(soft music) (soft upbeat music) - Welcome to the 30th season finale of Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Jordan Spudville.

And we have our two finalist teams returning with us.

They're basically super geniuses by this point.

And somehow they're not tired of me yet.

On the bottom row, we have Marion with Caden, Drew and Jace.

And the top row, we've got Calloway with Cesar, Ellie and Jayden.

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

I'll be reading a series of 10 point tossup questions that any contestant can answer.

If a contestant gets a tossup correctly, their team gets the chance to answer a bonus question for double the points.

However, if that team gets the bonus incorrect, the other team can snatch it away from them and earn themselves 10 points.

The interruption rule is in effect as always.

So if someone dares to interrupt me and they get the answer wrong, the other team automatically receives five points and they get to hear the entire question.

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

Now that we know the rules and we know our players, 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 book attributed to the imprisoned John of Patmos, described the opening of the seven seals and is the final book in the New Testament?

(bell rings) - Jayden.

- Revelation.

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

Calloway here's your first bonus question.

Funafuti is the capital of what Pacific island nation that generates some of its revenue from sales of its .tv domain name?

- Tuvalu?

- That's correct for 20 points.

Moving on our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What planet with the mountain Maxwell Montes on the continent Ishtar Terra is called Earth's sister planet (bell rings) and lies between, Drew.

- Venus.

- Venus is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your first bonus question.

What businessman who is dead as a doornail delivers a ghostly warning to his former partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, in Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol?"

(buzzer sounds) That is time.

Calloway you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Bob Marley.

- [Jordan] Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer that we were looking for was Jacob Marley.

Very close.

Maybe his name was Bob in another world.

We don't know.

In the sequel.

Let's move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

In what present day country, where the Musket Wars took place, (bell dings) did the Treaty of, Caesar.

- New Zealand.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

In 2021, what country abolished its former one child policy, allowing women to have as many children as they want?

- China.

- China's correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What federal agency is currently led by Bill Nelson, launched its Lucy Project in 2021?

(bell dings) Caesar.

- NASA.

- NASA is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

Write once, run anywhere is a guiding principle of what object oriented programming language whose name and logo are inspired by Indonesian coffee?

- Java.

- Java is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What word, which titles a simple piano song that begins with F and G play together six times, identifies eating utensils common in east Asia.

(bell dings) - Ellie.

- "Chopsticks."

- "Chopsticks" is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What center fielder who hit 660 home runs, mostly for the San Francisco Giants, was nicknamed the "Say, Hey Kid?"

- Barry Bonds?

- Sorry.

That is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- Willie Mays?

- [Jordan] Willie maze is correct for 10 points.

It's now time for our first media question.

This is a video question.

Let's take a look.

This Netflix show is about a man who becomes obsessed with a woman and will do anything to be with her.

It stars "Gossip Girls" Penn Badgely as Joe and currently has three seasons.

(bell dings) Name the show, Ellie.

- "You."

- [Jordan] "You" is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What country, which contains the ancestral homeland of the IGBO people, is the most populous in Africa?

(bell dings) Drew.

- Nigeria.

- Nigeria is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Marion.

The Eliot Glacier is the largest ice mass on what mountain, the highest peak in Oregon?

- Hood.

- Hood is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What phenomenon occurs below the Curie temperature when all magnetic moments are aligned in the same direction and is naturally present in iron?

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Magnetivity?

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

(bell dings) Drew.

- Magnetism.

- Can you be more specific?

- Electromagnetism?

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was ferromagnetism.

That's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What man, who built the castle San Simeon, owned the New York Journal and used its yellow journalism?

(bell dings) Caesar.

- William Randolph Hearst.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What disease nicknamed the 100 day cough is characterized by paroxysmal gasps and has a vaccine combined with those for diptheria and tetanus?

- Meningitis?

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Marion, you do have a chance to steal.

- Tuberculosis.

- Sorry.

That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was pertussis, also known as the whooping cough.

Let's move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What composer who's "Zadok the Priest" is used in British coronations, wrote the oratorio "Israel in Egypt" and the music for the Royal fireworks?

(bell dings) Ellie.

- Handel.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What son of Sneferu who ruled Egypt during the fourth dynasty, ordered the construction of the great pyramid of Giza?

- Khufu.

- That is correct for 20 points.

(buzzer sounds) We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What land mass, which names a 120 mile wide channel that links the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico as a peninsula in Southern Mexico?

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Yucatan.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

The ideals of the older generation are challenged by nihilists, medical students, botheroff and what Russian author's 1862 novel "Fathers and Sons?"

- Gogle.

- Sorry.

That is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Dostoevsky.

- So that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Ivan Turgenev.

That's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next question.

This is a media question and it's an audio question.

Let's take a listen, (rap music) (bell dings) Jace.

- Gangster's Paradise.

- That is correct for 10 points.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup question for both teams.

What czar led Russian forces against Sweden in the Great Northern War.

(bell dings) Caesar.

- Peter the Great.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What Italian word meaning joke is often used to describe the fast movement of a standard classical era symphony.

