(gentle music) (shutter clicks) (gentle music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q", the show where whoever names more NHL teams wins, and that's how we decide the winner.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have a great show in store for you tonight.

So let's go ahead and introduce our teams.

On the bottom, we have Mount Vernon with Alex, Kiro, Macie and Ian.

And up top we have Granite City with Andrew, Myla, Emma, and Ben.

Now 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 a question wrong, it is five points for the other team.

So just get the questions right, right?

So everybody's ready?

Let's get into the questions.

What drug originally derived from willow bark has acetylsalicylic acid as its active ingredient and is used to lower heart attack risk and treat pain?

(button chimes) Kiro.

- Acetaminophen?

- That's incorrect.

(timer buzzes) The answer we're looking for was aspirin, which I forget if acetaminophen is the- - No, that's Tylenol.

- That's Tylenol?

Okay.

Aspirin was the answer we were looking for.

For your next question, what native of the town of Domremy had vision of angels inspiring her to relieve the Siege of Orleans on behalf of France in the a Hundred- (button chimes) Myla.

- Joan of Arc.

- Joan of Arc is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 18th century British author of the pituresque novel "Joseph Andrews" also wrote the adventures of a foundling in the novel "Tom Jones"?

(team whispering) - No answer.

- [Ethan] Mount Vernon, chance to steal.

- Mark Twain.

- That's incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Henry Fielding.

Henry Fielding.

For your next question, what novel, which was written on a 120 foot long scroll of paper includes such characters as Carlo Marx and Sal Paradise and is by Jack Kerouac?

(timer buzzes) So we're all out of time.

The answer we were looking for is "On the Road."

"On the Road."

For your next question, what city contains the square of miracles, lies near the mouth of the Arno River and has an unstable campanile known as its namesake leaning tower?

(button chimes) Ben?

- Pisa?

- Pisa is correct, well done.

For your bonus, hoarding is one possible outcome of Gresham's law, which says that bad forms of what stuff will drive out good forms of it?

- Cholesterol?

- Cholesterol?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Mount Vernon, chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Problems?

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was money.

Money.

- Mm.

- Your next question.

What 1937 musical work which said dozens of texts by goliard monks in German and Latin begins and ends with "O Fortuna", and is a cantata by Carl Orloff?

(timer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

The answer we were looking for was Carmina Burana.

Carmina Burana.

For your next toss-up, in what battle which Marcus Reno was criticized for not entering did forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat and kill George Custer?

(button chimes) Alex?

- Battle of Bull Run?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

(button chimes) Ben?

- Little Bighorn?

- [Ethan] Battle of Little Bighorn is correct.

Well done, Ben.

- I can never remember- - And that'll take us to our first media question.

This American composer, singer, and actress are renowned for her ability to transform herself visually and musically.

The Fame, her debut studio album, and its number one singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" propelled- (button chimes) Kiro.

- [Kiro] Lady Gaga?

- Lady Gaga is correct, well done.

And I actually did skip over that bonus question, so we will have to take it back to the bonus for you.

What term refers to both hallucinogenic drink in the Vedic tradition and a powerful drug that induces happiness in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"?

(team whispering) - Dopamine.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Heroin?

- That's also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Soma.

Soma.

For your next toss-up, what thinker introduced postulates of practical reason in a book expanding on his categorical imperative after writing the critique of pure reason?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Aristotle?

- That is incorrect.

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

The answer we're looking for was Immanuel Kant.

Immanuel Kant.

That'll take us to our next toss-up.

The Rosetta probe landed on what type of icy body which has a coma around a nucleus, and if it reaches the inner solar system may grow a gas tail?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Comet?

- Comet is correct, well done.

For your bonus, complex numbers are often expressed in the form of a+bi, where i squared equals what number?

- [Alex] Negative one.

- Negative one's correct, well done.

For your next question, what country which Babrak Karmal was put in power by the Soviet Union elected Hamid Karzai president after a long period of rule by the Taliban?

(button chimes) Ben?

- Afghanistan?

- Afghanistan is correct.

For your bonus, Sean O'Brien is the president of what Labor Union that in summer 2023 held contract negotiations with UPS over working conditions for drivers?

(team whispering) (paper rustling) - GMC.

- That is incorrect.

- Truck driver union.

(timer buzzes) - That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was the Teamsters Union.

The Teamsters Union.

