(pleasant dreamy music)
(upbeat happy music)
- Welcome back to
Scholastic Hi-Q.
The game where knowledge rules.
And this is the final countdown,
because we are in the final
round of the quarter finals.
But let's meet these contestants
because the competition
is heating up
and they are ready
to claim their title.
Let's go to the bottom row
with Gibault with Nick,
Josh E Spencer and Josh H.
And on the top row we've
got Herrin with Austin A
Austin K Ryan and DJ.
Now that we've met
the contestants,
let's go over the rules.
I will read a toss up
question that either team
can answer for
ten points apiece.
And if they get
the question right,
they can 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 ten 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 question.
We will also have
a lightening round
halfway through the
game where I will read
a series of questions
from a category,
and both teams have
60 seconds to answer
as many questions as possible.
Now we know the contestants,
we know the rules,
we got to put on
our thinking caps,
and let's get down to quizness.
Question number one.
What author wrote about the
deaths of the Cutler family
in the non-fiction
novel In Cold Blood,
and created Holly Golightly?
DJ.
- Truman Capote.
- That is correct
for ten points.
Herrin here is your
bonus question.
What term refers to the
process of intentionally
adding impurities
to a semi-conductor
to change its properties?
(whispers)
- Dilution?
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
Gibault you have
a chance to steal.
(beeping)
The correct answer is doping.
Alright next toss up question.
What invertebrates,
which produce the
anti-coagulant hirudin,
are annelids that are used
today after microsurgery
and are historically
used for bloodletting?
(beeps)
Ryan?
- Leeches?
- Leeches is correct
for ten points.
And here is your
bonus question Herrin.
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart's final symphony
is nicknamed for what deity,
whose namesake planet is called
The Bringer of Jollity
in a Gustav Holst piece?
(whispers)
- Jupiter?
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next toss up question.
Erich von Falkenhayn planned
what World War One battle
in which Robert Neville stated
"They shall not pass."
(beeps)
Ryan.
- Verdun.
- That is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
Which of the great lakes
is the only one located
entirely within the U.S?
(whispers)
(beeps)
Gibault you have
a chance to steal.
- Lake Michigan.
- That is correct
for ten points.
On to our first media question,
this is an audio question
so let's take a listen.
("The Blob" by The Five Blobs)
This song is is the title
song for the original
1958 film The Blob
and was written
by Burt Bacharach
and Mack David.
The song became
a nation wide hit
and peaked at number 33 on
the Billboard Chart in 1958.
Name this song.
(beeps)
Josh H.
- The Blob?
- Could you be more specific?
- Beware of the Blob?
- That is correct
for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
What first name was shared
by three wives of Henry VIII?
- Ann?
- I'm sorry that's incorrect.
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
- Catherine?
- Catherine is correct
for ten points.
Onto our next toss up question.
What novel in which Simon
is killed after discovering
that the beast is a
dead parachutist..
(beeps)
Austin A.
- Lord of the Flies.
- Lord of the Flies is
correct for ten points.
Herrin here is your
bonus question.
What daytime talk show,
which in 2017 fired
co-chef Mario Batali
over sexual misconduct
accusations,
was canceled by ABC in 2018?
- The Chew?
- The Chew is correct
for 20 points.
Alright here is our
next toss up question.
A p and a slash appear
before the names
of the periodic
type of what objects
as seen in one with
a 76 year orbit
that is named after
Edmond Halley?
(beeps)
Spencer.
- Comets.
- Comets is correct
for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
The merchant Lopakhin
unsuccessfully
tries to persuade
Madame Ranevskaya
to build villas
on the title land
in what play by Anton Checkov?
(whispers)
(beeps)
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
(whispers)
(beeps)
That would be The
Cherry Orchard.
Alright next toss up question.
In what city were
people chanting
"The whole world is watching!"
dispersed on orders
of Mayor Richard Daley
at the 1968 Democratic
National Convention?
(beeps)
Josh E.
- Chicago?
