(inspiring music) (lens focusing) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the game where, hopefully, there are no questions about American football.

I'm your host Ethan Neir and we have a great show in store for you tonight with two great teams, so let's go ahead and introduce them.

On the bottom we have Mascoutah with Daniel, Chase, Kaylee, and Wyatt.

And up top we have Centralia with Carter, Brayden, John, and Manuela.

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

We'll start out with some toss up questions.

Those are worth 10 points.

If a team gets it right, they move on to 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 the question wrong, it is five points for the other team, so just be right.

All right, we all ready?

Let's get into the questions.

What realm of Norse mythology, created using the eyebrows of the Jotun Ymir, is connected to Asgard by the Bifrost Bridge, and is the home of the humans?

(bell dinging) John.

- Midgard.

- Midgard is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Laurie Strode has a final showdown with supernatural killer Michael Myers in a 2022 entry in what horror film series?

- Halloween.

- Halloween is correct.

Well done.

- Hooray.

- Your next question, what author depicted a Babylonian thinker in his book "Zadig," and satirized mathematician Gottfried Leibnitz as an optimistic Doctor Pangloss in "Candide"?

(bell dinging) - Wyatt.

- Voltaire.

- Voltaire is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, members of the Moravian Church are modern-day followers of what Czech religion reformer who was burned at the stake in 1415?

- Luther.

- Luther is incorrect.

Centralia, chance to steal.

- Is that what you guess?

- Kinda.

- Defer to Carter.

- Jan Hus.

- Jan Hus is correct.

Well done, Carter.

- [Student] Oh, good.

- Your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the quotient of nine factorial divided by seven factorial given nine factorial equals.

(bell dinging) Kaylee.

- 72.

- 72 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the world's lowest freshwater body of water is what Israeli sea, where Jesus is said to have walked on water?

- Dead Sea.

- Dead sea is incorrect.

Centralia, chance to steal.

- Red Sea.

- The Red Sea is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Sea of Galilee.

Sea of Galilee.

- I was thinking Galatian.

- Your next toss up, what theorist, whose ideas were a major basis of Jacques Lacan's writings, analyzed Irma in the interpretation of dreams and?

(bell dinging) - Wyatt.

- Freud.

- Sigmund Freud is correct.

Well done.

- Good bus.

- For your bonus, what Italian author wrote about novice monk Adso of Melk who helps Williams of Baskerville find a murderer in the 1980 novel, "The Name of the Rose"?

- Eco.

- Eco is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss up.

What man, whose colitis forced him to resign as head of the LDP in 2020, was assassinated after being the longest-serving Japanese.

(bell dinging) Carter.

- Shinzo Abe.

- Shinzo Abe is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1959, African American pinch hitter Pumpsie Green debuted against the White Sox, making what team the last in the major leagues to integrate?

- I don't think so.

- Let's see here.

- Red Sox.

- The Red Sox is correct.

Well done, John.

- It is.

- [John] Well done, Manuela.

- Your next toss up, what European president, who twice vetoed the UK's entry into the EEC, established the Fifth Republic and commanded free France during World War II?

(bell dinging) John.

- Charles de Gaulle.

- Charles de Gaulle is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus, what plains estate was represented in the Senate by Tom Daschle and by the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, George McGovern?

- Nebraska.

- Nebraska is incorrect.

Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- Kansas.

- Kansas is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was South Dakota, South Dakota.

That'll take it to our next tossup.

What bone, which has a tuberosity to which the patellar ligaments attaches, forms a hinge joint with the femur and.

(bell dinging) - Wyatt.

- Fibula.

- Fibula is incorrect.

Centralia, I will reread it for you.

Which bone, which has a tuberosity to which the patellar ligament attaches, forms a hinge joint with the femur and is commonly called the shin bone?

(bell dinging) John.

- Tibia.

- Tibia is correct.

Well done.

- Hooray.

