Granite City vs. Fairfield 3024
Season 3000 Episode 24 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Quarter Final Round between Granite City vs. Fairfield.
Quarter Final Round between Granite City vs. Fairfield.
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Granite City vs. Fairfield 3024
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Quarter Final Round between Granite City vs. Fairfield.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(mellow music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the game where knowledge rules.
I'm your host, Jordan Spudville, and we have entered yet another round in our quarter finals.
We have two teams returning with us today, both very excited to be here.
On the bottom row, we have Fairfield with Trenton, Cale, and Hunter.
On the top row, we have Granite City with Shayne, Jadon, and Lily.
Now that we've met our contestants, it's time to go over the rules.
I will 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 gets the chance to answer a bonus question for double the points.
However, if they get that bonus incorrect, the other team can steal it away from them and earn themselves 10 points.
The interruption rule is in effect in today's game.
So, if someone is brave enough to interrupt me but they get the answer incorrect, the other team automatically receives five points and they get to hear the entire question.
And of course, we have our lightning round halfway through our game, where I'll be reading a series of questions in any given category, that both teams have a chance to answer as many as they possibly can in under 60 seconds.
Well, we know the rules and we know our players, I think it's time to put on our thinking caps and let's get down to quizness.
Starting with our first 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What astronomer, the first to observe sun spots moving on the sun's surface, also discovered Calypso, which is one?
Jadon.
- Galileo.
- Galileo is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your first bonus question.
Plaster of paris is made from what mineral, whose varieties include alabaster, in which defines a value of two on the Mohs Hardness Scale?
- Quartz?
That's seven.
- Okay.
- Maybe like talc?
- Sure.
- Sure.
- Talc?
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal.
- Calcium.
- That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was gypsum.
That's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up question for both teams.
What city's NHL team honoring the city's 1917 Stanley Cup winning Metropolitans, has a tentacle in an S-shaped logo and is called the Kraken?
(buzzer chimes) Hunter - Tampa Bay.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzer chimes) - [Jordan] Jadon.
- Seattle.
- Seattle is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
What father of a fellow explorer, with the first name Leif, founded the first Viking settlement on the island of Greenland?
- Erikson?
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you do have a chance to steal.
- Erik the Red.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Sorry, for 10 points.
It's a steal question.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up question for both teams.
What British possession, whose symbol is a triskelion made of three legs, is governed by the Tynwald, and is the most populist isle in the Irish Sea?
(buzzer chimes) Shayne.
- The Isle of Man.
- Isle of Man is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
Which fourth book of the Old Testament is named for the census of Israel?
- Numbers.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Let's move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What poet described the passion of old griefs in the 43rd of her Sonnets from the Portuguese, which begins "How do I love thee?"
(buzzer chimes) Lily.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
What region, which covers parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma, contains the Boston Mountains?
- No answer.
- [Jordan] Okay.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.
- The Ozarks.
- The Ozarks is correct for 10 points.
So, move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What person, the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda, ignored James Blake's order to vacate her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955?
(buzzer chimes) Lily - Parks.
- Parks is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
Samuel Gompers was the first president of what group of unions, which merged with the CIO in 1955?
- I don't know.
- Railroad Unions?
- Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.
- Steelworkers Union?
- Sorry, that is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was the AFL, otherwise known as the American Federation of Labor.
It's okay, 'cause it's time for our first media question, this is a video question.
Let's take a look.
Released in Japan on June 1996, and September 1996 in North America.
(buzzer chimes) - [Jordan] Cale.
- Nintendo '64.
- That is correct for 10 points.
- [Lily] Interesting.
- We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up question for both teams.
What numbers, once used to model rabbit populations, have consecutive entries ratios, tends to the golden ratio, and begin 11235.?
(buzzer chimes) Shayne.
- The Fibonacci numbers.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
This is a math question, so get your pencils and paper ready.
Since January 1st, 2024 is a Monday and 2024 is a leap year, on what day of the week will January 1st, 2025 fall?
- Is it a Monday or?
- Sure, you go.
- Sure.
- Monday.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal.
- Tuesday.
- Sorry, that's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Wednesday.
It's okay, we were getting there.
- [Lily] It is what it is.
- We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What group, which was founded by Gavin Mcinnes, has members who typically wear black and yellow?