- Staccato?

- Sorry.

That is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- Allegro?

- That's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was scherzo.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What author of the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" wrote about her childhood?

(bell dings) Ellie.

- Maya Angelou.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What country's only king, who reigned from 1928 until the Italian conquest in 1939, was former president Ahmed Zogu, who proclaimed himself King Zog the First?

- Albania.

- That is correct for 20 points.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

In what musical is "Brotherhood of Man" sung by J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses the title book to go from window washer to chairman of the board?

(bell dings) Ellie.

- "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

- That is correct for 10 points.

And I need to read that book.

Let's move on to your bonus question, Calloway.

What German director of "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and "Fitzcarraldo" is also known for the mellifluous voiceover featured in many of his documentaries?

- Freeman?

- Sorry that it's incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- Fritz Lane?

- Say it again.

- Fritz Lane.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Werner Herzog.

Okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup question for both teams.

What molecule, whose metabolism is the goal of the first known operon, is a disaccharide of glucose and galactose and is the main sugar in milk?

(bell dings) Drew.

- Lactose.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

Federico Garcia Lorca wrote a lament for the death of a member of what dangerous profession, which is shared by Pedro Romero and the "Sun Also Rises?"

- Soldier?

- Sorry.

That is incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Assassin?

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was a bullfighter, a matador.

It's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

Which novel, in which Laurie Lawrence's marriage proposal is rejected by Jo, centers on the (bell dings) four March sisters, Ellie.

- "Little Women."

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your bonus question.

What physicist imagined a demon that broke the second law of thermodynamics and collected a set of equations that unify electricity and magnetism.

- Maxwell.

- Maxwell is correct for 20 points.

And we have now made it halfway through our game.

So it's time for our lightning round.

All righty Marion, we're gonna let you choose your category first.

We've got four categories for you as always.

Pick the one that sounds most interesting to you.

The categories are as follows: Isaac Newton, Alberta, female athletes, or Greek letters.

- Isaac Newton.

- Isaac Newton it is.

In this lightning round category answer the following about Isaac Newton.

If you don't know an answer, we'll pass, go back if time allows.

If you get the answer wrong, we can't go back.

Marion, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Well, let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

He developed three laws of this concept.

- Pass.

- His Alma mater Oxford's rival.

- Leibniz.

- Incorrect.

The device whose first practical reflecting form he builds?

- Telescope.

- Correct.

Legendarily, this fruit led him to discover gravity?

- Apple.

- Correct.

He wrote on this science of light.

- Pass.

- He feuded with this man whose namesake law describes springs.

- Pass.

- Name given to his most productive year, 1666?

- Pass.

- Pandemic that struck England and Newton's college years?

- Black plague?

(upbeat music) - Correct.

This German and Newton are credited with inventing calculus.

- Leibniz.

- Correct.

He was master of this agency and produced British coins.

- Mint.

- Correct.

Going back to the ones you passed.

He developed (buzzer beeps) three laws and that is time on your lightning round.

But still a great lightning round to you guys.

I'll go over the ones that you passed or missed, starting with he developed three laws of this concept, motion.

His alma mater Oxford's rival was the University of Cambridge.

He wrote on this science of light, optics.

He Feuded with this man whose namesake law describes springs, Robert Hook.

Name given to his most productive year, 1666, was the year of wonders.

But still great job to you guys.

But Calloway, now it's your turn for your lightning round.

Got three categories left for you.

You can pick between three.

We have not Isaac Newton.

Don't listen to me.

We have Alberta, female athletes, or Greek letters.

- Alberta.

- Alberta it is.

In this lightning round category answer the following about the province of Alberta.

You know, if you don't know the answer, we'll go back.

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

If you get it wrong, we cannot go back.

Are you ready for your lightning round, Calloway?

- Yes.

- Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

It's capital.

- Edmonton.

- [Jordan] Correct.

It was named for a daughter of this English Monarch.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Alberta and this province are the only landlocked provinces.

- Saskatchewan.

- [Jordan] Correct.

It is home to this oldest Canadian national park.

- Banff.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Yellow Knife is the capital of this territory to its north.

- Northwest Territory.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Alberta's most populous city, it hosts a stampede rodeo.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] The province to its west.

- British Columbia.

- [Jordan] Correct.

The only US state it borders.

- Montana.

- Correct.

Its flag depicts this mountain range.

- The Rocky Mountains.

- Correct.

Its Waterton Lakes National Park forms an international peace park with this US park.

- Glacier.

- Correct.

- Going back to the ones you passed.

It was named for a daughter of this English monarch.

- Victoria.

- Correct.

Alberta's most populous city hosts a stampede rodeo.

- Regina.

- That is incorrect.

And that is all the questions (buzzer sounds) that we have for this lightning round.

Well done, Calloway.

I'll go over the one that you missed.

Alberta's most populous city that hosts a stampede rodeo is Calgary.

But great job to you guys.

But now it's time to move back to our 10 point toss up and bonus questions.

Starting with our next question is a media question.

This is a still question.

Let's take a look.

