[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> I have a moral dilemma for you all.

Do you ever wake up one morning and think, wow, my life would be great if I flipped Krabby Patties all day?

I didn't think that, but I did end up dressing like SpongeBob.

So last.

Here we are.

Take what you will of that.

Hi, my name is Parker Bradshaw and I'm your host for Hi-Q this evening.

And boy oh boy, do we have an exciting game lined up for you this evening.

So without further ado, let's meet our teams.

Up top with Nashville, we have Jenna, Sydney, Clara, and Johnathan.

And down below we have Marion with Jada, Banquo, Sawyer and Maggie.

Now, in case anyone's new here, which you could be, maybe you are familiar, but it doesn't hurt to have a few reminders.

Anyways, in my hand are a glorious series of toss up questions.

If you know the answer to them, great.

Buzz in.

Get your points.

If you do get it right, you also get a chance at a bonus which is worth a little bit more points and yay more points.

We all love points.

If either of those are missed, the other team does get a chance and they'll get some points as well.

All right.

Besides that, we have a few surprises along the way that you'll find out as we go.

But we got media questions.

Lightning rounds, which is everyone's favorite.

Okay.

Anyways.

And yeah.

Um, is that it?

Oh, there's one more thing.

The interruption rule if you choose to interrupt me, which is somewhat rude, but I will forgive you.

I kind of promise you better be right, because if you aren't, the other team will immediately get a five point addition and the chance to steal as well with the rest of the question.

So if you interrupt me, you better be right.

And if you are right, great.

You get points.

Okay.

Sound fair?

Great.

All right.

Are we ready to Hi-Q y'all?

Yes.

Wonderful.

All right, toss up number one.

What painting?

Which includes a sign advertising five cent Phillies cigars, features three people sitting in a diner and was painted by Edward Hopper.

Maggie Nighthawks.

Nighthawks is correct.

Your bonus.

Marion.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the sum of the squares of all the integers?

From 0 to 5?

Inclusive.

55.

55 is correct.

Right on the.

That's a buzzer beater.

All right, toss up.

Number two.

What family which was targeted in the Pazzi conspiracy, rose to prominence under Lorenzo the Magnificent and ruled the city of Florence.

Deafening silence.

The answer we were looking for was Medici.

Toss up number three.

Synthesis gas is a mixture of hydrogen and.

What toxic but odorless gas that is formed in incomplete combustion and is often called the silent killer.

Sawyer.

>> Carbon monoxide.

>> Carbon monoxide is correct.

Your bonus.

Marion.

What major golf championship is held annually at Augusta National Golf Club?

>> PGA.

>> That is incorrect.

>> Nashville Masters.

>> Masters is correct.

That's what we're looking for.

All right.

Toss up number four.

What object?

The subject of a warning from the priest.

Laocoon was built by the craftsman Epeius and allowed the Greeks to enter their enemy's city.

Sawyer.

>> The Trojan horse.

>> Trojan horse is correct.

There's something about hippos on here, anyways.

Bonus.

Marion.

What sculptor created such works as Fugit Amor and Paolo and Francesca for this massive work?

The gates of hell.

For his massive work.

Donatello.

That's incorrect.

Nashville.

>> No answer.

>> The answer we were looking for was Auguste Rodin.

Tossup number five.

What mission?

During which Commander Reid Wiseman used an iPhone to film an earth set in April 2026, took four astronauts around the moon.

>> Johnathan Apollo 13.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Marion want to take a stab at it?

Maggie.

>> Perseverance.

>> That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Artemis two, because there was a second.

All right.

Our next question is a media question and is a video.

So please refer to the screen behind me.

Characters.

Floyd, lips, animal, Janice, Zoot, and Doctor teeth are all a part of what band?

Maggie.

>> Electric mayhem.

>> Electric mayhem is correct.

Since it is a media question, there is no bonus.

But we got to see a fun video which is always a fun time.

Okay, toss up number six.

What technique?

Which first used an enzyme from Thermus aquaticus.

A let me try this again.

Thermus aquaticus requires primers and was developed by Kary Mullis to amplify or copy DNA.

The answer we were looking for was PCR or polymerase chain reaction would have gladly taken PCR over whatever that was.

Toss up number seven.

What novel in which Arthur Holmwood is forced to stab his former fiance, Lucy Westenra, who was written by Bram Stoker about a Transylvanian vampire?

John Mandela Dracula is correct.

It's Bram.

Of course they don't give the pronunciation on that.

Your bonus Nashville.

