(gentle music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic, wait, hey, boys.

Guys, I'm over here.

Come on.

I know I get called all skin and bones all the time, but I didn't think you guys took it that seriously.

Nonetheless, welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q.

I'm your host, the Onceler, and we have a very spooky episode for you here this evening.

But before we get into the game, let's introduce our lovely teams that have come here to join us.

So on the bottom we have team Marissa with Gramm, Matthew, Isaiah and Kaylin.

And on the top we have Mater Dei with Cohen, Garrett, Ellen, and Madison.

But before we get into the game let's just do a quick reminder of the rules.

We'll start off with some toss up questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they'll move on to a bonus question which is worth 20 points.

If a team gets a bonus question wrong, the other team does have the chance to steal for 10 points.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt me and get the question wrong, the other team will be awarded five points.

So just keep that in mind.

And if we are all ready, let's go ahead and get into the questions.

What type of cell which is regulated by the FOXP3 gene has a cytotoxic and helper varieties and is a white blood cell that develops in the thymus?

(buzzer rings) So you guys are all out of time.

The answer I was looking for there was T-cell, T-cell.

We'll just move on to the next one though.

For our next toss up, what empire lost Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert and was governed by the Comnenus dynasty by Justinian the (buzzer rings) Cohen?

- The Byzantine Empire.

- The Byzantine Empire is correct.

Well done.

Move on to our first bonus question.

Mystic Poet Rumi and the polymath Omar Khayyam who were both Muslim, wrote most of their poetry not in Arabic, but in what other language?

- Turkish?

- [The Onceler] Turkish is incorrect.

Marissa, you do have a chance to steal.

- Egyptian?

- Egyptian is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Persian.

Persian, very similar to those two though.

For our next question, which quantity which is measured using the Cattle Culture Fair test And the Stanford-Binet test has a median of 100 and quantifies mental ability?

- IQ?

- And you do need a buzz in.

Matthew?

- IQ.

- IQ is correct.

No worries, happens to the best of us.

And for your bonus, homolytic cleavage forms what type of chemical species that are especially reactive because they have unpaired electrons?

So you guys are all out of time.

Mater Dei, the chance is to you.

And no answer for you either.

The answer you're looking for was free radicals, free radicals.

On our next tossup, what country which home to the Rif Mountains also contains the western terminus of the Atlas Mountains which are found south of Casablanca?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Morocco.

- Morocco is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, characters named Snowball and Napoleon represent Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin in what allegory of the Russian Revolution written by George Orwell?

- "Animal Farm."

- "Animal Farm" is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What painter of the Netherlandish Proverbs nicknamed for his painting of peasants was a Flemish artist who painted "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?"

(buzzer rings) Gramm?

- Monet?

- [The Onceler] Monet is incorrect.

Ellen, I saw you reeling back in your chair there.

(buzzer rings) - Rembrandt.

- Rembrandt is also incorrect.

Ellen, you might have known this one.

The answer was Pieter Bruegel.

No?

Well, I like for you, you seemed like your head was in the right place.

- I know the painting, I just.

- Okay, okay.

And now we will take it to our first media question.

The peppy Young Teenage Fish Milo, his timid sibling Oscar, and their theater loving best friend Bea Goldfishberg are the protagonists of this Disney 2010s channel underwater comedy?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- "Fish Hooks."

- "Fish Hooks" is correct.

And because that is a media question there is no bonus question.

So we'll just take it back to toss ups.

What molecule, whose concentration can be measured in Dobson units is depleted by Chlorofluorocarbons and is composed of three oxygen atoms?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Ozone?

- Ozone is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus, the Three Kingdoms period followed which Chinese dynasty followed by Liu Bang that was overthrown by the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

(Mater Dei whispering) - Shang?

- Shang is incorrect.

Marissa, your chance to steal here.

- The Tang dynasty?

- The Tang dynasty is also incorrect.

The answer was Han, Han dynasty.

