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

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

So, let's go ahead and introduce our teams.

On the bottom we have Mt.

Vernon with Alex, Kiro, Macie, and Ian.

And up top we have Wesclin with Colby, Kade, Tommy and Kaiden.

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 unto 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.

All right, if everybody's ready let's get into the questions.

What word proceeds medicine in the title of Louise Erdrich novel as well as song in the title of a poem about J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S.

Eliot?

The answer we were looking for was love, love.

For your next question, what transcendental number is half of tau, appears in the formula for the volume of a sphere and is approximately-- Tommy.

- Pi.

- Pi is correct, well done.

For your bonus.

Before becoming president, Harry Truman entered politics in what Missouri city with help from a politician, a political machine run by Tom Pendergast?

- St. Louis?

- St. Louis is incorrect.

- Jefferson City.

- That is incorrect, it is like the other Missouri city.

Kansas City, the other one.

For your next toss-up.

What landmark is at the summit of Auyan-tepui, is named for an aviator, is in Eastern Venezuela and is the world's highest, uninterrupted waterfall?

The answer we were looking for was Angel Falls.

Angel Falls.

For your next question.

What play in which Edgar disguises himself as Tom o'Bedlam centers on a ruler who divides his kingdom between his daughters Regan and Goneril?

Sorry, the answer we were looking for there is "King Lear."

"King Lear."

For your next question, what text rediscovered on a pillar at Susa in 1901 contains 282 laws following eye for an eye principles and is named-- Ian.

- The Hammurabi Code.

- That is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what is the name of the British public healthcare system that was created in 1948 by Labour Party politician, Aneurin Bevan?

- British healthcare.

- That is incorrect.

Wesclin, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer we were looking for there is the NHS.

Or the National Healthcare Service.

For your next question, what class of molecules helps the body absorb vitamins K, A, and D, is found in adipose tissue, and comes in saturated and unsaturated-- Colby.

- Fats.

- Fats is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," rude mechanicals reenact the tragedy of what youth, who has a secret romance with his neighbor, Thisbe?

- Perseus?

- That is incorrect.

Mt.

Vernon, a chance to steal.

- Ophelia.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Pyramus.

Pyramus.

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

Among the three Powerpuff Girls, this character is noted to be the most responsible, clever, and pragmatic.

She's also the self proclaimed leader of the crime fighting trio.

Alex.

- Blossom?

- Blossom is correct, well done.

And even without the picture, there she is.

There's Blossom.

Well done, Alex.

And since that is a media question, there is no bonus.

We'll just take it back to the toss-ups.

What Jazz singer who sang for Chick Webb as a teenager first hit number one on the charts with "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" and was called, The First Lady of Song?

Colby.

- Aretha Franklin?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Ella Fitzgerald.

Ella Fitzgerald.

For your next question, what father of Louis the Pious was crowned emperor of the Romans by Leo III in A.D. 800 and was-- Kaiden.

- Charlemagne.

- Charlemagne is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what is the anatomical name of the socket in the skull within which the eye is located?

- Cornea.

- That is incorrect.

Mt.

Vernon, chance to steal.

- Eye orbitals?

- Will we accept eye orbitals?

We'll take it.

The answer we were looking for was, yes, orbital or orbital sockets.

So, we'll take it.

That will take us back to the toss-ups.

What country whose state grid corporation is the world's third largest company by revenue, is the base of Tencent, the Ali Baba Group, and Huawei?

Alex.

- China?

- China is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Battle of Bloody Run tried to break a siege of Detroit during what anti-British indigenous rebellion in 1763 named for an Odawa Chief?

(murmuring) You guys are all out of time, Wesclin a chance to steal.

- Philips War?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Pontiac's War.

Pontiac's War.

For your next toss-up, what bodies which grow in the zone of accumulation carve out landforms such as aretes, and cirques and can form wide spread ice sheets?

Colby.

- Glaciers.

- Glaciers is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in June 2023 what convention of Christian churches voted to expel the Saddleback mega church after it ordained a female pastor?

You guys are all out of time.

Mt.

Vernon, a chance to steal.

- Southern Baptist Convention.

- That is correct, well done.

On your next toss-up, what rate, which is used as an adjustment for real economic stats, is measured by the CPI and is the rate at which-- Kaiden.

- Inflation.

- Inflation is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the naive Amelia Sedley and the cunning Becky Sharp are the contrasting figures in what 1848 novel without a hero written by William Makepeace Thackeray?

You guys are all out of time, Mt.

Vernon, chance to steal.

- "Pride and Prejudice."

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Vanity Fair."

"Vanity Fair."

Your next toss-up, what man, James Madison's second vice president, was a Massachusetts governor who named the practice of drawing districts for political advantage?

The answer we were looking for there was Elbridge Gerry as in gerrymandering.

And that will take us to our next media question.

This five part Canadian band has been making music since 2005.

Their more popular songs include "Hayloft," "Verbatim," and Arms-- Kira.

- Mother Mother.

- Mother Mother is correct, well done.

Back to our toss-ups.

In 2022, what former finance minister who founded the centrist party, En Marche!

defeated Marine Le Pen to win reelection as President of France?

