(soft music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Greetings to all who wish to be greeted.

I'm Dahlia Dahl and this is "Scholastic HI-Q," the game show where knowledge rules.

Today, I am joined by my lovely contestants from Carterville.

We have Nick, Hiren, James, and Maddox.

And from Breese Central we have Jensen, Maxwell, Rainer, and Hunter.

It is Breese, not breeze, right?

- [Student] Breese, breeze like the wind.

- Breeze like the wind?

Got it.

Breese Central.

Thank you, all, very much.

Today, we're going to playing "Scholastic HI-Q."

I assume you know how the rules work.

Okay, well, the audience might not, so I'm going to explain it for them.

You are going to have to answer first toss up questions in which I will ask a question and either team will have 10 seconds to buzz in and give the correct answer.

If you give the answer incorrectly, the other team will be given the chance to steal.

If you interrupt me before I'm finished asking the question and get it wrong, the other team automatically gets five points, in addition to the ability to steal, which means they could get a total of 15 points just for one question.

Just because you interrupted me and got it wrong.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, be right.

All right, players, are you ready to "HI-Q"?

- Yeah.

- Oh, yeah.

- All right, fantastic.

Let's start with our first toss up question.

What singer, who featured on a 2023 remix of Lizzo's song, "Special," received the 2022 album "SOS," which ... (bell dings) - SZA?

- That is correct, Maddox.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What South Asian river's valley was home to the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?

Mohenjo-daro.

(students whispering) - The Ganges.

- That is incorrect.

Breese Central, it is your chance to steal.

- Ho Chi Minh.

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for the Indus River.

Indus River.

- What two countries, which are fighting in the ongoing Abyei conflict, separated after a 2011 referendum and now have capitals at Juba and Khartoum?

(bell dings) - [Dahlia] Maxwell?

- Sudan.

- That is- - And South Sudan.

- Yeah, both of those are correct.

Sudan and South Sudan.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What book, which opens with a rat being found in a family's apartment in Chicago was the first full-length novel published by Richard Wright?

- It's not.

- "Stuart Little."

- Is incorrect.

And Stuart Little's a mouse.

Carterville, you have the chance to steal.

- "Native Son."

- That is correct.

"Native Son."

What quantity can be measured with the Rankin scale is specified along with a pressure at a triple point and has a minimum value of absolute zero?

(bell dings) - Hunter?

- Temperature.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

Pencil and paper ready.

It's a math question, y'all.

What is the height of an equilateral triangle whose side lengths are two, given the height forms to 30, 60, 90 right triangles?

(pencils scratching) (students whispering) - 203.

- Sorry, that is incorrect.

Carterville, your chance to steal.

- The square root of three.

- That is correct.

The square root of three or root of three or radical three.

What man, who championed the contract with America while leading a campaign to retake Congress in 1994, was a speaker of the House from Georgia?

(no audio) (bell dings) Rainer?

- Jimmy Carter.

- That is incorrect.

Carterville?

Steal?

(bell dings) Maddox?

- Dole.

- That's incorrect.

We were looking for Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich.

What architect who designed the museum of Islamic art and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame used 673 glass panes in his design for the Louvre Pyramid?

(no audio) (bell dings) Maxwell?

- I.M.

Pei?

- Well, you're not, but that is the correct answer.

Ieoh Ming Pei.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What British Prime Minister was criticized for his policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler?

(student whispers) - Churchill.

- [Dahlia] Is incorrect.

Carterville?

- Chamberlain?

- That is correct.

Neville Chamberlain to be specific.

It's time for the media question.

Please, turn your attention to the television where you will see an image and answer a question based on that.

Charles M. Schultz wrote and drew this comic strip.

(bell dings) - [Student] "The Peanuts."

- That is correct, "The Peanuts."

That is absolutely correct.

What mountain range consists of the sort, excuse me, what mountain range contains the source of the Garonne River and the microstate of Andorra, which is sandwiched between France and Spain?

(no audio) (students whispering) - Pyrenees.

- That is correct.

We would've also accepted it in French or Spanish.

What quantity whose change is negative for a spontaneous reaction equals the change in enthalpy minus temperature times the change in ... (bell dings) Nick?

