(gentle uplifting music) (lively upbeat music) - Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q, the game where knowledge rules.
I'm your host, Ethan Neir and we have another great quarters finals matchup in store for you today.
So, let's introduce our teams.
On the bottom we have the almost hometown heroes, "Marion" with Ian, Caden, Braydon, and Samuel.
And on the top we have, "Metro-East" with Josh, Harry, Mary, and Silas.
Now before we get into our questions let's just do a quick recap of the rules.
We'll start off with some toss-up questions.
Each of those will be worth 10 points.
If a team gets it right, they move on to a bonus question which is worth "20" and can be stolen for "10".
You guys can interrupt me at any time but if you interrupt me and get a question wrong, it is five points for the other team.
So if you're gonna interrupt me, just make sure that you're right.
All right.
You all ready?
Get into questions.
All right.
For the first toss-up, what theory which predicts a length contraction and time dilation was formulated by Albert Einstein in 1905- (buzzer blares) Josh.
- Special relativity.
- Special relativity is correct, well done.
For your bonus, what left wing politician served as Franklin Roosevelt's second vice president and ran as the progressive party nominee for president in 1948?
(indistinct chatter) - Is it Truman or do we?
- Truman.
- Truman.
- Truman is incorrect.
Marion, any chance to steal?
(indistinct chatter) - No answer.
- The answer you're looking for was Henry A. Wallace.
Henry A. Wallace.
Onto your next toss-up, what woman who was forced to marry Toussaint Charbonneau showed the Bozeman Pass to the Corps of Discovery as a guide for Lewis and Clark?
(buzzer blares) Samuel.
- Sacagawea.
- Sacagawea is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, in September 2022, a coalition led by what far right female politician won Italy's parliamentary elections?
- (in hushed tone) Oh, I dunno her name.
(indistinct chatter) - No answer.
- [Ethan] Metro-East the chance to steal?
- From central or whatever.
- No, it's someone else.
- Nothing.
- The answer we're looking for there was Meloni.
Meloni.
Onto your next question, what film, whose frame story involves fortune teller, Professor Marvel and nasty Miss Gulch stars Judy Garland as a girl who sings over the rainbow?
(buzzer blares) Harry.
- Wizard of Oz.
- The Wizard of Oz is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, the so-called, "Four books of Chinese thought" include what text that compiles sayings by Confucius and his followers?
- The Analects.
- The Analects is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next toss-up, what building constructed over the former lake of the Domus Aurea, features three tiers of superposed columns and was Rome's largest amphitheater?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- The Colosseum.
- The Colosseum is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what peptide hormone produced by alpha cells in the pancreas, opposes the effect of insulin causing blood sugar levels to rise?
- Grilling.
- [Ethan] That is incorrect.
Marion, the chance to steal.
(indistinct chatter) (buzzer dings) You guys are all out of time.
The answer we're looking for was glugacon.
Or "Glucagon", excuse me.
And for your next question, pencil and paper ready.
What ancestry equals 28% of 50, given that it is also equal to- (buzzer blares) Silas - [Silas] 14.
- 14 is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what Central Asian country has been led by dictators, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Saparmurat Niyazov?
- Turkmenistan.
- Turkmenistan is correct.
Well done.
For your next toss-up, what city whose Cardinal Zen was arrested in 2022 under a 2020 "national" security law is like Macau, a special administrative region of China?
(buzzer blares) - Hong Kong.
- Hong Kong is correct.
For your bonus, what Arabic term refers to one of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an such as "the Cow" and "Al-Fatiha" or "The Opening"?
- Surah.
- The Surah is correct.
For your next toss-up, what author described a boy pursued by a supernatural being in the "Earl King" and wrote about the demon- (buzzer blares) - Silas.
- Faust.
- Faust is incorrect.
And wrote about the demon, "mephistopheles" in the 1808- (buzzer blares) - Goethe.
- Goethe is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what sea, that is north of Iran and east of Azerbaijan, is the world's largest inland body of water?
- Caspian Sea.
- Caspian Sea is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next question, in the battle of "Flamborough Head", what Captain commanded the "Bonhomme Richard" and said, "I have not yet begun to fight"?
(buzzer blares) Samuel.
- John Paul Jones.
