(lively music) (lens chirping) (lively music) (energetic music) (energetic music intensifies) - Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have a fantastic, actual quarterfinals matchup this time.

So let's introduce our teams.

On the bottom we have Calloway, with Isaac, Cesar, Ethan, great name, and Ellie.

And on top we have Johnston City, with Waylon, Chase, Ava, and Gavin.

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

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

Followed by a bonus question.

If one of the teams gets it right, 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 5 points for the other team.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, just be right.

All right, we all understand the rules?

Let's get into the questions.

What country, whose Nullarbor Plain is south of the Great Victoria Desert, is home to a massive- (buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Australia.

- Australia is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Aramco, which in 2022 surpassed Apple as the world's largest, most valuable company, is the state-owned petroleum company of what Middle Eastern nation?

- Saudi Arabia.

- Saudi Arabia is correct, well done.

On to our next toss-up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of the fourth angle of a concave quadrilateral, whose other angles measure 20, 40, and 100?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- 200.

- 200 is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what island country, which is the only nation named after a historical woman, is between Saint Vincent and Martinique, and is governed from Castries?

(team members whisper) - Trinidad and Tobago?

- [Ethan Neir] Trinidad and Tobago is incorrect.

Johnston, the chance to steal.

(team members whisper) - Victoria Islands?

- The answer we're looking for there was Saint Lucia.

Saint Lucia.

On to our next toss-up.

What Boeotian hunter, son of Liriope, was punished by Nemesis for rejecting the nymph Echo by being made to fall in love with his own reflection?

(buzzer beeps) Ava?

- Narcissus.

- Narcissus is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 1951 book by C. Wright Mills, titled for a symbolic garment, alleges that, quote, "New middle-class professionals," quote, "slipped quietly into modern society"?

(team members whisper) - Pass.

(timeout buzzer beeping) - [Ethan Neir] You guys are all out of time.

Calloway, the chance to steal.

- "The Blue Collar"?

- It is not the blue collar that I am wearing, but the "White Collar."

"White Collar."

- [Ellie] Okay.

(laughs) On to our next question.

What Asian author wrote, quote, "Oh, wilderness were paradise enough," according to Edward FitzGerald's translation of a quatrain from this- (buzzer beeps) Ava?

- Khayyam.

- Khayyam is correct, well done.

For your bonus, no liquid is used in the aneroid type of what devices, which are usually used to measure atmospheric pressure?

(team members whisper) - Barometers.

- Barometers is correct, well done.

On to our next question.

What singer, who says, quote, "They're overturning Roe v. Wade," in her 2022 song "TV," describes herself as a "make your mama sad type" in the song "Bad Guy"?

(buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Billie Eilish.

- Billie Eilish is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what English author used heroic couplets in a 1711 poem titled "An Essay on Criticism," which contains the claim "a little learning is a dangerous thing."

(team members whisper) - Johnson.

- [Ethan Neir] Johnson is incorrect.

Johnston City, the chance to steal.

(team members whisper) - Dickens.

- The answer we're looking for there was Alexander Pope.

Alexander Pope.

For your next question, Estonian and Finnish are members of the language family named for what Russian mountain range that marks the border between Europe and Asia?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Urals.

- Urals is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 1894 railroad strike led by Eugene Debs spurred Grover Cleveland to make Labor Day a national holiday?

(team members whisper) - Pullman Strike.

- Pullman Strike is correct, well done.

Next question, what European country, which originally colonized Acadia, lost the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 to Britain, forcing it to give- (buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- France.

- France is correct.

For your bonus, what organelle uses vesicles to package proteins made in the rough endoplasmic reticulum, so that those proteins can be secreted?

- Golgi apparatus.

- Golgi is correct, well done.

For your next question, what novel, in which Colonel Brandon gives Edward Ferrars a job, contrasts the sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood, and is by Jane Austen?

(buzzer beeps) Ellie?

- "Sense and Sensibility."

- "Sense and Sensibility" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what author, who coined the term "cyberspace" in his story "Burning Chrome," wrote the "Sprawl" trilogy, which includes the cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer"?

