(bright music)
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- Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I'm your host, Jordan Spudville.
And today we are joined by
two very good looking teams
ready to play our game.
On the bottom row
we have Mater Dei
with Noah, Caleigh, and Cohen.
And on the top row we have
Sesser-Valier with Gabe, Maura,
and Maggie.
Now that we met our contestants,
it's time to go over the rules.
I'm going to be reading a series
of 10 point toss-up
questions that both teams
have a chance to answer.
If a team answers a 10
point toss-up correctly,
they have the chance to answer
a 20 point bonus question.
However, if they miss
that bonus question,
the other team has a chance
to steal it away from them for
10 points.
The interruption rule is
in effect in today's game.
So if I am interrupted
while reading a question,
and that answer is incorrect,
the other team
will automatically
receive five points
and they get to hear
the entire question.
As usual,
we'll be having our
lightening round
halfway through our game
where I'm going to be reading
a series of questions
in any given category
that both teams will
have a chance to
answer as many as
they possibly can.
And under 60 seconds,
now that we know the rules,
it's time to play our games.
So it's time to put on our
thinking caps and let's get down
to quiz-ness.
Starting with our
first 10 point toss-up
question for both teams.
What institution who's four
horsemen opposed the new deal
that Franklin Roosevelt tried
to pack in the 1930s by adding
up to six more justices?
Cohen.
- The Supreme court.
- That is correct.
Mater Dei, here's your first
20 point bonus question.
What man who moved funds into
pet banks as Andrew Jackson's
treasury secretary later served
as chief justice during the
Dred Scott Case?
- Taney.
- That's correct for 20
points moving onto our next 10
point toss-up for both teams.
In what country
home to the Yamina
and blue and white political
alliances did Naftali Bennett
replace Benjamin?
Cohen.
- Israel.
- That's correct for
10 points, Mater Dei.
Here's your next 20
point bonus question.
In Greek myth,
What musician went to Hades
to retrieve his love Eurydice?
- Orpheus.
- That's correct for 20 points.
And we'll move on to our next
10 point toss for both teams.
What eight letter term,
which has no official IUPAC
definition is normally used to
describe substances
containing atoms
of two or more elements?
Maura.
- Compound.
- That's correct for 10
points, Sesser-Valier.
Here is your first 20
point bonus question.
Pencil and paper ready
this is a math question.
What was the original price
of a bicycle that now retails
for $210 after having
been discounted by 30%?
That is time, Sesser.
Mater Dei,
you have a chance to steal.
- $273.
- Sorry that was close,
but that's incorrect.
The correct answer was $300.
It's okay.
We're going to
move on to our next
10 point toss-up for both teams.
What Monarch faced by a bed
chamber crisis ruled throughout
the tenure of prime
minister, Benjamin Disraeli
and was married
to prince Albert?
Cohen.
- Queen Victoria.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei,
Here's your next 20
point bonus question?
What name is shared by
a plaisant in Chicago
that is between Washington
park and Jackson park and
Chicago's second busiest
airport after O'Hare?
- Midway.
- That's correct for 20 points.
Moving onto our next 10
point toss-up for both teams.
What author typed his novel,
The Dharma Bums on a
single roll of paper,
as he did with his novel
about a trip taken to
Sal Paradise on the road?
Maura.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
And the correct answer
for that was Jack Kerouac.
It's time for our
first media question.
This is a still question.
Let's have a look.
This logo belongs to an
app and service from apple.
Maura.
- Find my iPhone.
- I'm sorry.
That's incorrect.
That was a very close, Maura.
We couldn't accept the iPhone.
The correct answer
was just Find My.
It's okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What waterway includes the
Great Bitter Lake terminates in
it's north at Port Said,
and as a canal that runs
along a namesake Egyptian
peninsula?
Caleigh.
- Suez.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei, here is your next
20 point bonus question.
Which son of John of Gaunt
became the first Lancastrian
king of England
when he overthrew
Richard the second in 1399?
(group chatter)
- Henry.
- Can you be more specific?
- Henry the third?
- I'm sorry.
That's incorrect.
Sesser, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- Henry the eighth.
I'm sorry.
That's also incorrect.
The correct answer
we were looking for
was Henry the fourth.
Very close.
Its okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What scientist
who first used the terms
positive and negative for charge
proposed to show that
lightning is electricity
by flying a kite in a storm?
Gabe.
- Benjamin Franklin.
- That's correct.
For 10 points.
Sesser, here is your 20
point bonus question.
