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1st Round between Cisne and Herrin
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] >> Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
I am your favorite game show host.
Favorite game show host, Olivia manning.
And welcome to Scholastic Hi-q, the show where knowledge rules.
Today we've got two incredible teams on the top.
We've got Cisne with Corbin, Vincent, Mikkie and Esme, and on the bottom we've got Herrin with Chris, Tyler, Nolan, and Charlie.
For those of you who don't know the rules, I will briefly explain them to you.
I have in my hand here a series of toss up questions that I will ask to the room.
Either team can buzz in for ten points.
That team will then move on to a bonus question, which they can answer for 20 points, but if they get it wrong, the other team can buzz in and steal for ten bonus points.
There are also media questions.
Audio questions.
Lightning rounds.
But we will get to all of those when we get to them.
For now, the only thing you need to know is the interruption rule.
If I am reading a question of any sort and you interrupt me to answer and you get the question correct, we move on with our lives and you get your points.
If you get the answer wrong, the other team gets five bonus points and they still get the opportunity to answer that question from you.
So if you're going to interrupt me, just make sure you do it right.
All righty.
With all of that hullabaloo out of the way, are we ready to hike?
>> You sure?
Yeah.
>> All right.
That's the enthusiasm that I love in the studio today.
Our first toss up question.
What holiday is celebrated by eating Sufganiyot recalls events described in first Maccabees and is observed by Jews who light candles on a menorah.
Vincent.
>> Hanukkah.>> Hanukkah is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne in October 2024, what small Your bonus question Cisne in October 2024, what small Your bonus question Cisne in October 2024, what small European country, which includes the breakaway region of Transnistria, voted in a close referendum to seek EU membership.
>> Moldova.
>> Moldova is correct.
At what battle?
Where redoubt number ten fell to Alexander Hamilton.
Did the Comte de Rochambeau help trap Charles Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War?
Miki.>> Yorktown.
>> Yorktown is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
What last name is shared by the photographer of Saigon Execution and a co-founder of group F/64, whose photos of Yosemite include Moon and Half Dome.
>> Rock.
>> Rock is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Thompson.
>> Thompson is incorrect.
We were looking for Adams.
Adams was that last name?
Our next toss up.
What play in which a slave mentions his mother.
Sycorax is a Shakespeare work in which Ariel helps the sorcerer Prospero conjure the title storm.
Is Set in motion the Tempest.
The Tempest is correct.
Your bonus question, Herrin.
What man served as the head of state of Manchukuo?
20 years after being deposed as the last emperor of the Qing dynasty.
>> Kublai Khan.
>> Kublai Khan is incorrect.
Your chance to steal Puyi.
Puyi is correct.
That is ten points for the bonus round.
Steal our next toss up.
What country?
The site of an ancient kingdom of Moab is formally described as a Hashemite kingdom, is east of Israel and has its capital at Amman.
Nikki.
>> Jordan.>> Jordan is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne.
What author wrote about a march on the Pentagon in his book, The Armies of the night, and also wrote the World War II novel The Naked and the dead.
>> Hemingway.
>> Hemingway is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Williams.
>> Williams is incorrect.
We were looking for Mailer.
Norman Mailer.
Our next toss up.
In what country did Henry Clay Jr die fighting at the Battle of Buena Vista, which Zachary Taylor won in 1847 over Mickey.
>> Mexico.
>> Mexico is correct.
Your bonus question, Cisne.
What British scientist whose namesake modulus equals stress over axial strain demonstrated the wave nature of light in a double slit experiment.
>> Rutherford.
Sorry, Rutherford.
>> Rutherford is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
Baw Baw is incorrect.
We were looking for young Thomas Young.
That's one of those questions where I don't even understand the words as I'm reading them.
So good on you guys for being here.
Our first media question of the game.
You will look at this.
Television.
>> Hi, television.
Thank you.
>> This American singer songwriter is known for her songs based around her breakups.
>> Mikki Taylor Swift.
>> Taylor Swift is correct.
That is ten points for answering the media question.
There are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What state is home to 2024 and 2025?
PWHL champion Frost, as well as a Central Division NHL team captained by Jared Spurgeon, nicknamed the Wild Criss.
>> Minneapolis.
>> That is incorrect.
Cisne Vincent.>> Minnesota.
>> Minnesota is correct.
We were looking for the state and not the city.
Your bonus question, Cisne.
Your bonus question, Cisne.
What six letter word beginning with P is used for a small column or stand designed to support a vase or sculpture pillar.
That is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Post.
