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Season 3400 Episode 8 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Belleville East v. Sesser-Valier
First Round Match between Belleville East and Sesser-Valier
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First Round Match between Belleville East and Sesser-Valier
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi.
I hated her so much.
Flames, flames on the side of my face.
Hi, I'm Olivia manning.
Welcome to Scholastic Hi-q, the show where knowledge as well as Madeline Kahn rules.
Today we have two fantastic teams on the top.
We've got Belleville East, Jaxson, Shawn, Ben and Aryamun.
And on the bottom we've got Sesser-Valier with William Layla Claire and Dion.
The rules, in case you don't know them, are as follows 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.
A team that gets a toss up question correct, then moves on to a bonus question, which they can answer for 20 bonus points, or if they get it wrong, the other team can buzz in for ten bonus points.
There are also media questions, math questions, lightning rounds, but we will get to all of those when we get to them.
The most important thing that you all need to know is the interruption rule.
If at any point while I am presenting a question, you interrupt me to give an answer.
If you're correct, we move on with our day and you get your points.
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 make sure you're right.
With all of that out of the way, are we ready to hike you?
Yeah.
All right, our first toss up question.
What molecule?
Which is phosphorylated by the enzyme hexokinase to form Ghrp6.
No, G6P, I apologize, is broken down into two molecules of pyruvate during glycolysis, then ATP.
ATP is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in.
All right.
We were looking for glucose.
Glucose, also known as dextrose.
No bonus question there.
Onto our next toss up.
What man who starred in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth lost a presidential election by five electoral votes in 2000 to George Shawn al Gore.
Al Gore is correct.
Your bonus question.
Belleville East.
What tributary of the of the River Severn flows through the city of Stratford.
The hometown of William Shakespeare.
Avon.
>> Ideology.
Avon.
>> Avon is correct.
What playwright wrote of a death by silver bullet in the Emperor Jones, and depicted the dysfunctional Tyrone family in A long day's journey into night.
>> Sean O'Neill.
>> O'Neill is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
The 1990 Sirte declaration established what organization of 55 countries whose headquarters is in Addis Ababa.
>> I delegate Jaxson African Union.
>> African Union is correct.
Next toss up.
In 1957, what object with a name meaning fellow traveler was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, becoming Shawn.
>> Sputnik.
>> Sputnik is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East what acid forms when dissolved CO2 reacts with water, drives ocean acidification and explains the fizziness of sodas.
>> I delegate Aryamun carbonic acid.
>> Carbonic acid is correct.
What man who sang what They'll Say About us?
For his 2021 album optimist, co-wrote the song What Was I Made For with his sister, Billie Eilish?
Claire Finneas Eilish Finneas is correct.
Your bonus question Sesser-Valier what author of the poetry collection A Shropshire Lad memorialised the winner of a foot race in his poem to an athlete Dying young?
No answer.
Belleville East your chance to steal a tollgate.
Ben Housman Housman is correct.
Our first audience question of the game.
Please turn your ears to the speakers.
This artist is a Canadian singer, songwriter and dancer who first gained attention as a finalist on a televised dance competition before shifting into music.
They broke through with a viral Dion hit, sorry.
Tate McRae Tate McRae is correct.
That is ten points to Sesser-Valier for getting your audio question correct.
There are no bonus audio questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the speakers.
Back to our toss ups.
What party leader, whom Jordan Bardella succeeded, was convicted of embezzlement in 2025 and was a 2022 far right candidate for President of France.
>> Raymond Le Pen.
>> Le pen is correct.
Your bonus question.
Belleville East.
What Chinese city, whose name means southern capital, was the site of a 1937 massacre committed by Japanese troops.
>> Nanking.
>> Nanking is correct.
What country?
Whose port of Costanza lies on its Black Sea coastline is home to the region of Transylvania and Shawn, Romania.
Romania is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East unmyelinated axons and neuron cell bodies are found in what colorfully named neural tissue that contrasts with white matter.
>> Gray.
>> Gray is correct.
Our next toss up.
What materials, such as quantum dots, are contrasted with bulk materials and are named after their size on the order of ten to the -nine meters in diameter.
>> Raymond Microdots.
>> That is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in.
All right.
We were looking for nanoparticles or nanomaterials.
No bonus question there.
So on to our next toss up.
What university, which was led from 1902 to 1910 by Woodrow Wilson, was attended by F Scott Fitzgerald and is an Ivy League school in new Jersey.
Raymond.
>> Princeton.
>> Princeton is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
What first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Co-founded the Hull House Settlement in Chicago in 1889.
>> Susan B Anthony.
