(intriguing music) (camera shutter chirping) (intriguing music) (intriguing music) (energetic music) (energetic music continues) - Welcome to "Scholastic Hi-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host Ethan Neir, and we have a great show in store for you tonight.

So let's go ahead and introduce our teams.

On the bottom we have Trico, with Brayden, Joycey... Jocey, Jocey!

I wasn't gonna mess it up.

Daniel, Chris.

And up top we have O'Fallon, with Garrett, Henry, Zachary, and Kaden.

Now before we get into the questions, let's just do a quick recap of our rules.

We'll start out with some toss-up questions.

Those are 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 just be right all the time, and it's not a problem.

All right?

Let's get into the questions.

What particles, which are the heaviest outputs of a beta-minus decay, consist of two up quarks- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Protons.

- Protons is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Library of Ashurbanipal, found at Nineveh, was a collection of over 30,000 tablets acquired by what Middle Eastern empire, ruled by Sargon II?

- Akkad?

- [Ethan] Akkad is incorrect.

Trico, your chance to steal.

- [Brayden] Is that the Assyrian Empire?

- Assyrian is correct.

Well done, Brayden.

For your next toss-up, what Midwestern city, whose police were accused by a 2023 DOJ report of biased against Black and Native residents, is where George Floyd- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Minneapolis.

- Minneapolis is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what influential 18th-century English publisher wrote the lengthy epistolary novels "Pamela" and "Clarissa"?

- Smith.

- [Ethan] Smith is incorrect.

Trico, chance to steal.

- John.

- John is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Samuel Richardson.

Which also, honestly, a pretty common name.

So I like the effort.

For your next toss-up, what singer collaborated with Sean Paul on the song "No Lie" and released the 2020 album- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Shakira.

- [Ethan] Shakira is incorrect.

Trico, I will reread the question for you.

What singer collaborated with Sean Paul on the song "No Lie" and released the 2020 album "Future Nostalgia," which contains "Levitating" and "Don't Start Now"?

(buzzer beeps) Jocey?

- Dua Lipa.

- Dua Lipa is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what loud and startling phenomenon occurs when an object travels through air faster than the speed of sound, creating shock waves?

- Sonic boom.

- Great Pokemon move.

Also the correct answer.

Well done, Brayden.

On to our next question.

What 1999 coming-of-age novel, in which the English teacher Bill introduces the teenager Charlie to classic books, was written by Stephen Chbosky?

(no audio) (timeout buzzer beeping) Sorry, you guys are all outta time.

The answer we're looking for was "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower."

For your next toss-up, what type of animal is represented by the constellation that includes Polaris, and by the constellation containing- (buzzer beeps) Zachary?

- A bear.

- Bear is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in August 2023, Donald Trump was charged with violating what law, originally passed in 1870, to protect the rights of African Americans?

- Civil Rights Act.

- [Ethan] Uh, that is incorrect.

We're looking for a little bit more.

Trico, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was specifically the Civil Rights Act of 1870, or the KKK Act.

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

This app is used for the artists to sell their art on phone cases, stickers, clothes.

Name this app.

(laughs) (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Redbubble.

- Redbubble is correct.

(laughs) Also, for a media question, there is no bonus question.

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

For your next toss-up, what god, whose temples in Rome were closed in times of peace, was a two-faced god of beginnings, is the namesake of the first month of the- (buzzer beeps) Henry?

- Janus.

- Janus is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Portuguese novelist imagined the Iberian Peninsula detaching from Europe in "The Stone Raft," and depicted a strange plague in his book "Blindness"?

- I don't remember his name.

Saramago.

- Jose Saramago is correct.

Well done, Garrett.

For your next question, what building, designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, features a spire designed for mooring airships?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Empire State Building.

- Empire State Building is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what philosopher wrote, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" in his work "The Social Contract"?

- [Garrett] Rousseau.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what quantity, represented by a curve that slopes downwards in a price-versus-quantity graph, is often plotted by economists along with supply?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Demand.

- Demand is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, many proteins, including insulin, are held together by what amino acid that can form disulfide bridges?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] Trico, the chance to steal.

- Peptide.

