(light upbeat music) (camera beeping) (moves upbeat music) - Welcome to the season finale of the 32nd season of "Scholastic Hi-Q", the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host Ethan Neir and we have two great teams with you tonight to decide who will get the title for the 32nd season.

So, let's go ahead and introduce them.

On the bottom we have Carbondale with Ryan, Clark, Danial, and Theodor.

And up top we have O'Fallon with Garrett, Bela, Zachary, and Kaden.

Now before we get into our 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 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 the time.

If everybody's ready, let's get into the championship.

What material, a type of thermoplastic polymead, was used in parachutes in World War II and has largely replaced silk for use in pantyhose?

(buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- Nylon.

- Nylon is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Marriage of the Sea Ceremony was carried out in what city where the blind Enrico Dandolo was a Doge?

(team chattering) - [Ryan] Venice.

Venice?

- Venice is correct, well done.

Your next tossup, in what novel does Roger Chillingworth suspect-- (buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- "The Scarlet Letter".

- "Scarlet Letter" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

How many unique meals can be made from three appetizers, seven entrees, and eight desserts if they must have exactly one of each?

(team chattering) - 168 (indistinct).

- 168.

- 168 is correct, well done.

Next question, what type of animal, nicknamed NBA player Dennis Rodman, a type of self-replicating computer malware and parasites with round and-- (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Worm.

- Worm is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in May, 2023, Tom Brady agreed to buy a minority stake in what NFL team, which Brady and the Patriots defeated in the Tuck Rule Game?

- [Danial] The Raiders.

- Las Vegas Raiders is correct, well done.

Next tossup, what Composer wrote about sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi who are tricked into falling for each other's lovers in his opera "Così fan tutte".

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Mozart?

- Mozart is correct.

For your bonus, what member of the Black Hand was a Bosnian-Serb nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?

- Princip?

- Gavrilo Princip is correct, well done.

Next tossup, what joint, where compression of the median nerve can cause numbness and pain in carpal tunnel syndrome-- (buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Wrist.

- Wrist is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the 12 tribes of Israel are descended from the 12 sons of what Biblical son of Isaac who buys his twin Esau's birthright?

(team chattering) - Maybe.

His twin?

Isaac and?

- Elijah.

- Elijah.

- Elijah?

- Elijah is incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- Jacob?

- Jacob is correct, well done.

That'll take us to our next tossup.

What war ended after "The Battle of Aegospotami" and inspired a funeral oration by Pericles on clashes between the Athens.

(buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- The Peloponnesian Wars?

- Peloponnesian is correct, well done.

For your bonus, condensates of integer spin particles, sometimes called the fifth state of matter, are named after Albert Einstein and what Indian physicist?

- Bose?

- Bose is correct, well done.

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

This tower defense- (buzzer beeps) Danial?

- "Plants vs. Zombies".

- You got that on like the first note, well done.

"Plants vs. Zombies", this is the correct answer.

And since that was a media question, there is no bonus, so we will just take it back to the tossups.

What Dutch artist depicted a pair of ears wielding a blade and a bird monster eating a human in- (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Bosch?

- Bosch is correct, well done.

For your bonus, a British earl lend his name to what group of marbles from the Acropolis which the British museum has long been asked to repatriate to Greece?

(team chattering) - Smith - Smith is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal.

- Elgin?

- Elgin marbles is correct.

Well done.

Next tossup, what desert, whose Nemegt Basin contains many fossilized dinosaur eggs is formed by a range shadow from the Himalayas and, Ryan.

(buzzer beeps) - Gobi?

- Gobi is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Mesopotamian city where the oldest known law code was produced was built near the mouth of the Euphrates River and is home to a great ziggurat?

(team chattering) - Hammurabi.

Ur.

- Ur is correct, well done.

Next tossup, what English language name denotes the block that won "The Battle of Cerro Corá" over Francisco Solano Lopez to defeat Paraguay in an 1860s war?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Triple Alliance.

- Triple Alliance is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in October, 2022, the FDA announced a shortage of the immediate release form of what brand name prescription drug used to treat narcolepsy and ADHD.

- Adderall.

- Adderall.

Adderall?

- Adderall is correct.

Well done.

Your next tossup, what SI unit, which is used to rate fuses and circuit breakers, equals one watt-- (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Ampere?

- Ampere is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, nuclei reappear and the spindle disassembles during what stage of mitosis which is often accompanied by cytokinesis?

(team chattering) - Telophase - Telophase is correct.

Well done.

