(soft music) (camera clicking) (lively music) - Welcome to another quarterfinals episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have another great matchup in store for you today to see who will advance on to the semi-finals.

So let's introduce our teams.

On the bottom, we have Mascoutah with Wyatt, Kaylee, Johanna, and Nolan, and on the top we have Mater Dei with Madison, Ellen, Cohen, and Garrett.

Now, before we get into our questions, let's just do a quick recap 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 move on to a bonus question, which is worth 20 and can be stolen for 10.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt me and get a question wrong, it is five points for the other team.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, just interrupt me correctly, all right?

We all ready?

Let's get into the questions.

What town home to The McLean House is where a Union encirclement of the Army of Northern Virginia in April, 1865, forced Robert E. Lee to surrender?

(high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- Appomattox Court House.

- Appomattox Court House is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what composer created a bel canto mad scene in which the title character stabs her new husband, Arturo, in his opera, "Lucia di Lammermoor"?

(indistinct whispering) - Paganini.

- That's incorrect.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- Donizetti.

- Donizetti is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what country is the setting of "Sugar Street," "Palace of Desire," and "Palace Walk" which compromise- - Egypt?

- Egypt is correct.

Well done.

- Nice.

- For your bonus, what American film director is noted for his eccentric films, including "The French Dispatch," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," and "The Royal Tenenbaums"?

(chuckling) (faintly speaking) - Hitchcock.

- Hitchcock is incorrect.

(team laughing) Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- Wes Anderson.

- Wes Anderson is correct.

Well done.

- [Wyatt] Oh, that would make sense.

- A little more recent than Hitchcock, but I like the guess anyway.

- It's debatable.

- Onto your next question, what number which sounds familiar to the word for death in Chinese is avoided- Kaylee.

- Four.

- Four is correct.

Well done.

- [Nolan] Yeah.

- For your bonus, in 1973, American Indian activists occupied what South Dakota town, where over 250 indigenous women and children were killed by the US Army in 1890?

- Custer?

(faintly speaking) - Custer.

- [Ethan] Custer is incorrect.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- Wounded Knee.

- Wounded Knee is correct.

Well done.

Keeping the game even.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What obtuse angle is formed by the hour and minute hand of an analog clock at four o'clock given it's one third of a circle.

(low-pitched beeping) - Kaylee?

- 120 degrees.

- 120 degrees is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, keep those pencil and paper out.

Two answers required.

What two values of X satisfy the equation, the absolute value of the quantity X+4=7?

(pencils scratching) - 33...?

- Three and negative 11?

- Three and negative 11 is correct.

Well done.

On your next toss up, what city contains the headquarters of Mazda, is home to the Jan Letzel designed Genbaku Dome, and was the first city targeted with an atomic bomb?

(high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- Hiroshima.

- Hiroshima is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Belarusian art- What Belarusian-born Jewish artist painted the "White Crucifixion" and "Green Violinist," which may have inspired the title of "Fiddler on the Roof"?

(indistinct whispering) - No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- [Wyatt] Chagall.

- Chagall is correct.

Well done.

Onto your next question, what character drives to Waterbury and imagines piloting a Navy hydroplane in a 1939 James Thurber short story whose title refers- - [Wyatt] Walter Mitty?

- Walter Mitty is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what country's kings who were traditionally crowned on the Stone of Scone included John Balliol and Robert the Bruce?

- Is that Scotland?

- That's what I thought.

- Scotland.

- Scotland is correct.

- Nice.

- Onto the next toss up, in 2022, what league redesigned its championship trophy, the Larry O'Brien Trophy, to list the teams who have won it including the Bucks and Celtics?

(high-pitched beeping) Garrett.

- The NBA.

- NBA is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what author was just 18 when she published her debut novel, "The Outsiders," which is based on the teenage greaser culture of Tulsa, Oklahoma?

- I don't know her name.

Just say anyone.

- No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- Hinton.