(buzzer chimes) Cale.
- Proud boys.
- Proud boys is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Fairfield.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is an acclaimed 2001 album by what indie rock band up-fronted by Jeff Tweedy?
- Arctic Monkeys.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Granite City, you have a chance to steal.
- Wilco.
- Wilco is correct for 10 points.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What actor, who voiced the canary Nico in Rio, hosts the Fox game show, Beat Shazam, and was cast as electro in 2021?
Cale.
- Jamie Foxx.
- Jamie Foxx is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Fairfield.
The Lazzaroni were the lower class beggars and day laborers of what southern Italian city, the mainland seat of The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies?
- Rome?
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Granite City, you have a chance to steal.
- Italian city.
- What?
- He said Florence.
- Sure.
- Florence?
- Sorry, that's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was the Naples.
- [Lily] Okay.
- It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What man, whose assassination was orchestrated by Felix Yusupov, supposedly healed a princess?
(buzzer chimes) - Rasputin.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
What operation on two vectors, A and B, gives a vector that is perpendicular to both A and B?
- Multiplication.
- That's all right.
Multiplication.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal.
- No.
- Division.
- Sorry, that is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was cross, as in a cross product.
- [Cale] Of course.
- That's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up, which is another math question, so get your pencils and paper ready.
How many edges does a cube have, given that it has six square faces and each edge is shared by two faces?
(buzzer chimes) Lily.
- Eight.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.
(buzzer chimes) Hunter.
- 18.
- Sorry, that is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was 12.
That is okay, because we're gonna move on to our next media question.
This is an audio question, so let's take a listen.
(didgeridoo playing) This musical instrument is in the wind family.
Jadon.
- Didgeridoo.
- Didgeridoo is correct for 10 points.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What author, who used the pen name Richard Bachman, wrote about prisoner John Coffey?
Lily.
- Stephen King.
- Stephen King is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
What great king, the subject of a partly fictional biography by Greek historian, Xenophon, was the first monarch of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia?
- Alexander.
- Say it.
- Alexander the Great.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you do have a chance to steal.
- No answer.
- It's okay.
The answer we were looking for was Cyrus the Great.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What coin was equal to 20 pence was removed from circulation when the UK decimalized the pound and was abbreviated with the letter S?
(buzzer chimes) Lily.
- Shilling?
- Shilling's correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
What alliterative three word name identifies a 2021 plan proposed by Joe Biden that includes the American Rescue Plan?
- Build Back Better.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Moving on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What quantity, whose angular form equals an object's net torque over its moment of inertia?
Jadon.
- Momentum.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
And because of the interruption rule, Fairfield, you do get five points and I'll finish that question for you.
What quantity, whose angular form equals an object's net torque over its moment of inertia, is the change in velocity per unit time, and is denoted A?
(buzzer chimes) Hunter.
- Acceleration.
- Acceleration is correct for 10 points.
Here's your bonus question, Fairfield.
What poet considered the obscure lives of peasants, who kept the noiseless tenure out of their way, in his 1751 poem Elegy written in a country churchyard?
- Charles Dickens.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Granite City, you have a chance to steal.
- Blake.
- Sorry, that's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Thomas Gray.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What novel, in which Tod Clifton is a member of the brotherhood, is narrated by an unnamed black man who lives underground, and is by Ralph Ellison?
(buzzer chimes) Lily.
- The Invisible Man.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
Lloyd Blankfein chairs what investment bank that once employed Trump administration figures like Gary Cohn and Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin?
- Wells Fargo.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal.
- Chase Bank.
- Sorry, that is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was the Goldman Sachs.
- [Lily] Oh.
Okay.
- And that means we have made it halfway through our game, so it's time for our lightning round.
(thunder crashes) All right.
Starting our lightning round off, Fairfield, we're gonna let you choose your category first.
We have four categories for you to choose from.
Please choose the one that sounds most interesting to you.
The categories are literary soldiers and spies, British wars, Olympic gold medal winners, and CEOs.
- Okay.
CEO we're gonna go.
CEOs.
- CEOs it is.
In this lightning round category, I need you to name the company managed by these CEOs.
If you don't know the answer, you can pass, go back if time allows.
