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Season 3400 Episode 7 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Edwards Co. v Trico
First Round Match between Edwards County and Trico
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Season 3400 Episode 7 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
First Round Match between Edwards County and Trico
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] >> Hi, I have six golden tickets and you, dear watcher, are in possession of all six of them.
I'm your host, Olivia manning.
And welcome back to Scholastic Hi-q, the only show where knowledge rules.
Today we've got two fantastic teams on top.
We've got Edwards Country with Cooper, Adriel Ely and first Brayden.
And on the bottom we've got Trico with Chris, second Brayden, Blaise and Tate.
It's a battle of the Bradens here tonight.
For those of you who don't know the rules, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
These I will ask to the room.
Either team can buzz in for ten points.
The team that gets a toss up question correctly then moves on to a bonus question, 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, math questions, lightning rounds.
But we will get to all of that when we get to it.
The important thing that you all need to know is the interruption rule.
If at any point while I'm reading a question, you interrupt me and you get the question right, we move on, we move on with our day and you get your points.
If you get it wrong, the other team gets five bonus points and the opportunity to answer that question correctly.
So if you're gonna interrupt me, just make sure you're right.
With all of that hullabaloo out of the way.
Are we ready to hike?
You sure?
All right.
Love.
Enthusiasm.
Our first toss up question.
What value which is exceeded by tachyons, is the same in all inertial frames in special relativity, and is about 3000 300,000,000m/s.
Brayden.>> Speed of light.
>> Speed of light is correct.
Your bonus question Trico what six letter adjective describes a tumor that is not cancerous and typically does not metastasize, unlike a malignant tumor.
>> Benign.>> Benign is correct.
Next, toss up.
What?
Scotsman, who was found living in the village of Ujiji in 1871, was a missionary who went missing in Africa until Henry Stanley found him.
We were looking for Livingstone.
David Livingstone, also known as Doctor Livingstone, I presume.
No bonus question there.
On to the next toss up.
What composer wrote a piano concerto in D major for the one armed Paul Wittgenstein, and utilized a Spanish dance form in his 1928 work Bolero.
We were looking for Ravel, Maurice Ravel.
Once again, no bonus question.
What fundamental particles have three flavours called tau grains?
>> Sorry, quarks.
>> That is incorrect.
Edwards Country.
I'll repeat the question.
What fundamental particles have three flavours called tau, muon and electron have less mass than a quark and rarely interact with matter.
Eli.
>> Neutrinos.
>> Neutrinos is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country what quantity is directly proportional to volume by Charles's law and can be measured on the Rankine scale.
>> Earthquakes.
>> That is incorrect.
Temperature Trico.
Say that one more time.
>> Temperature.>> Temperature is correct.
That is ten points to Trico for the bonus question.
Steel.
What kind of institution was Clonmacnoise, whose inhabitants copied manuscripts on vellum and stayed confined out of devotion to the Catholic Church.
Kubla Khan.
>> Mosque.
>> Mosque is incorrect.
Trico your chance to buzz in.
>> Cloisters.
Sorry.
Cloisters.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for a monastery.
Monasteries.
Our first media question of the game.
Gentlemen, if I could introduce you all to the television, please say hello to the television.
She's shy.
>> This character was made as a mascot for a famous chocolate company in the 1970s.
>> He the Nesquik Bunny.
>> The Nesquik Bunny is correct.
He's also known as Quaky.
That is ten points to Edwards Country for getting that media question correct.
There are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What sculptor who did not finish the series of prisoners he sculpted for Julius II's tomb, showed Mary mourning her dead son in his sculpture Pieta.
Eli.
>> Michelangelo.
>> Michelangelo is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country.
What is the name of the proposed geological epoch defined by significant human impact on Earth's systems?
>> Tectonic plates.
>> Tectonic plates.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal.
We were looking for the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene epoch.
Our next toss up.
What fluid, which is overproduced and relatively dilute in people with diabetes insipidus, is a waste product humans store in their bladders.
>> Brayden urine.
>> Urine is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country.
What Native American chief who fought the US in an In 1832 War that Abraham Lincoln participated in names a kind of American military helicopter.
>> Apache.
>> Apache is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal Blackhawk.
Blackhawk is correct.
Next toss up.
What group started the free breakfast for children program, and was founded in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to promote black nationalism.
Cooper.
>> The Black Panthers.
