(chiming music)
(upbeat folk music)
- Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I'm your host, Madeline Parker.
If you're here to
see two teams compete
in a high-stakes
battle of the wits,
you have come to
the right place.
If you're here to
see me mispronounce
words for 30 minutes,
you're also in the right place.
But enough about me.
Let's get to meeting our
wonderful contestants.
On the bottom row we have
Herrin with Austin A.,
Austin K.,
Ryan, and DJ.
And on the top row, we've got
Pinckneyville with Railyn,
Kyla, Kailey, and Lucas.
Now that we've met our
fabulous contestants,
let's go over the rules.
I will read a tossup question
that either team will
have the chance to answer
for 10 points apiece.
If they get the
tossup question right,
they can go on to get a bonus
question worth 20 points.
However, if they get the
bonus question wrong,
the other team does
have the 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 tossup question
and they get the question wrong,
the other team automatically
gets the chance to steal
for 10 points and can get,
for 10 points and get
five points for the
interruption rule.
Remember, we also have a
lightning round halfway
through the game
where both teams
will have the chance
to answer as many questions
from a given category
as possible, but they only
have 60 seconds to do it.
Now we've met the contestants,
we know the rules.
Let's put on our thinking caps
and let's get down to quizness.
Question number one.
What leader, who was a dismissed
as First Lord of the
Admiralty after the failure
of Gallipoli Campaign became
British prime minister
in 1940, Ryan.
(high buzzer sounding)
- Winston Churchill.
- That is correct for 10 points,
and here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
All right, get your
pencils and paper ready
'cause this is a math question.
Other than three,
what is the only prime
factor of the number 147?
(low buzzer sounding)
All right, Pinckneyville,
you have the chance to steal.
- 49.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was 7.
That's all right, going onto
our next tossup question.
What poem depicts a yellow
fog that rubs its back
upon the windowpanes,
begins by stating let
us go then you and I,
and was written by T.S. Eliot?
(low buzzer sounding)
That's all right, the correct
answer was The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock.
All right, next tossup question.
Myoclonic diaphragm
jerks cause what sound
that names the human
protagonist of How To Train
Your Dragon, Austin K.
(high buzzer sounding)
- Hiccup.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What artist painted an
apple obscuring the face
of a man in a bowler
hat in the Sun of Man?
- Dali.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Pinckneyville, you have
the chance to steal.
- Pass.
- All right, the correct
answer was René Magritte.
All right, next up, we
have a media question,
and this is a video question.
This musical debuted
in 1977 and ran
for nearly 60 years, DJ.
(high buzzer sounding)
- Annie.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What aluminum oxide mineral,
which forms the gemstones
sapphire and ruby,
defines a hardness of nine
on the Mohs hardness scale?
- Quartz.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Pinckneyville, you have
the chance to steal.
(low buzzer sounding)
The correct answer was corundum.
All right, next tossup question.
What quadrant, in
which sine is positive,
but cosine and
tangent are negative,
contains the point
negative one comma one,
and is the upper left
of the Cartesian plane?
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- Quadrant two.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
In which country was
the city of Kobe hit
by a massive 1995 earthquake?
(whispering)
(low buzzer sounding)
All right, Pinckneyville,
you have the chance to steal.
(whispering)
- Taiwan.
(low buzzer sounding)
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was Japan.
All right, next tossup question.
What leader,
married to an educational
psychologist named Sara,
is the suspect in
corruption cases
like case 4000 and is the
prime minister of Israel?
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin K.
- Netanyahu.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What 1842 short story
by Edgar Allan Poe
is named for ways in
which agents of the
Spanish Inquisition
try to kill the narrator?
(whispering)
- The Pit and the Pendulum.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What city, which titles
a quartet of novels
by Laurence Durrell, was home
to one of the seven wonders
called the pharos in an ancient,
a massive, ancient library?
(high buzzer sounding)
- DJ.
- Alexandria.
- That is correct for
10 points, Herrin.
Here is your bonus question.
The name of what
Japanese religion,
which worships gods called kami
means way of the gods?
(whispering)
- Shinto.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a still question.
This animal is known to
be the largest animal
that has ever existed,
being up to 98 feet long
and with a maximum, Railyn.
(high buzzer sounding)
- [Railyn] A blue whale.
- That is correct for 10
points, Pinckneyville.
Here is your bonus question.
Niagara Falls lies within the
territory of Ontario, Canada,
and which U.S. state?
- Maine.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Herrin, you have
the chance to steal.
- New York.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What man composed a
ballet about a puppet
who comes to life, Petrushka,
and a ballet depicting a pagan
sacrifice in rural Russia,
The Rite of Spring?
(high buzzer sounding)
Ryan.
