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Season 3400 Episode 4 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Eldorado vs. Marion
First round match between Eldorado and Marion
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Season 3400 Episode 4 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hey, I love Sasuke and there's nothing my Liam Neeson dad can do about it.
I'm your Halloween host, Ponyo.
Welcome back to Hi-q, the only show where knowledge rules.
I've got my ham sandwich and I am ready for these two fantastic teams.
On the top.
We've got El Dorado with Will Loston and Isaac and Makenna.
And on the bottom we've got Marion with Ethan, Emily, Samuel and Tatiana.
Now, if you don't know the rules, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions which I will ask to the room.
Either team can buzz in to answer for ten points.
The team that gets a toss up question correct then moves on to a bonus round, which they can answer for 20 points, but if they get it wrong, the other team can 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.
The most important thing you need to know right now is the spooky ooky interruption rule.
Dun dun dun.
If I am reading out a question and you interrupt me to answer if you write me, we move on with our day.
If you are wrong, the other team gets five bonus points and the opportunity to answer that question.
So if you're gonna interrupt me, just be right.
All right?
All of that out of the way.
Are we ready to hire you?
Yes!
Yay!
All right, first toss up question.
What type of cell that matures in the seminiferous tubules is initially stored in the epididymis, and during fertilization, fuses with an egg cell.
Samuel.
>> Sperm.
>> Sperm is correct.
Your bonus question, Marion, is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
El Dorado you might be called upon to steal.
So pencil and paper for you too.
What is the product of 46 times 54?
A product that can be found using a difference of squares.
2484 2484 is correct.
Our next toss up.
In what state?
Where 165 people were saved in 2025 by Scott Ruskin, a rescue swimmer.
Did the Guadalupe River flood Kerr County near Samuell, Texas?
Texas is correct.
Your bonus question.
Marion A 1913 assassination brought Constantine the first to the throne of what country?
Which in 1912 regained control over a city sometimes called Salonika.
>> Greece.
>> Greece is correct.
What country?
Whose westernmost.
Most province of Aceh is ruled by Sharia law, controls most of the Greater Sunda Islands, including Sulawesi and Sumatra.
Samuel.
Indonesia Indonesia is correct.
Your bonus question, Marion.
The 1667 Treaty of Breda allowed the Dutch to keep what colony now an independent republic, whose capital is Paramaribo.
Suriname Suriname is correct.
This next toss up is another math question.
So pencil and paper ready on all fronts.
What is the measure of the central angle of each slice of a circular pizza that has been divided into ten congruent sectors?
Tatiana 36 degrees 36 is correct.
Your bonus question, Mariam.
What capital of the province of Sindh is the most populous city in Pakistan?
Karachi.
Karachi is correct.
What author described the treachery of Fernand Mondego, who weds Mercedes after Edmond Samuel Dumas.
Dumas is correct.
Your bonus question, Marion.
Coexistence curves intersect at triple points.
On what?
Diagrams that show the pressures and temperatures at which solids, liquids, and gases can exist.
You are out of time, Marion.
El Dorado.
>> States of matter.
>> States of matter is incorrect.
We were looking for phase diagrams.
No bonus points there.
Our first media question, if you will all say hello to the television.
>> Hello.
>> Thank you.
She's very shy.
This character is from a famous game franchise and is one of the first Makennah.
Freddy Fazbear Freddy Fazbear is correct.
That is ten points to El Dorado for the media question.
There are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What city?
Which is the main setting of the 2015 film spotlight and the TV show cheers, is home to the globe.
>> Boston.
>> Boston is correct.
Your bonus question.
Marion.
Astronomer Ulugh Beg was the grandson of what?
Turco-mongol conqueror who ruled from Samarkand.
Tamerlane Tamerlane is correct.
What explorer who tried to convert rulers in Cebu to Christianity was killed by Lapu-Lapu in the Philippines during his attempted circumnavigation.
Samuel.
>> Magellan.
>> Magellan is correct.
Your bonus question.
Zuma Rock is west of what?
Inland city, which in 1991 replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria.
Abuja.
Abuja is correct.
What organelle contains the protein cytochrome cytochrome c as part of its electron transport chain, which drives ATP synthesis during cellular respiration.
>> Mitochondria.
>> Mitochondria is correct.
Your high school educations are doing you well.
Your bonus question.