For your bonus, what English thinker who proposed the panopticon, a prison whose inmates were always in view of guards, is considered the founder of Utilitarianism.

(John sighing) - Pass.

- [Ethan] Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was Jeremy Bentham, Jeremy Bentham - And that will take us to our first media question.

This is the mascot for.

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Chester.

- Chester Cheetah is correct.

Well done.

- Good bus.

- Look at him.

Look at how stylish he looks.

I love Chester Cheetah.

And that'll take us back to our toss ups because there is no bonus for media questions.

What country, which contains the largest portion of both the Carpathian mountains and the delta of the Danube River, is also home to Transylvania?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Romania.

- Romania is correct.

- That's a good bus.

- That'll take you to your bonus.

What 1877 novel by Anna Sewell is narrated by the title horse, whose many owners include Farmer Gray, Squire Gordon, and London Cab Driver Jerry?

- No answer.

- Centralia.

- "Black Beauty."

- "Black Beauty" is correct.

Well done, John.

- I read it.

- For the next toss up, members of what profession, such as Marin Alsop, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Leopold Stokowski, often use a thin baton as they lead an orchestra?

(bell dinging) John.

- Conductor.

- Conductor is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, rusting is what type of process, prevented by galvanization, in which a refined metal is degraded to become a more stable oxide?

- Oxidization.

- Oxidization is incorrect.

Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- Oxidation.

- Oxidation is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was corrosion, corrosion.

That'll take us to our next toss up.

What agencies, whose co-intel pro initiative targeted civil rights groups under director J. Edgar Hoover, is the main federal law enforcement?

(bell dinging) Carter.

- The FBI.

- FBI is correct.

Well done.

- Good bus.

That'll take you to your bonus.

The Bringer of War and The Mystic are subtitles of movements in what suite by Gustav Holst?

- "The Planets."

- "The Planets" is correct.

Well done, John.

Next toss up, the brightest events in the universe are bursts named for what form of radiation, emitted by excited nuclei, which has energy higher than x-rays?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Gamma.

- Gamma is correct.

Well done, Wyatt.

For your bonus, what 17th century poem by Andrew Marvell urges the title woman to accept a lover's embrace because, "Time's winged chariot is hurrying near."

- "Fairy Queen."

- "Fairy Queen" is incorrect.

Centralia, chance to steal.

- "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was "To His Coy Mistress," "To His Coy Mistress."

- That's the other one.

- Back to the toss ups.

What 1937 novel, whose characters include a man known as Tea Cake and a resident.

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

- "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what president, who signed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, was nicknamed Silent for his pronounced ternisus?

- Coolidge.

- Calvin Coolidge is correct.

Well done.

To the next toss up.

What conflict, described as a "Splendid Little War," (bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Mexican American War.

- That is incorrect I'll reread the question for you, Centralia.

What conflict, described as a "Splendid Little War" by John Hay, ended with US control of the Philippines, and began after the sinking of The Maine?

(bell dinging) John.

- Spanish American War.

- Spanish American War is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Italian word, often used to mean a climax, is used in music to mean a gradual increase in loudness?

- Crescendo.

- Crescendo is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss up, what quantity, which is as low as possible at a mixture's eutectic point, is depressed in a solution, and is zero degrees Celsius for pure water?

(bell dinging) Carter.

- Freezing point.

- Freezing point is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what 19th century author wrote about a woman who implores Confederate troops to, "Spare your country's flag," in his poem, "Barbara Frietchie"?

- Frost.

- Frost is incorrect.

Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- John Greenleaf Whittier is the answer we're looking for, John Greenleaf Whittier.

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

This app is used to learn (bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Duolingo.

- Duolingo is correct.

- Good bus.

- Well done.

And that'll take us back to the toss ups.

What 19th, oh excuse me, what river, whose upper section is called the Jinsha, or Gold Sands River, flows past Wuhan.

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Yangtze.

