(relaxing music plays) (lens clicking) (relaxing music plays) (upbeat music plays) - Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q, the game we're knowledge rules.

I'm your host Ethan Neir, and we have another quarter finals matchup here in store for you tonight.

So let's go ahead and introduce our teams.

On the bottom we have Nashville, which I've just learned is Nashville, Illinois, and not Nashville, Tennessee, with Abby, Malayna, Garrett and John.

And Mater Dei, we have Cohen, Dominic, Garrett, and Madison.

So before we get into the game, let's just do a quick refresher on the rules.

We'll start off with some toss up questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points.

If they get it right, they'll get to move on to a bonus question which will be worth 20 points.

If a team gets a bonus question wrong, the other team can steal that bonus for 10 points.

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

And I'm sure you guys understand the rules at this point as we've been over 'em, so let's get into the questions.

And we'll start off, pencil and paper ready.

What number of degrees is equivalent to pi over six radians, given that a straight angle has pi radians.

(buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- 30.

- [Ethan] 30 degrees is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what word proceeded "now, tomorrow and forever" in the defiant 1963 inauguration address of Alabama Governor, George Wallace?

- Segregation.

- [Ethan] Segregation is correct.

Well done, Malayna.

On your next question, what city whose summer Olympics were boycotted by the US in 1980 was home to the headquarters of (buzzer beeps) Cohen?

- Moscow.

- [Ethan] Moscow is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what fruit is combined with grapes, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise in a traditional Waldorf salad?

- Jello.

- [Ethan] Jello is incorrect.

- Apples.

- [Ethan] Apples is correct.

Well done, Garrett.

Next toss up, what mother of Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus was... (buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Medusa.

- [Ethan] Medusa is correct.

I'm sure Jesse once again cringing that I messed up the pronunciation of a Greek name, but we'll keep going.

For your bonus, what patron God of Babylon defeated the dragon Musshumu, took the Tablet of Destinies from Kingu and slayed the sea serpent Tiamat?

- Gilgamesh?

- [Ethan] Gilgamesh is incorrect.

Nashville, you have a chance to steal.

- Pass.

- The answer we're looking for was Marduk, Marduk.

For your next tossup, what geospatial quantity is represented by contour lines on a topographic map, has a value of zero at sea level and is measured by... (buzzer beeps) Malayna.

- Evelation?

- [Ethan] Elevation.

- Elevation!

- [Ethan] I'm sure that's what you meant, is correct.

- Yes.

- And for your bonus pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of angle X if angle Y measures 140 degrees, and X and Y are vertical angles?

(team whispering) - 40?

- [Ethan] 40 is incorrect.

Mater Dei, chance to steal.

- 140 degrees.

- [Ethan] 140 degrees is correct, well done.

And now we'll take it to another toss up question.

What ruler, whose mother is known as the Younger Lady, was entered at a site known as KV62 later uncovered by Howard Carter and was a boy pharaoh?

(buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Tutankhamun.

- [Ethan] Tutankhamun is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what sixth century BC reformer democratized participation in ecclesia of Athens and undid most of the harsh laws in the Draconian code?

- Pericles?

- [Ethan] Pericles is incorrect.

Nashville, you do have a chance to steal.

- Pass.

- The answer we're looking for was Solon, Solon.

For your next toss up, what world leader who launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 holds... (buzzer) Cohen.

- Xi Jinping.

- [Ethan] Xi Jinping is correct.

For your bonus, the line "Tear her tattered inside down" opens what poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes that pays homage to the USS Constitution?

- "Old Ironsides?"

- [Ethan] "Old Ironsides" is correct, well done.

And that'll take us to our first media question.

This show is a spinoff of... (buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- [Cohen] Legend of Korra.

- [Ethan] We have a Legend of Korra question here?

You can tell I didn't look at the script before this, but that's so cool.

That's correct, yes.

And because that is a media question, we will not have a bonus for that.

For your next toss up, what lead musician on the rock influenced album "In a Silent Way" used the Dorian mode for "So What", which appears on his jazz album "Kind of Blue."

