[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi.

Happy Hunger games.

I'm your host, Olivia manning, and may the odds be ever in your favor for this episode of Scholastic Hi-q the only show where knowledge rules.

Today we've got two incredible returning teams on the top.

We've got Calloway County with eight and Ava, Maya and Aubrey.

And on the bottom we've got Makuta with Jackson, Max, Chase, and Brayton.

For those of you who don't know how the game works, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.

These I will ask to the room.

Either team can buzz in for the chance to win ten points.

A team that answers a toss up correct then moves on to a bonus round, which they can answer for 20 points.

Or if they get it wrong, the other team can steal for ten.

There are also math questions, media questions, lightning rounds.

But we will get to all of those when we get to them.

The only thing that you all need to know, which I'm sure you know by now, is the interruption rule.

If at any point while I'm reading out a question, you interrupt me to give an answer.

If you're right, we move on with our day and you get your points.

If you are wrong, the other team gets five bonus points and the chance to answer that question.

So if you're going to interrupt me, just make sure you're right.

With all that out of the way.

Are we ready to hike you?

Yes.

All righty.

I love it.

Affirmative.

Our first toss up question.

What?

Senator, who said the dream shall never die after losing the 1980 Democratic primary to Jimmy Carter, was the brother of a murdered president.

Brayton RFK.

That is incorrect.

Callaway County, your chance to buzz in.

Aiden.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for Ted Kennedy.

Teddy Kennedy, last name?

correct, but not first name correct.

No bonus question there.

On to the next toss up.

What quantity equals the difference in energy between a transition state and its reactants?

And is the energy needed for a reaction to proceed?

>> Chase activation energy?

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question.

What adjective describes a structure or behavior such as goosebumps, that has lost most or all of its original function due to evolution?

>> Vestigial.

>> That is correct.

Our next toss up.

What winger, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy after winning the 2018 Stanley Cup, is a Russian who, in 2025 became the NHL's all time leading scorer.

Brayton Ovechkin Ovechkin is correct.

Your bonus question?

What American author wrote about how snow submerges in Iron Year in the opening section of his 1930 epic poem, The Bridge?

>> Frost.

>> That is incorrect.

Callaway County, your chance to steal Neruda.

Sorry, Neruda.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for Crane.

Harold Hart Crane.

Our next toss up.

What country?

Which?

Charles the 10th.

Forced to pay 150 million francs in reparations to France, gained independence in Toussaint Louverture slave Brayton.

>> Haiti.

>> Haiti is correct.

Your bonus question.

Mosquito.

In August 2025, an explosion in Pennsylvania killed two workers at the Clairton Coke Works, a plant owned by what major industrial company?

>> No answer.

>> Callaway County, your chance to steal.

>> DuPont.

Sorry.

DuPont.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for US steel.

US steel.

Is that industrial company?

No bonus points there.

On to our next toss up.

What politician who is criticized for living in a rent stabilized apartment by Andrew Cuomo is Brayton.

>> Zohran Mamdani.

>> Zohran Mamdani is correct.

Our bonus question Moschitta Anselm Hüttenbrenner preserved the manuscript of what Franz Schubert's symphony, which has two extant complete movements.

>> 36.

>> That is incorrect.

Callaway County, your chance to steal.

Ninth.

That is incorrect.

We were dancing around it.

The eighth Symphony.

Symphony number eight.

Once again, no bonus points going into our first audio question of the game.

Please turn your ears towards the speakers.

This musical is a drama that follows the rise of a girl group in the 1960s as they navigate fame, love, and the challenges of the music industry.

Loosely inspired by the Motown era, it explores themes of ambition, identity and the cost of success.

Known for its powerhouse vocals, glamorous performances and emotional storytelling, name this musical.

[MUSIC] >> Chase sisters.

>> That is incorrect.

Callaway County your chance to buzz in the hairspray.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for Dreamgirls.

Dreamgirls is the name of that musical.

On to our next toss up.

What guitarist who played a solo on Michael Jackson's song Beat It founded a band named Eric Clapton.

That is incorrect.

I will repeat the question.

What guitarist who played a solo on Michael Jackson's song Beat It founded a band named after his Dutch surname, whose hits included Panama and Jump Chase Van Halen.

Van Halen is correct.

Your bonus question?

What author of the 1755 dictionary of the English Language declared, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel to his biographer, James Boswell.

>> Webster.

>> That is incorrect.

Calloway County.

Your chance to steal.

Sure.

Sorry.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for Johnson.

Samuel Johnson, our next toss up.

What country?

Whose Strathspey dance music features a snap rhythm.

Names the yard that is the London Police HQ and is governed in Scotland.

Scotland is correct.

Your bonus question.

Callaway County.

The historian Thucydides recorded the funeral oration given by what statesman?