- Chicago Illinois is
correct for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
What South American
country's disputed
eastern border by
Suriname formed primarily
by the Courantyne River?
(whispers)
- Guiana?
- That is correct for 20 points.
Alright next up we
have a media question,
and this is a video question.
This musical is
based on the novel
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
(beeps)
- Austin A.
- Oliver?
- Oliver is correct
for ten points.
Herrin here is your
bonus question.
What object which appears
anthropomorphically
in Hans Holbein's
The Ambassadors
is held up during
a speech in which
Hamlet laments
"Alas poor Yorick!"
(whispers)
- A Skull.
- A Skull is correct
for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
What country's liberal party
had two 2018 leadership spills
ending in former treasurer
Scott Morrison unseating
Malcolm Turnbull
as Prime Minister?
(beeps)
Ryan.
- Australia?
- Australia is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
What sub-field of
genetics focuses
not on individual genes,
but on the structure
and organization
of all of an organism's
genetic material?
- Genealogy?
(beeps)
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
Gibault you have
a chance to steal.
(beeps)
That would be genomics.
Alright next up we have
another toss up question.
This is a math question,
so get your pencils
and paper ready.
How many hours
will elapse between
7:30 a.m. and 6:00
p.m. the same day,
a calculation that can be
done using a 24 hour clock?
(beeps)
Spencer.
- Ten and a half?
- Ten and a half hours is
correct for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
What novelist,
who used a male pen name,
wrote about Dorothea
Brooke's aspirations
to transform the title
community in Middlemarch?
(whispers)
(beeps)
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
(whispers)
- Emily Brontë?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer is George
Eliot or Mary Anne Evans.
Alright next toss up question.
What island whose
southeast portion
is indented by Frobisher Bay,
is home to the Iqaluit,
the capital of Nunuvut,
and is the largest
island in Canada?
(beeps)
Josh E.
- Prince Edward Island?
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
(beeps)
DJ.
- Newfoundland.
- I am sorry that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
is Baffin Island.
Alright here is the
next media question,
and this is a still question.
This largely aquatic mammal--
(beeps)
Austin K.
- Manatee?
- Manatee!
Fun fact it's my
brother's favorite animal
and I'm pretty sure he
loves them more than me
but I'm not bitter about it.
Alright here is your
bonus question Herrin.
What french word for wake up
names the morning
military bugle call?
(beeps)
Alright Gibault you
have a chance to steal.
(whispers)
(beeps)
That would be the Reveille.
Alright next toss up question.
What author depicted
coach passengers
detained during
the Franco-Prussian
War in Ball of Fat,
and described a piece of
fake jewelry in The Necklace?
(beeps)
That would be Maupassant.
Alright next toss up question.
What league gives a
Supporters' Shield
to the best regular
season team as 23 teams
including D.C. United
and FC Dallas--
(beeps)
Josh H.
- The MLS?
- That is correct
for ten points.
That is Major League Soccer.
Alright on to your
bonus question Gibault.
Big Bill Haywood was
founder of what labor union,
whose members were
known as Wobblies?
(whispers)
(beeps)
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
- The AF of L?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer is the IWW.
The Industrial
Workers of the World.
Alright next toss up question.
The philosopher Democritus
coined what term meaning
indivisible for the
particles of matter now known
to contain protons neutrons--
(beeps)
Austin A.
- Atom.
Atom is correct for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
The phrase "Trust the process."
has been used in recent years
by fans of what NBA team,
whose roster includes JJ
Redick and Joel Embiid?
- Philadelphia 76ers?
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next media question.
This is an audio question.
Let's take a listen.
("Do I Wanna Know?"
by Arctic Monkeys)
This English alternative
rock band formed in 2002--
(beeps)
Austin A.
- Arctic Monkeys.
- Arctic Monkeys is
correct for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin,
and you might want to get
your pencils and papers ready,
because this is a math question.
If an item originally costing
$25 is given a 56% discount,
what is its current sale price?
