(light music)
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- Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I am your host, Madeline Parker,
and this is the second
round of the semi-finals,
and the game is heating up.
We have two fabulous
teams here today.
We've got Herrin
on the bottom row,
with Austin A., Austin
K., Ryan and DJ.
And we've got Carbondale on
the top row with Charles,
Peter, John-Paul and Shaunie.
Now that we've met
the contestants,
let's go over the rules.
I will read a tossup
question that either team
can answer for 10
points a piece.
If they get the
tossup question right,
they have the opportunity
to go on to try to get
a bonus question
worth 20 points.
However, if they get the
bonus question wrong,
the other team can
steal for 10 points.
We will also have the
interruption rule in effect,
where if either
team interrupts me
while I'm reading
a toss-up question,
and they get the answer wrong,
the other team automatically
gets five points,
and the opportunity to
hear the entire answer.
We also have a lightning round
halfway through the game,
where I will have a series
of categories and both teams
will have 60 seconds to answer
as many questions as possible.
Now, we've met the contestants,
we know the rules, let's
put on our thinking caps,
and let's get down to quizness.
Tossup number one.
A bar above a subatomic
particle symbol
indicates what type of
particle that releases energy
through annihilation on
meeting its normal counterpart?
John-Paul?
- Antiparticle.
- [Madeline] I'm sorry,
one more time, please?
- Antiparticle.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Carbondale.
The Law of the Splintered
Paddle was enacted in the 1790s
by what first king of Hawaii?
- Kamehameha, Kamehameha.
- Kamehameha?
- Kamehameha.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
What country, which
suppressed dissidents
in the Dirty War--
(beeping)
Shaunie?
- Argentina.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Onto our next bonus
question, Carbondale.
What author wrote, "I think
that I shall never see
"a poem lovely as a tree,"
in his 1913 poem, Trees?
- Who was it, um.
- Thurber?
- I am sorry.
That is incorrect.
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
- Whitman?
- I am sorry,
that is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was Joyce Kilmer.
All right, next tossup question.
What title character,
who creates a time loop
to defeat the Dread Dormammu--
(beeping)
Austin A.?
- Dr. Strange.
- Dr. Strange is
correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What type of seismic
wave is generally
the first to be detected
by a seismograph
as it travels more
quickly than an S-wave?
- P-wave?
- That is correct,
for 20 points.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a video question.
♪ Inside we both
know what's been-- ♪
- Shaunie?
- Rick Astley,
Never Gonna Give You Up?
- I am, that is
correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus question.
Thomas Cole, who created
a series of paintings
called The Course of Empire
is considered the founder
of what American
painting school?
- Hudson River?
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
What poem describes
alone and level sands
that stretch far and away,
is named for a king of
kings, in ancient Egypt,
and was written
by Percy Shelley?
Peter?
- Ozymandias.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
What Roman general and founder
of the Flavian Dynasty,
took power in the
year of four emperors,
and commissioned The Colosseum?
- I think it's Constantine,
but it could be Diocletian.
- Diocletian?
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
(buzzing)
That would Vespasian.
All right, next tossup question.
What type of text is
exemplified by On the Crown,
which was written
by Demosthenes,
was one of the 10
great Attic orators
who delivered these texts?
(buzzing)
That would be speeches.
All right, next tossup question.
What group uses the
maxim, nothing is true--
(buzzing)
Austin A.?
- The Assassin Brotherhood.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
The cupbearer Saki walks
among guests starred
scattered on the grass,
in the final quatrain
of what collection of
poems by Omar Khayyam?
- Pass.
- All right, Carbondale,
you have a chance to steal.
- The Rubaiyat.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a still question.
This monument was originally
constructed in 575 B.C.E.,
by the order of King
Nebuchadnezzar the II.
It was excavated in
the early 20th century,
and reconstruction
using original bricks,
completed in 1930, is now shown
in the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin.
Name this monument.
(beeping)
Shaunie?
- Temple of Jerusalem?
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(beeping)
Austin K.?
