(bright music) (cheerful music) - Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Jordan Spudville.

And today we are joined by two very good looking teams ready to play our game.

On the bottom row we have Mater Dei with Noah, Caleigh, and Cohen.

And on the top row we have Sesser-Valier with Gabe, Maura, and Maggie.

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

I'm going to be reading a series of 10 point toss-up questions that both teams have a chance to answer.

If a team answers a 10 point toss-up correctly, they have the chance to answer a 20 point bonus question.

However, if they miss that bonus question, the other team has a chance to steal it away from them for 10 points.

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

So if I am interrupted while reading a question, and that answer is incorrect, the other team will automatically receive five points and they get to hear the entire question.

As usual, we'll be having our lightening round halfway through our game where I'm going to be reading a series of questions in any given category that both teams will have a chance to answer as many as they possibly can.

And under 60 seconds, now that we know the rules, it's time to play our games.

So it's time to put on our thinking caps and let's get down to quiz-ness.

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

What institution who's four horsemen opposed the new deal that Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack in the 1930s by adding up to six more justices?

Cohen.

- The Supreme court.

- That is correct.

Mater Dei, here's your first 20 point bonus question.

What man who moved funds into pet banks as Andrew Jackson's treasury secretary later served as chief justice during the Dred Scott Case?

- Taney.

- That's correct for 20 points moving onto our next 10 point toss-up for both teams.

In what country home to the Yamina and blue and white political alliances did Naftali Bennett replace Benjamin?

Cohen.

- Israel.

- That's correct for 10 points, Mater Dei.

Here's your next 20 point bonus question.

In Greek myth, What musician went to Hades to retrieve his love Eurydice?

- Orpheus.

- That's correct for 20 points.

And we'll move on to our next 10 point toss for both teams.

What eight letter term, which has no official IUPAC definition is normally used to describe substances containing atoms of two or more elements?

Maura.

- Compound.

- That's correct for 10 points, Sesser-Valier.

Here is your first 20 point bonus question.

Pencil and paper ready this is a math question.

What was the original price of a bicycle that now retails for $210 after having been discounted by 30%?

That is time, Sesser.

Mater Dei, you have a chance to steal.

- $273.

- Sorry that was close, but that's incorrect.

The correct answer was $300.

It's okay.

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

What Monarch faced by a bed chamber crisis ruled throughout the tenure of prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli and was married to prince Albert?

Cohen.

- Queen Victoria.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, Here's your next 20 point bonus question?

What name is shared by a plaisant in Chicago that is between Washington park and Jackson park and Chicago's second busiest airport after O'Hare?

- Midway.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What author typed his novel, The Dharma Bums on a single roll of paper, as he did with his novel about a trip taken to Sal Paradise on the road?

Maura.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

And the correct answer for that was Jack Kerouac.

It's time for our first media question.

This is a still question.

Let's have a look.

This logo belongs to an app and service from apple.

Maura.

- Find my iPhone.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

That was a very close, Maura.

We couldn't accept the iPhone.

The correct answer was just Find My.

It's okay.

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

What waterway includes the Great Bitter Lake terminates in it's north at Port Said, and as a canal that runs along a namesake Egyptian peninsula?

Caleigh.

- Suez.

- That is correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, here is your next 20 point bonus question.

Which son of John of Gaunt became the first Lancastrian king of England when he overthrew Richard the second in 1399?

(group chatter) - Henry.

- Can you be more specific?

- Henry the third?

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

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

- Henry the eighth.

I'm sorry.

That's also incorrect.

The correct answer we were looking for was Henry the fourth.

Very close.

Its okay.

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

What scientist who first used the terms positive and negative for charge proposed to show that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm?

Gabe.

- Benjamin Franklin.

- That's correct.

For 10 points.

Sesser, here is your 20 point bonus question.

In what state was gay college student, Matthew Shepard murdered, the response to which is depicted in the play.