And onto the next toss up.

What British author rewrote six fairy tales in his 1982 book, "Revolting Rhymes" and described Golden, Cohen?

- Roald Dahl?

- Roald Dahl is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what quantity which equals the cross product of displacement and force is the rotational analog of force and is symbolized tau?

- Torque.

- Torque is correct.

Well done.

On to our next question.

What theologian who equated knowledge of self and knowledge of God in his institutes of the Christian religion was a Protestant reformer in Geneva?

(buzzer rings) Garrett?

- Calvin.

- Calvin is correct.

Well done.

I get the sense that that was just a shot in the dark kind of snipe.

- [Garrett] Yep.

- [The Onceler] Hey, we take it.

Nice guess.

For your bonus, what Spanish painter of "The Opening of the Fifth Seal" and "View of Toledo" is usually called by a nickname referring to his birth on Crete - El Greco?

- El Greco is correct.

On to the next question.

What primary color is the opposite cyan on a modern color wheel, once used pigments extracted from Cinnabar and has shades including Scarlet?

(buzzer rings) Gramm?

- Magenta.

- [The Onceler] Say again?

- Magenta.

- [The Onceler] Magenta is incorrect.

Madison?

- Red.

- Red is correct.

Everybody know Blaine the Pokemon gym leader has fire type Pokemon and is on Cinnabar Island.

I'm dating myself because people in the, well, previous show didn't know Pokemon.

But it's a fact for the day.

How for your bonus what two word English name is given to Israel's air defense system deployed in 2011 that intercepts incoming artillery shells and rockets?

- Iron dome.

- Iron dome is correct.

Well done.

Onto our next question.

What material made from beta-keratin has high tensile strength, is produced by spinerets and is used for ballooning and catching prey by spiders?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Web.

- [The Onceler] Web is not the answer we're looking for.

Grant?

- Cobweb?

- Cobweb also incorrect.

We were looking for spider silk.

So basically, but technically not what we were looking for there.

For the next toss up, what act which was declared a federal hate crime in a March 2022 law is an extrajudicial attack such as what happened in 1955 to Emmett Till?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Lynching.

- Lynching is correct For your bonus, in the Jason Bourne franchise, Bourne suffers from what psychological condition that has retrograde and anterograde types?

- Amnesia.

- Amnesia is correct.

And now we will take it to another media question.

This anthem is called "Forged From the Love of Liberty" and belongs to a twin island that is the southern most nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.

Its capital is Port of Spain, and its largest city is Chaguanas.

Names this country.

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Trinidad and Tobago.

- Trinidad and Tobago is correct.

Back to the toss ups.

What president under whom the Departments of Energy and Education were formed gave up his his Georgia peanut farm after (buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Jimmy Carter.

- Jimmy Carter is correct.

For your bonus, which English king was overthrown after the immortal seven issued the invitation to William, thus beginning the Glorious Revolution.

(Mater Dei whispering) (buzzer rings) Sorry you guys are all out of time.

Marissa, you do have a chance to steal.

- Henry the Eighth.

- Henry the Eighth is incorrect.

We were looking for James the Second of England.

The next tossup, what philosopher who's books include "Untimely Meditations" and "The Gay Science" wrote about the Übermensch or Superman in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra?"

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Nietzsch?

- Nietzsch is correct.

And then for your bonus, the so-called classical tests of what theory include explaining the Perihelion process of mercury or procession, excuse me, of mercury and observing light bending around the sun?

(buzzer rings) I'm sorry you guys are all out of time.

Marissa a chance to steal.

Are you guys all just looking at me (buzzer rings) waiting for the?

You can say, if you guys are just have no answer.

You can say no answer instead of just awkwardly staring at me waiting for the time to beep.

But that works too if that's what you're feeling.

The answer we were looking for there was general relativity, general relativity.

