(bright music) (camera lens beeping) (exciting upbeat music) - Welcome back to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q", the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have our first quarter finals matchup in store for us this week with two fantastic teams that, frankly, could be in the finals, and I wouldn't be surprised.

So let's go ahead and introduce them.

On the bottom, we have Carbondale with Ryan, Clark, Daniel, and Theodore, and up top, we have Metro-East with Ethan, Harry, Mary, and Peter.

Now before we get into out questions, let's just do a quick recap of our rules.

We'll start out with some tossup questions.

Those are worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they move onto a bonus question, which is worth 20, and can be stolen for 10.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt me and get a question wrong, it is five points for the other team, so just be right.

All right.

If everybody is all ready to go, let's get into the questions.

What device's compound type, which uses- (bell chiming) - Lens?

- [Ethan] Lens is incorrect.

I'll reread the question for you, Metro-East.

What device's compound type, which uses both an objective lens and eyepiece to achieve high magnification is used to study small objects?

(bell chiming) - Microscope?

- Microscopes is correct.

And that'll take us to our bonus question.

What unsaturated hydrocarbons, the simplest of which have N carbons and two N hydrogens, are characterized by a carbon carbon double bond?

- Try it.

- Say it, yeah.

- Yeah, say it.

- Fat?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal.

- Alkene?

- Alkene is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what novel in which Robert elopes with Edward's fiancee, Lucy Steel, is named after the Dashwood sisters' contrasting traits- (bell chiming) Ryan?

- "Sense and Sensibility"?

- "Sense and Sensibility" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what word refers to the amount of ethanol present in an alcoholic beverage, or a mathematical process for demonstrating a statement's truth?

- Proof?

- Proof is correct.

Well done.

For the tossups, what class the privileged side in the Conflict of the Orders held most political power in early Rome, and were distinguished from the Plebeians?

(bell chiming) Peter?

(Peter sighs) - No answer.

- [Ethan] All right.

(bell chiming) Ryan?

- The Plebs?

- That is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was not Plebeians, it was Patricians.

Patricians.

For your next tossup, what transition metal, whose carbide is almost as hard as diamond, is used in incandescent light bulbs, and is named after the Swedish for heavy stone?

(bell chiming) Peter?

- Tungsten?

- Tungsten is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Savai'i and Upolu are islands in what Pacific archipelago nation whose capital is Apia?

- Samoan?

- Just answer.

- Micronesia?

(timer dinging) - [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal.

- Samoa?

- Samoa is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what organization led by former governor Charlie Baker was ruled to be subject to anti-trust laws in 2021, enabling NIL deals for students- (bell chiming) Ryan?

- NCAA?

- NCAA is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what process of biodegrading organic matter aerobically produces a namesake product that can be used as humus or fertilizer?

- Decay?

- Just decay?

- Or mulching?

- No, just decay.

- Decay?

- That is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Composting?

- Composting is correct.

Well done.

Next tossup.

What animated film series, whose fifth installment was subtitled "Collision Course" features- (bell chiming) Theodore?

- "Ice Age".

- "Ice Age" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, upon reaching Australia, James Cook landed in and named what Bay, whose name was afterwards used to refer to a nearby penal colony?

- What'd you say?

- Byron.

It's the Bay of Byron.

- Byron?

- That is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Botany?

- Botany Bay is correct.

Well done, Metro-East.

And that'll take us to our first media question.

This Japanese-American singer and songwriter released her first two albums while in college, and is known for her songs "Washing Machine Heart"- (bell chiming) Clark?

- Mitski?

- Mitski is correct.

Well done.

And since that was a media question, there is no bonus.

Let's take it back to tossups.

In 1989, what country formed a contract same after round table talks with the labor union founded at the Lenin Shipyard by- (bell chiming) Clark?

- Poland?

- Poland is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Dominican-American author wrote about a boy who loves fantasy novels and suffers from a family curse in "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"?

- Cortez.

- Diago.

- Diago?

- That is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Williams.

- Say it.

- Williams?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Junot Diaz.

Junot Diaz.

(contestants whispering) To the next tossup.

What author won a Booker Prize for a novel about the Chase family, titled "The Blind Assassin", and for "The Testaments", her sequel to "The Handmaids Tale"?

(bell chiming) Theodore?

- Margaret Atwood?

- Margaret Atwood is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Edward Elgar wrote a concerto for what instrument played by Jacqueline Du Pre and Yo-Yo Ma?

- Cello.

- Cello?

- Cello is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, what American astronomer's discoveries include red shift increasing with- (bell chiming) Brian?

- Hubble?

- Edwin Hubble is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in the phrase "Et tu, Brute?

", Brute is in what grammatical case used to directly address or call someone, as in, "O Captain"?

- Evocative?

