(inspiring music) (energetic music) - Welcome to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q" The game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir and we have another great episode with two great more teams here, in store for you today.

So, let's introduce those teams.

On our bottom row we have: Flora with Katie, Justin, Madison, and Emery.

And as our top team, we have: Johnston City, with Waylon, Chase, Ava, and Gavin.

But, before we get into the questions let's just do a quick reminder of the rules.

We'll start off our game with some tossup questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points.

If you get that right, you get to move on to a bonus question and that is worth 20 points.

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

Now, if you guys interrupt me at any time, when I am saying a question, and get the question wrong, the other team will receive 5 points.

If you get it right, no penalty, feel free to interrupt me.

All right?

With all that out of the way, let's get in the questions.

You guys ready?

All right.

For our first tossup, what Roman Emperor who ruled alongside Lucius Verus was the last of the "five good emperors" and wrote a stoic text called "Meditations"?

(desk beeping) Ava?

- Marcus Aurelius.

- Marcus Aurelius is correct, well done.

For your guys' first bonus.

In 1938, a member of what bony fish of genus Latmeria believed extinct for over 60 million years was caught, off the coast of South Africa?

- (whispering) - Sawfish.

- Sawfish is incorrect.

Flora, you do have a chance to steal.

- Puffer Fish.

- Puffer Fish is also incorrect.

I do love the extinct Puffer Fishes, though.

(laughs) The answer you're looking for, was Coelacanth, but not spelled with S-E-E, it's C-O-E-L, that's a crazy spelling on that one.

Leave it to the extinct fishes to have dumb spellings.

(laughter) For our next tossup, what quantity, which is equal to a phase velocity divided by frequency is denoted lambda and gives the distance between two crests of a wave?

(desk beeps) Gavin?

- Wavelength.

- Wavelength is correct.

For the bonus: the painting "Belshazzar's Feast," is by what Dutch artist who painted "The Night Watch"?

(whispering) - Rembrandt.

- [Ethan] Rembrandt is correct.

Well done, Chase.

For your next question, what country, the base of terrorist group Al-Shabaab, funds campaigns in its region of Puntland to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa?

(desk beeps) Emory?

- South Africa?

- [Ethan] South Africa is incorrect.

(desk beeps) Ava?

- Somalia?

- [Ethan] Somalia is correct.

The Somalian Pirates.

Well done.

For your bonus, Gunter Guillaume served as an aid to Willy Brandt while working as an agent of what country's secret police, the Stasi?

- (whispers) Is it Germany?

- (whispers) I- - Germany.

- [Ethan] Germany is unfortunately incorrect.

Flora, the chance to steal.

- East Germany.

- [Ethan] East Germany is correct.

Gavin you were right there, we were just looking for East Germany, not Germany.

The next tossup: what explorer who is celebrated in Luciods followed Bartolomeu Dias's route around the Cape of Good Hope as the first European to sail to India?

(desk beeps) Ava.

- Da Gama?

- [Ethan] Da Gama is correct.

Columbus got it wrong, de Gama got it right.

For your bonus: what letter, sometimes proceeded by an E for "enhanced" is paired with numbers ranging from zero to five in a widely used scale of tornado intensity?

- (whispers) F isn't it?

F - [Ethan] F scale is correct.

Well done.

Onto our next question.

What poet whose namesake suppers are celebrated with a reading of his "Address to a Haggis" wrote "Tam O'Shanter" and is a beloved- (desk beeps) - [Ethan] Ava?

- Burns?

- [Ethan] Robert Burns is correct.

And then for your bonus: a 1952 novel by E.B.

White is named after what type of structure that is used to display the phrases "terrific" and "some pigs"?

(whispering) - Charlotte's Web?

- [Ethan] Charlotte's Web is correct.

I almost misread it and said that I didn't accept that answer.

(laughter) That is correct.

- (whispering) - All right, for your next question, what integer is only sometimes considered a natural number, is the cardinality of the empty set, is the additive identity, and cannot- (desk beeps) - [Ethan] Katie?

- Zero?

- [Ethan] Zero is correct.

Well done, you score some more points.

And for your bonus: what cast iron and plate glass structure destroyed in a 1936 fire was built to house the World's Fair held in London 1851?

- (whispering) - The Dome.

- [Ethan] The Dome is incorrect.

Johnston City, you have a chance to steal, and I see the wheels turning.