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Miles Davis.

- [Ethan] Miles Davis is correct.

Well done John.

- For your bonus, for a standing wave the distance between two adjacent nodes is equal to what multiple of the wavelength?

- Two?

- [Ethan] Two is incorrect.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

The answer we're looking for wasn't two, but one over two, it's half.

And for your next tossup, what author wrote about a secret society called the VFD and described Count Olaf's... (buzzer beeps) Abby.

- Lemony Snicket.

- [Ethan] Lemony Snicket is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in 1893 what American woman was tried and acquitted for murdering her father and stepmother with an ax in Fall River, Massachusetts.

- [Abby] Lizzie Borden.

- [Ethan] Lizzie Borden's correct, well done.

Onto our next question, energy cascades are part of Andrey Kolmogorov's theory of what type of fluid flow that occurs at high Reynolds numbers and can cause bumpy airplane rides?

(buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Turbulence?

- [Ethan] Turbulence is correct, well done.

- For your bonus, what tower which was built during the redevelopment of Toronto's railway lands was the world's tallest freestanding tower until 2007?

(team whispering) - CN Tower?

- [Ethan] CN Tower is correct, well done Looks very similar to the Seattle Space Needle.

I don't know if it was inspired at all, but basically is like the same thing.

For the next tossup, what man who promoted infrastructure via his American system became Secretary of State... (buzzer beeps) Cohen - Henry Clay.

- [Ethan] Henry Clay is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what English poet who became a Jesuit priest in 1877 coined the term "sprung rhythm" to describe the verse style he used in poems such as "Pied Beauty?"

(team whispers) - Blake?

- [Ethan] Blake is incorrect.

Nashville, chance to steal.

- Wordsworth?

- [Ethan] Wordsworth is incorrect.

We're looking for Gerard Manley Hopkins.

You guys' next toss up.

In what novel does the Yellow Robe Demon capture the protagonist Tang Xuanzang, who is eventually rescued by the Monkey King Sun Wukong?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- "Journey to the West?"

- [Ethan] "Journey to the West" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what optical phenomenon is governed by Snell's Law and is exemplified by light bending as it enters water?

- Refraction - [Ethan] Refraction is correct.

(paper scrapes) For your next toss up, what religion has naked sky clad and clothed the white clad sex Venerates 24 Turk or Tirthankaras and preaches a non-violence principle called ahinso?

(buzzer beeps) Malayna.

- Hinduism?

- [Ethan] Hinduism is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Jainism?

- [Ethan] Jainism is correct.

For your bonus, in 1983, US forces invaded what island country in option Urgent Fury and opposed its communist government.

- [Cohen] Granado - [Ethan] Granado is correct.

And this will take us to another media question.

This Hong Kong Marshall artist is also a famous actor (buzzer beeps) director and Malayna?

- [Malayna] Jackie Chan.

- [Ethan] Jackie Chan's correct.

For, back to the toss ups, the electron and neutron obey statistics named for Paul Dirac and what Italian whose Chicago Pile one hosted the first manmade nuclear chain reaction?

(buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Fermi.

- [Ethan] Fermi is correct.

For your bonus The Mangottikati excuse me, the Makgadikgadi salt pan is in what desert that covers most of Botswana - Kalahari.

- [Ethan] Kalahari is correct.

Back to the toss up.

What Russian author who created Dying magistrate Ivan Ilyich also created Count Vronsky and Pierre Bezukhov in Anna Karenina and War (buzzer beeps) Dominic - Leo Tolstoy.

- [Ethan] Leo Tolstoy is correct.

For your bonus the name of what us city proceeds dynamics in the name of a company that in 2020 began selling a robot named Spot that resembles a dog.

- Boston.

- [Ethan] Boston is correct and I remember seeing videos of people from Boston Dynamics is whacking it with a hockey stick trying to get it to fall over.

It seems very, very Boston of them.

Back to the toss ups, What president opposed the Hartford Convention of New England Federalists escaped the burning of Washington DC (buzzer beeps) Cohen - James Madison?