- Asimov?

- [Ethan Neir] Asimov is incorrect.

Johnston, the chance to steal.

- Bradbury.

- The answer we're looking for there was William Ford Gibson.

William Ford Gibson.

On to the next question.

What company, which launched the electric minivan ID Buzz in 2022, owns both Porsche and a namesake- (buzzer beeps) Waylon?

- Volkswagen.

- Volkswagen is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what TV series that began in 1976 was set at a theater where audience members named Statler and Waldorf often heckled performers such as Fozzie Bear?

(team members whisper) - "Muppets."

- "The Muppet Show" is correct, well done.

On to the next question.

What American, who as a "special envoy" failed to halt the resumption of the Chinese Civil War, named a plan- (buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Marshall.

- George Marshall is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Stephen Blois and Empress Matilda fought what 12th century civil war in England named for its lawlessness?

(team members whisper) - The Uncivil War?

- [Ethan Neir] (laughs) That is incorrect, but a fantastic guess.

Johnston City?

- Glorious Revolution?

- That is incorrect.

A reharping on the lawlessness part, it is known as the Anarchy.

The Anarchy.

And that'll take us to our first media question.

This six-string musical instrument is in the lute family, and is generally plucked with a plectrum.

What is this instrument?

(buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Mandolin.

- Mandolin is correct, well done.

And since that was a media question, there is no bonus.

We'll take it back to the toss-ups.

What scientist wrote that "I feign no hypothesis" in an essay in the 1713 edition of his "Principia," which includes his- (buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Newton.

- Newton is correct.

For your bonus, in September 2022, a gun jammed during an assassination attempt on what current Vice President of Argentina, who served as president from 2007 to 2015?

- Kirchner de Fernandez.

- Kirchner de Fernandez is correct, well done.

Back to the toss-ups.

What province contains the Haida Gwaii archipelago, is the only province to border Yukon Territory, and is home to the cities Victoria and Vancouver?

(buzzer beeps) Ava?

- British Columbia.

- BC is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what company was prosecuted in 1960 for republishing the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover," merged with Random House in 2013, and has a bird as its logo?

(team members whisper) - Pass.

- [Ethan Neir] Calloway, the chance to steal.

- [Ellie] Penguin.

- Penguin is correct, well done.

Flightless bird.

Back to the toss-ups.

What player, who had eight runs batted in, in a day, before he struck out 13 Royals is a designated hitter and pitcher?

(buzzer beeps) - Shohei Ohtani.

Shohei Ohtani is correct.

And for your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the radius of a sphere whose volume is 36 pi, given the volume formula includes a constant of four-thirds pi?

(team members whisper) - 9.

- 9 is incorrect.

(timeout buzzer beeping) Calloway, chance to steal.

- 3.

- 3 is correct, well done.

On to the next toss-up.

What legislation, which first set 60,000 as a population's threshold for statehood, established a namesake territory north of the Ohio River in 1787?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Northwest Ordinances.

- Northwest Ordinance is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Ottorino Respighi wrote a trilogy of musical works on the festivals, pines, and fountains of what city?

- Paris.

- [Ethan Neir] Paris is incorrect.

Johnston, the chance to steal.

- Rome.

- Rome is correct, well done.

On to our next question.

What material is compacted to form neve and firn, is deposited near bodies of water in a lake effect, and consists of tiny, intricate flakes of ice?

(buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Snow.

- Snow is correct, we just got some recently.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1958 the CIA undermined Soviet censorship by publishing copies of what Boris Pasternak novel, which depicted Lara's affair with the title physician?

- "Doctor Zhivago."

- "Doctor Zhivago" is correct.

On to the next question.

What city, the second most populous in Bavaria, is the setting of the film "Triumph of the Will," and names a series of post-World War II trials?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Nuremberg.

- Nuremberg is correct.

For your bonus, Muwatalli II may have led what Anatolian empire against Egypt at the 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh, an example of its characteristic use of war chariots?

(team members whisper) - Hittites.

- Hittites is correct, well done.

