(jingle plays) (lively music) (music intensifies) (music intensifies) - Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Jordan Spudville, and we have finally made it to the final round of our quarter finals.

We have two teams returning with us.

On the bottom row we have Gibault, with Drew S., Noah, and who can forget that memorable SpongeBob mask, it's Brennan.

On the top row we have Marion, with Caden, Drew once again, and Jace.

Now that we've met our contestants, let's go over the rules.

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

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

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

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

So if somebody decides to interrupt me, but they get the answer incorrect, the other team automatically receives five points and they get to hear the entire question.

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

Now that we know the rules, we've met our players, it's time to put on our thinking cap and let's get down to quizness, starting with our first 10-point tossup for both teams.

What meeting in upstate New York, whose only Black attendee was Frederick Douglass, produced the 1848 "Declaration of Sentiments" about women's rights?

(buzzer beeps) Caden.

- Seneca Falls?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your first bonus question.

Which largest moon of Neptune is also the largest moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit?

- [Drew] Pass.

- [Jordan] Gibault, you have a chance to steal.

- [Brennan] Triton.

- Triton is correct for 10 points.

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

What law, with improved versions such as the Redlich-Kwong equation that include inter-molecular attractions, is an equation of state saying PV equals nRT?

(buzzer beeps) Drew.

- Ideal gas law.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

In 2020, what MLB team was implicated in a sign-stealing scandal, in which players banged on a trash can to indicate what pitches were coming?

- [Caden] Astros.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What NBA team, whose home arena is the Footprint Center, lost the 2021 finals to the Milwaukee Bucks, (buzzer beeps) is led by- Caden.

- Suns.

That is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

In "The Crucible," what character says the final line, "He has his goodness now.

God forbid I take it from him."

after her husband John is led away?

- [Caden] Elizabeth Proctor.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What country, where many dissidents have ignored the government's 2016 peace treaty with FARC, is the largest producer of cocaine in South America?

(buzzer beeps) Drew.

- Colombia.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

The shootdown of Gary Powers' U-2 plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 damaged relations between Dwight Eisenhower and what Soviet leader?

- [Drew] Khrushchev?

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What city, which merged with Aker in the 1940s, was once known as Christiania, annually presents the Nobel Peace Prize, and is the capital of Norway?

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Oslo?

- Oslo is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

A green wire indicates it is being used for what practice of connecting electrical equipment to the earth or some conductor?

- [Drew S.] Grounding?

- Grounding is correct for 20 points.

It is now time for our first media question, and this is an audio question.

Let's take a listen.

♪ Are in mine ♪ ♪ Yes we have a suite life ♪ This opening theme song is for a sitcom ♪ Most of the time ♪ that aired on Disney Channel.

♪ You and me we got the world ♪ (buzzer beeps) It starred- Jace.

- "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody"?

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What form of precipitation typically forms alternating rings of white and clear ice, forms in warm-weather thunderstorms, and can be golf-ball size?

(buzzer beeps) Drew S. - Hail.

- Hail is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

A Friedrich Klinger play had what German title often translated as "storm and stress," which was also the name of an early Romantic literary movement?

(time-out alarm goes off) That is time.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] Romanticism?

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Sturm und Drang."

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

What artist, who depicted the dead and dying thrown overboard in "The Slave Ship," showed a train crossing a railway bridge in "Rain, Steam and Speed"?

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Rockwell?

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

(time-out alarm goes off) That is time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was J. M. W. Turner.

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

What character, who throws hot applesauce into the face of his rival Edgar Linton, loves Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights"?

(buzzer beeps) Caden.

- Heathcliff?

- Heathcliff is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Marion.

What answer to the question of life, the universe and everything in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is Jackie Robinson's retired jersey number?

- [Drew] 42.

- 42 is correct for 20 points.

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

What hero, who killed the Crommyonian Sow on his journey from Troezen to Athens, successfully navigated the Cretan Labyrinth and killed the Minotaur?

(buzzer beeps) Brennan.

- Theseus.

- Theseus is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

The speed of light equals the frequency times what quantity, which ranges from about 400 to 700 nanometers for visible light?