For your next toss-up, in what country did Bucaramanga mayor Rodolfo Hernandez Suarez lose a 2022 election to former M19 guerilla Gustavo Petro who governs from a pagoda?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Cuba?

- That's incorrect.

(timer buzzes) So we're all out of time.

The the answer we were looking for was Columbia.

Columbia.

For our next toss-up, what scientist names the elastic scattering due to a Coulomb potential and names an experiment in which the nucleus was discovered using gold foil?

(button chimes) Myla?

- Rutherford?

- [Ethan] Ernest Rutherford is correct, well done.

- Good job.

- Thank you.

- For your bonus, what word follows specific in the name of a quantity also called relative density that equals a substance's density divided by the density of water?

(team whispering) - Specific mass.

- That's incorrect.

Mount Vernon, chance to steal.

- Specific temperature.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was gravity, as in specific gravity.

For your next toss-up, what province contains Jasper and Banff National Parks, is one of Canada's major oil producers, and includes the cities of Calgary and Edmonton?

It's the Texas of Canada.

(button chimes) Myla.

- Quebec.

- [Ethan] Quebec is incorrect.

(button chimes) Alex?

- Alberta?

- Alberta is correct, well done.

For your bonus, female performers of what instrument include Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, Alice Sara Ott, and Mitsuko Uchida?

- Violin?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Piano?

- [Ethan] Piano is correct, well done.

- Good job.

- Good job.

- And that'll take us to our next bonus question.

The Jonas Brothers made a return in 2023 with their sixth studio album featuring this song that shares a title with restaurants across the country.

Name this song.

(upbeat music) ♪ We never knew how to perfect ♪ ♪ But we always knew it would work ♪ ♪ 'Cause if somethin' misread ♪ ♪ Or if somethin' got said ♪ ♪ Know before the night ends ♪ (button chimes) - [Ethan] Alex?

- "Diners".

- "Diners" is incorrect.

♪ Don't get stressed ♪ ♪ It's gon' get figured out ♪ ♪ Oh, deep conversation at the Waffle House ♪ (timer buzzes) - Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

The answer was a diner.

It's "Waffle House".

"Waffle House."

That'll take us back to our toss-ups.

What novel in which Fredrich Muller's death from a stomach wound is witnessed by Paul Baumer, was written about World War I by Erich Maria Remarque?

(button chimes) Ben?

- "All Quiet on the Western Front"?

- That is correct, well done.

- Good job, good job.

- For your bonus, what city known as the Paris of the prairies is the most populous city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan?

A lot of Canada questions tonight.

It's a great show.

(team whispering) - Toronto.

- [Ethan] Toronto is in Ontario and incorrect.

- Quebec City.

- Quebec City, believe it or not, in Quebec, and not the answer we're looking for.

The answer we're looking for was Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which frankly barely sounds like a real town name.

- [Alex] It sounds like a made up one.

- That'll take us to our next toss-up.

The sesamoid, or free-floating type of what general structures in the human body includes the pisiform, hyoid and patella as examples?

(button chiming) Kiro.

- Bones?

- Bones is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Manaus in Brazil exploded in growth in the 1880s during a boom for what commodity, which was the focus of Henry Ford's failed company town Fordlandia?

- Oil?

- That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Rubber?

- Rubber is correct.

Well done.

- Good job.

- Good job.

- For your next question, in what country which nearly collapsed during the Rampjaar Disasters of 1672, did the Orangist factions support princely leaders called Stadtholders?

(pencil thuds) (contestant sighs) (timer buzzes) The answer we're looking for there was the Netherlands.

The Netherlands.

And that'll take us to our lightning round.

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

Now Mount Vernon, since you guys are trailing in this one, you get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are moons, artistic times of day, Texas locations and five.

(team whispering) - Five.

- Five it is.

Answer the following about the number five.

Sounds like a "Sesame Street" question, right?

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Home country of The Mighty Five composers.

(pensive music) - Austria?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Element with an atomic number five and symbol B?

- Barium?

Or- - That's incorrect.

Objects that number five in the "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

- Rings?

- Golden rings.

- [Ethan] Religion whose five pillars include the Hajj, or Pilgrimage.

(pensive music) - Muslim?

- That is correct.

Line of poetry with five feet.

- Sonnet?

- That's incorrect.

Figure who suffered the five holy wounds.

- Pass.

- A William Carlos Williams poem reads, "I saw the figure five in this color."

(pensive music) - Pass.