- Evocative case is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, what holiday, which names anti-conscription riots in Quebec in 1918 and a 1916 uprising against the British rule- (bell chiming) Theodore?

- Easter?

- Easter is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in the Ruy Lopez Opening in chess, both players' second moves involve moving one of what pieces, which must always move multiple spaces?

- Knight?

- Knight is correct.

Well done.

Next question, what island, which is in the south of the Aeolian Islands, is home to Syracuse and Palermo, and lies- (bell chiming) Harry?

- Sicily?

- Sicily is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what equation named for a German chemist determines the reduction potential of a redox reaction based on concentration and temperature?

- Boil?

- That is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal.

- Nernst?

- Nernst is correct.

Well done.

For the next tossup, what word follows South China Morning in the name of a major Hong Kong newspaper, and in the name of a Jeff Bezos- (bell chiming) Daniel?

- Times?

- Times is incorrect.

I will reread it for you, Metro-East.

What word follows South China Morning in the name of a major Hong Kong newspaper, and in the name of a Jeff Bezos owned paper follows Washington?

(bell chiming) Ethan?

- Post.

- Post is correct.

As in the South China Morning Post.

For your bonus, in the Treaties of Aigun and Peking, China ceded territories along the Amur River to what country, including its modern day city of Vladivostok?

- Russia.

- Russia?

- Russia is correct.

Well done.

And that'll take us to our next media question.

This clown is the persona of the principle mascot for the McDonald's fast food business.

He's a citizen- (bell chiming) - Ronald?

Ronald?

- Ronald McDonald is correct.

Well done.

- That was a strange audio.

- And that'll take us back to our tossups.

What organization was opposed by William Borah's Irreconcilables, and by Henry Cabot Lodge, who kept the US from joining it after World War One?

(bell chiming) Ethan?

- League of Nations.

- League of Nations is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the 17th century Castillo de San Marcos is in what Florida city, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the continental United States?

- St. Augustine?

- St. Augustine is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, what lake, which contains Michipicoten island, and Isle Royale drains- (bell chiming) Clark?

- Lake Superior?

- Lake Superior is correct.

For your bonus, what Italian composer wrote the aria "Una furtiva lagrima", and adapted a Walter Scott novel in his opera "Lucia di Lammermoor"?

- Vivaldi.

- Vivaldi?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Mozart.

- That is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Gaetano Donizetti.

For your next tossup, what author of the story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" wrote the novel, "The Left Hand of Darkness" as- (bell chiming) Theodore?

- Le Guin?

- Le Guin is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what playwright's two most acclaimed works are in his depression era, socially conscious plays "Awake and Sing!"

and "Waiting for Lefty"?

- Miller?

- Beckett?

- That is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Picasso.

- That is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Clifford Odets.

Clifford Odets.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

Rounded to the nearest whole number, how many hours are equivalent to 500 minutes, given one hour contains 60 minutes?

(bell chiming) Theodore?

- Eight?

- Eight is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what king was punished for feeding his son to the Greek gods by being placed near fruit and water that stayed eternally out of his reach?

- Tantalus?

- Tantalus is correct.

Well done, Daniel.

For your next tossup, what ballet, which follows the bride and husbandmen includes five variations on the shaker tune, "A Simple Gift"- (bell chiming) Brian?

- "Appalachian Spring"?

- "Appalachian Spring" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the IQR is the difference between the first and third of what values, which are the equivalent to the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles?

- Interquartile range?

- Interquartile range is correct.

Well done.

And that'll take us to our lightning round.

(thunder rumbling) The way our lightning round works is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a certain topic.

Now Metro-East, since you guys are trailing in this one, you get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are Civil War Battles, S-E-M, The Letter R, or Alliterative People.

- The Letter R. - The Letter R it is.

It's like a Sesame Street segment.

What does the letter R stand for in these abbreviations?

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

The lobbying group NRA.

- Rifle.

- [Ethan] The fantasy franchise LOTR.

- Rings.

- Rings.

- [Ethan] The gaming category MMORPG.

- Role.

- [Ethan] The college military program, ROTC.

- Regimen?

- That's incorrect.

The group for whose over 50 called AARP.

- Retired.

- Retired.

- [Ethan] The medical procedure CPR.

- Resuscitation.

- [Ethan] The accounting metric ROI.

You can pass as well.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] The antidepressant class SSRIs.

- Reuptake?

- [Ethan] The music trade organization RIAA.

- Recording?

- [Ethan] The environmental nonprofit, NRDC?

- Reclamation.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

The accounting metric ROI.

That is your last one.

- Rate?

- Rate.

- That is incorrect.

Go through the ones that you missed.

The college military program ROTC is reserve.

The accounting metric ROI is returns.

And the environmental nonprofit NRDC is resources.

Resources.

All right, Carbondale, is now your guys' turn to respond.

