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

I'm your host, Jordan Spudville.

And today, we have two teams joining us who have each won a game with us before, and they've come back to battle it out.

On the bottom row, we have Granite City with Shayne, Jadon and Lily.

And on the top row, we have Johnston City with Ava, Brenia, and Peyton.

Very lovely, the hearts.

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

I'll 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 worth double the points.

However, if that team answers the bonus incorrectly, the other team has a chance to steal it away from them and earn themselves 10 points.

The interruption rule is in effect in today's game.

So if someone decides to interrupt me while I'm reading a question and they answer incorrectly, the other team automatically receives five points and they get to hear the entire question.

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

We know the rules and we know our contestants.

It's time to put on our thinking caps and let's get down to quizzness, starting with our first 10-point toss-up for both teams.

What property that has an inclusive form involving is according to Charles Darwin maximized by those organisms, most likely to survive.

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Fitness.

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

Granite City, here's your first 20-point bonus question.

John F. Kennedy established what award, which along with a congressional gold medal is America's highest civilian honor?

- Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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

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

What Hungarian born rival of William Randolph Hearst published the "New York World" and lends his name to prizes for the arts and journalism?

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- Pulitzer.

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

Johnston City, here's your first bonus question.

What Norwegian dramatist pioneered theatrical realism in 19th century plays such as "Hedda Gabler"?

- Ibsen.

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

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

What play in which Karl Linder tries to stop a family moving to Claybourne Park, follows the younger family, and it was written by Lorraine- (buzzer chimes) Lily.

- "A Raisin in the Sun".

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

Here is your bonus question, Granite City.

This is our first math question of the game so let's get those pencils and paper ready.

What is the value of the fraction, 1/4 raised to the negative third power?

- 64.

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

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

What man, who chaired Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings, succeeded Strom Thurmond in the Senate and is the senior Senator from South Carolina?

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Graham.

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

Granite City, here's your next bonus question.

What numerical term refers to the interval between Baba and black sheep in the nursery rhyme or the interval between C and F?

- No answer.

(buzzer rings) - [Jordan] Okay, Johnston City, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] All right, the answer we were looking for was perfect fourths.

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

What street, which includes the so-called Canyon of Heroes crosses Manhattan's grid system and is the namesake of New York City's theater district?

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- Broadway.

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

Johnston city, here is your bonus question.

Communists in-fighting on what small Caribbean island nation prompted the US to invade it in 1983?

- Cuba.

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

Granite City, you have a chance to steal.

- Grenada.

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

It's now time for our first media question of the game.

This is a video question.

Let's have a look.

This arcade game was published- (buzzer chimes) Ava.

- [Ava] Pac-Man.

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

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

This is a another math question so get those pencils and paper ready.

What is the product of 32 x 28, given that the difference of squares methods says it equals 30 squared minus two squared?

(buzzer chimes) Jadon.

- 896.

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

Granite City, here is your bonus question.

What title character learns that he is the nephew of Squire Allworthy and subsequently marries Sophia Western, in a 1749 novel by Henry Fielding?

- No answer.

- [Jordan] All right, Johnston city, you have a chance to steal.

- "Tom Jones".

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

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

What novel, in which a rotten goose egg acquired by the rat, Templeton causes stench to fill- (buzzer chimes) Lily.

- "Charlotte's Web".

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

Granite City, here's your next a bonus question.

And yet again, we have another math question so get those pencils and paper ready.

If Jim rolls two standard six-sided dice, what is the probability that they show a total greater than or equal to 10?

- No answer.

(buzzer rings) - [Jordan] All right, Johnston City, you have a chance to steal.

- 1/2.

(buzzer rings) - [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was 1/6.

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

What year's presidential election, which included the Constitutional Union Party led to the secession of Southern state after Abraham Lincoln won?

(buzzer chimes) Jadon.

- 1860.

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

Here's your bonus question, Granite City.

In what decade of the 1900s did Charles de Gaulle return to power as the French Fourth Republic collapsed during the Algerian Crisis?

- 1940S.

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

Johnston City, you have a chance to steal.

- Sixties.

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

Both of you were close.

We were looking for the middle ground, the 1950s.

That's okay, we'll shake it off.

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

Dark energy speeds up what process that results in cosmological redshift as distant galaxies- (buzzer chimes) Jadon.

- Doppler.

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

And because of the interruption rule, Johnston City, you get five points and I'll read the entire question.

Dark energy speeds up what process that results in cosmological redshift as distant galaxies move farther away, which is contrasted with contraction?

(buzzer chimes) Ava.

- Expansion.

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points, Johnston City, here is your bonus question.

A book of short stories by Sherwood Anderson is titled for what fictional town in Ohio?

- [Ava] Winesburg.

- That's correct, for 20 points.

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

What character hopes to catch a glimpse of Rosaline at a masked ball where he- (buzzer chimes) Ava.

- Romeo.

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

Johnston City, here's your next bonus question.