- John Paul Jones is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what programming language often used for statistics and data analyst, contains "GGplot2" in its tiny verse set of packages and has a one-letter name.
(indistinct chatter) (buzzer dings) I'm sorry you guys are all out of time.
Metro-East?
- C. - C is incorrect.
The answer we're looking for was R. R. Onto the next question, what singer included the songs, "Keep Driving" and "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" on a- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- Harry Styles.
- Harry Styles is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, in 1919, what American-born Conservative became the first woman to be seated in the British House of Commons as a Member of Parliament?
(indistinct chatter) - No answer.
- [Ethan] No answer.
Marion, a chance to steal.
(indistinct chatter) - Thatcher.
- Thatcher is incorrect.
The answer we're looking for was Nancy Astor.
Nancy Astor.
Onto the next question, what process, which sometimes utilizes PEP carboxylase in its carbon fixation stage, uses the Calvin cycle to synthesize sugars in plants?
(buzzer blares) Caden.
- Chloroplast.
- Chloroplast is incorrect.
- Oh.
(buzzer blares) - [Ethan] Silas.
- Photosynthesis.
- Photosynthesis is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what author won a Newbery medal for her 2019 novel about a Cuban-American girl attending Seaward Pines Academy, "Merci Suarez Changes Gears"?
- I don't know.
- I don't know.
- Uh, Lahiri.
- [Ethan] That is incorrect.
Marion, a chance to steal.
(indistinct chatter) - No answer.
- The answer we're looking for there was Meg Medina.
Meg Medina.
And that will take us to our first media question.
This two time- (buzzer blares) Caden.
- [Caden] Kawhi Leonard - Kawhi Leonard is correct.
Well done.
And since that was a media question, there is no bonus.
So we'll just take it back to toss-ups.
What state, which is home to the "Fossil Butte" and "Devils Tower Monument" is- (buzzer blares) Josh.
- South Dakota.
- South Dakota is incorrect.
And "Devils Tower National Monument" is the least populous state and includes the city of Cheyenne?
(buzzer blares) Ian.
- Wyoming.
- Wyoming is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what law states that entropy of a perfect crystal reaches its minimum value of zero, when the temperature is absolute zero?
(indistinct chatter) - Pass.
- [Ethan] Pass.
Metro-East?
(indistinct chatter) - Kelvin's law.
- That's incorrect.
The answer we're looking for was, the "Third Law of Thermodynamics".
Onto the next question, what holiday, which honors the defeat of Charles de Lorencez, at the 1862 Battle of Puebla has become- (buzzer blares) Samuel.
- Cinco de Mayo.
- Cinco de Mayo is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, in 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the founder of what outdoor clothing retailer, donated his ownership of the company to a Trust to fight climate change?
(indistinct chatter) - Patagonia.
- Patagonia is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next toss-up, what nine-letter term from the Greek for "falling off" provides the scientific name for baby teeth as well as, trees that shed leaves in autumn?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Deciduous.
- Deciduous is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what term for using acid to clean metal surfaces also names a technique of preserving vegetables in a brine or vinegar solution?
- (in hushed tone) Pickling.
Pickling.
Pickling.
- It's pickling.
- Pickling is correct.
Well done.
(group laughing) Josh, very adamant that the answer was, "pickling" to that question.
And that will take us to another toss-up.
In what sport, whose women's events was won by Eve Muirhead's team at Beijing 2022, do players guide stones toward the target on ice?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Curling.
- Curling is correct.
Well done.
Canada's other pass time, asides hockey.
For your bonus, what word can refer to a genre of Cuban songs, a Spanish dance in the 3/4 time, or a 1928 piece dominated by an ostinato motif?
(indistinct chatter) - It's Bolero.
- Bolero is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next toss-up, the glass electrodes are most often used to measure, what quantity, stabilized by buffers that measure solutions- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- pH.
- pH is correct.
For your bonus, in what phase change used with some dyes, does a substance move directly from a solid to a gas?
- (in hushed tone) Sublimation?
- Yeah, sublimation.
- Sublimation is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next toss-up, what battle ended after Operation Uranus caused Friedrich Paulus to surrender to Georgy Zhukov and was a Nazi siege?
(buzzer blares) Josh.