For the next toss up, in 2022 what man who made Chris Pincher Deputy Chief Whip despite misconduct charges was forced by his cabinet to resign as Britain's Prime Minister?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Boris Johnson.

- Boris Johnson is correct.

And then now for your bonus, I'm requiring two answers here.

What two states or two US states share the longest border, much of it along the Red River?

- Texas and Oklahoma.

Texas and Oklahoma is correct.

Well done, Cohen.

And with that we will take it to our lightning round.

(evil laughter) The way the lightning round works is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a particular topic.

Marissa, since you guys are trailing in this one, you will have the chance to pick your topic first.

Your choices are V in Science, Opera, River Cities or Lines.

- Lions.

- Lions?

- [The Onceler] Oh, it's lines, not lions.

- Lines?

- [The Onceler] Yeah, lines, like a line, yeah.

- Yes.

- Yeah.

- [The Onceler] You wanna do that one?

All right, cool.

- Thank you.

- And then for lines, answer the following believe it or not about lines.

I will put 60 seconds up on the clock for you, and I will count you down, three, two, one.

Number of lines in a typical haiku.

(dramatic music) - Seven - [The Onceler] Incorrect, mathematician whose fifth postulate deals with parallel lines.

(dramatic music) You can pass.

- Pass.

- [The Onceler] British word for a line in which people wait.

(dramatic music) - A cue?

- [The Onceler] Cue is correct.

Sport whose Mendoza line is a statistical one.

(dramatic music) - Lacrosse.

- [The Onceler] Incorrect.

These lines include the San Andreas one.

- Fault.

- [The Onceler] Fault line is correct.

In football standard number of offense men linemen on the field at a same time, at one time.

(dramatic music) - 12?

- [The Onceler] 12 is incorrect.

Longitude line that preceded or fight over the Oregon territory.

(dramatic music) - Pass.

- [The Onceler] Host of "Whose Line is it Anyways" and "The Price is Right?"

(dramatic music) - Pass.

- [The Onceler] Lines above or below a musical staff.

(dramatic music) (buzzer rings) Sorry you guys are all at a time.

The number of lines in a typical haiku is three.

Mathematician whose fifth postulate deals with parallel lines was Euclid.

A sport whose Mendoza line is a statistical one was baseball.

In football, standard number of offensive linemen on the field at one time was five.

Longitude line that proceeded or fight over the Oregon territory was at 54 degrees or 40 minutes.

Host of "Whose Line is it Anyways" is Drew Carey.

Lines above or below musical staff is ledger, and French defensive line the Germans went around in 1940, it was the Maginot Line.

Maginot Line.

So Marissa, that concludes your guys' bonus round.

And now Mater Dei, I'll reread your topics for you just so you know what they are.

V in Science, Opera or River Cities?

- River cities.

- River cities it is, all right.

So river cities, which national capital sits on these rivers.

I'll give you 60 seconds on the clock, and I'll count you down, three, two, one.

I held up four fingers, Thames or Thames, excuse me.

- London.

- [The Onceler] London is correct.

Dnieper?

- Kyiv.

- [The Onceler] Kyiv is correct.

Tiber?

- Rome.

- [The Onceler] That's correct.

Potomac?

- Washington.

- [The Onceler] That's correct.

Seine?

- Paris.

- [The Onceler] That's correct.

River Le Fay?

- Pass.

- [The Onceler] Han?

- Beijing - [The Onceler] That is incorrect.

Either of two on the Niger.

(dramatic music) - Pass.

- [The Onceler] Vltava, Vltava, excuse me.

(dramatic music) - Bucharest?

- [The Onceler] That is incorrect.

Tigris?

- Baghdad.

- [The Onceler] That's correct.

River Liffey?

Actually it might be Liffey.

- Dublin?

- [The Onceler] Dublin is correct.

Either of two on the Niger.

(dramatic music) (buzzer rings) So you guys are all out of time.

Either of two on the Niger, we were looking for was Bamako or Niemay, and one on the Vltava was Prague but you got the rest of 'em correct, so well done there.