If you get the answer incorrect, we can no longer go back to that question.
Fairfield, are you ready for your lightning round?
Let's begin.
60 seconds on the clock.
Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.
Jeff Bezos.
- Amazon.
- Correct.
Social media company led by Mark Zuckerberg.
- Facebook.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Electric vehicle company led by Elon Musk.
- Tesla.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Social networking service led by Jack Dorsey.
- Twitter.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Tim Cook who replaced Steve Jobs in 2011?
- Apple.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Dara Khosrowshahi, whose company main US rival is Lyft.
- Uber.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Satya Nadella, who succeeded Steve Ballmer.
- Pepsi.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.
Jamie Dimon, who runs the largest US bank.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Ren Zhengfei, whose company's telecom products have been banned by the US.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Warren Buffett, who is known as the Sage of Omaha.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Going back to the ones you passed.
Jamie Dimon, who runs the largest US bank.
- Wells Fargo.
- Sorry, that's incorrect.
And that is time on your lightning round.
It's still a very good lightning round to you, Fairfield.
I'll go over the ones you passed or missed, starting with Satya Nadella, who succeeded Steve Ballmer, was Microsoft.
Jamie Dimon, who runs the largest US bank, was JPMorgan.
Ren Zhengfei, whose company's telecom products have been banned by the US, was Huawei.
And Warren Buffett, who is known as the Sage of Omaha, was Berkshire Hathaway.
Once again, a good lightning round to you guys, but Granite City, it's now your turn.
I have three categories remaining for you.
You can answer questions about literary soldiers and spies, British wars, or Olympic gold medal winners.
- I think we're gonna go with literary soldiers.
- [Jordan] Literary soldiers and spies it is.
In this lightning round category, I need you to name the authors who created these characters, who worked for the military or the espionage.
Same rules apply.
If you don't know the answer, you'll pass and go back to it if time allows.
If you get the answer wrong, we cannot go back to that question.
Granite City, are you ready for your lightning round?
- Yes.
- Let's begin.
60 seconds on the clock.
Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.
(upbeat music) Yossarian in Catch-22.
- Pass - [Jordan] Paul Bäumer in All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace.
- Tolstoy.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Henry Fleming in The Red Badge of Courage.
- Crane.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five.
- Vonnegut.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Jimmy Cross in The Things They Carried.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October.
- Pass - [Jordan] George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Agent Hawthorne in Our Man in Havana.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] Jason Bourne in the Bourne novels.
- [Jordan] Pass.
- [Jordan] Going back to the ones you pass.
Yossarian in Catch-22.
- Pillar.
- [Jordan] Correct.
Paul Bäumer in All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Pass again.
- Incorrect.
And that is time on your lightning round.
Good lightning round for you as well, Granite City.
I'll go over the ones you passed or missed, starting with Paul Bäumer in All Quiet on the Western Front was Erich Remarque.
Jimmy Cross on The Things They Carried was Tim O'Brien.
Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October was Tom Clancy.
George Smiley in Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy was John le Carré.
Agent Hawthorne in Our Man in Havana was Graham Greene.
And Jason Bourne in the Bourne novels was Robert Ludlum.
Still a good lightning round to both teams, but we'll now move on to our 10-point toss-up and bonus questions once again, starting with our next toss-up for both teams.
What horned animal names a device used by the military to breach doors, a line of trucks?
Hunter.
- Ram.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Fairfield, here's your next bonus question.
The Maria, the Marie de' Medici Cycle was painted by what Flemish artist known for biblical and mythological scenes depicting flashy nudes?
- Michelangelo.
- [Jordan] Sorry?
- Michelangelo.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Granite City, you have a chance to steal.
- Caravaggio.
- Sorry, that's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Peter Rubens.
- [Jadon] That's all right.
- We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
Which quantity, which is proportional to a wire's length divided by its cross-sectional area equals voltage over current, and is measured in ohms?
(buzzer chimes) Shayne.
- Resistance.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Granite City, here's your next bonus question.
What Frenchman's principle of least time describes the path that array of light takes between two points?
- LaGrange.
- Say it.
- LaGrange.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal.
- A wave.
- [Jordan] Sorry?
- A wave.
