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

I'm your host Ethan Neir, and we have another great episode today with a very special team this week.

So let's go ahead and introduce those teams.

On the bottom, we have that special team, the hometown heroes, not to be biased at all, but Carbondale with Theodor, Clark, Jay, and Danial.

And on the top, we have West Frankfort with Christopher, Joseph, Jacob, and Bryan.

Now before we get into our game, let's just do a quick rundown of the rules.

We'll start off with some toss up questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points a piece.

If a team gets it right, they get to move on to a bonus question.

That's worth 20 points, and it can be stolen for 10.

You guys are allowed to interrupt me at any time, but if you interrupt me and get the question wrong, it is five points for the other team.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, make sure you're right.

All right, we all understand the rules, we're all on the same page?

Great.

Let's get into the questions.

What author of "No Cross, No Crown" received a 1681 land grant from Charles II and was a Quaker who established a colony where he founded Philadelphia?

(buzzer beeping) Danial.

- Penn.

- William Penn is correct, well done.

For your bonus, Joseph Priestley is one of two chemists credited with discovering what gas which Priestly referred to as "dephlogisticated air"?

(Carbondale whispering) - Hydrogen?

- [Ethan] Hydrogen is incorrect.

Frankfort, the chance to steal.

(Frankfort whispering) - Oxygen?

- [Ethan] Oxygen is correct, well done.

10 points a piece.

For your next question, what programming structures are often unrolled during compilation, come in four and wild types-- (buzzer beeps) Clark?

- Loop.

- [Ethan] Loop is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what animal who created the Milky Way by throwing some of black god stars into the sky was the trickster god of Navajo mythology?

- Coyote, yeah?

- Yeah.

Coyote?

- [Ethan] Coyote is correct.

Well done, Jay.

Your next question, which Goddess, who killed the daughters of Niobi and... (buzzer beeping) Jay?

- [Jay] Artemis?

- Artemis is correct, well done.

In what city can one walk up the Spanish steps to the Trini del Monte Church?

- Rome.

- Rome?

- [Ethan] Rome is correct, well done.

Back to the Tossups, what sitcom depicted a drink called snake juice that intoxicates Ron-- (buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Parks and Recreation?

- [Ethan] Parks and Rec is correct, well done.

For your bonus, what group of particles named after a word from James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" comes in six flavors, like strange, bottom, and top?

- Quarks?

- [Ethan] Quarks is correct, well done.

- Next toss up, what island whose north shore includes Cold Spring Harbor is home to the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn and is New York's largest island?

(buzzer beeping) Theodor.

- Long Island?

- [Ethan] Long Island is correct.

Also home to the New York Islanders.

For your bonus, before taking England, William the Conqueror ruled what French duchy that was originally seized for Vikings by Rollo in the 10th century?

(Carbondale whispering) - Normandy.

- [Ethan] Normandy is correct.

Well done.

The next question, what religion who persecuted priests called kakure or hidden in Tokugawa era Japan was spread by Francis Xavier and other Jesuits?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Christianity.

- [Ethan] Christianity is correct.

For your bonus, what long Latin poem by Ovid describes many examples of the title phenomena includes Nilus being changed into stone and Talus becoming a partridge?

(Carbondale whispering) - Transformation?

- [Ethan] Transformation is incorrect.

Frankfort, the chance to steal.

(Frankfort whispering) - No answer.

- The answer we're looking for was "The Metamorphosis."

So I mean just a different word for transformation.

Jay, I see you shaking your fist.

Might have had that one, and that will now take us to our first media question.

This was a comedic American entertainer who is known for his humorous persona including an accentuated shrill voice and a stress on raunchy comedy.

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Godfrey.

- [Ethan] Do we need the full name for that one?

I'm gonna guess no; I'm gonna take it.

Gilbert Godfrey is correct.

Well done.

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

Let's take it right back to a toss up.

What quantity, which is constant in isochloric processes, is inversely proportional to pressure by Boyle's Law and can be measured in liters.

(buzzer beeps) Danial - Volume.

- [Ethan] Volume is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus: In what European capital city was Zaniar Matapour arrested in June 2022 after committing a mass shooting at an L-G-B-T Prime Festival?

(Carbondale whispering) - Oslo.

- Okay, Oslo - Oslo - [Ethan] Oslo is correct.

Well done.

