasternak in "Doctor Zhivago."

Hacker Lisbeth Salander was Stieg Larsson in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," and Mr. Biswas who builds a house was V.S.

Naipaul in "A House for Mr.

Biswas."

So those were pretty difficult, but good job, guys.

So let's check our scores.

So we have Fortitude still leading with 410, and Carterville at 175.

Pretty close, guys, but we do still have half our question left.

So it's anybody's game.

210, so sorry.

210 to 175.

All right, now back to our toss-up questions.

What novel who... Oh, we already did that one.

What leader who co-wrote the 2023 children's book "Climate Change" is married to Camilla Parker Bowles and is the ruling king of England?

(button chimes) - King Charles?

- [Host] King Charles what?

- The sixth?

- [Host] That is incorrect.

(button chimes) - King Charles III.

- That is correct.

All right, Carterville, for your bonus question.

What African country where the seven million year old Sahelanthropus fossil was found lies South of Libya and was governed from N'Djamena?

(Nick whispering) - I think it was Chad.

Chad?

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What war in which a UN landing at Inchon was led by Douglas MacArthur?

(button chimes) - What is the Korean War?

- That is correct.

Fortitude, for your bonus question, what Castilian Saint established the Order of Preachers, also known as the Black Friars, in 1216?

- St. Francis.

- St. Francis.

- St. Francis?

- That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

- St. Dominic?

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What term which is translated as a brucke in German and pont in French denotes a structure such as the Sydney Harbor and Golden Gate ones?

(button chimes) - What's the bridge?

- That is correct.

For your bonus question.

At what 2021 US Open Russian Daniil Medvedev was booed during his championship point which denied what other tennis player a Calendar Grand Slam?

(team whispering) - No answer.

- [Host] Carterville, a chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Just say it.

(button chimes) - All right, we're all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was Novak Djokovic.

Onto our next toss-up question.

What author who wrote about a man who dies of hypothermia in his story to build a fire depicted a canine protagonist in the Yukon in "White Fang"?

(button chimes) - Who's Jack London?

- That is correct.

For your bonus question, what Greek hero used the help of Medea to retrieve the golden fleece?

(team whispering) - [Jacob] For Andrew.

- Jason.

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What SI derived unit is equal to one volt-ampere or one joule per second measures power- (button chimes) - Watts?

- That is correct.

All right, Carterville, for your bonus question.

Hittite king Muwatalli II and Ramesses the Great signed the eternal treaty after what 1274 BC battle fought near the Orontes River?

- I don't know.

(Ursa whispering) - Battle of the Orontes.

(timer buzzes) - [Host] That is incorrect.

Fortitude, a chance to steal.

- Battle of the Two Kingdoms?

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for the Battle of Kadesh.

Our next toss-up question.

What rapper says he knows, his whole back's to these ropes and describes vomit on- (button chimes) - Eminem.

- That is correct.

For your bonus question, Fortitude, what seven letter term can refer to the total weight or total dry weight of all living matter in a given area?

(team whispering) - Gravity.

(timer buzzes) - [Host] That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

- Biomass.

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What president who was accused of cruelty in the Coffin Handbills unseated John Quincy Adams in 1828?

- Andrew Jackson.

- That is correct.

For your bonus question, William Shatner became the oldest person in space after a trip in the New Shepherd rocket, which is operated by what company owned by Jeff Bezos?

- Blue Origin.

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up question.

What quantity whose change is known as impulse is conserved in all collisions is denoted P- - Buzz.

(button chimes) What is momentum?

- That is correct.

Now for your bonus.

Which 13th century Mongol ruler founded the Yuan Dynasty, launched two invasions of Japan and was visited by Marco Polo?

(team whispering) - Kublai Khan.

- That is correct.

Our next toss-up.

What power granted by The Constitution's Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1- (button chimes) - What is Executive Order?

- That is incorrect.

And I will read the whole question.

What power granted in the Constitution's Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 is invoked when the president grants clemency for a criminal conviction?

(button chimes) - Pardon?

- That is correct.

Carterville, for your bonus, what man who had an open relationship with fellow existentialist Simone de Beauvoir included the statement, "Hell is other people" in his play "No Exit"?

(team whispering) (timer buzzes) All right, Fortitude, a chance to steal.

- Defer to Blake.

- Satyr.

- [Host] Will we accept that?

- I can spell it.

- [Crew Member] Oh, spell it.

- S-A-T-Y-R?

- That is incorrect.

We're looking for Jean Paul Sartre.

S-A-R-T-R-E.

So close, (laughs) so close.

Our next toss-up.

What industry which in 1820 was shaken by the Essex disaster involved the use of the trywork to render oil from sea creatures that were harpooned?

(button chimes) - Hunting of whales?

- Yes, that is correct.

For your bonus, Skye and Iona are islands in which Archipelago off the western coast of Scotland?

- Isle of Man?

- Isle of Man?

- That is incorrect.

Carterville, a chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Isle of Skye?

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for Hebrides.

Hebrides.

Our next toss-up question.

Our pencils and paper ready yet again.

What is the sum of all internal angles of a covex pentagon given that it could be partitioned into three triangles?

(button chimes) - 540?

- That is correct.

All right, Carterville, for your bonus, what cells which have regulatory and helper forms are white blood cells that help eliminate infected cells?

- T-cells.

- T-cells?

- That is correct.

And unfortunately that is all the time we have left on our spooky episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q."

Now let's take a look at our scores.

So on top we do have Fortitude with 340 points, and Carterville trailing not too far behind with 280.

Good job to all of our teams and everyone behind the camera.

I'm Ethan Neir.

Have a good night.

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