The Laramie project?

(group chatter) - Pennsylvania.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

(group chatter) - Wyoming.

- That's correct.

For 10 points.

Congratulations, Mater Dei.

It's okay.

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

What word for the ocean storms that foiled the Mongol attempts to invade Japan also names Japan's tactic of aerial suicide attacks in world war two?

- Maura.

- Kamikaze.

- That's correct.

For 10 points, Sesser here's your 20 point bonus question.

Indianapolis 500 champions traditionally drink what non-alcoholic beverage from a glass bottle?

(group chatter) Mater Dei.

You have a chance to steal.

- Coca-Cola.

Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was milk.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What singer of Versace on the Floor who joins Anderson Paak?

- Bruno Mars.

That's correct.

For 10 points.

Here is your 20 points bonus question.

Sesser, what country of birth of August Strindberg is the setting of his naturalistic tragedy, Ms. Julie.

(group chatter) - Austria.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

Mater Dei, You have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Germany.

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

The correct answer we were looking for was Sweden.

It's okay.

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

What animals, which only have two germ layers are sessile organisms.

Some of whose skeletons have been utilized by humans because they absorb water.

- Cohen.

- Sponges.

That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, Here's your next 20 point bonus question.

What dwarf planet discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is named for a Roman goddess.

- Ceres.

- That's correct for 20 points.

It's now time for our next media question.

This is a video question.

Let's take a look.

This series of video games is published by Nintendo.

It features a multitude of varying characters from a wide array of video game franchises.

The objective is to knock players off of the stage.

- Gabe.

- Super Smash Bros. - That's correct for 10 points.

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

What phenomenon plotted against wage rises on the Phillips curve comes in structural and seasonal forms and occurs when people cannot find a job.

- Depression.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was unemployment.

It's okay.

We're going to move on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What man, whose company was criticized in a history written by Muckraker, Ida Tarbell was the first U.S. billionaire and founded standard oil.

- Cohen.

- John D. Rockefeller.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, Here's your 20 point bonus question.

What ornate art style, sometimes called the late Baroque includes Jean-Honoré Fragonard's painting of the swing and flourished in 18th century France?

(group chatter) Sesser, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Impressionism.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Rococo.

It's okay.

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

And this is a math question, So let's get those pencils and paper ready.

If a resolution needs a two-thirds majority to pass and a 285 member legislature, what minimum number of votes is required?

Caleigh.

- 190.

That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, Here's your 20 point bonus question.

What country, the only nation in Asia that lies entirely below the equator has its capitol at Dili and gained its independence in 2002?

- East Timor.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

The title objects are said to wear a nest of Robbins and to lift their leafy arms, to pray in what 1913 poem about plants by Joyce Kilmer?

That's time on that question.

That's okay.

The answer we were looking for was trees.

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

What composer of some enchanted evening wrote the music to, Oh What a Beautiful Morning in Oklahoma?

- Maggie.

- Rogers and Hammerstein.

- I'm sorry?

- Rogers and Hammerstein.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Sesser-Valier here is your 20 point bonus question.

From independence in 1831 until 1909.

Belgium had only two Kings who shared what retinal name?

(group chatter) - John Stewart.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Mater Dei, you have a chance to steal.

- Leopold.

- That's correct for 10 points.

We have now made it halfway through our game.

So it's time for our lightning round.

(storm sounds) As mentioned before, I have four given categories that each team will get to pick from.

Sesser-Valier, you get to choose first as you are just a little bit behind.

I have four categories for you to choose from.

You can answer questions about first ladies, U.S. states, CC'S or palindromes.

What would you like to choose.

(group chatter) - U.S. states.

- U.S. states it is.

In this lightning round, I need you to name these states.

Given the two most populous cities that are neither the state's Capitol nor its most populous city.

Sesser, are you ready for your lightning round?

If you do not know the answer you can pass and we will go back to it.