- [Ethan] James Madison is correct.

For your bonus, what composer included hammer blows in his tragic symphony and a massive choir in his eighth symphony, the "Symphony of a Thousand"?

(team whispers) - Tchaikovsky.

- Tchaikovsky is incorrect.

Nashville a chance to steal.

- Beethoven.

- [Ethan] Beethoven is also incorrect.

We were looking for Gustav Mahler.

Gustav Mahler.

For your next question, what artist who showed a woman pouring from a pitcher in "The Milk Maid", made just 34 paintings including view of Delft and a girl with pearl earrings (buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Vermeer.

- [Ethan] Vermeer is correct.

Onto the bonus, the closest star system to the sun is about four light years away in a constellation that depicts what type of mythical half human creature - Centaur.

- [Ethan] Centaur is correct.

Onto the next toss up, what law which modified in which is modified in the Van Deer Walls equation has a name state constant of about 8.31 jewels per Mole Kelvin and is written PV equals NRT?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Gas Law.

- I'm looking for something a bit more than that.

- Pavlov's gas law?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Combined gas law?

- [Ethan] That's also incorrect.

We were looking for ideal gas law.

I'm gonna take us back to another toss up.

What poem whose speaker proclaims, "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," opens with the line.

"April is the cruelest month" and is by TS Elliot?

(buzzer sounds) So you guys are all out of time, the answer looking for there was the "Waste land".

Waste land.

And with that we'll take it to our lightning round.

(fake lightning clambers) So I'll explain the way the lightning round works.

Both teams will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a certain topic.

And now Nashville, since you guys are trailing in this one you guys will have the first pick of the topics.

Your choices are the book of Genesis, national Languages, Wisconsin and people named Robert.

(team whispers) - Robert.

- [Ethan] People named Robert it is.

All right for people named Robert.

Give the surname of these people.

Believe it or not, with the first name Robert.

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

Victorious general at the Battle of Chancellor Bill - Lee.

- [Ethan] That's correct Scotch author of "Treasure Island" - Pass - [Ethan] Founder of the Boy Scout movement.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Poet of "Death of the Hired Man"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Inventor of the first modern steam boat at the Claremont - Pass.

- [Ethan] Democratic presidential candidate assassinated in 1968.

- Kennedy.

- [Ethan] Kennedy is correct.

British poet married to Elizabeth Barrett.

- Frost.

- [Ethan] Frost is incorrect.

German composer of Carnival and Chrysler Ina - Pass.

- [Ethan] British scientist who names a law relating to force to compression of a spring.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] First prime minister of Great Britain - Pass.

- [Ethan] Scottish author of Treasure Island.

- Stevenson.

- [Ethan] Stevenson's correct.

Founder of the Boy Scout.

- Powell.

- [Ethan] Powell's correct.

Death of the hired man.

Oh you said frost for that, right?

(buzzer sounds) Did you say frost for that one?

- [Malayna] No.

- Okay, nevermind, you said Frost for a different one.

That one was Frost.

All right, so we'll go through the ones that you guys missed out on.

Let's see.

Poet of death of the hired man was Robert Frost.

Inventor of the first modern steam boat, Declare malt was Robert Fulton, British poet married to Elizabeth Barrett was Robert Browning and Robert Hooks excuse me, British scientist who's law name relating to a force to compression of a spring was Robert Hook.

And first prime minister of Great Britain was Robert Walpole.

And with that you guys are done with your lightning round, and we'll take it now to Mater Dei.

Your choices are Book of Genesis, national Languages and Wisconsin.

- We'll take national languages.

- [Ethan] National languages it is.

So give the national languages or the official languages of these countries.

I'll give you 60 seconds on the clock and I'll count you down.

Three, two, one.

Egypt.

- Arabic.

- [Ethan] Arabic is correct.

Brazil.

- Portuguese.

- [Ethan] Portuguese is correct.

Israel - Hebrew.

- [Ethan] Hebrew is correct.

Jamaica.

- English.

- [Ethan] English is correct.

Dominican Republic.

- Spanish.

