(upbeat music) (camera beeping) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Welcome to "Scholastic Hi-Q", the game where knowledge rules.

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 Granite City with Andrew, Myla, Emma, and Ben, and up top, we have Sesser-Valier with Hannah, Emily, Anaya, and Andrea.

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.

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 and we won't have a problem, right?

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

What book, depicting a boarded up Lurkum, where the word unless is pondered by the Once-ler, was written... Hannah.

- "The Lorax"?

- "The Lorax" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what string instrument played by Regina Carter was also played by 18th century composer, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, sometimes dubbed the Black Mozart?

(contestants whispering) (timer beeps) You guys are all outta time.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Violin?

- Violin is correct, well done.

For your next toss up, what element of the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust is found in both sand and quartz and is a metalloid used in computer chips?

Ben.

- Silicon?

- Silicon is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what word did "The Daily Mail" coin in 1906 to refer to women such as Emmeline Parkhurst, or Pankhurst, who advocated for the women's right to vote in Britain?

- Suffragette?

- Suffragette is correct, well done.

For your next toss up, Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park are in what state, which is also home to the Crazy Horse Memorial and... Ben?

- South Dakota?

- South Dakota is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Amazon Web Services provides what type of computing, in which users manage resources over the internet without regard to physical infrastructure?

- No answer.

- All right, Sesser-Valier, chance to steal.

- Quantum?

- Quantum is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was cloud, cloud computing.

All right, for your next question, what senator, who wrote the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act with Russ Feingold, came from Arizona and lost the 2008 presidential race to Barack Obama?

(buzzer beeps) Ben.

- Mitt Romney?

- That's incorrect.

I think Ben's suddenly realizing what the answer is.

(timer beeps) Ben, if you wanna say it, it is?

- Was it McCain?

- Yeah, it was McCain, yeah.

That'll take us to our next question.

What play, in which a plan to build summer cottages is rejected by Madame Ranevskaya, was written by Anton Chekhov and named for symbolic trees?

(no audio) (timer beeping) All out of time.

The answer we're looking for was "The Cherry Orchard", "The Cherry Orchard".

For your next question, what company, whose CEO, David Coleman, was criticized for a new African American studies curriculum, runs the high school AP and SAT programs?

Hannah.

- College Board?

- College Board is correct, well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What product results from multiplying the square root of 20 times the square root of 80?

(no audio) (no audio) (timer beeping) So you guys are all out of time.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- Five.

- Five is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was 40.

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

This side character works at a park alongside... Ben?

- Muscle Man?

- Muscle Man is correct, well done.

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

Next toss up, directly evaluating what operation can lead to indeterminate forms that can be resolved using L'Hopital's rule, finding the value a function gets near?

(no audio) (timer beeps) All out of time.

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

Next toss up, what American author, who wrote about Boy Willie and Berniece in "The Piano Lesson", depicted garbage truck driver, Troy Maxson, in his play, "Fences"?

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer you're looking for there was August Wilson, August Wilson.

The next question, what businessman, who claimed to own a half monkey, half fish, called the Feejee Mermaid, promoted hoaxes as part of a circus he ran with James Bailey?

(buzzer beeps) Emma?

- Barnum?

- Barnum is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Swae Lee sings, "You're left in the dust unless I stuck by ya", in the chorus of what 2018 song, a collaboration with Post Malone?

- "Sunflower"?

- "Sunflower" is correct, well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What kind of measure was infamously botched in 1936 by "The Literary Digest", and is provided by firms such as Zogby and Gallup to gauge public opinion?

(buzzer beeps) Ben?

- Polls?

- Polls is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what type of elastic wave cannot propagate in liquids with low viscosity and is detected by seismographs after P waves?

(no audio) (timer beeps) All out of time.

Sesser-Valier, your chance to steal.

- Seismic waves?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was S waves or secondary waves.

All right, back to our toss ups.

What quantity, denoted Z, that is proportional to hydrostatic pressure, is high for hadal zones such as the Marianas Trench, and increases downward?

Ben.

- Pressure?

- Pressure is incorrect.

(no audio) (timer beeps) It was not pressure, but depth, depth.

For your next question, what emperor reclaimed power by ordering the execution of Sejanus, spent years secluded on Capri Island, and proceeded Caligula as the second Roman Emperor?

(buzzer beeps) Myla.

- Claudius?

- Claudius is incorrect.

(no audio) (timer beeps) Answer we're looking for there was Tiberius, Tiberius.

And that will take us to our next media question.

This 85-year-old veteran of Hollywood... Hannah.

- [Hannah] Morgan Freeman.

- Morgan Freeman's correct, well done.

Back to our toss ups.

What chess piece, which is captured when winning the exchange, begins a game on a corner space and can move any distance... Ben.

- Rook?

- Rook is correct, well done.

For your bonus, at what 1954 battle did the Viet Minh, led by Vo Nguyen Giap, defeat the French colonial forces driving France out of Indochina?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] Sesser-Valier, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer you're looking for there was Dien Bien Phu, Dien Bien Phu.

