(dramatic music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Hello ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Olivia Manning, and I am your host for this 34th season of Scholastic Hi-Q, the only game where knowledge rules.

God, I missed saying that.

Welcome back to the inaugural episode of our 34th season.

As I said, I'm Olivia Manning, your host, and today we have two incredible teams.

At the top we've got Shawnee with Nick, Matthew, Ariana, and Alexander, and at the bottom we've got Cumberland with Rylan, Jad, Camden, and Mitchell.

Now the rules for those who don't know, I have in my unequally manicured hands a series of tossup questions which I will ask to the room.

Either team can buzz in to answer for 10 points.

If a team gets a tossup question correct, they then move on to a bonus round, which they can answer for 20 points, but if they get it wrong, the other team can buzz into steal for 10 bonus points.

There are also media questions, math questions, lightning rounds, but we will get to all of those when we get to them.

For now, there's one rule you need to know and that is the interruption rule.

If anyone interrupts me to answer a question while I am still reading it, if you get it correct, you get your points and we move on.

But if you get it wrong, the other team gets an extra five bonus points and the option to answer the question.

So if you're gonna interrupt me, just make sure you're right.

With all of that hullabaloo out of the way, are we ready to Hi-Q?

- Yes, we are.

- That's what I love to hear.

Our first tossup question, what filum, whose members often live through polyp and medusa stages have bodies with radial symmetry and include sea anemone- Rylan.

- Echinoderm.

- Sorry?

- Echinoderm.

That is incorrect.

Shawnee, I'll repeat the questions.

What filum whose members often live through polyp and Medusa stages have bodies with radial symmetry and include sea anemones and jellyfish?

(no audio) No answer from Shawnee.

All right, we were looking for cnidaria, the cnidaria filum.

No bonus points for that first round, but some interruption rule bonus points for Shawnee.

Our second toss up.

What general who dispersed the bonus army later fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines while leading- Jad.

- Douglas MacArthur.

- Douglas MacArthur is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

The Gold Coast was the colonial name for what country whose first president was Pan-Africanist socialist Kwame Nkrumah?

- Ghana.

- Ghana is correct.

Our next toss up.

What play in which Aegeus demands his daughter Mary Demetrius follows several Athenians tricked by fairy magic and is by William Shakespeare?

Rylan.

- A Midsummer Night Dream.

- Midsummer Night's Dream is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What master of scat singing made eight jazz albums showcasing various composers' songbooks from 1956 to 1964 and was nicknamed the first lady of song?

- Fitzgerald.

- Fitzgerald is correct.

What god who rides the white bull Nandi, has the consort Parvati, and is a member of the Hindu trimurti who is often called the destroyer?

Rylan.

- Shiva.

- Shiva is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

In July 2024, what former president of Brazil who is ineligible to run for office until 2030 was indicted on money laundering charges?

- Luis.

- Luis is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

- Buzz, and- - You can just go ahead.

- Money laundering charges?

Would that be President Trump?

- President Trump is incorrect.

We were looking for Bolsonaro, Jair Bolsonaro.

What dictator who intensified censorship in the five gray years, proclaimed "History will absolve me," before overthrowing Fulgencio Batista in Cuba?

Camden.

- Castro.

- Castro is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland Damien Hurst encased a shark in what simplest aldehyde, which has the molecular formula CH2O and is used to embalm deceased remains?

- Formaldehyde.

- Formaldehyde is correct.

Our first media question of the game.

Everybody say hello to the television.

- Hi.

- Hello.

- This celebrity is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

She first began in a well-known Disney channel show called "Girl Meets World."

Then, in 2022, debuted her- - Camden.

- Sabrina Carpenter.

- Sabrina Carpenter is correct.

That is 10 points for your media question Cumberland.

Anyway, there are no bonus questions for the media questions.

It's just whatever shows up on the television.

Our next tossup.

What planet is orbited by satellites discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall, named Phobos and Deimos- Rylan.

- Mars.

- Mars is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

Bernart de Ventadorn was what type of medieval poet performer, similar to minstrels, whose name derives from an Occitan term meaning composer?

- Troubadour.

- Troubadour is correct.

Our next toss up.

At what university did first year president Minouche Shafik oppose the occupation of Hamilton Hall during anti-Israel protests in Manhattan?

Rylan.

- Harvard.

- Harvard is incorrect.

Shawnee?

Your chance to buzz in.