- [Ethan] Spanish is correct.

Senegal.

- French.

- [Ethan] French is correct.

San Marino.

- Italian?

- [Ethan] Italian is correct.

Surina or Suriname.

- Dutch.

- [Ethan] Dutch is correct.

Moldova.

- Romanian.

- [Ethan] Romania is correct.

And Cambodia.

- Vietnamese.

- [Ethan] Vietnamese is incorrect but you just blew through all of those.

That was the last one that we had for you.

And the answer for Cambodia was Khmer.

But cleaning up the rest of 'em well done building on that lead that you guys had going into it.

Let's take a quick look at our score before we move on.

Mater dei sitting at 280 but I don't think that's actually been updated yet.

And Nashville, yeah 370 for Mater Dei and 140 for Nashville.

I mean you've seen how quickly the points fluctuate Nashville, still plenty of time to catch up in the back half.

Back to our toss ups, in June, 2022, what man was released from federal supervision 41 years after he shot James Brady and attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan.

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

The answer we're looking for was John Hinckley Jr.

The next toss up, what 2022 film whose title character has a robotic cat named Sox and his voiced by Chris Evans?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Light year.

- [Ethan] Light year is correct, well done.

For your bonus in 1942, general Douglas MacArthur vowed to return to what country in which the baton death march took place after MacArthur's escape?

- France.

- [Ethan] France is incorrect.

(buzzer sounds) Mater Dei you do have a chance to steal.

- Philippines.

- [Ethan] Philippines is correct.

For the next toss up, what American scientist who classified acids and bases as electron pair acceptors and donors respectively names often used dot diagram (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Lewis.

- [Ethan] Lewis is correct.

Your bonus, what elements depleted form contains a lower concentration of its thistle isotope 235.

- Uranium.

- [Ethan] Uranium is correct.

For the next toss up, what 1848 meeting organized by Lucretia Mott produced the Declaration of Sentiments, which Elizabeth Caddy Stanton wrote to endorse, (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Seneca Falls.

- [Ethan] Seneca Falls is correct.

- For your bonus, what Greek cynic philosopher who mocked Plato's definition of man as "Featherless biped" used a plucked chicken and lived in a large jar.

- Diogenes - [Ethan] Diogenes is correct.

Back to the toss ups.

What NBA team who won five titles between 1999 and 2014 is coached by Gregg Popovich and used to play (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- The Spurs?

- [Ethan] Spurs is correct.

Onto the bonus, Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kompf in prison after being charged with treason for his role in what failed 1923 coup attempt?

- Beer Hall Putsch.

- Beer Hall Putsch is correct well done.

The next question, what novelist whose debut was "The Voyage Out" wrote about the suicidal Septimus Smith and a woman preparing a dinner party in her book Mrs. Dalloway.

(buzzer beeps) Abby.

- Daphne du Maurier - [Ethan] Daphne du Maurier is incorrect.

(buzzer sounds) So you guys are all out of time the answer we're looking for was Virginia Woolf.

- And that'll take us to another media question.

This famous music artist originally, (buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- [Cohen] Tyler the creator.

- [Ethan] Tyler the creator is correct.

For the next toss up, what treaty's final negotiations by Carlos Salinas, Brian Moroni and Bill Clinton in 1993 you created a trade block among Mexico, Canada and the US.

(buzzer beeps) - NAFTA.

- [Ethan] NAFTA's correct.

And for your bonus pencil and paper ready.

What is the simplified form of the algebraic expression whose numerator is 6A squared and whose denominator is 4AB?

(pencils scratch) (team whispers) - 3A over 2B.

- 3A over 2B is correct.

Back to the toss ups.

What type of shape, whose area can be calculated with Heron's formula has an in-center and can be classified as scalene isosceles or, (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Triangle.

- Triangle is correct.

For your bonus, what boy is elected chief after blowing a conch shell to summon plane survivors nearing the beginning of William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies".

- Simon?

- [Ethan] Simon is incorrect.

Nashville.

- Ralph.

- [Ethan] Ralph is correct well done.

