(soft peaceful music)
(fun playful music)
- Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I'm your host, Madeline Parker.
And these contestants have
a simple task to complete.
So contestants, let's get down
to quizness to defeat my puns.
- [Man] Hoo!
- Thank you, thank you.
I'll be getting my call
from Broadway at any moment.
But enough about me.
On the bottom row we
have TriCo with Devon,
Kody, Keegan, and Jacob.
And on the top floor
we've got Fairfield with
Lex, Cody, Jason, and Amber.
Now that we've met our
amazing contestants,
let's go over the rules.
I will read a toss up
question that either team
has a chance to
answer for 10 points.
If they get the question right,
they can move on to get a
bonus question for 20 points.
However, if that team
gets the question wrong,
the other team has a chance
to steal for half the points.
Remember, the interruption
rule is in effect,
so if either team interrupts
me while I'm reading
a toss up question,
the other team,
and they get the question wrong,
the other team can
get five points.
Remember, halfway
through the game,
we'll be having a lightning
round where both teams
will have as many, will
have 60 seconds to answer
as many questions as possible
from a given category.
Now we know the contestants,
we know the rules,
let's put on our thinking caps
and let's get down to quizness.
All right, the first toss up.
What religion whose
adherent's are split into
sky clad and white clad sects,
reveres tirthankras and
practices extreme ahiism,
or non-violence.
(beeping)
Lex.
- Buddhism.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
The correct answer is Jainism.
All right, not a problem,
let's go onto our
next toss up question.
A mast in Arlington National
Cemetery commemorates
what ship, whose sinking
in Havana Harbor in 1898--
(beeping)
Jason.
- The USS Maine.
- That is correct for
10 points, Fairfield.
Here is your bonus question.
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
honored a national dialogue
quartet that helped
build a democracy
after what African country's
Jasmine Revolution?
- Somalia.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have the
chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's all right, the
correct answer was Tunisia.
All right, next
toss up question.
What programming
constructs are unrolled in
compiler optimization can be
declared using the key words
do and while and
execute code repeatedly?
(beeping)
Amber.
- Binary.
- I'm sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
That would be loops.
All right, next up we
have a media question
and this is a still question.
These towers are twin
skyscrapers in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
They were the tallest
buildings in the world
from 1998 to 2004.
Name these towers.
(buzzing)
That would be the
Petronas Towers,
and if this was Harry Potter,
they'd be the Expecto
Patronus Towers.
All right, next
toss up question.
What republican who ran
the US Food Administration
during World War I served
as Secretary of Commerce
before being elected
as President in 1928?
(beeping)
Lex.
- Hoover.
- That is correct for
10 points, Fairfield.
Here is your bonus question.
What term refers to the
terraced pyramid like structures
built in ancient Mesopotamia,
such as the Great One in Ur.
- Obelisk.
- [Madeline] I'm sorry,
that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have the
chance to steal.
- Is it a wall?
- I'm sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was ziggurats.
All right, next
toss up question.
What representations
often contain
a legend to explain
their symbols,
are made by people
called cartographers--
(beeping)
Cody from Fairfield.
- Maps.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, next bonus question.
Which US state contains
the city of Hialeah,
Bradenton, and Saint Petersburg?
- Minnesota.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have the
chance to steal.
- Florida.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, next
toss up question.
What state contains the northern
part of Klamath Mountains
and includes Willamette River,
which flows past the cities
of Salem and Portland?
(beeping)
Amber.
- Oregon.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, Fairfield, here
is your bonus question.
A 2017 film revealed that what
Guardians of the
Galaxy character,
played by Chris Pratt,
was the son of Ego,
the living planet.
- Star-Lord.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next up we
have a media question and
this is a video question.
This combination live action.
(beeping)
Cody from Fairfield.
- [Cody] Blues Clues.
- That is correct.
My personal favorite
television show growing up.
All right, Fairfield, here
is your bonus question.
Alcohol abuse can
cause cirrhosis
or scarring of what organ?
- The liver.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next up we
have a toss up question,
this is for anyone.
What author wrote three
sketches describing
the city of Sevastopol
during the Crimean War
and depicted Napoleon's attack
on Russia in War and Peace?
(beeping)
Lex.
- Tolstoy.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, next bonus question.
Pope Leo X and Lorenzo
the Magnificent
belonged to what
Florentine family?
- The Rosenbergs.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have the chance
to steal for 10 points.
- No answer.
- That's all right, the correct
answer was the Medici's.
All right, next
toss up question.
What political party that
issued a 1983 manifesto
called The Longest
Suicide Note in History,
was led by Prime Ministers
Gordon Brown and Tony Blair?
(beeping)
Lex.
- The Labor Party.
- That is correct for
10 points, Fairfield.
And here is your bonus question.
