(soft music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to "Scholastic HI-Q", the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Jordan Speville and today we have two teams joining us.

On the bottom row, We have Gibault with Drew, Noah and sporting the classic SpongeBob mask is Brennan.

Then on the top row, we've got Mount Vernon with Samuel, Aaron, and Jackson.

Now we've met our contestants, it's time to go over the rules.

I'm gonna be reading a series of 10 point toss-up questions that any contestant can answer.

If a contestant answers a toss-up correctly, their team has a chance to answer a 20 point bonus question.

However, if they get that bonus question incorrect, the other team can snatch it away from them and earn themselves 10 points.

The interruption rule is an effect in today's game so if a contestant decides to interrupt me, but they answer the question incorrectly, the other team will automatically receive five points and they get to hear the entire question.

As usual, we'll have our lightning round halfway through our game where I'll be reading a series of questions in any given category, that both teams will have a chance to answer as many as they possibly can in 60 seconds.

Now that we know the rules, we've met our contestants, it's time to put on our thinking caps, let's get down to quizness.

Starting with our first 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What compound used to make rayon is a polymer made up of beta link glucose subunits, and as the main constitute of the cell walls of plants?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Cellulose.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points, Gibault, here's your first 20 point bonus question.

What inventor wins his name to the crank powered machine gun that he developed in 1861, which was first used in the American civil war?

(Gibault team whispering) - Gattling.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

(alarm buzzing) Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What city and Boeotia, which according to legend was founded by Cadmus, was once ruled by King Laius, who was murdered by his son, Oedipus?

(bell beeps) Brennan - Thebes.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Gibault.

What term refers to any pair of molecules that have the same molecular formulas, but different three-dimensional arrangements of atoms?

- Isotope.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Pass.

- It's okay, the answer that we were looking for was isomers.

So, okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What man who died at the Lorraine motel in Memphis- (bell beeps) Noah.

- Martin Luther King.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next 20 point bonus question, Gibault.

What French artists of the romantic period painted "The Massacre at Chios" and "Women of Algiers".

(Gibault team whispering) - Martis.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Nowell.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for with Eugene Delacroix.

It's okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

In what country did assailants allegedly shout quote, DEA operation during the July, 2021 assassination of its president Jovenel Moïse, in Port-au-Prince.

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Haiti.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

In 2021, what defensive end for the "Las Vegas Raiders" became the first active NFL player to come out as gay?

- Oh, I think it's Nassib.

(Noah whispering) It's Nassib.

- Say that.

- Nassib.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

This is a math question.

So get your pencils and paper ready?

What integer is equal to 1/2 of 1/3 of 18?

(bell beeps) Drew.

- Three.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

What Florida Congressman, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 is the subject of a 2021 sex trafficking investigation.

(Gibault team whispering) - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Gaetz.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

We'll move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What four letter word identifies orders issued by a court specific examples of which include those of Mandamus, of Certiorari and of Habeas Corpus?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Writ.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

What statistical property is the difference between the largest and smallest values and a data set?

- Range.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

What author who wrote about a man named Milkman Dead in "Song of Solomon," wrote about a former slave haunted by the ghost of her daughter in "Beloved."

(bell beeps) Brennan.

- Morrison.

- [Jordan] That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus questions, Gibault.

What Norse God, who wants hung himself from Yggdrasil nine days to learn the secrets of the runes sacrifice an eye to drink the mead of poetry?

- [Noah] Odin.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 20 points.

Moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What man, who was asked by Joseph Welch, if he had no sense of decency was a Senator from Wisconsin, (bell beeps) Aaron.

- McCarthy.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Mount Vernon.

Lina Khan, at chair's what commission, which includes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and enforces antitrust laws?

(Mount Vernon team whispering) - Pass.

- [Jordan] All right, Gebault, you do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Secretary of Justice.

- I'm sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the Federal Trade Commission.

So okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What compound who's loss causes the disease Vitiligo, protects the body from ultraviolet light and is the primary pigment in the skin?

(bell beeps) Drew.

- Melanoma.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(bell beeps) Aaron.

- Melanin.

That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Mount Vernon.

What political ideology who so-called sewer variety was popular in Milwaukee and the early 1900, was supported by congressmen Victor Berger?

(alarm buzzing) You have an answer Mount Vernon?

- Conservatism.

- [Jordan] Sorry that is incorrect.

Gibault, you have a chance to steel.

- Communism.

- [Jordan] That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was socialism.

It's okay, We're gonna to move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What actress played Adelaide Wilson and her doppelganger in "Us", Pirate Maz Kanata in "The Star Wars Franchise" and war dog spy Nakia in "Black Panther?"

- Oh!

(alarm buzzing) - [Jordan] That is time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was Lupita Nyong'o.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

What kingdom whose armies often use a Buffalo horns and circle mint tactic and willed it equal Spears was a Southern African state founded by Shaka?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Zulu Nation.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Gibault.

In 2020, Jules Rivera took over what long running ecologically focused comic strip, whose title character is a wildlife photo journalist?

(Gibault team whispering) (Noah laughs) - Spider-Man.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

- Garfield.

- [Jordan] Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal.

- Garfield.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was mark trail.

Spider-Man was his assistant.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

What symbol, one of which is found in the key signatures of E minor and G major resembles a pound sign and raises a pitch by a half-step?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Sharp.

- Sharp is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

What composer used an English horn to represent The Swan of Tuonola, excuse me, Tuonela and wrote a tone poem about his country called Finlandia (Noah whispers) - Czajkowski.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal.

- Dostoyevsky.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Jean Sibelius.

(paper flutters) We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What mountain who's base town of Chamonix hosted at the first winter Olympics is the highest point of France and has a name meaning white mountain?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Mount Blanc.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

What postmodernist author of the novel "Underworld" wrote about a professor of Hitler studies in "White Noise?"

(Noah and Brennan whispering) - Louis.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal.

- Steven's.

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Don DeLillo.

That is okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

What author described Hottie at socialite to Blanche Ingram, who was invited to visit Thornfeldt- (bell beeps) Noah.

- Bronte.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

The big bend tunnel of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad is the setting of a ballad about what folk hero, a steel driver who competes with a steam drill?

(Gibault team whispering) - Joe.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you do have a chance to steal.

- John Henry.

- That is correct for 10 points.

We move on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

What British author of "De Cive" wrote about the forme and power of a commonwealth and called life in the state of nature brutish in his book "Leviathan"?

(alarm buzzing) That is time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was Thomas Hobbs.

So, okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

Relative movement of a hanging wall and a foot wall occurs at what cracks in the Earth's crust, a transformed type of which is named for San Andreas?

(bell beeps) Drew.

- Fall.

- [Jordan] That is correct for 10 points.

Here is your next bonus question, Gibault.

What law implies that for reaction mixtures, that equilibrium, there is a constant ratio between the concentrations of reactants and products?

- Ya, ya ,ya.

- Law of conservation of mass.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you do have a chance to steal.

(Mount Vernon team whispering) - Law of conservation.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the law of mass action.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What militant organization led by Ismail Haniyeh, develop Qassam rocket is Abdul Fattah and has defacto control over the Gaza Strip?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- The Hizbullah.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(alarm buzzing) - And the answer we were looking for that question was Hamas.

Moving on to our next 10 point, toss-up for both teams.

Which man who passed the Catholic Relief Act as prime minister allied with Gebhard von Blucher to defeat Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo?

(alarm buzzing) and it's time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was Arthur Wellesley.

That's okay, we've now made it halfway through our game.

So it's time for our lightning round.

(rain pattering) (thunder rumbling) Mount Vernon, we are going to begin with you.

We have four categories for you to choose from.

Please pick your favorites.