- (whispering) - No answer.

(buzzer) - With no answer, the answer we're looking for: the same name of a popular football club Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace.

And for your guys' next question we take it to our first media question.

(bell rings) This theme song was made (theme song plays) for the American television sitcom that aired on NPZ - or NBC from 1989 to 1993.

The show found two spinoff series and two movies.

Name the show.

- ♪ the bus fly by, it's all right, ♪ ♪ cause I'm saved by the bell!

♪ (desk beeps) - [Ethan] Madison?

- [Madyson] Saved by the Bell.

- [Ethan] Saved by the Bell is correct.

Well done.

- I knew that.

- And since that is a media question, there is no bonus question for that one.

So we'll take it back to the tossups.

Mesut Özil played for what country's national soccer team whose current players include Marco Reus and 11-time Bundesliga champion Thomas Müller?

(desk beeps) - [Ethan] Emery?

- England.

- [Ethan] England is incorrect.

(desk beeps) Ava?

- [Ava] Brazil.

- [Ethan] Brazil is also incorrect.

Thomas Müller, the captain of Germany's national soccer team.

It's definitely football.

- (laughter) - For the next tossup: what country whose co-princes include a Catholic bishop in Catalonia is a small landlocked country on the border between Spain and France?

(desk beeps) - [Ethan] Ava?

- Andorra?

- [Ethan] Andorra is correct.

And for your bonus, our first pencil and paper ready question.

When the fraction one over X is added to the fraction X over two the sum has what numerator given the denominator is 2x?

(pencils scratching on paper) - One?

- [Ethan] One is incorrect.

Flora, you do still have the chance to steal.

- 1x?

- [Ethan] 1x is also incorrect, the answer we're looking for is X two, or X squared, excuse me, plus two.

Taking us back to the tossup questions: what city built on the natural harbor of The Golden Horn is home to the Topaki - or Topkapi Palace and The Blue Mosque and was once called Constantinople?

(desk beeps) - [Ethan] Ava?

- [Ava] Istanbul.

- [Ethan] Istanbul, Constantinople is correct, well done.

And for your bonus: Betsy Ross's flag had to be updated in at 1791 after the admission of what 14th state, the first to join the original 13 colonies?

- (whispering) (buzzer) - [Ethan] I'm sorry you guys are all out of time.

Flora, you still have the chance to steal.

- (whispering) - New Hampshire.

- New Hampshire is incorrect, the first state added to the colonies after that was Vermont.

Vermont.

For our next question, what mat, oh excuse me, what facility from which the Anglin brothers used a raft made of raincoats to escape in 1962 was a prison in San Francisco?

(desk beeps) Gavin?

- Alcatraz?

- [Ethan] Alcatraz is correct.

For the bonus: what Greek hero saved his crew of sailors from the Lotus Eaters and had himself tied to a mast to resist the sirens?

- Odysseus?

- [Ethan] Odysseus is correct.

Take us to another tossup: What metallic element found in pyrite, hematite, and pharisee is a major component of Earth's core?

(desk beeps) Katie?

- Iron?

- [Ethan] Iron is correct, well done.

The bonus: what American author wrote poems known by their first lines such as "I taste a liquor never brewed," and "success is counted sweetest"?

- (whispering) - Dickinson?

- [Ethan] Emily Dickinson is correct.

Well done, Katie.

Taking us back to the tossups: what character who is assisted by Wagner and seduces Gresham in a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

(desk beeps) Ava?

- Faust?

- [Ethan] Henirich Faust is correct, well done.

For your guys' bonus: What country's communist government was opposed to by Lech Wasa and the solidarity movement which led strikes in the 1980s in cities like GdaDsk?

- (whispering) - Poland.

- [Ethan] Poland is correct, well done, Gav.

Getting that bonus question correct.

We'll move to another media question.

This British actress is best known for her comedy work.

She most recently won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role of Queen Anne in "The Favourite."

Name this actress.

Justin, I don't know if that's the face of "I don't know, but I'm, like I almost know"?

Okay.

(buzzer) So you guys are all out of time.

The answer is Olivia Colman, very popular British actress Olivia Colman.

Justin, I - did you - you knew that one?

- (laughter) - Hey, next time, next time.

For the next tossup: what river whose source is out on Mount Herman empties into the Dead Sea and borders a namesake Middle Eastern country whose capital is Amman?