>> Susan B Anthony is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
Marie Curie Marie Curie is incorrect.
We were looking for Jane Addams.
Jane Addams is the is the name of that woman.
In what present day country did German forces create the Salo Republic when its Grand Council of Fascism capitulated after the invasion of Sicily?
>> Shawn, Italy.
>> Italy is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
In 2024, the US Geological Survey adopted the Cherokee name for Clingmans Dome, the tallest mountain in what landlocked state?
>> Colorado.
>> Colorado is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
You were out of time.
Sesser-Valier.
We were looking for Tennessee.
Tennessee is that state.
Our first media question of the game.
Please turn your attention towards the television.
This American singer songwriter first became famous Claire Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus is incorrect.
Belleville East I will repeat the question.
This American singer songwriter first became famous for her 2008 hit I Kissed a Girl.
She is one of Aryamun Katy Perry.
Katy Perry is correct.
Belleville East that is ten points for answering the question correctly.
Also, there are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Back to our toss ups.
What novelist wrote about the isolated Egdon Heath in The Return of the native, and depicted the pure wife of Angel Clare in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Shawn.
>> Hardy.
>> Hardy is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East Kitty Giovanni's murder is often erroneously cited as an example of what effect, whereas individuals are less likely to help when others are present.
>> Bystander.
>> Bystander.
>> Bystander is correct.
What modern country is where the 1816 eruption of Mount Tambora caused a year without a summer and an 1883 eruption destroyed the island of Krakatoa.
Shawn.
>> Indonesia.
>> Indonesia is correct.
Your bonus question.
Belleville East.
What?
Ninth mansa of the Mali Empire gave away a large amount of gold during a 1324 Hajj.
>> Musa Mansa Musa.
>> Mansa Musa is correct.
What Nintendo game series, whose first entry ends with a race out of the planet Zebes, features the enemy alien Ridley and the heroine Samus William.
>> Metroid.
>> Metroid is correct.
Your bonus question Sesser-Valier what port city, which was laid out according to the Oglethorpe Plan, is the oldest city in Georgia.
>> Savannah.
>> Savannah is correct.
What English king died during the First Barons War, which began shortly after barons forced him to meet at Runnymede in 1215 to sign the Magna Carta.
>> Shawn, John.
>> John is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
About half of human blood is made up of what liquid component, which contains no cells but does have proteins like albumin.
>> A dog Aryamun.
>> Plasma.
>> Plasma is correct.
What river whose bend forms the Ordos Loop receives sedimentation from the Loess Plateau is is China's second longest river and has a colorful name.
Shawn.
>> Yellow.
>> Yellow is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East in the card game blackjack, what is the point value of blackjack?
Consisting of an ace and a face card.
2121 is.
>> Correct.
>> Our second audio question.
Turn your ears towards the speakers once more.
This artist is an American singer, songwriter and actress celebrated for their powerhouse vocals.
Theatrical Aryamun.
Lady Gaga Lady Gaga is correct that it's ten points to Belleville East.
Once again, no bonus audio questions.
So back to our toss ups.
What jurist whom pro whom?
Pro Publica accused of accepting luxury gifts from Republican donor Harlan Crow is the most senior justice on the Supreme Court.
>> Aryamun Thomas.
>> Thomas is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East what picture book by Maurice Sendak describes a boy named Max who sails in and out of weeks to reach a land where he is crowned king?
>> The little prince.
>> The little prince is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
>> A delegate will, uh.
Where the wild things Are.
>> Where the Wild Things Are is correct.
That is ten points to Sesser-Valier for the steal.
What law, whose enforcement was limited in the E.C.
Knight case, was amended to exempt labor unions by the Clayton Act, and was an 1890 antitrust Shawn.
>> The Sherman Antitrust Act.
>> Sherman Antitrust Act is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran for president on the ticket of what reformist third party, which was nicknamed for a large wild animal?
>> Bull moose.
>> Bull moose is correct.
What substances whose Lindlar type contains poisoned palladium.
Increased reaction rate by decreasing activation energy without being consumed.
Ben.
>> Catalyst.
>> Catalyst is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
Both methane and sulfate ion have what?
Molecular geometry that has bond angles of approximately 109.5 degrees.
>> I delegate a Raman Trigonometric.
>> Trigonal planar.
>> That is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for tetrahedral.
Tetrahedral.
Molecular geometry.
Tetrahedral.
Our next toss up.
What author who stated that her love is such that rivers cannot quench in the poem.
To my dear and loving husband wrote in 17th century New England.
>> Shawn Barrett Browning.
>> That is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in.
Claire.
>> Ann.
