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2nd Round Match between Cisne and Cumberland
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi, I'm that 10th dentist still on the run from Colgate.
Your host, Olivia manning.
Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the show where knowledge rules.
Today we've got two fantastic returning teams Cisne with Corbin Vincent, Mickey and Esme on the top.
And on the bottom we've got Cumberland with Ryland, Jad, Camden and Mitchell.
The rules.
For those of you who don't know, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
I will ask them to the room, and either team can buzz in for ten points.
That team then moves on to a bonus question, which they can get 20 points, but if they get it wrong, the other team can buzz in to steal for only 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'm reading a question and you interrupt me at any point to answer the question, if you get it right, you get your points and we move on with our life.
But if you get it wrong, the other point, the other team gets five bonus points and the opportunity to answer that question.
So if you're going to interrupt me, make sure you're right.
With all of that out of the way.
Are we ready to HI-Q?
>> All righty.
Our first toss up question.
In 2025, researchers announced a six atom allotrope of what element that is most stable as a diatomic gas that comprises most of Earth's atmosphere.
Camden.
>> Nitrogen.
>> Nitrogen is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What name is given to rocks produced from other rocks by changes in temperature, pressure or chemical composition?
>> Metamorphic.
>> Metamorphic is correct.
Our next toss up.
What disaster?
After which Max Blanck and Isaac Harris were tried for manslaughter, killed 146 garment workers in 1911, in a namesake New York factory.
>> Miki explosion.
>> Explosion is incorrect, but I like your energy.
Cumberland.
Chance to buzz in.
All right.
We were looking for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.
No bonus question for that round.
Moving on to our next toss up.
What novel?
In which Shug Avery has an affair with a woman.
Camden.
>> Color purple.
>> Color purple is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
In romantic era symphonies, the Scherzo replaced what French dance in three four time, traditionally paired with a trio in a symphony's third movement.
>> Waltz.
>> Waltz is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to steal.
>> March.
>> March is incorrect.
We were looking for a minuet.
No bonus points there in 2025.
What?
City's former police officer Brett Hankison, was found guilty of charges related to the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
Chad.
>> Louisville.
>> Louisville is correct.
I just so happen to be from Louisville, which is why I pronounce it like that.
Your bonus question, Cumberland.
What failure of sister chromatids to properly separate in cell division has a name that sounds like a double negative.
Out of time, Cumberland.
Cisne your chance to steal.
>> And not a morphosis.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for a Nondisjunction Nondisjunction.
No bonus points there.
Next toss up.
What French scientist who in 1881 demonstrated a vaccine for anthrax, developed a namesake method that uses heat.
>> Pasteur.
>> Pasteur is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
What?
1943 riots in Los Angeles, in which US soldiers attacked many young Mexican Americans, were named for a kind of flashy clothing.
Out of time.
Cisne.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal Zoot suit.
Zoot suit is correct.
Our next toss up.
Never mind.
It's a media question.
Everybody say hello to the television.
>> Thank you.
She's very sensitive.
You will watch the television and you will answer the question I provide.
This English actress, singer and songwriter is known for her many characters throughout her life, mostly known for her character Elphaba in the wicked movie adaptation.
Name this celebrity.
Mitchell.
>> Oprah.
>> Oprah is incorrect.
Cisne.
Chance to buzz in.
Out of time.
Cisne.
Cynthia Erivo is that actress's name Cynthia Erivo.
No points on the media question.
Back to our toss ups.
What comic strip includes the Invisible“Notme”was created by Bill Keane.
Features.
Features a child named P.J.
and is a single panel with a circular border.
We are out of time.
We were looking for the family circus.
The family circus is the name of that comic strip.
No bonus question.
What deity who fathered gods of fear and terror named Phobos and Deimos during his affair with the love goddess Ryland?
Harry's Aries is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland I lure a phobia is the fear of what?
Animals whose feces are a frequent vector for toxoplasmosis.
>> No.
Cat.
>> Cats is correct.
Our next toss up.
What term can be combined with either brown?
With what term can be combined either with brown to named failed stars that can't fuse hydrogen or Ryland?
>> Dwarf.
>> Dwarf is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What text?
Whose prose type was written or compiled by Snorri Sturluson?
Where?
Medieval collections of Norse mythology Norse mythology.
Call the Kalevala is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to buzz in.