In what state was
gay college student,
Matthew Shepard murdered,
the response to which
is depicted in the play.
The Laramie project?
(group chatter)
- Pennsylvania.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
(group chatter)
- Wyoming.
- That's correct.
For 10 points.
Congratulations, Mater Dei.
It's okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What word for the ocean
storms that foiled the Mongol
attempts to invade Japan
also names Japan's tactic
of aerial suicide attacks
in world war two?
- Maura.
- Kamikaze.
- That's correct.
For 10 points, Sesser
here's your 20 point
bonus question.
Indianapolis 500 champions
traditionally drink what
non-alcoholic beverage
from a glass bottle?
(group chatter)
Mater Dei.
You have a chance to steal.
- Coca-Cola.
Sorry.
That's incorrect.
The answer we were
looking for was milk.
We're gonna move on to our
next 10 point toss-up question.
What singer of Versace on the
Floor who joins Anderson Paak?
- Bruno Mars.
That's correct.
For 10 points.
Here is your 20
points bonus question.
Sesser, what country of
birth of August Strindberg
is the setting of his
naturalistic tragedy,
Ms. Julie.
(group chatter)
- Austria.
- Sorry, that's incorrect.
Mater Dei,
You have a chance to
steal for 10 points.
- Germany.
- Sorry.
That's also incorrect.
The correct answer we were
looking for was Sweden.
It's okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What animals,
which only have two germ
layers are sessile organisms.
Some of whose skeletons
have been utilized by humans
because they absorb water.
- Cohen.
- Sponges.
That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei,
Here's your next 20
point bonus question.
What dwarf planet discovered
by Giuseppe Piazzi
is the largest object
in the asteroid belt
and is named for
a Roman goddess.
- Ceres.
- That's correct for 20 points.
It's now time for our
next media question.
This is a video question.
Let's take a look.
This series of video games
is published by Nintendo.
It features a multitude
of varying characters
from a wide array of
video game franchises.
The objective is to knock
players off of the stage.
- Gabe.
- Super Smash Bros.
- That's correct for 10 points.
we're gonna move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What phenomenon plotted against
wage rises on the Phillips
curve comes in structural and
seasonal forms and occurs when
people cannot find a job.
- Depression.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
The answer we were looking
for was unemployment.
It's okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up question.
What man,
whose company was criticized
in a history written by
Muckraker, Ida Tarbell
was the first U.S. billionaire
and founded standard oil.
- Cohen.
- John D. Rockefeller.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei,
Here's your 20 point
bonus question.
What ornate art style, sometimes
called the late Baroque
includes Jean-Honoré Fragonard's
painting of the swing
and flourished in
18th century France?
(group chatter)
Sesser, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- Impressionism.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
The answer we were
looking for was Rococo.
It's okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
And this is a math question,
So let's get those
pencils and paper ready.
If a resolution needs a
two-thirds majority to pass
and a 285 member legislature,
what minimum number
of votes is required?
Caleigh.
- 190.
That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei,
Here's your 20 point
bonus question.
What country, the
only nation in Asia
that lies entirely
below the equator
has its capitol at Dili
and gained its independence
in 2002?
- East Timor.
- That's correct for 20 points.
We're gonna move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
The title objects are said
to wear a nest of Robbins
and to lift their
leafy arms, to pray
in what 1913 poem about
plants by Joyce Kilmer?
That's time on that question.
That's okay.
The answer we were
looking for was trees.
We're gonna move on to
our next 10 point toss-up.
What composer of some
enchanted evening wrote the
music to, Oh What a Beautiful
Morning in Oklahoma?
- Maggie.
- Rogers and Hammerstein.
- I'm sorry?
- Rogers and Hammerstein.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Sesser-Valier here is your
20 point bonus question.
From independence
in 1831 until 1909.
Belgium had only two Kings
who shared what retinal name?
(group chatter)
- John Stewart.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
Mater Dei, you have
a chance to steal.
- Leopold.
- That's correct for 10 points.
We have now made it
halfway through our game.
So it's time for
our lightning round.
(storm sounds)
As mentioned before,
I have four given
categories that each team
will get to pick from.
Sesser-Valier, you
get to choose first
as you are just a
little bit behind.
I have four categories
for you to choose from.
You can answer questions
about first ladies,
U.S. states, CC'S
or palindromes.
What would you like to choose.
(group chatter)
- U.S. states.
- U.S. states it is.
In this lightning round,
I need you to name these states.