The next question, what astronomical objects which title a 1978 story by Alice Monroe include Europa, Io-- (buzzer beeps) Danial - Moon - [Ethan] Moon is correct.

Well done.

Actually do we need both parts of that answer?

We do need both parts of that answer, so incorrect.

We need both parts of Europa, Io and Ganymede are the orbits of the solar system's largest planet?

(buzzer beeps) Jacob - Jupiter (Ethan balks and stammers) Jupiter's moons.

- [Ethan] There you go.

I was like "he said the first part; you said just the second part."

Jupiter's moons.

That is correct.

And for your bonus, since 2011, what country contains much of the Atlas Mountains range and has been the largest in Africa by area.

(Frankfort whispering) (buzzer beeping) So you guys are all out of time.

Carbondale, the chance to steal.

(Carbondale whispering) - Algeria.

- [Ethan] Algeria is correct.

So that'll take us back to the toss ups.

What two Americans name the county that contains Helena, Montana, because they crossed the area in 1805 and 1806?

(buzzer beeps) Jay.

- Lewis and Clark.

- [Ethan] Lewis and Clark is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Middle Eastern country whose current king is Abdullah II has been ruled by the Hashemite dynasty since 1921?

(Carbondale whispering) - Jordan?

- [Ethan] Jordan is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What novel in which the psychic land down convinces an aristocrat not to divorce an adulterous woman who later jumps under a train is by Leo Tolstoy?

(buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Anna Karenina.

- [Ethan] Anna Karenina is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus, pencil and paper ready?

What number of circles with a diameter of 4 will collectively have the same area as a single circle, whose diameter is 12?

(Carbondale whispers) - Six.

- [Ethan] Six is incorrect.

West Frankfort for the chance to steal.

(West Frankfort whispers) - 12.

- [Ethan] 12 is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was nine.

Nine.

(Contestants whispering) - [Jay] Nine.

Back to the toss ups.

What technique, one type of which uses S-T-L files to aid an FDM-- (buzzer beeps) Clark - 3D printing.

- [Ethan] 3D printing is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the name of what food appears in an alternative name for amateur radio and is hyphenated with handed- or fisted-in expressions meaning graceless.

(Carbondale whispering) - Hammer - Hammer - [Ethan] Hammer radio is correct.

Well done.

- [Jay] Yes.

- Back to the Toss ups.

What renaissance artist was inspired by the ancient Roman author of the art turou to depict ideal human proportions in his drawing?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Da Vinci - [Ethan] Leonardo da Vinci is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what country whose name may derive from a term meaning mountain of vomiting water is the most populous in Central America and is west of Belize?

(Carbondale whispering) - Nicaragua.

Nicaragua?

- Yeah.

Okay.

- Nicaragua.

- [Ethan] Nicaragua is incorrect.

West Frankfort, the chance to steal.

(West Frankfort whispering) - Honduras.

- [Ethan] Honduras is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Guatemala.

Guatemala.

And that'll take us to another media question.

This website is used for creators who want to expand-- (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Archives of Our Own?

- [Ethan] Archives of our own is correct.

Well done.

- [Jay] I've never seen it.

- Back to the toss ups.

What city where Rick Caruso and Karen Bass are running in a 2022 mayoral election to replace Eric Garcetti is the most populous in California?

(buzzer beeps) Jacob.

- Los Angeles.

- [Ethan] Los Angeles is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus: In 1764, James Hargreaves invented what hand powered machine with a partly feminine name that could produce many spools of yarn at once?

(West Frankfort whispering) - A Spinning Jenny - [Ethan] Spinning Jenny is correct.

Well done.

Next question.

What language was used to write both of the plumb in the golden vase and its source material, the great classical novel "Water Margin" by Shi Nai'an?

(buzzer beeps) Jay.

- Korean.

- [Ethan] Korean is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) Jacob.

- Chinese.

- [Ethan] Chinese is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, John Warden was the first captain of what Union ironclad that in 1862 fought against the Confederate ship CSS of Virginia?

(West Frankfort whispering) - Chesapeake.

- [Ethan] Chesapeake is incorrect.

Carbondale, the chance to steal.

(Carbondale whispering) - Monitor.

- [Ethan] USS Monitor is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What Midwestern university names an economic school led by George Steigler and Milton Friedman that advocates monetarism instead of keynesianism?