- Stravinsky.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
What conquistador was inspired
by the Narváez expedition
to become the first
European to find and cross
the Mississippi River?
(low buzzer sounding)
All right, Pinckneyville,
you have a chance to steal.
- Lafayette.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was Hernando De Soto.
What author, I'm sorry,
next tossup question.
What author depicted
Earth's second moon,
Kahani in Haroun and
the Sea of Stories
and wrote about the
telepath, Saleem Sinai
in Midnight's Children?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Salman Rushdie.
All right, next tossup question.
A system's degrees of
freedom can be calculated
by the phase rule of
what chemist, who,
like Hermann von Helmholtz,
names a type of free energy?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Josiah
Willard Gibbs.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is an audio question.
Let's take a listen.
- [Audio Recording] There
are no colored bathrooms
in this building or any building
outside the West Campus,
which is--
- [Madeline] This monologue
is from the biographical
drama film that is based
on the nonfiction book, Kyla.
(high buzzer sounding)
- The Help.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect,
and because I did not
finish reading the question,
we have to give
Herrin five points
and a chance to hear
the entire question.
This monologue is from the
biographical drama film
that is based on the nonfiction
help by the same name
by Margot Lee Shetterly.
This film is about
African-American women
who worked at NASA
during the space race.
Name this film, Austin A.
(high buzzer sounding)
- [Austin] Hidden Figures.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
The ISRO is the space
agency of what country,
which launched its first moon
probe, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008?
- India.
- I'm sorry, one more time?
- India.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
In what city did Clement
V and other popes reside
during the Babylonian
captivity of 1309 to 1373
due to a conflict
between Rome and France?
(high buzzer sounding)
DJ.
- Avignon.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
What Russian composer wrote
difficult piano pieces,
such as his prelude in C# minor
in a solo part in his rhapsody
on the Theme of Paganini?
(whispering)
(low buzzer sounding)
- [Madeline] All
right, Pinckneyville,
you have a chance to steal.
- Mozart.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was Rachmaninoff.
All right, next tossup question.
What country announced in
2018 its first space port
that would be on the
A'Mhoine Peninsula
and is home to Virgin Galactic,
owned by Richard Branson?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be the
United Kingdom.
All right, next tossup question.
What author wrote about the
hedonistic Abbey of Thélème
and the crafty Panurge in
a series of bowdy novels
about the giants
Gargantua and Pantagruel?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be François Rabelais.
All right, onto our
next tossup question.
The Juscelino Kubitschek
Bridge is in what city
designed by Lúcio Costa
and Oscar Niemeyer that
replaced Rio de Janeiro
as the national capital?
(high buzzer sounding)
DJ.
- Brasilia.
- That is correct.
All right, here is your
next bonus question, Herrin.
In 2018, a referendum
in what country removed
its constitutional
amendment eight,
which gave fetuses the same
right to life as their mothers?
- It's Ireland.
- Ireland.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What artist of
the Pesaro Madonna
depicted a maid looking into
a chest in the background
of his painting of a
nude reclining woman,
Venus of Urbino?
(low buzzer sounding)
All right, the correct
answer was Titian.
All right, next tossup question.
What scientist used an
anagram of the phrase
ut tensio sic vis,
meaning as the
extension so the force
to express his
law-governing ideal springs?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Robert Hooke.
(doorbell rings)
And that sound means it's
time for our lightning round.
(thunder booms, wind blows)
All right, Pinckneyville.
It looks like you are
the first people up
for this round of
the lightning round,
and here are your
choice of categories.
Marriages,
Alan Tudyk voice roles,
French literature,
and great things.
Which category would you like?
(whispering)
- Great things.
- [Madeline] Great things it is.
Identify these things that
have the adjective great
in their name.
All right, Pinckneyville.
Are you ready for
your lightning round?
- [All] Yes.
- Aw, c'mon, a little bit
more enthusiasm than that.
Are you ready--
- Yes.
- For your lightning round?
Yes, that's like
what I like to hear.
60 seconds on the clock
in three, two, one.
Enormous storm
(upbeat music)
in Jupiter's atmosphere.
- Great Red Spot.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Paul Hollywood and
Mary Berry judge
this BBC baking competition.
(whispering)
- Great American Bake-Off.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Economic downturn
that started in 1929.
- Great Depression.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
1925 novel whose characters
include golfer Jordan Baker.
- Great Gatsby.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Attempt to modernize
the Chinese economy
that started in 1958.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Canon that
includes standards by composers
such as Cole Porter
and George Gershwin.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Dog breed also
called the German mastiff.
- Great dane.
- That is correct.
Anti-poverty programs
instituted by Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] 1903 silent
film about bandits.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Type of
shark in the movie Jaws.