- S.E.

Hinton is correct.

Well done.

Onto the next toss up, what force causes molecules of acidic acid to form dimers, is responsible for water's high boiling point, and involves bonds to the lightest element?

(low-pitched beeping) Wyatt?

- Hydrogen bonding.

Hydrogen bonding is correct.

For your bonus, what term names a region in the middle of a gene that is transcribed into mRNA, but spliced out of RNA before it is translated, unlike an exon.

- Intron.

- Intron is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what kingdom, which expanded under the great elector Frederick William conquered- Garrett - Prussia.

Prussia is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what president whose first lady was known as Lemonade Lucy for her support of temperance ended reconstruction after taking office in 1877?

- Hayes.

- Hayes is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups, what author depict- What author depicted Francis Wayland Thurston's investigation of a creature in the underwater city of R'lyeh his horror story, "The Call of Cthulhu"?

(high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- H.P.

Lovecraft.

- H.P.

Lovecraft is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what mainland Greek civilization from the late Bronze Age included the tyrant Pylos and a city where Heinrich Schliemann found the Mask of Agamemnon?

(indistinct whispering) - Mycenaeans.

- Mycenaeans is correct.

Well done.

And that will take us to our first media question.

This American rapper, singer, and songwriter is known for his hit songs such as "SICKO MODE"- (high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- Travis Scott.

- Travis Scott is correct.

Well done.

And since that was a media question, there is no bonus question, so we'll take it back to the toss ups.

What property which Young's equation relates to the contact angles of a fluid is lowered by surfactants and allows some insects to walk on water.

(low-pitched beeping) Kaylee.

- Cohesion.

- Cohesion is incorrect.

(high-pitched beeping) Garrett.

- Surface tension.

- Surface tension is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Russian composer's 15 symphonies include the "Leningrad," his seventh, and "Babi Yar," his 13th.

- Tchaikovsky?

- Yeah.

Go for it.

- Tchaikovsky.

- Tchaikovsky is incorrect.

- Shostakovich.

- Shostakovich is correct.

Well done, Mascoutah.

For the next toss up, what structure just south of the Vindolanda letters were found was begun in AD 122 by its namesake emperor to defend against Northern Britains.

(low-pitched beeping) Wyatt.

- Hadrian's Wall.

- Hadrian's wall is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Poet Laureate of the UK wrote the 1998 collection, "Birthday Letters," which contains verses about his troubled marriage to Sylvia Plath?

- Cooper.

- Cooper is incorrect.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

(indistinct whispering) - Burns.

- Burns is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Ted Hughes.

Ted Hughes.

Onto the next toss up, what country's president, Ebrahim Raisi, who, in 2021, succeeded Hassan Rouhani, is a close ally of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei?

(high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- Iran.

- Iran is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in June, 2022, Togo and Gabon were admitted to what organization consisting of former members of the British Empire?

- The Commonwealth.

- The Commonwealth is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss up, what events with an ictal phase have absence, tonic, and myloclonic varieties, are detected by EEG, and happen repeatedly in uncontrolled epilepsy?

(low-pitched beeping) Johanna.

- Muscle contractions.

- Muscle contractions is incorrect.

Mater Dei, you could still answer here.

(high-pitched beeping) Garrett.

- Seizures.

- Seizures is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what century named a crisis in which the Gallic and Palmyrene Empire seceded from the Roman Empire until they were reconquered by Emperor Aurelian?

- The third century.

- The third century is correct.

Well done.

Onto the next question.

In what event during which John Neville's house was attacked did George Washington lead troops to suppress protests against attacks on alcohol?

(high-pitched beeping) Garrett.

- The whiskey rebellion.

- The whiskey rebellion is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what 19th-century Danish philosopher considered a forerunner of the existentialists wrote "The Sickness unto Death" and "Either/Or"?

(indistinct whispering) - Braun.

- Braun is incorrect.

- Kierkegaard.

