(cheerful music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the game where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Ethan Neir and we have another great episode here in store for you today.

So let's introduce our two great teams.

On the bottom we have Nashville with Abby, Malayna, Garrett, and John.

On the top we have Woodlawn with Ben, Amelia, Gracie, and Daylon.

But before we get into our game let's just do a quick reminder of the rules.

We'll start off with some toss up questions.

Each of those will be worth 10 points.

If they get it right, they'll get to go to a bonus question which is worth 20 points.

If they get that wrong though the other team can steal that bonus question for 10 points.

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

So keep that in mind.

Now if you guys are all ready we can get started with our questions.

In 1967, Dr. Zakir Hussain became the first Muslim president of what country that had gained independence in 1947 after being partitioned from Pakistan?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Garrett.

- Iraq.

- [Ethan] Iraq is incorrect.

Woodlawn still can answer here.

And I think our camera person, Jesse, hoping (timer buzzes) - that you guys answer 'cause they want to get to the bonus question.

(chuckling) And now Jesse, our camera person, very sad that we did not get to the question about Roman emperors but the correct answer there was India.

and no bonus question about Caligula.

I'm sorry Jesse.

And now we'll just go back in order.

I'm not gonna make the booth do funny orders.

So back to question one.

What particle oscillates between three flavors, has a tiny but non-zero mass, barely interacts with matter and has a name meaning a little neutral one?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Malayna.

- Quark.

- [Ethan] Quark is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Amelia - Neutron - [Ethan] Neutron is close.

We were looking for Neutrino.

Neutrino Under our next question.

What city whose jumbo floating restaurant sank in 2022 contains Kowloon north of Victoria Harbor, and in 1997 was handed over from the UK to China?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby - Shanghai - [Ethan] Shanghai's incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Amelia - [Amelia] Hong Kong.

- [Ethan] Hong Kong is correct.

Where my parents are from and very importantly, free Hong Kong.

For the bonus question, What British author wrote about Tony's trip to Brazil in "A Handful of Dust" and portrayed the alcoholic Lord Sebastian Flyte, in "Brideshead Revisited"?

- Hemingway - [Ethan] Hemingway is incorrect.

Nashville, you do have a chance to steal.

- Pass - [Ethan] Pass?

The answer we're looking for was Evelyn Waugh.

Evelyn Waugh.

For our next toss up.

What battle in which Strong Vincent led a defense of Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge failed was an 18... (buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon - Gettysburg.

- [Ethan] Gettysburg is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What unusually colored animal titles a book by Nassim Taleb, about improbable events and a 2010 movie starring Natalie Portman as a ballet dancer?

(timer buzzes) - [Ethan] Sorry you guys are all out of time there.

Nashville, the chance to steal.

- The Black Swan.

- Black Swan's, correct.

Well done.

And you steal 10 points.

Nice job.

For next toss up.

What term coined from the Greek for "way down" by Michael Faraday is an electrode that is a site of reduction and is connected to an anode?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Garrett - Cathode - [Ethan] Cathode's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

The Haber-Bosch process is used to produce over 200 million tons per year of what gas used to make Fertilizers.

- Nitrogen.

- [Ethan] Nitrogen is incorrect.

Woodlawn a chance to steal.

- Ammonia.

- Ammonia is correct.

Well done.

For your next question.

What author described a "rough beast" that "slouches towards Bethlehem" in his poem, "The Second Coming", also wrote many poems about his native Ireland?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby.

- O'Neil - [Ethan] O'Neil is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Amelia.

- Murphy.

- Murphy is also incorrect.

I like just throwing out common Irish last names and hoping you'd get it.

Answer we're looking for was William Butler Yeats.

William Butler Yeats.

Back to the toss up.

What first ever US delegate to the United Nations, previously organized Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial as FDR's First Lady?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby - Eleanor Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What band whose album "Aqualung" contains "Locomotive Breath" is led by flautist Ian Anderson and shares its name with the inventor of the seed drill.

That's such a strangely specific fact that they share a name?

(timer buzzes) - [Ethan] Nashville you're outta time.

Woodlawn.

- Jethro Tull.

- Jethro Toll is correct.

Well done.

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

This anthem belongs to the southern most country in Africa.

Their president Cyril Ramaphosa and is the 25th largest country in the world.

Name this country.

(buzzer beeps) - [Malayna] South Africa.

- South Africa's correct.

Well done.

And because that is a media question there is no bonus question.

Well let's take it back to toss ups.

What Trigonomic function's namesake law extends the Pythagorean Theorem to non-right triangles and is the reciprocal of the Secant function?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Ben.