(desk beeps) Ava?

- Jordan?

- [Ethan] Jordan is correct, well done.

For your bonus: in what country did Aleksandr Lukashenko, nicknamed Europe's last dictator, claim a landslide election win over Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya in August 2020?

- Ethiopia?

- [Ethan] Ethiopia is incorrect.

- Bulgaria.

- [Ethan] Bulgaria is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Belarus.

Belarus.

For your guys' next question: what piece premiered by David Tudor in August 1952 has the players sitting silently for the amount of time in the title and was written by John Cage?

(desk beeps) Ava.

- Four minutes 33 seconds?

- [Ethan] Four minutes, 33 seconds is correct, well done.

For the bonus: an orchestra traditionally tunes to an A above middle C played by which double reed instrument?

- Bassoon?

- [Ethan] Bassoon is incorrect.

Flora, you have the chance to steal.

- Oboe?

- [Ethan] Oboe is correct.

Well done there.

Clearly, we have some orchestra kids with us.

- Thanks, my brother.

- For the next tossup, pencil and paper ready: what is the slope of the line that passes through both the origin and the point whose coordinates are (7, 14)?

(desk beeps) Emery?

- Two?

- [Ethan] Two is correct, well done.

And then for your bonus: what quantity, which can be found using the Parallel Axis Theorem, equals mass times the square of the distance from the axis for a point mass?

- (whispering) - Density.

- [Ethan] Density is incorrect.

Johnston City, you have the chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for there was moment of inertia.

Moment of inertia.

And with that, now reached roughly the halfway mark of our game and we'll take it to the lightning round.

(thunder cracks) The way our lightning round works is each of you teams will have the chance to answer as many questions as you can in 60 seconds about a particular topic.

Now Flora, since you guys are trailing in this one, you do have the chance to pick what topic you want to use first.

So your choices are Margaret Thatcher, Four-letter names, Signs of the Zodiac, and 'M' people.

- (whispering) - Zodiac signs.

- [Ethan] Zodiac signs it is.

All right, "which sign of the zodiac?"

is your little interlude.

And I will give you 60 seconds on the clock, I will count you down: 3, 2, 1 - is the first and represented by a Ram?

- Aries.

- [Ethan] Aries is correct.

Depicted as a crab and shares its name with a med- - Cancer?

- [Ethan] Cancer is correct.

Is represented by a maiden or virgin.

- Virgo?

- [Ethan] Virgo's correct.

Starts in mid-February, is depicted by a fish.

- Pisces.

- [Ethan] Pisces is correct.

Ends in May and is represented by a bull.

- Taurus?

- [Ethan] Taurus is correct.

Is based on the myth of Castor and Pollux.

- Gemini.

- [Ethan] Gemini's correct.

Is one of the two signs corresponding to October.

- (whispering) - [Ethan] You can pass.

- Scorpio?

- [Ethan] Scorpio is not the one we were looking, oh no, actually I'll take that too, that's correct.

Is the name of the 13 Popes.

Is also the name of 13 Popes.

Excuse me.

- Libra?

- [Ethan] Libra is incorrect.

Is the namesake of an age in a song from the musical "Hair."

- Cancer.

- [Ethan] Cancer is incorrect.

Sign represented by a goat that follows Sagittarius.

- Capricorn.

- [Ethan] Capricorn is correct, and I believe you guys did not pass on any, so well done getting through all those questions very well.

Is also the name of 13 Popes we were looking for Leo and is the namesake of an age in the song from the musical "Hair" is Aquarius.

The age of Aquarius.

You caught me off on there as is one of the two signs contributing to October cause I thought it was saying prompt on Scorpio it was saying prompt on the Scorpion but Scorpio or Libra, we would've taken either of 'em.

- Thank you.

- So very well done there making up a lot of ground on that bonus.

So now Johnston City, it is your guys' turn.

I will reread your categories for you.

You have Margaret Thatcher, Four-letter names, and 'M' people.

Very specific on that last one with 'M' people.

- (whispering) - Four-letter names.

- [Ethan] Four-letter names it is.

All right.

Give these four letter names and titles.

Only four letter answers will be accepted.

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

3, 2, 1.

Nickname of Utah's NBA team.

- Jazz.

- [Ethan] Jazz is correct.

Athletic apparel company co-founded by Phil Knight.

- Nike - [Ethan] Nike's correct.