What woman, who's namesake European space agency rover is scheduled to land on Mars in 2021 was called the Dark Lady of DNA in a 2002 book?

- Pass.

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

- No answer.

- [Jordan] It's okay.

The answer we were looking for was Rosalind Franklin.

It's now time for our next media question.

This one is an audio question.

Let's have a listen.

("The Music of the Night") With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, this musical is the longest running musical on Broadway and celebrated 10,000 shows in 2012.

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- [Peyton] "Cats".

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

Because of the interruption rule, Granite City, you do get five points and I'll finish reading the question.

The musical follows a young singer who becomes the obsession of a mysterious man who lives under an opera house in Paris.

Name this musical.

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- "The Phantom of the Opera".

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

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

What American artist, who painted many pictures of Helga Testorf, depicted a woman in a pink dress, crawling towards a farmhouse in Christina's World?

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Wyeth.

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

Granite City, here's your next bonus question.

An American group called APAC lobbies for policies that support what foreign country?

- Israel.

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

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

What number that denotes the oldest star population is also the number of divisions of the small intestines, as well as the smallest odd prime number?

(buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- Three.

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

Granite City, here's your next 20 point bonus question.

What most populous of Italy's 20 regions is home to- Excuse me.

Varese and Milan.

- Tuscany.

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

Johnston City, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Sicilian.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer that we were looking for was a Lombardi.

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

What war in which Alexanders Samsonov shot himself after losing the Battle of Tannenberg caused the fall of the Romanov Dynasty of Russia in 1917?

(buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- World War I.

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

Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.

What material property, which depends on the polarization of light and the phenomenon of a birefringence appears in Snell's Law?

- Refraction.

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

I'm sorry.

I'm now being told, we cannot accept that answer.

The answer we were looking for was the index of refraction.

So we were just trying to be more specific there.

That's okay, well shake that one off.

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

What thinker is traditionally considered the author of "The Five Classics", had his teachings collected and Analects and was a Chinese- (buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- Confucius.

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

Here's your next 20 point bonus question, Granite City.

The Marquis of Pombal helped rebuild what capital city that was a leveled by an earthquake and tsunami on All Saints' Day in 1755?

- No answer.

- [Jordan] All right, Johnston City.

You have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- No answer.

- [Jordan] That's okay.

The answer that we were looking for was Lisbon, Portugal.

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

This is a math question so get those pencils and paper ready.

What are the Cartesian coordinates of the point whose polar coordinates are 4,270 degrees?

(buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- 0, -4 - [Jordan] That's correct, for 10 points.

Granite City, here's your next bonus question.

What queen of Crete, who was cursed by Poseidon to lust for a bull, thus became the mother of Minotaur?

- Enyo.

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

Johnston, you have a chance to steal.

- The queen of Minos.

- [Jordan] I'm sorry?

- The queen of Minos.

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

The answer we were looking for was Pasiphae.

We are actually gonna move on to our lightning round.

We made it halfway through our game.

All right, Johnston City, we're gonna let you choose your category first.

We have four categories to choose from for you.

You can either choose to answer questions about poetic terminology, iconic years from history, movies by the numbers, or Catholic masses.

- Movies by the numbers.

- [Jordan] Movies by the number it is.

In this lightning round category, given an incomplete movie title, and one of its stars, give the number that begins the title.

As usual, if you do not know the answer, we will pass.

You can pass and we'll go back if time allows.

Johnston City, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- [Jordan] All right, 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

Glenn Close blank Dalmatians.

Two answers are acceptable.

- 101.

101.

- [Jordan] Correct.

- Keir Dullea blank a Space Odyssey.

- 2001.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Jonah Hill blank Jump Street.

- 21.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Eminem blank Mile.

- Eight.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Heath Ledger blank Things I Hate About You.

- 10.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Marilyn Monroe The blank Year Itch.

- Five.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

Katherine Heigl blank Dresses.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Zac Efron, excuse me blank Again.

- 17.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Brad Pitt blank Monkeys.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] James Franco blank Hours.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Going back to the once you passed.

Katherine Heigl blank Dresses.

- 100.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

Brad Pitt blank Monkeys.

- Four.

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

James Franco blank Hours.

- 167.

(buzzer rings) - [Jordan] I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

It was a very good guess.

Very close.

You guys had a great lightning round.

I'm gonna go over the ones that you guys passed or missed, starting with Katherine Heigl blank Dresses is "27 Dresses".

Brad Pitt blank Monkeys, "12 monkeys".

And James Franco blank Hours was "127 Hours".

Overall, great lightning round, Johnston City.

But now, Granite City, it is your turn to choose your lightning round.

We have three categories remaining for you.

You can either answer questions about poetic terminology, iconic years from history, or Catholic masses.

- We'll go with iconic years.

- [Jordan] Iconic years from history it is.

In this lightning round category, identify the four digit years when these events happened.

Same rules apply.