This actress stars as Jessica Huang in the ABC television comedy "Fresh Off the Boat."

She also starred in "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Hustlers" and has been nominated for two TCA awards and four Critics Choice television awards.

Name this actress.

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Park.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

(buzzer sounds) That is time on that question.

The answer that we were looking for was Constance Woo.

It's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

In 2021, protests in what country called for ousting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, a former coup leader governing under King Rama X from Bangkok.

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Thailand.

- Thailand is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

"Plants Versus Zombies" and others strategy games about impeding and killing waves of enemies belong to a sub genre named for the defense of what structures.

- Towers.

- Towers is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to the next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What surname was shared by the winning British commander at the Battle of Blenheim and the prime minister who replaced Neville Chamberlain (bell dings) in 1940.

Caden.

- Churchill.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

Which longtime rival of Benjamin Disraeli is the only man to serve four separate terms as a British prime minister.

- Gray.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

And Calloway, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Gladstone.

- Gladstone is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point Tossup for both teams.

What cells whose production is stimulated by the hormone EPO, lack a nucleus and contain large amounts of the oxygen binding protein hemoglobin?

(bell dings) Drew.

- Blood cells.

- [Jordan] Can you be more specific?

- Red blood cells.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

What 16th century Italian sculptor created a gold salt cellar for Francis I and a bronze sculpture titled "Perseus" with the head of Medusa?

- Raphael.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Calloway, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Rodin.

- That's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Benvenuto Cellini.

That's okay.

We're gonna go on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What author depicted aspiring rapper Brie Jackson in her novel "On the Come Up" and wrote "Concrete Rose" as a prequel to her YA book "The hate You Give?"

(buzzer sounds) That's okay.

The answer we were looking for was Angie Thomas.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What religion, whose followers carry a kirpan blade and do not (bell dings) cut their hair.

Caesar.

- Sikhism.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

Block Island is in what east coast state whose waters include most of Narragansett Bay?

- Rhode Island.

- That's correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next media question.

This is a video question.

Let's take a look.

(bell dings) Caden.

- Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect is correct for 10 points.

Moving on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What rapper behind the albums "Reasonable Doubt" and "The Blueprint", who also collaborated with Kanye West (bell dings) on "Watch."

Caden.

- Jay-Z.

- Jay-Z is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Marion.

In 1937, Chicago used radio for distance education after schools were closed by an outbreak of what childhood disease eradicated in the US in 1979?

- Polio.

- Polio is correct for 20 points.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What present verb form exemplified by the form of die in the phrase "I'm dying" is sometimes confused with a gerund and may be described as dangling?

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Participle.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What 20th century English playwright depicted the romantic foibles of witty middle class characters in comedies like "Private Lives" and "Blythe Spirit?"

- Brecht.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Amir Johnson.

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

Answer we were looking for was Noel Coward.

That's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What alkaloid that is named for a French ambassador was once widely used as an insecticide and is found in its highest concentrations in tobacco?

(bell dings) Caesar.

- Nicotine.

- Nicotine is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

In 2005, what planned city replaced Yangon as the capital of Myanmar?

- Naypyidaw.

- That is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What half snake cave dweller gave birth to Orthrus, the dragon, Ladon, the Chimera, the Cerberus, and was the mate of the serpentine monster, Typhon?

(bell dings) Ellie.

- Echidna.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

Coby mapped the anastrophe of what premordial radiation whose discovery won Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson a Nobel prize?

- Dark matter.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- Cosmic background radiation.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Moving on our next 10 point tossup for both teams.

In what battle where Albert Sidney Johnston died, did Ulysses Grant's troops counterattack to defeat Confederates in 1862 in Southern Tennessee?

(bell dings) Caesar.

- Shiloh.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

The three Muslim gun powder empires were the Mughals, the Ottomans, and what Iranian dynasty that ruled Persia from the 16th to the 18th centuries?

- Safavid.

- That's correct for 20 points.

It's time for our next media question.

This is an audio question.

Let's take a listen.

♪Feeling lost but now and then ♪ ♪I breathe it in- ♪ - This theme song is for a Nickelodeon sitcom.

The show is about a teenage girl who gets into an arts prep school as well as some sticky situations with her friends.

It stars Victoria Justice (bell dings) as the main character.

Caden.

- Victorious.

- Victorious is correct for 10 points.

Let's move on to the next 10 point tossup for both teams.

What son of Raja uses a Latin name that means nobody and captains the Nautilus submarine (bell dings) in Jules Verne's.

Ellie.

- Captain Nemo.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

Bright future, which favors European union membership, is a political party in what country whose parliament is called the Althing?

- Iceland.

- Iceland is correct for 20 points.

(doorbell rings) And that sound means it's the end of our game.

Calloway, congratulations.

You are our Scholastic Hi-Q winners, the champions.

You get the bragging rights.

But Marion, don't worry.

You guys were great sports.

You played a great game and you made it all this way.

Thank you both for being here cuz without you, we wouldn't have a game at all.

And of course thank you all for watching at home.

We'll see you next time on Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

(upbeat music)