>> The Black Panther is correct.
Black Panther Party is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country.
Euclid's algorithm is used to calculate what quantity, which for two numbers is the product of the numbers over their least common multiple.
>> Greatest common factor.
>> Greatest common factor is correct.
What novel in which the drunkard Hindley tries to obstruct the stormy romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff was written by Emily Bronte.
>> Eli, Wuthering Heights.
>> Wuthering Heights is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country what Austrian composer used a Friedrich Klopstock poem in his Resurrection Symphony which followed his Titan Symphony?
>> Mozart.
>> Mozart is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> We were looking for Mahler.
Gustav Mahler is that composer.
Our next toss up.
What class of compounds whose phospho types form the primary structure of cell membranes?
>> Brayden lipids.
>> Lipids is correct.
Your bonus question.
Trico.
During the American Revolution, what militia group, led by Ethan Allen, worked with Benedict Arnold to capture Fort Ticonderoga.
>> Green mountain boys.
Say it again, green mountain boys.
>> Green Mountain Boys is correct.
All right.
We are up to our first audio question of the game.
Please turn your ears towards the speakers.
This artist is an American social media personality, singer and songwriter who first Brayden.
>> Alex Warren.>> Alex Warren is correct.
That is ten points to Edwards Country for a correct audio question.
Similar to media questions, there are no bonus audio questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the speaker.
On to our next toss up.
What country were the ship N Sultan crashed into a garden in 2025 is where the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at Oslo City Hall.
Eli.>> Norway.
>> Norway is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country.
In 1880, John Philip Sousa was named director of the band of what branch of the military whose official march is tempered is titled sorry, Semper Fidelis.
U.S.. >> Army.
Sure.
Yeah.
>> Army is in the correct Trico your chance to steal.
>> Army.
>> Army is incorrect.
We were looking for the Marine Corps, the United States Marine Corps, our next toss up.
What island, which contains the Buddhist temple of Borobudur, is the world's most populous island and is home to Indonesia.
Indonesia's capital of Jakarta.
Chris.>> Java.
>> Java is correct.
Your bonus question Trico Trompe L?oeil was popularized during what period of art, which flourished in the 17th century and is exemplified by the works of Caravaggio.
>> Baroque.
>> Baroque is correct.
Next, toss up.
What team whose pitchers include the NL starter in the 2024 and 2025 all star games Paul Skenes.
>> Eli Pittsburgh Pirates.
>> Pittsburgh Pirates is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country cherry red skin can occur as a result of poisoning by prolonged exposure.
To what?
Diatomic gas in auto exhaust.
Which bonds strongly to hemoglobin.
>> Carbon monoxide.
>> Carbon monoxide.
>> Carbon monoxide is correct.
This next toss up is a math question.
So everybody have your pencil and paper ready.
What some results from adding every even integer from 10 to 16 inclusive given there are four such numbers to add up.
>> Brayden 52.
>> 52 is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country is not a math question, so feel free to put that pencil and paper down.
Miguel de Cervantes was wounded in what?
1571 battle at which the Holy League's fleet defeated the Ottoman Empire.
>> The Battle of Vienna.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for the Battle of Lepanto.
The battle of Lepanto.
Next toss up.
What novel?
Which ends with the description of lead and rain clouds, centers on Henry Fleming's experience in the Civil War.
And is by Stephen Crane.
Eli.
>> The red badge of courage.
>> The Red Badge of Courage is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country in September 2023, what nation sees the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region from Armenia and displaced thousands of its residents?
>> Azerbaijan.
>> Azerbaijan is correct.
Our second media question the television.
This character is from a famous video game series called Undertale.
>> Adrenal sands.
>> Sands is correct.
Once again, no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
In what country did the 1986 Power People Power Revolution, partly led by Corazon Aquino, oust longtime dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power.
Adriel.>> Philippines.
>> Philippines is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country.
What city in southern India, the country's third most populous, is known as India's Silicon Valley and as it is home to the large software industry.
>> Mumbai.
>> Mumbai is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal.
>> Pass.
>> All right.
We were looking for Bangalore.
Bangalore is that city's name.
Our next toss up.
Japanese kinako is made.
Is what kind of foodstuff?
That is mixed with butter to create a roux.
And is made by grinding grains like wheat into a fine powder.
>> Flour.
Sorry.
>> Flour flower is correct.