Your choices are Alliterative People, Civil War Battles, or S-E-M. - Alliterative People.

- Alliterative People it is.

Give the surnames of these people with alliterative names.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Italian explorer who commanded the Santa Maria in 1492.

- Columbus.

- Columbus.

- [Ethan] Spanish painter of "The Guernica".

- Picasso.

- Picasso.

- [Ethan] Italian who discovered Jupiter's fourth largest moons first name- - Galileo.

- [Ethan] Daughter of Kris Jenner formerly married to rapper Ye.

- Kardashian?

- [Ethan] Dictator who controlled Spain from 1939 to 1979- - Franco.

- Franco, yeah.

- [Ethan] Irish author of "Finnigan's Wake" and "Dubliners".

- Joyce.

- Joyce.

- [Ethan] German whose namesake SI unit is the reciprocal of the second?

- Hertz.

- Hertz.

- [Ethan] Star of the movies "Falling for Christmas" and "Mean Girls"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Composer of "South Pacific" and "Oklahoma"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] French philosopher who is chief editor of the "Encyclopedie"?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Star of the movies "Falling for Christmas" and "Mean Girls"?

- George.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Composer of "South Pacific" and "Oklahoma"?

- Gershwin?

- That's incorrect.

French philosopher who is editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedie"- (timer buzzing) You guys are all out of time, so we'll go through the three that you missed.

The star of the movies "Falling for Christmas" and "Mean Girls" is Lindsay Lohan.

The composer of "South Pacific" and "Oklahoma" is Richard Rodgers, and the French philosopher who was chief editor of "Encyclopedie" was Denis Diderot.

Denis Diderot.

All right, and that concludes our Lightning Round, so let's take a look at our scores afterwards.

We have Metro-East with 200 to Carbondale's 340, so Carbondale on top, and Metro-East, still plenty of time for that second half comeback.

Taking it back to our tossups.

What African country, which controls Pemba and Mafia Islands, also controls the semi-autonomous province of Zanzibar, which is- (bell chiming) north of the, Theodore?

- Tanzania?

- Tanzania is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what company based in Toulouse, France, makes the A380, the world's largest commercial airliner?

- Airbus?

- Airbus is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, pencil and paper ready.

What is the probability that an event will occur if the odds in favor of the event are five to three?

(bell chiming) Ryan?

- Five eighths?

- Five eighths is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in the 2023 NBA playoffs, what franchise led by Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle beat Cleveland before losing to the Miami Heat in the second round?

- The Knicks?

- New York Knicks is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what Titan, whose many Nymph daughters include- (bell chiming) Harry?

- Atlas.

- Atlas is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what massive freshwater lake in Eastern Siberia is generally considered the world's deepest lake?

- Baikal?

- Lake Baikal is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, what color, which describes a mist in Jackson Pollock's "Number One"- (bell chiming) Ryan?

- Lavender?

- Lavender is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what process, regulated by the enzymes hexokinase and phosphofructokinase produces pyruvate and is the first step of aerobic respiration?

- Glycolysis?

- Glycolysis is correct.

Well done.

For the next tossup, what woman, who in a 1776 letter, told her husband to- (bell chiming) Harry?

- Adams.

- Abigail Adams is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what CBS Evening News anchor who used the catchphrase, "And that's the way it is", held back tears as he announced JFK's assassination?

- Cronkite?

- Walter Cronkite is correct.

Well done.

The next tossup.

What author wrote about Miss Manson Mingott, whose granddaughter, Ellen Olenska, falls in love with Newland archer- (bell chiming) Mary?

- Edith Wharton?

- Edith Wharton is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what English author wrote the early detective novel, "The Woman in White", and continued to develop the mystery genre in his 1868 novel, "The Moonstone"?

- Collins.

- Wilkie Collins is correct.

Well done.

For the next tossup.

What tissue, which contains the tracheids and vessel elements using transpirational pull to move water in plants, and usually lies near the flow?

(bell chiming) Harry?

- Xylem?

- Xylem is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what nonbinary English actor voices the title blue-haired girl on the Netflix show, "Hilda", and plays the fierce teenager Ellie on HBO's "The Last of Us"?

- Ramsay?

- Will we accept just Ramsay?

Yup.

That is correct.

It is Bella Ramsay.

And that'll take us to our next media question.

This app was developed in- (bell chiming) Clark?

- Tumblr.

- Tumblr is correct.

Well done.

(contestants chuckling) Back to our tossups.

What Middle Eastern country, whose Qajar Dynasty was overthrown in 1925 was ruled until 1979 by members of the Pahlavi Dynasty, who used the title Shah?

(bell chiming) - Clark?

- Iran?

- Iran is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

How many unique sequences of four coin flips have at least one tails amongst the four outcomes?

(contestants whispering) - Nine?

10?