- Stalingrad.
- Battle of Stalingrad is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, Mark Felt was the real identity of what anonymous high ranking source who fed instrument- information to the Washington Post, during the Watergate scandal?
- Nothing.
- [Ethan] No answer.
Marion the chance to steal?
(indistinct chatter) - No answer.
- The answer you're looking for there was, Deep Throat.
Deep throat.
Braydon giving me a very weird look after I said that question.
And onto our next toss-up.
What politician who John Boehner called, "lucifer in the flesh", went to Cancun during a 2021 power crisis?
(buzzer blares) Braydon.
- Ted Cruz.
- Ted Cruz.
That's correct.
For your bonus, what author described a yellow frog that rubs its back upon the window-panes in a 1915 poem that also asks, "Do I dare to eat a peach?"
(indistinct chatter) - William Carlos Williams.
- [Ethan] William Carlos Williams is incorrect.
Metro-East?
- Eliot.
- Eliot is correct.
T.S.
Eliot.
Well done.
Onto the next toss-up, what compound produced by Archae, in the gut of termites and cows is a greenhouse gas about 30 times more potent- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- Methane.
- Methane is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, pencil and paper ready.
What is the least common multiple of the two numbers, 12 and 31 given that 31 is a prime number?
- (in hushed tone) One?
- (in hushed tone) No.
- (in hushed tone) 372?
- Yeah, 372.
- 372 is correct.
Well done.
That will take us to the next toss-up, what man whom Joseph Welch asked if he had, "no sense of decency"- (buzzer blares) - Josh.
- Joseph McCarthy.
- Joseph McCarthy is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, the aria "un bel di" is sung by Giacomo Puccini opera in which Cio-Cio-san devoutly waits for the return of American naval officer, Pinkerton?
- Madama Butterfly.
- Madama Butterfly is correct.
Well done.
And that will take us to our lightning round.
(lightning crashing sound) The way our lightning round works is, each team will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as they can, about a certain topic.
Now Marion, since you guys are trailing in this one, you will have the first pick of the topics.
Your choices are, "History of Electromagnetism," "Greek Mythological Monster Slayers," "Sports Venues" and "World Currencies".
(indistinct chatter) - World currencies.
- I'm kind of surprised the team wearing baseball jerseys, didn't pick "Sports Venues" but world currencies, it is.
I will count you down.
You have to identify the official currency of these countries.
You have 60 seconds on the clock.
I will count you down.
3, 2, 1.
United Kingdom?
- Pound.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Japan?
- Yen.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Brazil?
- Peso.
- [Ethan] That's incorrect.
Switzerland?
- Franc.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
India?
- Rupee.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Turkey?
- Lira.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
China?
- Dong.
- [Ethan] That's incorrect.
South Africa?
- Pass.
- [Ethan] South Korea?
- Pass.
- [Ethan] Poland?
- Euro.
- [Ethan] That's incorrect.
South Africa?
- Pass.
- [Ethan] South Korea?
- Yen.
- [Ethan] Yen is incorrect.
South Africa?
- Shilling.
- [Ethan] That is incorrect.
So, we'll go over the ones that you guys missed on that.
The answer to Brazil was "Real".
The answer to China was "Yuan".
The answer to South Africa was "Rand".
The answer to South Korea was "Won" with a W. And the answer to Poland was "Zloty".
Well done, Marion.
And that now take us to Metro-East.
It's your turn.
For your choices are, "History of Electromagnetism," "Greek Mythological Monster Slayers," or "Sports Venues".
- We'll take "Greek Mythological Monsters".
- "Greek Mythological Monster Slayers," it is.
Which mythological figure killed "..." I will give you 60 seconds on the clock and count you down.
3, 2, 1.
The Nemean lion and the Lernaean Hydra?
- Hercules.
- [Ethan] Hercules is correct.
Uh, Hercules is correct.
The Minotaur?
- [Both] Theseus.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Medusa?
- [Both] Perseus.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Chimera?
- Bellerophon.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
The sphinx who threw herself over the walls- - Oedipus.
- [Ethan] Oedipus is correct.
The Calydonian boar after it was wounded by Atalanta?
- Pass.
- [Ethan] The serpent, Python?
- Apollo.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Campe the Drakaina and guarding Tartarus?