- [Nick] Gibbs free energy.

- That is correct.

What reaction, which is undergone by a substance when it combusts is contrasted with reduction and is defined as a substance-losing electrons?

(bell dings) - Oxidation.

- That is correct!

Okay, what country's president, Alberto Fernandez, is a member of its Justicialist Party as was its former president, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner?

(no audio) (students whispering) - Peru.

- That is incorrect.

Reese Central, yours to steal.

- Argentina.

- That is correct.

Argentina.

I got a buddy from Argentina.

Hi, Tita.

This is a toss up.

What island, where a civilization used the linear ace grip as a bronze aged palace at Knossos?

And that was the center of the Minoan culture ... (bell dings) Maxwell?

- Crete.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What woman who starred with Chris Hemsworth in "Men In Black: International," plays Valkyrie in "The Four" series and Bianca Taylor in the "Creed" series?

(students whispering) - Joseph Cirincione.

- What woman?

That is incorrect.

Carterville, would you like to steal?

(no audio) - I don't think so.

- Okay.

We were looking for Tessa Lynn Thompson.

We would've also accepted just her last name.

This next one's a tossup.

What desert whose Paranal Observatory houses the very large telescope is the driest, nonpolar desert on Earth, due to a rain shadow from the Andes?

Also pronounced Andes.

(bell dings) Maddox?

- The Atacama Desert.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

The orchestral tune, "In The Hall Of The Mountain King," comes from what Norwegian composer's incidental music to the play, "Peer Gynt"?

- Grieg.

- That is correct.

Edward Grieg.

What species whose scientific name is Dionaea muscipula is a plant that derives nutrients from bugs it captures with leaves that close ... (bell dings) James?

- Venus flytrap.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

In George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can turn what Cockney flower girl into a lady fit for upper class society?

(no audio) - Eliza Doolittle.

- That is correct.

Eliza Doolittle.

This next one's a media question.

Please turn your attention to the television screen.

This fantasy comic strip created by the Belgian comic ... (bell dings) - Maxwell?

- [Maxwell] "The Smurfs."

- That is correct.

What instrument that creates a melody through a chanter in a constant harmony through drones has a Great Highland variety used in Scotland?

(bell dings) Hunter?

- Bagpipes.

Oh, sorry, no that is correct.

That is correct.

Bagpipes, sorry.

Great Highland is put there first.

(students whispering) This is a bonus question.

In 1780, what British major who collaborated with Benedict Arnold in plotting to betray West Point to the British was hanged in New York?

(students whispering) - No answer.

- [Dahlia] Carterville, yours to steal.

Gonna need a verbal passing if you're gonna pass.

- No answer.

- Pass.

- All right, we were looking for John Andre.

We would've also accepted Major Andre.

In 2023, Hamish Harding was en route to what specific site when he died, along with the CEO of OceanGate aboard the ... (bell dings) - The wreckage of the Titanic.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What object discovered in 1801 is the largest object in the asteroid belt?

(students whispering) - Ceres.

- That is correct.

You hear that, folks?

It sounds like a storm's a-brewing because it is time for the lightning round.

You will get the opportunity to choose from one of four categories and have 60 seconds to answer a series of questions about said category.

Breese Central, because you are behind, you get to choose first.

Excuse me.

The categories are sharks, presidents at war, English grammar, and sevens.

Give these answers that contain either the word or a numeral seven.

(students whispering) - We're gonna do sevens.

- Sevens.

All right.

You will have seven seconds.

I'm kidding.

You will have 60 seconds to answer the following questions, which begin in three, two, one.

Vices that include sloth and gluttony.

- Seven deadly sins.

- [Dahlia] Correct.

You also have the opportunity to pass.

Group of liberal arts colleges, including Mount Holy Oak.

(suspenseful music) - Pass.

- [Dahlia] 1954 film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

- "Seven."

(suspenseful music) - [Dahlia] Incorrect.

A conflict that included the French and Indian war.

- [Group] Seven Years' War.

- [Dahlia] Correct.

Boeing plane whose MAX 9 model was grounded in 2024.