(timer ringing) All right, we were looking for Columbia, Columbia University.

No bonus question there.

What 1913 play whose main female character marries Freddy Eynsford-Hill is about flower seller Eliza Doolittle- - Pygmalion - Pygmalion is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland, is a math question, so pencil and paper ready.

Remember Shawnee, you might have a chance to steal, so get those pencil and paper ready too.

What is the smallest multiple of seven that is greater than 200, given that 21 is a multiple of 7.

- 203.

- 203 is correct.

What New York City borough is home to the Park Slope, Crown Heights, and Bed Stuy neighborhoods as well as Coney Island and the NBA's Mets?

Camden.

- Brooklyn.

- Brooklyn is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

The first movie to be screened in the White House was what 1915 film directed by DW Griffith, which valorized the Klu Klux Klan?

- Birth of a Nation.

- The Birth of a Nation is Correct.

What country's Somoza and Chamorro families were political rivals prior to a 1980s civil war between the Contras and Daniel Ortega's- Rylan.

- Nicaragua.

- Nicaragua is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What nine letter word denotes a waxy substance used in perfumes that originates in the intestines of sperm whales?

- Fragrance - That is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

(no audio) All righty, ambergris, we were looking for ambergris.

Our second media question.

Look to the televisions.

It could be on either of them.

This main character is one of the main protagonists and love interest of the main character Blitzo in the web cartoon series.

Son of a Boss.

- Buzz.

Stolas.

- Stolas is correct.

That is 10 points for the media question.

Once again, no bonus questions on the media questions.

It's just whatever shows up on the television.

Our next tossup question.

What force whose maximum is proportional to the normal force has static and kinetic forms- Rylan.

- Friction.

- Friction is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford begins with what seven word phrase which has become a cliche for noir fiction?

- On a dark and stormy night.

- That is incorrect.

Shawnee?

(no audio) (timer ringing) All right, you were very close Camden, but we were looking for "It was a dark and stormy night."

Seven word phrase.

Our next toss up.

What American author described a musician down on Lennox Avenue the other night who played a drowsy- Camden.

- Auden.

- That is incorrect.

Shawnee, I will repeat the question.

What American author described a musician down on Lennox Avenue the other night who played a drowsy syncopated tune in his poem, "The Weary Blues"?

(no audio) (timer ringing) All right, Langston Hughes.

We were looking for Langston Hughes.

No bonus question there.

What organization which Eleanor Roosevelt helped crush in the 1950s was led by sachems like Boss Tweed and was a political machine in New York- Rylan.

- Tammany Hall.

- Tammany Hall is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What element whose trioxide is used to combat certain forms of leukemia is an extremely toxic metalloid whose atomic symbol is As?

- Asinine.

- Asinine is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

(no audio) (timer ringing) - Arsenic, we were looking for arsenic.

Our next toss up.

What style showcased in Abbott Suges's design for the Basilica of Saint Denis uses flying buttresses and is exemplified by Notre Dame in Paris?

Rylan.

- Gothic.

- Gothic is correct.

Your bonus question.

What black author wrote about the teenager John Grimes and his strict stepfather Gabriel in his novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain"?

- Baldwin.

- Baldwin is correct.

What Asian country is the setting of the novels "Norwegian Wood," "The Windup-" Camden.

- Japan.

- Japan is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

Spain's Ceuta and Russia's Kaliningrad are examples of what type of region that is separated from the main part of a country?

- Exclave.

- Exclave is correct.

What positive integer is the smallest with four positive factors, is the first perfect number, is a cube's number of faces, and- Camden.

- Six.

- Six is correct.

Your bonus question.

What company's page rank algorithm was first developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

- Facebook.

- Facebook is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

(no audio) (timer ringing) All right, Google.

We were looking for Google, which I believe at the time was known as Alphabet Inc.

All righty, if you can hear that distant thunder in the background, we are ready for this episode's lightning round.

(thunder rumbling) The lightning round works as follows.

I now have in my unequally manicured hands four sets of topics.

Those topics are then broken down into 10 questions that a team may have to answer in 60 seconds.

Shawnee, you get first pick of our topics, so would you like to answer questions on 'Good' Answers, 'Bad' Synonyms, Genres of Visual Art, or Music from Canada?

'Good' Answers, 'Bad Synonyms,' Genres of Visual Art, and Music from Canada.

- I'd like to go with the first one.

- 'Good' Answers.