A universe of connected
hexagonal rooms contains
all possible 410 page
books, comprises the title
location of what authors,
The Library of Babel?
(buzzing)
All right, TriCo, you
have the chance to steal.
- No answer.
- All right, that's okay, this
will be Jorge Luis Borges.
All right, next
toss up question.
What main ingredient is
combined with cabbage
in colcannon and is the
starched most commonly
served scalloped, Au gratin--
(beeping)
Lex.
- Potato.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, Fairfield, here
is your bonus question.
What breed of dog, one of
the smallest recognized
by the American Kennel
Club, is named after
a state in northern Mexico?
- Chihuahua.
- A chihuahua is correct.
Some people say I'm a chihuahua
because I'm really short
and also really loud.
All right next up, we
have a media question.
This is an audio question,
let's take a listen.
♪ You can start to
make it better. ♪
This English rock band
formed in 1960, Lex.
- The Beatles.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right Fairfield here
is your bonus question.
The Butterfly Effect
exemplifies what kind of
dynamical behavior
in which a system
is very sensitive to
the initial conditions?
- Dependent?
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- Insanity.
- I'm sorry, that is close,
but the correct
answer was chaos.
All right, next
toss up question.
In what election year
did one party's ticket
replace vice-president
Hannibal Hamlin
with Andrew Johnson,
thus helping
to reelect Abraham Lincoln?
(beeping)
Lex.
- 1862?
- [Madeleine] I'm sorry
that is incorrect.
(beeping)
Jacob.
- 1882.
- I am sorry, that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer was 1864.
All right, next
toss up question.
What poet created the
fictional Tilbury town,
the setting of a
poem about a man
who went home and put a
bullet through his head,
named Richard Cory.
(beeping)
Lex.
- Bakeski.
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
(beeping)
Jacob.
- Edgar Allan Poe.
- I'm sorry that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer was
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
That's all right
because we've got
another toss up question here.
What leader, known for his
close ties to the Gupta family,
was succeeded by Cyril
Ramaphosa when this man
resigned South Africa's
presidency in 2018?
(beeping)
Lex.
- Nelson Mandela.
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
The correct answer
was Jacob Zuma.
All right next up, we
have a still question.
This red and brown mammal--
Keegan?
- Red Panda.
- That is correct, and
apparently red pandas
are so cute, my
friend Teresa cries
every time she sees them, so
yeah, they're pretty great.
All right here is your
bonus question, TriCo.
On May 4th 1970, the National
Guard fired into a crowd
protesting the
invasion of Cambodia,
killing four students at
what university in Ohio?
- Ohio State.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have
a chance to steal.
- Stanford?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer was
Kent State University.
All right, next we have
another toss up question.
What novel in which Lena
Lingard works as a dressmaker
in Black Hawk depicts
Jim Burden's relationship
with a Bohemian girl
and is by Willa Catha?
(beeping)
Amber.
- The Bell Jar.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
The correct answer
was My Antonia.
All right, next
toss up question.
What country was led
my the Shah Dynasty
until 2008, was the legendary
birthplace of Buddha, and--
(beeping)
Lex.
- China?
- I am sorry that is incorrect
and because I did not
finish reading the question,
TriCo, you get five
points and I will continue
reading the question.
What country was led by the
Shah Dynasty until 2008,
was the legendary
birthplace of Buddha,
and along with China,
contains Mt. Everest?
(beeping)
Keegan.
- Nepal.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, TriCo, here
is your bonus question.
Mammatus clouds often
form on the undersides
of what larger clouds
which can develop
into super cells that are
often known as thunderheads?
- Cumulonimbus.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next
toss up question.
What particle whose
energy must exceed
a metals work function
to liberate an electron
from the metal represents
a quantum of light energy?
(beeping)
Jason from Fairfield.
- Photon?
- That is correct for 10 points.
Fairfield, here is
your bonus question.
What man who served as George
W. Bush's staff secretary
from 2003 to 2006 was
nominated by President Trump
to the Supreme
Court in July 2018?
- Gorsuch?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's all right, the
answer was Brett Kavanaugh.
(doorbell rings)
And that sound means it's
time for our lightning round.
(thunder rumbling)
All right, we have
four categories,
and TriCo you'll be
the first to pick,
but here are our categories.
Yellowstone National Park.
Three Letters, Two Vowels.
Yellow, and Recent Deaths.
Which category would you like?
Yellow.
- Yellow it is.
Answer the following questions
about things that are yellow.
TriCo, are you ready for
your lightning round?
- [Jacob] Yeah.
- Aw come on, give
me a little bit
more enthusiasm than that.
Are you ready for
your lighting round?
- Yes.
- That's good enough for me.
Sixty seconds on the
clock in three, two, one.