- Law of Cosines - Cosine's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Bed in nets help protect against what insect which Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed proved was responsible for spreading yellow fever?

- Mosquitoes.

- [Ethan] Mosquitoes is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What island known before 1956 as Bedloe's Island was renamed after a statue on the island, (buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] with a tablet... Daylon.

- Easter Island.

- [Ethan] Easter Island is incorrect.

I'll reread the rest of the question, was renamed after a statue on the island with a tablet reading July 4th, 1776 and a torch?

- Liberty Island.

- [Ethan] I need you to buzz it.

(buzzer beeps) - Liberty Island.

- That's correct.

I believe only you could buzz in at that point anyway, (all laugh) - But rules and semantics.

Make sure we buzz in.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What Big 10 school whose men's basketball team is coached by Juwan Howard, featured a group of players in the 1990s known as the Fab Five?

- University of Tennessee.

- [Ethan] University of Tennessee is incorrect.

Woodlawn a chance to steal.

- Alabama.

- Alabama's also incorrect.

We're looking for University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

The Wolverines.

Back to our toss ups.

In 2022, what literary medal marking its hundredth anniversary went to Donna Barba Higuera's "The Last Cuentista" as ALA's most esteemed book for children?

(timer buzzes) - Sorry you guys are outta time.

The answer we're looking for was Newbery Medal.

The Newbery Medal.

Our next question, what event whose 109th edition began in Copenhagen in July, 2022 is a major annual cycling race that always finishes on the Champs-Elysees in Paris?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby - Tour de France.

- Tour de France is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

In what type of fraction such as five-thirds is the numerator greater than the denominator?

- Improper.

- Improper is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What painting in which the God Zephyr blows the title Goddess towards the shore is by Sandro Botticelli and depicts a love goddess?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Malayna - The Birth of Venus.

- The Birth of Venus is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What author wrote about Major Kovalyov who traverses St. Petersburg in search of a missing body part in the 1836 Russian short story, "The Nose"?

- Dostoevski - [Ethan] Dostoevski is incorrect.

Woodlawn you have a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer we're looking for there was Nikolai Gogol.

Nikolai Gogol.

Next toss up.

Theodore Maiman built the first of what devices which use a gain medium to achieve a population inversion that generates coherent beams of light?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Garrett.

- Lasers.

- Lasers is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Jason Alexander played hapless George Castanza on what 90s TV series which was often called a show about nothing?

- Seinfeld.

- Seinfeld is correct.

And that will take it to another media question.

This American actor is known for his work in the... (buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby.

- Chris Pratt.

(participants laughs) - [Ethan] Chris Pratt is correct.

- I didn't even look up at the screen.

I was just assuming, you know, I didn't even get to Chris Pratt.

I was like I hope they got it right.

Otherwise I'm just gonna say incorrect or correct and we'll go with it.

- [Abby] It was right there.

- No, Yeah.

For the next tossup.

What political party currently led by Keir Starmer and previously led by Jeremy Corbin and Tony Blair is Great Britain's main left wing party?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Malayna.

- The Labor Party - Labor Party's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

Following the 2020 election Republicans in seven states sent fake elector certificates to what federal agency that preserves government records?

- Library of Congress.

- [Ethan] Library of Congress is incorrect.

Woodlawn a chance to steal.

- National Archives.

- National Archives is correct.

Well done.

I'm getting the sense of that was just a guess.

(participants laugh) - A pretty self-explanatory name though when you think about it.

And for our next toss up.

What field of study which was practiced by Clifford Gertz and Margaret Mead concerns human culture and has a name meaning, study of man?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Malayna.

- Anthropology.

- Anthropology is correct.

For your bonus.

What leader of the Soviet Union, signed the Salt 1 treaty after succeeding Nikita Khrushchev in 1964?

- Gorbachev.

- Gorbachev is incorrect.

Woodlawn you do have a chance to steal.

- Marks.

- The answer we're looking for there was Leonid Brezhnev.

Leonid Brezhnev.

And with that we'll take it to our Lightning Round.

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.

And now Woodlawn, since you guys are trailing, you will get to pick your topic first.

And your topics are, Stars, Italian Renaissance Artists, Super Bowl 56 and Two Ws.

- Two Ws.

- Two Ws it is.

So for two Ws, give these words or names that contain the letter W at least twice.

60 seconds on the clock for it, I'll count you down.

3, 2, 1.

Capital of Poland.

- Warsaw.

- [Ethan] Warsaw is correct.

William Carlos William's poem about a red one.

You can pass.