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

We'll go back, if time allows.

Granite City, are you ready for your lightning round?

60 seconds is on the clock and your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

The Battle of Hastings.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas.

- 1492.

- [Jordan] Correct.

End of World War II.

- 1945.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Magna Carta signed.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Wall Street crash that caused the Great Depression.

- 1929.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Apollo 11 mission completes the first man moon landing.

- 1969.

- [Jordan] Correct.

September 11 attacks.

- 2001.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution.

- (indistinct) - [Jordan] Battle of Waterloo.

- 1814.

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

Great Fire of London.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Going back to the ones you passed.

Battle of Hastings.

- 1066.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Magna Carta signed.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution.

- 1792.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

Great Fire of London.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Going to the ones you passed.

Magna Carta signed.

- 1616.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

And the Great Fire of London.

- 1840.

(buzzer rings) - [Jordan] Sorry.

That's also incorrect, and that is time.

Great lightning round, Granite City.

I'm gonna go over the ones that you passed or missed.

The Battle of Hastings.

I apologize, you did get that one correct.

The Magna Carta signed was 1215.

The Storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution was 1789.

The Battle of Waterloo.

You said 1814.

The answer was 1815.

And the Great Fire of London was 1666.

All right, we're now going to move on to our next media question.

This one is a still question.

Let's have a look.

This character was created by Ben Hardaway, Walter Lantz, and Alex Lovy.

He has appeared in theatrical shorts distributed- (buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- [Peyton] Woody the woodpecker.

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

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

What country, once ruled up by Ulrika Eleonora and Christina will have a fourth queen regnant as Victoria secedes her father, Carl XVI, Gustaf?

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Denmark.

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

(buzzer chimes) Ava.

- Sweden.

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

Johnston City, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What American poet described imaginary gardens with real toads in them and quipped, "I, too, dislike it" in her poem, "Poetry".

- BradStreet.

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

Granite City, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Dickinson.

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

The answer we were looking for was Marianne Moore.

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

What series, in which the gelatinous engineer, Yaphit, serves under Ed Mercer, is a live-action show starting Seth McFarland that parodies "Star Trek"?

(timer beeps) That is time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was "The Orville".

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

What city, which names a type of steel characterized by wavy flow-like bands was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate?

(buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- (indistinct) - [Jordan] Sorry?

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

And because of the interruption rule, Johnston, you do get five points and I'll now read the full question.

What city, which names a type of steel characterized by wavy flow-like bands was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate and is the capital of Syria?

(timer beeps) That's okay, the answer we were looking for was Damascus.

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

What native tribe known in their language as Dene has the nation's largest reservation and had members serve in World War II as code talkers?

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- Cherokee.

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

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Navajo.

- [Jordan] That is correct, for 10 points.

Granite City, here's your 20 point bonus question.

Madison Bumgarner through an unofficial seven inning no-hitter in 2021 is a member of what National League West team sometimes called The Snakes?

- The Diamondbacks.

- The Diamondbacks.

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

I apologize, for 20 points.

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

What element from which most MRI machines detect signals has isotopes with mass numbers two and three, and is the most abundant element in the universe?

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- Radon.

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

(buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- Hydrogen.

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

Granite city, here's your next bonus question.

What name is shared by a Danish jewelry company that makes customizable bracelets and a music streaming service bought by Sirius XM in 2019?

- Pandora.

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

It's time for our next media question.

This one is a video question.

Let's have a look.

This film was released 30 years ago and stars Julia Roberts.

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- [Peyton] "Pretty Woman".

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

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

What us city was the site of the 12th Street race riot in 1967, includes one end of the Ambassador Bridge, and was the first headquarters of Motown?

(buzzer chimes) Peyton.

- Chicago.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Detroit.

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

Granite City, here is your bonus question.

In Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", a bawdy wife from what English city gives an account of her five marriages?

- London.

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

Johnston City, you have a chance to steal.

- Pass.

- All right, the answer that we were looking for was Bath.

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

What author of the poems, "After Apple Picking," and "Birches" wrote about having miles to go before I sleep and stopping by- (buzzer chimes) Lily.

- Frost.

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

Here's your 20 point bonus question, Granite City.

In 1992, riots broke out in Los Angeles after police officers who had been filmed beating what man were acquitted of assault?

- Rodney King.

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

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

What American chemist, who coined the term photon defined bases as electron pair donors and represented covalent bonds with his namesake dot diagrams?

(buzzer chimes) Shayne.

- Lewis.

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

Here's your next bonus question, Granite City.

What processed a form of nitrogen fixation is the main technique used for the industrial production of ammonia?

- Haber-Bosch.

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

(bell dings) And that is the end of our game, Granite City.

Congratulations, you guys are our winners.

Johnston City, thank you for being here, playing a good game, and returning to be here with us.

And of course thank you all for watching at home.

Make sure to tune in and play along, and we'll see you next time on Scholastic Hi-Q.

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