- Yangtze is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the conservation of what quantity, often denoted by capital L, can be illustrated using the example of a spinning skater?

- Angular momentum.

- Angular momentum is correct.

Well done, Wyatt.

- Yes, I knew that.

- Back to the toss ups, what singer, whose name follows a big T-shirt in the lyrics of a namesake Armani White song, has a brother named Phineas who co-wrote her song?

(bell dinging) Manuela.

- Ferb.

- Can you repeat that for me?

- Ferb.

- Ferb is incorrect.

I will reread it for you.

What singer, whose name follows big T-shirt in the lyrics of a namesake Armani White song, has a brother named Phineas who co-wrote her song, "Bad Guy"?

Kaylee.

- Billie Eilish.

- Billy Eilish is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, before a 2018 correction, the name of what New York City Bridge was spelled with one Z fewer than of its historical namesake?

- Pizza.

- Piazza.

- Piazza is incorrect.

Centralia, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

The next toss up.

What state is home to Haverford College, was represented in Congress during the Civil War by Thaddeus Stevens, and is governed from Harrisburg?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Pennsylvania.

- Pennsylvania is correct.

Well done.

- Good bus.

- For your bonus, what no longer extant Gran Republic was established under the 1821 Constitution of Cucuta, and contained modern Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela?

- Gran Columbia?

Gran Columbia.

- Gran Columbia is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss up, what country's longtime dictator, who wrote "The Green Book"?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Libya.

- Libya is correct.

Well done.

- Good bus.

- For your bonus, what show that streams on Amazon Prime Video is set in Cousin's Beach, stars Lola Tung as Belly, and is named after a young adult novel by Jenny Han?

- "The Summer I Turned Pretty."

- "The Summer I Turned Pretty" is correct.

Well done, Wyatt.

And that will take us to our lightning round.

(no audio) (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 Centralia, since you guys are trailing this one, you get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are artist's tools, former country names, also in a deck of cards, or F in initials.

- [Student] Wow.

- Artist's tools?

Artist's tools.

- Artist's tools it is.

Name these things used by visual artists.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down, three, two, one.

Flat board for mixing pigments.

(slightly tense music) - Pass.

- [Ethan] Spinning device that pottery can be thrown on.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A sculptural copy made using a mold.

- Plaster.

- That's incorrect.

Cloth put on a studio floor to catch splatter or debris.

- Pass.

- Oven for firing ceramics.

- Kiln.

Good.

- That's correct.

Plain fabric that most oil paintings are made on.

- Canvas.

- [Ethan] Flat metal tool that is hammered to chip away at a sculpture.

- Chisel.

- [Ethan] Fast drying paint, partly made of egg yolk.

- Acrylic.

- That's incorrect.

Impermeable gloss daubed onto finished ceramics.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Dim workspace for developing photographs.

- Red room.

- That's incorrect.

Spinning device that pottery can be thrown on.

- Wheel.

- That's correct.

Flat board for mixing pigments.

(buzzer buzzes) You guys are all out of time.

We will go through the ones you missed.

Flat board for mixing pigments is a pallette.

A sculptural copy made using a mold is a casting.

Cloth put on a studio floor to catch splatter or debris is a drop cloth.

Fast-drying paint made partly of egg yolk is tempera.

Impermeable gloss daubed onto finished ceramics is a glaze.

And a dim workspace for developing photographs is a dark room, a dark room.

All right Mascoutah, it is now your guys' turn.

Your choices are former country names, also in a deck of cards, or F in initials.

- F in initials.

- All right, F in initials.

For what word does the letter F stand for in these abbreviations?

60 seconds on the clock.

I'll count you down, three, two, one.

NFL, a sports league.

- Football.

- UFO, a spaceship.

- Flying.

- FCC, a government agency.

- Federal.

- JFK, the 35th president.

- Fitzgerald.

- [Ethan] SPF, a classification of sunscreen.

(slightly tense music) - Pass.

- FDA, a government agency.