- [Brennan] Wavelength?

- Wavelength is correct for 20 points.

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

What agreement that won the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat was negotiated at and named for the US presidential retreat?

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Camp David Accords.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

What set of four Hindu scriptures includes volumes whose names include Sama and Atharva?

- [Brennan] The Vedas?

- That is correct for 20 points.

It's now time for our next media question.

This is a still question.

Let's take a look.

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Lil Nas X.

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What integer, which is the kissing number for equal-sized circles in a plane, is the smallest perfect number and the third triangular number?

(buzzer beeps) Drew.

- 6?

- 6 is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

What philosopher argued that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth in his book "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

- [Drew] Pass.

- [Jordan] Okay, Gibault, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- [Brennan] Descartes?

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was John Locke.

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

What sitcom that depicted a dance called the Carlton (buzzer beeps) centered on a teen- Caden.

- "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

- That is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

The "actual malice" standard of libel was established in a landmark 1964 Supreme Court case involving L. B. Sullivan and what newspaper?

- [Jace] The New York Times?

- The New York Times is correct for 20 points.

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

What music company, which had a September 2021 IPO, is one of the big three record labels with Sony and Warner, and shares its name with a film studio?

(buzzer beeps) Jace.

- Paramount?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Drew S. - Universal.

- Universal is correct for 10 points.

Gibault here's your next bonus question.

What 10-letter term describes acids that can donate more than one proton per molecule in solution?

- [Brennan] Homogenous?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] Acidic?

- So that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was polyprotic.

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

What country, which was formerly ruled by the Islamic Courts Union, is separated from Yemen by the Gulf of Aden and is governed from Mogadishu?

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Somalia?

- That's correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

A French term meaning "hobby horse" inspired the name of what art movement, whose practitioners such as Marcel Duchamp embraced irrationality?

- [Brennan] Surrealism?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] Absurdism?

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the Dada movement.

That's okay, we're gonna move on to our next 10-point tossup for both teams.

What explorer, who received a ransom room full of gold after winning at Cajamarca and capturing Atahualpa, was a conquistador who conquered the Inca?

(buzzer beeps) Brennan.

- Pizarro.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

Effie Deans is freed from an Edinburgh prison in "The Heart of Midlothian," a novel by what author, who depicted Jacobite rebels in his novel "Rob Roy"?

- [Brennan] Pass.

- [Jordan] Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] Smith?

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Sir Walter Scott.

We have now made it halfway through our game, so it's time for our lightning round.

(heavy rain falls and thunder crashes) All right, Gibault, we are gonna let you choose your category first.

We have four categories for you to choose from.

Please pick the one that sounds most interesting to you.

The categories are Texas History, Food Namesakes, Jimmy's, or Notable Italians.

- [Brennan] Food Namesakes.

- Food Namesakes it is.

In this lightning round, identify these foods and drinks named after people.

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

If you get an answer wrong, we can no longer go back to that question.

Gibault, are you ready for your lightning round?

- [All Three] Oh yeah.

- Oh yeah, let's do it.

60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

Salad with romaine lettuce and croutons.

- [Noah] Caesar.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Tea named for a noble British prime minister.

- [Noah] Earl Gray?

- [Jordan] Correct.

Peach dessert named for a soprano.

- [Noah] Pass.

- [Jordan] Half iced tea, half lemonade.

- [Noah] Arnold Palmer?

- [Jordan] Correct.

Chicken dish named for a Qing dynasty military leader.

- [Noah] Pass.

- [Jordan] Pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil.

- [Noah] Margarita.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Tortilla chips covered in melted cheese.

- [Noah] Nachos?

- [Jordan] Correct.

Non-alcoholic cocktail named for a '30s child star.

- [Noah] Shirley Temple.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Meringue dessert named for a Russian ballerina.

- [Noah] Pass.

- [Jordan] Green-colored oyster dish named after a rich magnate.

- [Noah] Pass.

- [Jordan] We're gonna go back to the ones you passed.

Peach dessert named for a soprano.

- [Noah] Pass.