Next tossup, what actress who played Helen Shivers in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and Daphne in the live-action "Scooby-Doo" played Buffy in "The Vampire Slayer"?

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer we're looking for was Sarah Michelle Geller.

Sarah Michelle Geller.

Back to our tossups.

What US city that names a steel company that went bankrupt in 2003, shares its name with a West Bank city that is said to be the birthplace of Jesus?

(buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- Bethlehem?

- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in 1943, what US city was the site of the Zoot Suites Riots, in which crowds and soldiers attacked young Latino residents?

(team chattering) - Los Angeles.

- Los Angeles?

- Los Angeles is correct.

Well done.

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

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- TikTok.

(laughs) - TikTok is correct.

Well done.

That'll take us back to our tossups.

Mersenne numbers are one less than what numbers which have no-- (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- [Garrett] Prime numbers?

- Can you repeat that for me?

- Prime numbers.

- [Ethan] Prime numbers is incorrect.

I will repeat it.

The question for you, Carbondale.

Mersenne numbers are one less than what numbers which have no odd prime factors and are obtained by multiplying two times itself repeatedly?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Perfect numbers?

- That is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was just powers of two.

Powers of two.

Your next tossup, for which country, which was an independent state from 1404 to 1409 under Owen Glendower, does plied commery advocate independence from the UK?

(buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- [Ryan] Scotland.

- [Ethan] Scotland is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Wales?

- Wales is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Chinese philosopher of the spring and autumn period advocated for filial piety in his "Analects"?

- Confucius.

- Confucius?

- Confucius is correct, well done.

Your next tossup, what sitcom, which costarred Vivian Vance as landlady Ethel Mertz, was a popular 1950s show about the wacky Miss Ricardo, played by Lucille Ball?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- "I Love Lucy"?

- "I Love Lucy" is correct.

For your bonus, what British author wrote about Larry Darrell's search for enlightenment in "The Razor's Edge" and depicted Philip Carey's maturation in "Of Human Bondage"?

(team chattering) - Candy.

- Candy?

- Candy's incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- Smith.

- Answer we we're looking for there is a William Maugham.

William Maugham.

Your next tossup, what reflex has a photic form caused by light is normally triggered by irritation-- (buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- Sneeze?

- Sneezing is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 2023, what Alabama senator announced he would place holds on all military promotions to protest military policies on abortion?

- Tuberville?

- Tuberville.

- Tuberville?

- Tommy Tuberville is correct.

Well done.

Next question.

What man who succeeded Jose de San Martin as commander after "The Battle of Maipu" was a Chilean independence leader of partly Irish ancestry?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Bolivar?

- That is incorrect.

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer you were looking for was Bernardo O'Higgins, O'Higgins.

Your next tossup, what title character who befriends Polynesia the parrot and the two-headed Pushmi-Pullyu, is a doctor created by Hugh Lofting who can talk to animals?

(buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Um.

Doctor Moreau.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Bela.

- Dr. Doolittle?

- Dr. Doolittle is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what author of "Manhattan Transfer" interspersed newspaper excerpts with the main narrative in his "U.S.A." Trilogy?

- Dos Passos?

- John Dos Passos is correct.

Well done.

That'll take us to our next media question.

(singing in foreign language) This song is buy a increasingly popular K-pop girl group based in South Korea and is from their 12th mini album, titled "Ready to Be".

They debuted in October of 2015 under JYP Entertainment and consists of nine members.

Name this group.

(singing in foreign language) (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Black.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Bela.

- Twice.

- Twice is correct, well done.

That'll take us back to our tossups.

What toys made of soft spandex and filled with polyester consist of more than 1000 different round stuffed characters made by KellyToy-- (buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Beanie Babies?

- Beanie Babies incorrect.

I'll read it for you, O'Fallon.

What toys made of soft spandex and filled with polyester consist of more than 1000 different round stuffed characters made by KellyToy's Holdings?

(no audio) (timer beeps) Answer you were looking for there was Squishmallows.

Squishmallows.

For your next tossup, what group of elements whose atomic radii are the smallest in each period have-- (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Halogens?

- Halogens is incorrect.

I'll read it for you, O'Fallon.

What group of elements whose atomic radii are the smallest in each period have full valence shells of electrons and include argon and helium?

(buzzer beeps) Bela.

- Noble gases?

- Noble gases is correct, well done.

For your bonus, 3C273 was the first known example of what very luminous active galactic nuclei whose name refers to their starlike appearance in early images?

(team chattering) - Quasar.

- Quasar is correct.