To honor Athenians who died in the first year of the Peloponnesian War.

>> Pericles.

>> Pericles is correct.

Our next toss up.

What disease can cause atrophy of the vas deferens in boys?

High chloride levels on a sweat test and build up.

Chase.

>> Cystic fibrosis.

>> Cystic fibrosis is correct.

Your bonus question what 2020 indie game with maps like six, Tanglewood Drive and Camp Woodwind as the players use clues like M5 and Spiritbox to identify ghosts.

Phasmophobia Phasmophobia is correct.

Our next toss up.

What novella in which a report on suppressing savage customs ends.

Exterminate All the Brutes depicts ivory trader ivory trader Kurtz and is by Joseph Aubrey.

Horror darkness, heart of darkness is correct.

Your bonus question Callaway County.

Paul Anastas developed a set of principles for what subfield of chemistry that seeks to minimize the use and production of hazardous substances.

>> Toxicology.

>> That is incorrect.

Your chance to steal?

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for green chemistry.

Green or sustainable chemistry?

Our hour next toss up.

What time signature, sometimes denoted by a stylized C, has one beat equivalent to 4444 is correct.

Your bonus question Calloway County until 2020.

What US state's official name included the phrase and Providence Plantations.

>> Rhode Island, Rhode Island.

>> Rhode Island is correct.

This is our first video question of the game.

Please turn your attention towards the television.

>> Who is that Pokemon?

>> Magikarp.

>> Magikarp is correct.

That is ten points to Calloway County for a correct video question answered.

There are no bonus video questions.

It's just whatever shows up on the television.

Our next toss up is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready all around.

What is the smallest number that is both a multiple of 13 and greater than 400, given the multiples of 13 include 39 and three, 90 Brayton.

>> 403.

>> 403 is correct.

Your bonus question what monarch was both the most recent English king to be killed in battle, and the final English king from the House of Plantagenet?

>> Richard the Third.

>> Richard the Third is correct.

Our next toss up.

What country were Peter Obi and Akt2 challenged?

The 2023 election victory of Bola tinubu is Africa's most populous and is led from Abuja Chase.

>> Nigeria.

>> Nigeria is correct.

Your bonus question in July 2025, what country which remains dominated by president of the Senate, Hun sen fought several border clashes with neighbouring Thailand.

Wow.

>> Just wow.

>> That is incorrect.

Calloway County, your chance to steal Cambodia.

Cambodia is correct.

Our next toss up.

What book in which the Israelites eat manna depicts Aaron casting a golden calf.

Max.

>> Exodus.

>> Exodus is correct.

Your bonus question.

What French author described an unexpected burst of involuntary memory caused by a madeleine cake in his multi-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time?

>> No answer.

>> Callaway County, your chance to steal.

>> Proust.

>> Proust is correct.

Our next toss up.

In what year did Ferdinand Foch defeat the Spring Offensive, leading to the abdication of Wilhelm II in the November.

>> 1918.

>> 1918 is correct.

Your bonus question.

Callaway County.

The L in an RLC circuit refers to what devices that are represented as coils in circuit diagrams.

>> Coils.

>> Aren't they?

Resistors?

No, Light.

>> You are out of time, Callaway County.

Miss your chance to steal.

That is incorrect.

That is what the R in an RLC stands for.

The L is for inductors.

The ask me why it's an L for inductors.

I have no idea.

On to our next toss up.

What city, whose suburbs include Abu Ghraib was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Lies chase.

>> Damascus.

>> That is incorrect.

Callaway County.

>> Baghdad.

>> Baghdad is correct.

Your bonus question.

Callaway County.

John Trumbull's iconic painting of what event is is featured on the back of the $2 bill.

>> Boston tea party.

>> That is incorrect.

Your chance to steal.

>> Boston massacre.

>> That is incorrect as well.

We were looking for the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Our next toss up.

What quantity, which has a dynamic form measured in pascals seconds or poises, is zero in a superfluid and measures a fluid's chase.

>> Viscosity.

>> Viscosity is correct.

Your bonus question to the first of the so-called unequal treaties greatly favored Great Britain and ended what?

19th century war?

>> Zulu war.

>> That is incorrect.

Callaway County, your chance to steal.

>> War of 1812.

>> That is incorrect as well.

We were looking for the First Opium War.

The opium Wars.

Our next toss up.

What man switched his nation to the Latin alphabet and forced citizens to use European style surnames as the first post-independence leader of Turkey.

Brayton.

>> Uh, Ataturk.

>> Ataturk is correct.

Your bonus question.

What novel by Don DeLillo, which is set at the fictional college town of blacksmith, is about a professor of Hitler studies named Jack Gladney.

>> No answer.

>> Calloway County, your chance to steal.

>> White noise.

>> White noise is correct.

