(bright music) (camera beeps) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Welcome back to another episode of "Scholastic Hi-Q," the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir, and we have our second of two semi-finals match-ups this week.

So let's go ahead and introduce our teams.

On the bottom, we have Goreville with Duncan, Connor, Mason, and Caullin, 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 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.

If everybody's ready, let's get to the questions.

In 2023, what organization's members, while demonstrating at Willow Run in Michigan, became the first striking workers, (button beeps) Garrett.

- United Auto Workers.

- UAW is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what measure of a solute's concentration in a solution is defined as the number of moles of solute per liter of solution?

- [Bela] Molarity.

- Molarity is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss-up.

What novella whose title character eradicates baobabs and falls in love with a rose that grows on his home asteroid is, Garrett.

(button beeps) - "The Little Prince."

- "The Little Prince" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 2019, which European country added "north" to its official name to settle a dispute with neighboring Greece?

- Macedonia.

- North Macedonia is correct.

Well done.

And that'll take us to our next toss-up.

What works which include the "Ottolenghi Simple" by a James Beard Award winner, were written by Julia Child, who included a number of French recipes?

(button beeps) Mason.

- Cookbooks.

Cookbooks is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Drina and the River Kwai are the sites of what title objects in novels by Yugoslav author Ivo Andric and French author Pierre Boulle?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] O'Fallon, chance to steal.

- Bridges.

- Bridges is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss-up.

What woman who helped free hundreds of people in the Combahee River Raid earned the title Moses of her people for her work on the underground, Garrett.

(button beeps) - Harriet Tubman.

- Harriet Tubman is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Japanese author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" calls for keeping only those belongings that spark joy while decluttering?

- Mashima.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- [Mason] Marie Kondo.

- Marie Kondo is correct.

Well done.

Next toss-up.

What Frenchman whose least time principle gives the path of light, (button beeps) Duncan.

- Fermat.

- Pierre de Fermat is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what three dimensional shape is the locus of all points a fixed distance from a given point called the center?

(team indistinctly muttering) - Sphere.

(buzzer buzzes) - [Ethan] You guys are all out of time.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- A sphere.

- A sphere is correct.

Well done.

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

This game was officially, Kaden.

- "Slime Rancher."

- "Slime Rancher" is correct.

Well done.

Fantastic game, so heartwarming, and since it was a media question, there is no bonus, so we'll just take it back to toss-ups.

What British poet declared, "Oh, there is blessing in this gentle breeze" in "The Prelude," and described golden daffodils in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- Wordsworth.

- William Wordsworth is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, from 1994 to 2011, what policy known by a four-word name restricted the ability of non-heterosexual people to serve in the US military?

- "Don't ask, don't tell."

- "Don't ask, don't tell" is correct.

Next question.

What general who was born into slavery on the Breda plantation lit a revolt against the French on Saint Domingue that became the Haitian, Garrett.

(button beeps) - Toussaint Louverture.

- Toussaint Louverture is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in church architecture, what is the name for the central part of a church surrounded by side aisles and stretching from the entry to the transepts?

- Chapel.

- Chapel.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- The aisle.

- Aisle's incorrect.

The answer we're looking for is the nave.

The nave.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the fifth term of an arithmetic sequence whose first term is two and whose common difference between terms is three?

(button beeps) Duncan.

- 14.

- 14 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what German philosopher who used a hammer to elucidate his concepts of present at hand and ready to hand wrote "Being and Time"?

- Kant.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- Kierkegaard.

- Kierkegaard is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Martin Heidegger.

Martin Heidegger.

The next toss-up.

What city separated by the Shenzhen River from Shenzhen has the most skyscrapers of any city and was handed over to China from the UK?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- Hong Kong.

- Hong Kong is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what African desert east of the Namib desert covers most of Botswana?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] Goreville, a chance to steal.

- Kalahari.

- Kalahari is correct.

Well done.

For your next toss-up, what comic book character, who is the father of Polaris and survived the holocaust as a boy, led the brotherhood of mutants and can control metal?

(button beeps) Caullin.

- Magneto.

- Magneto is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, which English king fought the First Barons' War after breaking an agreement he had signed at Runnymede in 1215?

- King John.

- King John is correct.

Well done.