Your bonus question.
Trico.
hello is the opening song of What Musical, which is set primarily in Uganda and was written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
>> I don't have any answer.
>> No answer.
>> All right, Edwards Country your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon is the name of that musical.
And we are on to this game's lightning round.
The Lightning Round works a little differently.
I now have it in my hand.
Four topics.
Each of those topics have ten questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s Trico you get first choice as to which topic you would like to answer.
They are as follows.
Micro terms ends in iu m ancient cities and pass or play.
>> Ancient cities.
>> Ancient cities name these cities from the classical Mediterranean world.
Trico.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Pericles commissioned its Parthenon.
[MUSIC] Athens, correct.
Capital of an empire that fought Rome in the Punic Wars.
[MUSIC] >> Carthage, Tunisia.
>> Incorrect.
Ptolemaic pharaohs built its enormous library.
[MUSIC]>> Alexandria.
>> Correct.
Capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Sacked in the Fourth Crusade.
>> Constantinople.
>> Correct city that led the Boeotian League and had a sacred band.
[MUSIC] Thebes, correct.
Winner of the Peloponnesian War, known for strict military training.
Sparta, correct, where Octavian and Antony led the final defeat of Julius Caesar's assassins.
[MUSIC] >> Pass for now.
>> Alexander the Great built its still extant causeway.
De.
[MUSIC] Passe provincial economic centre sacked in Boudica's revolt in AD 60.
[MUSIC] Pass city whose mausoleum was a wonder of the ancient world.
[MUSIC] You are out of time.
Trico.
Carthage is the capital of the empire that fought Rome in the Punic Wars.
Philippi is the city where Octavian and Antony led the final defeat of Julius Caesar's assassins.
Alexander the Great built Tyre's still extant.
Causeway.
Londinium is the provincial economic centre sacked by Boudica, and Halicarnassus is the city whose mausoleum was a wonder of the ancient world.
Edwards Country.
Your choices are once again as follows.
Micro terms ends in iu m and pass or play.
>> We'll do micro terms.
>> Micro terms.
Give these answers that start with the prefix micro.
Edwards Country.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Oven that uses electromagnetic radiation to quickly heat food.
>> Microwave.
>> Correct.
Tech company behind the windows OS.
>> Microsoft.
>> Correct device.
Singers hold to their face.
>> Microphone.
>> Correct.
Lab devices that make small objects look larger.
>> Microscope.
>> Correct.
Generic term for tiny living beings.
Microorganism correct term for person who is overly controlling of small parts of a project manager.
Micro manager correct social media with short posts such as Twitter.
[MUSIC]>> Pass.
>> Medical condition involving a smaller than usual head.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Common prefixed Si unit for capacitance.
[MUSIC] >> And pass.
>> Small plates that is representative of a wider area.
[MUSIC] Microstate incorrect social media with short posts such as Twitter.
[MUSIC] >> Micro feed.
Sorry.
Micro feed.
>> Incorrect.
Medical condition involving a smaller than usual head.
You're out of time.
Edwards Country A microblog is a social media with short posts such as Twitter.
Microcephaly is the medical condition involving a smaller than usual head.
Microfarad is that common prefixed Si unit for capacitance and a microcosm is a small place that is representative of a wider area.
I love a lightning round, but unfortunately they can only last about 100 and 20s.
So back to the toss ups we go.
What poet gave agricultural advice in his Georgics and wrote about a Trojan hero who becomes the ancestor of the Romans in his epic poem The Aeneid?
>> Virgil.
>> Virgil is correct.
Your bonus question Trico.
What Englishman mused, had we but world enough and time in his carpe diem poem to his coy Mistress.
Parce Edwards Country your chance to steal Keats, Keats, Keats is incorrect.
We were looking for Marvell, Andrew Marvell.
Next toss up.
What event in which a naval quarantine was imposed by John F Kennedy began in 1962, after the US discovered Soviet.
>> Cuban Missile Crisis.
>> Cuban missile crisis.
Is correct.
Your bonus question Trico.
In 2022, an image was released of the black hole at the Milky Way center, which lies in what zodiac constellation?
>> Capricorn.
>> Capricorn is incorrect.
Edwards Country.
>> Pisces Pisces.
>> Pisces is also incorrect.
We were looking for a Sagittarius.
Sagittarius.
What alliance, established through the outlines of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, has a parliament that meets in both Strasbourg and Brussels.
