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

I'm your host, Jordan Studville and today we are joined by two returning teams who are ready to battle it out for another round in our quarter finals.

On the bottom row, we have Mascoutah with Wyatt, Daniel and Mark.

And on the top row, we have Calloway with Cesar, Ellie and Jayden.

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

I'm gonna be reading a series of 10-point toss up questions that any contestant can answer.

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

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

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

So if someone dares to interrupt me, but they get the answer incorrect, the other team will automatically receive five points and they get to hear the entire question.

Of course, we have our lightening 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 under 60 seconds.

Now that we know the rules and we know our contestants, I think it's time to put on our thinking caps and let's get down to business.

Starting with our first 10-point toss up for both teams.

What element shown in 2003 to be very slowly radioactive is used in woods and metal and namesake gastrointestinal remedies, and has atomic symbol BI.

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Bismuth - That is correct for 10 point.

Calloway, here's your first bonus question.

A namesake rule of the Supreme Court holds that what minimum number of judges must agree to grant cert or hear a case?

- Five.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mascoutah, you have a chance to steal.

- Majority rule - Sorry, that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the four justices, very close.

Its Okay, we move on to our next 10-point toss -up for both teams.

What word names an Ethiopian built dam on the Nile, a 1920s cultural movement based in Harlem and a 15th century humanist European Rebirth, Cesar.

- Renaissance.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

This is a math question.

So get your pencils and paper ready?

What is the area in square inches of a square whose sides each have a length of two feet?

- Four square inches.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

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

- 48.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was 576 square inches.

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

What novel, which opens by declaring that happy families are all alike?

Is about a woman who has an affair with Count Vronsky and is by Leo Tolstoy.

(bell dings) Ellie.

- "Anna Karenina."

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next 20 point bonus question.

Ping pong diplomacy refers to a cultural exchange between the US and what country that president Richard Nixon visited in 1972?

- China.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What Explorer, who is mythologized, excuse me, in "The Luciads" followed a path charted by Bartholomew Diaz to- (bell dings) Jayden.

- Vasco da Gamma.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Thank you for putting me out of my misery on that question.

Let's move on to your next bonus question.

Calloway, what misleadingly named African country, whose capital of Malabo lies on Bioko Island does not actually lie along zero degrees, latitude?

- Equatorial Guinea.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What country led by the Christian Democratic Union suffered deadly flooding?

(bell dings) Cesar.

- Germany.

- Germany is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What American choreographer worked with Aaron Copland on Appalachian spring and developed an influential dance technique named for her.

- Martha Graham.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What molecules whose activity is described by the induced fit model, have names ending in A-S-E, and lower the activation energy of biological reactions (bell dings) Mark.

- Catalysts.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

(machine buzzing) And that's time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was enzymes.

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

What Shakespearian title character claims to be determined, to prove a villain and is a king who dies crying, "My kingdom for a horse," at Bosworth Field?

(bell dings) Mark.

- King Eer.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Ellie.

- Richard the third.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question, courts and many other crystals display what property of accumulating a separated electric charge when mechanical stress is applied.

- Pass - Alright, Mascoutah, you have a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we were looking for was Piazza electricity.

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

What TV show in which a slow cooker started a fire that killed Jack is an NBC drama that uses flashbacks to depict the lives of the Pearson family.

(machine beeping) That is time on that question and the answer we were looking for was "This Is Us."

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

What movement that started in Zuccotti park in 2011 used- (bell dings) Cesar.

- Occupy Wall Street.

- That's correct for 10 point Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What novel by the Soviet author, Boris Pasternak, is named after a love sick physician who lives through the Bolshevik Revolution, excuse me- (students whispering) - Doctor Zhivago.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What country where the national day rally speech's delivered by Lee Hsien Loong uses canning as a legal punishment and is a small asian city state.

(bell dings) Wyatt.

- Singapore.

- Singapore is correct for 10 points.

Mascoutah, here's your next bonus question.

What Japanese artists created a woodblock print known as "The Great Wave Of Kanagawa".

- No answer - All right Calloway, you have a chance to steal.

(students whispering) - Tabubata.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Katsushika Hokusai.

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

What MLB team based from 1954 to 1991 at Memorial Stadium was the only team of Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr. (bell dings) And is name for an orange bird, Jayden, - Baltimore Orioles.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here your next bonus question.

A monster, similar to the Loch ness monster is rumored to live in what lake on whose shore is the City of Burlington, Vermont?

- Lake Champlain.

- That is correct for 20 points.

Let's move on to our next 10 toss up for both teams.

What general, who supposedly said, "Lafayette we are here," in 1917, led the American expeditionary force in World War I (bell dings) and was nicknamed... Cesar.

- Pershing.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What Northern Irish author described his father planting potatoes in the poem "Digging" and produced an acclaimed verse translation of a Beowulf in 1999?

(students whispering) - O'Higgins?

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mascoutah, you have a chance to steal.