>> Post is incorrect.
This is actually a double answer.
We were looking for either plinth or podium.
Our next toss up.
What novel, which portrays a picnic at Box Hill where Miss Bates is insulted by the matchmaking title woman, was written in the 18 tens by Jane Austen.
Nolan.>> Pride and prejudice.
>> Pride and prejudice is incorrect.
As me.
>> Sense and sensibility.
>> Sense and sensibility is incorrect.
We were looking for Emma.
Emma by Jane Austen.
No bonus round for that time.
Our next toss up.
What devices of which potentiometers are variable?
Examples are depicted as zig zag lines on circuit diagrams and oppose the flow of current.
Nicky.
>> Resistor.>> Resistors is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
What banker who was exiled in 1433 by the Albizzi family, used a voting block on the Signoria to become the first powerful Medici ruler of Florence.
All right, Herrin, your chance to steal.
>> Antonio.
>> Antonio is incorrect.
We were looking for Cosimo.
Cosimo de Medici.
No bonus points there.
In 2023, Tina Kotek took office as governor of what?
West Coast state, whose senators include Ron Wyden and which Kotek leads from its capital, Salem.
>> Mickey, Oregon.
>> Oregon is correct.
Your bonus question CIsne space weather is influenced by Your bonus question CIsne space weather is influenced by what flow of charged particles expelled from a certain heavenly bodies.
Corona.
>> Ions.
>> Ions is incorrect.
Herrin, your chance to steal solar flare.
Solar flare is incorrect.
We were looking for solar winds.
Solar winds?
No bonus points there.
What text?
Whose book ten argues for the banishment of poems a poets.
Sorry.
Is a dialogue that discusses ideal government governance of a city state and was written by Plato.
Tyler.
>> Allegory of the cave.
>> Allegory of the cave is incorrect.
Cisne.
Your chance to buzz in.
All right.
Out of time.
We were looking for the Republic.
Plato's republic.
Our second media question.
The television welcomes you once again.
This American YouTuber, comedian, filmmaker and actor is known for his raunchy humor and funny skits in the early 20 tens.
He plays many on screen and animated characters and is beloved by a lot of fandoms.
Name this celebrity.
Corbin.>> Smosh.
>> Smosh is incorrect.
Karen.
Any guesses?
Charlie.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Brandon Rogers.
His name is Brandon Rogers.
Our next toss up.
What author depicted 17 brothers marked with a cross in his novel about the city of Macondo and the Buendia family, 100 Years of Solitude.
All right.
Out of time for both teams.
We were looking for Garcia marquez.
Gabriel Garcia marquez.
Our bonus question.
Nope.
Incorrect.
Because none of you got it right.
I was going on autopilot there.
Next toss up question.
What device that contains platinum and palladium reduces harmful emissions from internal catalytic converter.
Catalytic converters is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne.
What basic quantum mechanics equation named for an Austrian gives the allowed wave functions for a particle Planck's constant.
That is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal Einstein's equation.
Einstein is incorrect.
We were looking for Schrödinger equation, the Schrödinger equation.
He doesn't just put cats in boxes.
He also does quantum mechanics.
Our next toss up.
What leader arrested critics in the Anti-Rightist campaign and ordered sparrows killed as part of the Great Leap Forward?
>> Corbyn, Mao Zedong.
>> Mao Zedong is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne what straight named for an English explorer, separates New Zealand's North and South Islands.
>> Cook.
>> Cook is correct.
The Cook Strait named after James Cook.
Our next toss up.
What novel in which the cat Snowbell threatens the songbird Margalo, was written by E.B.
white, about a two inch tall boy who looks like a mouse.
>> Vincent Stuart little.
>> Stuart Little is correct.
Cisne, your bonus question.
What?
King renamed the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor and ruled Great Britain during World War one.
>> King Edward.
>> King Edward is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Phillip.
>> Phillip is incorrect.
All very good guesses.
All very British names.
We were looking for George.
King George the fifth.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready.
What is the sum of the two fractions?
One ninth plus 2/5.
Given that the least common multiple of nine and five is 45, Tyler 23/45 23/45 is correct.
Your bonus question Herrin in 2023, what X member of Odd Future released Dogtooth, a song he had omitted from his 2021 album Call Me If You Get Lost.
>> Tyler the Creator.
>> Tyler the creator is correct.
Our next toss up.
What mountain had an apostrophe removed from its name in 1890, is close to Colorado Springs and is named for a man, Tyler.
>> Denali.>> Denali is incorrect.
I'll repeat the question.