- [Jordan] Chicken dish named for a Qing dynasty military leader.

- [Noah] General Tso's.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Meringue dessert named for a Russian ballerina.

(timeout buzzer buzzes) And that is time on your lightning round, a great lightning round, guys.

I'm officially starving, but we're now gonna go over the ones that you passed or missed, starting with the peach dessert named for a soprano, was Peach Melba.

Meringue dessert named for a Russian ballerina was the Pavlova.

And a green-colored oyster dish named after a rich magnate is the Oysters Rockefeller.

Still, great lightning round to you guys, but Marion, it's now your time to do your lightning round.

I've got three categories remaining for you.

You can answer questions about Texas History, Jimmy's, or Notable Italians.

- [Drew] Texas History.

- Texas History it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to answer the following about Texas history.

Same rules apply.

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

If you get an answer incorrect, we can no longer go back to that question.

Marion, are you ready for your lightning round?

- [Drew] Yes.

- Let's do it then.

60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in 3, 2, 1.

Father of Texas whose name's Texas's capital.

- [Drew] Austin.

- [Jordan] Correct.

President assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey- - [Jace] John F. Kennedy.

- [Jordan] Correct.

San Antonio mission where David Crockett died in 1836.

- [Jace] The Alamo.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Mexican general who ordered the siege on that mission.

- [Jace] Santa Anna?

- [Jordan] Correct.

Holiday commemorating when enslaved people in Texas received their freedom.

- [Jace] Pass.

- [Jordan] Substance discovered at Spindletop in 1901, leading to an economic boom.

- [Jace] Oil.

- [Jordan] Correct.

Port city destroyed by a 1900 hurricane.

- [Jace] Pass.

- [Jordan] Houston-based energy company that filed for bankruptcy in 2001.

- [Jace] Pass.

- [Jordan] President who annexed Texas after succeeding John Tyler.

- [Jace] James K. Polk.

James K. Polk.

- [Jordan] Correct.

City where David Koresh and the Branch Davidian cult established a compound.

- [Drew] Burlington?

- [Jordan] Incorrect.

Going back to the ones you passed, holiday commemorating when enslaved people in Texas received their freedom.

(time-out alarm goes off) That is time on your lightning round.

Still a great lightning round to you guys as well.

I'll go over the ones that you passed or missed, starting with the holiday commemorating when enslaved people in Texas received their freedom, is Juneteenth.

The port city destroyed by a 1900 hurricane was the Galveston.

The Houston-based energy company that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 was the Enron Corporation.

And the city where David Koresh and the Branch Davidian cult established a compound was the Waco.

Great lightning round to both of you, but it's now time to go back to our 10-point tossup questions and bonus question.

Moving on, we're gonna start up with our next media question.

And it's a video question.

So let's take a look.

By October 2019, this videogame console (buzzer beeps) had become- Brennan.

- PlayStation.

- [Jordan] Can you be more specific?

- PlayStation 5.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

And because of the interruption rule, (buzzer beeps) Marion, you get five points.

Caden.

- PlayStation 4.

- PlayStation 4 is correct for 10 points.

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

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

What is the x-intercept or root of the line y equals 3x minus 12?

(buzzer beeps) Caden.

- 4.

- 4 is correct, for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

What quantity is the amount of heat needed to change the temperature of a substance by one degree Celsius?

- [Drew] 12 degrees Fahrenheit?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Gibault, you have a chance to steal.

- [Brennan] Specific heat.

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What personality type, defined by Carl Jung as a tendency to focus attention on others, is the E in the OCEAN model, and contrasts (buzzer beeps) with an introvert?

Drew S. - Ethos?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that's incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Drew.

- Extroversion.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

What Conservative prime minister of Jewish heritage led the British acquisition of an interest in the Suez Canal in the late 19th century?

- [Drew] Pass.

- [Jordan] Gibault, you do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- [Brennan] Churchill.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Benjamin Disraeli.

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

What person who described being medicated with lithium in a June 2021 statement criticizing her conservatorship- (buzzer beeps) Drew S. - Spears?

- That is correct for 10 points.

