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Season 3400 Episode 6 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Mt Vernon v Hillsboro
First Round Match between Mt Vernon and Hillsboro
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Season 3400 Episode 6 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
First Round Match between Mt Vernon and Hillsboro
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hey, I'm throwing love letters in your baby pool.
Your host, Olivia Newton-John Manning.
Welcome to Scholastic Hi-q the show where knowledge rules.
We have two fantastic teams with us here today.
On the top, we've got Mount Vernon with Rylan, Athanasius, Mica and Neo.
And at the bottom we've got the Hillsboro Hilltoppers with Hunter, Ian, Owen and Isaiah.
For those of you who don't know the rules, I'll explain them as follows I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
I'll ask them to the room.
Either team can buzz in for ten points, a team that gets a bone, a toss up question, correct moves on to a bonus question, which they can answer for 20 points.
Or if they get it wrong, the other team can steal for ten bonus points.
There will also be media questions, audio questions, lightning rounds, but we will get to all of those when we get to them.
For now, the only thing you need to know is the interruption rule.
If I am reading out a question of any type and you interrupt me to give an answer, if you're right, we move on with our day and you get your points.
If you are wrong, the other team gets five bonus points and the opportunity to answer that question.
So if you interrupt me, just make sure you're right.
With all of that hullabaloo out of the way.
Are we ready to hike you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Our first toss up.
What city, whose Andrssy Avenue contains the House of terror, is home to the Szchenyi Chain Bridge on the Danube River and the Hungarian parliament.
Hunter.
Budapest.
Budapest is correct.
Your bonus question.
Hillsboro.
What romantic poet, who died at age 25, wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever in his 1818 poem Endymion.
>> No answer.
>> All right, Mount Vernon, your chance to steal Frost.
Frost is incorrect.
We were looking for Keats.
John Keats.
No bonus question.
No bonus points there.
Onto the next toss up.
What author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments discussed the division of labor of a pin factory in his foundational book, The Wealth of Nations.
Both teams are out of time.
We were looking for Adam Smith.
Smith.
No bonus question.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready all around.
How many students can be accommodated in a classroom with six square tables if each side of the table can fit two students?
4848 is correct.
Your bonus question Mount Vernon.
In April 2025, Susan Crawford defeated defeated Brad Schimel to maintain the Liberal majority on what Midwestern states Supreme Court.
>> Iowa.
>> Iowa is incorrect.
Hillsboro.
Your chance to steal.
Wisconsin Wisconsin is correct.
That is ten points to Hillsboro for the steal.
What retired National Guard Sergeant Major responded to George Floyd's murder as governor of Minnesota.
And was Kamala Harris running mate?
>> Okay.
>> Both teams are out of time.
We were looking for Tim Waltz.
Waltz?
No bonus question there.
What hero who defeated bandits guarding six entrances to the underworld, used a ball of thread to navigate the labyrinth and slay the Minotaur.
Neo.>> Theseus.
>> Theseus is correct.
Your bonus question, not Vernon.
What politician who secured a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform was Lyndon Johnson's vice president, and lost the election of 1968.
>> John.
>> John is incorrect.
Hillsborough.
Your chance to steal.
>> Joe.
>> Joe is incorrect.
Sorry for whatever you were gonna say, Humphrey, not Hunter.
The answer is Humphrey.
Hubert.
Now that I'm done having a stroke on to our first media question.
If you could all please say hello to the television.
>> Hello, television.
Thank you.
She's shy.
>> This character is one of the main cast in a well-known show called Adventure Time.
Micah.
>> Marceline.>> Marceline is correct.
That is ten points to Mount Vernon for answering the question correctly.
There are no bonus media questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What irrational number is one less than?
The silver ratio is approximated by the decimal 1.414.
>> And Rylan the golden ratio.
>> The golden ratio is incorrect.
Hillsborough I will repeat the question.
What irrational number is one less than?
The silver ratio is approximated by the decimal 1.414, and is the square root of the smallest even number.
>> Ian two.
No.
>> That's incorrect.
We were looking for the square root of two or radical two.
So close, but no cigar.
No bonus question there.
On to our next toss up.
What country?
Whose ruling?
Al-Thani dynasty has funded its news network.
Al Jazeera is a nation on the Persian Gulf that is governed from Doha.
>> Qatar.
>> Qatar is correct.
Your bonus question Hillsborough.