- 747.

- [Dahlia] That is incorrect.

1937 Disney animated film based on a fairy tale.

(suspenseful music) - "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

Nathaniel Hawthorne novel about a Salem residence.

- "House of Seven Gables."

- [Dahlia] Correct.

Christian denomination that observes a Saturday Sabbath.

(suspenseful music) - Pass.

- [Dahlia] Board game featuring the Great Pyramid and, I'm sorry, you're out of time.

Group of liberal arts colleges, including Mount Holy Oak was the Seven Sisters.

Conflict that included the, or no, you got that one.

1954 film directed by Akira Kurosawa was "Seven Samurai."

Boeing whose MAX 9 model was grounded in 2024 was the Boeing 737.

And the Christian denomination that observes the Saturday Sabbath is the Seventh-day Adventist.

A board game featuring the Great Pyramid and Colossus of Rhodes was "The Seven Wonders."

And play by Aeschylus depicting an assault on the title city is "Seven Against Thebes," or "Hepta epi Thebais."

Carterville, you get to choose from the three remaining categories.

Your choices are, once again, sharks, presidents at war, and English grammar.

- Do presidents at war.

- Presidents at war.

Name the president who led the US into these conflicts.

I'm sorry.

(clears throat) Your 60 seconds begin in three, two, one.

World War I.

- Woodrow Wilson.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

World War II.

- FDR.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

And the Spanish-American War.

- McKinley.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

The War of 1812.

- James Madison.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

The Mexican-American War.

- Tyler.

- [Dahlia] That is incorrect.

The Quasi War.

- Jefferson.

- [Dahlia] That is also incorrect.

The Korean War?

- Truman.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

The Bosnian War.

- Clinton.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

The Invasion of Grenada or Grenada.

- George H.W.

Bush.

- [Dahlia] That is incorrect.

The First Barbary War.

- Jefferson.

- [Dahlia] That is correct.

We will now go over the ones that you missed.

The Mexican-American war was James Polk.

The Quasi War, no, you said "Polk" didn't you?

- [Student] No, I said "Tyler."

- Oh, okay.

The Mexican-American War was James Polk.

The Quasi War was John Adams.

The Bosnian War was Bill Clinton.

No, you said that one.

The Invasion of Grenada was Ronald Regan.

- [Student] Ah.

- And the First Barbary War was Thomas Jefferson.

Back to the toss ups, players.

What popular programming language, created by Guido van Rossum, uses white space indentation to delimit blocks and shares its name with a reptile?

(bell dings) Hunter?

- Python.

- Correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What African country is building the iconic tower in its new administrative capital whose construction begins under President Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi?

(students whispering) - Kenya.

- [Dahlia] That is incorrect.

Carterville, your chance to steal.

- Egypt.

- That is correct.

Toss up.

What country, home to noble laureate, Ales Bialiatski, and Svetlana Aleksievichu is a former Soviet state ruled since 1994 by Alexander Lukashenko?

(bell dings) - Belarus.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

In what decade when the Black Monday crashed caused the Dow Jones to lose 23% of its value did the President implement trickle down economics?

- The 1980s.

- That is correct.

What art form, whose performers may sport colorful, bold striped Kumadori makeup is a hyperstylized men's only theater tradition in Japan?

(no audio) (bell dings) Maddox?

- Kabuki.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What collection of the ancient text includes the Sama, a compilation of chance and melodies, and the Rig, which contains hymns to deities such as Agni?

(no audio) (students whispering) - The Vedas.

- That is correct.

Media question.

Please turn your attention the television screen.

This alter ego of Bruce Wayne, a rich ... (bell dings) James?

- [James] Batman.

- That is correct.

(students chuckle) What author who depicted himself as Peter Martin in "The Town and the City," wrote about Carlo Marx, Dean Moriarty ... (bell dings) James?

- Jack Kerouac.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

What Amazon Prime video series that ended in 2023 starred Rachel Brosnahan as the title 1950 housewife who becomes a standup comic?

- "The Marvelous Miss Maisel."

- That is correct.

Although, she's married.

It's "The Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel."

- [Student] Wow.

