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Season 3400 Episode 16 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Flora vs. Johnston City
First Round Match between Flora and Johnston City
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First Round Match between Flora and Johnston City
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi.
I'm training to win next year's derby as the horse.
I'm your host, Olivia manning.
And welcome to this episode of Scholastic Hi-q the only show where knowledge rules.
Today we've got two incredible teams up at the top.
We've got Ariana, Max, Erica and Logan with Johnston City, and at the bottom we've got Gabriel, Kendra, Desiree and Emma with Flora.
For those of you who don't know how the rules work, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
I will ask these to the room.
Any team can buzz in to win ten points.
A team that wins a toss up then moves on to an extra special bonus round, which they can answer for 20 bonus points.
But if they get it wrong, the other team can swoop in and steal for ten bonus points.
There are also math questions, audio questions, lightning rounds.
But we will get to all of that when we get to it.
The most important thing that you need to know, my dear contestants, is the interruption rule.
If at any point while I am reading a question, you interrupt me to give an answer.
If you are right, you get your points and 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 make sure you're right.
With all of that out of the way, are we ready to hike you?
Yes, yes, yes.
All righty.
Our first toss up question.
What tissue?
In which companion cells provide energy to cells called sieve tube elements, transports sugars away from leaves to the rest of the plant.
Phloem.
Phloem is correct.
Johnston City.
Your bonus question.
During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army fought an anti-communist military coalition named for what other color?
White.
Our next toss up.
What explorer, who met with the Zamorin of Calicut in 1498, rounded the Cape of Good Hope to become the first modern European Mosca.
>> Vasco da Gama.
>> Vasco da Gama is correct.
Your bonus question.
The organic compound toluene is made by replacing one of the hydrogen atoms in benzene.
With what functional group whose formula is CH3?
>> CH3, CH3, no.
>> Johnson City, you are out of time, Flora.
Your chance to steal.
>> It could be methane.
>> Methane is incorrect.
Unfortunately, we're looking for the group, which is methyl.
Methyl?
What region?
Whose salvation Islands was once home to a penal colony at Devil's Island, is a European territory in South America, governed from Cayenne.
>> Cape Verde.
>> That is incorrect, flora.
Your chance to buzz in.
Flora, you are out of time.
We were looking for French Guyana, French Guiana.
No bonus question there.
What site were the mythical python guarded?
The omphalos at the center of the world was the home of the Pythia.
Oracle at the temple of Apollo.
Arianna.
Delphi.
Delphi is correct.
Your bonus question.
Johnson City.
The Borgata and the Ocean Casino Resort are both in what?
East coast city that legalized casinos in 1796.
>> Atlantic city.
>> Atlantic City is correct.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
If point P has the Cartesian coordinates four comma three.
What are the new coordinates?
If p is reflected across the x axis?
>> Four comma.
Negative three.
>> Four comma.
Negative three is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
Conflict between farmers and merchants helped provoke, what, 1786 uprising in western Massachusetts that partly motivated the Constitutional Convention.
>> Shays.
>> Shays is.
>> Correct.
It rhymed.
>> This is our first video question of the game.
Please turn your attention towards the television.
This dance, originated by Loy Fuller, was a popular stage dance in the 1890s and was an evolution of the skirt dance.
It has been featured in many films from the time.
What is the name of this dance?
You are both out of time.
We were looking for the serpentine dance.
The serpentine dance?
Our next toss up.
What island?
Which in 1969 was occupied by activists from the American Indian Movement, was the site of a federal prison in San Francisco Bay.
Kendra.
Alcatraz.
Alcatraz is correct.
Your bonus question, Flora.
What collection of the sayings and approvals of Muhammad is used as a major source of Islamic law and theology alongside the Quran?
>> The black cube is incorrect.
>> Johnson City.
>> Your.
>> Steel.
>> Hadith.
>> Hadith is correct.
Our next toss up.
What substance, whose composition may be measured with a DFT gauge or Zorn Cup, is sold under such brands as Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams.
>> Paint.
>> Paint is correct.
Your bonus question, Flora, a 2025 mass shooting targeted the Manhattan headquarters of what organization?
Which a gunman blamed for causing his CTE condition.
>> Hospital.
>> That is incorrect.
Johnson City, your chance to steal.
>> Sure.
>> Yeah, NFL.
>> NFL is correct.
>> That's what CTE is.
>> What 1965 song, whose working title was Scrambled Eggs, is a widely covered Beatles song about a time when all my troubles seemed so far away.