Your lightning round begins in three, two, one.

Pittsburgh and Allentown.

- Pennsylvania.

- That's correct.

Shreveport and Lafayette.

- Louisiana.

- That's correct.

West Valley City and Provo.

- Pass.

- Missoula and Great Falls.

- Pass.

- Rochester and Duluth.

- Maine.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

Tuscan and Mesa.

- Pass.

Augusta and Columbus.

- Pass.

- San Antonio and Dallas.

- Texas.

- Correct.

Lewiston and Bangor.

- Pass.

- Green Bay and Kenosha.

- Illinois.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

We're going to go back to the ones you passed.

West Valley City and Provo.

- Virginia.

Incorrect.

Missoula and Great Falls.

- Wyoming.

And that is time.

I'm now going to go over the ones that you passed or missed.

West Valley City and Provo was Utah.

Missoula and Great Falls was Montana.

Rochester and Duluth was Minnesota.

Tuscan and Mesa, Arizona.

Augusta and Columbus, Georgia.

Lewiston and Bangor, Maine.

And the Green Bay and Kenosha was Wisconsin.

Overall, still a great lightning round.

You guys answered more than I would ever be able to answer, so.

Props in my book.

Mater Dei, It's now your turn to pick your lightning round category.

The remaining three are first ladies, CC'S and palindromes.

Which would you like to answer?

- First ladies.

- First ladies, it is.

In this category, I need you to name the U.S. first lady who, fill in the blank.

Mater Dei, are you ready for your lightning round?

Same rule applies.

You can pass if you don't know the answer and we'll go back to it.

Your lightening round begins in three, two, one.

Announced the be best campaign and was born in Slovenia.

- Melania Trump.

- That's correct.

Won the democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential election.

- Hillary Clinton.

- That's correct.

Wrote the newspaper column, My Day.

- Pass.

- Told her husband to remember the ladies in a 1776 letter.

- Abigail Adams.

- Correct.

Married Aristotle Onassis after her husband's death.

- Jackie Kennedy.

- That's correct.

Began the anti-drug campaign, just say no.

- Nancy Reagan.

- That's correct.

Supported the highway beautification act and was nicknamed, Ladybird.

- Ladybird Johnson.

- That's correct.

He was nicknamed.

Was nicknamed Lemonade Lucy by opponents of prohibition.

- Pass.

- Launched the let's move program and the wrote the memoir becoming, excuse me.

- Michelle Obama.

- That's correct.

I'm sorry, that's time.

That's seven questions, correct 70 points for your team.

Congratulations.

I'll go over the ones that you passed or missed.

Wrote the newspaper column, My Day was Eleanor Roosevelt.

I'm sorry.

That was a correct answer.

And was institutionalized by her eldest son Robert in 1875 was Todd Lincoln.

Overall good lightning rounds to both of you.

We're now going to move back to our toss-up and bonus questions.

Starting with our next media question.

This is an audio question.

Let's have a listen.

- This audio dialect is an accent that blends both American and British English.

The accent was taught in preparatory schools.

Caleigh.

- Mid Atlantic.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Moving onto our next toss-up 10 point question for both teams.

What kingdom was the birthplace of the composer of The Miraculous Mandarin, Béla Bartók and the pianist who composed The Mephisto Waltz, - Franz Liszt.

- Cohen.

- Hungary.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What former prime minister of Portugal seceded Ban Ki-moon as secretary general of the United nations in 2017.

(group chatter) Sesser, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- John Smith.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer we were looking for was Antonio Gutierrez.

It's okay.

We're going to shake it off and move on to our next 10 point tossup question.

What state, which is home to the Touro Synagogue and such mansions as Chateau-sur-Mer and the breakers in Newport is the smallest state by area.

Cohen.

- Rhode Island.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, Here's your 20 point bonus question.

The deepest known part of the Pacific ocean that the challenger deep is in what trench that curves around the American territory of Guam.