- The Yellow River's
mouth is in the is nation.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Lala is the
yellow member of this quartet.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] This
author's novels include
Crome Yellow and
Brave New World.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] In this condition,
excess bilirubin
turns the skin yellow.
- Jaundice.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Krishna, an avatar
of this Hindu god,
is often depicted
in yellow clothing.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] The
Treskilling Yellow
is the rarest of these
collector's items.
- Stamp.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Title yellow vehicle of
a Beatles' animated film.
- Submarine.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
This element's yellow solid
forms eight-membered rings.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] This many
yellow cards gets a player
ejected in a soccer game.
- Two.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
So called yellow-dog contracts--
(buzzing)
And now we are out of time,
but I will go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
The yellow river's mouth
is in the is nation.
That is China.
Lala is the yellow
member of this quartet.
That is the Teletubbies.
This author's novels include
Crome Yellow and
Brave New World.
That is Huxley.
Krishna, an avatar
of this Hindu god.
That is Vishnu.
This element's yellow solid
forms eight-membered rings.
That's sulfur.
And the so called
yellow-dog contracts.
That is Norris-LaGuardia.
All right, you did
really good there TriCo,
but now we are moving
on to Fairfield.
I will read the following
topics for you again.
Three Letters, Two Vowels.
Yellowstone National
Park, and Recent Deaths.
Which would you like?
- Recent Deaths.
- [Madeline] Recent
Deaths it is.
All right, name these people
who died in 2016 or 2017.
Fairfield, are you ready
for your lightning round?
Aw, come on, give me a little
bit more enthusiasm than that.
- Oh yeah.
- Yes.
- [Madeline] Are you
ready? Yes, you're ready.
Sixty seconds on the
clock in three, two, one.
Boxer who won the
Thrilla in Manila.
- Muhammad Ali.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Economist who proposed
an Impossibility Theorem.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Musician
who first recorded
the 1958 song, Johnny Be Good.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] To Kill a
Mockingbird novelist.
- Harper Lee.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Chancellor of Germany
from 1982 to 1998.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Director of
Night of the Living Dead
and other zombie movies.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] First US
astronaut to orbit the earth.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Raspberry
Beret singer who made
the film Purple Rain.
- Prince.
- [Madeline] One
more time please.
- Prince.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
First Lady from 1981 to 1989.
- Nancy Reagan.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Italian novelist of
The Name of the Rose.
- Pass.
Going back to the
ones that you passed,
economist who proposed
an Impossibility Theorem.
- Hawking.
Hawking.
- [Madeline] That is incorrect.
Musician who first recorded--
(buzzing)
And we are out of time,
but I will go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
The economist who proposed
an Impossibility Theorem.
That is Kenneth Arrow.
The musician who first recorded
Johnny Be Good was Chuck Berry.
The chancellor of Germany from
1982 to 1998 was Helmut Kohl.
The director of the Night of the
Living Dead was George Romero.
The first US astronaut to
orbit the earth was John Glenn.
And the Italian novelist of
The Name of the Rose
was Umberto Eco.
That's all right because
we are going back
to our toss up questions.
And next up we have
a video question.
This musical had it's music--
(beeping)
Amber.
- Rent.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question Fairfield.
Robert Jordan is a
protagonist of what
Ernest Hemingway novel set
during the Spanish Civil War?
- A Farewell to Arms?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's all right.
The correct answer was
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
All right, next up we have
another toss up question.
White nationalist Corey
Stewart seeks to unseat
what senator, a former
governor of Virginia,
who in 2016 was Hillary
Clinton's running mate.
(buzzing)
That would be Tim Kaine.
All right, next
toss up question.
What founder of the New
England Anti-Slavery Society,
who decried the Constitution
as an agreement with hell,
edited the newspaper,
The Liberator?
(beeping)
Lex.
- Marshall?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
Correct answer was
William Lloyd Garrison.
All right, next up we
have a math question,
so get your pencils
and paper ready.
By what factor is the
volume of a box increased
if it's length, width,
and height are all tripled
or raised by a factor of three?
(beeping)
Jason.
- Twenty-seven.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Fairfield.
Tris Prior stops the
release of a death serum
in what final book of Veronica
Roth's Divergent trilogy?
- Insurgent?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- Divergent.
- I am sorry that
is also incorrect.
You got the first
and second book,
but the third book is Allegiant.
That's all right,
because we're going on to
our next toss up question.
This in an audio question.
Let's take a listen.
(popular TV show
theme music playing)
This animated sitcom
follows a family
living in Springfield.
(beeping)
Lex.
- The Simpsons.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, here is your
bonus question, Fairfield.
What city which sits
at the Rimutaka Range
on the north island is a
capital of New Zealand?
- Queensland.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's all right.
The correct answer
is Wellington.
All right, next
toss up question.
