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

I am not Ethan Neir, but I am your host today.

My name is Sabrina Holtgrewe.

And now, before we get into our game, let's meet our teams.

On the bottom, we have Webber Township with Wyatt, Luke, Walker, and Jamisen.

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

So now before we get into our questions, let's go over our rules.

I will be asking a series of tossup questions.

Anyone has a chance to answer a tossup question.

If you get it right, that team gets a bonus question.

If you get it wrong, though, the other team does have a chance to steal.

You can interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt and get it wrong, there will be five points to the other team, so try your best.

Alright, let's get started with our questions.

A fresnel rhomb is an example of what optical device, a triangular one of which Isaac Newton used to split white light into its component colors?

- Gavin?

- Prism.

- That is correct.

For your bonus question: What city, whose Museum of Fine Arts holds dozens of John Singleton Copley works, was the site of a 1990 theft of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

(contestants whispering) - Havana?

- [Sabrina] That is incorrect.

Webber Township, you have the chance to steal.

- London.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston, Massachusetts.

Now back to our tossups: What 2021 film in which characters wear stillsuits to reclaim water was directed by Denis Villeneuve and Stars Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides?

(buzzer beeping) - Wyatt?

- "Dune".

- That is correct.

For your bonus question: in 2023, Joe Biden nominated California attorney, Julie Su, to what cabinet position, in which she would replace Marty Walsh?

- Labor.

- Go ahead.

- Secretary of Labor.

- [Sabrina] That is correct.

Onto our next tossup: What politician, nicknamed the Milk Snatcher, led the Conservative Party throughout the 1980s and served as Britain's first female prime minister?

(buzzer beeping) - Luke.

- Margaret Thatcher.

- That is correct.

Onto your bonus question: What Pacific Island nation was occupied by the Spanish, starting with a 1565 landing in Cebu, years after it was named after a Spanish king?

(contestants whispering) - Jamaica.

- That's incorrect.

Johnston City, a chance to steal.

- Barbados.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the Philippines.

Philippines.

Next tossup: Connecting the centers of the faces of a cube forms what platonic solid's triangular faces, which look like two pyramids joined at the base?

(buzzer beeping) - Tetrahedron.

- [Sabrina] Say that again.

- Tetrahedron.

- That is incorrect.

(no audio) (timer blaring) Alright, we are all out of time for that question.

The answer was octahedron.

Octahedron.

For our next tossup: What city, whose Concertgebouw was built in the 1800s, is home to Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House and is the capital of the Netherlands?

(buzzer beeping) Ava?

- Amsterdam.

- That is correct.

For your bonus: What song, whose title fact is revealed to be, "She was made up by a dude," is a 2022 hit criticizing beauty standards by the singer Jax?

- "Victoria's Secret".

- That is correct.

Next tossup: What author, who included the essay "My Dungeon Shook" in the book- (buzzer beeping) Ava?

- Baldwin.

- That is correct.

Your bonus question: What Southern Peruvian city, which is still one of Peru's 10 most populous, was the imperial capital of the Incas before the Spanish conquest?

- Cusco?

- That's correct.

Next tossup: What kingdom's parasites cause a circular rash in ringworm, itching and flaking between the toes and athlete's foot, and a variety of yeast infections?

(buzzer beeping) - Fungi?

- That is correct.

Onto your next bonus: What materials, whose classes include thermotropic and lyotropic, have distinct phases often used in television displays?

- Glass?

- That is incorrect.

Webber Township, a chance to steal.

- Crystals.

- [Sabrina] What kind of crystals?

- Liquid crystals.

- That is correct.

Alright, our next tossup: What head of a 1728 exposition to the Kamchatka was a Danish explorer whose great northern expedition for Russia found his namesake straight off Alaska?

(buzzer beeping) - Bering.

- Correct.

Bonus question: What musician, who directed the 2021 documentary "Summer of Soul" is the drummer for The Roots?

- Smith.

- That is incorrect.

Webber, a chance to steal.

- Larnell Lewis.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Questlove.

Questlove.

Alright, next tossup: What company, which conspiracy theorists claimed was owned by Smartmatic, settled a 2021 lawsuit with Fox News and makes voting machines?

(buzzer beeping) Luke.

- Dominion.

- That is correct.

Alright, for your bonus question: What 17th century philosopher is known for his namesake, Wager, regarding the existence of God?

- No answer.

- [Sabrina] Johnston City, a chance to steal.

- Pascal?

- That is correct.