>> Runes.
>> Runes is incorrect.
We were looking for Eddas.
Eddas are what those texts are called.
Our next toss up.
In what empire did local zemstvo assemblies help redistribute land after 1861, when it serf population was emancipated by Tsar?
Russia is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
Almost 20,000 British soldiers died.
At what battle?
That lasted for four months in 1916 and was named for a French river.
>> The battle of the Somme.
>> Battle of the Somme is correct.
What author of the novel Eight Cousins wrote about a girl who falls in love with a German professor, Bhaer, after she rejects Laurie in Little Women?
>> Camden Alcott?
>> Alcott is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland.
What phenomenon first observed in pollen grains by a Scottish botanist is the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid.
Brownian motion Brownian motion is correct.
Our next media question the television once more.
This character is the little sister of the main protagonist in the show, Bluey.
Esme.
>> Bingo.
>> Sorry.
>> Bingo.
>> Bingo is correct.
That is ten points for the media.
Question from Cisne.
There are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What position?
The top quadrant of a Nolan chart names a party that ran Chase Oliver for president and values both capitalism and civil liberties.
Nikki.
>> Libertarian.
>> Libertarian is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne, an 1881 novel by Johanna Spyri, is named for what joyful Swiss girl who befriends the goatherd Peter while living with the ALM uncle in the Alps.
We're out of time.
Cisne.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal.
>> Pippi Longstocking.
>> Pippi Longstocking is incorrect.
We were looking for Heidi.
Heidi is the name of that novel.
Our next toss up.
What NFL team, which in 1972 was coached by Don Shula to an undefeated season, used to play at the Orange Bowl Stadium in southern Florida.
>> Ryland Dolphins.
>> Dolphins is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland.
The Life of Herod the Great, a book rescued from a fire and published posthumously in 2025, is by what black author of Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston.
Hurston is correct.
Next toss up.
What quantity?
The inverse of the period is the number of times Ryland frequency.
Frequency is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What character from a 1999 film born Thomas Anderson and sometimes called The One, takes a red pill that reveals his ordinary life is an illusion.
>> It's neo.
>> Neo is correct.
Our next toss up.
What holiday?
During which a cup of wine is left full for Elijah, begins with the Seder meal and celebrates the Jewish liberation from Egypt.
Camden.
Passover Passover is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland.
What policy, which was implemented through Executive Executive Order 9066, issued in 1942, was upheld by the Supreme Court in Korematsu v US.
>> Japanese internment camps.
>> Japanese internment camps is correct.
What institutions, many of which were founded under the Morrill Land Grant acts, received funds from the GI Bill to provide veterans with education.
Camden Colleges colleges is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland is a math question.
Pencil and paper Ready, remember?
You might be asked to steal.
What is the surface area of a cube whose square faces each have a perimeter of 20.
>> 100.
>> That is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to steal.
>> 150.
>> 150 is correct.
Ten bonus points for Cisne for the steal.
Our next toss up.
What body of water whose Cyclades islands is home to Santorini, is north of Crete and is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea.
Jan.
>> Aegean.
>> Aegean is correct.
Your bonus points.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
Paul Morrell's romantic relationships are overshadowed by his attachment to his mother, Gertrude in what English authors 1913 novel Sons and Lovers.
>> Lawrence.
>> Lawrence is correct.
We are moving on to this episode's Lightning Round.
The Lightning Round is as follows I now have in my hand four topics.
Each of those topics have ten questions which a team may have to answer in a mere 60s Cisne you get first choice as to which topic you'd like to choose.
They are as follows birds in fine art, the Great Lakes, double L's, and tennis synonyms.
>> Great lakes.
>> The Great lakes.
Which of the five North American Great Lakes dot dot dot your 60s?
Disney begins in 321 borders.
Chicago.
>> Michigan.
>> Correct is the largest by area.
>> Superior.
>> Correct.
Shares its name with a Canadian province.
[MUSIC] >> Ontario.
>> Correct.
Was the site of an 1812 naval victory for Oliver Hazard Perry.
>> Erie.
>> Correct.
Contains Georgian Bay and Saginaw Bay.
[MUSIC] >> Huron.
>> Correct.
Has the Niagara River as its main outflow.
[MUSIC] >> Sea.
>> Erie, correct.
Does not border Canada.
[MUSIC] >> Michigan.