- [Ethan] Soviet leader who launched first five year plan in 1928.

(pensive music) - Stalin?

- [Ethan] Platonic solid with pentagons for faces.

(timer buzzes) So you guys are all out of time, so we'll go through the ones you miss.

The home of The Mighty Five composers was not Austria but Russia.

- Hm.

- The element with an atomic number five and symbol B was Boron.

The line of poetry with five feet is a pentameter, or pentameter.

The figure who suffered the five holy wounds was Jesus Christ.

A William Carlos Williams poem reads, "I saw the figure in five," or "Five in this color" was gold.

The Platonic solid with pentagons for faces was a dodecahedron, and a psychiatrist who described the five stages of grief was Elizabeth Kubler Ross.

All right, Granite City, it is now your guys' turn.

Your choices are moons, artistic times of day, or Texas locations.

- Texas locations please.

- All right.

Name these cities in Texas.

60 seconds on the clock, I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Home of the Riverwalk in Alamo.

(pensive music) - El Paso?

- That's incorrect.

Contains Dealey Plaza where John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

- Houston.

- That's incorrect.

Its capital.

- Houston.

- That's incorrect.

- Oh my God.

- Its most populous city.

- (laughs) Houston.

- That is correct.

(group laughing) Shares its name with the Spanish word for yellow.

- Amarillo.

Say it.

- Amarillo.

- Gulf Coast city devastated by a 1900 hurricane.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] City with a Spanish name across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez.

- El Paso?

- [Ethan] A home of Baylor University that is near the site of a 1993 FBI Siege.

- Waco?

- [Ethan] Southernmost city which is near the mouth of the Rio Grande.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Site of Globe Life Field where the Texas Rangers play.

- Arlington.

- [Ethan] Gulf Coast city devastated by a- (timer buzzing) You guys are all out of time.

We'll go through the ones that you missed.

The home of the Riverwalk in Alamo was San Antonio.

Contains Dealey Plaza where JFK was assassinated is Dallas.

Its capital is Austin.

The Gulf Coast city devastated by a 1900 hurricane is Galveston.

- Oh!

- A city with Spanish name across from the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez is El Paso.

Oh, you guys, never mind, you guys got that one right.

The southernmost city which is near the mouth of the Rio Grande is Brownsville, and that is it for the ones you guys missed, I believe, so let's take a look at our scores after the lightning round.

We have Granite City on top, 130 to Mount Vernon's 90.

So very close game still.

Still plenty of time for Mount Vernon to catch up in the second half.

Let's take it back to our toss-ups.

What game series whose sixth numbered entry released in 2023 and centers on Luke Sullian is made by Capcom and stars martial artists Ken and Ryu?

(button chimes) Ian?

- "Street Fighter."

- "Street Fighter" is correct.

For your bonus, Aldebaran is the most luminous star in what constellation whose name comes from the Latin for bowl?

- Taurus.

- Taurus is correct, well done.

For your next toss-up, what mathematician showed that for convex polyhedra vertices plus faces minus edges equals two, and is the namesake for a number equal to about 2.72e.

(contestant exhales) (button chimes) Alex?

- Pythagoras?

- Is incorrect.

- Oh.

- (indistinct).

- Oh, Emma?

Can you repeat that for me?

- Euler?

- [Ethan] Can you repeat that for me?

Sorry.

- Euler?

- Oiler?

That is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was Leonhard Euler.

Euler.

- That's the same.

- Yeah.

- Hold on, if you?

- That's right.

- Okay.

- Hmm?

- And we'll take that to our bonus question.

- Okay.

(laughs) - What man directed the 2018 post-apocalyptic movie "A Quiet Place", a film in which he co-starred with his wife Emily Blunt?

(team whispering) - John Krasinski?

- John Krasinski is correct.

Well done.

(team whispering) For your next toss-up, what exchange which lends its name to a composite index that focuses on tech firms is commonly listed alongside the S&P and Dow Jones?

(button chimes) Ben?

- The Nasdaq?

- Nasdaq is correct.

For your bonus, the background of Grant Woods' Daughters of Revolution depicts a version of what painting of a historical scene by Emanuel Leutze?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] Mount Vernon, chance to steal.

- The Scream?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Washington Crossing the Delaware.

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

Shigeru- (button chimes) Alex?

- Mario.

- Mario is correct.

(team laughing) Chris Pratt picture.

Ugh, that's the worst picture.