Alright, next tossup question: What river, whose largest tributary is the Tennessee River, is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela, excuse me, Rivers near Pittsburgh?

(buzzer beeping) - The Hudson River.

- That's incorrect.

(buzzer beeping) - The Ohio?

- That is correct.

Alright, next question, bonus question, pencil and paper ready: What is the base 10 or decimal equivalent of the base two or binary number 11111, given that five ones in all?

(no audio) - Sixty-two?

- That is incorrect.

Webber, a chance to steal.

- Ten.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was 31.

I don't even know how you would do that with so many ones in your head.

Okay, what type of image, which is produced by a plain mirror, forms in a location where rays cannot be projected onto a screen, as opposed to real images?

(no audio) (timer blaring) The answer was a lot simpler than I bet you were thinking.

It's just a virtual image.

Virtual image.

Our next tossup: What Germanic people, who founded an African kingdom under Genseric, led to a 455 sack of Rome, after which their name became a word for damaging property?

(buzzer beeping) - Vandals.

- Correct.

Alright, next bonus: A vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited to be a spy in a Graham Greene novel titled "Our Man in..." what world capital, the birthplace of poet Jose Marti?

- Mexico City.

- That is incorrect.

Webber Township?

- Paris.

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for, as Camilla Cabello once sung, Havana.

Our next toss up: What team starred Randy Johnston and Kurt Shilling when it won the 2001 World Series over the Yankees, and now plays at Chase Field in Phoenix?

(buzzer beeping) - Diamondbacks.

- That is correct.

Alright, Johnston City, for your bonus: What quantity, which tends to increase with nuclear charge, is 13.6 EV for hydrogen and is the amount of energy required to remove an electron?

- Electronegativity.

- That is incorrect.

Webber Township?

- Ionic number.

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for ionization energy.

Alright, for the next toss up: What compounds can be reduced by Lindlar's catalyst include acetylene, or C2H2, and are hydrocarbons containing a carbon-carbon triple bond?

(buzzer beeping) - Chase.

- Alkynes?

- That is correct.

Alright, Johnston City, for your next bonus: The European Space Agency has its main space port in Kourou, a town in what overseas region, whose most populous city is Cayenne?

(no audio) (timer blaring) Alright, Webber Township, you have a chance to steal, or?

Yes, you have a chance to steal - Bermuda.

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for the French Guiana.

French Guiana.

Alright, our next tossup: In what board game do players try to form bingos, which grant a 50 point bonus, and put power tiles like the Q and Z on triple word score squares?

(buzzer beeping) - Scrabble.

- Correct.

Alright, bonus question for Johnston City: What character from "To Kill a Mockingbird", one of my favorite books, who spends summers in Maycomb with his aunt is fascinated by Boo Radley and was based on Truman Capote?

- Dill.

- That is correct.

Our next tossup: What composer of a Scottish symphony was inspired to write "Fingal's Cave" by his trips to Scotland, and wrote an overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

(buzzer beeping) - Mendelssohn?

- That is correct.

Alright, next bonus: What Hindu god is often depicted wearing the serpent, Vasuki, around his neck, with the Ganges river flowing from his hair, and with a third eye?

- Shiva.

- That's correct.

Alright, next tossup: What author, whose story "Big Two-Hearted River" features his reoccurring character, Nick Adams, wrote about Jake Barnes in "The Sun Also Rises"?

(buzzer beeping) - Hemingway.

- That is correct.

Alright, next tossup: Death Valley as an example of what effect, in which an area on the leeward side of the mountain experiences very little precipitation?

This is a bonus.

I apologize.

- Rain shadow.

- That is correct.

Now for our next tossup: What city, whose Nazi occupiers governed the Hotel Majestic, celebrated its August, 1944, handover to the allies by ringing bells at Notre Dame?

(buzzer beeping) - Luke.

- Paris.

- That is correct.

Alright, Webber Township, for your bonus: From 1975 to 2017, the largest class of US aircraft carriers was named after what Admiral, who led the US Pacific fleet in World War II?

- Eisenhower.

- That is incorrect.

Johnston City, a chance to steal.

- McDougals.

- That's also incorrect.

We were looking for Chester William Nimitz.

Alright, so with that tossup done, we're going to go to our Lightning Round.

(dramatic lightning sound effects) Alright, we're gonna quick look at our scores.

So we have Johnston City on the top right now with 230, and Webber trailing with 70.

So Webber, since you guys are trailing, you guys get to pick first.

Your categories are: Scientific equations, American painters, animal adjectives, or Sweden.