What mountain had an apostrophe removed from its name in 1890, is close to Colorado Springs and is named for a man with the first name Zebulon Pike Peak.
Pike's peak is correct.
Your bonus question Cisney.
What author who imagined becoming a transparent eyeball in his 1836 essay nature, gave a speech at Harvard called The American Scholar.
>> Longfellow.
>> Longfellow is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Thoreau.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Our next round is the lightning round.
All right, for those of you who don't know how the lightning round works, I have now in my hand a series of topics.
Each of these topics have ten questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.
Herrin, you get first pick of your topics.
They are as follows.
You get to choose one three letter names Moby Dick, I before E and B in science.
>> Three letter names.
>> Three letter names.
All righty.
Identify these people with three letter family names.
The family name alone is sufficient.
Herrin.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Author of To Kill a mockingbird.
>> Lee.
>> Correct.
Current North Korean supreme leader.
[MUSIC] >> Kim.
>> Correct boxer nicknamed the Louisville Lip or the Greatest Ollie.
Correct.
Actor who played Marty McFly in back to the future.
>> Fox.
>> Correct.
Japanese Prime minister assassinated in 2022.
[MUSIC]>> Pass.
>> Actor who played Monica on Friends.
[MUSIC] Correct.
First KMT leader whose protege was Shanghai Chiang Kai shek.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Japanese performance artist who collaborated with husband John Lennon.
>> Oh, no.
>> Correct, Chinese author of The Three Body Problem.
[MUSIC] Best architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Pass.
Japanese prime minister assassinated in 2022.
Pass US first KMT leader whose protege was Chiang Kai shek.
[MUSIC] Han incorrect Chinese author of the Three-body problem.
>> Han.
>> Incorrect.
We are out of time.
Shinzo Abe was the Japanese prime minister assassinated in 2022.
Sun Yat-Sen is the first KMT leader.
Cixin Liu is the Chinese author of The Three-body Problem, and Maya Lin was the architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Cisne, your topics to choose from are, once again Moby Dick before I and bee in Science.
>> Bee in science.
>> All right.
>> Give these science terms that begin with the letter B. Cisne, your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Tough outer covering of a tree bark.
Correct.
Study of chemical reactions in living organisms.
>> Biology.
>> Incorrect temperature point at which a liquid becomes a vapor.>> Boiling point.
>> Correct type of coral reef that runs parallel to a shore like Australia's Great.
>> Barrier Reef.
>> Correct dinosaur whose name means thunder lizard.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> A device that measures atmospheric pressure.
>> Barometer.
>> Correct, an upward force exerted by a fluid on an object.
[MUSIC] For newly incorrect statistics, plot that shows the middle 50% of a data set.
>> Belgrade.
>> Incorrect.
A mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base that resists pH changes.
[MUSIC] The pass element whose sulfate salt is used to visualize the GI tract.
[MUSIC] Pass dinosaur whose name means thunder lizard.
>> Mars boulder.
>> Incorrect a mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base that resists pH changes.
[MUSIC] All right, we are out of time.
The study of chemical reactions in living organisms is biochemistry, not merely biology.
Brontosaurus is the dinosaur whose name means thunder lizard.
Buoyancy is the upward force exerted by a fluid on an object.
A box plot is the statistics plots that shows the middle 50% of a data set.
Buffered solutions is that mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base, and barium is the sulfate salt used to visualize the GI tract.
All right.
Wonderful lightning round all around.
But now we must go on to the toss ups.
What poet wrote about people who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg, and lamented others who were destroyed by madness in howl?
Tyler Frost Frost is incorrect.
Cisne.
Your chance to buzz in.
>> Mickey Sandburg.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Ginsberg, Irwin, Allen Ginsberg.
No bonus question there.
What physicist who names a length that is approximately the radius of a hydrogen atom names a model in which electrons have circular atomic orbits.
>> Tyler plank.
>> That is incorrect.
>> Nicky Bohr.
>> Bohr is correct.
Your bonus question what wind instrument on which link could play the Bolero of Fire?
Titled a 1998 Legend of Zelda video game originally released for the Nintendo 64 Ocarina.
What is the name of the video game.
>> Ocarina of Time?
>> Ocarina of time is correct.
Our next toss up.
What position?
Whose holder, John McDonald, resigned after the Pacific Scandal was later held by William Lyon Mackenzie King, who worked from Ottawa.
>> Prime minister.
>> Prime minister of what?
>> Canada.
>> Correct.
Herrin, your bonus question.