- The Hanging Gardens?
- I am sorry, that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was the Ishtar Gate.
All right, next tossup question.
Vera Rubin's studies of
galaxies supported the notion
of what matter that
is more than abundant
that ordinary matter,
but does not interact--
(beeping)
with light, Charles.
- Dark matter?
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Carbondale.
Lake Assal, Africa's
lowest point,
is what large valley,
which stretches
from Lebanon to Mozambique?
- Large valleys, so maybe
like, the Serengeti.
- Serengeti?
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
- The Great Rift Valley?
- That is correct for 10 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
What city, whose neighborhoods
include Fell's Point
and Federal Hill, is
home to Fort McHenry,
and is most populous
city in Maryland?
(beeping)
DJ?
- Annapolis?
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(beeping)
Shaunie?
- Boston.
- I am sorry, that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was Baltimore.
(all laughing)
All right, next tossup question.
What composer included
a Dance of the Knights
in his ballet--
(beeping)
Adaption, John Paul?
- Prokofiev.
- one more time, please.
- Prokofiev?
- That is correct
for 10 points, here is
your bonus question.
The Noachian, Hesperian,
and Amazonian periods
are periods in the geological
history of what planet,
that is orbited by two moons?
- Mars.
- Mars.
- Mars.
- Mars is correct,
for 20 points.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is an audio question,
let's take a listen.
- Dear Mr. Vernon,
("Don't You Forget About Me")
we accept the fact--
- This monologue
is from a John Hughes
film about five teenagers,
in different high school--
(beeping)
Charles?
- The Breakfast Club?
- The Breakfast Club is correct,
and spoiler alert, they
never actually eat breakfast.
Anyway, here is your bonus
question, Carbondale.
What Virginia Woolf essay
argues that women writers
have been hampered because
they have historically lacked
access to the title
type of location?
- A Room of One's Own?
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next up, we
have a math question,
so get your pencils
and paper ready.
What is the length of each
side of a regular hexagon
whose perimeter equals
the perimeter of a square
with side lengths of six?
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- Four?
- That is correct,
for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
In July 2018, a group of 12
boys and their soccer coach
were rescued from a
cave in what country?
- Thailand, Thailand.
- Thailand?
- Thailand is correct
for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What man, who gave the
Give Us the Ballot speech,
wished that his children
would not be judged
by the color of their skin--
(beeping)
Peter?
- Martin Luther King, Junior.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
What isolationist senator from
Ohio names a 1947 Labor Act
along with Fred Hartley?
(buzzing)
- Taft?
- [Madeline] Herrin, you
have a chance to steal.
- Sherman?
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was Taft.
All right, next tossup question.
Which city, where the
Victorian Albert Waterfront
is linked by frequent
ferries to Robben Island,
is the legislative
capital of South Africa?
Shaunie?
- Johannesburg?
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(beeping)
Austin K.?
- Cape Town?
- Cape Town is correct,
for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
What architectural
term beginning with C
refers to the top of a column
where the acanthus leaves
are found in a
Corinthian column?
(buzzing)
Carbondale, you have
the chance to steal.
- Columnade?
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
The correct answer was capital.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a video question.
This American sitcom
was the first--
(beeping)
scripted television, DJ?
- I Love Lucy?
- I Love Lucy is
correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
Ruth Benedict's The
Chrysanthemum and the Sword
contrasts the guilt
culture of the U.S.
with the same shame culture
of what other country?
- Japan?
- That is correct,
for 20 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
What is the unprefixed
SI unit that be used
to express all three terms
in the First Law
of Thermodynamics,
namely, heat, work and energy?
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- Joule?
- That is correct for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
What physicist, played
by John Galecki,
was a former roommate
of Sheldon Cooper
on The Big Bang Theory?
- Leonard Hofstadter?
- Okay.
Leonard Hofstadter.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What president's
secretary, Rose Mary Woods,
claimed that she
accidentally created
an 18 and a half
minute gap in a tape,
deleting a discussion--
(beeping)
Austin K.?