Groundbreaking 1993 first person shooter, partly set on the moons of Mars.

- (talking over each other) Halo.

- [Ethan] What'd you say?

- Halo.

- [Ethan] Halo's incorrect.

Former One Direction member who has released "Pillow Talk" as a solo artist.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Brazilian who was FIFA's World Player of the Century.

- Pass - [Ethan] University whose sports team are the Blue Devils.

- Duke.

- [Ethan] Duke's correct.

2017 animated movie inspired by the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead.

- Coco.

- [Ethan] Coco's correct.

Water type Pokemon that evolves into Dewgong.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] You guys make me sad.

ABC sitcom that starred Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Musician who released the 1993 single "Loser."

- Pass - [Ethan] Former One Direction member who released "Pillow Talk" as a solo artist.

(buzzer) No.

Okay, I'm sorry you guys, we're all out of time.

I'm now realizing how incredibly old I am.

We had this conversation with the last team and they're like, yeah I was born in 2006, 2007.

The name of our 1993 groundbreaking first person shooter was Doom.

A game that I played when I was growing up and now I feel old.

(laughter) Former One Direction member who released "Pillow Talk" as a solo artist was Zayn.

Brazilian who is FIFA's world player of the century is Pelé.

The water type Pokemon that evolves into Dewgong was Seel.

Very simple name for that one.

ABC sitcom that started Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito is Taxi and musician who released the 1993 single "Loser" was Beck.

All right, and with our lightning round over, let's take a quick look at our scores.

I mean Johnston, Flora, excuse me, I believe you guys made up a good amount of ground in that lightning round.

Well done.

I think you guys got eight of them, but Johnston City, I mean still with a comfy lead.

Flora, you still got plenty of time to catch up here.

Now let's take it back to our tossup questions.

In what country were many people executed in the school turned prison S-21 and the Killing Fields by the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot?

(desk beeps) Emery?

- Cambodia?

- [Ethan] Cambodia is correct, well done.

And for your bonus, the city of La Paz is situated on what extensive plateau of the Andes Mountains?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

Johnston City, you have the chance to steal.

- The Pampas.

- [Ethan] The Pampas is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Altiplano.

Altiplano.

For the next question: what religion whose adherents carry a ceremonial blade called a kirpan as part of the five K's?

(desk beeps) Ava?

- Sikhism?

- [Ethan] Sikhism is correct, well done.

For your bonus: what magical realist author of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" sets several works in the town of Macondo?

- García Márquez?

- [Ethan] Gabriel García Márquez is correct.

Well done.

The next toss up: what grain is found in the West African dish of jollof, the Spanish dish of paella, and in risottos?

(desk beeps) Katie.

- Rice.

- [Ethan] Rice is correct.

For your guys' bonus: what New Zealander was nominated for Best Director for "The Piano" and won for "The Power of the Dog"?

- Smith?

- [Ethan] Smith is incorrect.

Johnston City, a chance to steal here.

- Johnson.

- [Ethan] Johnson is also incorrect.

We were looking for Jane Campion.

Jane Campion.

For our next question, pencil and paper ready: what is the value of 66 modulo 7, in other words, the remainder left when 67 is divided by 7 given the quotient is 9?

(desk beeps) Gavin?

- Four.

- [Ethan] Can you say that again?

- Four.

- [Ethan] Four is correct, very well done.

For the bonus: Astadhyayi by Panini is an ancient grammar text of what Indo-Aryan language of the Vedas and other Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain liturgy?

- Sanskrit?

- [Ethan] Sanskrit's correct, well done, Ava.

Back to the tossup: what country whose city of Wau is the birthplace of model Alek Wek, is governed from Juba, and split off from its northern neighbor in Africa?

(desk beeps) Ava?

- South Sudan?

- [Ethan] South Sudan's correct.

Your guys' bonus: after a 1975 referendum "The Mountain is Kingdom of Sikkim" abolished its monarchy and became a state of what country, home to nearby city, Darjeeling?

- (whispering) - Pass.

- [Ethan] Pass.

Flora, you have the chance to steal.

- No answer.

- [Ethan] The answer we're looking for there was India.

India.

All right, for your next question: what 2005 novel in which Hans Hubermann defies the Nazi regime is narrated by Death and centers on young Liesel?

(desk beeps) Justin?

- Sorry, I don't have it.