Both teams are out of time.
Not a lot of Beatles heads in the audience we were looking for yesterday.
Yesterday is that Beatles song?
What compound is made in the Monsanto and Cativa processes, has an anhydrous glacial form, has the formula CH3 Coup, and is an acid found in vinegar.
>> Acetic acetic acid.
>> Acetic acid is correct.
Your bonus question Johnston City.
Ulysses Grant held office during an economic panic.
In what year?
That triggered the Long Depression that helped undercut support for reconstruction.
1873 1873 is correct.
What saint whose retrial was ordered by Callixtus the Third claimed to have.
>> Joan of Arc?
Joan of Arc.
>> Joan of Arc is correct.
Your bonus question a trial concerning destroyed evidence from a helicopter crash began in 2025 against Matt Wright, an Australian known for wrangling what big predators?
>> Alligators.
>> That is incorrect.
Flora, your chance to buzz in crocodiles.
Crocodiles is correct.
This is our next audio question of the game, so please turn your attention towards the speakers.
This meme is a viral internet trend built around a pair of numbers that people yell or reference.
Dezerae 6767 is in fact correct.
There are no bonus audio questions, thank God, but Flora gets ten points for each correctly answered audio question.
Now I have to do it just this so that we have it on footage.
Our next toss up question what art movement, whose name was coined by Lawrence Alloway, is exemplified by the reappropriation of comic books painted by Lloyd Lichtenstein.
Apologies.
>> Kendra.
Pop art.
>> Pop art is correct.
Your bonus question, Flora, is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
That goes for you to Johnson City.
If three standard six sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that all three dice show either a one or a six?
Flora, you are out of time.
Johnson City your chance to steal one ninth.
That is incorrect.
We were looking for 1/27.
1 in 27.
I'd explain how you get that answer, but I have no idea.
Our next toss up.
What character lives on a farm with his cousin?
Mose has his stapler placed in Jello by Jim and is a salesman played by Rainn Wilson on The Office.
Logan.
>> Dwight.
>> Dwight is correct.
Your bonus question Johnston City, Dioneo and others flee a plague that breaks out in 14th century Florence at the start of what?
Collection of a hundred stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
>> The Rubaiyat, sorry, the Rubaiyat.
>> That is incorrect.
Flora.
>> A story.
By Chloe.
>> Is incorrect.
We were looking for the Decameron.
The Decameron.
Our next toss up.
What French philosopher described an overly stiff waiter to illustrate the concept of bad faith in being and nothingness.
A work of existentialist.
>> Sartre.
Sartre.
>> Sartre is correct.
Your bonus question.
Johnson City.
What war god from Norse mythology lost his right hand to the monstrous wolf Fenrir.
Deer.
>> Deer.
>> What ancient city melted?
A siege tower known as taker of cities to create a harbor monument to Helios in the form of an 108 foot tall colossus.
Max Rhodes Rhodes is correct.
Your bonus question what small gland in the brain helps regulate circadian rhythms by producing melatonin?
>> Super.
>> Super duper.
No.
>> Little brain.
>> You are out of time, Johnson City.
Flora.
Your chance to steal.
>> R.E.M.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for the pineal gland.
The pineal gland?
Our next toss up.
What expressions?
Some of which use L'Hopital's rule to evaluate equal the value of functions.
>> Limits.
Limits.
>> Limits is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
The US president who vetoed the most bills was what man who also threatened to pack the Supreme Court?
>> Jackson.
>> That is incorrect.
Flora.
Your chance to steal.
>> Trump.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for FDR.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This is a media question, so please say hello to the television once again.
This company first started in 1933.
Max.
>> Little Debbie.
>> Little Debbie is correct.
That is ten points to Johnson City for a correctly answered media question.
There are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What city's politicians include Mayor Muriel Bowser, as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, a delegate of the House of Representatives who cannot vote.
>> That's Washington DC.
>> Washington DC is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
What British cultural position, currently held by Simon Armitage, was first held in 1668 by John Dryden, who wrote verse for national occasions.
>> Poet laureate.
>> Poet laureate.
>> Is correct.
>> Robert Maynard hunted down what man who blockaded Charlestown using the Queen Anne's Revenge, and was a pirate known for his dark facial hair.
Desiree.
>> Blackbeard.
>> Blackbeard is correct.
Your bonus question, Flora Tina Fey played overworked math teacher Miss Norbury in, what, 2004 teen film starring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan.
Mean Girls Mean Girls is correct.
That bonus question gets us into our lightning round.
