(upbeat lively electronic music)
- Welcome to Scholastic HI-Q
the game where knowledge rules.
And we not only have a
tale of two cities tonight
but a battle between two cities
as we start this round
of the semi-finals.
On the bottom row we have
Granite City with Isaiah,
Aaron, Cody and Alex.
And on the top row with
Johnston City we have Levi,
Jace, Amelia and Chase.
Now that we've met our
wonderful contestants
let's go over the rules.
I'll read a toss-up question
that either team can answer
for 10 points apiece.
If they get a toss-up
question right
they have the opportunity
to try to get a bonus
question worth 20 points.
However if that team gets
a bonus question wrong
the other team can
steal for 10 points.
Remember the interruption
rule is in effect
so 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 a chance to hear
the entire answer.
We will also have
a lightning round
halfway through the game
where I will read a
series of categories
and both teams will
have 60 seconds
to answer as many
questions as possible.
Now, we know the contestants,
we know the rules
let's put on our thinking caps
and let's get down to quizness.
Toss-up number one.
You guys better get your
pencils and paper ready
'cause this is a math question.
There are two answers required.
Between what two consecutive
positive integers
lies the square root of 155
as it is greater than 10?
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- 12 and 13.
- That is correct for
10 points Johnston City.
Here is your bonus question.
What class of functions
are the inverses
of exponential functions?
- Logarithmic.
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next toss-up question.
What Roman general
who crushed the Cimbri
at the battle of Vercellae
served as a consul seven times
and had a long running
rivalry with Sulla?
(buzzer sounding)
Aaron.
- Scipio Africanus.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Pompeii.
- I am sorry, that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was Gaius Marius.
Alright, on to our
next toss-up question.
What Norse god whose ability
to hear the grass grow
and see perfectly at night
helps him guard the
rainbow bridge Bifrost--
(buzzer sounding)
- Aaron.
- Heimdallr.
- That is correct for
10 points Granite City.
Here is your bonus question.
In tennis a score of deuce
indicates that both players
have what score in
the current point?
- 40.
- 40 is correct for 20 points.
Alright, next up we have
our first media question
and this is a steal question.
This Egyptian pharaoh was
all but lost to history
before archeologists
discovered his tomb
in the 19th century.
Name this king who's more
widely known for being
the husband of Nefertiti and
the father of King Tutankhamen.
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Ramses II.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
That would be Akhenaton.
On to our next toss-up question.
What poem who's
composition was interrupted
by a person from Porlock
describes the palace of Xanadu
and was written by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Kubla Kahn.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Johnston City here is
your bonus question.
What marine corps pilot
who was the first American
to orbit the Earth
went on to serve as
senator from Ohio?
(buzzer sounding)
Alright Granite City you
have the chance to steal.
- Allen.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was John Glenn.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What man who apparently
made one call
from a $43,000
dollar phone booth
was criticized for his
large security detail
before he resigned as
the head of the EPA?
(buzzer sounding)
That would be Scott Pruitt.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What emperor who signed
the Treaty of Campo
Formio with Austria
won the battles of
Borodino and Austerlitz
but was defeated at Waterloo.
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Napoleon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte is correct.
Here is your bonus
question Johnston City.
What singer who sang that,
"Some people want it all"
in her song If I Ain't Got You
collaborated with Jay-Z
on Empire State of Mind?
- Beyonce.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Granite City you have
the chance to steal.
- Alicia Keys.
- Alicia Keys is
correct for 10 points.
Alright, next media question
and this is a video question.
This movie was based on
the Disney attraction
of the same name.
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Pirates of the Caribbean.
- [Host] Could you
be more specific?
- Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect
and because the interruption
rule is in effect
I have to give Johnston
City five points
and a chance to hear
the entire question.
This movie was based on
the Disney attraction
of the same name.
Name this movie that was
the first in its franchise
and stars Keira Knightley,
Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp.
(buzzer sounding)
Amelia.
- Pirates of the Caribbean
Curse of the Black Pearl.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Johnston City here is
your bonus question.
What westernmost city
in mainland Africa
is the capital of Senegal?
(buzzer sounding)
Granite City you have
the chance to steal.
- No answer.
- That's alright the
correct answer was Dakar.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What country, the only one to
have the Tropic of Capricorn
and the Equator pass through it
is home to Christ the
Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro?
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Brazil.
- That is correct for
10 points Granite City.
Here is your bonus question.
A league co-founded
by Richard Cobden
agitated for the
repeal of what laws
that placed tariffs on grain
imported into 19th
century Britain?
- The Grain Tax.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Johnston City you have
the chance to steal.
- The Corn Laws.
- The Corn Laws is
correct for 10 points.
Onto our next toss-up question.
