(pleasant music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

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

On the bottom, we have Mascoutah with Dan, Chase, Kaylee, and Wyatt, and up the top, we have Johnston City with Ava, Chase, Gavin, and Max.

Now, before we get into our 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 be right.

All right, everybody's ready to go.

Let's get into the questions.

What play in which Tom claims that I am the opposite of a stage magician centers on Laura Wingfield and is titled, Ava?

- "The Glass Menagerie."

- "Glass Menagerie" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 16th century Greek ship pilot is best known by a Hispanicized name that is shared with the strait between Vancouver Island and Washington state?

- Puget?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect, Mascoutah's chance to steal.

- Mackenzie?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Juan de Fuca, Juan de Fuca.

Next question, what series of chemical elements fill the 4F electron subshell, have atomic numbers from, Kaylee?

- Lanthanides and actinides?

- Lanthanides is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the barrier to a chemical reaction is what minimum amount of energy that must be added to a reaction for it to proceed?

- Activation energy?

- Activation energy is correct, well done.

Your next toss-up, the Bugatti Veyron is a car named for a driver from what country that is the headquarters of car brands like Citron, Renault, and Pugeot?

- France.

- France is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 1989 novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro depicts Stevens, a butler who represses his feelings for housekeeper, Miss Kenton?

- "The Remains of the Day."

- "The Remains of the Day" is correct, well done.

Your next toss-up, what 2023 album whose title is spelled out by letter rings on its cover includes the singles "Bad Idea, Right?"

and, Wyatt?

- "GUTS."

- "GUTS" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, female participants in what 1920s subculture used heavy makeup, wore bobbed hair, and danced the Charleston to jazz music?

- Flappers.

- Flappers is correct, well done.

Next toss-up, what organelle found in animals consists of flattened discs called cisternae?

(bell dings) - Golgi body?

- Golgi is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what city whose Zimmerman house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is the most populous city in New Hampshire?

(indistinct whispering) - Concord?

- That's incorrect, Johnston City's chance to steal.

(indistinct whispering) (tone beeping) Answer we're looking for is Manchester, Manchester.

Next toss-up, what kind of military technology includes a group of modified for D-Day called Hobart Funnies and the Soviet T-34, US M-4 Sherman, and German Panzer?

(bell dings) - Tank.

- Tank is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what ring-like muscles surround the opening of bodily passages such as the pyloric, one controlling the passage of food to the small intestine?

(indistinct whispering) - The sphincter?

- Yes.

- Sphincter?

- Sphincter is correct, well done.

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

This app is a social, Wyatt?

- [Wyatt] Twitter.

- Twitter is correct, well done.

And since that was a media question, there is no bonus question, so we'll just take it back to our toss-ups.

What American artist depicted two women in a restaurant in his painting "Chop Suey," Wyatt?

- Hopper.

- Edward Hopper is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Jules Massenet opera "Werther" is based on a work by what author of "Elective Affinities," a German member of Sturm und Drang movement?

- What were they asking for?

- Author.

- German author, you know a German author?

- Goethe.

- Goethe is correct.

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

What theory gives rise to the so-called Twin Paradox, predicts length, contraction, and time dilation, Wyatt?

- Special relativity?

- Special relativity is correct.

For your bonus, low residual income from streaming services helped lead what union that represents film and TV workers to go on strike along with SAG-AFTRA in 2023?

- WGA.

- [Ethan] WGA is correct, well done.

- You're a genius, you're a genius.

- Next toss-up, what 2022 film includes the characters Lemon and Tangerine, and stars Brad Pitt as Ladybug, an assassin battling killers on a high speed railway?

(bell dings) Wyatt?

- "Bullet Train."

- "Bullet Train" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the disease Gaffkemia affects what animal whose American species found on North America's eastern shores is the heaviest living crustacean?

(indistinct whispering) - Lobster?

- [Ethan] Lobster is correct, well done.

- You are such a genius, Kaylee.

