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Cumberland v O'Fallon
Quarter-Final match between Cumberland and O'Fallon
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi.
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
I'm your host, Olivia Manning, and welcome to today's episode of Scholastic Haiku.
The only show where knowledge rules.
Welcome to the Haiku quarterfinals of this season.
We have two returning teams with us to try to claim the crown.
At the top.
We've got Cumberland with Andrea, Rylan, Camden and Mitchell, and at the bottom we've got O'Fallon with Henry, Zachary, Jackson and Adam.
At this point, you should know the rules.
But just in case you don't, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
A team that gets a toss up question correct, gets ten points and moves on to a bonus round, which they can answer for 20 bonus points, or if they get it wrong, the other team can steal for ten bonus points.
There are also math questions, media questions, lightning rounds.
But we will get to all of those when we get to them.
The important thing that you all need to remember is the interruption rule.
If at any point while I'm reading a question, you interrupt me to give an answer.
If you are incorrect, 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 of that out of the way.
Are we ready to quarterfinal?
Haiku.
All right.
Our first toss up question.
What country whose flag features a yellow soyombo symbol contains the northern part of the Gobi Desert and has its capital at Ulaanbataar.
Mongolia.
Mongolia is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
Allen Dulles resigned as CIA director after what failed US backed invasion that tried to topple Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961.
>> Bay of pigs.
>> Bay of pigs is correct.
our next toss up.
What mathematician wrote on the sphere and cylinder used inscribed polygons to estimate pi lived in Mitchell Archimedes.
Archimedes is correct.
Your bonus question.
In the US, Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids are produced by what British confectionery company, also known for its chocolate creme Eggs.
>> Okay, okay, that sounds right.
Cadbury.
>> Cadbury is correct.
What set of laws were condemned in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions for tightening citizenship requirements and censoring critics of John Adams.
>> Ryland Alien and Sedition Acts.
>> Alien and Sedition Acts is correct.
Your bonus question.
The River is a sequel to what, 1987 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen, which depicts Brian's survival in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash.
>> Hatchet?
>> Hatchet is correct.
>> Thank you.
>> What office?
Accession to which begins new eras like the current Reiwa era is held by the occupant of the Chrysanthemum Throne, who is now Naruhito Jackson.
>> Emperor of Japan.
>> Emperor of Japan is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon what phenomenon in which quantum particles seem to communicate instantly across a distance?
Did Albert Einstein called spooky action at a distance?
>> Quantum tunneling.
>> That is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal entanglement.
>> What?
Entanglement.
>> Entanglement is correct.
That is ten points to Cumberland for the steal.
What quantity?
Whose change equals the time integral of force and is called impulse is symbolized lowercase p and is equal to mass times.
Zachary.
Momentum momentum is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon the cornerstone speech which defended the morality of slavery, was given by what Georgia politician who was vice president of the Confederacy.
>> Stevens.
>> Stevens is correct.
This is our first media question of the game.
Please turn your attention towards the television.
This black American athlete is known for his phenomenal henryj LeBron James.
LeBron James is correct.
That is ten points to O'Fallon for a correct media question.
But as always, there are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever they put on the television.
Back to our toss ups.
In what state were William Patterson was governor and Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel where the battles of Princeton and Trenton fought.
>> Jackson, new Jersey.
>> New Jersey is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon.
What sticky film that forms on teeth can harden into tartar if not removed by brushing.
>> Plaque.
>> Plaque is correct.
What country is the setting of.
The labyrinth of solitude is where.
Ambrose.
>> Mexico.
>> Mexico is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What mountain just east of Jerusalem is said to be the spot where Jesus ascended to heaven.
>> Yeah.
Sinai.
Sorry, Sinai.
>> That is incorrect.
O'Fallon.
Your chance to steal.
Your chance to steal.
Sorry.
>> Zion.
>> That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for the Mount of Olives.
The Mount of Olives, our next toss up.
What objects?
Which name?
Chambers that superseded, that superseded cloud chambers are often spheres due to surface tension and our air pockets formed in soapy water.
Camden.
>> Bubbles.
>> Bubbles is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What language did 19th century playwright August Strindberg use to write naturalistic tragedies such as The Father and Miss Julie?
>> Swedish.
>> Swedish is correct.
What monarch whose forces suppressed father Gapon's march on Bloody Sunday, was deposed in the February Revolution and was the last Russian tsar.
Adam.
>> Tsar Nicholas the second.
>> Nicholas the second is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon In October 2024, seven people died in an attack by the PKK in what NATO member state were.