Getting the steal there and taking us back to more toss ups, what word can denote a species in chemical reactions that are formed and then consumed or blue square ski runs between easy and advanced?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Intermediate.

- Intermediate is correct well done Garrett.

For your bonus, in 2019, what country finished building the Lahtka Center skyscraper which will serve as headquarters for its oil company, Gazprom?

- Saudi Arabia - [Ethan] Saudi Arabia's incorrect.

Mater Dei, a chance to steal.

- Russia?

- [Ethan] Russia's correct.

And the next question, rain in the Middle East has led to what insects of genus Schistocerca, devastating food supply in East Africa do their, to their destructive swarms?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Locusts?

- [Ethan] Locust is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what family of plants which includes the saguaro and the prickly pair used water efficient cam photosynthesis - Cactus.

- [Ethan] Cactus is correct.

And the next toss up, what essay that describes a "way of paying landlord's rent" was written in a 1729 by Jonathan Swift and, (buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- A Modest Proposal?

- A modest Proposal is correct.

For your bonus, what Lord High Chancellor of England under Henry vii, an opponent of the Protestant reformation wrote the philosophical satire, "Utopia" - Moore.

- Thomas Moore is correct.

And back to the toss ups, what video game character who battles a metal doppelganger in Stardust Speedway fights the evil Dr. Robotnik, (buzzer beeps) Malayna.

- [Malayna] Sonic the hedgehog.

- [Ethan] Sonic the Hedgehog is correct well done.

For your bonus, Alfred Adler coined the term for what psychological complex in which people believe themselves to be worse in some way than other people.

- Imposter Syndrome.

- [Ethan] Imposter syndrome is incorrect.

Mater Dei you have a chance to steal - Inferiority complex.

- [Ethan] Inferiority complex is correct.

And for your toss up what capital is home to the Punta Bravo Lighthouse lies on the northern shore of the Rio de Plata and is the most populous city in the Uruguay?

(buzzer beeps) - Garrett.

- Montevideo.

- Montevideo is correct.

For your bonus, what painter whose art and decorations are seen in the peacock room painted arrangement in gray and black number one, a portrait of his elderly mother?

- Whistler.

- [Ethan] Whistler is correct.

On the next toss up, what organ now is home to the electron transport chain has a matrix divided by folds called cristae, and is named the powerhouse of the cell.

(buzzer beeps) Cohen.

- Mitochondria.

- [Ethan] Mitochondria is certainly the powerhouse of the cell, that is correct.

And for your bonus, what word refers to expression of B squared minus 4AC in the quadratic formula which determines the number of solutions of an equation (buzzer sounds) - So you guys are all out of time Nashville, a chance to steal.

- Zero.

- [Ethan] Zero is incorrect.

We're looking for a discriminate equation.

Discriminate.

On the next toss up, what man who obtained the Rudd concession and proposed a Cape de Cairo was a diamond magnate who will funded, whose will funded a scholarship to Oxford (buzzer beeps) - Cohen.

- Rhodes - [Ethan] Rhodes is correct.

The Rhodes Scholarship.

For your bonus, what son of John of Galt.

The Duke of Lancaster over through Richard II and usurped the year the English throne in 1399.

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

Nashville, a chance to steal.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The answer we're looking for was Henry 4th.

Henry the fourth, back to the toss ups.

What country is home to the ancient cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, lies between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan and has its capital at Tashkent?

(buzzer beeps) - Uzbekistan.

- [Ethan] Uzbekistan is correct.

And for your bonus in what poem which proceeds Purgatorio does Virgil lead the narrator through nine circles of hell?

- Inferno - [Ethan] Inferno is correct and I believe that bell means that is all the questions we have time for today.

So let's take a look at the score.

Mater Dei really building on that lead you made in the bonus round just knocking 'em outta the park, I think you got nine outta 10 there.

Very well done.

It ends 680 to 180.

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

For all of our lovely contestants here today from Nashville, Illinois, not Tennessee and Mater Dei, and all of our lovely people behind the scenes.

I'm Ethan Neir.

Goodnight.

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