- Your next toss-up, what country which is home to a massive basin called Bolson de Mapimi includes states such as Queretaro, and the cities of Puebla and Tijuana?

(bell dings) Wyatt?

- Mexico.

- [Ethan] Mexico is correct.

For your bonus, in music, what effect sometimes denoted by a vertical wavy line occurs when the notes of a chord are sounded one at a time from bottom to top?

- Clescendo?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect, Johnston City chance to steal.

(indistinct whispering) - Separation?

- That's incorrect.

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

(indistinct whispering) - Next toss-up, what vessel which is depicted in the poem, "The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy was captained by Edward Smith, Wyatt?

(bell dings) - Old Ironsides.

- Old Ironsides is incorrect.

I will read the question for you, Johnston City.

What vessel which is depicted in the poem, "The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy was captained by Edward Smith when it hit an iceberg in 1912?

(bell dings) Gavin?

- Titanic?

- The Titanic is correct.

For your bonus, a mountain formerly known as Communism Peak is the highest point of what landlocked central Asian country whose capital is Dushanbe?

(indistinct whispering) - Mongolia?

- [Ethan] Mongolia is incorrect, Mascoutah, a chance to steal - Tajikistan.

- [Ethan] Tajikistan is correct.

- Sorry, Chase.

- Your next toss-up, what mechanic who belongs to the Junior Anti-Sex League has an affair with Winston and is captured by the Thought Police in George Orwell's novel "1984"?

(bell dings) Wyatt?

- Julia?

- Julia is correct, well done.

For your bonus, which emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019 was the son of Hirohito and the father of current Japanese emperor Naruhito?

- Firohito?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect, Johnston City, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer I was looking for there was Akihito, Akihito.

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

The titular- - [Player] "Uncle Grandpa"?

- "Uncle Grandpa."

(indistinct) Back to our to toss- ups, what piece in which a bassoon represents the grandfather is, Wyatt?

- "Peter and the Wolf"?

- "Peter and the Wolf" is correct.

For your bonus, what author of "Elmer Gantry" declined a 1926 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Arrowsmith" which depicts a doctor trying to cure a plague?

(indistinct whispering) - Lewis?

- Sinclair Lewis is correct, well done.

For your next toss-up, what type of radiation whose scattering was used to deduce Bragg's law was used by Rosalind Franklin to study DNA in a named state, Kaylee?

- X-ray diffraction?

- X-ray is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what function of X has an output of X when X is positive or zero, and the opposite of X when X is negative?

- Is it absolute value?

- I have no idea, I'm not smart.

- Absolute value.

- Absolute value is correct, well done.

For the next toss-up, what city, which was defended by the Aurelian Walls did King Alaric the Visigoth sack in AD 405, Max?

- Rome?

- Rome is correct.

For your bonus, what word which names NASA's second human space flight program, and the constellation whose brightest star is Pollux is Latin for twins?

- Gemini.

- Gemini is correct, well done, Ava.

For your next toss-up, what country that is home to the Court of Justice of the European Union is a grand duchy, Max?

- Lichtenstein?

- [Ethan] Lichtenstein is incorrect.

I'll review the question for you, Mascoutah.

What country that is home to the Court of Justice of the European Union is a grand duchy, and is a small country that comprises the elux in Benelux?

(bell dings) - Luxembourg?

- Luxembourg is correct.

For your bonus, the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt told Congress that the attack was a date which will live in what condition?

- Infamy.

- Infamy is correct.

For the next toss-up, what title character who kills Don Issachar to rescue Cunegonde is a student of the optimistic Dr. Pangloss, Ava?

- Candide.

- Candide is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what South African city where Mahatma Gandhi arrived in 1897 is on its east coast, and is the most populous city that is not one of its capitals?

(indistinct whispering) (tone beeps) You guys are out of time, Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- Cape Town.

- Cape Town is incorrect.

Answer we were looking for was Durban, Durban.

- On your next toss-up, what physicist whose namesake rings are created by reflection and are discussed in his 1704 book, "Optics" also names the three laws of motion, Ava?