What are the minimum and maximum values of the correlation coefficient R, which measures how closely two variables can be plotted to a straight line.

>> Parallel.

>> That is incorrect.

Marion intercepts are also incorrect.

We were looking for negative one and one.

All right.

Toss up number eight.

What New York politician who names a 1794 treaty with Britain, wrote five of the Federalist Papers and was the first Supreme Court.

Jada.

John J. John J is correct.

Hamilton coming in clutch.

Your bonus question Marion.

What adjective can in math refer to an integral with specified limits or in grammar to an article referring to a specific thing such as the.

>> Article?

>> That's incorrect.

I can't accept that.

All right.

The answer we were looking for was definite.

They had definite article in there, but I couldn't accept just article.

All right, toss up number nine.

What NBA team, which won its first title in 1971 with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, won its second title in 2021, led by Jure, Holliday and Giannis Tom.

>> Sawyer, the Memphis Grizzlies.

>> What was that again?

>> Memphis Grizzlies.

>> That's incorrect.

Anyone from Nashville?

Clara.

>> Milwaukee Bucks.

>> That is correct.

The genuine shock.

Okay.

Your bonus.

Nashville, Colin Powell served as secretary of state.

Under what president?

Whose vice president was Dick Cheney?

>> Ronald Reagan.

>> That is incorrect.

Marion.

Bush.

I'm going to prompt on that.

H.W.

Bush.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for George W Bush.

I had to prompt on Bush or George Bush.

All right.

Toss up number ten.

What quantity?

Which a diameter can measure in Pascal units.

Pascal seconds or parses is zero for superfluids and describes a fluid's resistance to flow.

Johnathan.

>> Viscosity.

>> Viscosity is correct.

Your bonus, the p and PET scan or Pet scan stands for what positively charged particle that is not a proton.

Positron positron is correct.

Our next question is another media question.

This time it's just an image.

So go ahead and look at the screen for me.

This father son duo found fame on the social media platform TikTok for their videos about the warehouse store Costco.

They subsequently began making videos of themselves rating random products therein either positively.

>> Jada, AJ and Big Justice.

>> That is correct.

Staying big justice aka also accept the Costco guys.

So yeah, it's a media question, so no bonus.

But we had a little laugh and giggle.

All right, toss up number 11.

What book dedicated to Theophile Gautier, which includes the section Spleen and Ideal, is a collection of wicked French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.

The answer we were looking for was Les Fleurs du mal, or The Flowers of Evil.

Tossup number 12.

In what province was the failure of a referendum blamed on money and ethnic votes after a majority no vote in 1995 against independence from Canada?

Clara.

>> Saskatchewan.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone for Marion.

>> Maggy, Alberta.

>> That is also incorrect.

We were looking for Quebec.

Tossup number 13.

What.

Human bones.

whose avian equivalents fuse to form the wishbone, or S shaped bones that connect to the sternum and are called the collarbones.

>> Jada clavicle.

>> Clavicle is correct.

Your bonus.

Marian.

What world leaders spent almost three decades in prison on Robben Island before being elected president of his country in 1994.

Mandela Mandela is correct.

Another buzzer beater.

All right, toss up number 14.

What?

Author of the 1994 novel Closing Time, depicted Colonel Cathcart, squadron members on the island of Pianosa in his World War II novel catch 22.

I know some of y'all are going to have a stern talking to.

The answer was Joseph Heller.

All right.

Toss up number 15.

What jazz musician whose songs include Blues for Alice Coco and Ornithology, innovated bebop with Dizzy Gillespie and was nicknamed bird.

Clara.

>> Louis Armstrong.

>> That is incorrect.

>> Banquo Davis.

>> That's also incorrect.

The answer was Charlie Parker.

All right, our next question.

I'm excited about this.

One is another media question.

This time it's a video.

So behind me will be a video.

Maybe this Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic is a reoccurring.

Jada Foxy Foxy is correct.

And again, no bonus.

But we got to see Foxy, so that's pretty dope.

All right.

Tossup number 16.

What singer who borrowed from the song physical for his mystical, magical Maggie Benson.

>> Boone.

>> Benson Boone is correct.

Should I do a backflip?

I can't do backflip, but I would if I could.

Your bonus Marion.

What type of pathogen?

Such as one called Imda, can enter either a lytic cycle or a lysogenic cycle.

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

Nashville.

>> No answer.

>> The answer we were looking for was virus.

It's one of those ones that they like to overcompensate, overcompensate, and that takes us into our lightning round.