Claude Monet made many late in life paintings of what?
Aquatic flowers in his garden at Giverny.
>> Lilies.
>> I need you to be a bit more specific.
>> Water lilies.
>> Water lily is correct.
Our next toss up.
What document?
Which was recovered in 1901 on a diorite stele.
Stele in Susa expresses the principle of an eye for an eye.
And was a law code from Babylon.
Babylon.
>> Hammurabi's code.
>> Hammurabi's code is correct.
Your bonus question.
Mount Vernon.
What Japanese warlord was betrayed and forced to commit suicide in the 1582 Honno-ji incident?
You were out of time.
Mount Vernon, Hillsborough, your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Oda Nobunaga.
Oda Nobunaga?
No bonus points there.
What instrument?
Whose virtuosos included Dietrich Buxtehude and Marcel Dupre, is a keyboard instrument that makes sound by pushing air through pipes.
>> Organ.
>> Organ is correct.
Your bonus question.
Mount Vernon.
The.
The 1888 Convention of Constantinople regulated the use of what waterway, which was completed in 1869 under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps.
>> English.
>> That is incorrect.
Hillsborough.
Your chance to steal.
>> The Suez Canal.
>> The Suez is correct.
Our next toss up.
What novel in which Clarice McClellan disappears begins.
It was a pleasure to burn.
>> Fahrenheit 451.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question.
Mount Vernon is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
And that applies to Hillsboro as well, because I might come back to you to steal if k must be an integer.
What is the smallest possible value of k for which 4K -67 is a positive number?
Mount Vernon, you are out of time.
Hillsboro.
Your chance to steal 17.
17 is correct.
That's ten points to Hillsboro for the steal.
Our second media question of the of the game.
The television.
This supporting character is from the cartoon television show The Owl House, and is a young prodigy witch learning her way around Hex side.
But when a human named Luz Noceda enters that field, she's learning to navigate her true feelings and her ambitions to be a better witch.
Name this character.
Maika.
>> Anna.
Sorry, Anna.
>> That is incorrect.
Hillsboro.
You're out of time.
Hillsboro.
We were looking for Amity blight.
That character's name is Amity Blight.
Not exactly the target audience for that show.
Our next toss up.
What battle in which William Prescott defended the Charlestown peninsula was won by the British near Boston and was actually fought on Breed's Hill.
Rylan.
>> Battle of Bunker Hill.
>> Battle of Bunker Hill is correct.
Your bonus question, Mount Vernon what governing document was signed by men like William Bradford and Myles Standish in 1620, before they landed at Plymouth?
>> Mayflower contract.
>> Say that again.
>> Mayflower contract.
>> That is incorrect.
Hillsborough.
>> Mayflower.
Compact.>> Sorry.
>> Mayflower Compact.
>> Mayflower Compact is correct.
That is ten points to Hillsborough for the steel.
What element whose oxide is produced in the Bayer process is obtained from bauxite in the hall Hroult process.
And has the atomic symbol A. Ian.>> Aluminum.
>> Aluminum is correct.
Hillsborough.
Your bonus question.
What ancient Greek thinker argued that the plot of a literary work is more important than the characterization.
In his treatise poetics.
>> Socrates.
>> Socrates is incorrect.
Mount Vernon, your chance to steal.
>> Aristotle.
>> Aristotle is correct.
Ten points to Mount Vernon for the steal.
Our next toss up.
What island?
Whose eastern coast is indented by Scoresby sound is governed from Nuuk and is a large island belonging own.
>> Greenland.>> Greenland is correct.
Your bonus question.
Hillsborough.
An alternate name for a unit equal to ten to the -15m comes from what?
Italian scientist who names a class of particles with half integer spins.
>> No answer.
>> All right, Mount Vernon, your chance to steal.
>> Blank.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for a Fermi a Fermi, also called a femtometer, but also called a Fermi.
Our next toss up.
What present day country?
The base of the Ayutthaya Kingdom has long been ruled by the Chakri Dynasty from the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
>> Thailand.
>> Thailand is correct.
Your bonus question Mount Vernon in a June 2023 game against the A's, Yankees starter Domingo German became the 24th player in MLB history to accomplish what feat?
>> Perfect game.
>> Perfect game is correct.
What French author of The Persian Letters articulated the idea of separation of powers in the spirit of the laws which inspired the Founding Fathers?
You are both out of time.