- Newton?

- Isaac Newton is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in what Henrik Ibsen play does Oswald Alving learn dark family secrets, and beg his mother for an overdose of morphine while dying from syphilis?

- "Ghosts"?

- "Ghosts" is correct, well done.

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

This song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, and spent 11, Chase?

- "Sweater Weather"?

- "Sweater Weather" is correct, well done.

Back to our toss-ups, what president whose commitment to westward expansion inspired the phrase 54?

- Polk.

- James Polk is correct.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready, in how many seconds will elevator traveling at four feet per second ascend nine floors if there are 12 feet between floors?

- Oh, 27.

- You sure?

- 27.

- 27 seconds is correct.

- Good one, Kaylee.

- 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, Johnston City, since you guys are trailing in this one, you get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are D in poetry, world heritage sites, mobile games, or 2024 presidential election.

(indistinct whispering) - Mobile games.

- Yay, the fun one, all right.

(chuckles) Name these mobile games.

60 seconds on the clock, I will count you down, 3, 2, 1.

Nintendo monster-catching franchise with a mobile go game.

- Pokemon.

- [Ethan] Match 3 puzzle saga about confections.

- Candy Crush.

- [Ethan] Rovio game series about launching animals with slingshots.

- Angry Birds.

- [Ethan] Robtop rhythm based platformer starring a square.

- Geometry Dash.

- [Ethan] Halfbrick game about slicing oranges and plums.

- Fruit Ninja.

- [Ethan] RPG set in Taleria, which sponsors many Twitch streamers.

- Raid: Shadow Legends.

- [Ethan] Danish endless runners set on a railroad track.

- Subway Surfers.

- [Ethan] Series in which Barry Steakfries steals a portable flying device.

- Jetpack Joyride.

- [Ethan] Blizzard demon killing franchise with an Immortal game.

(bright music) - Diablo.

- [Ethan] Hitpoint game in which players attract cats to their yard, (bright music continues) and that's the last one you have left.

(bright music continues) - Talking Town.

- All out of time.

The answer we were looking for that one was Neko Atsume or just Kitty Collector, pretty basic, believe it or not.

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

Your choices are 2024 presidential election, D in poetry, or world heritage sites.

- D in poetry.

- D in poetry it is.

Given a poet and a line from one of their poems, give the word beginning with D that fills in the blank.

60 seconds on the clock, I will count you down, 3, 2, 1.

Allen Ginsburg, I saw the best minds of my generation blank.

- Destroyed.

- [Ethan] Edgar Allen Poe, once upon a midnight blank.

- Dreary.

- [Ethan] Langston Hughes, what happened to a blank.

- Dream.

- [Ethan] Dylan Thomas, rage, rage against- - The dying.

(bright music continues) - [Ethan] Percy Bysshe Shelley, look on my works, ye mighty and blank.

- Despair?

- [Ethan] Robert Frost, two roads blank- - Diverged.

- [Ethan] Walt Whitman, when lilacs last in the blank blue.

- Door yard.

- [Ethan] John Milton, no light but rather blank visible.

(bright music continues) - Dark, miss.

(bright music continues) - [Ethan] William Carlos Williams, forgive me/they were blank, yeah, they were blank.

(bright music continues) - Dead.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

John Keats, my heart aches, and a blank numbness pains.

- Dull?

- Sure.

- Dull?

- That's incorrect, and that is all of them.

We'll go through the two that you missed.

William Carlos Williams, forgive me, they were blank is delicious.

And John Keats, my heart aches and a blank numbness pains is drowsy, drowsy.

And that concludes our lightning round, so let's take a look at our scores afterwards.

We have Johnston City with 225, to Mascoutah's 445, so Johnston City's behind with still plenty of time to catch up in the back half.

Now let's get back to our toss-ups.

What California Republican who negotiated the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 to raise the debt ceiling- - Gavin Newsom.

- [Ethan] Gavin Newsom is incorrect.

I'll reread it for you, Mascoutah.