- Nixon?
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What senator from Minnesota,
who is nicknamed Fighting Bob,
ran as a Progressive
Party candidate
in the 1924
presidential election?
- What year?
- Was it 1924?
Bryant?
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Carbondale, you have
a chance to steal.
- Roberts.
- Roberts.
- One more time, please.
- Roberts.
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
That would be
Robert La Follette.
All right, next tossup question.
What city had a 2018
election in which the chair
of the House Democratic
Caucus, Joe Crowley,
lost to Democratic Socialist,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
(beeping)
DJ?
- New York?
- New York is correct,
for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What metal is used with
platinum and palladium
in catalytic converter that
has the atomic symbol RH?
(buzzing)
All right, Carbondale,
you have the chance to steal.
- Rhodium?
- That is correct for 10 points.
Next up, we have
a media question.
This is a still question.
This musician is the bassist
and one of the founding members
of The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
He made a cameo in the
2017 hit, Baby Driver.
Name this musician.
(beeping)
Shaunie?
- Michael Dallins?
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
The correct answer was Flea.
(doorbell ringing)
And that sound means it's
time for our Lightning Round.
(thunder rumbling)
(wind whooshing)
All right, Herrin, it
looks like you are first up
in this Lightning Round, and
I will read the categories
you guys get to choose from.
Down, Bridges, Me
Rhymes, and Archers.
Which would you like?
- Could probably do bridges.
- Let's do bridges.
- Okay.
- Bridges.
- Bridges it is.
All right, Herrin, in what
city are these bridges?
All right, Herrin, it's time
for your Lightning Round.
Are you guys ready?
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Sure.
- Yeah.
- Come on, it's the semi-finals.
Show me a little excitement.
Are you ready for
your Lightning Round?
(cheering)
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- They're ready, everybody.
60 seconds on the clock,
in three, two, one.
The Brooklyn and
Williamsburg Bridges.
- New York City.
- That is correct.
Ponte Vecchio.
- Pass.
- The Charles Bridge,
which spans the Vltava River.
- Pass.
- Vasco da Gama Bridge.
- Mexico City?
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Rialto Bridge?
- Venice?
- That is correct.
The Andy Warhol Bridge, which
spans the Allegheny River.
- Pittsburgh?
- That is correct.
The Pont Neuf.
- Paris?
- [Madeline] That is correct.
The Chain Bridge, which
crosses The Danube.
- Berlin?
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
The Bosporus Bridge.
- Pass.
- The Tower
and Westminster Bridges.
- London.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Going back to the
ones you passed.
Ponte Vecchio.
- Mexico City?
- That is incorrect.
The Charles Bridge, which
spans the Vltava River.
(buzzing)
And we are out of time.
I will go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
The Ponte Vecchio
was in Florence.
The Charles Bridge, which
spans the Vltava River,
is in Prague.
The Vasco da Gama
Bridge is in Lisbon.
The Chain Bridge which
crosses the Danube,
was in Budapest.
The Bosporus Bridge
was in Istanbul.
Congratulations, Herrin,
that was a very good
Lightning Round.
Now it is on to Carbondale,
and I will read your
categories one more time.
Down, Me Rhymes, and Archers.
- We're gonna go with Me Rhymes.
- Me Rhymes it is.
From definitions, give
these one syllable words
that rhyme with the word me.
Not be confused with
me, but the word me.
All right, Carbondale,
are you guys ready
for your Lightning Round?
- Yeah!
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Aw, come on.
A little bit more excitement.
Come on, let's see it.
- We're ready.
- You're ready?
- Yeah.
- All right.
60 seconds on the clock,
in three, two, one.
Clarified butter
common in India--
- Ghee.
- That is correct.
Great joy.
- Glee.
- Glee.
- That is correct.
An uninhibited bout of activity,
especially shopping.
- Spree.
- Spree.
- That is correct.
A small island.
- Pass.
- [Madeline]
Algonquian language,
spoken in Canada and the U.S.