What composer included
such movements as C.A.E.,
Troyte and Nimrod in
his Enigma Variations
and also wrote the Pomp
and Circumstance Marches?
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Elgar.
- Elgar is correct
for 10 points.
Johnston City here is
your bonus question.
The Internet protocol
suite combines IP
with what protocol that has
a three letter abbreviation?
(buzzer sounding)
Granite City you have
the chance to steal.
- CSS.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was TCP.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What texts include those
named for a barren fig tree,
a lost coin, a mustard
seed and the prodigal son
and were used by Jesus
to teach by metaphor?
(buzzer sounding)
Aaron.
- Proverbs.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
That would be the Parables.
That's alright, on to
our next media question.
This is a video question.
This song was written by
Andre 3000.
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Hey Ya.
- Hey Ya is correct for
10 points Granite City.
Here is your bonus question.
Robert Baden Powell founded
what international
youth organization
whose members earn
merit badges in 1908?
- Boy Scouts.
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next toss-up question.
In what absolute
monarchy created in
the 1929 Lateran Treaty
and protected by the Swiss Guard
was Benedict XVI
replaced in 2013?
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- The Vatican.
- The Vatican is
correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question Granite City.
The basaltic lavas
typically form
what type of gently
sloping volcano
exemplified by Hawaii's Kilauea
is named for its resemblance
to a piece of armor?
- Shield.
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next toss-up question.
What film which ends with
Farrier burning his Spitfire
was directed by
Christopher Nolan--
(buzzer sounding)
Aaron.
- Dunkirk.
- Dunkirk is correct for
10 points Granite City.
And here is your bonus question.
What Chinese novel
attributed to Luo Guanzhong
centers on the conflicts
between the states
of Wei, Shu and Wu?
- Journey to the West.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Johnston City you have
the chance to steal.
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- That is correct for 10 points.
On to our next toss-up question.
The Phoenix City
is the nickname of
what European city
on the Vistula River
that is the home to
the Copernicus Monument
and is the capital of Poland?
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Warsaw.
- Warsaw is correct
for 10 points.
And Johnston City here
is your bonus question.
Jan Sobieski helped defeat a
siege of what European capital
that was attacked by the
Ottomans in 1529 and 1683?
- Athens.
(buzzer sounding)
- [Host] Sorry,
that is incorrect.
Granite city you have
the chance to steal.
- Vienna.
- Vienna is correct
for 10 points.
Alright, next up we have
another media question.
This is an audio question.
Let's take a listen.
This English rock
band formed in 1977
and was one of the many acts
spawned from the
British post-punk scene.
Their hit song Pretty in
Pink served as an inspiration
for the 1986 John Hughes
film of the same name.
Name this band.
("Pretty in Pink" by
The Psychedelic Furs)
Chase.
- A-ha.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
Aaron.
- Cream.
- I am sorry, that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer was
The Psychedelic Furs.
That's alright we've got
another toss-up question here.
What man who served as Gerald
Ford's last CIA director
and gave the Thousand
Points of Light speech
succeeded Ronald Regan
as president--
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- George H.W. Bush.
- That is correct for 10 points.
And here is your bonus
question Johnston City.
In what country's Sumbawa
Island is home to Mount Tambora
whose 1815 eruption caused
the year without a summer?
(buzzer sounding)
Alright Granite City you
have the chance to steal.
- Nigeria.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was Indonesia.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What former name of
Toronto is also the name
of an English city
founded as Eboracum
whose grand old duke is the
subject of a nursery rhyme?
(buzzer sounding)
That would be York.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What book series which depicts
a secretive organization
called the VFD--
(buzzer sounding)
Isaiah.
- A Series of
Unfortunate Events.
- A Series of Unfortunate
Events is correct.
But it is not
unfortunate for you
because you guys are
getting this bonus question.
What Greek philosophical
movement whose namesake
founded a school
known as The Garden
espoused the idea that
pleasure was the highest good?
- Hedonism.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Johnston City you have
the chance to steal.
- Epicureanism.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Alright, up next we have
another media question
and this is a steal question.
This woodblock print was
made by Katsushika Hokusai
and was published
between 1829 and 1833.
Name this painting that
is considered to be
Hokusai's most famous work
and one of the most
recognizable works
of Japanese art in the world.
(buzzer sounding)
Aaron.
- Mt. Fuji from the Sea.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Tsunami.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
Although tsunami was
on the right track.
It's called The Great
Wave off Kanagawa.
Alright, next toss-up question.
In what country did the
murder of Benigno Aquino
lead to the People
Power Revolution
and the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
amidst protests in Manila?
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- The Philippines.
- That is correct for 10 points.
On to your bonus
question Johnston City.
What condition which
occurs in septic,
osteo and rheumatid forms
is a painful inflammation
of the joints?