- The Mariana trench.

- That's correct for 20 points.

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

What country, where Cardinal Jaime Sin mobilized participants in the people power revolution was formerly led by Ferdinand Marcos from Manila?

Cohen.

- The Philippines.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, here's your next 20 point bonus question.

What is the name for the set that contains all possible subsets of a given set?

- (group chatter) - Sorry.

That's out of time.

Sesser, you have a chance to steal.

- Full set.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer we were looking for was power sets.

It's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

Mycology is the study of what eukaryotic organisms that resembled plants, but do not utilize photosynthesis and include yeasts and mushrooms?

- Maura.

- Fungi.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Sesser, here's your 20 point bonus question.

J.M.

Coetzee who wrote the novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace, is one of two Nobel laureates in literature from what country?

- Russia.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

Mater Dei, You have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Australia.

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was South Africa.

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

What event, which Enki spoke about through reed walls to warn Atra-Hasis was survived in a Sumerian myth by Utnapishtim and in the Holy Bible by Noah?

Cohen.

- The great flood.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Mater Dei, here's your 20 point bonus question.

What man, The first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard wrote the essay at the talented 10th and the NAACP's magazine The Crisis?

(group chatter) - Booker T. Washington.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

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

- Richard Henry.

- Sorry.

That's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was W.E.B.

Dubois.

It's time for our next media question.

This is a still question.

Let's have a look.

As the fifth element on the periodic table, this element has an atomic mass.

Caleigh.

- Boron.

- That's correct for 10 points.

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

What island the destination of an expedition supported by Alcibiades was home to the Greek colony of Syracuse.

And is that the Southern tip of Italy?

Maura.

- Sicily.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Sesser, Here's your 20 point bonus question.

Excuse me.

So logistic reasoning is criticized and the Novum Organum a work on the scientific method by what 17th century English philosopher?

(group chatter) That's time.

Mater Dei, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

(group chatter) That's time on that question.

The answer we were looking for was Francis Bacon.

It's okay.

We're gonna move on to our next 10 point toss-up question.

What company co-founded in 1976 by Steve Wasniak introduced the unsuccessful Lisa and under CEO, Steve jobs, the safari browser?

Cohen.

- Apple.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here is your 20 point bonus question.

Optical pumping is used to generate a population inversion and the gain medium of what devices first built by Theodore Maiman?

(group chatter) - Sesser, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Gas pumps.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer was lasers.

Okay.

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

What composer, who revived Joann Sebastian Bach's music and wrote the The Hebrides overture, converted to Christianity, and added Bartholdi to his name?

The answer we were looking for on that one was Felix Mendelssohn.

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

What character employs a chief of staff named Colonel Sebastian Moran and fatally plummets into the Reichenbach Falls while fighting Sherlock Holmes?

Maura.

- Moriarty.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here is your 20 point bonus question.

Sesser, what author who wrote about flying cars in the children's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also wrote a series of thrillers about James Bond?

(group chatter) That's time.

Mater Dei, You have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Fleming.

- That's correct.

For 10 points.

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

It is a math question.

So get your pencils and paper ready.

How many times more basic is a solution of pH10 compared to a neutral solution of pH7 since the pH scale is logarithmic?

Caleigh.

- 1000.

- That's correct for 10 points.

Here is your 20 point bonus question, Mater Dei.

Gauss's law for magnetism expresses the apparent lack of what type of theoretical particle that would have a net magnetic charge?

(group chatter) Sesser, you have a chance to steal for 10 points.

- Negative.

- Sorry.

That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was magnetic monopoles.

That sound means it's the end of our game.

Mater Dei, congratulations.

You are our winners in today's game.

Sesser, congratulations to you as well.

Cause you guys answered a lot of questions that I don't even know the answer to.

So good game on both of you guys' part.

Thank you all for watching at home.

Join in next time on Scholastic Hi-Q and we'll see you then.