For your next question, what animals are depicted in a series of Brown & Bigelow cigar advertisements, painted by C.M.

Coolidge, which shows them playing poker?

(buzzer beeps) Ellie?

- Dogs.

- "Dogs Playing Poker" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what US state capital was left without drinking water after floods in August 2022 damaged its water treatment plant?

- Jackson, Mississippi.

- Jackson is correct.

For your next question, the author of "The Haunting of Hill House" wrote a 1948 story in which Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death after "winning"- (buzzer beeps) Chase?

- "The Lottery."

- Can you say that again?

- "The Lottery."

- [Ethan Neir] Uh, that is incorrect.

Is stoned to death after winning the title event, quote, "The Lottery."

What author?

(buzzer beeps) Ellie?

- Shirley Jackson.

- Shirley Jackson is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what type of image, which is always produced by a convex mirror, cannot be projected onto a screen, and is contrasted with real images?

(team members whisper) - Virtual.

- Virtual is correct.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the price of one pen if Anthony receives $5 in change after using a $50 bill to buy six pens?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- $7.50.

- 7.50 is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the French cities of Arles and Avignon lie on what river that originates in the Swiss Alps?

(team members whisper) - No answer.

(timeout buzzer beeping) - [Ethan Neir] No answer.

Johnston, the chance to steal.

- Danube?

- Danube is incorrect, we're looking for the Rhone.

The Rhone River.

And that'll take us to our lightning round.

(thunder sounds) 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, Johnston City, since you guys are trailing in this one, you will have the first choice of the topics.

Your choices are Physics Nobel Prize Winners, Island Cities, California Sports, or Title Years.

- [Gavin] California Sports or Title Years?

I feel better about sports.

I feel better about sports.

I only feel better about sports.

- [Ava] You better guess everything.

Sports.

- California Sports it is.

All right.

Answer the following about sports in California.

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

Three, two, one.

City where the Lakers play?

- Los Angeles.

- That's correct.

College football bowl game played on New Year's Day in Pasadena?

- Rose.

- That's correct.

NFL team that moved from Oakland to Las Vegas?

- The Raiders.

- That's correct.

Only pro sports team based in San Diego in 2022?

- Padres.

- That's correct.

Home of the NHL's Sharks?

You can pass.

- Pass.

- [Ethan Neir] Division I university whose mascot is a tree?

- Pass.

- [Ethan Neir] California's only WNBA team?

- [Gavin] Uh, Gold.

- [Chase] Pass.

- [Gavin] Pass.

- [Ethan Neir] Head coach of the Golden State Warriors?

- Steph Kerr.

- That's correct.

Baseball team profiled in the book "Moneyball"?

- Oakland Athletics.

- That's correct.

Stadium that hosted Super Bowl LVI in February '22?

- [Gavin] Pass.

- [Chase] SoFi.

- [Ethan Neir] SoFi is correct.

Home of the NHL's Sharks?

- Miami.

- [Ethan Neir] Can you say again?

- Miami.

- That's incorrect.

Division I university whose mascot is a tree?

- The Oaks.

- That's incorrect.

(timeout buzzer beeping) California's only WNBA team...

So we'll go through the ones you missed.

You're hurting my hockey player heart, that you guys didn't know- - No, trust me, I should have known that.

- [Ethan Neir] The NHL's San Jose Sharks.

San Jose Sharks.

The Division I university whose mascot is a tree is Stanford.

The Stanford Trees.

California's only WNBA team is the Los Angeles Sparks.

And the stadium... Oh, you did answer the stadium one.

It was SoFi.

So, well done on that round, Johnston City, and now we move to Calloway.

Your choices, I'll read 'em out for you again, Physics Nobel Prize Winners, Island Cities, or Title Years.

(team members whisper) - Physics Nobel Prize Winners.

- Physics Nobel Prize Winners it is.

Name these winners of the Nobel Prize in physics.

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

Three, two, one.

Polish-born woman who coined the term "radioactivity"?

- Marie Curie.

- That's correct.

1921 winner who explained the photoelectric effect and found- - Albert Einstein.