(pencils scratching)
(beeps)
Alright Gibault you
have a chance to steal.
- Eleven dollars?
- Eleven dollars is
correct for ten points.
Onto our next toss up question.
What country which
defeated the forces
of Russia at Amur Basin,
signed a border treaty
with Ivan V at Nerchinsk
under the rule of
Kangxi Emperor?
(beeps)
Nick.
- Japan?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
(beeps)
Ryan.
- China?
- China is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
What Spanish city,
the most populous in
the Basque country,
is home to the Guggenheim
Museum designed by Frank Gehry?
- Bilbao?
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
Which country known in
it's national language
of Dzongkha as Druk Gyal,
or the Land of the
Thunder Dragon,
has it's capital at
Thimphu in the Himalayas?
(beeps)
- Spencer.
- Bhutan?
- Bhutan is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Gibault.
In 1975 Paul Allen and
Bill Gates co-founded
what computer company,
which developed
the Edge Browser?
- Microsoft.
- Microsoft is
correct for 20 points.
Onto our next --
(bell chimes)
It looks like it's time
for our lightning round.
(thunder)
Alright it looks like Gibault
you will be going first
in this lightning round.
And I will read the categories
for you to choose from.
Peanuts,
Apollo,
Colonial Africa,
and Parks.
Which would you like?
(whispers)
- Africa.
- Africa it is.
Colonial Africa.
Name the European
power that controlled
these African colonies
in the 20th century.
Answers may be repeated.
Now Gibault I think I know
what you're going to say,
but are you ready for
this lightning round?
- Oh yeah!
- They're ready alright.
60 seconds on the clock.
In 3-2-1.
Algeria until 1962.
- France.
- That is correct.
Kenya until 1960.
- Britain.
That is correct.
The Congo the successor
to the Congo Free State.
- Belgium.
- That is correct.
Madagascar until 1960.
- France.
That is correct.
Namibia until 19--
- Germany.
That is correct.
Angola until 1975.
- Portugal.
That is correct.
South Africa until 1931.
- Britain.
That is correct.
Libya from 1912 to 1943.
- France?
- That is incorrect.
West Sahara until 1976.
- Spain.
That is correct.
Mozambique until 1975.
- Portugal.
That is correct and that is
all for this lightning round.
Very good Gibault!
You missed one question however,
and that was Libya
from 1912 to 1943
and the correct
answer was Italy.
But otherwise very good job.
Herrin it is now your turn
for your lightning round.
And I will read the
categories one more time.
Apollo,
Peanuts,
and Parks.
Which is it gonna be?
- Parks.
- Parks it is.
What state is home to
these national parks?
Herrin are you guys ready
for your lightning round?
- We're ready.
- We are.
- They seem ready.
Alright 60 seconds on
the clock in 3-2-1.
Crater Lake.
- Oregon.
- That is correct.
Yosemite.
- California.
- That is correct.
Badlands.
- South Dakota.
- That is correct.
Carlsbad Caverns.
- Texas.
- That is incorrect.
Arcadia.
- Maine.
- That is correct.
Cuyahoga Valley.
- Pass.
- Glacier.
- Montana.
- That is correct.
Everglades.
- Florida.
- That is correct.
Mesa Verde.
- Colorado.
- That is correct.
Arches.
- Utah.
- That is correct.
Going back to the
ones that you passed.
Cuyahoga Valley.
- Arkansas.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
And that is all for
this lightning round.
Very good job Herrin.
I will go over the
ones that you missed.
Carlsbad Caverns
was in New Mexico,
and the Cuyahoga
Valley was in Ohio.
Overall very good
job to both teams
and it is time to go back
to our toss up questions.
Next toss up.
What painting includes
a shield signed
with the names of
its 18 commissioners,
depicts a group led
by Frans Banninck Cocq
and is by Rembrandt.
(beeps)
Spencer.
- Night Hawks.
(whispers) Oh no.
- Sorry one more time please?