- That's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was cysteine.

Cysteine.

For your next question, what effect, which is used by a weather radar app- (buzzer beeps) Henry?

- Doppler.

- Doppler is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, James Boswell wrote a biography of what author of "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets," who published a 1755 English dictionary?

- Samuel Johnson.

- Samuel Johnson is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss-up, what novel, in which a proposal from farmer Robert Martin is unwisely rejected by Harriet Smith, is named for a matchmaker, and is by- (buzzer beeps) Henry?

- "Emma."

- "Emma" is correct.

Well done, Henry.

For your bonus, in 1915, what country signed the Treaty of London to join the Allied powers after nominally being allied with Germany at the start of World War I?

- Italy.

- Italy is correct.

Well done.

And that will take us to our next toss-up question.

From the right script this time, I swear.

This Norwegian singer-songwriter is known for her LGBTQ-influenced music and songs such as "Fell in Love in October" and "I Wanna Be -" (buzzer beeps) Henry?

- Clairo.

- [Ethan] Can you repeat that for me?

- Clairo.

- Clairo is incorrect.

I will reread it for you, Trico.

Oh, you already know?

(laughs) This- (buzzer beeps) Jocey?

- Girl in Red.

- Girl in Red is correct.

Well done.

That'll take us back to our toss-ups.

What agreement, which drew a line across the Louisiana Territory, above which slavery was banned, allowed Maine and a namesake- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Missouri Compromise.

- Missouri Compromise is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what piano ballad, from which 2023's "Super Mario Bros. Movie," is performed by Jack Black as Bowser, who sings about his true love?

- "Peaches."

- "Peaches, Peaches, Peaches" is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what state is represented by both the oldest person to become a freshman senator, Peter Welch, and the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Vermont.

- Vermont is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Salton Sea is a landlocked body of water that is near the Imperial Valley in the southernmost part of what state?

- Colorado.

- [Ethan] Colorado is incorrect.

Trico, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was California.

California.

For your next toss-up, what Dutch artist painted the Last Judgment into his "Woman Holding a Balance," and showed a woman in a turban in "Girl with a Pearl Earring"?

(buzzer beeps) - Garrett?

- Vermeer.

- Jan Vermeer is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, which Anglo-Saxon king, who was briefly overthrown by Sweyn Forkbeard, received his epithet because he was poorly advised?

- Ethelred the Unready.

- Ethelred the Unready is correct.

Well done.

On your next toss-up, what layer below the Gutenberg Discontinuity hosts a dynamo powered by its convection, that creates Earth's- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Mantle.

- Mantle's incorrect.

I will reread it for you, Trico.

What layer below the Gutenberg Discontinuity hosts a dynamo powered by its convection, that creates Earth's magnetic field, and is made of liquid iron?

(buzzer beeps) Brayden?

- The outer core.

- Outer core is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what unit of memory is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes?

- Petabytes.

- Petabyte is correct.

Well done, Brayden.

For your next question, what event, for which Hugh Montgomery was tried for manslaughter but defended by John Adams, saw Crispus Attucks shot by the British in- (buzzer beeps) Zachary?

- The Boston Massacre.

- Boston Massacre is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what season of the year is called "aki" in Japanese, "Herbst" in German, and "otono" in Spanish?

- Autumn.

- Autumn is correct.

Well done.

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

In the early 1930s, designer Vernon Grant illustrated these gnome-like characters to represent Kellogg's Rice Krispies brand.

The first can often be depicted wearing a chef's hat, the second wearing a sleeping cap, and the third member of the trio- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Snap, Crackle, and Pop.

- Rice Krispie, that is correct.

Well done.

Back to our toss-ups.

Which playwright, who wrote about Nagg and Nell living in trash cans in- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Beckett.

- Samuel Beckett is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what 2014 novel by Cece Bell is named for a superhero persona that boosts the confidence of a girl who uses a hearing aid at school?

- El Deafo.

- El Deafo is correct.

Well done.

And for your next question, pencil and paper ready.

If x is a positive number, what is the minimum value of x for which- (buzzer beeps) Henry?

(someone stifles a laugh) You haven't even gotten to the number step.