And so with our lightning round done, let's take a look at our points.

Mater Dei you're holding a pretty commanding lead right now.

We have it at 310 to 30, but still half a game to come back.

No reason, Marissa, you guys can't make it happen.

And for our next toss up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the sum of the fractions 1/10 plus 1/11th?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- 21/110ths.

- 21/110ths is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Conway Cabal tried to replace George Washington as head of the Continental Army with what other American commander who won the Battle of Saratoga?

- Benedict Arnold?

- [The Onceler] Benedict Arnold is incorrect.

Marissa, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer you're looking for was Horatio Gates, Horatio Gates.

For the next toss up, what film whose making is the subject of the TV series "The Offer" features the line, "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse," said by Vito Corleone.

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Godfather.

- Godfather is correct.

For your bonus, an oscillating crystal of what mineral is used to accurately keep time in modern clocks and watches?

- Quartz?

- Quartz is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what colony where Pieds-Noirs settled became independent after the 1962 Évian Accords and was France's largest North African possession?

- Algeria.

- Algeria, oh.

(buzzer rings) - Algeria.

- Algeria is correct.

Well done there, Cohen.

And for your bonus, a magician brings the title puppet to life in Petrushka, a ballet by what Russian composer of "The Firebird."

- Tchaikovsky.

- [The Onceler] Tchaikovsky, is that what you said?

That is incorrect.

Marissa, a chance to steal.

- [Gramm] No answer.

- No answer, we were looking for Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky.

Back to the toss ups.

What objects have a planetary type formed by dying stars and a dark type rich in light absorbing dust and are clouds of interstellar gas?

(buzzer rings) Garrett.

- Nebula.

- Nebula is correct.

For your bonus, what author, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature, wrote novels inspired by her youth as a daughter of missionaries in China?

- No answer.

- [The Onceler] No answer.

Marissa, a chance to steal?

- No answer.

The answer we're looking for was Pearl S. Buck, Pearl S. Buck.

The next question, what sea borders the Port of Rasht, receives the waters of the Volga river and borders five countries?

(buzzer rings) - Caspian Sea.

- Caspian Sea is correct.

For your bonus, the regions around 30 degrees latitude are named after what animals whose wild members in the American west are called Mustangs?

- Horses.

- Horses is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What man who popularized the idea of the African American double consciousness in the souls of Black folk was a co-founder of the NAACP?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Booker T. Washington?

- [The Onceler] Booker T. Washington is incorrect.

(buzzer rings) Gramm?

- Malcolm X?

- Malcolm X is also incorrect.

We were looking for W.E.B.

Dubois, W.E.B.

Dubois.

Taking us back to a toss up, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed what programming language which may contain lines like "Go to 10" and is named for its general simplicity.

(Buzzer rings) Gramm?

- Java.

- [The Onceler] Java's incorrect.

(buzzer rings) Garrett?

- Python.

- Python is also incorrect.

We're really harping on the general simplicity part as it's named Basic.

And the next toss up, in what play is the Rude Mechanicals production of "Pyramus and Thisbe" viewed by Theseus and Hippolyta before its characters are blessed by Puck?

(buzzer rings) Gramm?

- Oedipus?

- Oedipus is incorrect.

Cohen?

- "Midsummer's Night Dream?"

- "A Midsummer's Night Dream" is correct.

Well done.

For the bonus, what phase transition, which is the opposite of sublimation occurs when a gas transforms directly into a solid?

Sorry you guys are all out of time.

Marissa, you do have a chance to steal that.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was deposition, deposition The next toss up, what building which was completed in 1800 and was designed by James Hoban is depicted on the $20 bill and is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- The White House?

- White House is correct.

For your bonus, the Palazzo Pitti was the main residence of what Florentine Banking family that included Lorenzo the Magnificent and several Grand Dukes of Tuscany?

- Medici.