The PKK fights for the independence of Kurdistan.
>> Turkey.
Turkey.
>> Turkey is correct.
What country where?
In 2025, Tymoshenko was convicted for his activities within.
FARC is the world's main exporter of cocaine and is led from Bogota.
>> Colombia.
>> Colombia is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland what European dynasty originated in Anjou but ruled England under medieval kings like Henry the Second.
You are out of time.
Cumberland.
O'Fallon.
Your chance to steal.
>> Normandy.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for the house of Plantagenet.
The house of Plantagenet.
This is our first audio question of the game.
Please turn your ears towards the speakers.
A long running adventure series built around a kid chasing a huge personal goal.
Mixing bright, hopeful vibes with Henry Hunter.
>> Hunter?
>> That is correct.
Once again, ten points to a Fallon for a correctly answered audio question, but again, no bonus audio questions.
Back to our toss ups.
We go.
What primary color can be created by painters with the pigment gamboge and comes in such shades as Xanthic, citrine, saffron and lemon?
Andrea.
>> Yellow.
>> Yellow is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
Ancient Romans used lead acetate as what type of substance, which today is exemplified by aspartame and sorbitol.
>> Sphere.
Oh, yeah.
Sweetener.
Sweetener.
>> That's correct.
What city which was rebuilt.
Rebuilt.
Apologies by Esarhaddon.
After Sennacherib leveled.
It was later ruled by.
I can never pronounce this name.
Nebuchadnezzar the second who may have rylane Babylon.
Babylon.
Thank you for saving myself from my own pronunciation.
Your bonus question.
What poet described himself as a worshipper of nature and addressed his sister Dorothy as a dear, dear friend in his long poem Tintern Abbey Wordsworth.
Wordsworth is correct what novella, whose protagonist discusses the great DiMaggio with Manolin and reels in a gigantic marlin.
>> Henry, the old man in the sea.
>> The Old Man in the sea is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon Winfield Scott devised what union plan for defeating the South in the Civil War by choking off its access to the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Anaconda plan.
That is correct.
What reality competition show, which features Michelle Visage as a judge and ends episodes with lip sync for your life battles, is hosted on.
>> RuPaul's Drag Race.
>> RuPaul's Drag Race is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland DuPont chemist Wallace Carothers developed what polymer with amide linkages, which was used as a fabric in parachutes and women's stockings.
>> Nylon.
>> Nylon is correct.
What city whose Theodosian walls were breached near the gate of Saint Romanus, was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.
Adam.
>> Constantinople.
>> Constantinople is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon.
In what science fiction series by Douglas Adams.
Do dolphins depart the doomed planet earth?
Leaving the message so long.
And thanks for all the fish.
>> Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.
>> That is correct.
Our next video question the television once more during the Obama administration.
Comedy duo Key and Peele.
Henry.
>> Conditions like the white House Correspondents Dinner are important.
Keegan.
>> That is incorrect.
I will repeat the question.
Maybe once the video is over.
Or maybe I will just continue going on.
During the Obama administration, comedy duo Key and Peele satirized the former president's time and manner of speaking with this character, who would rephrase former President Obama's words.
His actor was even invited to do the bit with the real Barack Obama.
What is this character's name?
>> For the damn hills?
That was ridiculous.
>> Mitchell.
>> Rock.
>> Sorry.
>> Rock.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Luther, the anger translator.
Luther the anger translator.
Our next toss up.
What novel, in which Samson Carrasco impersonates the Knight of the White Moon, is about Camden Don Quixote.
Don Quixote is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
In 2025, the Commerce Department proposed a tax on the assessed value of what?
Government protections for novel inventions and discoveries.
Patent patent is correct.
What condition which can give characteristic delta waves on an EEG has REM and non-REM stages and is Andrea sleep?
Sleep is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
In thermodynamics, the Carnot cycle alternates isothermal steps with.
What type of process in which no heat is exchanged here.
>> Adiabatic.
>> That is correct.
What island known in antiquity as Trinacria for its triangular shape, is southwest of the Strait of Messina and is off the coast of mainland Italy.
>> Sicily.
>> Sicily is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon.
What minor key, which Beethoven called the black key, has two sharps in its key signature and is the relative minor of D major.
You are out of time.
Oh, Fallon.
Cumberland, your chance to steal.
>> C sharp.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for B minor.
B minor, our next toss up.
What quantity?
Which can be calculated as C plus I plus G plus net exports.
Measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country.
>> Jackson, GDP.