- I said Night Hawks.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
(beeps)
Ryan.
- Night Watch.
- The Night Watch is
correct for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
The Pragmatic sanction
supported the ascension
of what Austrian empress,
and the mother of Joseph
II and Marie Antoinette?
- Maria Theresa?
- That is correct for 20 points.
On to our next media question
and this is a video question.
This song was originally
by Nine Inch Nails
band leader Trent Rezner.
(beeps)
Austin A.
- Hurt.
- Hurt is correct
for ten points.
And here is your
bonus question Herrin.
What compounds may cause aging,
can be studied by electron
paramagnetic spectroscopy
because they have
unpaired electrons?
(whispers)
- Pass.
- Alright Gibault you
have a chance to steal.
- Anti-oxidants.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer
was free-radicals.
Alright.
Next toss up question.
What book,
in which Shadrach
Meshach and Abednego
are placed in a furnace,
recounts Belshazzar's feast
and is about a man who
survives a lion's den?
(beeps)
Josh E.
- Daniel.
- That is correct for
ten points Gibault.
Here is your bonus question.
Edward Tudor and Tom
Canty briefly trade lives
in what Mark Twain novel?
(whispers)
- The Prince and the Pauper?
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
What constant doesn't
depend on direction
per the Michelson-Morley
experiment,
is about 300 million
meters per second--
(beeps)
Josh E.
- The speed of light.
- The speed of light is
correct for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
In July 2018 House
of Republicans
filed Articles of Impeachment
against what Deputy
Attorney General
who supervises special
counsel Robert Mueller?
(whispers)
- Rosenstein?
- That is correct for 20 points.
And onto our next
toss up question.
What author of Some Thoughts
Concerning Education
viewed the mind as a tabula rasa
or blank slate,
and wrote an essay concerning
human understanding?
(beeps)
Nick.
- Freud?
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
(beeps)
- DJ.
- Montessori?
- I am sorry that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was John Locke.
Alright onto our
next media question,
and this a still question.
This 15th century mural
(beeps)
Josh H.
- The Last Supper.
- The Last Supper is
correct for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
What title identifies
those Muslim rulers
who were considered rightful
successors of Mohammed,
including the four Rashidun,
or the Rightly Guided Ones?
(whispers)
- Caliph.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
In 2018 New York
Congressman Chris Collins
was charged with what crime,
the use of facts not
in the public domain,
to invest in the stock market?
(beeps)
Josh E.
- Insider information?
- I'm sorry that is incorrect.
(beeps)
Austin K.
- Insider trading.
- Insider trading is
correct for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
What musical group
whose songs included
the disco hit Stayin'
Alive from the film
Saturday Night Fever,
was formed by the
three Gibbs brothers?
- The Bee Gees.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
A cenote a variety
of what structure,
often found in karst landscapes,
which is a depression
in the ground
caused by a collapsed
surface layer?
(beeps)
Spencer.
- Valley?
- [Host] Sorry
that is incorrect.
(beeps)
That would be a sinkhole.
Onto our next toss up question.
What man who was killed with
his brother Hyrum in 1844,
claimed Angel Moroni led him
to a set of golden plates,
and founded the Mormon church?
(beeps)
Austin K.
- Joseph Smith.
- That is correct
for ten points.
Herrin here is your
bonus question.
The Constitution
specifies what minimum age
for election to the U.S.
House of Representatives?
(whispers)
- 25?
- 25 years old is
correct for 20 points.
Onto our next media question,
and this is an audio question
so let's take a listen.
("Happy Days" by
Pratt & McClain)
(beeps)
Josh H.
- Happy Days.
- Happy Days is
correct for ten points.
And Gibault here is
your bonus question.
Amnesty International
reported on the shooting
of dozens of petty
criminals in the lead up
to the 2018 Asian
Games in what country?
(whispers)
- North Korea.
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
- China?
- I am sorry that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was Indonesia.
Alright next toss up question.