- Medici is correct.

Well done there.

And that'll take us to another media question.

This movie made in 1985 is an American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton, starring Paul Reubens.

This film follows the story of a man's nationwide search.

(buzzer rings) Gramm?

- "Pee Wee Herman's Marvelous Adventure?"

- [The Onceler] That is not the exact name of the movie we're looking for, but definitely on the right track.

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- "Pee Wee's Big Adventure."

- "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" is correct, but definitely Gramm, you knew, you knew what it was.

Back to the toss ups.

What term that describes a piece played in response to applause typically at the end of a concert is derived from a word that means again?

(buzzer rings) Garrett> - Encore.

- Encore is correct.

For your bonus, Stereo Madness and Club Step are levels in what 2013 musical platform game in which a square character avoids spikes.

- Geometry Dash?

- Geometry Dash is correct.

Many rage filled lunch sessions trying to beat levels in that game.

That game is so hard.

Back to the toss ups, pencil and paper ready.

What is the square root of negative 121 given that the square root of negative one by definition is the imaginary number I?

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- 11 I?

- 11 I is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, keep those pencils and paper out.

I'm requiring two answers here.

The quantity four x squared minus 25 can be factored into what two binomials with integer coefficients?

(Mater Dei whispering) - Two x minus five, two x plus five?

- That is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss up.

What act whose pre-clearance requirements were ended by Shelby County v. Holder banned literacy tests and other forms of discrimination in suffrage.

(buzzer rings) I'm sorry you guys are all out of time.

The answer you're looking for was the Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On to another toss up.

What author whose novel "Oil" was adapted into the film "There Will be Blood" depicted Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus in his novel, "The Jungle?"

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Sinclair - Upton Sinclair is correct.

For your bonus, what current member of Joe Biden's cabinet was unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama?

- Merrick Garland.

- Merrick Garland is correct.

Back to another toss up.

What producer of the 2021 film "Candyman" who directed the horror films "Us" and (buzzer rings) Gramm?

- Jordan Peele.

- Jordan Peele is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what adjective describes a factor that divides evenly into an integer N and is strictly less than N, such as two with respect to 12?

- No answer.

- No answer, Mater Dei, chance to steal?

(Mater Dei whispering) - No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was proper factors or proper or devisers.

On to another tossup.

What set of elements that the IUPAC defines as possessing partially filled D orbitals includes copper and is found in the middle of the periodic table.

(buzzer rings) Garrett?

- Transition metals.

- Transition metals is correct.

For your bonus, in 2017 what British actress became the first woman to play the Time Lord protagonist of the BBC series "Dr.

Who?"

- Jody Goldberg.

- Jody Goldberg is incorrect.

Marissa, a chances to steal.

- Emily Blunt.

- Emily Blunt is also incorrect.

Ellen, you were real close, it was Jody Whitaker.

Jody Whitaker.

Back to the toss ups.

What author wrote about two sisters who are murdered with an ax by pawn shop client Rodion Raskolnikov in his novel "Crime and Punishment?"

(buzzer rings) Cohen?

- Dostoyevsky.

- Dostoyevsky is correct.

And for your bonus, in what 1990 law authored by Tom Harkin made closed captioning and wheelchair ramps more common by mandating that public places be made accessible.

- Americans with Disabilities Act.

- The Americans with Disabilities Act is correct.

And if I'm hearing correctly, I believe that is all the time we have for on today's show.

(bell ringing) That Bell confirms it.

So let's take a look at our scores.

Mater Dei, really taking control at the beginning of the game and not really giving any of that momentum back, ending the game at 580 to 40.

So that is all the time that we have for on today's show.

I know the camera's not even on me.

Again, I'm gonna throw my hat anyways.

I almost landed on the jib.

That would've been cool.

For all of our lovely people working behind the scenes that are all dressed up in costumes just like me.

And for all of our lovely contestants here today, I'm the Onceler.

Good night.

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