- [Ethan Neir] That's correct.

American who conducted the oil drop experiment?

- Millikan.

- That's correct.

Danish namesake of a model of the atom?

- Bohr.

- That's correct.

Italian who invented the radio?

- Guglielmi?

Guglielmo?

- [Ethan Neir] We need his last name.

- Marconi.

- That's correct.

British discoverer of the electron?

- Thomson.

- That's correct.

Namesake of an exclusion principle that applies to- - Pauli.

- [Ethan Neir] That's correct.

German who discovered the X-rays?

- Roentgen.

- [Ethan Neir] Uh, that's correct.

Namesake of a boson that gives other particles mass?

- Higgs.

- [Ethan Neir] That's correct.

Frenchman who discovered radioactivity?

Becquerel.

- Becquerel is correct.

10 for 10 in quick fashion.

Well done, Calloway.

So, before we head back to the toss-ups, let's just take a quick look at our updated score.

And it is Johnston City with 170, and Calloway with 435.

So, in firm control right now, Calloway.

Johnston, still back half of the game to catch up.

For your next toss-up, in what 2022 film does the terminally ill Michael reject a Nobel prize for developing synthetic blood, and later turned himself- (buzzer beeps) Ethan?

- Morbius.

- Morbius is correct.

It's Morbin' time.

And for your bonus, what Hudson River School painter, who depicted a boat going downriver in his allegorical series "The Voyage of Life," also painted "The Course of Empire"?

- Delacroix.

- [Ethan Neir] Delacroix is incorrect.

- [Chase] Thomas Cole.

- Thomas Cole is correct, well done.

On to your next question.

Which state's National Guard was federalized by Dwight Eisenhower to prevent governor Orval Faubus from blocking- (buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Arkansas.

- Arkansas is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Xiongnu, who may have been ancestors of the Huns, fought a two-century long war with what Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin dynasty?

(team members whisper) - Song?

(timeout buzzer beeping) - [Ethan Neir] Song is incorrect.

Johnston, the chance to steal.

- Tang?

- Tang is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Han.

The Han dynasty.

On to the next toss-up.

What organisms, whose primary type are herbivores, are organisms that cannot produce their own energy sources, but- (buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Heterotrophs.

- That is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what pioneering 18th century chemist gave the element oxygen its name before he was guillotined during the French Revolution?

- Lavoisier.

- Lavoisier is correct, well done.

On to the next toss-up.

What thinker, who argued for a progressive tax system in his books "Rights of Man," described, quote, "The times that try men's"- (buzzer beeps) Ava?

- Paine.

- Thomas Paine is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what modernist author of the two-line poem "In a Station of the Metro," also wrote "The Cantos," and was arrested for treason after World War II?

(team members whisper) (timeout buzzer beeping) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

Calloway?

- Ezra Pound.

- Ezra Pound is correct, well done.

On to your next question.

What instrument with a low chalumeau range was played by Artie Shaw and, quote, "King of Swing" band leader Benny Goodman?

(buzzer beeps) Ava?

- Clarinet.

Clarinet is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Syr Darya River empties into what sea, shared between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which shrank drastically in the 20th century?

- Aral.

- Aral Sea is correct, well done.

Back to our toss-ups.

What author depicted a bird wearing a bonnet in "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck," and described a raid on Mr. McGregor's garden in her book "Peter Rabbit"?

(buzzer beeps) Ellie?

- Beatrix Potter.

- Beatrix Potter is correct, well done.

For your bonus, francium, the element with the largest observed atomic radius, is a member of what highly reactive group of the periodic table?

- Alkali metals.

- Alkali metals is correct, well done.

On to the next question.

What scientist lends his name to a unit equal to 10 to the minus 4 teslas, two of Maxwell's equations, and the, quote, "bell curve" of the normal distribution?

(buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Faraday?

- [Ethan Neir] Uh, Faraday is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Chase?

- James Maxwell.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Carl Friedrich Gauss.

On to the next toss-up.

A letter to Baron Monteagle revealed what plan to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Parliament?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Gunpowder Plot.