- Pass.
- Very small.
- [Group] Wee.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
You in Quaker, plain speaking.
- Ye.
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Soft cheese named
for a French town?
- Brie.
- That is correct.
A vital force in traditional
Chinese medicine?
- Chi.
- That is correct.
- The largest joint
in the human body.
- Knee.
- Knee is correct,
and we will go back to
the ones that you passed.
A small island.
- Key.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Algonquian language spoken
in Canada and the U.S.
- Debris.
- That is incorrect.
And that is all for
this Lightning Round.
I will go over the
ones that you missed.
- Okay, that was pretty good.
- Algonquian language
spoken in Canada and
the U.S., it is Cree.
You in Quaker plain
speaking, thee.
And I believe that is
all that you missed.
It was a very good
Lightning Round, Carbondale,
but now, it is time to go back
to our lovely tossup questions.
For this next
tossup, in the U.S.,
requirements such as
novelty and non-obviousness
are necessary to obtain
what set of exclusive rights
that apply to an invention?
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- Patent?
- Patent is correct,
for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Carbondale.
In 1791, what country
established The
Pale of Settlement,
a region on its western border,
to which Jews were restricted?
- I don't know.
(buzzing)
- Palestine?
- Herrin, you have the chance
to steal?
- Palestine?
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was Russia.
That's all right, we're onto
our next tossup question.
The population of Pitcairn
Island is descended
from the crew of
what British ship,
(beeping)
where Fletcher, Ryan?
- The Bounty.
- The Bounty is correct,
for 10 points, Herrin, here
is your bonus question.
The gastric juice of the
stomach consists primarily
of what acid, that
combines with nitric acid
to make aqua regia?
- Hydrochloric acid?
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
What material, whose
main component is kaolin,
has Limoges and Wedgwood types,
and is sometimes called china,
after its country of origin?
(beeping)
Peter?
- Porcelain?
- Porcelain is correct
for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
What country's occupied by
the army of Prince Fortinbras,
after the death of
its monarch, Claudius,
in a tragedy by Shakespeare.
- He's Denmark, yeah.
- Denmark.
- Denmark is correct,
for 20 points.
Onto our next media question.
This is an audio question,
let's take a listen.
- [Malcolm X] We all
have the same problem.
They don't hang you
because you're a Baptist--
- [Madeline] This
speech was called
The Ballot or the Bullet.
A prominent human rights
activist gave it on April 3rd,
John-Paul?
- Malcolm X.
- One more time, please?
- Malcolm X.
- Malcolm X is
correct, for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
What poem, whose speaker
is haunted by a vast image
out of Spiritus Mundi,
posits that some revelation
is at hand, and was
written by W.B. Yeats?
- Uh, no.
(buzzing)
- [Madeline] Herrin, you
have the chance to steal.
- I think it's this.
No answer.
- All right, the correct
answer was The Second Coming.
All right, next tossup question.
What mythical Thracian,
who drowned out the song
of the sirens with his
lyre, failed to retrieve--
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- Orpheus.
- Orpheus is correct,
for 10 points, and here is your
bonus question, Carbondale.
In biochemistry, the
unified atomic mass unit
is sometimes named after
what English chemist
who developed atomic theory?
- Dalton?
- Dalton is correct,
for 20 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
What type of program,
which performs lexing,
parsing, and optimization
on high-level input,
is used to turn human written
code into machine code?
(beeping)
Charles?
- Sort?
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
That would be Complier.
All right, onto our
next tossup question.
What main led the
August Revolution
against French Colonial
rule as the head
of Viet Minh and lent
his name to the--
(beeping)
city, Shaunie?
- Ho Chi Minh.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Carbondale, here is
your bonus question.
The 2016 documentary,
I am Not Your Negro,
was based on the
work of what author
of the nonfiction book,
The Fire Next Time?
(buzzing)
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
- Hughes?
- I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was James Baldwin.
- Oh, it is Baldwin.
- All, right next up,
we have a media question.
This is a video question.