(timer beeps) Sorry you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was sweet home Chicago, the University of Chicago.

Back to the toss ups.

What diatomic compound can react with methanol to form acidic acid, has a very high affinity for hemoglobin, and is sometimes called a silent killer?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Carbon monoxide.

- [Ethan] Carbon monoxide is correct.

For your bonus, under hostile conditions, the bacteria that cause botulism can form what hardened dormant structures that can survive for centuries?

(Carbondale whispering) - Tumor?

- [Ethan] Tumors is incorrect.

West Frankfort, the chance to steal.

(West Frankfort whispers) - Bacterial fige.

- [Ethan] That is also incorrect.

The answer you're looking for was endospores.

Endospores.

Back to the toss ups.

What baseball player, who in 2022 became the third man with a career of 300 average to reach 500 home runs and 3000 hits, plays for the Tigers?

(buzzer beeps) Jacob.

- Miguel Cabrera.

- [Ethan] Miguel Cabrera is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, the game of the year winner at the 2021 game awards was what exclusively co-op game about a pair of dolls representing a pair of divorcing parents?

(West Frankfort whispers) - Two of us?

- [Ethan] Two of us is incorrect.

Weirdly enough, one of the parents is British, and one of them is American in the game.

It's really weird.

I don't--and then the kid's British.

It's cyst.

- It takes two?

- [Ethan] It takes two is correct.

Well done.

A fantastic game, by the way.

And that will now take us to the lightning round.

(drums beat) The way our lightning round works is each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can about a particular topic.

Now Frankfort, since you guys are trailing in this one, you guys will get to pick your topic first.

Your choices are "Lightning", that's fitting.

"Literary Animals," "'Pun' Words", and "Revolutions".

I hope somebody picks pun words.

That sounds fun.

(West Frankfort whispers) - Literary animals, please - [Ethan] Literary animals it is.

Given a literary character, identify what animal it is.

And you guys will get 60 seconds on the clock.

I will count you down.

3, 2, 1.

Charlotte in "Charlotte's Web" - Spider.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

"Moby Dick."

- Whale.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Napoleon in "Animal Farm".

You can pass as well.

- Horse - [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Aslan in "The Chronicles of Narnia."

- Lion.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Buck in "Call of the Wild" - Wolf.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Rocinante in "Don Quixote."

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Hazel in "Watership Down" - Rabbit.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Richard Parker in "Life of Pi" - Tiger.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Ricki-Tikki-Tavi in "The Jungle Book" - A snake - [Ethan] That is incorrect.

Captain Flint and Long John Silvers pet in "Treasure Island."

Oh yeah.

Captain Flint, Long John Silvers pet, in "Treasure Island."

Excuse me.

- Pass - [Ethan] Rocinante in "Don Quixote."

- Horse.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Captain Flint in Long John Silver's-- Long John Silver's pet in "Treasure Island" (timer beeps) and you guys are all out of time.

So we'll go through the ones that you missed.

Napoleon in "Animal Farm" was a pig.

Buck in "Call of the Wild" was not a wolf but a dog.

Ricki-Tikki-Tavi in "The Jungle Book" was a mongoose, and Captain Flint, Long John Silver's pet, in "Treasure Island" was a parrot.

So going 7 out of 10 on that.

Pick yourself up 70 points, well done.

Now to Carbondale.

I'll re-read you your choices again.

They are "Lightning," "'Pun' Words," and "Revolutions".

- Pun words - [Ethan] Pun words it is.

Yay.

That one sounds the most fun.

All right, 'Pun' Words.

Given these words that contain the consecutive letters: P-U-N Aww, that's not nearly as fun as I thought it would be.

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

3, 2, 1.

An admirable type of courage or gumption.

- Punctuality.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Extremely smelly.

- Pungent.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Asian folk remedy in which tiny needles are pushed into skin.

- Acupuncture.

- [Ethan] Acupuncture is correct.

A supposed expert interviewed on news shows.

- Pass - Pundit - [Ethan] Pundit's correct.

To totally erase something from a record.

- Expunge.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Tiny and insignificant.

- Puny.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

A non-conformist, troublemaker or delinquent.

- Punk.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Safety from consequence or discipline.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Never Late, always on time.

- [Jay And Clark] Punctual.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

A qualm or slight feeling of regret.