- Food.

- [Ethan] AFV, a class of military equipment.

- Pass.

- FAQ, a list of questions.

- Frequently.

- [Ethan] BFG, a character created by Roald Dahl.

- Friendly.

- [Ethan] RAF, a British military branch.

- Pass.

- Force.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

SPF, a classification of sunscreen.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] AFV, a class of military equipment.

- Frequency.

- That's incorrect.

SPF, a classification of sunscreen.

This is the only one you guys have left.

- Frequency.

- Frequency is incorrect.

All right, you guys are all done.

Going eight for 10, I believe, not too shabby.

We'll go through the two that you missed.

In SPF, a classification of sunscreen, is factor, as in sun protection factor, and AFV, a class of military equipment, is fighting, armored fighting vehicle.

All right, let's take a look at our scores after the lightning round.

We have Centralia with 230 and Mascoutah with 305.

So still a very close game, really anyone's game here.

We'll go back to the toss ups.

What English scientist named the total charge on a mole of electrons, the Law of Electromagnetic Induction, and a cage that blocks?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Faraday.

- Faraday is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what work, in which Leonore disguises herself to save her husband Florestan from prison, is the only opera by Ludwig von Beethoven?

- "Fidelio."

- "Fidelio" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, or for the next question, excuse me.

What company, whose CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress in March, had its platform banned in Montana?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- ByteDance.

- ByteDance is incorrect.

I'll reread the question for you, Centralia.

What company, whose CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress in March, had its platform banned in Montana, and is a social media site owned by ByteDance?

(bell dinging) Carter.

- TikTok.

- TikTok is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what epic poem, whose title character is exiled on the request of Kaikeyi, features the seventh avatar of Vishnu defeating Ravana and rescuing Sita.

- "The Tale of Genji."

- Incorrect.

Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- "Mahabharata."

- Can you repeat that for me?

- "Mahabharata."

- "Mahabharata" is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was "Ramayana," "Ramayana."

That'll take us back to the toss ups.

What first female member of the Royal Statistical Society rose to prominence during the Crimean War, during which (bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Nightingale.

- [Ethan] Florence Nightingale is correct.

Well done.

- Good bus.

- For your bonus, British politician Kwasi Kwarteng was the first Black person to hold what position, which is responsible for the UK's fiscal and monetary policy?

- Treasurer?

- I was about to say.

- Treasurer.

- Treasurer is incorrect.

Centralia, chance to steal.

- Secretary of the Treasury.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(students murmuring) And that'll take us to our last media question.

This character is a well-known (bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Hannah Montana.

- Hannah Montana is correct.

Well done.

Back to our tossups, what actor, who won an Oscar for "King Richard" was subsequently banned from the Academy Awards for 10 years after?

John.

- Will Smith.

- Will Smith is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what French American mathematician is the namesake of a self-similar set, and in 1975 coined the term fractal?

(students whispering) - Fibonacci.

- Fibonacci is incorrect.

Mascoutah, a chance to steal.

- M.C.

Escher.

- Fine.

- M.C.

Escher.

- M.C.

Escher is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Benoit Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot.

(students whispering) Next toss up, what country produced a novel about an outlaw and 108 spirits titled?

(bell dinging) Wyatt - Um, China.

- China is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in what year, on November 11th at 11:00 AM, did the armistice that ended fighting in World War I take effect?

- Year, what year?

(students whispering) - That's World War II.

- 1945.

- That's incorrect.

Centralia, chance to steal.

- 1918.

- 1918 is correct.

Well done.

(students whispering) That'll take us back to our tossups.

What country breached the Mannerheim Line in the Winter War against Finland?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Russia.

- [Ethan] Will we accept Russia?

We need.

- Soviet Union.

- Soviet Union.

Yes, that is correct.

For your bonus, what island was the birthplace of author Seamus Heaney, whose poem "Diggings" describes cutting through soggy peat to plant potatoes?