(timer beeps) Well done, Garrett.

- Scary.

- Take you to your next tossup.

What European country whose overseas possessions include Madeira and the as-- (buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Portugal?

- Portugal is correct.

For your bonus, in the early 1950s, the National Party implemented what system of racial oppression that was opposed by groups such as the African National Congress?

- Apartheid?

- Apartheid is correct.

The next tossup, what decade-long war attempted to prop up the communist Saur Revolution against the mujahideen until Mikhail Gorbachev withdrew troops in 1988?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- The Soviet War in Afghanistan?

- Soviet War in Afghanistan is correct.

And for your bonus, what character who guides the narrator through the spheres of heaven in the poem "Paradiso" was based on a real woman who was loved by Dante?

(team chattering) - Francesca?

- Francesca is incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- Beatrice?

- Beatrice is correct.

Well done.

And that'll take us to our lightning round.

(thunder rolls) 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 O'Fallon, since you guys are trailing in this one, you get the first pick at the litter.

Your choices are international artists, mountains, types of taxes, or New Mexico.

(team chattering) - We'll do mountains.

- Mountains it is.

Name these mountains.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

The world's highest?

- Everest.

- [Ethan] The highest in South America?

(dramatic music) - Pass.

- [Ethan] Is the tallest in Africa?

- Kilimanjaro.

- [Ethan] Shares its name with the country led from Nairobi?

- Kenya.

- The world's second highest?

- K2.

- [Ethan] Hawaiian mountains slightly higher than the Mauna Loa?

- Mauna Kea.

- [Ethan] A Colorado peak named for Explorer Zebulon?

- Pike's Peak.

- [Ethan] Italian volcano that shares its name with a stuffed dish?

- Stromboli.

- [Ethan] Alpine peak whose name means white mountain?

- Mount Blanc.

- [Ethan] The highest point in Antarctica?

Mount Elbrus.

- That's incorrect.

The highest in South America?

(dramatic music) This is the only one you have left.

(dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (timer beeps) You guys are all out of time.

The answer you're looking for was Mount Aconcagua.

And the other one you missed there was the highest point in Antarctica was Vinson Massif.

Vinson Massif.

All right, Carbondale, it is your guys' turn.

Your choices are types of taxes, New Mexico, or international artists.

- International artists.

- International artists it is.

Given an artist, name the modern day country where he or she was born.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

René Magritte?

- Pass.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Katsushika Hokusai?

- Japan.

- [Ethan] Andy Warhol?

- America.

- America.

- [Ethan] Constantin Brânci?

- Oh, Romania.

- [Ethan] Pablo Picasso?

- Spain.

- Spain.

- [Ethan] Claude Monet?

- France.

- [Ethan] Vincent Van Gogh?

- The Netherlands.

- [Ethan] Frida Kahlo?

- Mexico.

- Mexico.

- [Ethan] Edvard Munch?

(team chattering) (dramatic music) - Norway.

- [Ethan] William Hogarth?

- Pass.

- Denmark.

- That's incorrect.

All right, we will go through the two that you missed.

René Magritte is not from France but Belgium, and William Hogarth was from the United Kingdom.

So let's take a look at our scores after our lightning round.

We have O'Fallon with 250 to Carbondale's 445.

So still plenty of time in the second half for things to closen up.

Take it back to the tossups.

What novel in which a ghost haunts 124 Bluestone Road, the home of-- (buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- "Beloved"?

- "Beloved" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, New Haven, Connecticut is on the northern shore of what title estuary whose southern shore belongs to New York?

(team chattering) - Long Island Sound?

- Long Island Sound is correct, well done.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

How many yards are in three miles given that one mile is equal to 5,280 feet?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Wait.

5,280 yards?

- 5,280 yards is correct.

One of those trick questions.

For your bonus, in 2023, Argentina and Egypt among others were invited to join what block of developing countries known by an acronym that includes Brazil and Russia?

(team chattering) - OPEC.

- G20.

- G20?

- That is incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- B-R-I.

- B-R-I is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is BRICS, B-R-I-C-S. BRICS.

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

This-- (buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Venmo.

- Venmo is correct, well done.

Back to our tossups.

What president who brokered the SALT II nuclear agreement and the Camp David Accords lost reelection in 1980 amid the Iran hostage crisis?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Jimmy Carter.

- Jimmy Carter is correct.

For your bonus, the "Tryst with Destiny" speech was given before, just before independence by which first Prime Minister of India?

(team chattering) - Nehru.

- Nehru?