- Great White.
- That is correct.
Going back to the
ones that you passed.
(low buzzer sounding)
And we are out of time.
I will go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
Paul Hollywood and
Mary Berry judge
this BBC baking competition.
That is the Great
British Bake-Off.
Attempt to modernize
the Chinese economy
that started in 1958, that
is the Great Leap Forward.
The canon that includes
standards by composers
such as Cole Porter
and George Gershwin,
that is the Great
American Songbook.
And the anti-poverty
programs instituted
by Lyndon B. Johnson
is Great Society.
And the 1903 silent
film about bandits
is The Great Train Robbery.
All right, very good
there, Pinckneyville,
but Herrin, it is now your turn.
You have these
choice of categories.
Marriages,
Alan Tudyk voice rules,
and French literature.
(whispering)
- I don't know either
of those things.
Go for it.
- I would say
French, French lit.
- French literature.
- [Madeline] All right,
French literature it is.
Name these figures
from French literature.
Herin, are you ready?
- Yes.
(laughing)
- That's what I like to hear.
60 seconds on the clock
in three, two, one.
Algerian-born author
(upbeat music)
of The Stranger.
- Pass.
(snickering)
- [Madeline] Title
of adulterous wife
of an 1857 novel by
Gustave Flaubert.
- Madame Bovary.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Existentialist
author of No Exist.
- Sartre.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Title character of Victor Hugo's
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- Quasimodo.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Author of the seventh volume
in Search of Lost Time.
- Margestau.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Gascon, friend of Athos,
Porthos, and Aramis
in the The Three Musketeers.
- Pass.
- [Madeline] Pseudonymous
author of The Red and the Black.
- Pass.
- Birth name of the
Alexandre Dumas'
Count of Monte Cristo.
- Dantès.
- [Madeline] That is correct.
Poem of a Season in Hell.
(low buzzer sounding)
And we are out of time.
Going back to the ones
that you passed or missed.
Algerian-born author of The
Stranger was Albert Camus.
The author of the seventh volume
in The Search of Lost Time
was Marcel Proust.
The friend of Athos, Porthos,
and Aramis is Dartanian.
The pseudonymous author
of The Red and the
Black is Stendhal,
and that was all that we got to,
and now it is time to go
back to our tossup questions.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a video question.
This 1995 film was
directed by Joe Johnston,
and starred Robin
Williams, Bonnie Hunt,
and a young Kirsten Dunst.
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- Jumanji.
- That is correct for 10 points
and here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
What law states that the amount
of gas dissolved in liquid
is proportional to the
gas's partial pressure?
- Pass.
- [Madeline] All right,
Pinckneyville, you have
the chance to steal.
All right, the correct
answer was Henry's law.
All right, next tossup question.
What anthropologist
nicknamed Burning Spear
was succeeded in office
by Daniel Arap Moi
and was the first president
of an independent Kenya?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Kenyatta.
All right, next tossup question.
What geometric shape is formed
by a common protein's
secondary structure,
with about 3.6 residues per turn
and by both strands
in a molecule of DNA?
(high buzzer sounding)
Ryan.
- The double helix.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(low buzzer sounding)
It was just one helix.
All right, next tossup question.
What football coach, who
led LSU to a national title
by winning the 2004 Sugar Bowl
has won five national titles
with Alabama's Crimson Tide?
(high buzzer sounding)
Lucas.
- Nick Saban.
- That is correct for 10 points
and here is your bonus
question, Pinckneyville.
A 2018 meta-analysis shows
that what most pregnancies
end in what manner, also
known as spontaneous abortion,
often before women even
know their pregnant?
- Miscarriage.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a still question.
Regarded as one of
the greatest singers
in the history of rock and roll,
this singer's career has
spanned over 50 years.
Name the lead singer
and lyricist of the
rock band, Led Zeppelin.
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- [Austin] Robert Plank.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
In what nation is
Winston Peters serving
as acting prime minister,
while prime minister Jacinda
Ardern is on maternity leave?
- New Zealand.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What poem introduced the
terms chortle and galumph
warns against jaws that
bite and claws that catch
and is a nonsense
poem by Lewis Carroll?
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- The Jabberwocky.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What politician resigned from
the Supreme Court in 1916
to run as the Republican
presidential candidate
against Woodrow Wilson?
- Pass.
- [Madeline] All
right, Pinckneyville,
you have the chance to steal.
(low buzzer sounding)
All right, the correct answer
was Charles Evans Hughes.
All right, next tossup question.
What composer wrote 20
sonatas and interludes
for prepared piano as
well as an ambient piece
lacking any instrumental
sounds titled 4'33"?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be John Cage.