(contestants whispering) - Animal adjectives.

- Alright.

Now just a reminder, you have a minute to answer as many questions as you can.

You can pass, and I will circle back to the ones you passed at the end.

Alright, are we ready?

Are you guys ready?

Alright, I'll count you guys down in three, two, one.

Oh wait, hold on.

Let me tell you what you're doing.

Animal adjectives.

Name the animal referenced by these adjectives.

For example, canine, we're looking for dog.

Now I'll count you down in three, two, one.

Bovine.

- Pig?

- That is incorrect.

Avian.

- Bird.

- Correct.

- [Sabrina] Ursine.

- Pass.

- [Sabrina] Equine.

- Horse.

- That is correct.

Porcine.

- Pass.

- [Sabrina] Vulpine.

- Pass.

- [Sabrina] Aquiline.

- Fish.

- That is incorrect.

Cervine.

- Pass.

- [Sabrina] Cygnine.

- Pass.

- [Sabrina] Corvine.

- Monkey.

- [Sabrina] That is incorrect.

Vulpine.

- Squirrel.

- [Sabrina] That is incorrect.

Cervine.

- Snake.

- That is incorrect.

And I think that was all of them.

(laughing) Alright, we'll go over the one that you got wrong.

So bovine was cow, avian, bird; ursine, bear; equine, horse, you got that one right; porcine was pig; vulpine was foxes; aquiline was eagles; cervine is deer; cygnine is swan; and corvine is crow.

Alright?

Those were harder than one would think.

Okay, Johnston City, your categories left are scientific equations, American painters, or Sweden.

(contestants whispering) - American painters.

- Alright.

Alright, again, you can pass any, and I will circle back to them at the end.

Okay, American painters.

Name the American painters of these paintings.

So I'll count you guys down in three, two, one.

"American Gothic".

- Grant Wood.

- That is correct.

"Nighthawks".

- Edward Hopper.

- That is correct.

"Arrangement in Gray and Black, Number 1", featuring his mother.

- James Abbot McNeill Whistler.

- [Sabrina] That is correct.

"Campbell's Soup Cans".

- Andy Warhol.

- Correct.

- "Christina's World".

- Andrew Wyeth.

- Correct.

"The Gross Clinic", "The Agnew Clinic".

- Rembrandt.

- That is incorrect.

"The Athenaeum Portrait", an unfinished work featuring George Washington.

- Gilbert Stuart.

- That is correct.

"Black Iris" and "Cow's Skull: Red, White and Blue".

- Georgia O'Keefe.

- That's correct.

"Number 11, 1952", also known as "The Blue Poles".

- Pass.

- [Sabrina] "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold".

- Jackson Pollock.

- That is incorrect.

"Number 11, 1952," also known as "Blue Poles".

- Pass.

- And that's the last one.

(laughing) (buzzer blaring) Alright, so I think that was kind of the only one you guys got wrong.

Oh, we had... "American Gothic" was Grant Wood; "Nighthawks", Edward Hopper; "Arrangement in Grey and Black, 1" featuring his mother was James Whistler: "Campbell's Soup Cans", Andy Warhol' "Christina's World", Andrew Wyeth; "The Gross Clinic" and "Agnew Clinic", Thomas Eakins; "The Athenaeum Portrait," unfinished work by George Washington was Gilbert Stuart; "Black Iris" and "Cow's Skull: Red, White and Blue" was Georgia O'Keefe; "Number 11, 1952" also known as "Blue Poles", was Paul Jackson Pollock; and "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold" was Charles Demuth.

So good job, guys.

Very good.

Alright, so we'll get back to our tossups.

And now after that we'll check our score first.

We have Johnston City still in the lead with 300 points, and Webber trailing with 90, but we still have half the game left, so you guys can pull through.

Alright, our next tossup: What 11-letter term can refer to aerobic or anaerobic processes that store energy from breaking down glucose in ATP, or to the act of breathing.

(buzzer beeping) - Respiration.

- That is correct.

Alright, for your tossup, or for your bonus: American minimalist composer John Adams worked with Director Peter Sellers on an opera about which US president's trip to China?

- Nixon.

- That is correct.

Next tossup: What Apostle was martyred in Ethiopia, hosted a dinner for Jesus at his house, was once a tax collector, and is the namesake (buzzer beeping) of the first gospel?

- Matthew.

- That is correct.

Alright, Johnston City on fire with the bonuses: What lake which intermittently receives the waters of Lake Managua is the largest lake in Central America?

- Lake Nicaragua.