- Nehru is correct, well done.

The next tossup.

In what country where Anthony Rota resigned as speaker after honoring a former Nazi-- (buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- Canada?

- Canada is correct, well done.

Not their brightest moment.

For your bonus what poem that describes the title vessel as the Eagle of the Sea is by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and pays tribute to the USS Constitution?

- Old Ironsides?

- Old Ironsides is correct.

Well done.

Your next question.

What language was used to describe a blood-soaked cross in the poem "The Dream of the Rood", and to portray a mead hall attacked by Grendel in "Beowulf"?

(buzzer beeps) Ryan.

- Old English?

- Old English is correct.

For your bonus, the Putrajaya is the administrative center of what Southeast Asian country who states include Sarawak and Sabah?

- Malaysia.

- Malaysia is correct, well done.

Next tossup, in what Colony founded in 1587 by John White was the word-- (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Roanoke.

- Roanoke is correct.

Well done.

For you're a bonus, what woman whom John Winthrop tried for heresy in 1637 during the Antinomian Controversy settled in Rhode Island after being exiled from Boston?

- Abigail Williams.

- [Ethan] Abigail Williams is incorrect.

Carbondale, chance to steal - Hutchinson.

- Hutchinson is correct.

Well done.

Taking your next tossup, what figure also known as Kore, or the maiden-- (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Persephone?

- Persephone is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Bay Area jam band whose highest charting song is "Touch of Gray" was fronted by guitarist Jerry Garcia and has fans nicknamed Deadheads?

- Grateful Dead.

- Grateful Dead.

- Grateful Dead is correct, well done.

Next question.

What is the surname of the nonsense poet who wrote "The Owl and the Pussycat" and the first name of the Shakespearean King who disinherits Cordelia?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Lear.

- Lear is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what quantity, which must exceed one for a sonic boom to occur, is the ratio between an object speed and the speed of sound?

- Mach?

- Mach is correct, well done.

And this will take us to our next media question.

This classic-- (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- "Princess Bride".

- Princess bride is correct, well done.

All right, back to our tossups.

What city is home to Henry Vilas Zoo and Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs One House is the seat of Dane County and the capital of Wisconsin?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Madison?

- Madison is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Ludwig van Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony is given what number, which is also the number of flats in the key of E-flat major?

- Three.

Three?

- Three is correct.

Well done.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the sum of the fractions: 7/8 plus 9/10, given that the least common multiple of eight and 10 is 40?

(pencils scribbling) (buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- 71 over 40.

- 71 over 40 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1981, what Arizona Judge was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court?

(team chattering) - Oh, O'Connor.

- Sandra Day O'Connor is correct, well done.

The next tossup, what woman who wrote the federal assault weapons ban died in September, 2023?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg is incorrect.

I'll read it for you, O'Fallon.

What woman who wrote the federal assault weapons ban died in September, 2023 while serving alongside Alex Padilla as a senator from California?

(team chattering) (timer beeps) Answer looking for there was Diane Feinstein.

Diane Feinstein.

- That's right.

- All right, I'll take us to our next tossup.

What author's series of extraordinary voyages begins with five weeks in a balloon and included the 1864 French novel "Journey to the center of"-- (buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Verne?

- Jules Verne is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what poet described a place where the rude forefathers of the Hamlet sleep in his 1751 poem, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

- Gray.

- Gray?

- Thomas Gray is correct, well done.

For your next tossup, what Cremonese constructed the well-preserved Lady Blunt, the red varnished soil, which is played by Itzhak Perlman and many other violins?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Uh, Paganini.

- Repeat that for me.

- Paganini.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- Stradivari?

- Stradivari is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what two word term from psychology refers to the simultaneous perception of opposing viewpoints which can cause stress.

- Cognitive dissonance?

- Cognitive dissonance is correct, well done.

Take us to our next tossup, John Ray III is leading the liquidation of what company that with Alameda Research collapsed as a-- (buzzer beeps) Garrett.

- FTX.

- FTX is correct, well done.

For your bonus, while leading the army up the Potomac, Joseph Hooker lost what 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia in which Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded?

(team chattering) - Chancellorsville?

- "Battle of Chancellorsville" is correct, well done.

(bell dings) And that bell means we are all out of time on this season.

So let's take a look at our scores.

We have Carbondale on top, 755 to O'Fallon's 325.

So well done, Carbondale.

After a two year hiatus, you guys are back to being on top.

And that's all the time we have for this year's season.

For all of our lovely contestants that have been on this season and the people working very hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much and good night.

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