- But I'll give that to you.

I'll give that to you.

What class of rock makes up intrusions such as sills and includes rocks that are said to be intrusive if they form from the pooling magma?

(bell dings) Hunter?

- Igneous.

- Correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

Lynn Margulis proposed what theory that double-membrane organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as independent organisms?

(no audio) (student speaks indistinctly) (students whispering) - Hook theory.

- That is incorrect.

Carterville?

- Pass.

- It's also not pass.

We were looking for endosymbiotic theory or endosymbiosis.

What woman whose reputation was damaged by the affair of the diamond necklace was the wife of Louis the XVI and apocryphally said, "Let them eat ..." (bell dings) - Marie Antoinette.

- Yes, Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake."

A group of pirates, called "The Victual Brothers," targeted what medieval league that built trading posts called Kontores and was led from Lubeck?

(no audio) - Pass.

- It's still not pass.

We were looking for Hanseatic.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I was supposed to let the other team steal that.

- I don't think we knew it anyways.

(chuckles) - Oh, yeah?

Okay.

All right.

So all right.

Well then, in that case, we were looking for the Hanseatic.

We were looking for the Hanseatic.

Sorry about that.

In what musical is the heavy side a layer reached after the song "Memory," sung by Grizabella concluding the Jellicle Ball held by a group of felines?

(bell dings) James?

- "Cats."

- Correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

The French word "Chevre" can refer to what animal or to a cheese made from its milk?

(students whispering) - Goat.

- That is correct.

What author of "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

... (bell dings) James?

- Tolstoy.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus.

What acid with molecular formula CH3C00H, is responsible for the tart taste of vinegar?

(students whispering) - Acetic.

- That is correct.

Media question.

Please turn your attention to the screen.

An alien from the planet Krypton is the main character ... (bell dings) Jensen?

- Superman.

- That is correct.

- Good job.

- What national park, which contains Hetch Hetchy Valley and the rock formations, Half Dome and El Capitan, is in ... (bell dings) James?

- Yosemite.

- Yes, Yosemite is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

The eight nation alliance sought to put down what anti-imperialist rebellion in China led by the righteous and harmonious fist?

And in air quotes because it's in quotes on here.

(no audio) (students whispering) - Yellow Turban.

- [Dahlia] Say that again.

- Yellow Turban Rebellion.

- [Dahlia] You said, "Yellow Turban Rebellion"?

- Yes.

- That is incorrect.

Breese, would you like to steal?

- The Red Turban Rebellion.

- That is also incorrect.

We were looking for the Boxer Rebellion or the Yihetuan Movement, which is what I thought you might be trying to say, but I had to clarify.

What color, which names a revolution led by agronomist, Norman Borlaug, also names a third party that nominated Ralph Nader for president?

(bell dings) Hunter?

- Green party or green.

- That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question.

Playwright, August Strindberg, was born in what European country, which was also the homeland of the "Millennium Trilogy" author, Stieg Larsson?

(students whispering) - Germany.

- That is incorrect.

Carterville, yours to steal.

- Sweden?

- That is correct.

Correct answer was Sweden.

What astronomer who showed that far off galaxies recessional speed is proportional to its distance is the namesake for a space telescope?

(bell dings) Hiren?

- Keppler.

- That is incorrect.

Breese, would you like to steal.

(bell dings) Hunter?

- Hubble or Hubble.

- That is correct.

That is correct.

You get to answer the bonus question then.

Thalassemia can cause enlargement of what organ responsible for disposing of old red blood cells?

- Spleen.

- Spleen.

- That is correct.

What phycologist who wrote 1902's lecture ... (bell dings) I'm sorry, we are out of time because that doorbell means the end of our episode.

Although, in case you were wondering it was Ivan Pavlov.

So, players, at the end of our game, Breese Central has an astounding 200 points, but Carterville has twice as astounding 440 points.

Congratulations, Carterville, you were the winners of today's episode.

And I am the true winner 'cause I get to host and be on television all the time.

Isn't that great?

Aren't you happy for me?

Anyway, Carterville, you are the winners and I, the host, Dahlia Dahl, wishing you all a very good night.

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