- Pass.
- [Ethan] The many-eyed giant, Argus Panoptes?
- Hermes.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
Talos, a bronze automaton on Crete?
(indistinct chatter) - Jason.
- [Ethan] That's incorrect.
The Calydonian boar after it was wounded by Atalanta?
(indistinct chatter) - Paulinicus.
- [Ethan] That is incorrect.
Campe the Drakaina and guarding Tartarus?
- Zeus.
- [Ethan] That's correct.
(buzzer dings) Well done.
Buzzer beater there, securing that last question.
The Calydonian boar after it was wounded by Atlanta was Meleager.
And the Talos, a bronze automaton on Crete, was killed by Medea.
So I think you're gonna count the rest of them correct.
So, well done there, drawing 8 out of 10.
And we'll take a look at our score, after the lightning round.
We have Marion with 170 and Metro-East with 380.
So Metro-East got a pretty solid lead here, but no reason you guys can't come back in the second half, Marion.
Will take us back to the toss-ups, what composer of the jazz standards, "Groovin' High" and "Salt Peanuts" was known for playing with puffed-up cheeks on a trumpet?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Gillespie.
- Dizzy Gillespie is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what author of the novel, "No Country for Old Men" also wrote about the extremely violent "Glanton gang" in his western novel, "Blood Meridian"?
- McCarthy.
- Cormac McCarthy is correct.
Well done.
For the next toss-up, what region in which orbital resonances cleared the Kirkwood gaps, lies about two to four AU from the sun, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
(buzzer blares) Caden.
- Asteroid belt.
- Asteroid belt is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what businessman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, co-founded the centrist "Forward Party" in 2022?
- Andrew Yang.
- The Yang-gang is correct.
Well done.
For the next toss-up, what beings in Greek myths, who included Hyperion and the Great River- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- Titans.
- Titans is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, Anacapa, Santa Cruz and Catalina are islands in what Archipelago, off the coast of Southern California?
(indistinct chatter) - Baja, California.
- [Ethan] That is incorrect.
Marion?
- [Samuel] Channel Islands.
- The Channel Islands is correct.
Well done, Samuel.
The next toss-up, what literary works which describes the drought of March, being ended by April rains and which portrays many pilgrims was written by Jeffrey- (buzzer blares) Mary.
- The Canterbury Tales.
- Canterbury Tales is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, Henry Morgan, a 17th British privateer, who plundered Spanish shipping in the Caribbean operated out of Port Royal, in what Island colony?
(indistinct chatter) - Jamaica.
- Jamaica is correct.
Someone clearly watched "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Well done.
And for your next toss-up, pencil and paper ready.
What is the first term of a geometric sequence, whose second term is 12, and whose third term is 24?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Six.
- Six is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what co-founder of "Ireland's Abbey Theater," wrote the 1920 plays, "Juno and the Peacock," "The Shadow of a Gunman" and "The Plow and the Stars"?
- Wilder.
- [Ethan] Wilder is incorrect.
Marion, chance to steal.
(indistinct chatter) - No answer.
- The answer you're looking for was Sean O'Casey.
Sean O'Casey.
For the next toss-up, the film, "Live in Real Life" depicts, what man, who is attacked at the Hollywood Bowl in 2022, and whose special, "The Closer" includes transphobic jokes.
(buzzer blares) Braydon.
- Dave Chappelle.
- Dave Chappelle is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what disputed territory, a part of which forms the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, is home to the city of Laayoune and lies south-west of Morocco.
- Western Sahara.
- Western Sahara is correct.
Well done.
For your next toss-up, in what present day country, where Jan Hus preach early- (buzzer blares) Samuel.
- Czech Republic.
- Czech Republic is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what man who used the pseudonym "Ramon Sneyd" was seen fleeing from the Lorraine Motel on April 4th, 1968 after shooting Martin Luther King?
- James Earl Ray.
- James Earl Ray is correct.
Well done.
For your next toss-up, what term, "The D" in the insurance agency FDIC may refer to a- (buzzer blares) Josh.
- Department.
- [Ethan] Department is incorrect.
May refer to a payment made by renters for security against damages and is the opposite of withdrawal?
(buzzer blares) Caden.