(laughs) - [Henry] 3.

- I appreciate the enthusiasm.

3 is not the correct answer.

I will reread it for you, Trico.

If x is a positive number, what is the minimum value of x for which the sum of 18 plus x is a perfect square?

(no audio) (buzzer beeps) Brayden?

- 7.

- 7 is correct.

Well done.

- I don't know why that took me so long.

That was really easy.

- For your bonus, what German composer's tone poems include "A Hero's Life" and a work based on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, "Also...", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?

(no audio) - John.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

O'Fallon, the chance to steal.

- Richard Strauss.

- Richard Strauss is correct.

Well done, O'Fallon.

For your next toss-up, what film, which opens as a woman gets attacked off the coast of Amity Island, was directed by Steven Spielberg, and is about a man-eating shark?

(buzzer beeps) Henry?

- "Jaws."

- "Jaws" is correct.

For your bonus, what theory, often named for two scientists, defines acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors?

- Bronsted-Lowry.

- Bronsted-Lowry Theory is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, in what country will the Iconic Tower be part of a yet unnamed "New Administrative Capital" that Abdel- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Indonesia.

- Indonesia is incorrect.

I will read it for you, Trico.

In what country will the Iconic Tower be a part of a yet unnamed New Administrative Capital that Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's regime is building near Cairo?

(buzzer beeps) Brayden?

- Egypt.

- Egypt is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in what state's 2022 gubernatorial election did Democrat Wes Moore defeat Dan Cox to succeed term-limited Republican Harry Hogan?

- Jackson.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

O'Fallon, the chance to steal.

- Nebraska.

- Nebraska is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Maryland.

Maryland.

For your next toss-up, what poet beseeched a goddess to "fight by my shoulder" in the "Ode to Aphrodite," the only extant complete poem by this ancient Greek woman from Lesbos?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Sappho.

- Sappho is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what 2023 reality show on Amazon Freevee featured Ronald Gladden as the only participant in a trial who was not secretly an improv actor?

- "Undercover Judge."

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Trico, the chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was "Jury Duty."

"Jury Duty."

And that will take us to our lightning round.

(thunder booms) 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 Trico, since you guys are trailing in this one, you get the first pick.

Your choices are Stars, Literary Houses, Super Bowl LVII, or Henrys.

There's always a football one, man.

I don't know.

Gimme some hockey ones.

Come on.

- We'll go with Henrys.

- Henrys it is.

Given the surname of these people, name... Oh.

Give the surname of these people named Henry.

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

Three, two, one.

Automaker who made the Model T?

- Ford.

- [Ethan] Great Compromiser of the 19th-century Congress?

You can pass as well.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Explorer who names the river that separates New York and New Jersey?

- Hudson.

- [Ethan] Poet of "The Song of Hiawatha"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Author of "The Turn of the Screw"?

(dynamic music) - Trudeau.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

First US Secretary of War?

(dynamic music) - Pass.

- [Ethan] Author of "Tropic of Cancer"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] German-American Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Baroque English composer of the opera of "Dido and Aeneas"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Actor who played Superman in "Man of Steel"?

(timeout buzzer beeping) You guys are all out of time.

We'll go through the ones you guys missed.

Great Compromiser of the 19th century was Henry Clay.

The poet of "The Song of Hiawatha" was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Author of "Turn of the Screw" was Henry James.

The first Secretary of War was Henry Knox.

The author of "Tropic of Cancer" was Henry Miller.

The German-American Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford was Henry Kissinger.

The Baroque English composer of "Dido and Aeneas" was Henry Purcell.

And the actor who played Man of Steel was Henry Cavill.

All right, O'Fallon, it is your guys's turn.

Your choices are Stars, Literary Houses, and Super Bowl LVII.

- Literary Houses.

- Literary Houses it is.

Name the author of these literary works titled for houses.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

The "Little House on the Prairie" series.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder.

- That's correct.

"The House of the Seven Gables."

- Hawthorne.

- [Ethan] The play "A Doll's House."

A Norwegian.

- Ibsen.

- [Ethan] The short story "The Fall of the House of Usher."

- Poe.

- [Ethan] "To the Lighthouse."