This musical has music
and lyrics written
by Lin Manuel-Miranda--
(beeping)
Austin K.?
- Hamilton.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect,
and unfortunately, I had not
finished reading the question,
so Carbondale, you
get five points,
and a chance to hear
the entire answer.
This musical has music
and lyrics written
by Lin Manuel-Miranda, and
debuted on Broadway in 2008.
It was nominated
for 13 Tony Awards,
and won four,
including Best Musical.
Name this musical.
(buzzing)
Lin Manuel-Miranda
had another musical
before Hamilton,
and it was called
In the Heights.
That's all right, onto
our next tossup question.
What book, which was
first published in 1532,
argues it is better for a
ruler to be feared than loved--
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- The Prince?
- The Prince is correct,
for 10 points, Carbondale, and
here is your bonus question.
What Eastern European
river flows past Smolensk,
and Kiev before emptying
into The Black Sea?
- Volga.
- One more time, please.
- Volga.
- That is incorrect.
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
- Danube?
- I am sorry.
That is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was the Dnieper.
All right, next tossup question.
What value, also called
the Quetelet Index,
is expressed in kilograms
per square meter,
and is used to
define the categories
underweight and obese?
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- BMI?
- That is correct,
for 10 points, Carbondale, and
here is your bonus question.
What title character
of a Sophocles play
is sentenced to be entombed
alive after she defies
a decree not to bury
her brother, Polynices?
- Antigone?
- That is correct,
for 20 points.
All right, onto our
next tossup question.
What man, who secretly
recorded a 2016 conversation
about Karen McDougall,
surrendered to the FBI in 2018,
and was formerly
Donald Trump's lawyer?
(beeping)
DJ?
- Michael Cohen?
- That is correct,
for 10 points, Herrin, and
here is your bonus question.
What is the index of refraction
for material in
which light moves
at 50% of the speed
of light in a vacuum?
- Pass.
- All right.
Carbondale, you have
the chance to steal.
- 1.5 times 10 to the three.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was two.
(students laughing)
All right, next tossup question.
This is a media question,
and it's a still question.
Edward Hopper--
(beeping)
Peter?
- Nighthawks.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Carbondale.
In 2018, Theodore
McCarrick resigned
from the College of Holders
of what religious title?
(buzzing)
- Card--
- [Madeline] Herrin, you
have the chance to steal.
- Cardinal?
- That is correct,
for 10 points.
Onto our next tossup question.
Carbonic acid and
bicarbonate ions in blood
form what kind of solution--
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- Buffer.
- Buffer is correct
for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Carbondale.
Sonni Ali and Ashkia
ruled what kingdom
based at Gao which
succeeded Mali
as the largest in West Africa?
- Ghana Empire.
- One more time, please.
- Ghana Empire.
- That is incorrect.
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
(buzzing)
That would be the
Songhai Empire.
All right, next tossup question.
What nickname, belonging to
the 10th Calvary Regiment,
formed at Fort Leavenworth,
by African-American troops
in 1866, refers to
the American Bison?
(beeping)
Peter.
- Oh, man, um, the
Tuskegee Airmen? (laughing)
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzing)
That would be Buffalo Soldiers.
All right, next tossup question.
What author, who wrote about
the financier Frank Cowperwood,
in such novels as The Stoic,
depicted the execution
of Clyde Griffiths
in An American Tragedy?
(beeping)
John-Paul?
- Dreiden?
- One more time, please.
- Oh, no, nevermind.
- All right.
- Yeah.
(boys chuckling)
(buzzing)
- That would be
Theodore Dreiser.
(doorbell ringing)
And that sounds means that
it is the end of this round
of Scholastic Hi-Q.
Looks like Carbondale,
you are our winners,
and you will be moving
on to the finals.
Congratulations, thank
you for coming out,
and thank you for
coming, Herrin,
and thank you all
for watching at home.
This has been Scholastic Hi-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I am your host, Madeline Parker,
and we will see you next
week for the finals.
(upbeat music)