- 10?

- That is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal?

- 12.

- 12 is also incorrect.

The answer is 15.

15.

For the next tossup, what country, the site of a sky bridge nicknamed the Horizontal Skyscraper also contains a stadium called the Bird's Nest, and the Shang- (bell chiming) Ryan?

- China?

- China is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, a red steel sculpture in Philadelphia created by pop artist, Robert Indiana, displays what four-letter word with a tilted O?

- Hope?

- Hope is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Hollywood.

- That is incorrect.

As it is love, as it is Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love.

Back to our tossups.

What German chemist, whose wife Clara died by suicide in 1915, after he weaponized chlorine- (bell chiming) Ethan?

- Haber?

- Fritz Haber is correct.

Well done.

- Nice.

- For your bonus, what 1854 law enacted the principle of Popular Sovereignty by allowing its two namesake territories to decide whether to allow slavery?

- Kansas-Nebraska?

- Kansas-Nebraska Act is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, what structure, which was built along a guarded death strip in 1961 was destroyed by protesters in- (bell chiming) Harry?

- Berlin Wall.

- Berlin Wall is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

Two answers are required.

What two values of X are solutions to the equation the square of the quantity 2X equals 36?

(no audio) - Positive negative square root of 18?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal.

- X equals 3 and X equals negative 3.

- That is correct.

Well done, Daniel.

For your next tossup, what assets, whose repeat sale prices are measured on the SMP's Case-Shiller Index are often purchased with financed loans called mortgages?

(bell chiming) Clark?

- Houses.

- Houses is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in September 2023, Tharman Shanmugaratnam became the first person of non-Chinese descent to win the presidency of what small South Asian country?

- Taiwan?

- Taiwan is incorrect.

Metro-East, chance to steal.

- Thailand.

- Say that.

- Thailand?

- Thailand is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Singapore.

Singapore.

For your next tossup, what five-letter word follows asymptotic in naming a branch of the HR Diagram, and follows red in naming a type of star that the sun will become?

(bell chiming) Daniel?

- Dwarf?

- Dwarf is incorrect.

(bell chiming) Harry?

- Giant.

- Giant is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the city of Qingdao is found on the shores of what colorfully named sea that lies north of the East China Sea?

- Yellow?

- The Yellow Sea is correct.

Well done.

And that'll take us to our next bonus, or, our next media question, excuse me.

This free to play first person shooter game was developed by Valve- (bell chiming) - Clark?

- Team Fortress 2?

- TF2 is correct.

Well done.

And credit where credit's due, I didn't think any of you guys were gonna get that question correct.

- Oh, come on.

- What?

- It was made before most of you were born.

- So?

- It's still good!

It's still good!

- Oh, it's a great game.

I'm not saying it's not.

- Besides the bots.

- Back to our tossups.

Back to our tossups.

What tool, a variant of which called the ard, was used in ancient times, had a steel type developed by John Deere?

(bell chiming) Harry?

- Plow.

- Plow is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what 1850 poetry collection included untitled verses that began "Yes, call me by my pet-name", and "How do I love thee, let me count the ways"?

(contestants whispering) - "Sonnets to the Portuguese"?

- "Sonnets to the Portuguese" is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what politician who is separating from his spouse, Sophie Gregoire, leads the Liberal Party, and serves as the Prime Minister of Canada?

(bell chiming) Theodore?

- Justin Trudeau.

- Justin Trudeau is correct.

Well done.

Now, for your bonus, in what event triggered by a failed assassination of Gaspard de Coligny in 1572 did Catholics massacre thousands of Protestant Hugeuenots in France?

- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?

- That is correct.

Well done.

For your next tossup, what Nintendo series, whose newest entry is a mixed reality game subtitled "Home Circuit" features Mushroom Gorge- (bell chiming) Daniel?

- Mario Cart?

- Mario Cart is correct.

For your bonus, collared greens and kale are rich in what element found in hydroxyapatite that is seen the most abundant metal in the human body?

- Calcium.

- Is it?

- Sure.

- Calcium?

- Calcium is correct.

Well done.

For the next tossup, what quantity is constant for Newtonian fluids, and can be measured in units- (bell chiming) Ryan?

- Viscosity?

- Viscosity is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, during the Triwizard Tournament, Barty Crouch Jr. impersonates what auror who uses a magic prosthesis and who later dies while escorting Harry Potter?

- Mad Eye Moody?

- Mad Eye Moody is correct.

Well done.

(doorbell ringing) And that bell means we are all out of time, so let's take a look at our scores.

We have Carbondale on top, 560 over Metro-East's 420 in what might be one of the highest scoring games we've ever had, so well done to both of you guys.

Very well done.

Now that is all the time we have for on tonight's show.

For our lovely contestants here today and the people working hard behind the camera, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much, and goodnight.

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