(upbeat ambient music)
- Welcome to Scholastic Hi-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I'm your host Zach Barrett,
and I have more playoff
Scholastic Bowl action
for you here today
on the docket,
and we got two good teams.
Let's meet 'em, shall we?
Up top and from
Centralia, we have Leslie.
She is a junior.
Sitting next to Leslie is Ethan.
He is a senior.
Next to Ethan is Jonathan.
He is also a senior.
And at the very end is Austin.
He is a senior as well.
Opposing Centralia down
low from Johnston City,
we have Sara, who is a junior.
Next to Sara is Ethan.
He is also a junior.
Chase sits next to him.
He is a sophomore.
And Josh sits on the very end.
He is a senior.
Now that we have the
introductions outta the way,
let's get to the rules.
There are three
rounds in this game,
two of them are tossup rounds.
Tossup questions
are worth 10 points.
If you get that one right,
you get a chance at a bonus
question that's worth 20 points.
If you get your
bonus question wrong,
the other team gets a chance
to steal it for half the points.
The interruption rule
is in effect today,
so if I'm asking a question
and you guys buzz in
with the wrong answer,
five points goes
to the other team
and you lose your
chance at that question,
and the lightning round
is also in effect today,
so both teams will
one minute to answer
as many questions as I can ask.
If you don't know one,
you can pass on it
and I'll come back
at the very end.
(exhales) Now that
that's all over with,
let's get to the game
where knowledge rules
with our first question
here that's worth 10 points
in our quarterfinal game here.
Gotta love the playoffs.
First question,
a parabola intersects
its axis of symmetry
at what special point which
shares its name with a corner
at which two sides,
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Josh?
- Vertex.
- A vertex is correct for the
first 10 points of the game
going to Johnston
City thanks to Josh.
Let's get our new guys a chance
at the 20 point bonus, which is,
the Cabinda War is a
separatist conflict
in what Portuguese-speaking
African nation,
an OPEC member that
is undergoing a severe
drought in 2016?
- Chad.
You say Chad, you do.
- Chad.
- That is incorrect.
Centralia, do you have a steal?
(buzzer dings)
It would be Angola.
So nobody gets the first
20 points right there,
but I got plenty
of more questions.
We're gonna do this all game.
This one's worth 10 points.
What rebellion, which
occurred from 1899 to 1901
and was initially supported
by the Empress Dowager Cixi,
was named after a
Chinese society of fists?
Johnston City, Ethan.
- Boxer Rebellion.
- The Boxer Rebellion
is correct for 10 points
right there on that
tossup to Johnston City.
It's gonna earn them the
chance at this bonus question,
which is, what pioneering
feminist activist
and author of My Fight
for Birth Control
helped create the organization
that is now called
Planned Parenthood?
- Margaret Sanger.
- Margaret Sanger is
correct for 20 points
right there on
that correct bonus
as Johnston City goes ahead
on our scoreboard here
early in our first round of
playing our quarterfinals.
This one's worth 10 points.
In September 2016, what
country lost its only president
since its 1991 independence
from the Soviet Union
when Islam Karimov
died at Tashkent?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Ethan.
- Syria.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Chase.
- Tajikistan.
- That is incorrect as well.
The correct answer
is Uzbekistan.
So nobody gets that one.
Now we have a video question
that's worth 10 points.
This actress shown here was born
in the country of South Africa.
Some of her movies include
The Cider House Rules,
Hancock, and Mad Max: Fury Road.
One of her most well-known
roles is in the film Monster
in which she won
an Academy Award.
Name that actress.
(buzzer dings)
That would Charlize Theron.
Hope she's not watching.
Another 10 point tossup now.
Hans Christian Oersted found
what turning a current,
found that turning
a current on and off
caused a deflection in
what navigational device
that uses a magnetic needle?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Austin.
- A compass.
- A compass is correct.
Centralia now, here's
a chance at your bonus.
WA Scottish botanist
first described
what random motion of small
particles suspended in a liquid?
(buzzer dings)
Do you have an answer?
Johnston City, do
you have an answer?
- Brownian motion.
- The Brownian motion is correct
as Johnston City gets
that steal there,
so they'll get 10 points.
Movin' right along with
another 10 pointer.
What religious group was
led by Garpard de Coligny,
tolerated by the
Edict of Nantes,
and targeted by St.
Bartholomew's Day
massacre in Paris?
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Chase.
- The Huguenots.
- The Huguenots is
correct for 10 more points
to Johnston City on
that correct answer.
It's gonna earn 'em a
chance at 20 more here
with this bonus.
The Younger family
moves to a home
in a white
neighborhood of Chicago
in what 1959 play by
Lorraine Hansberry?