- Woolf.

- [Ethan] "The House on Mango Street."

- Sandra Cisneros.

- [Ethan] The "Bleak House."

- Pass.

- [Ethan] "The House of Mirth."

- Pass.

- [Ethan] 20th-century Spanish author of "The House of Bernarda Alba."

- Marquez.

- That's incorrect.

Trinidadian-British author of "A House for Mr Biswas."

- Naipaul.

- [Ethan] The "Bleak House."

- Pass.

- [Ethan] "The House of Mirth."

- Smith.

- That's incorrect.

"Bleak House."

- Smith.

- That is also incorrect.

All right, that is all ten, so we will go through the ones you guys missed.

The author of "Bleak House" was Charles Dickens.

"The House of Mirth" was Edith Wharton.

And the 20th-century Spanish author of "The House of Bernarda Alba" was Federico Garcia Lorca.

For your next question, what country, whose fleet lost the Battle of Tsushima, ceded half of Sakhalin in 1905 after losing a war to Japan in- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Russia.

- Russia is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what quantity is equal to the enthalpy minus temperature times entropy, and decreases in spontaneous processes?

- Gibbs free energy.

- Gibbs free energy is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss-up, what chemical principle named for a French chemist determines how a system in equilibrium responds to changes in temperature or pressure?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Lavoisier principle.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Brayden?

- Bernoulli principle.

- Can you say that again?

- Bernoulli principle.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Le Chatelier principle.

- [Brayden] You wouldn'ta had that one.

- Nah.

(laughs) Listen, I just get excited I get to say a French word.

That's the language I actually know.

For your next toss-up, what country, whose capital borders two other countries, is governed from Bratislava, and was once part of a union with the neighboring Czech Republic?

(buzzer beeps) Henry?

- Slovakia.

- Slovakia is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what politician, who represented Bedford-Stuyvesant, was the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress in 1968?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] Trico, chance to steal.

- Yeah, no answer.

- The answer we're looking for was Shirley Chisholm.

Shirley Chisholm.

For your next toss-up, what poem set on "the darkest evening of the year" ends with its speaker declaring, "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

- That is correct.

Well done, Garrett.

For your bonus, what term refers to a positive changes in organisms, such as developing opposable thumbs in humans, that make them better suited to their environments?

- Adaptation.

- Adaptation is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what theologian commented on abortion and euthanasia in the encyclical "Evangelium Vitae," and in 1978 became- (timeout buzzer beeping) Became the first non-Italian pope in centuries?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- John Paul II.

- John Paul II is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Monsignor Darcy mentors Princeton student Amory Blaine in "This Side of Paradise," a novel by what author of "The Last Tycoon"?

- Fitzgerald.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what city, whose Avenida 9 de Julio is the world's widest avenue, lies on the Rio de la Plata- (buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Buenos Aires.

- Buenos Aires is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Asmara is the capital of what African country, which gained independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s?

- Eritrea.

- Eritrea is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss-up, what event, the first of which was won by Frank Neuhauser in 1925, had eight co-champions in the 2019... Oh.

In 2019.

One of whom correctly gave the letters in "auslaut"?

(buzzer beeps) Garrett?

- Scripps Spelling Bee.

- Scripps Spelling Bee is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the slogan "every man a king" was used by what populist senator and governor from Louisiana who was assassinated in 1935?

- John.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Trico, the chance to steal.

- Smith.

- Another good name, but also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Huey Long.

Huey Long.

And for your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the empirical formula of butane, or C4H10, given that empirical formulas reduce molecular formulas to their lowest terms?

(buzzer beeps) Henry?

- C2H5.

- C2H5 is correct.

Well done, Henry.

For your bonus, what Indian-American author who recently has started writing in Italian, won a Pulitzer Prize for her story collection on "Interpreter of Maladies."

- Lahiri.

- Lahiri is correct.

Well done.

(doorbell rings) And that is all the time we have for on today's show.

So let's take a look at our scores.

On top, we have O'Fallon with 600 and Trico with 150.

So, O'Fallon, well done.

Moving on to the next round.

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

For our lovely contestants here today, and the people working hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much.

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