The next toss-up.

What tribal confederation lost the Battle of Alesia under Vercingetorix and was conquered by Julius Caesar, (button beeps) Duncan.

- The Gauls.

- The Gauls is correct.

For your bonus, the complete hydrogenation of benzene produces what ring compound whose molecular formula is C6H12?

(team indistinctly murmurs) - No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- Toluene.

- The answer you're looking for there was cyclohexane.

Cyclohexane, and that'll take us to our next media question.

(gentle guitar music) This singer-songwriter was born in 1998 and has been releasing music, (button beeps) Duncan.

- Conan Gray.

- Conan Gray is correct.

Well done.

Back to our toss-ups.

What artist painted four paintings for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, including "La Disputa," "The Parnassus," and "The School of Athens"?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- Raphael.

- Raphael is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what historical novel by Sir Walter Scott depicts Frank Osbaldastone's adventures with Jacobite rebels and is named for an alliterative outlaw?

- Ivanhoe.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- Jesse James.

- Jesse James is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for is Rob Roy.

Rob Roy.

Next toss-up.

What phenomenon can be produced using a rectifier, occurs when electrons move in one direction through a circuit, and is contrasted with AC?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- DC.

- DC is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what English actress who played antagonist Janine Matthews in the "Divergent" series co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 movie "Titanic"?

- Kate Winslet.

- Kate Winslet.

- Kate Winslet is correct.

Well done.

Next toss-up.

What author described a deer hunt conducted by Octavian in "The Book of the Duchess" and wrote about medieval pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales"?

(button beeps) Duncan - Chaucer.

- Geoffrey Chaucer is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the Zocalo is the central square of what Latin American capital city which is also home to the massive stadium Estadio Azteca?

- Mexico City.

- Mexico City is correct.

Well done.

Your next question.

What philosopher who wrote that man is, by nature, a political animal in the first of his fourth-century BC treatises "Politics" was taught by Plato?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- Aristotle.

- Aristotle is correct.

For your a bonus, in the first century, the Vietnamese Trung sisters rebelled against which Chinese dynasty whose fall led to the three kingdoms period?

- It's the Han.

- Han.

- Han is correct.

Well done.

- Your next toss-up.

In 2023, what Democrat from New York won 212 votes on every ballot for speaker of the, (button beeps) Mason.

- Hakeem Jeffries.

- Hakeem Jeffries is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, near an isolated point charge, what vector quantity equals the Coulomb force divided by the charge?

(team indistinctly murmurs) - Electric field.

- Electric field is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss-up.

What athlete who made an over-the-shoulder catch in the 1954 World Series was known as the Say Hey Kid and played center field for the Giants?

(buzzer buzzes) That's all the time.

The answer you were looking for was Willie Mays.

Willie Mays, and that'll take us to our next media question.

This character has a minor part in the show "OK K.O.!

Let's Be Heroes."

She is from the year 301X, but traveled back in time to run away from her mistakes.

She can be seen hanging around the plaza with her friends.

Name this character.

(button beeps) Mason.

- Jinx.

- Jinx is incorrect.

Kind of looks like a Jinx though.

I could see it.

(buzzer buzzes) The answer you were looking for there was Red Action.

Red Action.

Next toss-up.

What city to which the (indistinct) was moved in 1309 was, until 1376, the home of French-dominated popes in an era dubbed, Garrett.

(button beeps) - Avignon.

- Avignon is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in September 2023, the US established diplomatic relations with Niue and what other country which is part of a free association with New Zealand?

(team indistinctly murmurs) - Kerobos.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- [Duncan] Cook Islands.

- Cook Islands is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss-up.

What type of gravitational forces causes moons to break apart below the Roche limit and lead to the daily rise and fall of, Garrett.

(button beeps) - Tidal forces.

- Tidal forces is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what 12th-century Holy Roman emperor who reigned for 35 years was opposed by an alliance of northern Italian city states called the Lombard League?

- Otto.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer you were looking for there was Frederick Barbosa.

Frederick Barbosa, and that'll take us to our lightning round.

(thunder cracks) 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, Goreville, since you guys are trailing in this one, you get the first pick of the litter.

Your choices are water, F in literature, VA-cabulary, or ABCs of games.