- Kierkegaard is correct.

Well done, Wyatt and Mascoutah.

Onto the next question.

What author's book 20 years after continues the story of Da- - [Wyatt] Achebe?

- Can you say it again?

- Achebe?

- Achebe is incorrect.

The story of D'artagnan who befriends the title soldiers in this Frenchman's novel, "The Three Musketeers"?

(high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- Dumas.

- Alexandre Dumas is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, a leaf can have thousands or millions of what openings for gas exchange, each of which is flanked by a pair of cell guards?

(indistinct whispering) - No answer.

- No answer.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- Stomata.

- Stomata is correct.

Well done.

Onto the next question.

What dark liquid extracted by injecting pressurized water into shale beds in a process known as fracking is- Johanna.

- Oil.

- Oil is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Nazi party restricted civil liberties and suppressed Communists using as pretext a fire at what Berlin Parliament building in 1933?

- No answer.

- No answer.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- The Reichstag.

- Reichstag building is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, what office building in Foggy Bottom was the site of a 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee- Cohen.

- Watergate.

Watergate is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what short story by Frank Stockton is named after the two possible fates that await accused criminals behind one of two doors?

- Prisoner's Dilemma.

- [Ethan] Prisoner's Dilemma is incorrect.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- Death and Taxes.

- Death and Taxes is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

Onto our next toss up, what country is home to the record label Big Hit Music which employs Tomorrow X Together and the septet behind the hits "Boys With Love" and "Butter," BTS.

Wyatt.

- South Korea.

- South Korea is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus, in September, 2022, Laxman Narasimhan was named the new CEO of what company based in Seattle replacing its interim CEO, Howard Schultz.

- Starbucks.

- Starbucks is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers nine and 15 given that the greatest common factor of the numbers is three?

(low-pitched beeping) Kaylee.

- 45.

45 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1888, what country during the reign of Pedro II became the final country in the Western world to abolish slavery?

- Brazil.

- Brazil is correct.

Well done.

Onto the next question.

What author of the verse-novel "Aurora Leigh" wrote a collection of 44 sonnets from the Portuguese including, "How do I love thee?

Let me count the ways"?

(low-pitched beeping) Wyatt.

- Lorca.

- Lorca is incorrect.

Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

(doorbell ringing) And that means we are headed to our lightning round.

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

Now, Mater Dei, since you guys are trailing in this one, you will get the first choice.

Your choices are Ballet, People with State Names, Yellow or Volcanoes.

- People with State Names.

- People with State Names it is.

People with State Names, name these people whose first or last name is also the name of a US state I will give you 60 seconds on the clock and count you down.

Three, two, one.

Author of the story, "Rip Van Winkle."

- Washington Irving.

- That's correct.

Whip-wielding archeologist played by Harrison Ford.

- Indiana Jones.

- That's correct.

- Author of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

I can't speak.

- Tennessee Williams.

- [Ethan] Tennessee Williams is correct.

- Alter ego of Disney Channel character, Miley Stewart.

- Hannah Montana.

- That's correct.

Author of "A Room of One's Own" and "To the Lighthouse."

- Virginia Woolf.

- That's correct.

- Painter of skulls and flowers who wed Alfred Stieglitz.

- Georgia O'Keeffe.

- That's correct.

Elite pool player from the novel, "The Hustler."

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Can you say again?

- Pass.

- Pass.

Okay.

Boarding school student who titles John Green's first novel.

- "Looking for Alaska."

Just Alaska.

- [Ethan] That is correct.

Top hat wearing frog created by Warner Brothers.

- Pass - James Spader's character on "The Office."

(indistinct whispering) - Pass.

- Elite pool player- (buzzer sounds) From the novel, "The Hustler," was Minnesota Fats, the top hat wearing frog created by Warner Brothers is Michigan J Frog, and James Spader's character on "The Office" was Robert California.

So getting seven out of 10, not two shabby at all, Mater Dei.