- Arthritis.
- Arthritis is correct
for 20 points.
(buzzer sounding)
And that sound means it's
time for our lightning round.
- [Contestant] Spooky.
- [Host] Alright,
it's a very close call
but it looks like Granite
City will be the first ones
in this lightning round.
And I will read you
the series of topics
you'll get to choose from.
Your topics are
Centuries in Art,
NBA MVPs,
Bells
and Months.
Which would you like?
- We'll take months please.
- Months it is.
Identify these things
whose names are
or include a month of the year.
Granite City are you ready
for your lightning round?
- Yes.
- Aw, come on I know you're
a little bit more excited.
This is semi-finals.
Are you ready for
your lightning round?
- You better believe it.
- Oh, they're ready.
60 seconds on the clock
in three, two one.
A 1917 uprising in Russia
in which the Bolsheviks
seized power.
- November.
- [Host] That is incorrect.
Month called the cruelest in
T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland.
- April.
- That is correct.
Playwright who wrote Fences
and The Piano Lesson.
- Pass.
- [Host] Holiday in which
celebrants dance around a pole.
- May Day.
- That is correct.
Second wife of Johnny Cash.
- Pass.
- [Host] Homer Hickam book
about an aspiring
rocket enthusiast
sometimes called Rocket Boys.
- October Sky.
- That is correct.
Green Day song that begins,
summer has come and passed.
- Wake Me Up When
September Ends.
- [Host] That is correct.
Tea loving Lagomorph in Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland.
- Pass.
- [Host] Painting
depicting a firing squad
by Francisco Goya.
- Pass.
(buzzer sounding)
- And we are out of time
but I will go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
The 1917 uprising in Russia
was the October Revolution.
The playwright who wrote
Fences and The Piano
Lesson was August Wilson.
The second wife of Johnny
Cash was June Carter.
And the tea loving Lagomorph
in Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland was the March Hare.
And the painting
depicting a firing squad
by Francisco Goya was
The 3rd of May 1808.
Alright Johnston
City it is your turn
for your lighting round
and I will read the
categories off one more time.
Centuries in Art,
NBA MVPs
and Bells.
Which would you like?
- Bells.
- Bells it is.
Answer the following
about bells.
Johnston City it's
the semi-finals.
Are you guys ready for
your lightning round?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Mm hm.
- Aw, come on a little
bit more excitement.
Are you guys ready?
- Yeah, I think we're ready.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- I think they're ready too.
60 seconds on the clock
in three, two, one.
A bell ringer named Quasimodo
is this novel's title character.
- Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- That is correct.
Kristen Bell stars as this NBC
sitcom set in the afterlife.
- Pass.
- [Host] Communication device
patented by Alexander
Graham Bell.
- Telephone.
- That is correct.
Author of A Bell for Adono.
- Pass.
- [Host] The Liberty Bell is
in this Pennsylvania city.
- Philadelphia.
- That is correct.
Jamie Bell played The
Thing in this 2015 film.
- Pass.
- [Host] Country whose
Gyeongju National Museum
is the home to a
massive bronze bell.
- China.
- I'm sorry, that's incorrect.
Poet who described bells
that tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
in the icy air of night.
- Pass.
- 2017 film starring
Ansel Elgort
that opens with a car chase
set to the song Bell Bottoms.
- Pass.
- Curer Bell was a
pseudonym used by this--
(buzzer sounding)
And we are out of time.
I will go over the ones
that you passed or missed.
Kristin Bell stars in this NBC
Sitcom set in the afterlife.
That is The Good Place.
The author of A Bell for
Adono is John Hersey.
Jamie Bell played The
Thing in this 2015 film.
That is Fantastic Four.
The country whose Gyeongju
National Museum is home to
a massive bronze bell
was in South Korea.
The poet who described the bells
that tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
in the icy air of night
was Edgar Allen Poe.
The 2017 film starring Ansel
Elgort was Baby Driver.
And Currer Bell is the
pseudonym for Charlotte Bronte.
Alright that is the end
of our lightning round
and it is time to go back
to our bonus questions.
For our next toss-up.
What mathematical objects with
non-integer Hausdorff dimension
include the
Sierpinski triangle--
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Fractals.
- Fractals is correct
for 10 points.
Granite City here is
your bonus question.
What American jurist
who wrote an opinion
favoring eugenics
in Buck v. Bell
established the clear
and present danger test
in his Schenck Opinion?
- Thurgood Marshall.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Johnston City you have
the chance to steal.
- Taney.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was Holmes.
Alright, next question.
What playwright who wrote
about the Antrobus family
in The Skin of our Teeth
depicted the marriage
of George Gibbs--
(buzzer sounding)
Amelia.
- Thornton Wilder.
- That is correct
for 10 points Johnston City.