>> GDP is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon what's South Asian leader was assassinated in 1984 by two bodyguards who were Sikh nationalists.
Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi is correct.
What chemist who defined acids and bases as electron pair acceptors?
Camden Lewis Lewis is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
Albert.
The second is the reigning monarch.
of what country?
Which is home to the Monte Carlo casino.
>> Monaco.
>> That is correct.
Our next media question, the television.
This character is the protagonist in the well-known Henry Light Yagami.
Light Yagami is correct.
Once again, no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
What man who was arrested in a room above Mr.
Charrington's shop yells Camden.
>> Winston Smith!
>> Winston Smith is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
A large red spot called Mordor Macula lies near one of the polls of what?
Largest satellite of Pluto.
>> Eros.
>> That is incorrect.
O'Fallon.
Your chance to steal.
>> Caster.
>> That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Karen.
Karen is the name of that saddle.
What creature was captured by Heracles during his final labor?
Guarded the gates of the underworld.
And Zachary.
>> Cerberus.
>> Cerberus is correct.
Your bonus question.
Oh, Fallon.
John Oakhurst dies by shooting himself in the chest.
In what?
Short story by Bret Harte about people exiled from the title town.
>> Happyville.
>> That is incorrect.
Cumberland.
You are also out of time.
Cumberland.
We were looking for the outcasts of Poker Flat.
The outcasts of Poker flat.
That means no points going into this episode's lightning round.
Egads.
Our lightning rod works a little bit differently.
I now have four topics in my hands.
Those topics each break down into ten questions, which a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.
O'Fallon you get first pick for your topic.
Your choices are as follows poetry, terminology, ancient Egypt, American transit, and foreign articles.
>> Which one do you think you.
Should.
Use.
>> All right.
>> Just as a reminder to both teams in the lightning round, you are allowed to pass.
If you do not know a question and I will go back around to it if we have time.
Poetry terminology.
Give these literary terms related to poetry.
O'Fallon.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
A block of poetic lines analogous to a paragraph.
>> Stanza.
>> Correct.
Three line Japanese poetic form.
>> Haiku.
>> Correct pattern of a poem's rhymes such as a, b a b.
[MUSIC] >> Rhyme scheme.
>> Correct.
A pair of successive rhyming lines.
>> Couplet.
>> Correct.
A serious poem that mourns the poem's subject.
[MUSIC] Lament incorrect style of verse with strict meter but no strict rhymes.
[MUSIC] >> Free verse.
>> Incorrect line or lines that a poem regularly repeats.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable.
Followed by a stressed syllable.
[MUSIC] Iambic correct midpoint in a Sonic.
Where a new sonnet where a new thought developed.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Poem in which the first letter of each line spells a message, acrostic, correct line, or lines that a poem.
You are out of time.
An Elegy is a serious poem that mourns the poem's subject.
Blank verse, not free verse, is the style of verse with strict meter but no strict rhymes.
A refrain is a line or lines that a poem regularly repeats.
And a turn is a midpoint in a sonnet where a new thought develops.
Cumberland, you're next up.
Your choices of topics are as follows ancient Egypt, American transit and foreign articles.
>> American transit.
>> All right.
>> Name these US cities.
Given a pair of stations on its transit system.
Cumberland.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one Federal Triangle and Smithsonian.
>> D.C.. >> Correct.
Franklin Square and Independence Hall.
[MUSIC] >> Philadelphia.
>> Correct.
Grand Central and Times Square.
>> New York.
>> Correct.
Shot tower and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
>> Baltimore.
>> Correct.
Embarcadero and 16th Street.
Mission.
[MUSIC] >> Skip.
>> Midway and O'Hare.
>> Chicago.
>> Correct.
Universal city and Highland Park.
[MUSIC] >> Los Angeles.
[MUSIC] >> Minneapolis.
>> Incorrect.
Peachtree center and King.
Memorial.
>> Atlanta.
>> Correct.
Roxbury.
Crossing and Fenway.
>> Boston.
>> Correct.
Embarcadero and 16th Street.
Mission.
[MUSIC] >> Houston.
>> Incorrect.
You are out of questions.
Cumberland, San Francisco has Embarcadero and 16th Street mission.
And Cleveland, Ohio has Tower City and Hopkins Airport.
All right.
That ends Cumberland's lightning round.
A quick correction before we move back into our toss ups.
There is ten extra points for O'Fallon letter E of your poetry terminology.
You said lament, which is, in fact, a correct synonym for elegy.
So that is ten extra points to a Fallon before we go back in to our toss ups.