In what modern day state did the discovery of gold on Lakota land lead prospectors to pour into the town of Deadwood in 1876.
>> California.
>> California is incorrect.
Your chance to steal.
>> Oklahoma.
>> Oklahoma is incorrect.
We were looking for South Dakota.
South Dakota is that state.
Our next.
Our next toss up.
What character?
Who dates Grungetta and has a pet worm called slimey is a green monster who lives in a trash can on Sesame Street.
>> Vincent Oscar the Grouch.
>> Oscar the Grouch is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne.
In August 2024, Micro-loan pioneer Muhammad Yunus became chief advisor of what country after student protests forced Sheikh Hasina to resign.
>> Hi, Ryan.
>> Iran is incorrect.
Herrin your chance to steal.
Sorry.>> Nepal.
>> Nepal is incorrect.
We were looking for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is that country.
What city?
Which is the setting of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
And the song the House of the Rising sun is the most populous city.
Mickey.>> New Orleans.
>> New Orleans is correct.
Your bonus questions?
Cisne.
The town of Harpers Ferry, whose armory was raided by John Brown in 1859, is in what present day state.
>> Virginia.
>> That is incorrect.
Aaron.
Your chance to steal West Virginia.
West Virginia is correct.
Present day state was what we were looking for.
Our next toss up.
What number is the probability of both A and B occurring?
If A and B are mutually exclusive and is also the smallest probability value possible?
>> Thank you.
>> 1% 1% 1% is incorrect.
Herrin.
Chance to buzz in.
Tyler.>> Zero.
>> Zero is correct.
Your bonus question.
Herrin.
What 2015 Supreme Court case extended US v Windsor to legalize same sex marriage in all 50 states.
Out of time.
This is your chance to steal.
All right.
We were looking for Obergefell v Hodges.
That is that historic Supreme Court case.
Our next toss up.
What author wrote about enigmas solved by a Babylonian philosopher in Zadig and depicted a naive student of Doctor Pangloss in his 1759 satire Candide.
Mickey.>> Voltaire.
>> Voltaire is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
There is no net movement of water when a cell is placed in what type of solution that has the same solute concentration as the cell.
>> Acidic.
>> That is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Isotonic.
>> Isotonic is correct.
Ten points for that steel to Herrin.
What Flemish artist of portrait of a man in a Red turban.
Completed the Ghent Altarpiece and signed his name above a mirror in the Arnolfini Portrait.
Kris Warhol Warhol is incorrect.
Cisne.
Vincent.>> Picasso.
>> Picasso is incorrect.
We were looking for van Eyck, Jan van Eyck.
No bonus question there.
What man whose corpus of works contains on the sacred disease was an ancient Greek physician who was the namesake of an oath taken by doctors.
Hipocrates Hippocrates is correct.
Your bonus question, Cisne.
What?
Bronte sister used the pseudonym Acton Bell to publish her proto feminist novel Agnes Grey.
>> Emily.
>> Emily is incorrect.
Herrin.
Your chance to steal.
>> Lucy.
Lucille.
>> Lucille is incorrect.
We were looking for an Anne Bronte.
Our next toss up.
What organization included the rights to work and to leisure in a 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was adopted by its General Assembly?
>> Nolan the UN.
>> The UN is correct.
Your bonus question, Herrin.
What country has had a long standing dispute with its western neighbor, Venezuela, over the Essequibo region?
>> Peru.
>> Peru is incorrect.
Your chance to steal.
>> Guyana.
>> Guyana is correct.
Ten points to Cisne for that steel.
What politician who came in second in an August 2022 ranked choice vote to marry Patola was John McCain's running mate in 2008 and is from Alaska.
>> Sarah Palin.
>> Sarah Palin is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne what strong acid used to make fertilizers is combined with hydrochloric acid to form aqua regia?
>> Sulfur.
>> Sulfur is incorrect.
Haran.
Your chance to steal sulfuric.
Sulfuric is incorrect.
We were looking for nitric acid.
Our next toss up.
What?
Composer used subtitles like the bringer of jollity and the bringer of war for movements in a suite inspired by astrology.
The planets.
Chris.>> Vivaldi.
>> Vivaldi is incorrect.
Any chance to buzz in?
All right.
We were looking for Holst.
Gustav Holst.
What?
Revolutionary.
Never mind that.
Ding dong means that we are done with today's episode of Haikyu.
Our winner is Cisne.
Congratulations to Cisne.
And for Herrin.
Everybody gets a big round of applause because here at Scholastic IQ.
And I have to remind you this every time.
Knowledge rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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