(team indistinctly murmurs) - F in literature.

- F in literature it is.

Give these literary answers that begin with the letter F. 60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Ray Bradbury novel about book burning.

- "Fahrenheit 451" - [Ethan] Creator of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby.

- Fitzgerald.

- [Ethan] Author who created James Bond.

- Ian Fleming.

- [Ethan] Ernest Hemingway novel about Robert Jordan in Spain.

- Skip.

- Pass.

- Yeah.

- [Ethan] Author of "Light in August" and- - Faulkner.

- Faulkner.

- [Ethan] Comic character in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

- Pass.

- [Ethan] French author of "Madame Bovary."

- Flaubert.

- [Ethan] Experimental James Joyce novel featuring Humphrey- - "Finnegan's Wake."

- [Ethan] English author of "Tom Jones."

- Fielding.

- [Ethan] Isaac Asimov's series about the fall of- - "Foundation."

- [Ethan] Ernest Hemingway novel about Robert Jordan in Spain.

- "For Whom The Bell Tolls."

- [Ethan] Comic character in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

- Figaro.

- That is incorrect, and that was the only one you guys missed, and the answer there was Sir John Falstaff.

Sir John Falstaff, but going 9 out of 10, not too shabby at all.

O'Fallon, it is now your guys' turn to respond.

Your choices are VA-cabulary, ABCs of games, or water.

(team indistinctly murmuring) - We can do it.

We can do it.

- Water might be better.

- Okay.

We'll do water.

- Water it is.

Name these land forms linked to water.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Feature where a river runs over a drop.

- Waterfall.

- [Ethan] Narrow, steep-sided glacial inlets with a Norwegian name.

- Fjord.

- [Ethan] Region around some river mouths named for a Greek letter.

- Delta.

- [Ethan] Fertile location around a continuous isolated water source in a desert.

- [Team] Oasis.

- [Ethan] Rock layers that store groundwater.

- Aquifers.

- [Ethan] Enclosed brackish region where a river meets the seas.

- Pass.

- Islands running parallel to a coast that are natural breakwaters.

- Chain islands.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Deep sea floor planes that cover over half the earth.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Bowl-shaped glacial valleys in which lakes called tarns form.

- Moraines.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Ridges on riverbanks built up by successive floods.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Enclosed brackish region where a river meets the sea.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Deep seafloor planes that cover over half the earth.

- Basalt.

- That's incorrect.

(buzzer buzzes) We will go through the ones that you guys missed.

The enclosed brackish region where a river meets the sea is an estuary.

Islands running parallel to a coast that are natural breakwaters are barrier islands.

The deep seafloor planes that cover over half the earth are the abyssal planes.

The bowl-shaped glacial valleys in which lakes called tarns form is cirques, and ridges on riverbanks built up by successive floods is levies.

Levies.

All right, so let's take a look at our score after our lightning round.

We have Goreville with 260 to O'Fallon's 290.

So a very close game going into our back half.

Take it back to the toss-ups.

What animals whose skins were worn by Norse berserkers in battle are also the team nickname for an NFL team that plays at Soldier Field in, Caullin.

(button beeps) - Bears.

- Bears is correct.

For your bonus, what process in which cells become more specialized do stem cells undergo in embryonic development?

(team indistinctly murmurs) - Specialization.

- [Ethan] Specialization is incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

(team indistinctly murmurs) - No answer.

- The answer you're looking for is cellular differentiation.

Cellular differentiation.

Next toss-up.

What religion whose texts include "The Promised Key," holds that the Bible was written in Amharic.

venerates Haile Selassie, and began in Jamaica?

- Rastafarianism.

- Rastafarianism is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, an August 2023 coup ended more than 50 years of rule by the Bongo family in what Central African nation governed from Libreville?

- Republic of the Congo.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- [Duncan] Gabon.

- Gabon is correct.

Well done.

The next toss-up.

What general who said "I shall return" while evacuating, Duncan.

(button beeps) - MacArthur.

- Douglas MacArthur is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what crop which was devastated in the early 1900s by the boll weevil was precessed by a namesake device invented by Eli Whitney?

- Cotton.

- Cotton is correct, and that'll take us to our next media question.

In this action-adventure, Duncan.

(button beeps) - "Demon Slayer."