Yes.

Boom!

Crash!

There it is.

All right.

If you don't know how the lightning round works, I'm going to tell you.

So don't.

Don't fret.

You're a little hard about it.

We're going to starting with the team with the least amount of points right now, which is currently Nashville.

I will give you an option between four categories, and then you'll choose your favorite category.

And then we will go through a rapid fire selection of ten questions.

If you know the answer to them, great.

Answer it.

You get your points.

If you don't know the answer, you can pass.

And if time allows, we will come back to it.

However, if you get it wrong, there is no second chances here, so you just kind of lose out on points.

Does that make sense to everyone?

Cool.

All right.

Your choices.

Nashville number one.

Also on a sandwich.

Number two, the four seasons, number three bloody decades and number four ballets and operas.

What do you choose?

>> I also want a sandwich.

>> I was hoping you'd pick that one.

I really was okay.

Also on a sandwich.

Give these answers that share their name with an ingredient one might put on a sandwich.

Are you ready?

Three.

Two.

One country home to Istanbul.

[MUSIC] >> Curry.

>> That is Incorrect.

Yellow clad colonel in the board game.

Clue.

>> Mustard.

>> Correct.

Follows robot in the title of a long running Cartoon Network show.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] Satirical news outlet that in 2024 moved to purchase Infowars.

>> The Onion.

>> Correct.

In a video game to exploit an easy method for defeating a faux cheese.

Correct.

Italian city whose university opened in AD 1088.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Renowned medical clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

>> Mayo.

>> Correct.

Biblical son of Noah who saw his father's nakedness.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Pass.

Surname of Tommy on the cartoon.

Rugrats.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

[MUSIC] >> Actor who starred as Ren in Footloose.

[MUSIC] All right, so I'll just answer that one.

Actor who starred as Ren in Footloose was Kevin Bacon.

Surname of Tommy on the cartoon Rugrats.

This was my childhood.

It was pickles.

This devastates me.

Okay.

Biblical son of Noah who saw his father's nakedness was Ham.

Italian city, whose university opened in AD 1088, was Bologna and follows robot in the title of a long running Cartoon Network show was chicken and then country.

Home to Istanbul was Turkey.

Marion, let me give you your remaining choices.

The Four Seasons, bloody decades or ballets and operas.

What do you choose?

>> Four seasons.

>> Four seasons.

Great choice.

I'd love to stay there one day.

All right.

The four seasons.

Which of the four seasons.

Dot dot dot.

Okay.

321 is Earth Day observed in in the US spring.

Correct.

Has dog days.

According to a popular saying summer correct names a war between Finland and the Soviet Union.

[MUSIC] Winter, correct is when the living is easy.

In a song from Porgy and Bess.

[MUSIC] Spring that's incorrect begins on a hemisphere's vernal equinox.

[MUSIC] That is incorrect.

Names a former Russian imperial palace in Saint Petersburg.

[MUSIC] Winter, correct.

Precedes variations in an Ed Sheeran album title.

[MUSIC] Fall.

I'm going to prompt you on that autumn.

Correct.

It concludes Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

[MUSIC] Winter, yes was a season of love in 1967, San Francisco.

[MUSIC] That is time.

So the answer to that one was summer.

I could have accepted Summer of love as well.

Going back begins on a hemisphere.

Vernal equinox with spring is when the living is easy and a song from Porgy and Bess was the Summer or summertime.

And then that's it.

All right, that concludes our lightning round.

Which means we have to go back to toss ups.

Yay!

Okay, toss up number 17.

During a shooting, in what state was its governor, John Connally, wounded in the neck in Dealey Plaza by an assassin who also killed John F Kennedy.

>> Sawyer, Texas.

>> Texas is correct.

And your bonus?

Daniel Craig uses a southern accent to portray what sleuth in the Knives Out film series.

Benoit Blanc Benoit Blanc is correct.

Thank you very much.

Okay, toss at number 18.

What city, which contains Louis Sullivan's Wainwright building, is where Eero Saarinen designed a monument to westward expansion, the Gateway Arch.

Sawyer.

>> Saint Louis.

>> Saint Louis is correct.

Your bonus.

Marion Brunnhilde is the title warrior of what?

Second opera in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

Nashville.

>> No answer.

>> The answer we were looking for was the Valkyrie toss at number 19.

What geometry process converts objects in N dimensions into representations with fewer dimensions, as Gerardus Mercator did, to make 2D maps of earth.

Sawyer.

>> Scaling.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Nashville?

Clara.