- Deposit.
- Deposit is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what social science has a four-field approach that trains students in archeology, linguistics and its physical and cultural branches?
(indistinct chatter) - Anthropology.
- Anthropology is correct.
Well done, Ian.
Onto the next toss-up, what animals, which Seymour says, "can be trapped in a hole on a Florida beach," partly title a J.D.
Salinger short story set on a perfect- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- Fish.
- [Ethan] That is incorrect.
Partly title a J.D.
Salinger short story set on a perfect day for them?
(buzzer dings) The answer we're looking for wasn't just fish, but "banana fish".
Yeah, that's correct.
That will take us to another toss-up.
Magnetars are example of once dense bodies that are about 20 kilometers across, are produced by some supernovas and are named for a particle?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Neutron Stars.
- Neutron Stars is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, Plutonium belongs to what set of elements with partially filed 5F sub-shells that lie at the bottom of the periodic table?
- Uh.
Actinides.
- Actinides is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next question, what body of water that flows south of Punta Arenas separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Straight of Magellan.
- Straight of Magellan is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what British author, who died in 2022, depicted the court of Henry VIII in her poker prize-winning novels that bring up the bodies and Wolf Hall?
- Nothing.
- [Ethan] Marion, a chance to steal.
- No answer.
- The answer you're looking for was Hilary Mary Mantel.
Hilary Mary Mantel.
For your next question, what book, in which gossip app creator, Simon has detention with Bronwyn is a mystery by Karen M. McManus about students, not of all, not all of whom are honest?
(buzzer dings) Sorry.
You guys are all out of time.
The answer we're looking for was, "One of Us is Lying".
One of Us is Lying.
The next toss-up, what man, who was married to a fellow artist, Lee Krasner used "action" and "drip" painting- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- Pollock.
- Jackson Pollock is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what Prime Minister, the author of "Talks with Bruno" and "The Cardinal's Mistress" was shot alongside his mistress, Clara Petacci near Guilino, in 1945?
(indistinct chatter) - (in hushed tone) Mussolini?
- Mussolini.
- Benito Mussolini is correct.
Well done.
(group laughs) I'm getting the sense that, that was a complete guess but never hurts to guess.
Well done.
For your next question, what process, which an un-replicated 1989 report claimed could occur at low temperatures, involves a light nucle- (buzzer blares) Silas.
- Fusion.
- Nuclear fusion is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what Austrian physicist names an equation that states that the, "Hamiltonian of the new- of the wave function equals the energy eigenvalue times the wave function".
- Schrodinger.
- Schrodinger is correct.
Well done.
Onto the next toss-up, what Voivode of Wallachia who dined and bound with Ottomans in 1477 was called tap- (buzzer blares) Samuel.
- Vlad III.
- Vlad III or Vlad the Impaler is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, what Queen of Ethiopia, the wife of Cepheus, foolishly boasted that she and her daughter, Andromeda were more beautiful than Nereids?
- Cassiopeia.
- Cassiopeia is correct.
Well done.
Onto your next question, what synonym for "two" is the last name of Canadian singer of, "Any Man of Mine" whose first name is Shania and the pen name of- (buzzer blares) Caden.
- Twain.
- Shania Twain.
Well done.
For your bonus, the town of Salem is home to the Brady's on what soap opera, which aired on NBC for 57 years before moving to Peacock streaming service in 2022.
- (in hushed tone) Days of our Lives.
Days of our Lives.
- Days of our Lives is correct.
Well done.
For your next question, what play in which the player declares, "we're actors, we're the opposite of people" is by Tom Stoppard and follows two side characters from Hamlet?
(buzzer blares) Silas.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
- That is correct.
Well done.
For your bonus, about half of all US deaths from hurricanes, are caused by what phenomenon?
A wind-driven increase in water heights above normal tidal levels.
- Storm surge.
- Storm surge is correct.
Well done.
(bell dings) And that bell means we are all out of time on today's show.
So let's take a look at our scores.
On the top we have Metro-East with 590 and Marion with 370.
So Metro-East not lending control after that strong bonus round.
Well done to you guys.
So for all of our lovely contestants here today, and the people working hard behind the scenes, I'm Ethan Neir.
Thank you so much.
And, goodnight.
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