We were looking for Montesquieu.
Montesquieu is the name of that author.
No bonus question there.
On to our next media question.
No introductions are necessary for the television at this point in the show.
Matthew Robert Patrick is a well-known internet personality known.
Rylan MatPat MatPat is correct.
That is ten points for Mount Vernon for that media question.
Once again, no bonus media questions, just whatever shows up on the television.
Back to our toss ups.
What organ, whose stratum corneum is composed of dead, keratin rich cells, is the human body's largest and has an outer layer called the epidermis.
Mica.
>> The skin.>> The skin is correct.
Your bonus question.
Mount Vernon.
Since 1961, Kings Hassan II and Mohammed the sixth have led what country, which maintains a disputed claim to the territory of Western Sahara.
>> Nigeria.
>> Nigeria is incorrect.
Hillsborough.
Your chance to steal.
>> Morocco.
>> Morocco is correct.
That is ten points to Hillsborough for the steal.
Which leads us into the Lightning Round.
The biggest difference about the Lightning Round is that my paper got about twice as big.
I have now four topics that separate into ten questions, which a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.
Hillsborough.
You get full choice as to what topic you answer from.
Your options are as follows.
Places to see.
Island.
Fiction.
Peanuts and California.
>> Places to see.
>> Identify these places whose English language names begin with the letter C. Your 60s Hillsborough begins in three, two, one city home to the Willis Tower and Wrigley Field, Chicago.
Correct.
State home to Yale University, Connecticut.
Correct.
South America's southernmost country.
>> Chile.
>> Correct.
Country whose cities include Split and Zagreb.
[MUSIC]>> Croatia.
>> Correct.
State capital of Ohio.
>> Columbus.
>> Correct.
The world's largest inland sea.
[MUSIC]>> Caspian.
>> Correct.
Island country whose capital of Nicosia is divided by the Green Line.
[MUSIC]>> Cyprus.
>> Correct.
Lake on the New York Vermont border.
[MUSIC] Pass river that forms part of the Alabama Georgia border.
[MUSIC] Pass mountain range whose tallest peak is Mount Elbrus.
>> Cascades.
>> That is incorrect.
Lake on the New York Vermont border.
[MUSIC] >> No answer.
>> River that forms part of the Alabama Georgia border.
Hillsborough.
You are out of time.
Lake Champlain is that lake on the New York Vermont border.
Chattahoochee is the river that forms part of the Alabama Georgia border, and the Caucasus Mountains is the mountain range whose tallest peak is Mount Elbrus, Mount Vernon.
Your topics once again are as follows.
Island.
Fiction.
Peanuts and California.
>> California.
>> Alrighty.
I can get this paper.
Name these things from the history of California.
Your 60s Mount Vernon begins in three, two, one event that 40 niners joined to pan for metal.
>> Gold rush.
>> Correct.
Tectonic disaster that struck San Francisco in 1906.
>> San Andreas.
>> Incorrect.
Former actor and future president.
Elected governor in 1966 Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Incorrect.
City near LA that is a metonym for the film industry.
[MUSIC] Hollywood correct group of people denied public services by 1994.
Proposition 187.
[MUSIC]>> Pass.
>> Motorist whose beating by police led to riots in 1992.
[MUSIC]>> Pass.
>> Yorba Linda native who resigned as president after Watergate.
[MUSIC] >> Richard Nixon.
>> Correct.
University town where the Free Speech movement began.
[MUSIC] Pass after elected governor in a 2003 recall election.
[MUSIC]>> Arnold Schwarzenegger.
>> Correct animal whose flag named an 1846 revolt against Mexico.
[MUSIC] You were out of time, Mount Vernon.
The San Francisco earthquake was that tectonic disaster that struck San Francisco.
Ronald Reagan was that former actor elected governor in 1966.
Uh, illegal or undocumented immigrants were denied public services by proposition 187.
Rodney King was that motorist whose beating by police led to riots in 1992, and Berkeley was that university town where the Free Speech Movement began and Bayer the Bear Flag Revolt is that 1846 revolt against Mexico, a wonderful lightning round all around.
But unfortunately they can't last forever, which means that we have to go back to our toss ups.
What event, attended by Frederick Douglass and arranged by Quakers like Lucretia mott, produced the Declaration of Sentiments endorsing women's rights.
You are both out of time.
We were looking for the Seneca Falls Convention once again, not exactly the demographic for that question.
