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Cumberland vs. Metro-East Lutheran
Season 34 Finale game between Cumberland and Metro-East Lutheran
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] >> They tried to put me on the cover of Vogue, but my legs were too short.
Hello, I'm Olivia Manning and I am your host for the finale episode of season 34 of Scholastic Hi-q, the only show where knowledge rules.
Our two competing teams for this final episode are Grant, Dean, Peter, and Ganyn, with Metro East and Rylan, Jad, Camden and Mitchell with Cumberland.
Now you all know the rules, but just as a precursor toss ups, I'll ask them to the room.
You can answer them for ten questions.
If you get them right, you move on to a bonus round 20 points.
Unless you're the other team, then you get ten points.
No media questions for this finale episode, but math questions and lightning rounds abound, so keep yourself on your toes for those interruption rule.
If you interrupt me and you get it right, we move on with our day.
If you get it wrong, you get it wrong, and the other team gets some sneaky little bonus points.
With all of that out of the way, are we ready to finally wrap up this season and high Q.
>> Yep, yep.
Yes.
>> All right.
Our first toss up question what president who approved the Clayton-bulwer treaty earlier won the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexico and was nicknamed Jad Harrison.
That is incorrect.
Metro East.
I will repeat the question.
What president who approved the Clayton-bulwer treaty earlier won the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexico and was nicknamed Old Rough and Ready Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt that is incorrect.
We were looking for Taylor.
Zachary Taylor.
No bonus question.
On to our next toss up.
What?
Long time friend of Clara Schumann, who was one of the three B's, Johannes Brahms.
>> Johannes Brahms?
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East.
Rounded to the nearest five degrees.
What is the bond angle in water, which is slightly less than the angles found in a tetrahedral molecule?
>> Standard one over 108.5.
That's tetrahedral 0110.
Why?
>> Sure, 105.
>> 105 is correct.
What poet wrote about a frozen ground swell that makes gaps in the title object and included the line good fences make.
>> Camden Frost.
>> Frost is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland from 2020 to 2023, what performer played the title character on the Comedy Central sitcom Nora from Queens, which co-starred B.D.
Wong as her father?
>> And Aquafina?
>> Aquafina is correct.
What events have a crawling type that stays below the canopy can be mitigated by removing underbrush and may Dean fires.
Fires is correct.
Your bonus question Metro-east.
The Queen consort of Britain's William the Fourth is the namesake of what.
Australian city.
The capital of South Australia.
>> South Australia.
Is that like Adelaide?
>> Maybe Adelaide.
>> Adelaide is correct.
What MLB team, which in a 2025 trade added Rafael Devers to an infield.
Peter.
>> The Giants.
>> The Giants is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East in 2024, Britain sanctioned Kleptocrat.
Isabel dos Santos, a billionaire from what African country where 2025 protests over fuel prices killed dozens.
>> Fuel prices in African country.
British colony.
Would it be like Ghana?
I don't know.
I thought Nigeria.
>> Nigeria.
>> That is incorrect.
Cumberland.
>> Angola.
>> Angola is correct.
What swing state were Adelita Grijalva won a 2025 election to replace her father in the House.
Has Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego as senators.
Camden.
>> Georgia.
>> Georgia is incorrect.
Metro.
>> South Carolina.
>> South Carolina is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Arizona.
Arizona.
No bonus question.
Back to our toss ups.
What man had a daughter named Earl Kutumb with his first wife?
Khadijah received revelations in a cave from the Angel Muhammad.
Muhammad is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East wealthy nobles from what country funded the failed 1690s Darien scheme in Panama and in the 1620s established the colony of Nova Scotia.
>> Nova Scotia, from like, just friends.
Maybe.
>> Maybe France.
>> France is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal Scotland.
Scotland is correct.
In what city did the Markale massacres occur as part of a four long, four year long apologies siege by the army of Republika Srpska during the 1990s.
>> Bosnia.
>> Bosnia is incorrect.
Metro East chance to buzz in.
Wait, I didn't answer.
I didn't finish the question.
Let me repeat the question.
In what city did the Markale massacres occur as part of a four year long siege by the army of Republika Srpska during the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia.
>> Sarajevo.
>> Sarajevo is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East Lulamae Barnes is the birth name of what character?
Who visits gangster Sally tomato in prison in a 1958 Truman Capote novella?
>> Holly Golightly, maybe Holly Golightly.
>> Holly Golightly is correct.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready all around.
How would the decimal or base ten number seven be expressed in binary, given that seven is one less?
>> Dean uh, 111111 is correct.
>> Your bonus question.
In September 2025, what Midwest City School Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested after Ice accused him of being an undocumented immigrant?