Given the two most populous
cities that are neither the
state's Capitol nor
its most populous city.
Sesser, are you ready
for your lightning round?
If you do not know the
answer you can pass
and we will go back to it.
Your lightning round
begins in three, two, one.
Pittsburgh and Allentown.
- Pennsylvania.
- That's correct.
Shreveport and Lafayette.
- Louisiana.
- That's correct.
West Valley City and Provo.
- Pass.
- Missoula and Great Falls.
- Pass.
- Rochester and Duluth.
- Maine.
- Sorry, that's incorrect.
Tuscan and Mesa.
- Pass.
Augusta and Columbus.
- Pass.
- San Antonio and Dallas.
- Texas.
- Correct.
Lewiston and Bangor.
- Pass.
- Green Bay and Kenosha.
- Illinois.
- Sorry, that's incorrect.
We're going to go back
to the ones you passed.
West Valley City and Provo.
- Virginia.
Incorrect.
Missoula and Great Falls.
- Wyoming.
And that is time.
I'm now going to
go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
West Valley City
and Provo was Utah.
Missoula and Great
Falls was Montana.
Rochester and Duluth
was Minnesota.
Tuscan and Mesa, Arizona.
Augusta and Columbus, Georgia.
Lewiston and Bangor, Maine.
And the Green Bay and
Kenosha was Wisconsin.
Overall, still a
great lightning round.
You guys answered
more than I would ever
be able to answer, so.
Props in my book.
Mater Dei,
It's now your turn to pick
your lightning round category.
The remaining three are first
ladies, CC'S and palindromes.
Which would you like to answer?
- First ladies.
- First ladies, it is.
In this category,
I need you to name the
U.S. first lady who,
fill in the blank.
Mater Dei, are you ready
for your lightning round?
Same rule applies.
You can pass if you
don't know the answer
and we'll go back to it.
Your lightening round
begins in three, two, one.
Announced the be best campaign
and was born in Slovenia.
- Melania Trump.
- That's correct.
Won the democratic nomination
in the 2016
presidential election.
- Hillary Clinton.
- That's correct.
Wrote the newspaper
column, My Day.
- Pass.
- Told her husband to
remember the ladies
in a 1776 letter.
- Abigail Adams.
- Correct.
Married Aristotle Onassis
after her husband's death.
- Jackie Kennedy.
- That's correct.
Began the anti-drug
campaign, just say no.
- Nancy Reagan.
- That's correct.
Supported the highway
beautification act
and was nicknamed, Ladybird.
- Ladybird Johnson.
- That's correct.
He was nicknamed.
Was nicknamed Lemonade Lucy
by opponents of prohibition.
- Pass.
- Launched the
let's move program
and the wrote the memoir
becoming, excuse me.
- Michelle Obama.
- That's correct.
I'm sorry, that's time.
That's seven questions, correct
70 points for your team.
Congratulations.
I'll go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
Wrote the newspaper column,
My Day was Eleanor Roosevelt.
I'm sorry.
That was a correct answer.
And was institutionalized
by her eldest son
Robert in 1875 was Todd Lincoln.
Overall good lightning
rounds to both of you.
We're now going to move
back to our toss-up
and bonus questions.
Starting with our
next media question.
This is an audio question.
Let's have a listen.
- This audio dialect is an
accent that blends both American
and British English.
The accent was taught
in preparatory schools.
Caleigh.
- Mid Atlantic.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Moving onto our next
toss-up 10 point question
for both teams.
What kingdom was the
birthplace of the composer
of The Miraculous
Mandarin, Béla Bartók
and the pianist who
composed The Mephisto Waltz,
- Franz Liszt.
- Cohen.
- Hungary.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei, here's your
20 point bonus question.
What former prime minister of
Portugal seceded Ban Ki-moon
as secretary general of
the United nations in 2017.
(group chatter)
Sesser, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- John Smith.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
The correct answer
we were looking for
was Antonio Gutierrez.
It's okay.
We're going to shake it off and
move on to our next 10 point
tossup question.
What state,
which is home to the Touro
Synagogue and such mansions as
Chateau-sur-Mer and the
breakers in Newport is the
smallest state by area.
Cohen.
- Rhode Island.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei, Here's your
20 point bonus question.
The deepest known part of
the Pacific ocean that the
challenger deep is in what
trench that curves around the
American territory of Guam.
- The Mariana trench.
- That's correct for 20 points.
Moving onto our next 10
point toss-up for both teams.