The Lightning Round works a little differently.
I now have in my hands four topics that separate into ten questions, questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.
Flora, you get first pick as to your topic.
They are as follows.
Lines of poetry Napoleon, state, borders and months.
Okay.
>> Months.
>> All right.
Give these answers that are the names of months in English.
Answers may repeat.
Flora, your 60s begins in three, two, one last name of sisters in Little Women.
[MUSIC] >> Nay.
>> Incorrect verb meaning something is possible.
>> May.
>> Correct.
First name of Aubrey.
Plazas.
Parks and recreation.
Character.
>> April.
>> Correct word following read in the name of a hunted submarine in a Tom Clancy novel.
[MUSIC] Blue incorrect music genre that includes John Philip Sousa's The Liberty Bell.
>> L March.
>> Correct month.
Named for the first Roman Emperor.
>> August.
>> Correct.
With black Palestinian militant group of the 1970s.
>> October.
>> Incorrect.
First name of actress who played Betty Draper on Mad Men.
>> April.
>> Incorrect.
Usual.
First name of Swedish playwright of Miss Julie May.
Incorrect.
Black History Month in the US February.
Correct.
You are out of questions.
Flora March is the last name of the Sisters in Little Women.
October is that word following red in Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October.
Black September organization is that Palestinian militant group of the 1970s.
January Jones played Betty Draper on Mad Men.
August Strindberg is the Swedish playwright of Miss Julie Johnston City.
Your topics are once again lines of poetry Napoleon or state borders.
>> How did she get?
Napoleon.
>> Answer the following about Emperor Napoleon the first Johnson City.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one became emperor of this European country in 1804.
>> France.
>> Correct.
Beheaded King who was that country's previous monarch Louis XVI.
Correct.
Island, where he was born.
>> Corsica.
>> Correct.
Final battle after returning from Elba.
>> Waterloo.
>> Correct.
Died in exile on this island.
>> Saint Helena.
>> Correct.
First wife divorced because she could not bear him an heir.
>> Bass.
>> His brother, whom he named King of Spain.
>> Joseph.
>> Correct, became first Consul in the Coup of the 18th of this month.
>> Pass.
>> 1805 battle of the Three Emperors that names a Paris train station Austerlitz.
Correct Empire, where he led a failed invasion in the winter of 1812.
>> Russia.
>> Correct.
First wife divorced because she did not bear him an heir.
[MUSIC] >> Josefina.
>> Correct.
>> Became First Consul in the Coup of the 18th of this month.
>> July.
>> Incorrect.
You are out of questions, Johnson City.
We were looking for Brumaire the Coup of the 18th of Brumaire.
Wonderful.
Lightning round all around.
Unfortunately, they can only last about 100 and 20s.
So back to the toss ups we go.
What technology relies on synchronized atomic clocks to determine the location of a receiver, and is the most widely used navigation system.
Max.
>> GH.
>> GH is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
If a set S has N members, what other set?
That includes all possible subsets of S, including S itself and the empty set must have two to the N members.
>> That's the question.
I got the empty set.
I'm just asking.
It has something to do with.
>> Johnson City, you are out of time, Flora.
Your chance to steal.
>> Infinite.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for a power set.
Power set?
Our next toss up.
What composer whose short lyric pieces include character miniatures like Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, was a Norwegian who wrote the Peer gynt suite.
Logan.
>> Grieg.
>> Grieg is correct.
Your bonus question, Johnson City.
What number of tones in a technique developed by Arnold Schoenberg equals the number of notes of a chromatic scale in one octave?
>> 12.
>> 12 is correct.
What soldier who called for international support in his letter from Jamaica won.
Max.
>> Boulevard.
>> Boulevard is correct.
Your bonus question.
Johnson City.
The victory of what?
King of Wessex at the Battle of Edington helped earn him the epithet the great.
>> Alfred.
>> Alfred is correct.
This is our next video question.
Please turn your attention back towards the television.
When Principal Skinner's Roast is ruined, he purchases fast food to disguise as his own cooking.
When he presents the hamburgers to his lunch guest, Superintendent Chalmers, he calls them something else.
Max.
>> Steamed hams.
>> Steamed hams is correct.
That is ten points to Johnson City.
There are no bonus video questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
What novel?
Whose frustrated protagonist has an affair with Rodolphe Boulanger while married to the provincial doctor, Charles is by Gustave Flaubert.
>> Madame Bovary.