- Pass.

- Stephen Chbosky wrote a book about the perks of being one of these.

- Pass - Employee who reveals illegal activity in a company.

- Pass - [Ethan] Tree with a weeping variety.

- Willow - [Ethan] That's correct.

To narrow or reduce in a number.

- Withdrawal - That's incorrect.

Term for a woman whose spouse has died.

- Widow.

- [Ethan] Widow is correct.

A Native American gathering whose name comes from a Narragansett word.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Bird to which William Culin Bryant dedicated a poem.

- Willow.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Chinese dog breed with a thick course coat.

- Chowchow.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

William Carls Williams poem about a red one.

(timer buzzes) - So you guys are all out of time.

The William Carlos Williams poem about a red one was, Wheelbarrows.

Stephen Chbosky wrote a book about the perks of being one of these, Wallflower.

Employee who reveals a illegal activity in a company was a Whistleblower.

To narrow or reduce in number is, Winnow.

Native American gathering whose name comes from Narragansett word was, Powwow.

Bird to which William Colin Bryant dedicated to poem was, Waterfowl.

So with that you guys finish your lightning round and now Nashville we'll take it to you guys and I'll reread your options again for you, Stars, Italian Renaissance Artists, and Super Bowl 56.

- Stars.

- Stars it is.

So answer the following questions about stars.

60 seconds on the clock for you and I'll count you down.

3, 2, 1.

Noble gas formed by fusion of hydrogen in the sun.

- Pass - [Ethan] North Star found in the tail of Ursula Minor.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Brightest star in the sky.

- Sun.

- [Ethan] That's incorrect.

Event whose type two involves core collapse and explosion of a high mass star.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] A small dim star type that is the most common in the universe.

- Dwarf.

- [Ethan] Dwarf is... we're looking for a specific type of dwarf.

- Red dwarf.

- [Ethan] Red dwarf is correct.

Group of stars nicknamed the seven sisters.

- Pass - [Ethan] Letter denoting the spectral class of the sun.

- Pass.

- [Ethan] Red super giant on Orion's left shoulder.

- Beetle Juice - [Ethan] Beetle Juice is correct.

Cool dark patches on stars with high magnetic flux - Sun spots.

- [Ethan] That's correct.

Collection of stars that can be open or globular.

(timer buzzes) - Sorry you guys are all outta a time.

Noble gas formed by fusion of hydrogen in the sun was, Helium.

North star found in the tail of Ursa Minor was, Polaris.

Brightest star in the night sky is, Sirius.

Event whose type 2 involves core collapse and explosion of high mass star was, Super Nova.

Group of stars nicknamed the seven sisters was, Pleiades.

Letter denoting the spectral class of the sun was, G. And collections of stars that can be open or globular was, Star Clusters.

Star Clusters.

And with our lightning round done, let's take a quick look at our score.

So Nashville hanging on to a lead after that lightning round but you know still only halfway through our game, Woodlawn.

You have plenty of time to catch up.

And we'll take it back to some toss up.

In what year in which John Bell ran for president on the constitutional union ticket, did a victory by Abraham Lincoln lead South Carolina to secede?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon.

- 1862.

- [Ethan] 1862 is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby - 1865.

- 1865.

Also incorrect.

We're looking for 1860.

1860.

For your next question, pencil and paper ready.

If a 7 is dealt from a standard 52 card deck what is the probability the next card from the remaining 51 will also be 7?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Malayna.

- One in 17.

- [Ethan] One in 17 is correct.

Take you to your bonus.

Andre Leon Talley was hired by Anna Wintour to work at what US Fashion magazine whose name means style in French?

- Vogue.

- Vogue is correct.

Well done.

Back to the toss ups.

What city, which is the origin of Fado music lies at the mouth of the Tagus river or Tygus river, contains the Vasco de Gama bridge and is the capital of Portugal?

(timer buzzes) - So you guys are all outta time.

The answer we're looking for was Lisbon.

Lisbon.

Your next question.

What instrument provides the nickname of Camille Saint-Saens Third Symphony is sometimes operated with a bellows and has massive pipe forms?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Garrett - Organs.

- Organs is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

In December, 2021, the airport in Las Vegas was renamed in honor of what former senate majority leader who died just two weeks later?

(timer buzzes) - [Ethan] So you guys are all out of time.

Woodlawn chance to steal.

- No answer.

- The answer you're looking for is Harry Reid.

Harry Reid International Airport.

For our next question.

What poetic form used in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" is 14 lines long?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Malayna.

- Sonnet - Sonnet is correct.

For your bonus.