- That is correct.

For our next tossup: What country, whose persecution of Rohingya people, spawned the world's largest refugee camp, was led by Aun San Suu Kyi until a 2021 coup?

(no audio) (timer blaring) Alright, the answer we were looking for, that one was Burma or Myanmar.

Alright, next tossup: What painting technique used to paint "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat involves many small dots of color.

(buzzer beeping) - Pointillism.

- That is correct.

Alright, Johnston City, for your bonus: In what European city in 1497 did Dominican Monk Girolamo Savonarola and his followers burn art and books in "A Bonfire of the Vanities"?

- Gunpowder Plot.

- That is incorrect.

Webber Township, a chance to steal.

- Paris.

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for Florence, the city of Florence.

Alright, our next tossup: What novel, whose protagonist works for the merchant Kamaswami before becoming an enlightened ferryman, was written by Herman Hesse about Buddhism?

(buzzer beeping) - "Siddhartha".

- That is correct.

Alright, for your bonus: What six-letter verb can mean either to read carefully or to look over casually.

(no audio) (timer blaring) Alright, Webber Township, a chance to steal.

- To graze.

- That is incorrect.

This one was a little tricky.

They're trying to trick you.

It's just to peruse.

To peruse.

Next tossup: What god, who was tricked into swallowing the Omphalos stone by his wife Rhea, was overthrown along with his fellow Titans?

(buzzer beeping) - Cronos.

- That is correct.

Alright, your bonus: The 2023 failure of Silicone Valley Bank followed what type of event, in which many depositors seek to withdraw their money simultaneously?

(timer blaring) Alright, you're all out of time.

Webber Township, a chance to steal.

- A run on the bank.

- [Sabrina] Will we accept that?

- No.

- No.

We're looking for a bank run.

- Okay.

- Alright, next, tossup: What logarithmic scale was devised by a professor at Caltech in 1935 for use in California, and assigns magnitudes up to 9.5 to measure earthquakes?

(buzzer beeping) - Richter.

- That is correct.

Alright, for your bonus: What playwright, who depicted Regina withholding her husband's medication and watching him die in "The Little Foxes" also wrote "The Children's Hour"?

- Hellman.

- That is correct.

Alright, our next tossup: What country's government killed the Mirabal sisters and carried out the Parsley Massacre under Raphael, true hero, who derided his neighbor, Haiti?

(buzzer beeping) - The Dominican Republic.

- That is correct.

Alright, bonus for Johnston City: In which modern US state was the short-lived republic of Fredonia created in 1826 by settlers rebelling against Mexican rule?

(contestants whispering) - Texas.

- That is correct.

Alright, onto a toss up: What object, the intended destination of an ocean gate submersible that was destroyed in June, 2023- (buzzer beeping) Chase.

- Titanic.

- That is correct.

Alright, for your next bonus, Johnston City, pencil and paper ready: What is the sum of the sine of 60 degrees, plus the cosine of 30 degrees, both of which have the same value?

(candidates whispering) - Root three.

- [Sabrina] Say that again.

- Root three.

- That is correct.

Alright, our next tossup: What objects can be square rigged, have types such as spinnaker and jibs, and are typically attached to the masts of boats to propel them using wind.

(buzzer beeping) - Sails.

- That is correct.

Alright, another bonus: Sandor Marai's 1942 novel "Embers" was written in what Eastern European language, which was also used by the Nobel Prize winner, Imre Kertesz?

(timer blaring) Alright, Webber Township, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Alright.

We were looking for Hungarian.

Hungarian.

Onto our next tossup: In 1957, what state's National Guard was federalized by Dwight Eisenhower to help nine black students integrate- (buzzer beeping) Ava?

- Arkansas.

- That is correct.

Alright, bonus question: What term refers to conditions often triggered by damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area that result in an inability to understand and produce speech?

(timer blaring) Webber Township, a chance to steal.

- Mute.

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for aphasia, a question I only knew the answer to because I'm watching "Gray's Anatomy" right now.

Alright, next, to our tossup question: What character, who has had five marriages, describes a knight's discovery that women desire sovereignty in one of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"?

(buzzer beeping) - "The Wife of Bath".

- That is correct.

Alright, Johnston City, your bonus question is: In 1861, Czar Alexander II issued an emancipation manifesto for the gradual freeing of what class of people?

- Serfs.

- That is correct.

(timer dinging) Alright.

Unfortunately, that is all the time we have.

It's a good job to all the teams and everyone behind the camera.

Thank you, and have a good night.

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