What country,
where Cardinal Jaime Sin
mobilized participants
in the people power revolution
was formerly led by
Ferdinand Marcos from Manila?
Cohen.
- The Philippines.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei, here's your next
20 point bonus question.
What is the name for the set
that contains all possible
subsets of a given set?
- (group chatter)
- Sorry.
That's out of time.
Sesser, you have
a chance to steal.
- Full set.
- I'm sorry.
That's incorrect.
The correct answer we were
looking for was power sets.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on to our
next 10 point toss-up question.
Mycology is the study of
what eukaryotic organisms
that resembled plants,
but do not utilize
photosynthesis
and include yeasts
and mushrooms?
- Maura.
- Fungi.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Sesser, here's your 20
point bonus question.
J.M. Coetzee who wrote
the novels Waiting
for the Barbarians
and Disgrace, is one of two
Nobel laureates in literature
from what country?
- Russia.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
Mater Dei, You have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- Australia.
- Sorry.
That's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking
for was South Africa.
We're gonna move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up question for both teams.
What event,
which Enki spoke about through
reed walls to warn Atra-Hasis
was survived in a Sumerian
myth by Utnapishtim
and in the Holy Bible by Noah?
Cohen.
- The great flood.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Mater Dei, here's your
20 point bonus question.
What man,
The first African American to
earn a PhD from Harvard wrote
the essay at the talented
10th and the NAACP's magazine
The Crisis?
(group chatter)
- Booker T. Washington.
- Sorry, that's incorrect.
Sesser, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- Richard Henry.
- Sorry.
That's also incorrect.
The answer we were looking
for was W.E.B. Dubois.
It's time for our
next media question.
This is a still question.
Let's have a look.
As the fifth element
on the periodic table,
this element has an atomic mass.
Caleigh.
- Boron.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Moving onto our next 10
point toss-up for both teams.
What island the destination
of an expedition supported by
Alcibiades was home to the
Greek colony of Syracuse.
And is that the
Southern tip of Italy?
Maura.
- Sicily.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Sesser, Here's your 20 point
bonus question. Excuse me.
So logistic reasoning is
criticized and the Novum Organum
a work on the scientific
method by what 17th century
English philosopher?
(group chatter)
That's time.
Mater Dei, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
(group chatter)
That's time on that question.
The answer we were looking
for was Francis Bacon.
It's okay.
We're gonna move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up question.
What company co-founded
in 1976 by Steve Wasniak
introduced the unsuccessful
Lisa and under CEO, Steve jobs,
the safari browser?
Cohen.
- Apple.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Here is your 20
point bonus question.
Optical pumping is used to
generate a population inversion
and the gain medium of
what devices first built by
Theodore Maiman?
(group chatter)
- Sesser, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- Gas pumps.
- I'm sorry.
That's incorrect.
The correct answer was lasers.
Okay.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What composer,
who revived Joann Sebastian
Bach's music and wrote the
The Hebrides overture,
converted to Christianity,
and added Bartholdi to his name?
The answer we were
looking for on that one
was Felix Mendelssohn.
We're going to move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
What character employs
a chief of staff
named Colonel Sebastian Moran
and fatally plummets into
the Reichenbach Falls
while fighting Sherlock Holmes?
Maura.
- Moriarty.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Here is your 20
point bonus question.
Sesser, what author who wrote
about flying cars in the
children's novel Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang,
also wrote a series of
thrillers about James Bond?
(group chatter)
That's time.
Mater Dei,
You have a chance to
steal for 10 points.
- Fleming.
- That's correct.
For 10 points.
I'm gonna move on
to our next 10 point
toss-up for both teams.
It is a math question.
So get your pencils
and paper ready.
How many times more basic
is a solution of pH10
compared to a neutral
solution of pH7
since the pH scale
is logarithmic?
Caleigh.
- 1000.
- That's correct for 10 points.
Here is your 20 point
bonus question, Mater Dei.
Gauss's law for magnetism
expresses the apparent lack
of what type of theoretical
particle that would have a
net magnetic charge?
(group chatter)
Sesser, you have a chance
to steal for 10 points.
- Negative.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
The answer we were looking
for was magnetic monopoles.
That sound means it's
the end of our game.
Mater Dei, congratulations.
You are our winners
in today's game.
Sesser, congratulations
to you as well.
Cause you guys answered
a lot of questions
that I don't even
know the answer to.
So good game on both
of you guys' part.
Thank you all for
watching at home.
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