Eldorado in what quantum mechanical process does a particle with classically insufficient energy bypass a barrier by going under or through it?
>> Superposition.
>> Superposition is incorrect.
Marian.
Want to take a stab at it?
>> Yeah.
>> All righty.
We were looking for quantum tunneling.
Quantum tunneling?
What figure?
Who vomits up a stone followed by his children in reverse birth order.
Loston Cronus Cronus is correct.
Your bonus question.
El Dorado.
In October 2024, Bailey and Qing Bao, two members of what animal species arrived at the National Zoo?
>> Pandas.
>> Pandas is correct.
What politician?
The daughter of Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
Represents San Francisco and is a former Democratic speaker of the House.
Samuel.
Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
What Finnish architect designed JFK's airport, TWA terminal and Saint Louis gateway arch.
>> Finnish one.
>> You are out of time, Marian.
Eldorado.
Your chance to steal Rockefeller.
Rockefeller is incorrect.
We were looking for Eero Saarinen.
Saarinen?
No bonus points there.
What physical process that is quantified using Fick's first and second laws occurs when particles travel down their concentration gradient.
Loston.
>> Half life.
>> Half life is incorrect.
Marian, your chance to buzz in.
We were looking for diffusion.
Diffusion?
Was that physical process?
No bonus question there.
On to the next toss up.
What organization which sued Robert Casey in a 1992 Supreme Court case, was co-founded by Margaret Sanger and provides Samuel Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
What New Deal labor program, created in 1933, hired thousands of young men to work on environmental projects, unlike the public works of the WPA.
You are out of time.
Marion.
El Dorado.
>> No answer.
>> All righty.
We were looking for the Civilian Conservation Corps or the C.c.c.. What author suggested landlords could eat poor Irish babies in Samuel.
Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift is correct.
Your bonus question.
Marion, a German astronomer, discovered what numbered law of planetary motion, which states that planets follow elliptical orbits.
>> Three.
>> Sorry.
>> Third.
>> That is incorrect.
El Dorado, your chance to steal.
>> Galileo.
>> Galileo is incorrect.
We were looking for Kepler's first.
You both gave partial answers, but Kepler's first was what we were looking for.
Our next toss up.
What musician who helped pioneer bebop with songs like Coco played saxophone on his standard ornithology, inspired by his nickname bird.
Emily.
John Coltrane John Coltrane is incorrect.
Eldorado chance to buzz in.
All right.
We were looking for Charlie Parker.
No bonus questions there.
What?
Dictator, who is advised by economist known as the Chicago Boys, came to power after a 1973 coup removed Salvador Allende as Chilean president.
Samuel.
>> Pinochet.>> Pinochet is correct.
Your bonus question in what year did William Jennings Bryan deliver the Cross of Gold speech before going on to lose a presidential election to William McKinley?
>> 1896.
>> That is correct.
Our first audio question.
There's technically nothing on the television, but she's still present.
This artist creates many songs that have gone viral.
Standouts include mystical, magical.
>> Ethan Benson Boone.
>> Benson.
Boone is correct.
Marian, you get ten points for answering the question correctly.
There are again, no bonus audio questions, just whatever shows up on the speakers.
Our next toss up.
What circuit device is shown as a triangle, meaning a line at one vertex, ideally restricts current to one direction and has a light emitting form.
Will.>> Diode.
>> Diode is correct.
Your bonus question El Dorado what Norse god was killed by his brother Hodr with a mistletoe tipped arrow or dart?
Tier that is incorrect.
>> Marian Baldr.
>> Sorry.
Baldr Baldr is correct.
What city contains the monumental axis was planned by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, and replaced Rio de Janeiro as its nation's capital.
>> Brasilia.
>> Brasilia is correct.
Your bonus question, Marion.
Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment established the elementary charge.
Of what?
Subatomic particle.
>> Neutron.
>> Neutron is incorrect.
Eldorado your chance to steal electron.
Electron is correct.
What?
Present day country where Dedan Kimathi led the 1950s Mau Mau uprising against the British Empire is now the largest economy in East Africa.
Isaac.>> India.
>> India is incorrect.
Marion.
Samuel.>> Tanzania.
>> Tanzania is incorrect.
We were looking for Kenya.
Kenya.
No bonus question there.
which means that we get to move expeditiously into our lightning round.
>> Oh, sorry, I was enjoying my ham.
>> The lightning round works as follows I now have in my hand four topics.