John Nicholson is the commander
of NATO forces in what country,
whose city of Ghazni
was the target
of an August 2018
attack by the Taliban?
(beeps)
DJ.
- Syria?
- [Host] I'm sorry
that is incorrect.
(beeps)
Nick.
- Turkey?
- I am sorry that
is also incorrect.
The correct answer
was Afghanistan.
Alright next toss up question.
What creator of the
Hippocrene spring,
a brother of Chrysaor,
who helped his tamer
Bellerophon slay the chimera,
was a mythical winged horse?
(beeps)
Spencer.
- Pegasus.
- Pegasus is correct
for ten points.
Gibault here is
your bonus question.
Bismuth can be alleviated
due to what property
of being repelled
by a magnetic field
which is contrasted
with ferromagnatism
and paramagnatism?
(whispers)
- Electromagnetics?
- [Host] I am sorry
that is incorrect.
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
(whispers)
(beeps)
That would be diamagnetism.
Alright next toss up question.
What periodic table
group has elements
whose s and p subshells
are completely occupied,
as seen in Radon,
and occupies the right
column of the table?
(beeps)
Josh E.
- Group 18.
- That is correct for
ten points Gibault.
Here is your bonus question.
In 2018 Ball State University
and the University
of Louisville,
removed the name
of John Schnatter,
the founder of what company,
from campus buildings?
(beeps)
Herrin you have a
chance to steal.
(whispers)
(beeps)
That would be Papa John
of Papa John's Pizza.
Alright next up we
have a media question.
This is a video question.
This musical is based
(beeps)
DJ.
- Waitress.
- Waitress is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
In The Grapes of Wrath,
the Joads migrate to California
after losing their family
farm in what state?
(whispers)
- Oklahoma?
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
What author depicted
a protagonist
who ignores the advice of an
old-timer on Sulfur Creek,
and thus freezes to death,
in his story To Build a Fire.
(beeps)
Austin A.
- Jack London.
- That is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
What long time Mexican dictator
was advised by the Cientificos
before being toppled in 1911
to start the Mexican Revolution?
(whispers)
(beeps)
Gibault you have
the chance to steal.
- Santa Ana?
- I am sorry that is incorrect.
The correct answer was Diaz.
Alright next toss up question.
The Wiener process is
a mathematical model
of what phenomenon,
the random motion of particles
in a fluid that is named
after a Scottish botanist?
Ryan.
- Brownian motion?
- That is correct
for ten points.
Here is your bonus
question Herrin.
What object obscures
the face of a man
wearing a Bowler hat
in Rene Magritte's
Son of Man?
(whispers)
- An apple?
- An apple is correct.
For 20 points.
Onto the next toss up question.
What English king ordered
The Harrying of the North
and the writing of
the Domesday Book,
and defeated Harold Godwinson
at the Battle of Hastings?
(beeps)
Josh E.
- William the Conqueror?
- William the
Conqueror is his name.
Here is your bonus
question Gibault.
Get your pencils and paper ready
because this is a math question.
What is the dot
product of two vectors
that form a 60 degree angle,
and its magnitudes are
six and nine respectively?
- 27.
- That is correct for 20 points.
Onto our next toss up question.
This is a media question
and it's a still question.
This place is the largest
Bronze-age archeological site.
It is located in Crete Greece.
It was abandoned at
some unknown time
at the end of the
late Bronze-age.
Name this place.
(beeps)
Nick.
- The Palace of Crete.
- [Host] I am sorry
that is incorrect.
(beeps)
That would be Knossos.
(doorbell rings)
And that sound means that
is the end of this round
of Scholastic Hi-Q.
And it looks like Herrin
you are the winners.
Congratulations!
Thank you for coming out.
And thank you for
coming out Gibault,
you guys did great.
And thank you all
for watching at home.
This has been the end
of the quarter finals
of Scholastic Hi-Q,
the game where knowledge rules.
I am your host Madeline Parker,
and we will see you next time.
(upbeat happy music)