What Russian czar who
ruled during the 1863
January uprising in
Poland was assassinated
by the People's Will Movement
in an 1881 bomb attack?
(beeping)
Lex.
- Leopold.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
That would be Alexander II.
All right, next
toss up question.
What term can refer
to the process
by which as iceberg breaks
away from an ice shelf,
or to the process by which
a dairy cow gives birth?
(buzzing)
Calving, as in calves.
All right, next
toss up question.
What poet presented two contrary
states of the human soul
in his book, Songs of
Innocence and of Experience,
which contrasts the
lamb with the tiger?
(buzzing)
That would be William Blake.
All right, we have
a media question.
This is a still question.
This actress has been nominated
for an Academy
Award three times,
the latest being for her
role in the film, Ladybird.
Name this actress.
(buzzing)
She's got a really
hard name to say,
but her name is Saoirse Ronan.
All right, next
toss up question.
The Don Pacifico affair
began in what country
where Lord Byron
joined a revolt against
the Ottoman Empire, that
started in the Peloponnesus.
(beeping)
Keegan.
- Serbia?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
(beeping)
Jason.
- Turkey.
- I am sorry that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer was Greece.
All right, next
toss up question.
What river, one of whose
tributaries creates
Murchison Falls before
meeting a blue tributary
near Khartoum, forms a
delta near Cairo, Egypt?
(beeping)
Lex.
- The Nile.
- That's right.
And you'd be in de-Nile
if you didn't know
the answer to that question.
But here is your bonus
question, Fairfield.
What socialist
president of Chile
was overthrown in a 1973
military coup backed by the CIA?
- Veracruz.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's all right.
The correct answer
was Salvador Allende.
All right, next
toss up question.
What TV show in which
the Dharma Initiative
is investigated--
(beeping)
Jason.
- Lost.
- That is correct for 10 points,
but the real question is,
does anybody understand
the ending to that show?
Because I honestly didn't.
I don't know what happened.
We're they dead the
whole time, who knows?
But here is your bonus question.
There are two answers required
for this bonus question.
What two countries, led by
Isaias Afwerki and Abi Ahmed,
ended their 20 year
border conflict in 2018?
- Israel and Pakistan.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
TriCo, you have a
chance to steal.
- Israel and Syria.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer was
Ethiopia and Eritrea.
All right, next up we
have a media question,
and this is a video question.
This video game is one of
earliest arcade video games--
(beeping)
Amber.
- Pong.
- Pong is correct for 10 points.
And here is your bonus
question, Fairfield.
Litmus paper is derived from
what composite organisms
that consist of a fungus and
a photosynthetic partner,
such as a cyanobacterium?
(buzzing)
All right, TriCo, you
have a chance to steal.
- Protist.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer is lichens.
All right, next
toss up question.
What iterative algorithm
users remainders
to find the greatest common
divisor of two numbers
and was devised by a Greek
mathematician in his elements?
(buzzing)
That would be
Euclid's Algorithm.
All right, next
toss up question.
What country whose
navy was crushed at the
Battle of Noryang Point in 1598,
defeated the Russian
fleet in 1905,
at the Battle of
Tsushima Strait?
(beeping)
Amber.
- Japan.
- That is correct for 10 points.
And here is your bonus question.
What R&B singer, who is
married to Bobby Brown,
recorded a smash hit version
of I Will Always Love You,
for the soundtrack
to The Bodyguard?
- Whitney Houston.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Up next, you have
another toss up question,
and it's anyone's game.
What character who claims
that the world was created
by the god Benamuckee
is saved from cannibals
by Robinson Crusoe, who
names him for a weekday?
(beeping)
Jason.
- Friday.
- That is correct.
My personal favorite
day of the week.
All right, here is your
bonus question, Fairfield.
What cynic from Sinope
supposedly carried around
a lamp during the
day, claiming that
he was searching
for an honest man?
(buzzing)
All right, TriCo, you
have a chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's all right, the
correct answer was Diogenes.
All right we have
another media question.
This is an audio question,
so let's take a listen.
- [Man's Voice]
Okay, here we go.
Focus.
Speed.
I am speed.
- This monologue
is from a 2007--
(beeping)
Devon.
- Cars?
- Can you say that
one more time?
- Cars?
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, here is your
bonus question, TriCo.
What president sent a
commission to end the
undeclared quasi-war
which broke out during
the XYZ affair in
his administration?
- Bill Clinton.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
Fairfield, you have
a chance to steal.
- Carter.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
You need go a little bit
further back in history.
It was John Adams.
(doorbell ringing)
And that sound means that
is the end of our round.
Looks like Fairfield
you are the winner
this round of Scholastic Hi-Q.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for coming, TriCo.
And thank you all
for watching at home.
This has been Scholastic Hi-Q.
I have been your
host, Madeline Parker,
and we will see you next time.
(upbeat music)