- Taw kin.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Seamus Heaney.

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

What symphony, who sequel is titled "Lay Lilo", depicts a march to the scaffold in the fourth of its five movements and it was written by Hector Berlioz?

(bell dings) Ellie.

- Symphonie Fantastique.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

Micro filaments, microtubules and intermediate filaments give structure to what region of a cell that includes everything outside the nucleus?

(students whispering) - Cytoplasm.

- That is correct for 20 points.

Moving on to our next 10-point toss up for both teams, what mathematical objects, two of which can be combined with a Cartesian product or by taking the union of them and our unordered lists of elements?

(bell dings) Wyatt - Set.

- Set is correct for 10 points.

Mascoutah, here's your next bonus question.

What 2018 song, which notes, "You'll be left in the dust unless I stuck by ya," was recorded for the Spider-Man into the spider verse soundtrack?

- Sunflower.

- Sunflower's, correct for 20 points.

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

What city which is the most populous in the mountain time zone, and the most populous state capital is named after a mythical, self-emulating bird?

(bell dings) Jayden.

- Phoenix.

- Phoenix is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What type of object in which Huckleberry Finn hides a bag of gold is used by Ishmael in Moby Dick as a boy after the Pequod sinks?

- The coffin.

- Coffin is correct for 20 points.

And we have now made it halfway through our game, which means it's time for our lightning round.

(lightening crackling) All right, Mascoutah, we are gonna let you choose your category first.

We have four categories for you to choose from.

I want you to pick the one that sounds most interesting to you.

The categories are chemical formulas, national heroes, baseball stadiums, or effects.

- What do you want?

- Chemical formulas?

- No.

- National heroes.

- National heroes it is.

In this lightning round category name the present day countries with these national heroes.

If you don't know an answer, we can pass and go back if time allows if you do not know the answer and you get it wrong, we cannot go back to that question.

Mascoutah, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Ready as we'll ever be.

- That's what I like to hear.

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

Joan of Arc.

- France.

- Correct, Davy Crockett.

- US.

- Correct.

- [Jordan] William Tell.

- United Kingdom.

- [Jordan] Incorrect, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

- Pass.

- [Jordan] Poncho Via.

- Mexico - Correct, Nelson Mandela.

- South Africa - Correct, Giuseppe Garibaldi.

- Italy.

- Correct, Ned Kelly.

- Pass.

- Jose Marti.

(upbeat music) - Spain - [Jordan] Incorrect, Jose Rizal.

- Spain.

- Incorrect.

The ones you passed, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

- Egypt.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

Ned Kelly.

- Canada.

- That's incorrect.

And that is all the lightning round questions that we have for this category.

So like great lightning round for you guys, but I'll go over the ones that you passed or missed, starting with William Tell, was Switzerland.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was Turkey.

That was a tough one.

Ned Kelly is Australia.

Jose Marti was Cuba and Jose Rizal was the Philippines.

Still a great lightening round for you guys, but Calloway, it's your turn for your lightning round.

Got three categories remaining for you.

You can either answer questions about chemical formulas, baseball stadiums, or effects.

- Baseball stadiums.

- Baseball stadiums it is.

And this lightning round category I need given the name of the baseball stadium, name the city where it is located.

Again if you don't know the answer we can pass and go back if time allows, if you get the answer incorrect, we can not go back.

Calloway, are you ready for your lightning round?

- Yes.

- Let's begin 60 seconds on the clock.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

Yankee stadium.

- New York City.

- Correct, Wrigley Field.

- Chicago.

- Correct, Fenway Park.

- Boston - Correct, Cores Field.

- Denver.

- Correct.

American Family Field, known until 2020 as Miller Park.

- Milwaukee.

- Correct.

Rogers Center located near the base of the CN Tower.

- Toronto.

- Correct, Minute Maid Park.

- Houston, - Correct, Busch Stadium.

- St. Louis.

- Correct.

Target Field which replaced the Metrodome.

- Minneapolis.

- Correct.

Globe Life Field in the same city as the home of the Dallas Cowboys.

- Arlington.

- That is correct.

And that is all the questions we have for that lightening round.

Perfect score Calloway, great job.

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

Starting with our next 10-point toss up for both teams.

What nine-letter term refers to the period in which Catalhoyuk, was founded and agriculture arose and was the last or new period of the stone age?

(bell dinging) Jayden.

- Neolithic.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question Calloway.

What book was compiled in 1086 by Norman agents to be a definitive assessment of English landholdings?

(student whispering) - "Dump State Book."

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What phase of matter consists of freely moving charged particles (bell dinging) and is exemplified, Mark.

- Plasma.

- Plasma is correct for 10 points.

Mascuotah here's your next bonus question.

What data type named, for an English mathematician can only hold one of two logical values, true or false, - Real.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Calloway, You have a chance to steal.

- True.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was bullying.