And I'll shift it over to Mascoutah.

Your guys' choices are Yellow, Ballet, or Volcanoes.

- We're gonna go with ballet.

- Ballet it is.

All right.

Give these answers related to classical ballet.

60 seconds on the clock and I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Gauzy skirt worn by ballerinas.

- Tutu.

- That's correct.

Popular Tchaikovsky ballet set at Christmas.

- "The Nutcracker."

- That's correct.

Five Italian letter word for a company's leading ballerina.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A twirl in one place on a foot.

- A pirouette.

- That's correct.

Home country of the Bolshoi Ballet.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] French word for step which appears in many dance terms.

- Pointe.

- That's incorrect.

- Technique of dancing on tiptoe.

- Pointe.

- That's correct.

A bend at the knees with the body held erect.

- Pass.

- Rail that dancers hold on to while performing warmups.

- Barre.

- That's correct.

Black woman who became principle dancer at the American Ballet Theater in 2015.

- Pass.

- Five letter word for a company's leading ballerina.

- Pass.

- Home country of the Bolshoi Ballet.

- Russia.

- That's correct.

A bend at the knees with the body held erect.

- Pirouette?

- That is incorrect.

Black woman who became the principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater.

(buzzer sounds) You guys are all out of time, so we'll go through the ones you missed.

For a five-letter Italian word for the leading ballerina was Prima.

Prima ballerina.

For home country of the- Oh, you guys got that one, of the Bolshoi Ballet was Russia.

French word for step which appears in many dance terms is pas.

Technique of dancing on tiptoe was on pointe.

You guys did get that one right.

A bend at the knee with the body held erect was plie.

And Black woman who became principle dancer at the American Ballet Theater in 2015 was Misty Copeland.

Now let's just take a quick look at the scores after the lightning round.

We have Mascoutah with 310 and Mater Dei with 305 so can't really get a lot closer than that and really anyone's game heading into our back half.

So let's get back into the toss ups.

In what state did tests of sewage in Nassau County reveal polio prompting Kathy Hochul to declare a state- Cohen.

- New York.

New York is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what American chemist who announced the discovery of new elements on a radio quiz show in 1945 helped discover plutonium?

(indistinct whispering) - Firme.

- Firme is incorrect.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- Seaborg.

- Seaborg is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, the genetic model fish, Danio rerio, is named after what African mammal that employs disruptive coloration through its black and white stripes?

Johanna.

- Zebra.

- Zebra is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Lisa McGee created what British TV show set in the 1990s which centers on a group of students at a Catholic high school in the title Northern Irish city?

- The Dubliners.

- The Dubliners is incorrect.

(Wyatt chuckling) - "Derry Girls."

- "Derry Girls" is correct.

I was gonna say, you are gonna make all the Irish people cry saying that Dublin's in Northern Ireland.

They're gonna be so upset.

(laughing) Onto the next toss up, what civilization invented cuneiform- (low-pitched beeping) Wyatt.

- Acadians?

- Acadians is incorrect.

Built ziggurats in its cities of Ur and Uruk and is the oldest historical Mesopotamian civilization?

Garrett.

- Sumer.

- Sumer is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Argentinian author depicted unusual fictional books in his short stories such as "The Book of Sand" and the "Library of Babel"?

(indistinct whispering) (buzzer sounds) Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- Borges.

- Borges is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss up, what instruments such as the Tom Taylor played by Joshua Bell and made by Antonio Strativari- (low-pitched beeping) - Violin.

- Violin is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what French scientist showed that one minus the ratio of the reservoir temperatures is the maximum efficiency of any heat engine?

- Du Chatelet?

- [Ethan] Du Chatelet is incorrect.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was Sadi Carnot.

Sadi Carnot.

For your next toss up, what man's spuriously credited with saying, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," wrote 1899's, "The Interpretation of Dreams"- (low-pitched beeping) - [Wyatt] Freud.