And that'll take us back to our toss-ups.

What company who's a local People Meters expanded data collection beyond sweeps periods publishes namesake ratings measuring viewership of TV shows?

(button chimes) Alex.

- Broadcasting?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

(button chimes) Ben.

- IMDB?

- IMDB is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Nielsen Media Research.

- I thought that was a bonus again.

- Next question.

What project at whose completion Leland Stanford drove a ceremonial golden spike into the ground in 1869, connected both coasts with a train line?

Ben, go ahead.

(button chimes) - [Ben] Oh, the Transcontinental Railroad?

- Transcontinental is correct.

- Yeah, I didn't know if that was a bonus or not 'cause all the lights came on.

- Yeah, all the lights came on.

I think that was just an error on our part.

- [Ben] Okay.

- For your bonus, what short story by Edward Everett Hale is about an an Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan who renounces the United States?

(team whispering) - "The Traitor".

- That is incorrect.

Mount Vernon, chance to steal.

(team whispering) (timer buzzes) So you're out of time.

The answer you're looking for was "A Man Without a Country."

"A Man Without a Country."

For your next toss-up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the pH of an acidic solution that has a pOH of 10 given that the sum of a solution's pH and pOH at STP equals 14?

(button chimes) Macie.

- Four?

- Four is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the world's largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni is found in what landlocked South American country?

(team whispering) - Peru?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

(team whispering) - No answer.

- Answer we were looking for there was Bolivia.

Bolivia.

For your next toss-up, which biblical king of Israel was the father of Rehoboam, was tested with hard questions by the queen of Sheba and was renowned for his wisdom?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Solomon.

- Solomon is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Gulf of California is also called the sea of what 16th century explorer, who is the first governor of New Spain?

- Columbus?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Juan Pierre.

- That's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is Hernan Cortes.

Hernan Cortes.

For your next toss-up.

What things whose cryptic types feature half turn rotational symmetry are created by people like Will Shortz and are word puzzles in a grid?

(button chimes) Ian?

- [Ian] Crossword?

- Crossword is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what alkaline metal has a well-studied oscillization used to keep time in atomic clocks?

- [Alex] Mercury?

- Mercury?

- That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Just say that one.

- Cadmium?

- That is incorrect, the answer we were looking for was Cesium.

Cesium.

- Cesium.

I knew it was a C. (team chuckles) - For our next toss-up, what event whose participants disguised as Mohawks resulted in the Coercive Acts and involved people dumping a certain beverage- (button chimes) Ian?

- Boston Tea Party.

- Boston Tea Party is correct.

(button chimes) For your bonus, what state founded by Sargon in the 24th century BC and greatly expanded by Sargon's grandson Naram-Sin is often called the world's first empire?

- Mesopotamia?

- That's incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Persian?

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is the Akkadian Empire.

- Akkadian.

- Akkadian.

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

(button chimes) You don't even wanna let me talk.

Wow, all right.

(laughs) Alex?

- DoorDash.

- DoorDash is the answer we're looking for, correct.

(team laughing) Onto our next toss-up.

What former theater critic for the Daily Punctilio dedicates books such as "The Reptile Room" to Beatrice Baudelaire in "A Series of Unfortunate Events"?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Lemony Snicket?

- Lemony Snicket is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in what Northeastern state did Chris Sununu announce that he would not seek a fifth two-year term as governor in July, 2023?

- I don't know, Maine?

- Okay.

Maine?

- That's incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Connecticut?

- That's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was New Hampshire.

New Hampshire.

(team whispering) Next toss-up, what viral disease whose onset usually features Koplik's spots in the mouth is also called rubellia and is the first M named in the MMR vaccine?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Measles?

- Measles is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 19th century American author wrote the novel "Ragged Dick", which exemplifies his rags to riches narratives?

(team whispering) - Mark Twain?

- That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Dickens.

- Incorrect, the answer we're looking for was Horatio Alger.

Horatio Alger.

For your next toss-up, what President whose backers used the slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, gave the longest inaugural address and died in 1840 after 31 days into office?

(button chimes) Ian?

- Harrison?

- [Ethan] We need more than just Harrison.

- William Henry Harrison?

- That is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Spanish explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513, becoming the first European to see the Pacific from the New World?

(team whispering) - Cortez?

- That's incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

(team whispering) - Columbus.

- That's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

(bell rings) And that bell means we are all out of time for 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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