>> Madame Bovary is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
E1, E2, and E3 are forms of what hormone that works with progesterone to regulate ovulation and menstruation.
>> Estrogen.
>> Estrogen is correct.
What psychologist who wrote Motivation and personality placed Self-actualization at the top of a construct.
Max Maslow Maslow is correct.
Your bonus question in 2025, BP announced its largest oil find in 25 years at the Bumerange block, near what South American country, which is home to Petrobras.
>> Chile.
>> That is incorrect.
Flora.
Your chance to steal.
>> Brazil.
>> Brazil is correct.
Our next toss up.
What party?
Which split into conscience and cotton.
Factions promoted.
Max.
>> Wigs.
>> Wigs is correct.
Your bonus question.
Johnson City.
What English playwright wrote about the attempts of Mosca, Voltore, Corbaccio and Corvino to inherit the fortune of a sly fox in Volpone?
>> Johnson.
>> Johnson is correct.
>> Good job.
>> Our next toss up.
A series whose arcs include the Lost Continent Prophecy depicts a war in Syria and was written by Tui T Sutherland about young Dragonets.
Ariana.
>> Wings of fire.
>> Wings of fire is correct.
Your bonus question Johnston City.
What African country whose capital is named after US President James Monroe, was founded in the 19th century by the American Colonization Society.
>> Liberia.
>> Liberia is correct.
What phenomenon?
Whose namesake structures are Lewis?
Structures enclosed in square brackets occurs when bonds are formed by delocalized electrons.
Logan.
>> Compounds.
>> That is incorrect.
Flora.
Your chance to buzz in.
Emma.
>> Covalent.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for resonance.
Resonance structures.
Moving on to our next audio question, turn your ears towards the speakers.
This band is an American pop rock group known for anthemic songs.
Dezerae.
Imagine Dragons.
Imagine Dragons is correct.
They are once again, no bonus audio questions.
So back to our toss ups.
What country?
Which is home to the the apologies.
Monteverde Cloud Forest is a Central American nation governed from San Jose.
That is to the south of Nicaragua.
>> Costa Rica.
>> Costa Rica is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
The dance of the Seven Veils is performed by what woman who demands the head of John the Baptist in a namesake opera by Richard Strauss.
>> Do you.
>> Know.
>> Johnson City?
You are out of time, Flora.
Your chance to steal Sheherazade.
all that is incorrect.
We were looking for Salome.
Salome is her name.
Our next toss up.
What company?
Which named Andy Jassy as CEO in 2021, experienced a major drop in sales for the 2025 edition of its annual July promotion, Prime Day.
Kendra.
>> Amazon.
>> Amazon is correct.
Your bonus question, Laura.
Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe, is in what country?
Whose first king was Stephen?
The first.
>> Spain.
>> That is incorrect.
Johnson City, your chance to steal.
>> Hungary.
>> Hungary is correct.
What author wrote about a convict who gets married five times in Moll Flanders?
And about a man who.
>> Dafoe.
>> Sorry.
>> Dafoe.
>> Dafoe is correct.
Your bonus question.
Johnson City.
What hard boiled private detective is hired by Brigid O'Shaughnessy to help her find the title statuette in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
>> Pass.
>> Pass.
>> Pass.
All right, Flora.
Your chance to steal.
>> Sherlock Holmes.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Sam Spade.
Sam spade.
Our next toss up.
An asterism consisting of Alnitak, Alnilam, and mintaka is found in what constellation?
Whose stars.
Saiph and Rigel are below a namesake belt.
Kendra.
Orion's Orion is correct.
Your bonus question, Flora.
In 1941, what Boston Red Sox left fielder batted 406, becoming the last player to have a batting average over 400 for an entire season.
>> Babe Ruth.
>> That is incorrect.
Johnson City, your chance to steal Jackie Robinson.
That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Williams.
Ted Williams.
In 2025, what country's Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of a president from the People Power Party who declared martial law?
Max.
>> South Korea.
>> South Korea is correct.
Your bonus question Johnson City.
The city of Yinxu, in modern day Henan province, was the capital of what oldest archaeologically verified Chinese dynasty which preceded the Zhou.
>> Jia.
>> That is incorrect.
Flora.
>> Ching ching!
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for the Shang Dynasty.
And that means that we are out of time for today's episode of Haikyu.
Our winners today are Johnston City.
A huge round of applause for the team of Johnson City, but also for the team of Flora, for being here for this incredible episode of Scholastic Hi-q.
Once again, I'm your host, Olivia manning, reminding you that here at Hi-q Knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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