What case?
Which struck down section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, concerned the appointment of midnight judges?
Zachary.
>> Is that Marbury v Madison?
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon.
Lorena Ochoa was the first Mexican player to become world number one.
In what sport?
Which was also played by Annika Sorenstam.
>> For tennis.
>> That is incorrect.
Cumberland.
>> Golf?
>> Golf is correct.
Our next toss up.
What animals include the theater loving Gus, the villainous Macavity and Grizabella, who sings the ballad Henry Bear.
>> Sorry, bear.
>> That is incorrect.
Cumberland.
I will repeat the question.
What animals include the theater loving Gus, the villainous Macavity and Grizabella, who sings The Ballad of Memory in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Camden.
>> Cat.
>> Cat is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland in 1497.
What Italian explorer who sailed under the English flag became the first European to land on the North American mainland since the Vikings?
>> Vespucci.
>> That is incorrect.
O'Fallon.
Your chance to steal.
>> Okay.
>> John Cabot.
>> John Cabot is correct, or Giovanni Caboto, if you're Italian, which we are not.
So points to O'Fallon for this deal.
Our next toss up.
What element whose nitrate salt forms ordinary saltpetre lies below sodium on the periodic table as atomic symbol K and is found.
Camden.
>> Potassium.
>> Potassium is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What title?
Protagonist of a Charles Dickens novel befriends Smike quarrels with schoolmaster Wackford Squeers and has an alliterative name.
>> Oh.
>> You're out of time, Cumberland.
Oh, Fallon, your chance to steal Tiny Tim.
That is incorrect.
We were looking for Nicholas Nickleby.
Nicholas Nickleby, our next audio question.
The speakers.
This song is the intro from a drama series centered on small town life, following teens growing into adults while navigating friendships, rivalries, family issues, and a messy romance.
It leans heavy into emotional arcs, long running conflicts, and incredible plot twists, all built around personal growth and the way relationships evolve over time.
Name this show.
[MUSIC] We are out of time for both teams.
We were looking for One Tree Hill.
One Tree Hill is the name of that drama series a little bit before your time, if memory serves.
So back to the toss ups we go in what wore which Alastair Campbell's so-called dodgy dossier advocated for.
Did the UK join a coalition of the willing against Saddam Hussein?
>> In Iraq war.
>> Iraq war is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What American filmmaker noted for his quirky visual style, won his first Oscar for his 2023 short film, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
Anderson Anderson is correct.
What ballet, originally scored for 13 instruments, includes a bride's dance and variations on simple gifts, and was composed by Appalachian Spring.
Appalachian Spring is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland Americans like Charles Davenport promoted what discredited practice that aimed to improve humanity's genetic quality through selective breeding.
>> Eugenics.
>> Eugenics?
>> Eugenics is correct.
What organ stimulated by TSH to secrete T3 and T4 can be enlarged.
>> Thyroid.
>> Thyroid is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland what architect of the Farnsworth House collaborated with Philip Johnson on the Seagram Building and popularized the maxim less is more.
>> Van der Rohe.
>> Full name, please.
>> Mies van der Rohe.
>> Mies van der Rohe is correct.
What?
Marriner escapes captivity with help from Xury and meets an indigenous man.
>> Camden Robinson Crusoe.
>> Robinson Crusoe is correct.
Your bonus question.
The Palmer Index measures the severity of what?
Natural events that correspond to narrower tree rings and increased water stress.
>> Drought?
>> That is correct.
What DJ, whose albums include God did.
Father of Assad, Rylan.
>> DJ coward.
>> Another one.
DJ Khalid is correct your bonus questions.
Cumberland.
The title of the play wit is often written with the.
I replaced with what punctuation mark that can link two independent clauses.
>> Semicolon.
>> Semicolon is correct.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready all around.
How many spokes are on a bike wheel if a spoke occurs every 30 degrees?
>> Henry 1212.
>> Is correct.
Your bonus question.
O'Fallon German writer Carl von Clausewitz wrote an influential treatise on what topic.
That was also the subject of a book credited to Sun Tzu.
>> War.
>> War is correct.
What kind of text?
Just kidding.
There is no kind of text, except that there is the end of this episode of Scholastic Haiku.
Our winner today is Cumberland.
A huge round of applause for the winning team of Cumberland, but also the team of O'Fallon for being here for our first quarterfinal episode.
Once again, I am your host, Olivia Manning, reminding you that here at Scholastic IQ Knowledge rules.
[MUSIC]
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