Here is your bonus question.
What author wrote
about the Finch family
in To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Harper Lee.
- That is correct
for 20 points.
Alright, next up we
have a media question.
This is an audio question.
Let's take a listen.
This series is based off
the show Man About the House
and revolves around
three single roommates
who live in a Santa
Monica apartment complex.
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Three's Company.
- Three's Company is
correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus question.
Death performers were
prominently featured
in a 2015 revival
of what musical
in which Jonathan
Groff played Melchior
during its initial Broadway run?
- Cats.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Johnston City you have
the chance to steal.
- Hamilton.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was Spring Awakening.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What law relates the
magnetic field around a loop
to the current through the loop
and is named for
the French namesake
of the SI unit of current?
(buzzer sounding)
Cody.
- Amp.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Ampere.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question Johnston City.
The Jewel Box star cluster
is located within
what constellation
that appears prominently
on the flag of Australia?
- Cancer.
- [ Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Granite City you have
the chance to steal.
- The Northern Cross.
- I am sorry, that is incorrect.
The correct answer was the
Crux or the Southern Cross.
- [Alex] Yeah, Southern Cross.
- Alright, next
toss-up question.
- [Alex] That was on me.
- In 2018 what car
manufacturer announced plans
to stop U.S. sales
of most of its sedans
including the Escort and
Taurus but not the Mustang?
(buzzer sounding)
Cody.
- Ford.
- Ford is correct
for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question Granite City.
What future president and the
Spear of the Nation leader
gave the I Am
Prepared to Die speech
after being convicted
in Ravonia trial?
- Mandela.
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next toss-up question.
What poetic form
popularized by Edward Leer
is named for an Irish city,
has an aabba rhyme scheme--
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Limerick.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Granite City here is
your bonus question.
What author created
Santiago and Manolin
in The Old Man and the Sea.
- Hemingway.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Alright, next up we
have a media question.
This is a video question.
This musical debuted
on Broadway in 2015
and closed in 2017
after 742 performances.
It was written by brothers
Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick
and was nominated for 10 Tony
awards including best musical
but only won one for best
featured actor in a musical.
Name this musical.
(buzzer sounding)
That musical was
Something Rotten.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What organ with smooth muscle
has fundic and cardiac glands,
releases pepsin from chief cells
and sends chyme to the
duodenum via the pylorus?
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Small intestine.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Stomach.
- The stomach is
correct for 10 points.
Granite city here is
your bonus question.
On what island
ruled by King Minos
was the Minotaur's
Labyrinth located.
- Crete.
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next toss-up question.
What country where Dawn
Sturgess was killed in 2018
was also the site of
the Novichock poisoning
of Russian expatriate
Sergei Skripal in Salisbury?
(buzzer sounding)
Isaiah.
- Ukraine.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Austria.
- I am sorry, that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer was
the United Kingdom.
Alright, next toss-up question.
What actress co-hosts the
NBC crafting competition show
Making It with Nick
Offerman, her former co-star
on the sitcom--
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Amy Poehler.
- Amy Poehler is
correct for 10 points.
Here is your bonus
question Johnston City.
What general lab
technique determines
the unknown concentration
of a solution
by calculating an
equivalence point?
- Molarity.
- I'm am sorry,
that is incorrect.
Grant City you have
the chance to steal.
- Titration.
- Titration is
correct for 10 points.
On to our next media question.
This is a steal question.
This animal has a lifespan--
(buzzer sounding)
Chase.
- Tortoise.
- [Host] Could you
be more specific?
- Giant tortoise.
- [Host] I am sorry,
that is incorrect.
And because I did not
finish reading the question
Granite City you get five points
and a chance to hear
the entire question.
This animal has a
lifespan of over 100 years
and is one of the longest
living vertebrates.
Today they only exist on
two remote archipelagos
one of them being Aldabra
in the Indian Ocean.
Name this animal.
(buzzer sounding)
Alex.
- Galapagos tortoise.
- That is correct for 10 points.
Granite City here is
your bonus question.
What temple dedicated to
the Roman gods was completed
during the reign of Hadrian
and has a dome with
a coffered ceiling
and has an opening or oculus?
- The Parthenon.
- [Host] I'm sorry,
that is incorrect.
Johnston City you have
the chance to steal.
- The Pantheon.
- The Pantheon is correct
for 10 points.
(buzzer sounding)
And that sound means
that is the end of
this round of Scholastic HI-Q.
It looks like Granite City
you are the winners of
this round of the
semifinals, congratulations.
Thank you for coming out.
And Johnston City thank you
guys for also coming out
and putting up a great game.
We will see you.
And thank you for
watching Scholastic HI-Q.
I have been your
host Madeline Parker
and we will see you next time.
(upbeat lively electronic music)