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

What author wrote about the town of Templeton in his 1823 novel "The Pioneers" which was the fourth book and in his series (bell dinging) of leather stocking tales, Ellie?

- Cooper.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

what Central Asian country, whose city of Osh lies in the Ferghana Valley is governed from Bishkek?

- Kyrgyzstan.

- That is correct for 10 points.

I apologize for 20 points.

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

What five-day holiday on which lamps called The Diyas are lit include ceremonies honoring the goddess, Lakshmi, and as a Hindu festival of lights?

(bell dinging) Jayden.

- Holy.

- Sorry.

- Holy.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

(machine beeping) That's time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was the Diwali.

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.

If a standard six-sided die is rolled three times, what is the probability that it shows an odd number all three times?

(bell dinging) Cesar.

- One eighth.

- One eighth is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

The virtuous red cross night defeat a dragon in what Epic 16th century poem by the English author, Edmund Spencer.

- The Fairy Queen.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What country where the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was based, was the birthplace of Joshua Reynolds, the first president of its Royal Academy of Arts?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Australia.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(bell dinging) Jayden.

- Canada.

- Sorry, that's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the United Kingdom.

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

The cotton massacre occurred in what country that was partitioned by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (bell dinging) and invaded... Cesar.

- Poland.

- Poland is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

Giant tube worms live near what features on the ocean floor, which release geothermally heated water, which include white smokers and black smokers?

(students whispering) - Vents.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What country home to the remaining speakers of the I new language uses Kona syllabaries in its main language, which is spoken in cities like Kyoto?

(bell dinging) Jayden - Japan.

- Japan is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What city's name is commonly used for the German government from 1919 to 1933, whose last president, Paul Von Hindenburg handed power to the Nazis.

- Weimar.

- That is correct for 20 points.

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

What structures whose roots are surrounded by submentum are strengthened by fluoride and include type such as incisors, canines- (bell dinging) Mark.

- Teeth.

- Teeth is correct for 10 points.

Mascoutah, here's your next bonus question.

In 2021, what billionaire flew on VSS Unity, a spaceship built by his company, Virgin Galactic?

- No answer.

- Calloway, you have a chance to steal.

- Richard Branson.

- Richard Branson.

- That is correct for 10 points.

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

What civilization used knotted strings called quipu for- (bell dinging) Cesar.

- Inca's.

- Sorry.

- Inca's.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

What quantity which is large for chlorine is often defined as the amount of energy released when a gaseous atom gains an electron?

- Ionization energy.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mascoutah, you have a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- That's okay the answer we were looking for was electron affinity.

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

What author wrote about a royal prisoner in "The Man in the Iron Mask" which continued a story begun in his French man's novel, "The Three Musketeers?"

(machine beeping) That is time on that question.

And that's okay.

The answer we were looking for was Alexander Dumas.

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

What character who visits Vibe Island with Perry at the parasol is a namesake 2005 DS game?

Wyatt.

- Peach.

- That is correct for 10 point.

Mascoutah, here's your next bonus question.

In the sixth century, Belisarius fought for what great Byzantine emperor and helped him reclaim lands in Italy, North Africa and Spain?

- Constantine.

- Constantine.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

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

- Justinian.

- Justinian is correct for 20, sorry for 10 points.

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

What country, which controlled present day, Mali and Senegal as part of its West Africa colony also controlled the North American colony of Quebec.

Cesar.

- France - France is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

As its two-word name suggests, what theory is the currently dominant theory that classifies elementary particles?

(students whispering) - Pass.

(machine beeping) - [Jessica] All right, Mascoutah, you have a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- That's okay.

The answer we were looking for was the standard model.

We're 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 is the length of the longer leg of a right triangle whose short leg measures 12 and who's hypotenuse has a length of 20?

(bell dinging) Mark.

- 13.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

(bell dinging) Cesar.

- 16.

- 16 is correct for 10 points.

Calloway, here's your next bonus question.

In sports what word can refer to a golfer with a zero handicap or in billiards pocketing the cue ball?

- Per.

- [Jordan] Sorry, that is incorrect.

Mascoutah, you have a chance to steal.

- Scratch.

- Scratch is correct for 10 points.

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

What island whose primary settlement is Papeete is the largest member of French Polynesia and the former residents of artist Paul Gauguin?

(bell dinging) Jayden.

- Tahiti.

- Tahiti is correct for 10 points.

Here's your next bonus question, Calloway.

What author of the memoir "Black Boy" wrote a novel about murderer, Bigger Thomas?

- Richard Wright.

- Richard Wright.

- Richard Wright is correct for 20 points.

(bell dinging) And that sound means it is the end of our game.

Calloway, congratulations, you guys are our winners and still congratulations to you guys as well, Mascoutah, you guys played a great game.

Thank you so much for being here with us and thank you as well for being here too, Calloway, And of course thank you all at home for watching.

Please watch a lot more and play along at home and we'll see you next time on Scholastic HI-Q.

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