>> No, it's Des Moines.
>> Des Moines.
>> Des Moines is correct.
What mythical figure who created the Milky Way by rustling black God star blanket is an animal trickster in Navajo tales.
>> Peter Coyote.
>> Coyote is correct.
Your bonus question.
In ecology, what terms?
Starting with H describes any organism that cannot meet its metabolic needs without consuming material from other organisms.
>> Some kind of heterotrophs.
>> Heterotrophs.
>> Heterotroph is correct.
What country?
Whose nine dash line asserts claims to the Spratly Islands.
>> China.
>> China is correct.
Your bonus question.
Actor Charlton Heston once led.
What advocacy group?
That in the late 1970s shifted from its traditional focus on conservation and marksmanship.
>> Conservation to fit in or.
Hey, that's not right.
What is it?
That's not the NRA, NRA.
I don't know what it is.
>> NRA.
>> The NRA is correct.
What city, which is at the northern end of the Cook Inlet, is served by Ted Stevens International Airport and is the most populous city in Alaska.
>> Dean air.
Anchorage.
>> Anchorage is correct.
Your bonus question.
William Shakespeare's characters of Osric, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern serve the Royal court of what Kingdom?
>> Denmark.
>> Denmark is correct.
What male Royal helped organize 1851 Great Exhibition names the London Hall that hosts the BBC's Camden Albert.
Albert is correct.
Your bonus question Cumberland.
What theorem uses prior and conditional probabilities to calculate the posterior probability of event A given event B 100% certain.
>> Bayes phase is correct.
Jim Lovell captained what 1970 NASA mission during which an oxygen tank explosion led Peter Apollo 13.
Apollo 13 is correct.
Your bonus question Metro-east what most populous city in Canada's prairie provinces is built at the confluence of the bow River and elbow River?
>> Uh, no.
Is it, um, maybe it's Winnipeg, but it was.
What's Manitoba's capital?
I don't know.
No, let's just go.
Winnipeg.
>> Winnipeg.
>> Winnipeg is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal Calgary.
Calgary is correct.
What game, whose launch season was called Doom's Rise, features cloak and dagger.
Magneto and other Mitchell.
>> Marvel rivals.
>> Marvel rivals is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What Asian country is ruled by a military junta called the Tatmadaw, which is fighting rebel groups from regions like Kachin in an ongoing civil war.
>> Myanmar.
>> Myanmar is correct.
What collection.
Whose frame story describes how the host.
>> Um.
Canterbury tales.
>> Canterbury Tales is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready.
And that goes for you, too.
What is the probability that two people with type AB blood will have a child with type A blood?
>> 25.
That makes sense.
>> 25% 25% is correct, a bit misleading.
That was more of a science question, but you managed to handle it.
Our next toss up question, what period, which included the appearance of false dmitris, began with Dean.
>> A time of troubles.
>> Time of troubles is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East at what?
31 BC naval battle did Octavian's forces crush Mark Antony and Cleopatra at a site in the Ionian Sea?
Actium Actium is correct.
This next toss up is another math question.
Pencil and paper ready all around.
If a standard six sided die is rolled 320 times, what is the expected value for the number of roles that show an even number.
>> 160.
>> 160 is correct?
Your bonus question Metro East Car Shoe and Miu Miu are both brands of what Italian fashion house which purchased rival Versace in 2025.
>> Versace.
What's a G1G.
>> Gucci?
>> Gucci is incorrect.
Cumberland.
>> Dirac.
>> Louis Vuitton.
>> Louis Vuitton is incorrect.
We were looking for Prada.
Prada our next toss up.
What type of animal chance Brekekekex koax koax frogs.
Frog is correct your bonus question.
Metro-east.
What philosopher described the will to truth in Beyond Good and Evil, a sequel to his earlier book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
>> Nietzsche.
>> Nietzsche is correct.
What ruler who allied with Francis, the first of France to fight Emperor Charles V, besieged Vienna in 1529 and was an Ottoman sultan called Jad Suleiman.
Suleiman is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland what bebop musician of salt, peanuts and a night in Tunisia puffed his cheeks out while playing a signature bent trumpet.
>> Mingus.
Mingus.
>> That is incorrect.
Metro East.
Your chance to steal.
>> Gillespie.
>> Gillespie is correct.
Dizzy Gillespie.
Our next toss up question what quantity.
Whose second and first time derivatives are jounce and jerk is often Camden acceleration.
Acceleration is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland is yet another math question.
So pencil and paper ready all around.
What multiple of 100 provides the best approximation for the value of 36 squared.
Given that 40 squared is equal to 1600.
>> Great.
I don't know.