>> What is her last name?
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Anne Bradstreet.
Anne Bradstreet is her name.
No bonus question there.
What empire?
Whose rulers included Jahangir and Humayun.
Humayun was founded by Babur after he won the first.
Sorry.
>> Mogul.
>> Mogul is correct.
Your bonus question.
Belleville East.
What Roman general was a member of the First Triumvirate, once known as the Teenage butcher, but later called the Great Caesar.
>> Caesar and Pompey were the two.
I feel like.
>> Pompey.
>> Pompey is correct.
>> Our second media question of the game.
Say hello to the television.
This Barbadian singer, actress, businesswoman.
Layla.
>> Rihanna.
>> Rihanna is correct.
That is ten points for the media question.
No bonus media questions.
So back to the toss ups we go.
What country in which the Magdalena River empties into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla, is west of Venezuela and has its capital, Shawn, Colombia.
Colombia is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East what type of artwork used to depict a river during the Qingming Festival consists of a long, narrow sheet of paper or silk that can be rolled up.
>> By Delegate Ben.
>> Tapestry.
>> Tapestry is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
>> I delegate Dion.
>> Scroll.
>> Scroll is correct.
That is ten points to Sesser-Valier for the steal, which leads us right into our Lightning Round.
The Lightning Round works as follows I have in my hand four topics.
Each of those topics are in ten questions which a team may have to answer in a mere 60s Sesser-Valier you get first pick at what topic you'd like to answer from, your options are as follows eight in science the bees of classical music, annual observances and Texas cities.
>> Texas cities.
>> All right, name these cities in Texas.
Sesser-Valier.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Its capital Houston.
Incorrect.
Its most populous city.
>> Austin.
>> Incorrect.
City where John F Kennedy was assassinated.
>> Uh, Fort Worth.
>> Incorrect.
Home to the tower of the Americas and the Alamo.
[MUSIC] >> No answer.
>> Gulf coast city with a name meaning Body of Christ.
[MUSIC] >> Houston.
>> Incorrect.
Resort city devastated by a 1900 hurricane.
[MUSIC] >> Houston.
>> Incorrect.
City home to the Kimbell Art Museum that is nicknamed Cowtown.
Fort worth correct city on the Rio Grande that hosts the Sun Bowl.
[MUSIC] >> Galveston.
>> Incorrect.
Populous.
Yellow city in the Panhandle.
[MUSIC] >> San Antonio.
>> Incorrect.
home of Baylor University and site of a siege involving the Branch Davidian cult.
Waco.
Correct.
You are out of questions.
Sesser-Valier.
Austin is Texas's capital.
Houston is its most populous city.
John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
San Antonio is home to the tower of the Americas and the Alamo.
Corpus Christi is that city with a name meaning Body of Christ.
Galveston was devastated by a 1900 hurricane.
El Paso is the city on the Rio Grande that hosts the Sun Bowl.
Amarillo is the populous yellow city in the Panhandle.
Belleville East your options once more are eight in science the bees of classical music and annual observances.
>> Eight in sciences.
>> Eight in science.
Answer the following about the number eight in science.
Belleville East.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Power of two.
>> Three.
>> Correct.
Planet whose demotion left the solar system with eight.
>> Pluto.
>> Pluto.
>> Correct.
Unit equal to eight bits.
[MUSIC] Pass eight carbon compound that names a gasoline rating system.
>> Octane a Dalgety Aryamun octane.
>> Correct element with atomic number eight.
Oxygen correct sequence that begins 112358.
>> Fibonacci.
>> Fibonacci.
>> Correct religion that inspired the Eightfold way for classifying particles.
>> So Buddhism.
>> Correct.
Scale on which 35 knots is an eight.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Phylum that contains the eight limbed octopus.
>> Cephalopods.
>> Incorrect mineral that defines eight on the original Mohs scale.
[MUSIC] Pass unit equal to eight bits.
[MUSIC] >> Octo megabyte.
>> Incorrect scale on which we are out of time.
Belleville East a single bite is equal to eight bits, not a megabyte.
The Beaufort scale is the scale on which 35 knots is an eight.
Mollusc or Mollusca is the phylum that contains the octopus and topaz is the mineral that defines eight on the original Mohs scale.
A very impressive lightning round all around, but unfortunately they cannot last forever.
So back on to the toss ups we go.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready both teams.
What is the cube root of x?
If x is equal to the positive square root of 64?
Aryamun two two is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East a maid is told to hide the Christmas tree at the start of what Henrik Ibsen play, which ends with a door shutting as Nora leaves her husband Torvald.
>> A doll's House.