That still gets us right into our lightning round.

The lightning round works a little different.

I now have in my hands a series of topics.

Each of those topics have ten questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.

Calloway County, you get first pick of your topics.

They are as follows.

Black holes.

Cats in fiction ends in A's and steam.

>> Black holes.

Black holes.

Black Okay.

>> Black holes.

>> Answer the following about black holes.

Calloway County, your 60s begins in three, two, one fastest possible speed, which isn't enough to escape them.

>> Speed of light.

>> Correct.

Black hole surface beyond which nothing can leave.

>> Event horizon.

>> Correct.

Wheelchair using physicist who predicted they emit radiation.

Sorry.

>> Stephen Hawking.

>> Correct effect in which a black hole's gravity bends nearby.

Light pass the powerful star explosions that form them.

>> Supernovae.

>> Correct.

Spacetime ripples emitted by a black hole merger and detected by LIGO.

>> Gravity waves.

Gravity waves.

>> Correct.

Einstein's theory of gravity, which describes them.

[MUSIC] Pass British namesake of a process for getting energy from them.

>> Pass.

>> Constellation that contains the Milky Way's central black hole.

>> Sagittarius.

>> Correct process of gaining mass that names a disk of infalling matter around a black hole.

>> Accretion.

>> Correct.

Effect in which black hole's gravity bends nearby.

Light.

[MUSIC] >> Diffraction.

>> Incorrect.

Einstein's theory of gravity.

Which describes them.

[MUSIC] >> Special special relativity.

That is incorrect.

>> Gravitational lensing is that effect in which a black hole's gravity bends nearby.

Light.

That theory is general relativity, not special relativity that describes black holes.

Roger Penrose is the British namesake of the Penrose process, which is a process of getting energy from black holes.

All right.

Your topics once again are as follows.

Cats in fiction ends in AZ and steam.

>> Ends in AZ.

>> All righty.

Answer the following about was it ends in Z.

>> Yeah.

>> I accidentally grabbed steam.

>> My bad.

>> Give these words that end with the consecutive letters A, z e Khuda.

Your 60s begins in three two, one puzzling network of confusing paths.

Correct?

To spend time in a laid back, relaxed manner.

>> Lays.

>> Correct what farm animals do when they eat grass in a field.

Graze correct to stun someone, making them unable to think clearly.

Correct.

FAD.

[MUSIC] >> Craze.

>> Correct.

To surprise someone greatly.

[MUSIC] Pass a glossy, smooth coating applied to a surface glaze.

Correct.

A slight obscuration of the air caused by fine particles.

[MUSIC] >> Haze.

>> Correct.

To completely destroy.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Process of joining metals similar to soldering.

[MUSIC] Pass to surprise someone.

>> Greatly amaze.

>> Correct to completely destroy rays.

Correct process of joining metals similar to soldering.

[MUSIC] Mosquito.

You are out of time.

That process of joining metals is braise to braise.

>> Something.

>> A wonderful lightning round all around, but unfortunately they can't last forever.

So back to our toss ups.

We go.

What figure the mother of Chrysaor and sister to.

And I'm gonna start this one over.

What figure?

The mother of Chrysaor and sister to Stheno and Euryale.

Maya.

>> Medusa.

>> Medusa is correct.

Thank you for saving me from my own inability to pronounce Greek names.

Your bonus question, Callaway County, what form of classification in biology uses namesake diagrams that show relationships among species based on shared derived characteristics?

>> O taxonomy.

>> Taxonomy.

>> That is incorrect.

Your chance to steal trees.

That is Incorrect.

We were looking for.

We were looking for cladistics or phylogenetics is the name of that form of classification.

No bonus points there.

On to our next toss up.

What author described the cultures of the Quadlings, the Gilligans and the Winkies in children's books that also mention Munchkins and Dorothy Gale.

Aubrey.

>> Bomb.

>> Bomb is correct.

Your bonus question.

Callaway County.

Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte exemplifies what style of art that creates images using many small dots.

>> Pointillism.

>> Pointillism is correct.

Our next toss up.

What function has an integral equal to x times itself?

Minus x has a derivative equal to one over x and a.

>> Natural log.

>> Natural log is correct.

Your bonus question Callaway County.

What term is given to the period from March to July 1815, when Napoleon briefly returned to power?

>> Oh!

>> I've got it.

You got it, you got it.

>> You're out of time.

Callaway County mosquito.

Your chance to steal.

>> 100 days campaign.

>> That is correct.

Our next toss.

>> Up.

>> What state?

Whose quarter shows the new River Gorge Bridge is the only state with two panhandles and an 1863 Ava.

>> Virginia.

>> That is incorrect.

I will repeat the question.

What state?

Whose quarter shows the new River Gorge Bridge is the only state with two panhandles, and in 1863, broke away from its eastern neighbor, Max.