- Sorry, that's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Pierre de Fermat.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What Greek hunter turns into a gold and white flower after rejecting the love of the nymph, Echo, due to having fallen in love with his own reflection?
(buzzer chimes) Cale.
- Narcissus.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Fairfield, here's your next bonus question.
What crescent-shaped lake, which is known in French as Lac Léman, is fed by the Rhône River and shares its name with a city in Western Switzerland?
- I'm not sure it's Switzerland.
- Pass.
- [Jordan] All right, Granite City, you have a chance to steal.
- Bern?
- Sorry, that is incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Lake Geneva.
- [Lily] Oh yeah.
- It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What religious figure, who was mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, was seceded as his church's president by Brigham Young and published the book of Mormon?
(buzzer chimes) Jadon - Smith.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
What author wrote about a group of Chinese-American mahjong players in her novel, The Joy Luck Club?
- Pearl?
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have a chance to steal.
- Smith.
- Sorry, that's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Amy Tan.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What architecture style, whose high form is exemplified by a shastra cathedral, features flying buttresses and preceded Renaissance architecture?
Lily.
- Gothic.
- Gothic's correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
A civil war that erupted four years after the killing of dictator Rafael Trujillo led the US to occupy what country from 1965 to 1966?
- Also Dominican.
- Right.
- Dominican Republic.
- That is correct for 20 points.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What molecule once called dephlogisticated air is a diatomic gas that is required for aerobic respiration as well as most combustion reactions?
(buzzer chimes) Jadon.
- Oxygen.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
A 2020 remake of what 1997 JRPG added beings called Whispers that seek to enforce the preexisting plot, that features Tifa Lockhart and Cloud Strife?
- Final Fantasy VII.
- That's correct for 20 points.
It's now time for our next media question.
This is a video question, so let's take a look.
This Swedish YouTuber's real name is Felix.
Lilly.
- PewDiePie.
- PewDiePie is correct for 10 points.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What poet wrote about beekeeping in the Georgics and described a hero who flees westward from Troy to become an ancestor of the Romans in the Aeneid?
(buzzer chimes) Lily - Virgil?
- That's correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
Carl Jung wrote that the ego navigates socially with what construct, named from the Latin for mask and related to a longer word for a body of traits?
- Conscious.
- Go on.
- The conscious.
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you do have a chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's okay.
The answer that we were looking for was persona.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What island, which in 2021 recorded Europe's highest ever temperature, saw a 100-foot height increase in its volcano, Mount Etna, and lies near Italy?
(buzzer chimes) Trenton.
- Sicily.
- Sicily is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Fairfield.
What novelist explored involuntary memory in a series whose French title has been translated as "In search of lost time and remembrance of things past"?
- Pass.
- [Jordan] All right, Granite City, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.
- No answer.
- It's okay.
The answer that we were looking for was Marcel Proust.
- [Lily] Okay.
- We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What New York City neighborhood lies west of Brighton Beach and is home to the Wonder Wheel, a Ferris wheel at one of its historic amusement parks?
(buzzer chimes) Cale.
- Coney Island.
- Coney Island is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Fairfield.
Under Ramzan Kadyrov, what majority Muslim constituent Republic of Russia has carried out anti-gay purges?
- Armenia?
- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.
Granite City, you have a chance to steal.
- Chechnya.
- That is correct for 10 points.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What president, who both overthrew and was seceded by Milton Obote, launched an ill-fated incursion into Tanzania as the dictator of Uganda?
(timer beeps) That is time on that question.
The answer that we were looking for was Idi Amin.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our next 10-point toss-up for both teams.
What compounds, which can undergo dehydration to form alkenes, have a hydroxyl group bonded a carbon atom, and are exemplified by ethanol?
(buzzer chimes) Jadon.
- Alcohol.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.
The letters "ff" are used to indicate what musical dynamic marking, which means very loud?
- Fortissimo.
- That is correct for 20 points.
(bell rings) And that sound means it's the end of our game.
Congratulations, Granite City, you guys are our winners.
Congratulations to you as well, Fairfield, you guys played a great game.
Thank you for being here with us.
Thank you as well for being here, Granite City.
And of course, thank you all at home for watching.
Make sure to tune in next time, play along at home, and we'll see you next time on Scholastic HI-Q.
(upbeat music)
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