>> 1500.
>> That is incorrect.
Metro East your chance to steal.
>> 14.
>> That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for 1300, the exact value is 1296.
That brings us to our lightning round.
All right.
The lightning round, our last one of the season goes a little something like this.
For topics ten questions, one minute Cumberland.
You get first choice and your options are as follows.
19th century paintings PREET endings and oh, words.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Paintings.
>> Paintings.
Name the artists of these 19th century paintings.
Cumberland.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one self-portrait with bandaged ear.
>> Bingo.
>> Cracked the scream.
>> Munch.
>> Water lilies.
>> Monet.
>> Correct liberty.
Leading the people.
>> Delacroix.
>> Correct.
The 3rd of May, 1808.
>> Goya.
>> Correct.
The child's bath by an American painter.
>> Cassatt.
>> Correct.
The Oxbow.
>> Uh.
[MUSIC] Oh.
>> Correct.
The ballet class.
>> Degas.
>> Correct.
Washington crossing the Delaware by a German American painter.
>> Loitz.
>> Correct.
The haywain.
>> Uh.
[MUSIC] Constable.
>> Correct.
We are out of questions.
Cumberland Metro East.
Your options once again are PREET endings and o words.
>> We'll do o words.
>> All right.
>> Give these answers that begin and end with the letter O Metro East.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one best selling cookie ever, which has a white filling Oreo.
Correct.
Major city near Walt Disney World.
>> Orlando.
>> Correct.
Herb used on marinara pizza.
Oregano, correct.
Norwegian capital.
>> Oslo.
>> Correct.
Slang for damaging information used to hurt political rivals.
>> Skip.
>> Dramatic musical piece such as Messiah.
>> Oratorio.
>> Correct.
Five letter verb meaning to perform better than skip.
Musical phrase repeated throughout.
>> Ostinato.
>> Ostinato is correct.
Regnal name of the great Holy Roman Emperor who won the battle of Lechfeld in nine.
>> Sorry, Otto.
>> Otto is correct.
First name of Nobel Prize winning Mexican poet Paz Octavio.
Correct slang for damaging information used to hurt political rivals.
Skip five letter verb meaning to perform better than sorry.
Outdo correct slang for damaging information used to hurt political rivals.
>> Like.
>> Like.
[MUSIC] Like.
[MUSIC] Although.
[MUSIC] Like.
[MUSIC] >> We were looking for oppo.
Ostensibly short for opposition.
I've certainly never heard it.
A wonderful lightning round all around.
But they can't last forever.
So back to the toss ups we go.
What state?
Home to Shoshone Falls was the site of the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff?
>> Camden, Idaho.
>> Idaho is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
The Japanese town of Nikko is home to the mausoleum of what?
Last of Japan's three great Unifiers who founded Japan's last shogunate.
Tokugawa Tokugawa is correct.
What character?
Who employs a black cook named Calpurina Atticus Finch?
Atticus Finch is correct.
Your bonus question.
The protagonist's brother Emil, is murdered by Frank Shibata.
In what novel?
By Willa Cather about the Bergson family.
>> O pioneers!
>> O pioneers is correct.
What event which led to the trial of Captain Thomas Preston killed Crispus Attucks along Boston Massacre.
Boston massacre is correct.
Your bonus question Metro-east.
What African country whose Bioko island contains its current capital capital apologies of Malabo is partly named for its location just north of zero degrees latitude, Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea is correct.
What country?
Whose city of Oulu lies on the eastern shores of the Gulf of Bothnia, is home to the headquarters of Nokia in the outskirts of Camden.
>> Norway.
>> That is incorrect.
Metro East.
I will repeat the question what country?
Whose city of Oulu lies on the eastern shores of the Gulf of Bothnia is home to the headquarters of Nokia in the outskirts of Helsinki.
>> Finland.
>> Finland is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East.
A statistical distribution of particles, is named for Enrico Fermi.
And what.
British physicist who predicted the existence of positrons?
>> I have no idea.
British physicist.
I can't think of anybody.
Faraday.
Faraday.
>> That is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal Dirac.
Dirac is correct.
What company which was founded in the 1980s as Babbages experienced soaring stock prices in early 2021 and is a major retailer of video games.
Rent GameStop GameStop is correct your bonus question.
Metro East A pet store worker named Otis befriends young India Opal Buloni in what Kate DiCamillo novel about a dog named after a southern grocery chain.
>> Because of Winn-Dixie.
>> Because of Winn-Dixie.
>> Because of Winn-Dixie is correct.
What procedures?
One of which named for Edsger Dijkstra, is used to find a shortest path.
Our step by step sets of rules.
>> Algorithm.