- Can I guess it?
A Raisin in the Sun.
- A Raisin in the Sun is correct
for 20 more points right
there thanks to Sara,
as this game gets a little
tighter now in our first round.
This one is a tossup
worth 10 points.
What TV series, whose revival
was announced in 2016,
starred Dominic Purcell
and Wentworth Miller
as brothers who escape from
Fox River Penitentiary?
(buzzer dings)
That show would be Prison Break.
I guess they're startin'
that back up for some reason,
and here's a steal question now
that's gonna be worth 10 points.
This film actor,
director, and producer,
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Ethan.
- [Ethan] John Wayne.
- John Wayne is correct
for 10 points right there
to Centralia on that tossup.
It's gonna earn 'em
a bonus, which is,
what actor plays the Joker
in the 2016 DC Comics
universe film Suicide Squad?
(buzzer dings)
Do you have an answer?
Johnston City, do
you have a steal?
(quiet whispering)
- Ledger.
(buzzer dings)
- That is incorrect.
The correct answer
is Jared Leto.
So nobody gets that
bonus right there.
So here's a math question
now worth 10 points.
Get your pencil and paper ready.
What is the common
logarithm of 100 million
given that the common
logarithm has a base of 10
and one million has six zeros?
(buzzer dings)
Correct answer there
would be eight.
Movin' right along here
with another 10 pointer.
Chapters on Baker Farm
and the bean-field
appear in what 1854 book
which depicts the author's
life near the title pond
and is by Henry David Thoreau?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Leslie?
- Walden.
- Walden is correct for 10
points on that correct tossup.
That's gonna get them a
chance at this 20 points.
A letter by Pliny the Younger
described the destruction
of Stabiae, Herculaneum,
and what other city
that was preserved
by the eruption of Vesuvius?
- Pompeii.
- Pompeii is correct for
20 points right there
thanks to Leslie as Centralia
moves up on the scoreboard.
They're not in the lead yet,
but we got a close game
in our first round.
This one's worth 10 points.
Boston Corbett killed
what assassin who shouted,
"Sic semper tyrannis,"
after hurting his leg
jumping from the balcony?
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Josh.
- John Wilkes Booth.
- John Wilkes Booth is
correct for 10 more points
right there to Johnston City.
And your bonus is,
in 2011, players using
a namesake computer game
solved a puzzle based on what
process by which proteins
adopt a functional
three dimensional shape?
(quiet whispering)
- Tertiary.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
Centralia, do you have a steal?
- Globular.
- That is incorrect as well.
The correct answer
is protein folding.
So nobody gets that bonus here.
The score stays the same.
This one's an audio
question worth 10 points.
I'm gonna let that play.
♪ Call me, call me
♪ My love, call me
♪ Call me any, anytime, call me
- This group is formed
by singer Debbie Harry
and guitarist Chris Stein.
Their biggest hits include
this song, Call Me,
Atomic, and Heart of Glass.
What's the name of this group?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Johnathan.
- Blondie.
- Blondie is correct for
10 points right there.
We got a Blondie
fan in the building.
Glad I'm not the
only one finally.
Centralia, your bonus is,
what woodwind instrument
with a single reed mouthpiece
and a flared bell
has a glissando
and opens Rhapsody in Blue?
- Clarinet.
- A clarinet is correct
for 20 more points
right there to Centralia
as they pull within 10 points
in our first round here
in the quarterfinals.
This one's worth 10.
What members of what,
the members of
what animal phylum,
whose name comes from the
Greek for jointed foot,
have chitinous
exoskeletons and includes
arachnids and insects?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Leslie.
- Insecta.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Josh.
- Arthropoda.
- Arthropoda is correct
for 10 points right there
as Josh gets that one at the
last second for 10 points.
He's gonna earn them a
chance at 20 right here.
Santurce is the populous
district of what city,
which includes
Fort San Cristobal
and is the capital
of Puerto Rico?
(quiet whispering)
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City.
- San Juan.
- San Juan is correct
for 20 points right there
as they move ahead
on our scoreboard here,
(bell dings)
and that sound means that
we have come to an end
of our first round of play.
Bring in the lightning
for the lightning round.
(rain pouring)
(thunder rumbling)
In the lightning round,
Centralia gets to go first
since you're a little
behind on the scoreboard.
The four categories you
guys get to choose from are
alliterative names, NBA players,
European royal residences,
and title women in literature.
I'm getting gray hair.
- Sorry.
Title women in literature.
- Title women in literature
of all that conferring is
what Centralia decides on.
For this category, guys,
you're gonna have to name
the novelist who created
these title women,
these title characters.