All righty, let me take my pencil out of my hair.

'Good' Answers.

Given a description, name these 'good' people, places, or things.

Shawnee, your 60 seconds begins in three, two, one.

Children's book about a great green room at bedtime.

- Buzz.

- [Olivia] Either say the answer or pass.

- Oh, Goodnight Moon.

- Correct.

Non-profit organization with a popular donation program and stores.

Shriner's Hospital.

- Incorrect.

Zoologist who studied chimpanzees in Tanzania.

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Tire company with a yellow logo and an iconic blimp.

Michelin.

- Incorrect.

TV show starring David Tennant as the demon Crowley.

- Good Omens - Correct.

South African Cape first visited by Bartolomeu Dias.

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Kendrick Lamar album with the tracks "Backseat Freestyle" and "Money Trees."

- Pass.

- Flannery O'Connor story featuring the misfit.

We are out of time.

Goodwill was our nonprofit organization with a popular donation program and stores.

Jane Goodall was that Zoologist who studied chimpanzees.

Goodyear is the tire company with the iconic blimp.

The Cape of Good Hope was first visited by Bartolomeu Dias.

Good Kid, Mad City is the Kendrick Lamar album.

The Flannery O'Connor story featuring the misfit is "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

All righty.

Cumberland, it is now your time for the lightning round.

Once again, your topics to choose from are 'Bad' Synonyms, Genres of Visual Art, and Music from Canada.

- Music from Canada.

- All righty.

Name the Canadian band or artist that released these songs.

Cumberland, your 60 Seconds begins in three, two, one.

"Blinding Lights" and "Can't Feel My Face."

- Weekend.

- Weekend.

- Correct, "God's Plan and "Hotline Bling."

- Drake.

- Correct, "Baby" and "What Do You Mean"?

- Justin Bieber.

- Sorry?

- Bieber.

- Correct, "Stitches" and "Treat You Better."

- Mendes.

- Correct.

"Man, I Feel Like a Woman."

- Pass - "Call Me Maybe."

- Carly Rae Jepsen.

- Correct.

"My Heart Will Go On" from the film Titanic.

- Celine Dion.

- Correct.

"Photograph" and "How You Remind Me."

- Nickelback - Correct.

"Ironic" from the album Jagged Little Pill.

- Pass.

- "Tom Sawyer," a major prog rock hit.

- Pass - "Man, I Feel Like a Woman."

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (timer ringing) All righty, "Man I Feel Like a Woman" is Shania Twain, "Ironic" from the album Jagged Little Pill is Alanis Morissette, and "Tom Sawyer" is by Rush.

All righty, the lightning round is wonderful, but it does not last forever.

So back on to the tossup questions we go.

What country whose national University of San Marcos is the oldest operating university in the Americas, contains the cities of Cusco and Lima- Rylan.

- Peru.

- Peru is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

Four Bayview High students are suspected of murder after Simon Kelleher has a fatal allergic reaction in what 2017 Novel by Karen M. McManus?

(no audio) (timer ringing) We're out of time.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

(no audio) All righty, we were looking for "One of Us is Lying."

"One of Us is Lying" is the title of that novel.

Our next tossup.

What novel in which women rub butter on their faces at the red center in the Republic of Gilead- Rylan.

- Handmaid's Tale.

- Handmaid's Tale is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What woman became known as the king's beloved sister after her 1540 divorce, which occurred less than a year after she became Henry VIII's fourth wife?

- Anne of Cleves.

- Anne of Cleves is correct.

What leader who was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem in 1965 was a minister for the nation of Islam- Camden.

- Malcolm X.

- Malcolm X is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

This is another math question, so pencil and paper ready, and that goes for Shawnee as well.

In how many ways can two flowers be chosen from a batch of 12 roses and nine tulips if one must be a rose and one must be a tulip?

(no audio) - Nine.

- Nine is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

- Can I buzz in?

- Go ahead.

- That would be 12 wouldn't it?

- 12 is incorrect.

We were looking for 108, 108 ways any of those 12 roses can be paired with any one of those nine tulips, so 108 distinct pairs.

Going on to our next tossup.

What singer, a member of the Sneezingtons, released his debut album Doo-wops and Hooligans in 2010, which included "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade"?

Camden.

- Bruno Mars.

- Bruno Mars is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What eldest son of Priam and Hecuba was dragged behind the chariot of his nearly invincible killer after his death in the Trojan War?