The tomb of Napoleon is in what Parisian complex originally built as a home for disabled war veterans?

- Pass - [Ethan] Pass.

Woodlawn with a chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Answer we're looking for is Hotel des Invalides.

And for your next toss up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value of the whole number X, given that the logarithm of X plus the logarithm of 6 equals the logarithm of 12?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Garrett - 2.

- 2 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

William Faulkner set many of his novels in the fictional Yoknapatawpha, I probably mispronounced that, county, which is in what Southern state?

- Louisiana.

- [Ethan] Louisiana is incorrect Woodlawn a chance to steal.

- Oklahoma - Oklahoma's also incorrect.

We're looking for Mississippi.

Mississippi.

Next toss up.

The House of the Faun is in what city, on the Bay of Naples, which was preserved in volcanic ash by the AD 79 eruption?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Amelia - Vesuvius.

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby - Pompeii - Pompeii is correct.

(chuckles) I was like, ah, am I gonna finish?

For your bonus.

The Good Friday agreement largely ended violence in what constituent country of the UK, where unionists fought Republicans during the troubles?

- Ireland.

- [Ethan] Ireland is incorrect.

Woodlawn, a chance to steal.

- England.

- England is incorrect.

We were looking for Ireland's protestant brother, Northern Irelands.

(participants whispering) - For your next toss up.

In what film are general Aaron Moore's orders for Colonel Mackenzie carried on foot, by two Lance corporals in?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon.

- A Few Good Men?

- A Few Good Men is incorrect.

- Two Lance Corporals in World War I during the title year.

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Garrett.

- 1917.

- 1917 is correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What piece with a seven word name and excerpt from Act 2 of Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" is known for its increasingly frenetic tempo?

- Arabesque - [Ethan] Arabesque is incorrect.

Woodlawn, a chance to steal - Staccato.

- Staccato is incorrect.

We're looking for "In the Hall of the Mountain King".

"In the Hall of the Mountain King".

For your next toss up.

What molecule whose auto ionization constant is the product of hydroxide and hydronium ions concentrations is known as a universal solvent?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon - Water - Water's correct.

Well done.

For your bonus.

What quantity which is proportional to the average kinetic energy of molecules in a gas is related to a gas's volume by Charles' law?

- Density.

- [Ethan] Density is incorrect.

Nashville.

You can steal.

- Pass.

- The answer we're looking for was temperature.

Temperature.

Next question.

The Battle of Stanford Bridge fell three weeks before what battle at which Harold Godwinson was slain by forces under William the Conqueror in 1066?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon.

- The Crusades - [Ethan] Crusades is incorrect.

(timer buzzes) - So you guys are all out of time.

The answer we're looking for was, The Battle of Hastings.

The Battle of Hastings.

And we'll take it to another media question.

This Matt Groening series is the... (buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] longest running... Malayna.

- The Simpsons - Simpsons is correct.

They just chose like a clip from random episode, didn't they?

I thought they were gonna choose like the intro 'cause that's the iconic part.

Nope.

All right.

They're showing Bart.

For your next toss up.

What man who was killed when two hell fire missiles struck a house in Kabul in a July, 2022 drone strike, helped plan 9/11 and was the head of Al Qaeda?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Abby.

- Osama Bin Laden.

- Osama Bin Laden is incorrect.

(buzzer beeps) - Daylon.

- Soleimani.

Soleimani is also incorrect.

We were looking for Amin Al Zawahiri.

And for your next tossup.

What leader of the Merry Pranksters wrote about Randle McMurphy who is lobotomized in a mental asylum in his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon.

- Steinbeck - [Ethan] Steinbeck is incorrect.

(timer buzzes) - The answer we're looking for there was Ken Kesey.

Ken Kesey.

For your next question What protein which forms stiff chains when mutated in sickle cell disease has four iron atoms that bind oxygen and is found in red blood cells?

(buzzer beeps) - [Ethan] Daylon.

- Hemoglobin.

- Hemoglobin is correct.

Well done.

And for your bonus.

A young member of the Liddell family was supposedly the basis for what literary character who attends a tea party with the March hare and the Mad Hatter?

- Alice.

(timer buzzes) - Alice is correct.

Well done.

I think they got that in before the ball.

I'm not sure if they did.

I'm gonna say they did.

And I believe (bell rings) - that bell means that is all the time we have for, on today's show.

Let's take a quick look at the score.

So we have Nashville holding it down at 285 and Woodlawn at 160.

Nashville holding onto that lead after the lightning round.

Well done.

So that'll be all we have time for on today's show.

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

Thank you and good night.

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