The categories are Sherlock Holmes, Capitals on Rovers City of Light and The Aloha State.

(Mount Vernon team whispering) - Capital's on rivers.

- Capital's on rivers, It is.

In this lightning round.

I need you to name the rivers on which these world capitals lie.

If you don't know the answer, you can pass.

We'll go back if time allows.

If you get the answer incorrect, we can not go back.

Mount Vernon, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Yes, yes.

- Let's begin.

Put 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

Khartoum.

(playful music) - White River.

- [Jordan] That is incorrect.

Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

(playful music) - Pass.

- [Jordan] London.

- London.

- [Jordan] That is incorrect.

Rome.

- The Tiber.

- [Jordan] That is correct.

Buenos Aires.

- Spanish.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

Vienna.

- Vienna.

- Incorrect.

Hanway.

(alarm buzzing) And that is time on your lightning round.

I'll go over the ones that you passed or miss starting with the Khartoum, was the Nile river.

Kinshasa and Brazzaville was the Congo river.

And London is the Tims river and Buenos Aires is the Rio de LA Plata river.

And Vienna is the Danube river.

Still a good lightening round.

You guys tried your best.

That's all that matters.

But now Gibault, it is time for your lightning round.

We have three categories remaining for you.

You can answer questions about Sherlock Holmes, City of Light or The Aloha State.

- Yeah.

- Aloha State.

- [Jordan] The Aloha State it is.

You sure you could have guessed, but in this category, I need you to answer the following about Hawaii.

Same rules apply for you.

60 seconds will be put on the clock.

If you don't know the answer, you can pass.

We'll go back if time allows, if you don't know the answer and you get an incorrect, we cannot go back.

Are you ready for your lightning round, Gibault?

- Yeah.

- [Gibault] Oh yeah!

- [Jordan] Oh yeah!

Let's start.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

It's capital.

- Honolulu.

- [Jordan] Correct.

The site of the Naval base attacked by Japan, on December 7th, 1941.

- Pearl Harbor.

- [Jordan] correct.

Hawaii's most populous island.

- Oahu.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Hawaii born author of "The Audacity of Hope".

- Barack Obama.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Four letter word for a traditional Hawaiian party and feast.

- Luau.

- [Jordan] Correct.

World's largest fruit and vegetable company founded in Hawaii.

- Dole.

- [Jordan] correct.

First European Explorer to reach Hawaii.

- Cook.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Diced raw fish, whose name means to slice in Hawaiian.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Hawaiian word for thank you.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Current governor of Hawaii.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Diced raw fish, whose name means to slice in Hawaiian.

- Tilapia - [Jordan] Incorrect.

Hawaiian word for thank you.

- Aloha.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

Current governor of Hawaii.

(alarm buzzing) That is time.

I'll go over the ones that you passed or missed starting with the diced raw fish, whose name means to slice in Hawaii is Pokay.

Hawaiian word for thank you is not Aloha that would be hello, is Mahalo.

And the current governor of Hawaii is David Ige.

Great lightening round for you, Gibault.

But now it's time to go back to our 10 point toss-up and bonus questions.

Which man who passed the Catholic Relief Act as prime minister allied with...

I apologize, I've already read that question.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up and pretend that never happened.

What city wise on the Taedong river contains Juche Tower and the unfinished pyramid shaped Ryugyong Hotel and is the capital of North Korea?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Pyongyang.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

What woman claimed at the English throne for nine days, between the Reigns of Edward, the sixth and Mary, the first?

(Gibault team whispering) - Jane Grey.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Leading on onto our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What novel in which Ms. Matti and a cook named that Calpurnia influenced the protagonist- (bell beeps) Aaron - Kill a Mockingbird.

- [Jordan] That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Mount Vernon.

Hearing odd noises is one symptom of a syndrome that has affected American and Canadian embassy staff since 2016 and his name for what world capital?