Alex.

- Jacque.

- Jacque is incorrect.

- Kaiden.

- Charles de Gaulle.

- Charles de Gaulle is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Emmanuel Macron.

Emmanuel Macron.

Your next toss-up, what man who wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" was a Polish scientist who published a helio-centric model of the solar system?

Kaiden.

- Copernicus.

- Copernicus is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what author of the novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" wrote an alternative history of World War II called "The Man in the High Castle?"

(murmuring) You guys are all out of time.

Mt.

Vernon, a chance to steal.

- John.

- John is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Philip K. Dick.

Philip K. Dick.

For your next toss-up, what character who loses his new blue jacket while escaping from Mr. McGregor is an animal who raids a garden in a picture book by-- Macie.

- Peter Rabbit.

- Peter Rabbit is correct, well done.

For your bonus, in 2023, what Paris based international agency added the historic center of Odessa to its World Heritage endangered list?

- WWF?

- That is incorrect.

Wesclin, a chance to steal.

- UNESCO.

- UNESCO is correct, well done.

For your next toss up, what company which introduced the x86 architecture and is phasing out it Celeron and Pentium devices supplies Dell and HP's computer chips?

Alex.

- Intel.

- Intel is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Sumio Iijima is often credited with discovering what cylindrical allotrope of carbon known as CNTs, notable for its high conductivity and strength?

- Graphite?

- That is incorrect.

Wesclin, a chance to steal.

- Carbon nano tubes.

- That is correct, well done, Colby.

Back to the toss-ups.

What home country of author Alice Munro was led in the 20th century by such Prime Ministers as Lester Pearson and is governed from Ottawa?

Kaiden.

- Canada!

- Canada is correct, well done.

For your bonus, recurring character Nathan Zuckerman appears in the novels of what Jewish-American author who wrote "Portnoy's Complaint" and the "The Human Stain?"

- Hawthorne.

- That is incorrect.

Mt.

Vernon, chance to steal.

- Mark Twain.

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Philip Roth.

Philip Roth.

For your next toss-up, what planet whose atmosphere has clouds made of sulfuric acid is home to the Maxwell Montes mountain range and is the second-- Colby.

- Venus.

- Venus is correct, well done.

For your bonus, the Mapai was a progressive political party in what country whose first prime minister was David Ben-Gurion?

- Israel.

- Israel is correct, well done.

And that will take us to our next media question.

This Netflix original series centers on Kipo Oak, who must travel the post-apocalyptic upper society governed by mutants in pursuit of her father since being made to evacuate her home.

Name this show.

Kira.

- [Kira] "She-Ra?"

- That is incorrect.

Colby.

- "Love, Death, and Robots."

- That is a great show, but incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts."

And that will take us to the lightning round.

(cracking thunder) 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 Mt.

Vernon since you guys are trailing in this one you get the pick of the liter.

Your choices are quadrilaterals, musical instruments, A-R-M, or B-E-N. - Sure.

Yeah, you say it, go ahead.

- Musical instruments.

- Musical instruments.

It's saying, pencil and paper ready like this is a lot to write down.

It's really not that much, but just in case you want to.

Given these musical instruments, identify whether they are percussion, string, wind, or electronic instruments.

Note that wind includes both woodwind and brass.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

Timpani.

- Percussion.

- Acoustic guitar.

- String.

- Didgeridoo.

- Wind.

- Fiddle.

- Wind.

- That's incorrect.

Synthesizer.

- Electronic?

- Cor anglais.

You can pass.

- Pass.

- Glockenspiel.

- Percussion.

- Euphonium.

- Wind.

- Balalaika.

- Pass.

- Otamatone.

- Electric.

- Cor Anglais?

- Wind.

- Balalaika, balalaika.

- Percussion.

- That is incorrect.

And I believe you got every single other of them correct.

We will go through the two that you did miss.

The fiddle is a string instrument.

And the balalaika is a string instrument as well.

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

Your choices are A-R-M, B-E-N, or quadrilaterals.

- Quadrilaterals.

- All right.

Given that some answers may be repeated, what is the most general type of quadrilateral with these properties?

We're looking for a noun unless specified otherwise.

60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

Three, two, one.

All interior angles are right angles.

- Square.

- That's incorrect.

Exactly one pair of sides is parallel.

- Trapezoid.

- The rotational symmetry is of order four.

- Pass.

- All side lengths are equal.

- That's square.

- That's incorrect.

An adjective for one for which a circle can be drawn passing through all vertices.

- Square.

- That's incorrect.

Every pair of adjacent interior angles is supplementary.

- Pass.

- The diagonal each bisect each other.

Oh, the other.

- A parallelogram.

- The diagonals perpendicular.

- Rectangle.

- That's incorrect.

The diagonals are each other's perpendicular bisectors.

- Pass.

- An adjective for one where every interior angle is under 180 degrees.

- Pass.

- The rotational symmetry is-- All out of time.

We'll go through the ones that you guys missed.

All interior angles are right angles is a rectangle.

The rotational symmetry is of order four is a square.

The all side lengths are equal is rhombus.