Each of those topics have ten questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.
Eldorado.
Your choices for topics are as follows German cities, horses are you words and South.
>> Are you words?
>> Are you words?
Identify these words that begin with the letters r u Eldorado.
Your 60s begins in three 321.
An alleged fact that is spread often in secret rumors.
Correct.
Red variety of corundum.
[MUSIC] Ruby.
Correct.
Synonym for trash or garbage.>> Rubbish.
>> Correct.
Remains of an ancient building or civilization.>> Ruins.
>> Correct.
Vertical structure used to steer a boat.
>> Rudder.
>> Correct card game in which players assemble sets and runs.
>> Rummy.
>> Correct root vegetable, also called a Swede or Swedish turnip.
Rhubarb.
Incorrect.
Any mammal that chews its cud.
[MUSIC] Pass expressive free use of tempo in music.
[MUSIC] Pass commotion or a term for a family room.
[MUSIC] Pass any mammal that chews its cud.
[MUSIC] Rooting in.
>> Ruden.
>> Rudin.
Incorrect, expressive, free use of tempo in music.
You are out of time.
Rutabaga is that root vegetable also called a sweet or Swedish turnip.
A ruminant is any mammal that chews its cud.
Rubato is expressive, free use of tempo and music, and a rumpus is commotion or rumpus room is a term for a family room.
Okay, Marian, your topics are once again German cities, horses and south.
>> German cities.
>> German cities already name these German cities.
Marian, your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Germany's current capital.>> Berlin.
>> Correct, lends its name to a beef patty served on a bun.
>> Hamburg.>> Correct host of Oktoberfest.
>> Munich.
>> Correct.
Cathedral city that lends its name to a fragrance marketed to men.
Cologne, correct.
Bavarian city where Nazi leaders were tried as war criminals.
Nuremberg, correct city on the Main River, home to the European Central Bank.
[MUSIC]>> Uh.
[MUSIC] >> Pass site of the 1813 battle of the Nations.
Leipzig, correct.
Capital of Saxony that was firebombed in February 1945.
>> Dresden.
>> Correct.
Former capital of West Germany.
>> Bonn.
>> Correct.
Host of a July 1945 World War II conference.
>> Potsdam.
>> Correct.
City on the Main River, home to the European Central Bank.
[MUSIC] >> It was the other one.
[MUSIC] >> You are out of time.
Marianne of Frankfurt.
We were looking for Frankfort.
Frankfort on Main.
Alrighty.
That was a wonderful lightning round all around, but unfortunately they can't last forever.
So back to the toss up questions.
We go.
What singer songwriter who recorded Love's in Need of Love Today and Isn't She Lovely on his album songs in the Key of Life, is a blind keyboardist Samuel Ray Charles.
Ray Charles is incorrect.
El Dorado.
Chance to buzz in.
Isaac.
Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder is correct.
Your bonus question.
El Dorado, what poet whose 2016 collection Then Come Back features once lost poems, also wrote 20 love poems and A song of despair.
>> Robert Frost.
>> Robert Frost is incorrect.
Marian.
>> Nothing.
>> All right.
We were looking for Neruda.
Pablo Neruda chaotic behavior is displayed by the double type of what?
Near harmonic oscillators, which are used in grandfather clocks and include a swinging bob Samuel pendulum.
Pendulum is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
What metal that strengthens the enamel of the incisors of beavers also often turns those teeth orange.
You are out of time, Marian.
El Dorado, your chance to steel iron.
Iron is correct.
What battle were general Edward Pakenham was killed.
Took place after the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812 and was fought in Louisiana.
>> Samuel new Orleans.
>> New Orleans is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
Summertime is the first aria in what opera set in Charleston's Catfish Row.
>> Porgy and Bess.
>> That is correct.
What literary protagonist whom Lady Bertilak tries to seduce is in Arthurian hero, who agrees to a beheading game with the unsettling Green Knight.
Samuel.
>> Sir Gawain.>> Sir Gawain is correct.
Your bonus question, Marion.
What British Japanese novelist depicted the experimental Hailsham school in Never Let Me Go?
>> Uh, pass.
>> All right.
Eldorado your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
Sorry.
No answer.
>> All righty.
We were looking for Kazuo Ishiguro.
Ishiguro.
Amacrine and bipolar cells are found.
In what structure?