>> A doll's house is correct.
What 1852 Whig nominee for president was a US general nicknamed Old Fuss and Feathers?
>> Shawn Winfield Scott.
>> Winfield Scott is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East what method which relies on the technique involves repeatedly asking questions to ascertain truth, and is named for a Greek philosopher.
>> I delegate Aryamun Socratic method.
>> Socratic is correct.
What flowers that grow between the crosses row on row in the poem in Flanders Fields are red flowers often used to memorialize World War One.
Aryamun.
>> Poppy.
>> Poppy is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East in 2025, what incarcerated drug Lord's son, Ovidio, pleaded guilty to working for a criminal organization.
He co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel.
>> The Colombian Ordos the person.
The Colombian DeMarco.
The Colombian guy.
Grab.
>> Chavez, you are out of time.
Belleville East Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in.
>> El chapo.
>> El Chapo is correct.
Next toss up.
What hero founded the city of Mycenae, saved his future wife Andromeda from a sea monster and overcame Aryamun.
>> Perseus.
>> Perseus is correct.
Your bonus question.
Belleville East.
In 1660, what king from the House of Stuart acceded to the throne as part of the English Restoration?
>> Charles the Second.
>> Charles the second is correct.
Our third audio question of the game.
Open your ears once more.
This artist is an American rapper, producer and designer who first made waves as the leader of an alternative hip hop collective in the late 2000, Raymond Tyler Perry.
Tyler Perry is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in Claire.
>> Tyler the creator.
>> Tyler the creator is correct.
Sesser-Valier that is ten points for the audio question.
Back to our toss ups.
What composer called for prepared piano in his sonatas and interludes and wrote a work that premiered with a piano not being played.
Titled 4'33".
>> Raymond Coppin.
>> That is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in.
Mozart.
Mozart.
Mozart is incorrect.
We were looking for John Cage.
No bonus question there.
On to our next toss up.
What target of the Vorlegung by Tetzel criticized indulgences in a manifesto possibly displayed at Castle Church in Wittenberg.
His ninety five theses Ben.
>> Martin Luther.
>> Martin Luther is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East what vehicles sometimes name this Szalkowski equation, which accounts for how fuel consumption and exhaust velocity affect their speed?
>> Cars I think.
>> Automobiles.
>> Automobiles is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
>> Motorcycles.
>> Motorcycles is incorrect.
We were looking for rockets.
The rocket equation.
What expressions come in?
Continued and mixed types.
And in ancient Egypt, in ancient Egypt were almost always used in their unit form, with one as the numerator.
>> Then fractions.
>> Fractions is.
>> Correct.
>> Your bonus question Belleville East.
The Avesta is a collection of sacred texts.
In what state?
Religion of pre-Islamic Iran that worships Ahura Mazda.
>> Zoroastrianism.
>> Zoroastrianism is correct.
In what country did the 2024 firing of Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the Free Democratic Party and a coalition led by Shawn Germany?
Germany is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East what American general and rival of George Washington captured a British army at Saratoga, but was disgraced after losing the Battle of Camden.
>> Horatio Gates.
>> Horatio Gates is correct.
What novel in which Branom and Brodsky use Ludovico?s technique to curb Shawn.
>> A Clockwork Orange.
>> A Clockwork Orange is correct.
Your bonus question Belleville East.
In 2024, California's attorney general issued a consumer warning over the bankruptcy of what at home genetic test company with an alphanumeric name 23andMe.
That is correct.
What anthropologist outlined the taupou system of ceremonial virginity in a cross-cultural study of adolescents?
1928 coming of age in Samoa.
>> Raymond Goodall.
>> Goodall is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to buzz in.
All right.
No bonus.
Know the answer if we were looking for was Mead.
Margaret Mead.
No bonus question there.
On to the next toss up.
What objects which, when thin, follow the equation one over f equals one over O plus one over.
I are used to focus light in microscopes and eyeglasses.
>> Lenses.
>> Lenses.
Correct.
I said it as you said, but, um.
That is correct.
Belleville East your bonus question.
What non-coding regions within a gene are transcribed from DNA to mRNA, but then removed by splicing?
>> Is this just stop codons?
>> I don't get Raman codons.
>> That is incorrect.
Sesser-Valier your chance to steal.
>> A question.
>> Molecules.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for introns.
Introns.
That ding dong means that we are done with today's episode of High-q.
Our winner today is Belleville East.
A huge round of applause.
Applause for the members of Belleville East, but also the members of Sesser-Valier for being here for this wonderful episode of Scholastic IQ.
I am Olivia manning reminding you that once again here at IQ Knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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