- Freud is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Pacific island Nation, which was formerly led by King George Tupou V is governed from Nukalofa?

(indistinct whispering) - Tuvalu.

- Tuvalu is incorrect.

Mater Dei, your chance to steal.

- Tonga.

- Tonga is correct.

Well done.

- [Ellen] Nice.

- For your next toss up, what yearly event in which 2021 was co-chaired by Timothee Chalamet and Naomi Osaka is a high-fashion benefit gala helmed by- Johanna.

- The Met Gala.

- The Met Gala is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what German author wrote about Gustav von Aschenbach, a tourist who became fixated on a Polish boy named Tadzio in the 1912 novella, "Death in Venice"?

- Mann.

- Thomas Mann is correct.

Well done.

Onto the next toss up, what dictator who overthrew King Idris in 1969 and wrote "The Green Book"- (high-pitched beeping) Cohen.

- Gaddafi.

- Gaddafi is correct.

Well done.

For your toss up, what is the name for a line segment that connects a vertex of a triangle to the opposite side and is perpendicular to that opposite side?

(indistinct whispering) - Altitude.

- Altitude is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss up, what sculpture whose plinth attributed it to Alexandros of Antioch was found in 1820 on a Greek island, has no arms, and depicts a love deity?

- "Venus de Milo."

- The "Venus de Milo" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what neighborhood of Mexico City lends its name to the brown-skinned apparition of the Virgin Mary who reportedly first visited Juan Diego in 1531?

- Chihuahua.

- [Ethan] Chihuahua is incorrect.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- Guadalupe.

- Guadalupe is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what state where in a 2022 Republican primary for Senate, Josh Mendel, lost to hillbilly- Cohen.

- Ohio.

- Ohio is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, after the arrival of the Argonauts, the sons of Boreas drove off what half woman, half bird monsters that had tormented Thracian King Phineus?

- Harpies.

- Harpies is correct.

Onto the next question, what scientists who studied optical isomers of tartaric acid developed a method for haunting bacterial growth by heating food products like milk?

(low-pitched beeping) - Pasteur.

- Pasteur is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the fundamental theorum of calculus essentially states that what operation is the reverse of differentiation?

(indistinct whispering) - Integration.

- [Ethan] Integration is correct.

Well done.

- Good job.

- For your next question, what structure which displays the names of 72 scientists lies on the west end of the Champ de Mars and was built for the 1889 World Fair in Paris?

Cohen.

- The Eiffel Tower.

- The Tour Eiffel is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what poet's "Meditation 17" notes that, quote, "any man's death diminishes me," coined the phrase, "for whom the bell tolls," and states that, "no man is an island"?

- Hemingway.

- [Ethan] Can you say that again?

- Hemingway.

- Hemingway is incorrect.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was John Donne.

John Donne.

For your next question, what building where meat and mead are produced by Heidrun and Saehrimnir, for the dead Einherjar, is a hall in Asgard- Cohen.

- Valhalla.

- Valhalla is correct.

For your bonus, what Hall of Fame pitcher holds MLB's all time crew record for strikeouts and threw a record seven no-hitters.

(indistinct whispering) - Cy Young.

- Cy Young is incorrect.

- [Nolan] Nolan Ryan.

- Nolan Ryan is correct.

Well done, other Nolan.

(team laughing) And that'll take us to another toss up.

What politician called nationalism, democracy, and welfare, the three principles of the people and founded the (speaking in Chinese) Cohen.

- Sun Yat-sen. - Sun Yat-sen is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what material property of being easily stretched into a wire is contrasted with malleability?

- Ductility.

- Ductility is correct.

(doorbell ringing) And that bell means we are all out of time and what a close game it was, our final score being 470, Mater Dei, to 440, Mascoutah.

You really could not make that game a whole lot closer.

So well done to both of you.

Fantastic performance.

So for all of our incredible contestants here today and the people working very hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much and goodnight.

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