For your next question, what city contains the seat of the Maronite Church, was the site of a massive August, 2020 explosion in its port, and is the capital of Lebanon?

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer you're looking for was Beirut, Beirut.

The next question, what empire committed the Herero genocide in Namibia and defended its African colonies from the Triple Entente before losing World War I?

(buzzer beeps) Ben?

- Germany?

- Germany is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the energy of a photon equals its frequency times what constant, whose reduced form results from dividing it by 2 pi?

(no audio) - Gamma.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Sesser-Valier, your chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer you're looking for was Planck's, Planck's constant.

For your next question, what god, who married Ariadne after Theseus abandoned her, was sewn into Zeus's thigh after the death of his mother, Semele, and was the God of Wine?

(buzzer beeps) Myla.

- Dionysus.

- Dionysus is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Dr. Frank Jobe performed the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement on the elbow of what Dodgers pitcher for whom the surgery is commonly named?

- Tommy John?

- Tommy John is correct, well done.

For your next question, what cellular process, which terminates upon reaching UAG or one of the other stop codons, involves ribosomes using tRNA to synthesize a protein?

(no audio) (timer beeps) Out of time, the answer we're looking for was translation, translation.

Next question, what TV show introduced a men's lodge called the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and was set in the town of Bedrock, the home of Fred's stone age family?

(buzzer beeps) Hannah.

- "The Flintstones"?

- "Flintstones" is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what annual meteor shower is caused by the Earth passing through debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet, and peaks between July and August?

- Orion.

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer you're looking for was Perseid, the Perseid.

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

This Disney XD animated... Ben.

- "Star vs. the Forces of Evil".

- That is correct, well done.

Back to our toss ups, what tree, which gave the US fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, was signed in at 1783 to officially end the American Revolution?

(buzzer beeps) Ben.

- Treaty of Versailles?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Hannah - Treaty of Paris.

- That is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in July, 2023, pro-Russian soldiers in what African country launched a coup that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer you're looking for there was Niger, Niger.

And that'll take us to our Lightning Round.

(thunder booms) 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, Sesser-Valier, since you guys are trailing this one, you guys get the first choice.

Your choices are 20th Century Painters, Ends In "Ice", Postal Abbreviations, or 1920.

(contestants whispering) - Ends in "Ice".

- Ends in "Ice" it is, all right.

Given these nouns that end in the consecutive letters, I-C-E. 60 seconds on the clock, I will count you down in three, two, one.

Opposite of virtue.

You can pass as well.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Cost of buying something.

- Price.

- Price.

- [Ethan] Law enforcement officers, - Police.

- [Ethan] Care for the terminally ill. (upbeat music) - Hospice.

- [Ethan] Lack of courage.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Someone learning a trade from an expert.

- Apprentice.

- [Ethan] Drinking cup or goblet.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Water channel with a movable gate.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Preconceived judgment or opinion.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Yellowish discoloration of the skin.

- Jaundice.

- [Ethan] Opposite of virtue.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A lack of courage.

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

The opposite of virtue was vice.

The lack of courage is cowardice.

Drinking cup or goblet is chalice.

Water channel with a moveable gate is a sluice.

And preconceived judgment or opinion is prejudice, prejudice.

- I knew that.

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

Your choices are Postal Abbreviations, 1920, or 20th Century Painters.

- 1920.

- 1920 it is.

Answer the following about the year 1920.

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

Three, two, one.

Senator who was elected president.

- Coolidge?

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

A field of chemistry that saves heat for which Walther Nernst won a Nobel Prize.

(upbeat music) - Bernice?

- That's incorrect.

German party led by Adolf Hitler that formed that year.

- Nazi Party.

- [Ethan] Author who published her first book about detective Hercule Poirot.

- Agatha Christie.

- [Ethan] International group and UN precursor that began meeting.

- League of Nations.

- [Ethan] Pandemic that killed 50 million people.

- Spanish Flu.

- [Ethan] Author who published "This Side of Paradise", his first novel.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Belgian city that hosted the Olympics.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Sociologist of the Protestant Ethic who died at 56.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Sculptor who finished the statue at the Lincoln Memorial.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Author who published "This Side Of"... (timer beeps) So you guys are all out of time, so we'll go through the ones you missed.

The senator who was elected president was Harding, Warren G. Harding.

The field of chemistry that saves heat for which Walther Nernst won a Nobel Prize is thermodynamics.

The author who published "This Side of Paradise", first novel, was F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Belgian city that hosted the Olympics was Antwerp.

The sociologist of the Protestant Ethic who died at 56 was Max Weber.

And the sculpturer who finished the statue at the Lincoln Memorial was Daniel Chester French, Daniel Chester French.

All right, so let's take a look at our scores after the Lightning Round.

We have Granite City on top, 200, to Sesser-Valier's 100, so, very close game going into our second half.

All right, let's get back to our toss ups.

What play, whose heroine is helped by Touchstone, includes the "All the world's a stage" speech and is a Shakespeare comedy set in the Forest of Arden?

(no audio) (timer beeps) You're out of time, the answer we're looking for was "As You Like It", "As You Like It".