What California Republican who negotiated the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 to raise the debt ceiling was deposed as Speaker of the House?

(bell dings) Wyatt?

- McCarthy?

- Kevin McCarthy is correct.

For your bonus, what left wing revolutionary party overthrew the Samosa family in 1979 and subsequently governed Nicaragua until 1990, and again since 2007?

(indistinct whispering) (tone beeping) Since you're all out of time, Johnston City, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer we were looking for there was Sardinista, Sardinista.

- [Player] Oh, that makes sense.

- Your next toss-up, what country whose capital lies on the Absheron Peninsula disputes Nagorno-Karabakh with neighboring Armenia and is governed from Baku, Wyatt?

- Azerbaijan.

- Azerbaijan is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in 1893, Henry Ossawa Tanner painted an elderly African American man teaching a young boy to play what stringed instrument?

(indistinct whispering) - Guitar?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect, Johnston City, chance to steal.

- Violin?

- Also incorrect.

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

(indistinct whispering) The next toss-up, what cosmic entities such as Sagittarius A, Wyatt?

- Constellations.

- That's incorrect.

I'll read it for you, Johnston City.

What cosmic entities such as Sagittarius A star, which is at the center of the Milky Way, have such strong gravitational force that they trap light?

(bell dings) Eva?

- Black hole.

- Black hole is correct, well done.

- [Wyatt] Sorry, guys.

- For your bonus, what British author wrote about the corruption of post-war Vienna in "The Third Man," and depicted a Catholic whiskey priest in "The Power and the Glory"?

- Greene.

- [Ethan] Greene is correct, well done.

- Nice.

- Next question, what objects whose flat woven types include the kilim are made of wool and include Oriental and Persian varieties with intricate- - Rugs, rugs?

- Will we accept rugs?

I believe we will, yes, that is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what person claimed one is not born but rather becomes a woman in her 1949 book "The Second Sex"?

- Beauvoir?

- Simone de Beauvoir is correct, well done.

The next toss-up, what U.S. coin which shares its name with a dreadful genre of lurid stories depicts the Union shield opposite, Kaylee?

- Penny.

- [Ethan] Penny is correct.

- [Wyatt] Good, Kaylee.

- For your bonus, in the U.S., the most watched scripted television episode of all time is the 1983 series finale of what sitcom about doctors during the Korean War?

(indistinct whispering) - "Mash."

- "Mash" is correct, well done.

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

This video game is the most recent of its series and was- - [Max] Skyrim?

- [Ethan] Can you repeat that for me?

- Skyrim.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

I'll reread it for you, Mascoutah.

This video game is the most recent of its series and was released in 2023.

The original game was released back in 1998, and is based off the classic RPG series Dungeons and Dragons.

Name this game.

(dramatic orchestral music playing) And I think Gavin might know it, by the way.

He's leaning back at his chair.

(bell dings) Wyatt?

(dramatic orchestral music playing) - Monster Hunter?

- That is incorrect.

Gavin, what is it?

- [Gavin] Zelda, Legend of Zelda.

- No, it's actually Baldur's Gate 3.

- [Max] Really?

- Baldur's Gate 3.

- [Max] Man, I really need to listen to that theme again.

- Yeah, you also need to play that game.

Baldur's Gate 3, it's spectacular, it's so good.

All right, that'll take us back to our toss-ups.

What 15th century resident of Mainz used a loan from Johann Fust to issue a 42 line Bible after inventing the metallic movable type printing press.

(bell dings) Wyatt?

- Gutenberg?

- Johannes Gutenberg is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what author created Detective Sam Spade who appears in his novel "The Maltese Falcon"?

(indistinct whispering) - Hammett.

- Dashiell Hammett is correct, well done.

Your next toss-up, pencil and paper ready, answers must be given as a percentage.

What percentage of a class wears glasses if nine out of 30 students wear glasses?

(bell dings) Chase?

- 30%.

- 30% is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Hector was a son of what man who was king of Troy during the Trojan War?