- Gunpowder Plot is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what South African landform, which is near where Bartolomeu Dias died in 1500, was the namesake location of the Dutch East India Company's Cape Colony?

- Cape of Good Hope.

- Cape of Good Hope is correct.

On to your next question.

What state, which is represented in Congress by Josh Gottheimer, and is governed by Phil Murphy- (buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- New Jersey.

- New Jersey's correct, well done.

For your bonus, what sport with a, quote, "union" and "league" forms uses scrums to restart playing?

(team members whisper) - Rugby.

- Rugby is correct, well done.

(someone coughs) For your next question, what organ, in which water is reabsorbed in the loop of Henle, contains- (buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Kidneys.

- Kidneys is correct.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the discriminant of the quadratic expression 2 x squared plus 7 x plus 5?

(team members whisper) - 9.

- 9 is correct, well done.

On to your next question.

In what current province did Thomas Scott's execution by Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion lead to John Macdonald to send troops to what is now Winnipeg?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Saskatchewan?

- [Ethan Neir] Saskatchewan is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Ava?

- Manitoba.

- Manitoba is correct.

Home to your Winnipeg Jets.

Well done, Johnston City.

For your bonus, omnivorous coconut crabs may explain why no one has found the body of what aviator who went missing in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe?

- Earhart.

- Amelia Earhart is correct, well done.

For your next question, in 2022, what country's agency, FUNAI, discovered the corpse of, quote, "the Man of the Hole," one of the last uncontacted people in the Amazon rainforest?

(buzzer beeps) Cesar?

- Brazil.

- Brazil is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what city, founded as Fort-Lamy in 1900, has a name taken from the Arabic for "place of rest," and is the capital of the most populous city of Chad?

- N'Djamena?

- Uh, N'Djamena is correct, well done.

On to your next question.

What title character, who is advised to, quote, "have more than thou showest" by his Fool, is betrayed by his daughters Goneril and Regan in- (buzzer beeps) Ellie?

- King Lear.

- King Lear is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what book of the minor prophets, that chastises lax priestly behavior, is the last book in the most Christian arrangements of the Old Testament?

- Malachi.

- Malachi is correct, well done.

On to your next question.

Plutarch served as a priest at what site where special vapors in a sanctuary of Apollo may have produced the visions of Pythia?

(buzzer beeps) Ava?

- Delphi.

- Delphi is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Russian tsar sent his oprichniki guards to kill thousands in the massacre of Novgorod, and later beat his own son to death in a fit of rage?

(team members whisper) - Alexander?

- [Ethan Neir] Alexander is incorrect.

Calloway, the chance to steal.

- Ivan the Terrible.

- Ivan the Terrible is correct, and well worth the name if he's beating his son to death.

Well done.

For your bonus, or for your next toss-up, what objects which Hipparchus categorized in 129 BC, are today grouped into spectral classes such as- (buzzer beeps) Isaac?

- Stars.

- Stars is correct, well done.

For your bonus, quote, "Not While I'm Around" is a duet between Tobias Ragg and the pie-making Mrs. Lovett in which Stephen Sondheim musical?

- "Sweeney Todd."

- "Sweeney Todd" is correct.

On to the next question.

What author uses an epigraph from Gertrude Stein about a lost generation in his 1926 novel about- (buzzer beeps) Ellie?

- Hemingway.

- Ernest Hemingway is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 1969 picture book by Eric Carle is named after a character who spent weeks, uh, spent a week, feasting on various foods, including pears, plums, cake, and salami?

- "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

- He was very hungry indeed, and that is correct.

(doorbell rings) And that bell means it is all we have time for on today's show, so let's take a look at the score.

Calloway sitting at a comfortable 735, and Johnston City with 260.

So, well done, I mean to both of you.

Neither of you were really missing questions.

And if I'm being honest, we were on question 36 out of 40, so you were really running it down to when I was going to run out of questions.

So, well done to both teams there.

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

Congrats to Calloway, they're moving on to the semis.

And thank you Johnston City for coming back.

For all of our lovely people behind the camera here tonight, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much, and have a good night.

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