>> Algorithm is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East in 1957.
What Senator from South Carolina, known for his extreme opposition to civil rights, gave a filibuster that lasted over 24 hours.
>> Strom Thurmond.
Is it Strom Thurmond?
>> Thurmond.
>> Thurmond is correct.
What city?
Whose Journal-Constitution newspaper will stop its print edition in 2026, is also home to the headquarters of CNN and is in Georgia.
>> Camden, Atlanta.
>> Atlanta is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland what country often described as Europe's last dictatorship, has been ruled since the 1990s by Alexander Lukashenko.
>> Belarus.
>> Belarus is correct.
What general, who was exiled after losing at Amphipolis, became a historian who wrote about the battle in his history of the Peloponnesian War.
Camden.
Theocritus Theocritus is in the correct metro east.
>> A buzz Thucydides.
>> Thucydides is correct.
Your bonus question Metro East what 18th century English author wrote about the body adventures of a foundling in his picaresque novel The History of Tom Jones.
>> Fielding.
>> Fielding is correct.
What poetic form which Edmund Spenser used for his Amoretti consists of three quatrains, followed by a couplet for a total of 14 lines.
Peter.
>> Sonnet.
>> Sonnet is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro-east.
What city in modern day Belgium names the treaty that ended the war of 1812.
>> Antwerp.
>> Antwerp is incorrect.
Cumberland.
Your chance to steal.
>> Utrecht.
Sorry, Utrecht.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Ghent.
The treaty of Ghent.
Our next toss up.
What organ?
Which sits in the Sella Turcica secretes oxytocin from its posterior lobe, sits below the hypothalamus and secretes growth hormone.
>> Pituitary gland?
>> Pituitary gland is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro-east.
What?
11 letter word refers to the portion of earth formed by the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle.
>> Lithosphere.
>> Lithosphere is correct.
What actress who starred in How to Marry a Millionaire and Some Like It Hot, died in 1962.
>> Camden Marilyn Monroe.
>> Marilyn Monroe is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
What name is shared by the second Pope and Lucy Van Pelt's younger brother in the comic strip peanuts.
>> Linus.
>> Linus is correct.
What man who in 1872 became the first black man nominated for vice president, published The North Star and wrote Peter Douglas.
Douglas is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro East.
Erbil is the capital of a semi-autonomous region controlled by what ethnic group who are found mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
>> Kurds.
>> Kurds is correct.
In physics, what quantity which can be measured in units of coulombs per second or amperes.
Camden.
A current current is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
The ability to detect muons formed by cosmic rays depends on what relativistic phenomenon that explains their apparent longer lifetimes.
>> Yeah, I think so.
>> Time dilation.
>> Time dilation is correct.
What material?
Which names a set of Friezes acquired by Lord Elgin was historically marble.
>> Marble is correct.
Your bonus question, Cumberland.
What economic system is based on private ownership of the means of production and acquiring profit through investment and manufacturing.
>> Capitalism.
>> Capitalism is correct.
What River, whose mouth is home to Maharaja Island, has a portion called the Solimoes receives the Rio Negro by Manaus.
>> Amazon.
>> Amazon is correct.
Your bonus question.
Metro-east.
In 1814, Napoleon was exiled to what?
Small island off the coast of Italy.
>> That's Elba Elba.
>> Elba is correct.
What animal exhibits Müllerian mimicry in its Viceroy species undergoes butterfly.
Butterfly is correct.
Your bonus question.
What wife of King Minos fell in love with the Cretan bull leading to the birth of the Minotaur Pasiphae?
That is correct.
Members of what political party were the main users of rat lines, which secretly provided refuge in South America.
>> To the Nazis.
>> The Nazis is correct.
Your bonus question.
Cumberland.
A signet ring named for what Israelite king is said by Islamic mystics to have the power to command jinns and allow its user to speak with animals.
>> Solomon.
>> Solomon is correct that ding dong means that we are finished with this final episode of season 34 of Scholastic Hi-q.
Our winner of this season is Metro East.
Everyone give a big round of applause for the team of Metro East and also the team of Cumberland for getting so far in this wonderful season.
You will now be awarded by the trophy's designer, Kira, the wonderful season 34 trophy.
Please pass it around.
Admire its beautiful, wonderful craftsmanship and wonderful work, all of you for an incredible season.
This is unfortunately my final episode and my final season with Scholastic Hi-q here at WSU, and I just wanted to take a second to say to everyone contestants, crew and everyone watching at home, what a wonderful two years this has been, and thank you all so much for letting me be a part of such an incredible show.
And if I don't see you again, good afternoon, good evening and good night.
And remember, knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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