- Pass - [Ethan] Safety from consequence or discipline.

- Pass - [Ethan] A qualm or slight feeling of regret.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Those are the only two.

(chuckles) - Wait.

Other turn?

- [Ethan] Oh the first one.

Safety from consequence or discipline.

- Impunitive.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

A qualm.

(timer beeps) And you guys are out of time.

So the one that you guys got wrong out at the beginning, "an admirable type of courage or gumption" is spunk, (team members groan) and then "a qualm or slate feeling of regret" is compunction.

Compunction.

- [Jay] Compunction.

- [Ethan] So getting, I believe, 8 out of 10 on that.

Well done.

Let's just take a quick look at our scores after the lightning round.

So we have Frankfort with 135 and Carbondale with 390.

So you guys, Carbondale in firm control, but Frankfort, no reason you guys can't come back in the second half.

Still a lot of game left to be played.

Let's get back into those questions.

What man's speech on the cult of personality and its consequences, nicknamed "The Secret Speech," denounced the purges of his predecessor, Josef Stalin?

(buzzer beep) Theodor - Khruschchev.

- [Ethan] Nikita Khrushchev is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what Israeli city along the Mediterranean Sea is home to most of the country's foreign embassies?

(Carbondale whispering) - Tel Aviv.

- [Ethan] Tel Aviv is correct.

Well done.

For the toss up, what author wrote about 5th grade bullies in the novel "Blubber" and described a girl's first period in the novel, "Are You There, God?

It's Me, Margaret"?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor - Judy Blume.

- [Ethan] Judy Blume is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in 1981, members of what profession, which made up the PATCO Union, were fired by Ronald Reagan after a lengthy strike?

- Air traffic controllers.

- Air traffic controllers?

- [Ethan] Air traffic controllers is correct.

Well done.

So the next toss up: What wind instrument with a heckel, type depicts the grandfather in the "Peter and the Wolf", uses a double reed, and has a larger-- (buzzer beeps) Theodor - Bassoon - [Ethan] Bassoon is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus: While performing toe off, Muslims circle seven times around what holiest object in Islam, which is a large granite cube shaped structure in Mecca?

(Carbondale whispering) - Kaaba.

- [Ethan] The Kaaba is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up, what group whose member, Ethan Nordine, was charged with conspiracy in relation to the January 6th riot is an all male far-right activist group-- (buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Proud boys.

- [Ethan] Proud boys is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what precursor of norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter produced in the brain's rewards circuit and released after many pleasurable activities?

(Carbondale whispers) - Serotonin.

- [Ethan] Serotonin is incorrect.

Frankfort to chance to steal.

- Dopamine.

- [Ethan] Dopamine is correct.

Well done.

For the next tossup, what Victorian author wrote about Weena, one of the small Eloi people from the year 802,701 AD in a science fiction novel titled-- (buzzer beeps) Danial - Wells - [Ethan] HG Wells is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, The Jackobite uprisings aimed to restore what royal dynasty which united the English and Scottish crowns during the reign of James the First?

(Carbondale whispering) - Lancaster.

- [Ethan] Lancaster is incorrect.

Frankfort.

The chance to steal.

- Tudor.

- [Ethan] Tudor is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the House of Stuart, or the Stuarts.

Back to the toss ups.

What point at which two plumb lines intersect is the same as the centroid for a body of uniform density, and is a weighted average of a body's matter?

(buzzer beeps) Jay.

- Center of gravity.

- [Ethan] Center of gravity is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, in the 1860s the magazine "Overland Monthly" published what author's stories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"?

(Carbondale whispering) - Coal.

Coal.

- Coal.

- [Ethan] Coal is incorrect.

Frankfort.

The chance to steal.

(Frankfort whispering) - Smith - [Ethan] Smith is also incorrect.

The answer we're looking for, was not to be confused with the WWE wrestler, Bret Harte, not Bret The Hitman Hart.

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

What UK Prime Minister, who took office after the Norway debate, offered blood, toil, tears, and sweat upon succeeding Neville Chamberlain in 1940?

(buzzer beeps) - Danial - Churchill - [Ethan] Winston Churchill's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what man who, in 2021, became the oldest person to win an acting Oscar for his role, and the father played Hannibal Lecter in the "Silence of the Lambs"?

(Carbondale whispers) - Anthony Hopkins.

- Hopkins.