- [Ethan] All right, I will finish reading the question: on young Liesel Meminger, who steals literary works?

(desk beeps) Ava?

- "The Book Thief"?

- [Ethan] "The Book Thief" is correct.

Justin, I see you shaking your head.

As soon as I finished that one, you knew exactly what it was.

And for your guys' bonus: what paired organs produce epinephrine in the flight or flight response, or fight or flight response, and sits on top of the kidneys?

- Adrenal glands.

- [Ethan] Adrenal glands is correct, well done.

For the next question: what scientist proposed that atolls form on sinking islands and recorded the beak shapes of the Galapagos finches?

(desk beeps) Emery?

- Darwin.

- [Ethan] Darwin is correct.

For your bonus: what baseball player for the Yankees gave a 1939 farewell speech in which he called himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth"?

- Gehrig.

- [Ethan] Lou Gehrig's correct.

Take it to our next question: what Mediatonic video game features rounds like Gate Crash, Roll On, and Hex-A-Gone and picks- (desk beeps) - Fall Guys?

- [Ethan] Fall Guys is correct.

- (laughter) - Very topical question.

And for your bonus: in which body of water are Ellesmere Island, Victoria Island, and Baffin Island which belong to Canada?

I'm looking for the name of the body of water.

- (whispering) - Arctic Ocean?

- [Ethan] Arctic Ocean is correct.

Well done.

The next question: what trial in which the Butler Act was defended by William Jennings Bryan and critiqued by Charles Darrow concerned a teacher who taught evolution?

(desk beeps) Waylon?

- Scopes Monkey Trial?

- [Ethan] Scopes Monkey Trial is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus: Ambrose Burnside led the army of the Potomac during what 1862 battle in Virginia in which union forces suffered heavy losses on Marye's Heights?

- (Emery starts to answer) - [Ethan] It's a bonus.

- [Emery] Oh, sorry.

- [Ethan] No, you're good.

I like the enthusiasm.

- Chancellorsville?

- [Ethan] Chancellorsville is incorrect.

Now Emery, chance to steal.

- [Emery] Fredericksburg?

- [Ethan] Fredericksburg is correct.

- (laughter) - And that'll take us to our next media question.

This television show is an American psychological dark comedy drama web miniseries made for Netflix in 2018.

The series follows two strangers who connect during a mind-bending pharmaceuticals trial and stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.

Name the show.

(buzzer) So you guys are all out of time.

Man, Netflix has too many shows, cause I've never heard or seen this show in my entire life.

The answer was "Maniac."

Yeah, I see Madyson reacting, like, what?

What is that show?

(laughter) - Doesn't even click.

- Oh no, absolutely not.

Back to the tossups.

What automaker, which dissolved its PR department in 2020, has released the Model Y and the Model S?

(desk beeps) Wayland.

- Tesla.

- [Ethan] Tesla is correct.

For the bonus: Nelson Rockefeller and Gerald Ford were appointed vice president under section two of what Constitutional Amendment governing presidential succession?

- (whispering) - 22.

- [Ethan] 22 is incorrect, Justin, I see some whispering.

- The 12th?

- [Ethan] The 12th is also incorrect.

I'm looking for 25th.

The 25th amendment.

- You whispered something.

- You did, I could pick it up, I heard you too (whispers) 12th.

- (laughter) - And now for our next question: what aristocrat who pays off George Wickham to save Lydia's honor eventually marries Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austin's novel "Pride and-" (desk beeps) Katie?

- Darcy.

- [Ethan] Darcy is correct.

The name of novel is not "Pride and Katie," but it kind of works.

- (laughter) - And for your bonus: ethylene is the simplest example of what class of Hydrocarbons that have one or more Carbon-Carbon double bonds?

- (whispering) (buzzer) - [Ethan] I'm sorry, Flora, you are all out of time.

Johnston City?

- Polyatomic?

- [Ethan] Polyatomic's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Alkane.

Alkane.

Alkan-ay?

Al-kanee?

One of 'em.

And I believe I'm correct, that is all the questions (bell dings) that we have time for here today.

That bell signifies it.

So let's take a look at the score.

Johnston City 405 and Flora 230, but a good effort all around from both teams.

So that'll be all the time we have for here in the show.

For all of our lovely contestants here today, and for all the people working behind the scenes, thank you so much.

I'm Ethan Neir and goodnight.

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