>> Kinematics.

>> That is also incorrect.

We were looking for projection.

Toss up number 20.

What author depicted deaths on a Devon island in her novel and then There were none and wrote.

Doesn't Maggie.

>> Agatha Christie.

>> Agatha Christie is correct.

Great content.

Your bonus.

Marion, the holder of what office is second in the line of presidential succession after the Vice President.

>> Speaker of the House.

>> Speaker of the House is correct.

Our next question is another media question.

It's another image.

So go ahead and turn to the TV.

For me, this character is the extraterrestrial rock body partner who shares a name with a famous 1970s boxing movie and helps Ryland Grace, played by Jada.

Rocky.

Rocky is correct.

Oh, Rocky.

All right, back to it.

Because again, there's no bonus.

But we had a fun time, I hope so.

Toss up number 21.

What country which contains the mouth of the Orinoco River, is home to large oil reserves around Lake Maracaibo and is governed from Caracas.

Clara.

>> Nigeria.

>> That's incorrect.

I like the guess.

Anyone from Marion Banquo, Kenya.

That's also incorrect.

We were looking for Venezuela.

Tossup number 22.

In what year did Lajos Kossuth's Hungarian uprising and the election of Louis Napoleon take place during a wave of nationalist revolts across Europe?

>> 1789.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Nashville?

>> Johnathan 1834.

>> No, but that is closer.

We were looking for 1848.

All right.

Tossup number 23.

What literary movement, whose name was coined by John Hope Franklin, included such poets as Claude McKay and centered on a New York City neighborhood.

Maggie.

>> Harlem.

Renaissance.

>> Harlem Renaissance is correct.

Your bonus.

Marion.

What is the largest of the dwarf planet?

Pluto's five known moons?

>> No answer.

>> Nashville.

Any answers from you.

>> Karen.

>> We aren't going to accept that.

Okay, toss up number 24.

What devices?

The best known products made by brother have dot matrix and laser types and may require toner cartridges or ink refills.

Printers printers is correct.

Your bonus Nashville in 2026 what former reality show contestant made false claims about voter fraud after finishing third in the Los Angeles mayoral primary?

Jimmy Fallon that is incorrect.

Marion.

>> Kim Kardashian no.

>> The answer we were looking for was Spencer Pratt.

Tossup number 25.

What event?

Which destroyed the original Palmer House Hotel in October 1871, was blamed on a cow owned by miss O'Leary and devastated Sawyer.

>> The Chicago Fire.

>> Chicago Fire is correct.

Your bonus.

Marion.

UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim hailed from what country?

The smaller of the two that were joined together in the Anschluss.

>> Czech Republic.

>> I cannot accept that.

>> Czechoslovakia.

>> That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Austria.

All right, we have another question.

I'm so excited.

Okay.

It's a video this time.

So once again we're going to look at the TV.

This Muppet gets easily frustrated with the behavior of his co-stars.

It conveys his feeling by flailing his arms about Maggie.

>> Kermit.

>> That is good to be Kermit.

Kermit the frog.

Preferably it's Kirby.

All right, next toss up.

Again, no bonus because it was a new question, but we got Kermit.

So what?

Nobel laureate wrote about a shipwrecked naval officer in Pincher Martin and described schoolboys trapped on an island in Lord of the flies.

Maggie.

>> William Golding.

>> William Golding is correct.

Your bonus.

Marion, what colorfully named tributary of the Nile originates from Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

>> Blue.

>> Blue is correct.

I wondered if that's where we were going to end up there.

All right, toss up number 27.

What quantity?

Equal to Boltzmann's constant times the natural logarithm of the number of microstates measures a system's randomness or disorder.

>> Banquo probability.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Nashville?

Johnathan.

Chaos is also incorrect.

We were looking for entropy in that wheelhouse, though.

All right.

Question 28.

What organization?

Whose a whose flag features a yellow globe on a blue field suspended Zimbabwe in 2002 and mainly consists of former British colonies.

That is incorrect.

Anyone from Marion Banquo, South Africa?

That's also incorrect.

We were looking for the Commonwealth of Nations, for the British Commonwealth.

And that seems to be all the time we have for today.

So it brings me to announcing our winner for this evening with a happy spatula.

I grant Marion you are the winners of tonight's match.

But thank you all for coming out and having a fun time with us too.

All right.

This has been this rendition of Scholastic Hi-q the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Parker, and I'm here to wish you a good night.

And remember to be kind to one another.

And go share the love.

All right.

Have a good night, y'all.

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