- Ireland.

- Ireland is correct.

Well done.

Our next toss up, Alex English spent a decade with what NBA team who drafted a Serbian center who won back-to-back MVPs?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Nuggets.

- The Denver Nuggets is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what term describes pairs of substances, such as oil and water, that do not mix to form homogenous solutions?

- Heterogeneous.

Heterogeneous.

- That is incorrect.

Centralia, a chance to steal.

- Insoluble.

- Insoluble is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is immiscible, immiscible.

Your next question, what animals, sometimes called chelonians, have a shell made of bone or cartilage, and include species such as leatherback and?

(bell dinging) Daniel.

- Turtles.

- Turtles is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1843, Daniel M'Naghten tried to assassinate what British Prime Minister whose first name inspired a nickname for British police officers, bobbies?

(buzzer buzzing) It is all outta time.

Centralia, a chance to steal.

- Bobby Breneisen.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Robert Peel, Robert Peel.

For your next question, what man, who lost the rights to his book, "If I Did It," to the Goldman family, is a former football player who was acquitted.

(bell dinging) Chase.

- OJ.

- [Ethan] OJ Simpson is correct.

Well done.

- [Student] Guys, it's fly.

- For your bonus, Tok Pisin is one of over 800 languages spoken on what country whose capital is Port Moresby?

- Papua New Guinea.

- Papua New Guinea is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss up, what Shakespearean comedy depicts Sir John Falstaff's attempts to seduce mistresses Ford and Page, the comedy's titled happily married women?

(bell dinging) John.

- "Much Ado About Nothing."

- That is incorrect.

- Yeah, it is.

(bell dinging) - Wyatt.

- "Merry Wives of Windsor."

- "Merry Wives of Windsor" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, heterodonty, a feature found mostly in mammals, occurs when an organism has multiple types of what anatomical structures?

- Teeth, it's teeth.

Teeth.

- Teeth is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, what man who appointed Alex Padilla to the Senate survived Larry Elder's attempt in a 2021 recall election to replace him as Governor?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Oh, Newsom.

- Gavin Newsom is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Greek God, who was having an affair with Aphrodite when they were caught in a net by her husband, Hephaestus?

- Ares.

- Yeah, we know.

- Ares.

- Ares is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, what material follows lost in the name of a technique for casting bronze statues, and is used to depict celebrities at the museum, Madame Tussauds?

(bell dinging) - Wax.

- Wax is correct.

Well done, Wyatt.

- Which is not possible.

- For your bonus, in the 2023 case Allen v Milligan, the Supreme Court upheld section two of what 1965 law, requiring Alabama to redraw its congressional district map?

- 1965.

(students chuckling) - Civil Rights Act.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Centralia, a chance to steal.

- Gerrymandering Act.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Voting Rights Act.

Question 31, pencil and paper ready.

(students whispering) If the logarithm of X equals two, what is the value of the logarithm of the cube of X, given that X equals 100?

(bell dinging) Kaylee.

- Oh, um.

Eight.

- Eight is incorrect.

(bell dinging) Carter.

- 10.

- 10 is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is six, six.

- [Kaylee] Oh, I meant to do two times three.

- For the next toss up, what four letter name of the protagonist of "The Call of the Wild," is?

(bell dinging) Wyatt.

- Jack.

- Can you say that again?

- Jack.

- Jack is incorrect.

I'll reread it for you.

What four letter name of the protagonist of "The Call of the Wild" is also a word for an adult antelope or deer, as well as a slang for a dollar?

(bell dinging) Carter.

- Buck.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what South American country lost almost 70% of its population in the War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay?

- Paraguay, I'm sure.

(students whispering) (buzzer buzzing) - [Ethan] Oh, sorry, you guys are all outta time.

Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- Paraguay.

- Paraguay is correct.

So that's it for tonight's show.

For all of our lovely contestants here today, and the people working hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much and goodnight.

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