The adjective for one for which a circle can be drawn passing through all vertices is cyclic quadrilateral.

The every pair of adjacent interior angles is supplementary is parallelogram.

The diagonals are perpendicular is kite.

The diagonals are each other's perpendicular bisectors is rhombus.

And an adjective for one where every interior angle is under 180 degrees is convex.

Convex.

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

And we have a lead change.

Mt.

Vernon now on top.

160 to Wesclin's 140.

Still a very close game going into the back half.

For your next question, what composer whose opera, "La Cenerentola," adopts the story of Cinderella, depicted a hero who shoots an apple off his son's head in William Tell?

Kaiden.

- Rossini.

- Rossini is correct.

For your bonus, what song whose music video is set in a flooding laundromat and depicts a lotto at a funeral is the numerically titled debut single of BTS' Jung Kook.

- One.

- One is incorrect.

Mt.

Vernon, chance to steal.

- Seven.

- Seven is correct, well done.

For your next question, what title character confronts 300 wolves in the Pyrenees with help from his servant Friday and is stranded in a novel by Daniel Defoe?

Alex.

- Jimmy.

- That's incorrect.

Sorry, you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was "Robinson Crusoe."

"Robinson Crusoe."

For your next question, what kind of structures in early America include the Middlesex one ending in Boston and another dubbed Clinton's Ditch in New York named for Erie?

Macie.

- Canal.

- Canal is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what Soviet author drew his on experiences as a political prisoner to conduct an experiment in literary investigation titled, "The Gulag Archipelago."

- Smith.

- That is incorrect.

Wesclin, chance to steal.

- Dostoevsky?

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Aleksander Solzhenitsyn.

For your next question, what city contains the Vigeland Installation in Frogner Park, hosts the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize, and is the capital of Norway?

Kaiden.

- Oslo.

- Oslo is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what flowers in a certain Giverny garden were depicted in approximately 250 paintings by Claude Monet?

- Water lilies.

- Water lilies is correct, well done Colby.

For your next question, what sculpture created the Big Sail, a monumental sculpture on the campus of MIT and many hanging kinetic sculptures that were dubbed mobiles?

Alex.

- Mark.

- Mark is incorrect.

So all out of time.

The answer we were looking for was Alexander Calder.

Alexander Calder.

For your next question, what element, which is the second lightest Chalcogen ordinarily exists as a yellow solid and forms compounds that often smell-- Ian.

- Sulfur.

- Sulfur is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what term for an ancient Greek heavy infantry unit also names the bones found in human fingers and toes.

- Phalanges.

- Phalanges is correct, well done.

And that will take us to our next media question.

This American rapper-- Alex.

- Ice Spice.

- Ice Spice is correct, well done.

That will take us back to our toss-ups.

What film whose title object is the real life Antikythera mechanism is the fifth about a whip wielding archeologist played by Harrison Ford.

Alex.

- Indiana Jones.

- We need more than Indiana Jones.

- "Raiders of the Lost Ark?"

- That is incorrect.

- Colby.

- "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."

- That is correct, well done, Colby.

And for your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

Given that 14 squared equals 196, what is the value of 28 squared?

- 784.

- That is correct, well done Tommy.

For your next toss-up, what country was led by Liaquat Ali Khan and Mohammed Al Jinnah after it split apart from India during the process of partition in 1947?

Kaiden.

- Pakistan.

- Pakistan is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what American explorer led an expedition across the southwest portion of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806 and is the namesake of a mountain in Colorado?

- Clark.

- That is incorrect.

Mt.

Vernon, chance to steal.

- Pike?

- Pike is correct, well done.

For your next toss-up, what story in which a cab ride after a ball leads to poverty for Madame Loisel was written Guy de Maupassant, about the loss of borrowed jewelry?

Colby.

- "Les Mis."

- That is incorrect.

Alex.

- "Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "The Necklace."

"The Necklace."

For your next question, what river, which is formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers flows under the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and shares its name with the state?

Alex.

- Mississippi.

- That is incorrect.

- Kaiden.

- Missouri.

- That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Alabama.

Alabama.

- [Kaiden] There's an Alabama River?

- Here's our next toss-up.

- In what battle known as Operation Detachment did US troops take Mount Suribachi as shown in Joe Rosenthal's photograph of soldiers raising a flag?

Ian.

- The Battle of Iwo Jima.

- Iwo Jima is correct, well done.

For your bonus, while hard to apply in practice, what thermodynamic cycle named for a French scientist is the most efficient heat engine between two reservoirs?

(murmuring) You guys are all out of time.

Wesclin, a chance to steal.

The answer we were looking for was the Carnot cycle.

The Carnot cycle.

For your next toss-up, what novel in which Mr. Carmichael takes Absalom's case pro deo and Stephen Kumalo attempts to fix his village in South Africa is by Alan Patton?

Or Paton, excuse me.

Colby.

- "Heart of Darkness."

- That is incorrect.

Alex.

- "Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

- That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was "Cry, the Beloved Country."

(dinging) And that bell means we are all out of time.

Our lovely contestants here today and the people working hard behind the camera, I'm Ethan Neir, thank you so much and goodnight.

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