(Mount Vernon team whispering) - Schizophrenia.

(alarm buzzing) - [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Gibault, you have a chance to steal.

- Havana.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Let me move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What number is the atomic number of nitrogen and the number of colors- (bell beeps) Noah.

- Seven.

- [Jordan] That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Gibault.

What term for a tax on containing a single organism and all its descendants names a field of genetics?

(Gibault team whispering) - Phenology.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal.

- Genealogy.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was cleats.

So, okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What older brother of Monga order two failed invasions of Japan, was the first ruler of the Yuan dynasty and was a grandson of Genghis Khan.

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Kublai Khan.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus questions, Gibault.

What Canadian born architect designed the Guggenheim at Bilbao and the Walt Disney concert hall?

(Gibault team whispering) - Right.

- [Jordan] Sorry that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Yeah sure.

- Francis.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Frank Gary.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What province who's most populous cities are Summerside and Charlotte town is Canada's smallest province and is often abbreviated PEI?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Prince Edward Island.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Gibault.

What two word name denotes the period of dust storm and a Riddick conditions that impacted the lower Midwest during the great depression?

- [Noah] Dust Bowl.

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

We have our next math questions.

So get those pencils and paper ready?

What expression and simplified radical form is equivalent to the square root of 350, given that 350 equals 25 times 4?

14, excuse me.

(bell beeps) Noah.

- 5 square to 14.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Gibault.

A warning that a Laurel wreath Withers quicker than the rose appears in an AE housemen poem whose title refers to what type of person dying young?

- Man.

(alarm buzzing) - Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal.

- A child.

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was an athlete.

Okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

On what Mediterranean island where linear A was unearthed by Arthur Evans was the Palace of Narcisse, built by the- (bell beeps) Noah.

- Crete.

- Crete is correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Gibault.

A book by anthropologist Margaret Mead is titled for coming of age, in what island group?

- Hawaii.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Haiku region.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Coming of Age in Samoa".

And move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What artist who made an eight hour long film of the Empire State Building used silk screening to create the Maryland Diptyque and Campbell soup cans?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Warhol.

- Warhol is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Gibault.

The forces of what religious order were defeated by Russian soldiers under Alexander Nevsky at the 1242 battle on the ice near modern day Estonia?

(Gibault team whispering) - The modes.

(alarm buzzing) - [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you have a chance to steal.

- Suretons.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Teutonic Knights.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

A 1971 novel by John Gardner is named after what creature who was descended from Cain and invades the Mead Hall of Heorot and the epic poem "Beowulf"?

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Wolf.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(bell beeps) Samuel.

- Horse.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Grindle.

We move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What state whose proposition at 22 and 2020 exempted Uber and Lyft workers from certain labor policies held a recall election for governor Gavin Newsom- (bell beeps) Aaron.

- California.

- California's correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Mount Vernon.

Which man who wrote "Drink to me only with thine eyes" and "to Celia", describe Epicure Mammon's search for the philosopher's stone and the Alchemist?

- Pass.

- All right, Gibault.

You do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- James.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Benjamin Johnson.

So, okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

What color, which names idealized objects that are perfect emitters of electromagnetic radiation is seen when an object absorbs all visible light?

(bell beeps) Aaron.

- Red.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(bell beeps) Noah.

- Black.

- [Jordan] Black is correct for 10 points.

Here's your bonus question, Gibault.

What powerful Roman office that was filled by members of the plebeian class could veto the actions of consoles and check the power of the Senate?

(Gibault team whispering) - Governor.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Mount Vernon, you can steal.

(Mount Vernon team whispering) - Executive.

- Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Tribunes and unfortunately that is all the time (doorbell chimes) we have for today's game.

Gibault can grab your...

Excuse me, congratulations.

You are our winners.

You guys already have me tongue tied.

Mount Vernon, thank you for being with us today.

You guys played a great game.

We'll see you next time on "Scholastic HI-Q".

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