For your next question, what Central American country, where former figure skater Michelle Kwan has served as US ambassadors since 2022, has its capital at Belmopan?

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer you're looking for there was Belize, Belize.

For your next question, the no-hair theorem characterizes what astronomical objects that can be formed in a supernova and which have an event horizon around a... Ben.

- Black hole?

- Black hole is correct, well done.

For your bonus, con man, Victor Lustig, twice tried to sell what wrought iron lattice structure on the the Champs de Mars?

- Eiffel Tower?

- Eiffel Tower is correct, well done.

For your next toss up, what religion, whose gurdwara temples include a kitchen, providing free meals called langar, reads the Adi Granth, and was founded by Guru Nanak?

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer you're looking for was Sikhism, Sikhism.

For your next question, what opera, in which the Catalogue Aria is sung by Leporello, is a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera whose title womanizer is dragged to hell?

(no audio) (buzzer beeps) Hannah.

- "Amadeus"?

- That is incorrect.

(no audio) (timer beeps) You're out of time, the answer we're looking for was "Don Giovanni", "Don Giovanni".

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

This song was released with the start of 2023, and commanded the number one... Aniya?

- [Aniya] "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus.

- "Flowers" is correct, well done.

And to our next toss up, in what country did Jean Paul Prates recently become CEO of the state-owned petroleum firm, Petrobras, which is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro?

(buzzer beeps) Andrew.

- Brazil?

- Brazil is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what actress, who was born in Cuba, portrayed Marilyn Monroe in "Blonde" and a nurse who cannot lie without vomiting in "Knives Out"?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] Sesser-Valier, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer we're looking for was Ana de Armas, Ana de Armas.

For your next toss up, what plant, whose golden form is genetically modified and whose Asian species has a scientific name, oryza sativa, is grown in namesake paddies?

(buzzer beeps) Myla.

- Rice.

- Rice is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the 1492 Alhambra Decree expelled Jews from what newly united European country?

- Rome?

- [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Sesser-Valier, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Truly nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition, as it's Spain.

- Oh, yeah.

- For your next toss up, what wars, one of which ended by the Treaty of Tientsin, led to the ceding of Calhoun to Britain and were named for a drug trafficked into China?

(buzzer beeps) Ben.

- Opium Wars.

- Opium Wars is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what device, named for a German physicist, is used to detect ionizing radiation, which causes it to emit clicking sounds?

- Geiger counter?

- That is correct, well done.

For your next toss up, what structure contains the Y and Z holes, aligns with the summer solstice, and is a circular collection of upright rocks in southern England?

(buzzer beeps) Ben.

- Stonehenge?

- Stonehenge is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Hawaiian island was hit by a 2023 wildfire that severely damaged its town of Lahaina?

(contestants whispering) - Maui.

- Maui is correct, well done.

I'm getting the sense that might have been a shot in the dark.

- [Ben] Yeah.

- Never hurts to guess.

- [Ben] It's the big one.

- All right, and that'll take us to our next toss up.

What last name is shared by the English author who wrote the novel, "Sons and Lovers", and the actress who played Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games"?

(buzzer beeps) Hannah.

- Lawrence?

- Lawrence is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Saint John River flows into what bay to the south of New Brunswick, which has the highest tidal range in the world?

- No answer.

- [Ethan] No answer.

Granite City, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- We're looking for the Bay of Fundy, the Bay of Fundy.

For your next toss up, what 1976 novel, in which Dr. William Waller buys the protagonist, centers on an enslaved Gambian named Kunta Kinte, and is by Alex Haley?

(no audio) (timer beeps) The answer you're looking for was "Roots", "Roots".

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

This character is known for her... Hannah.

- Rainbow Dash.

- [Ethan] Rainbow Dash is correct, well done.

(buzzer beeps) - [Contestant] Oh, sorry.

- Also Rainbow Dash, I'm gonna guess?

- [Contestant] No.

(laughs) - That is correct.

We'll take it back to the toss ups.

What 12 letter term names a vector quantity given by a definite integral of velocity or by the change in position that is distinct from distance?

(buzzer beeps) Emma.

- Displacement?

- Displacement is correct, well done.

For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value of X if five raised to the X power equals 125 raised to the fifth power?

(no audio) (no audio) (timer beeps) So you guys are all out of time.

Sesser-Valier, chance to steal.

- Five?

- Five is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was 15, 15.

- [Contestant] Halfway there.

- For your next question, what composer, who wrote several operas called "Orlando Furioso", wrote four violin concerti depicting parts of the year in "The Four Seasons"?

Hannah.

- Vivaldi.

- Vivaldi's correct, well done.

For your bonus, Terence V. Powderly served as the Grand Master Workman of what labor organization that gained prominence in the 1880s before losing ground to the AFL?

(no audio) - No answer.

- [Ethan] Granite City, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer you're looking for was the Knights of Labor, the Knights of Labor.

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

We have Granite City on top, 320, to Sesser-Valier's 140.

So, well done, Granite City, you guys are moving on to the next round.

And that is all the time we have for on tonight's show.

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

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