We're gonna move on to our next bonus question for Juh-poh, Gibault, excuse me.

In 2021, Philip Davis became prime minister of what country, where he now governs from Nassau?

- [Brennan] The Bahamas?

- The Bahamas is correct for 20 points.

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

What French king, who once employed Jacques Necker as a finance minister, tried to flee Varennes in 1791 (buzzer beeps) before his execution by- Brennan.

- Louis XVI.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

What author created air-headed English gentleman Bertie Wooster, who is helped out of difficulties by a resourceful servant named Jeeves?

- [Brennan] Doyle.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] No answer.

- It's okay, the answer we were looking for was P. G. Wodehouse.

It's now time for our next media question.

This is an audio question.

Let's take a listen.

(slowed-down deepened voice speaking in foreign language) This language is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dene family, spoken primarily in the southwestern United States.

It is one of the most widely-spoken native American languages.

Name this language.

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Navajo?

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What magazine that first published James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" has a monocled mascot and is named after its city of publication?

(buzzer beeps) Brennan.

- London.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

(time-out alarm goes off) That is time on the question.

The answer we were looking for was "The New Yorker."

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

What fat-soluble vitamin, whose forms include cholecalciferol, regulates calcium homeostasis and is produced when the skin is exposed to sunlight?

(buzzer beeps) Drew.

- Vitamin D?

- That's correct, for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

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

What is the quotient of 3 raised to the 6th power divided by 9 squared?

- [Drew] 9?

- 9 is correct for 20 points.

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

In a flame test, sodium produces what color that names the turbans worn in a rebellion against China's (buzzer beeps) Han dynasty?

Caden.

- Yellow.

- Yellow is correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

What 20th century American author of light-hearted poems wrote "Line-Up for Yesterday," which alphabetically describes baseball stars?

- [Drew] Pass.

- [Jordan] Gibault, you do have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- [Brennan] Poet?

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Ogden Nash.

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

What show, in which Hannah Waddingham plays Rebecca, the owner of AFC Richmond, stars Jason Sudeikis as a football coach (buzzer beeps) hired to lead a soccer club- Brennan.

- Ted Lasso.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

What architect incorporated black granite walls into her designs for the Civil Rights Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

(time-out alarm goes off) That is time.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] No answer.

- It's okay, the answer that we were looking for was Maya Lin.

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

Scientists with what last name discovered piezoelectricity, shared a Nobel with Henri Becquerel for radioactivity research, and discovered radium?

(buzzer beeps) Caden.

- Curie.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Marion, here's your next bonus question.

The first derivative of a function gives the slope of what type of line that touches the function's graph at a given point, but does not cross it?

- [Drew] Tangent.

- That is correct for 20 points.

It's now time for our next media question.

This is a still question.

Let's take a look.

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Silver?

- Silver is correct for 10 points.

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

Who sings the aria "Non più andrai" and watches Count Almaviva pursue his beloved Susanna in a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera about his marriage?

- [Brennan] Figaro.

- [Jordan] Figaro is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

What synonym for "beginning" names both a video game digital distribution platform managed by EA, and a Cartesian point located at the coordinates 0, 0?

- [Drew S.] Origin?

- Origin is correct for 20 points.

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

What author, who wrote about the poet John Shade in his novel "Pale Fire," (buzzer beeps) wrote about Humbert- Brennan.

- Nabokov?

- That is correct for 10 points.

Gibault, here's your next bonus question.

A strike by workers at what subsidiary of Mondelez International began in August 2021 at a bakery in Portland, Oregon?

- [Brennan] Airliner.

(time-out alarm goes off) - [Jordan] Sorry?

- [Brennan] Airliner.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Marion, you have a chance to steal.

- [Drew] No answer.

- That's okay, the answer we were looking for was Nabisco, and unfortunately (doorbell rings) that's all the time we have for today's game.

Marion, you guys are our winners by five whole points.

Congratulations to you.

Congratulations, Gibault as well.

You guys tried very hard, it was a close game.

Thank you both for being here.

And of course, thank you all for watching at home.

Make sure to play along at home, and we'll see you next time on the game where knowledge rules.

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