Which contains the fovea and has cone and rod cells for light detection in the eye.
>> Will pupil.
>> Pupil is incorrect.
Marion, your chance to buzz in.
Samuel.
Retin-a Retin-a is correct.
Your bonus question is a math question.
Pencil and paper ready?
But remember, Eldorado, I might call on you as well.
How many zeros are in the number?
60 trillion.
Given that a trillion equals a thousand billion.
Just answer 1212 is incorrect.
Eldorado your chance to steal.
>> 13.>> Sorry.
>> 13.>> 13 is correct.
What fictional country were Riri Williams builds an upgraded version of her Ironheart suit.
Is the primary setting of the Black Panther franchise in Wakanda.
Wakanda is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
A king with what regnal name legendarily said that Paris is worth a mass and converted to Catholicism to end the French Wars of Religion.
>> Henry the Just.
Henry.
>> Henry is correct.
What year in which Chicago police beat protesters near the Democratic National Convention saw the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Samuel.
>> 1968.
>> 1968 is correct.
Your bonus question.
What American author won Pulitzer Prizes for fiction for his novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys?
>> All right.
Eldorado.
Chance to steal.
>> No.
>> All right.
We were looking for Whitehead, Colson Whitehead.
Our next media question, if you will all re-introduce yourselves to the television.
>> Oh.
>> Thank you.
This character is from a well-known franchise called Makennah Animal Crossing.
That is incorrect.
Marion, I will repeat the question.
This character is from a well-known franchise called Animal Crossing.
He is a tanuki with half closed eyes and is very stingy with his prices.
Name this character Ethan.>> Tom Nook.
>> Tom Nook is correct.
Our next toss up.
What religion?
Whose scripture was partly composed in the 16th century by Ram Dass, uses the Golden Temple and regards the Adi Granth as the last Guru Samuel.
Sikhism Sikhism is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
What moniker, which was adopted in 1989 by Tim Drake, was previously used by by DC comics character Jason Todd, who was murdered by the Joker.
>> Robin.
>> Robin is correct.
Austenite and martensite are phases of what alloy that is produced in the Bessemer process, and contains 10% chromium in its stainless type.
>> Loston steel.
>> Steel is correct.
Your bonus question.
El Dorado A point on a circle that is rolling around an identical circle.
Traces what curve, which has a single cusp and is named for its heart like appearance.
>> Cardio curve.
>> That is incorrect.
Marian.
Your chance to steal cardioid.
Cardioid is correct.
Close, but no cigar for El Dorado, our next toss up.
What mountain on whose southwest slope the Kahiltna Glacier begins, is the tallest mountain in North America and is in the interior of Alaska.
>> Mount McKinley.
>> Mount McKinley is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
What Roman province, which became Rome's primary tin source after Hispania Mines declined, was the site of a first century rebellion led by Caratacus.
>> Yes.
>> El Dorado, your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Britannia or Roman Britain.
What character?
A star athlete whose prospects fade after he discovers his father's affair, is the elder son of Willy Loman in Death of a salesman.
All right.
We were looking for Biff Loman.
No bonus question there.
On to the next toss up.
What Roman goddess is depicted being blown to shore by the goddess Zephyr while standing on a shell?
Samuel.
>> Venus.
>> Venus is correct.
Your bonus question, Marion.
What city is home to the CFL's Alouettes and was home from 1969 to 2004 to the MLB's Expos.
>> Montreal.
>> Montreal is correct.
What civilization?
Whose port of Lothal may have been used for maritime trade, left behind sites like Mohenjo-daro and is named for river.
>> Indus River civilization.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
What town in Florida, founded by the Spanish in 1565, is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the present day US.
>> Saint Augustine.
>> Saint Augustine is correct.
What collection that introduced the mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi, the panther Bagheera, and the feral child Mowgli was written by Rudyard Kipling.
>> The Jungle Book.
>> The Jungle Book is correct.
Your bonus question, Marian.
A 2024 study of PMS found what type of inert pill reduced symptoms even when patients were told they were receiving no actual medication.
>> Placebo.
>> Placebo is correct.
That ding dong means that we are unfortunately out of time for today's episode of High-q.
Our winner today is Marian.
Congratulations to the team of Marian and also for the team of El Dorado for being here on our wonderful Ooky spooky Halloween episode.
Once again, I am Ponyo and reminding you that here at Scholastic Hi-q Knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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