Adriel.>> The European Union.
>> The European Union is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country.
In what province did Jean Lesage's Liberal government begin a so-called Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, promoting secularism and nationalism.
>> Paris.
>> Paris is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal Berlin.
That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Quebec.
Quebec?
Our second audio question.
Please turn your ears to the speakers.
This artist is a Canadian rapper, singer and songwriter.
Who?
>> Eli Drake.
Sorry, Drake.
>> Drake is correct.
That is ten points for Edwards Country.
Once again, no bonus audio questions, just whatever shows up on the speakers.
Back to our toss ups.
What CEO who named Greg Abel as his successor in 2025, lives in a five bedroom house in Omaha and is the longtime head of Berkshire Hathaway.
Both teams are out of time.
We were looking for Warren Buffett.
No bonus question there.
What type of polygon is subject to Pascal's theorem?
When inscribed in a conic, has internal angles that sum up to Brayden.
Triangle that is incorrect.
Trico I will repeat the question.
What type of polygon is subject to Pascal's theorem?
When inscribed in a conic, has internal angles that sum up to 720 degrees and has six sides.
>> Brayden A hexagon.
>> Hexagon is correct.
Your bonus question Trico.
At room temperature and atmospheric pressure, dry ice undergoes what phase transition going directly from a solid to a gas.
>> Sublimation.
>> Sublimation is correct.
What director depicted UFOs arriving at Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and directed a film about a killer shark titled jaws.
>> Eli Spielberg.
>> Spielberg is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country.
During Operation Dynamo, several hundred boats evacuated hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers from the beaches of what French harbor?
>> Near Calais.
>> Sorry.>> Calais.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal Dunkirk.
Dunkirk is correct.
What African country which once adopted the.
The policy of Ujamaa under Julius Nyerere, was created by the 1964 unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
>> Adrian.>> Sorry.
>> Tanzania.>> Tanzania is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country.
What musician announced that his 2024 soundtrack album for Bando Stone in the New World would be the last released under his current stage name.
>> Weekend.
Yeah.
>> The weekend.
>> The weekend is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> We were looking for Childish Gambino.
Childish Gambino is that musician.
What?
Infraclass of mammals, which includes the extinct thylacine, have members that carry their young in a pouch, such as Cooper.
>> Marsupials.
>> Marsupials is correct.
Your bonus question.
Edwards Country.
What?
Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes a sunless sea which the river Alph reaches after flowing through caverns measureless to man.
>> No answer.
>> Trico your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Kubla Khan.
Kubla Khan is the title of that poem.
Our next media question.
I don't have to introduce you to the television anymore.
This American singer songwriter.
>> Brayden Lady Gaga.
>> Lady Gaga is correct.
Back to our toss ups.
What county is home to?
The historic Mission San Juan Capistrano, and the city of Anaheim is south of Los Angeles and is named for a fruit.
Adriel.>> Orange County.
>> Orange County is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
That goes for you two as well.
Trico, I might come back to you.
What is the minimum whole number of school buses needed for a 200 student field trip?
If each bus can hold up to 28 students.
>> Seven.
>> Seven is incorrect.
Trico your chance to steal.
>> Eight.
is correct.
>> What country is the setting of both Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot and an opera by John Adams, based on a 1972 visit to it by Richard Nixon.
>> Adrenal China.
>> China is correct.
Your bonus question Edwards Country.
As of June 2025, Walmart and Amazon are the two top entries in the list of the 500 largest US corporations compiled by what magazine?
>> I was gonna say Nasdaq.
I don't think that's 500.
>> You were out of time.
Edwards Country Trico your chance to steal time.
Time is incorrect.
We were looking for fortune magazine's where the term fortune 500 comes from.
This next toss up is another math question.
So get those pencils and paper back out.
What is the value of the 100 thousandths digit of pi, given it is the fifth digit after the decimal point.
Brayden nine nine is correct.
Your bonus question Trico not a math question, so put that pencil and paper away.
What Republican served as vice president under George W Bush?
>> No answer.
>> Edwards Country your chance to steal Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney is correct.
That means that we are out of time for this episode of Scholastic IQ.
Our winners today are Edwards Country a big round of applause for all team members of Edwards Country, but for Trico as well for being here for this incredible episode of Scholastic IQ.
I am Olivia manning reminding you that here knowledge rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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