>> West Virginia.

>> West Virginia is correct.

Your bonus question.

What term from physics identifies the tendency of a body to resist changes in its motion?

>> Inertia.

>> Inertia is correct.

Our next toss up.

What character is scolded for drawing?

For driving 55mph after hearing a pocket, a pocket, a pocket of sound while daydreaming in a story by James Thurber.

>> Aubrey Walter Mitty.

>> Walter Mitty is correct.

Your bonus question Calloway County In 2025, former Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn what 2015 decision that legalized same sex marriage nationwide.

>> Obergefell Obergefell.

V y v Virginia.

Virginia.

Virginia.

>> Calloway County, you are out of time for your chance to steal.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for Obergefell v Hodges.

Obergefell is the name of that decision.

Our next toss up.

What battle?

In which the US Asiatic Squadron, commanded by George Dewey, destroyed a Spanish fleet in 1898.

Took place near the Philippines capital, Brayton.

>> Battle of Manila.

>> That is incorrect.

Calloway County, your chance to buzz in.

Aubrey.

>> Iwo Jima.

>> That is incorrect as well.

We were looking for the Battle of Manila Bay.

The Battle of Manila seems to be a different thing, as I was told to reject it explicitly.

There is no bonus question there.

So on to the next toss up.

Gout is a subtype of what condition that affects synovial tissue, has osteo and rheumatoid types, and chase pyrosis.

That is incorrect.

Callaway County I will repeat the question.

>> Aden arthritis.

>> Arthritis is correct.

Your bonus question.

Callaway County is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready?

That goes for you too.

What must be the value of x?

If the data set whose four values are zero, 41, 104 and x has a median of 36.

>> 31.

>> That is correct.

>> Oh my gosh.

>> Our next toss.

>> Up.

>> What constitutional amendment permits non apportionment responded to the Pollock v Farmers Loan and Trust ruling and authorizes a federal income tax.

>> Eva 17.

>> That is incorrect.

>> Max 16th.

>> 16th is correct.

Your bonus question.

What hit 2025?

Netflix series stars Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow as East Texas residents who have an affair after meeting at an NRA fundraiser.

>> I know it, I know.

>> It.

>> No answer.

>> Calloway County, your chance to steal.

>> The hunting wives.

>> The hunting wives is correct.

Our next toss up.

What major desert is east of the Taklamakan Desert.

Contains many dinosaur fossils in its Nemegt Formation and spans across southern Mongolia.

Eva Gobi Gobi is correct.

Your bonus question, Callaway County.

The ruins of the ancient city of Adulis are in what African country?

Whose capital is Asmara?

>> Chad.

Libya.

>> Tunisia.

>> Molly.

>> That is incorrect.

Escueta.

Your chance to steal.

>> Eritrea.

>> Eritrea is correct.

Our next toss up.

What geological feature?

Whose northern terminus is at the Mendocino Triple Junction, is a transform fault that extends for 750 miles in California.

Ava.

>> San Andreas.

>> San Andreas is correct.

Your bonus question Callaway County.

The nonviolent breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1992 is often known as what type of divorce?

>> Schism.

Schism.

I don't think so.

Okay.

>> Schism.

>> That is incorrect.

Mascoutah.

Your chance to steal.

>> Velvet.

>> Velvet is correct.

Our next toss up.

What?

Kinetic sculptures, which include lobster trap and fish tail Maya mobile.

Mobile is correct.

Your bonus question.

Calloway County is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready?

That goes for you.

Two to how many?

Two by two by two cubes can fit inside of a rectangular prism with a length of 14, a width of ten, and a height of six?

>> 15.

>> That is incorrect.

Your chance to steal.

>> 105.

>> 105 is correct.

Our next toss up.

What war saw the sinking of the General Belgrano helped Margaret Thatcher win a.

>> The Falklands War.

>> The Falklands War is correct.

Your bonus question.

What wife of Laius killed herself after realizing she had committed incest with her son, Oedipus.

You are out of time.

Calloway county.

Your chance to steal Acosta.

Acosta is correct.

Our next toss up.

What poem?

Whose speaker knows how way leads on to way leads.

Ends.

Sorry with the proclamation.

And that has made all the difference.

And is by Robert Frost.

>> Aubrey Road diverged.

>> That is incorrect.

Your chance to buzz in.

>> Chase path not taken.

>> That is also incorrect.

We were looking for the road not taken.

Both a little incorrect.

Which brings us to the end of our episode.

This was an extremely close game, but our winners today are a huge round of applause for the team of mosquito, but also for the team of Callaway County for putting up such an incredible episode of Haikyu.

I am once again your host, Olivia manning, reminding you that here at Scholastic Haikyu Knowledge Rules.

Let the music play.

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