Your time will start when
I count back from three.
In three, two, one,
Jane Eyre.
- Pass.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Daisy Miller.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Lolita.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Pippi Longstocking.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Emma Woodhouse.
- Pass.
- [Zach] My Antonia.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Anna Karenina.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Rebecca de Winter.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Madame Bovary.
- Pass.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Tess of
the d'Urbervilles.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Going back to
other ones you've passed on,
Jane Eyre.
- Jane Austen.
- [Zach] Incorrect.
Daisy Miller.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Lolita.
- Pass.
(buzzer dings)
- Okay, so Jane Eyre
would be Charlotte Bronte.
Daisy Miller was Henry James.
Lolita was Vladimir Nabokov.
Pippi Longstockings
was Astrid Lindgren.
Emma Woodhouse was Jane Austen.
My Antonia was Willa Cather.
Anna Karenina was Leo Tolstoy.
Rebecca de Winter was
Daphne du Maurier, Maurier.
And Madame Bovary
was Gustave Flaubert.
So that is the lightning
round for Centralia here.
Johnston City,
it's your turn now.
The categories you have
left to choose from are
alliterative names,
European royal residences,
and NBA players.
(quiet whispering)
- Royal residences.
- Royal residences it is
for Johnston City in our
lightning round here.
For this one, you're
gonna have to name
what modern day country is home
to the famous royal residence
that I'm gonna name.
Your time will start when
I count back from three.
In three, two, one,
the Louvre Palace.
- France.
- [Zach] Correct.
El Escorial.
- Spain.
- [Zach] Correct.
Windsor Castle.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Amalienborg and
Christiansborg Palace.
- Pass.
- [Zach] Winter Palace
and Peterhof Palace.
- Russia.
- [Zach] Correct.
Royal Castle of Laeken
and Stuyvenberg Castle.
- Germany.
- [Zach] Incorrect.
Schonbrunn Palace
and Hofburg Palace.
- Germany.
- [Zach] Incorrect.
Quirinal Palace
and Pitti Palace.
- Germany.
- [Zach] Incorrect.
Noordeinde Palace
and Huis ten Bosch.
- Germany.
- Incorrect.
Mateus Palace and
the Palace of Ajuda.
(buzzer dings)
That would be Portugal.
Royal Castle of Laeken and
Stuyvenberg Castle is Belgium.
Schonbrunn Palace is Austria.
Quirinal Palace and
Pitti Palace is Italy.
Windsor Castle is the United
Kingdom, so on and so forth.
So that is the lightning
round for both teams.
Neither were super
successful, but that's good
'cause that keeps
this game close
as we enter our final
round of play here,
just another 10
point tossup round,
these teams have been before.
They do it all the time.
So we're just gonna
get it goin' here
with a 10 point tossup.
First question of
the third round is,
what poem, whose
final stanza asks,
"When can their glory fade?"
and which praises men who
rode into the Valley of Death,
is by Alfred Lord Tennyson?
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Chase.
- The Charge of
the Light Brigade.
- The Charge of the
Light Brigade is correct
for 10 points right there to
Johnston City thanks to Chase.
That's gonna earn 'em a
chance at 20 more here.
The title animals
construct a floating city
called Cloud Cuckoo Land in
what comedy by Aristophanes?
(quiet whispering)
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, your answer.
- No answer.
- [Zach] No answer.
Centralia, do you
have an answer?
- The Lego Movie.
- The Lego Movie is
incorrect, very close though.
The correct answer is The Birds.
So nobody gets that bonus here.
We're gonna move right along
with another 10 pointer.
What state saw a 2016
rematch for a US Senate seat
between Ron Johnson
and Russ Feingold
six years after Scott
Walker was elected governor?
(buzzer dings)
It's Johnston City, Chase.
- Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin is correct for
10 points to Johnston City
as they keep their roll going.
This one's gonna be
worth 20 points now.
What Canadian born
American economist wrote
The New Industrial State
and popularized the
term conventional wisdom
in his The Affluent Society?
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, your answer.
- Malthus.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
Centralia, do you
have the steal?
(buzzer dings)
Any answer?
- Smith.
- That is incorrect.
The correct answer is John
Kenneth Galbraith, Galbraith.
So nobody gets that one.
We have a video question
that's worth 10 points now.
This musician and
actress debuted,
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Sara.
- Katy Perry.
- That is incorrect.
Five points for
the interruption.
Debuted as a child in
Barney and Friends.
She was a star in the
Disney movie Camp Rock.
Some of her hits include
Cool for the Summer,
Heart Attack, and
Really Don't Care.