>> Correct is the east is east of the Straits of Mackinac.
>> Superior.
>> Incorrect.
Is drained by the Saint Lawrence River.
[MUSIC] >> Superior.
>> Incorrect was where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank Michigan.
Incorrect.
All right.
We are out of questions.
That was a quick one.
Lake Huron is east of the Straits of Mackinac.
Lake Ontario is drained by the Saint Lawrence River, and Lake Superior is where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank.
Wonderful performance from Cisne.
Cumberland.
Your topics to choose from are again as follows.
Birds in fine art, double L's and tennis.
Synonyms.
>> Bird, bird and fine arts.
>> All righty.
Answer the following about artworks that feature or depict birds.
Cumberland.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballet with white and black waterfowl.
>> Swan.
>> Swan Lake correct country where Hiroshige created bird and flower Ukiyo-e prints.
>> Japan.
>> Sorry.
>> Japan.
>> Correct.
Renaissance painter of Madonna of the goldfinch and the School of Athens.
>> Raphael.
>> Correct composer whose pastoral Sixth Symphony imitates bird calls.
>> Beethoven.
>> Correct.
Sergei Prokofiev, work in which the oboe depicts a duck.
[MUSIC] >> Peter and the Wolf.
>> Correct painter and naturalist who compiled the Birds of America.
Sorry.
>> Oden.
>> Incorrect jazz sax player nicknamed bird, who wrote ornithology.
Sorry.
>> Parker.
>> Correct composer who imitated birdsong.
Birdsong in his The Four Seasons.
>> Vivaldi.
>> Correct.
American artist of the Bird Catchers and the Gulf Stream.
The stream.
>> Can you repeat that?
>> American artist of the Bird Catchers and the Gulf Stream.
>> Homer.
Sorry, Homer.
>> Correct.
Composer of the opera The Thieving Magpie.
[MUSIC] >> Um.
Rasputia.
>> That is incorrect.
Uh, Audubon.
John James Audubon is the painter and naturalist who compiled The Birds of America.
And Gioachino rossini is the composer of The Thieving Magpie.
Other than that, a fantastic lightning round for everybody.
But it is now time to go back to the toss ups.
What novel?
That depicts a small castle built by Wemmick, a clerk to lawyer Mr.
Jaggers, is narrated by the orphaned Pip Camden.
>> Great expectations.
>> Great expectations is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland.
What young Spanish tennis player won the French Open and Wimbledon men's singles titles in 2024?
Alvarez Alcaraz is correct.
What 1930 painting, held in the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts the Dibble House and a farmer holding a pitchfork.
>> Ryland American Gothic.
>> American Gothic is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland.
In the ideal gas law, what letter denotes the proportionality constant, which can be written as 8.31 joules per mole Kelvin.
>> R?
>> R is correct.
What group of plants which have a prothallus stage have brown clusters of sori on their undersides, and have broad leaves called fronds.
Ryland fern fern is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
In 1966, Robert Weaver became the first head of what cabinet department, becoming the first African American cabinet member.
>> Education.
Education.
>> Education is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to steal.
>> Agriculture.
>> Agriculture is incorrect.
We were looking for the HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
No bonus points there.
What man who claimed you Catholic girls start much too late in only the good Mickey, Billy Joel.
Billy Joel is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne.
The Palk Strait separates the state of Tamil Nadu from what island country?
>> Sri Lanka.
>> Sri Lanka is correct.
What state, whose motto is Spanish for gold and silver, is known as the Treasure State and is home to Glacier National Park and the city.
Mickey.
>> Montana.
>> Montana is correct.
Your bonus question Cisne.
According to Lewis acid base theory, what particles are accepted by Lewis?
>> Acid positive.
>> Sorry.
>> Positive.
>> Charged positive charge is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal.
>> Hydroxide.
>> Hydroxide is incorrect.
We were looking for an electron pair.
No bonus points there.
Next toss up.
What man who testified against Mikkie Servetus Servetus Sori in Geneva, wrote institutes of the Christian Religion and advocated the doctrine of predestination.
Nicky.
>> Calvin.
>> Calvin is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
What French artist depicted outdoor parties in Bal du Moulin de la Galette and Luncheon of the Boating Party?
>> Seurat.
>> Seurat is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal Renoir.
Renoir is correct.