(no audio) - Paris.

- Paris is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

- Was it Prometheus?

- Prometheus is incorrect.

We were looking for Hector.

Hector who was killed by Achilles in the Trojan War.

Our next toss up.

What process governed by the equation C1 times V1 equals C2 times V2 occurs when a solvent is added to a solution to lower its concentration?

Camden.

- Dilution - Dilution is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

A history attributed to Su Qin is called "The Strategies of" what fractitious period of Chinese history which ended when the Qing Dynasty unified China?

(contestants chattering) (timer ringing) Out of time.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

(no audio) All righty, we were looking for the Warring States period.

The Warring States period.

Our next toss up.

What country whose 2007 Saffron Revolution had protests led by Buddhist monks, has faced the Rohingya crisis, and was once led by Aung San Suu Kyi?

Rylan.

- Like Myanmar.

- Myanmar is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

The Oka Vango delta is in what country in southern Africa whose capital is Gaborone?

(contestants chattering) - Botswana.

- Botswana is correct.

What country's ACT party currently works with its national party as part of a government headed by Christopher Luxon, an MP for an Auckland district?

- New Zealand.

- New Zealand is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What 19th century American poet described an innumerable caravan that moves to that mysterious realm in a meditation on death titled "Thanatopsis"?

(contestants chattering) Bryant.

- Bryant is correct.

This next tossup is a math question, so pencil and paper ready both teams.

What is the value of 45% of x if 15% of X is equal to eight?

Mitchell.

- Twenty-four.

- Twenty-four is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

In 2025, what Republican senator from North Carolina said he would not seek reelection after voting against the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

(contestants chattering quietly) - Johnson.

- Johnson is incorrect.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

- Buzz in, was it Mitch McConnell?

- No, it was not.

We were looking for Tillis, Tom Tillis.

What novel whose protagonist marries such men as Rhett Butler, is set during the Civil War, centers on- Camden.

- Gone with the Wind.

- Gone with the Wind is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

Carrie Mullis invented what technique, often known by a three letter acronym, that amplifies segments of DNA?

- PCR.

- PCR is correct.

In what country where the MSS mission had been led by Kenyan police did a major 2024 prison break occur amid an ongoing gang war at Porto Prince- Jad.

- Haiti.

- Haiti is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

The United Nations office at Geneva is housed in a complex built for what predecessor of the UN?

- The League of Nations.

- The League of Nations is correct.

What world leader was targeted in the Brighton Hotel bombing, led the UK during the Falkland's War- Jad.

- Margaret Thatcher.

- Margaret Thatcher is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

A song by DJ Noise Storm, which is often used as a celebratory meme, is titled for a rave of what animals?

- Crab.

- Crab is correct, Crab Rave is correct.

Your next tossup.

What musical genre in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote works nicknamed "The Hunt" and "Dissonance," is scored for two violins, viola, and cello?

- String quartet.

- Sorry?

- String quartet.

- String Quartet is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

What Dutch artists who co-founded the movement known as De Style is known for abstract works featuring primary colors such as Broadway Boogie Woogie?

- Mondrian.

- Mondrian is correct.

What compound that is required as a co-factor for synthesizing collagen is also called ascorbic acid and is a vitamin found in citrus fruits?

Matthew.

- Vitamin C.

- Vitamin C is correct.

Your bonus question, Shawnee.

In humans, what organ contains semi lunar valves and is surrounded by the pericardium?

- The liver.

- The liver is incorrect.

Cumberland, your chance to steal.

- Heart.

- Heart is correct.

Our next tossup.

What capital city whose Plaza de la Constitution is often called the Zokalo was once an Aztec settlement and is North America's- Jad.

- Mexico, Mexico City.

- Mexico City is correct.

Your bonus question, Cumberland.

Mount Jumbo overlooks what city that is home to the University of Montana and is the state's second most populous city?

(contestant chattering quietly) (timer ringing) Cumberland, you are out of time.

Shawnee, your chance to steal.

(no audio) (no audio) (timer ringing) All right, we were looking for Missoula.

Missoula, Montana is the name of that city and that ding-dong means that we are unfortunately done with this first episode of the 34th season.

We have Cumberland as the winner of our first episode.

Congratulations to everyone on the team of Cumberland and the team of Shawnee for being part of this wonderful celebratory event of the first episode.

I am Olivia Manning, your host, reminding you that here at Hi-Q, knowledge rules.

Let the music play.

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