(buzzer dings)
Name this star.
Centralia, Ethan.
- Demi Lovato.
- Demi Lovato is
correct for 10 points
right there to Centralia.
Let's see if they can add
on more with this bonus.
What NFL team was led
by quarterback Jim Kelly
when it lost four consecutive
Super Bowls in the 1990s?
- The Jets.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
Johnston City, do you know it?
- The Bills.
- The Buffalo Bills is correct.
Those poor, poor people,
four straight Super
Bowls, zero wins.
I'm not a Bills fan.
Anyway, we move right along
with another 10 pointer.
What game, which uses data
from the other game Ingress,
implements augmented reality?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Austin.
- Pokemon Go.
- Pokemon Go is correct
for 10 points right there.
You guys are gonna
get a bonus, which is,
in Carl Woese's taxonomy
system, both humans and plants
belong to what domain of
organisms that have nuclei?
- Eukaryote.
- That is correct for 20
points right there to Centralia
as they climb up on
the scoreboard here
makin' it a good one.
We got another one
worth 10 points now.
A white dwarf that grows
beyond the Chandrasekhar limit
may produce the 1a
form of what phenomenon
which destroys a star
in a violent explosion?
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Ethan.
- Black hole.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Josh.
- Supernova.
- Supernova is
correct for 10 points
right there to Johnston City.
That's gonna earn you guys
another chance at 20 more here.
The question is,
Rigoberta Menchu received
the Nobel Peace Prize
for her activism
against the genocide
of indigenous Maya
in what country?
(quiet whispering)
- Take a guess.
(buzzer dings)
- [Zach] Johnston City.
- Uruguay.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
Centralia, do you know it?
- Guatemala.
- Guatemala is correct
as Centralia gets that steal
there for half the points.
Movin' right along
in this close game
in our quarterfinals here.
What city, originally known as
Anfa in the Berber language,
names a 1942 film
starring Humphrey Bogart
and is the most populous
city in Morocco?
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Chase.
- Gibraltar.
- That is incorrect.
(buzzer dings)
That would be Casablanca.
Nobody gets that 10 points here.
I got an audio question
now that's worth 10.
♪ And I need you now tonight
♪ And I need you more than ever
- [Zach] Bonnie Tyler recorded
this love ballad
here right here.
It became her biggest hit.
(buzzer dings)
Centralia, Austin.
- Total Eclipse of the Heart.
- That's your song,
isn't it, Austin?
That's correct for 10 points
to Centralia right there.
He knew right when it came on.
Oh, that's my song.
Centralia, your bonus is,
what leader of the
liberal democratic party
and current prime minister
of Japan has been pursuing
an expansionist monetary
policy since 2012?
(buzzer dings)
Your answer?
Johnston City, do
you have an answer?
- Just say something.
- No answer.
(buzzer dings)
- The correct answer
would be Shinzo Abe.
So nobody gets the
bonus right there.
We're gonna move right
along with a 10 pointer.
Seawater fills what
landforms that consist
of a long, narrow U-shaped
valley carved by glaciers,
many examples of which dot
of the coast of Norway?
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Josh.
- A fjord.
- Yeah, we'll take
it, we'll take it.
I think I know what you meant.
For 10 points, it's fjords.
Yeah, yeah, it's the same
thing, it doesn't matter.
That's correct for 10 points
right there to Johnston City.
Your bonus is,
what company founded by Edwin
Land made instant film cameras
before its bankruptcy
filings in 2001 and 2008?
- Say it.
- Polaroid.
- Polaroid is correct
for 20 more points
right there to Johnston City
as they add to their lead
in our final round here.
Another 10 pointer.
What European
country that was home
to playwright August Strindberg
also contains a national academy
that awards a Nobel
Prize in literature?
(buzzer dings)
That would be Sweden.
Sweden.
Another one for 10 points.
What state governed
by Bruce Rauner was home to,
(buzzer dings)
Johnston City, Ethan.
- Illinois.
- Illinois, the land of Lincoln.
How great to be in
Illinois, right?
Johnston City, your bonus is,
what Habsburg monarch
oversaw the creation
of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire in 1867
and began World War I by
declaring war on Siberia?
(quiet whispering)
(buzzer dings)
Your answer?
- Ferdinand.
- [Zach] That is incorrect.
Centralia.
- Wilhelm.
- That is incorrect as well.
The correct answer
is Franz Josef I,
Josef I,
(bell dings)
and that sound means we have
come to an end of our game.
Our final score here,
Johnston City takes it,
230 to 145.
They will advance to next
week where I hope to see you.
Have a great day.
(upbeat dance music)
(woman vocalizing)