- "Demon Slayer" is correct.

Well done.

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

The triumphal march is from what opera depicting the love between Egyptian commander Radames and the title, Duncan.

(button beeps) - "Aida."

- "Aida" is correct.

For your bonus, shortness of breath, fatigue, and chest pain are symptoms of what condition in which the fibrous sac surrounding the heart becomes inflamed?

- COPD.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

O'Fallon, a chance to steal.

- Cardiac arrest?

- That's right.

- Cardiac arrest.

- That's incorrect.

The answer you were looking for was pericarditis.

Pericarditis.

Your next toss-up.

What TV franchise whose Australian spin-off premiered on CBS in Fall 2023 months after its LA-based show ended is about crime-solvers in the Navy?

(button beeps) Bela.

- "NCIS."

- "NCIS" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, Silbury Hill is a prehistoric mound found in what present-day country which is also home to a monument on Salisbury Plain made of standing sarsens?

(team indistinctly murmurs) - Austria.

- [Ethan] Austria is incorrect.

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- [Duncan] Germany.

- Germany is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom.

The next toss-up.

What novel whose title character is hired by the Harling family as a housekeeper is narrated by orphan Jim Burden and is by Willa Cather?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- "My Antonia."

- My Antonia" is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the possible extinction of the Syr Darya sturgeon has been linked to the shrinking of what body of water that borders Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?

- Aral Sea.

- The Aral Sea is correct.

Well done.

The next toss-up.

What nation purged Soviet influence in 1971's corrective revolution and briefly united with Syria after Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- Egypt.

- Egypt is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the area of a triangle in which adjacent sides with lengths seven and eight respectively meet to form a 30-degree angle?

(pencils scratching) (team indistinctly murmuring) - 14.

- 14 is correct.

Well done.

Your next toss-up.

What geometric adjective describes lenses that cause light to converge at a focal point?

Garrett.

(button beeps) - Convex.

- Convex is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what New Deal program known by a three-letter initialism gave food and lodging to young men in exchange for their work on environmental projects?

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

Goreville, a chance to steal.

- EPA.

- EPA is incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Next toss-up.

In 2022, what musical group caused the HYBE Corporation stock to drop by announcing a hiatus to complete mandatory military, Garrett.

(button beeps) - BTS.

- BTS is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Olympic sports recent all-around medal winners have included Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and Sunisa Lee?

- Yeah.

- Gymnastics.

- Gymnastics is correct.

Well done.

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

This movie was released in 2010 and features title characters- - Oh, come on.

(button beeps) She got it first.

Oh, "Frozen."

- [Ethan] "Frozen" is incorrect.

I'll re-read it for you, Goreville.

This movie was released in 2010 and features title characters Rapunzel and Flynn Rider.

- "Tangled."

- [Ethan] "Tangled" is correct.

Well done.

- [Bela] I'm so sorry.

- Next toss-up.

What dictator developed the ideology of Juche, became known as Great Leader, and was succeeded as ruler of North Korea by his son?

Duncan.

(button beeps) - Kim Jong Il.

- Kim Jong Il is incorrect.

I'll re-read for you, O'Fallon.

What dictator developed the ideology of Juche, became known as great leader, and was succeeded as ruler of North Korea by his son Kim Jong Un?

(button beeps) Garrett.

- Kim Il Sung.

- Kim Il Sung is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the coefficient of restitution quantifies the change in relative speed after what events which are called elastic if they conserve kinetic energy?

- Collisions.

- Collisions is correct.

Well done.

Next toss-up.

What novel in which the book "An Imperial Affliction" is recommended to Gus by Hazel was, Duncan.

(button beeps) - John Green.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

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

What novel in which, Bela.

(button beeps) - "The Fault In Our Stars."

- "The Fault In Our Stars" is correct.

Well done.

- [Duncan] I couldn't remember the title.

- For your bonus, what author's 1925 poem "The Hollow Men" describes a valley of dying stars and declares, "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper"?

- Eliot.

- T. S. Eliot is correct.

Well done.

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

We have O'Fallon on top, 480 over Goreville's 345, so well done, O'Fallon.

You get a chance to play Carbondale for the title.

That is all the time we have for today's show.

For all our lovely contestants here today, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much and goodnight.

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