What dialogue in which the vigia, or universal form of Krishna is shown to Arjuna is a 700 verse creed that is part Camden.
>> Bhagavad gita.
>> The Bhagavad Gita is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland what country had existed as an Ethiopian province until 1993, when it became an independent sovereign country?
Eritrea Eritrea is correct.
What process, whose RSA form is based on factoring large primes, consists of converting data into a coded form to prevent unauthorized access.
>> Ryland encryption.
>> Encryption is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
In August 2025, Donald Trump fired the head of what federal bureau after it released data that revealed a slowing rate of job growth.
Out of time Cumberland, Cisne your chance to steal.
>> Bureau of Labor Statistics.
>> Bureau of Labor Statistics is correct.
Our next toss up.
What?
Second husband of Livia Drusilla created nine Praetorian Guard cohorts and won a war.
Jad Augustus Augustus is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland Sal Paradise describes his numerous trips with Dean Moriarty in what landmark Beat Generation novel.
>> On the Road?
>> On the road is correct.
Our next toss up.
What character?
What character?
Who writes the messages?
Radiant and some pig to save Wilbur from slaughter.
And an E.B.
>> Charlotte.
>> Charlotte is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
And that goes for you too.
If weekdays are defined as Monday through Friday inclusive, what is the maximum number of weekdays in any calendar month?
>> Sure, it could probably be more than that.
23.
Sorry 23.
>> 23 is correct.
Your next toss up.
Bowman's layer is part of what structure that extends from the sclera is reshaped via Lasik surgery and Ryland.
>> Cornea.
>> Cornea is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland.
What Spanish explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 to become the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from a new world route.
>> Spanish.
Spanish.
English.
>> You are out of time.
Cumberland.
Cisne your chance to steal Pizarro.
Pizarro is incorrect.
We were looking for Balboa.
Nunez de Balboa, my boy.
De Balboa.
Our next toss up.
What country's last royal dynasty?
The Pahlavi was overthrown in a 19 Mickey.
>> Iran.
>> Iran is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cisne.
The Achille Hall of African Mammals is part of what museum in Manhattans Theodore Roosevelt Park, which is across the street from Central Park.
>> Natural history.
>> Natural history is correct.
Next, toss up what book in which directions to the wicket gate are provided by evangelist.
Depicts Christian's journey to the Celestial City and is by Camden Pilgrim's Progress.
Pilgrim's progress is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland whale flippers and human arms exemplify what biology phenomenon in which structures derive from a common ancestor, regardless of current function.
>> Vestigial.
>> Vestigial is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to steal.
You're out of time.
We were looking for homologous structures, also known as divergence.
Our next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
Both.
Both teams.
What is the average speed in miles per hour of a car that travels 60 miles in 90 minutes, or an hour and 30 minutes.
>> Mitchell 45.
>> 45 is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to steal.
>> 70.
>> 70 is incorrect.
We were looking for 40mph.
So close.
No bonus round there.
What architectural elements which may require squinches if built in square spaces, create rotundas under them, and are in essence hemisphere roofs.
Camden.
>> Arch.
>> Arch is incorrect.
Cisne your chance to buzz in.
Mickey.
>> Domes.
>> Domes is correct.
Your bonus question.
What Soviet author was forced to decline a 1958 Nobel Prize after his novel Doctor Zhivago depicted the brutality of the Russian Revolution?
We're out of time.
Cisne.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal.
>> Pasternak.
>> Pasternak is correct.
What amendment?
Which the Supreme Court applied to students in Tinker v Des Moines protects against prior restraint and other forms of censorship.
Ryland.
>> First.
>> First is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland what current NASA program's original goals included landing the first woman and the next man on the surface of the moon by 2024.
>> Artemis.
>> Artemis is correct.
What family which endows an annual namesake prize won in 2024 by Riken Yamamoto, a Japanese architect, includes JB, Illinois's current governor.
>> Pritzker.
>> Pritzker is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland in a 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri.
What world leader popularized the term Iron Curtain?
Winston Churchill Winston Churchill is correct.
Next toss up.
Never mind that ding dong means that we are done with today's episode.
Our winner is Cumberland.
Congratulations to the team members of Cumberland and for Sydney as well for showing up.
It's a wonderful show, isn't it?
I am Olivia manning, reminding you that here at Scholastic HI-Q Knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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