- [Ethan] Anthony Hopkins is correct.

I think he also played Bowser in the original "Mario Bros" movie too, which I think Nintendo would like to forget ever happened.

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

Concluding with six seasons and two movies on Cartoon Network, this 2003 Dark Comedy-- (buzzer beeps) Joseph - "Grim Tales of Billy and Mandy."

- [Ethan] Are we going to accept that?

- [Producer] Yes - [Ethan] We'll accept that.

Okay.

It's technically "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy".

but still Billy and Mandy multi.

And that'll take us to another toss up.

What author wrote about a trip to the city of Arc Angel undertaken by explorer Robert Walton at the start of her 1818 horror novel, Frankenstein?

(buzzer beeps) Jacob - Mary Shelley.

- [Ethan] Mary Shelley is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what composer, who led the Second Viennese School, wrote a 1928 work variations for orchestra, that displays his 12 tone technique?

(Frankfort whispers) - Moriarty?

- [Ethan] Moriarty is incorrect.

Carbondale the chance to steal.

(Carbondale whispering) - Gershwin - [Ethan] Gershwin is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Arnold Schoenberg.

Back to our next question, what country, which controls the world's largest natural gas field, is home to the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha and hosted-- (buzzer beeps) Jacob.

- Qatar - [Ethan] Qatar is correct.

For your bonus: The 18th amendment was implemented by what 1919 act that allowed the federal government to enforce prohibition?

(timer beeps) I'm sorry you guys are all out of time.

Carbondale the chance to steal.

(Carbondale whispers) - Anti Saloon Act - [Ethan] Say it again.

- The Anti Saloon Act - [Ethan] Anti Saloon Act is incorrect.

It is the so accurately named "National Prohibition Act" or the "Volstead Act."

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

What Italian artist showed the three graces dancing in a circle to the left of the goddess of Venus in an--- (buzzer beeps) Danial.

- Botticelli - [Ethan] Botticelli is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus, what playwright depicted Peter impaling himself on a knife held by Jerry in "The Zoo Story" and also wrote the 1961 play "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

(Carbondale whispers) - Albee?

- [Ethan] Albee is correct.

Edward Albee.

For the next toss up, what moon, which is mutually tightly locked due to its large size relative to the dwarf planet it orbits was the first known moon of Pluto?

(buzzer beeps) Theodor.

- Charon.

- [Ethan] I always thought it was pronounced "Car-on" as well.

It's technically "Sharon", but yeah, that's correct.

Yeah, that's what my pronunciation guide is telling me.

I was real confused by that one.

And for your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of the smallest angle in a triangle whose angles have a ratio of one to two to six?

- 20 degrees.

- 20 degrees.

- [Ethan] 20 degrees is correct.

Well done.

For the next toss up.

What president, who signed the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Pendleton Civil Service Act, became president after the assassination of James Garfield?

(buzzer beeps) Jacob - Arthur.

- [Ethan] Chester Alan Arthur is correct.

Well done, Jacob.

For your next bonus, what country's prime minister, Mario Draghi, resigned in July 2022 after two confidence votes leading to a September 2022 snap election?

(Frankfort whispering) - Brazil.

- [Ethan] Brazil is incorrect.

Carbondale the chance to steal.

- Italy.

- [Ethan] Italy is correct.

Well done.

The next tossup, what river whose lower section is known as the "Padma" forms the world's largest delta in Bangladesh, and is the holiest river of Hinduism?

(buzzer beeps) Clark.

- Ganges.

- [Ethan] Ganges is correct.

For your bonus, what teenage girl works at a grocery store owned by her father, Maverick, and sees a policeman shoot her friend Khalil in Angie Thomas's novel, "The Hate You Give"?

(Carbondale whispers) - Maya - [Ethan] Maya is incorrect.

Frankfort.

The chance to steal.

(Frankfort whispers) - Smith - [Ethan] Smith is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for there was Star Carter.

Star Carter.

(door bell rings) And that bell means that we are all out of time on today's show.

So let's take a quick look at the points.

We have Carbondale with 620 and Frankfort with 185.

So Carbondale just taking control from the get-go and really just not letting go.

Well done.

So that is all the time we have for on today's episode.

For all of the people working hard behind the scenes, and all of our lovely contestants here today, I'm Ethan Neir.

Thank you so much and goodnight.

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