- [Ava] Priam.

- Priam is correct.

Your next toss-up, what title character who could climb lamps at one week old by shimmying up the cord appears in a novel by E.B.

White, and has the body of a, Wyatt?

- Charlotte?

- That is incorrect, for you Johnston City.

What title character who could climb lamps at one week old by shimmying up the cord appears in a novel by E.B.

White and has the body of a mouse?

(bell dings) Ava?

- Stuart Little.

- Stuart Little is correct, well done.

For your bonus, undersea earthquakes can trigger what destructive phenomena with very long wavelengths which reach large heights in shallower waters?

- [Ava] Tsunami?

- Tsunami is correct, well done.

Your next toss-up, what merchant served as the first governor of the state of Massachusetts, and signed the Declaration of Independence with a massive signature, Wyatt?

- Hancock.

- John Hancock is correct.

- For your bonus, what most populous island of Denmark is home to most of the capital of Copenhagen?

(indistinct whispering) - Sure you don't know?

- I'm sure.

- Jutland?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect, Johnston City, chance to steal.

- Zealand, that's what I'd say.

Zealand?

- Zealand is correct, well done.

Your next question, in 2023, what chain whose major franchisee Meridian closed began a Reclaim the Flame plan after falling behind Wendy's as number two in hamburger sales?

(bell dings) Kaylee?

- McDonald's.

- [Ethan] McDonald's is incorrect.

(bell dings) Max?

- [Max] Burger King?

- Surprisingly, it is Burger King.

I just don't remember the last time I've been to a Burger King, so well done.

For your bonus, what city that was the birthplace of Heroditus is in a present day Turkey, and was the site of a 45 meter tall tomb known as the mausoleum?

(indistinct whispering) (tone beeps) - Haricarnassus.

- That's all at the time, Mascoutah, chance to steal.

- What do you think it is?

You don't have a guess?

You're telling me you don't have a guess?

- Istanbul.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Halicarnassus, Halicarnassus.

Your next toss-up, what mineral made of magnesium silicate hydrate is the main constituent of soapstone, has a Mohs hardness of one, and is ground up to make, Kaylee?

- Talc.

- [Ethan] Talc is correct, well done.

- [Wyatt] Kaylee, gosh, you're a genius.

- For your bonus, what Russian scientist, the namesake of element 101, predicted the properties of gallium, which he called eka-aluminum.

- Oh my gosh.

(indistinct whispering) - Yeah.

Mendeleev?

- Mendeleev is correct, well done.

On your next toss-up, what Greek goddess who transformed Arachne into a spider, Chase?

- Artemis.

- Artemis is incorrect.

I'll reread it for you, Johnston City.

What Greek goddess who transformed Arachne into a spider was born fully armored from Zeus's head, and is the goddess of war and wisdom, Ava?

- Athena.

- Athena is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in 2022, Ryan North started writing comic books featuring what group of Marvel comic heroes whose headquarters is the Baxter Building?

- [Player] "Fantastic Four."

- "Fantastic Four" is correct, well done.

For your next question, the Main Plot tried to overthrow which king who was also targeted by Robert Katsby in the Gunpowder Plot after he succeeded Elizabeth, Max?

- James I.

- James I of England is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in September 2023, what country returned AWOL U.S. soldier and attempted defector Travis King to U.S. custody?

- [Player] North Korea.

- North Korea is correct, well done.

Your next toss-up, what student of psychologist Ivan Sechenov was Russia's first Nobel Laureate and studied classical conditioning by, Wyatt?

- Pavlov?

- Ivan Pavlov is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what 10-letter adjective describes physical processes in which the temperature of a system remains constant?

(indistinct) - [Ethan] That's incorrect, Johnston City, chance to steal.

(indistinct whispering) - Equilibrium.

- That's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was isothermal, isothermal.

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

We have Mascoutah on top, 585, over Johnston City's 420, so well done, Mascoutah, you guys are moving on.

Now that is all the time we have for on today'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 good night.

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