All right, next tossup question.
What theory of physics
is set in Minkowski space
predicts time dilation and
mass energy equivalents
and is a special theory
created by Einstein?
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- Relativity.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
Wang Lung marries O-Lan and
has a concubine named Lotus
in what novel by Pearl S. Buck?
- The Good Earth.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is an audio question.
- [Audio Recording]
I've been in jails here.
Do you understand
how humiliating this is?
- This monologue is from
a 2014 comedy film
that was written and
directed by Wes Anderson.
The film follows a
concierge who teams up
with one of his employees
to prove his innocence
after he is framed for murder.
Name this film.
(low buzzer sounding)
The correct answer was
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
All right, next tossup question.
What TV show, in which a
tyrannical alien named Kasius
auctions off inhumans, depicts
a team led by Phil Coulson
in the Marvel, Austin A.
(high buzzer sounding)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
What Anglo-French
supersonic passenger plane,
whose name means harmony,
was retired in 2003?
- The Concord.
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What author, whose
Three Tall Women
won a 1994 Pulitzer prize
wrote about the feuding couple,
George and Martha in Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(high buzzer sounding)
DJ.
- O'Neill.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Edward Albee.
All right, next tossup question.
What monarch created
the Table of Ranks
and instituted a beard tax
as part of his
westernizing reforms
and began the construction
of St. Petersburg?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Peter the Great.
All right, next up, we
have a media question.
This is a video question.
This reality competition
series documents RuPaul
in the search of America's
next drag superstar.
It has become the highest-rated
television program
on Logo, DJ.
- RuPaul's Drag Race.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
What president survived
an assassination attempt
in which press
secretary, James Brady,
was seriously wounded?
- Reagan.
- Reagan.
(low buzzer sounding)
- That is correct for 20 points.
All right, next tossup question.
What author, whose
novel Juneteenth
was published posthumously,
depicted a group
called the brotherhood
in his 1952 novel,
Invisible Man?
(low buzzer sounding)
That would be Ralph Ellison.
All right, next tossup question.
What actor, who played theme
park creator Robert Ford
on HBO's Westworld,
also starred as the
cannibal, Hannibal Lecter,
in The Silence of the Lambs?
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- Anthony Hopkins.
- That is correct for 10 points.
And here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
What author of
the Social Statics
coined the term
survival of the fittest
and promoted social Darwinism?
(whispering)
(low buzzer sounding)
Pinckneyville, you
have a chance to steal.
- Freud.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was Herbert Spencer.
All right, next tossup question.
What modern-day state,
in which the Battle
of the Little Bighorn was fought
is home to Glacier National Park
and the cities of Billings.
(high buzzer sounding)
DJ.
- Montana.
- Montana is correct
for 10 points
and Herrin, here is
your bonus question.
In Java, either a slash
followed by a star
or two slashes together
can mark the start of
what non-executable text
that annotates or explains code?
(low buzzer sounding)
Pinckneyville, you have
the chance to steal.
(low buzzer sounding)
The correct answer is comments.
All right, next up, we
have another media question
and this is a still question.
This actor earned an
Academy Award for his role
as Winston Churchill
in the movie,
The Darkest Hour.
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- Gary Oldman.
- That is correct for 10 points.
All right, Herrin, here
is your bonus question.
What alliterative nickname
was given to an Oakland woman
who called the
police in June 2018
on an African-American
girl selling water?
- Pass.
- [Madeline] All
right, Pinckneyville,
you have a chance to steal.
(low buzzer sounding)
The correct answer
was Permit Patty.
All right, next tossup question.
What natural satellite,
which has an atmosphere
of nitrogen and methane
was discovered by
Christiaan Huygens
and is the largest
moon of Saturn?
(high buzzer sounding)
Ryan.
- Europa.
- [Madeline] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(low buzzer sounding)
The correct answer was Titan.
All right, next tossup question.
What author depicted a
scientist who creates beast folk
in The Island of Dr. Moreau
and described the
oddly-bandaged griffin
in the Invisible Man?
(high buzzer sounding)
Austin A.
- H.G. Wells.
- That is correct for 10 points,
and here is your bonus
question, Herrin.
Get your pencils and paper ready
'cause this is a math question.
What is the only value of X
that satisfies the equation
the positive square root
of the quantity two X
plus seven equals five?
(low buzzer sounding)
Pinckneyville, you
have a chance to steal.
- Nine.
- That is correct for 10 points.
(doorbell rings)
And that sound means
we are at the end
of this game of Scholastic Hi-Q,
and it looks like Herrin,
you are the winners.
Congratulations.
Thank you for coming out.
Thank you for coming,
Pinckneyville,
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 time.
(upbeat music)