No bonus points there.
On to the next toss up.
What title object that is created by Basil Hallward gradually becomes repulsive, but keeps its owner magically youthful in a novel by Oscar Wilde.
>> The picture of Dorian Gray.
>> Picture of Dorian Gray is correct.
Your bonus question, Mount Vernon.
What relatively inefficient sorting algorithm repeatedly swaps adjacent elements to order a list?
You're out of time.
Mount Vernon, Hillsborough.
Your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for a bubble sort.
Bubble sorting.
What poker hand can be referred to as a boat?
Ranks directly above a flush in Texas Hold'em and requires three cards of one rank and two of another.
Micah.>> Full house.
>> Full house is correct.
Your bonus question.
Mount Vernon what author whose novels A World of Strangers and Burger's Daughter were banned during South Africa's apartheid era, wrote July's People.
>> Pass.
>> Your chance to steal Nelson Mandela.
That is incorrect.
We were looking for Nadine Gordimer.
Nadine Gordimer.
John Lewis proposed.
What rule?
Atoms tend to form enough bonds with other atoms to have a full shell of eight valence electrons.
>> An octet.
>> Octet is correct.
Your bonus question.
Hillsborough.
Life on Earth, planet Earth, and the Blue Planet series are some of the nature documentaries narrated and presented by what British natural historian.
David Attenborough David Attenborough is correct.
Our next media question.
I don't have to introduce the television to you.
This American rapper and record producer was born in Germany.
Rylan.>> J Cole.
>> J Cole is correct.
Ten points to Mount Vernon for a correct media question.
Onto the toss ups.
What author wrote about Reverend Stephen Kumalo traveling to Johannesburg to rescue his son Absalom in his novel cry, the Beloved Country?
All right, we're both out of time.
We were looking for Peyton Allen.
Peyton?
No bonus question there.
What architect?
Whose own.
Whose own home was called Taliesin designed a house along a Pennsylvania stream for the Kauffman family called Fallingwater.
>> Owen, Frank Lloyd Wright.
>> Frank Lloyd Wright is correct.
Your bonus question.
Hillsborough.
What mathematician proved that the sum of the reciprocals of perfect squares squares equals pi squared over six.
Solving the Basil problem.
>> No answer.
>> All right, Mount Vernon, your chance to steal.
>> Euclid.
>> Euclid is incorrect.
We were looking for Euler.
Leonhard Euler.
This next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready all around.
What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line defined by the equation y equals seven x plus two.
>> Micah negative one seventh.
>> Negative one seventh is correct.
Your bonus question Mount Vernon.
Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Final Problem describes a confrontation at Reichenbach Falls, in which Sherlock Holmes fights what nemesis of his.
You were out of time.
Mount Vernon, Hillsborough.
Your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Moriarty.
James Moriarty, our next toss up.
What man received the humble petition and advice.
LED the New York Model Army during the English Civil War, and in 1653 became Lord Protector of England.
Athanasius.
>> Shakespeare.
>> That is incorrect.
Hillsborough.
All right.
We were looking for Cromwell.
Oliver Cromwell.
No bonus question there.
What concept?
Which names the band that included something in the way on their album.
Never mind.
>> Nirvana.
Nirvana is correct.
>> Your bonus question?
Hillsborough.
John Pershing launched the Punitive Expedition in response to what Mexican revolutionaries raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
>> The Alamo.
>> The Alamo is incorrect.
Mount Vernon, your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Pancho Villa.
Pancho Villa?
A little bit harder than Nirvana to grab off the top of your head.
Our next toss up.
What process?
Whose induced form is caused by absorption of a neutron, occurs at each stage of a chain reaction.
And is the splitting of a nucleus.
>> In fission.
>> Fission is correct.
Your bonus question.
Hillsborough.
What American chemist won Nobel Prizes in both chemistry and peace, and names an electronegativity scale on which fluorine has a value of 4.0.
Hillsborough.
You were out of time.
Mount Vernon, your chance to steal boar.
>> Sorry, boar.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Pauling.
Linus Pauling.
No bonus points there.
Which means that we have come to the end of our episode.
As foretold by the ding dong.
That was a very close game all throughout.
But our winners are the Hillsboro Hilltoppers.
Congratulations to all team members of Hillsboro and everybody in Mount Vernon for coming out for this fantastic game.
I once again am Olivia manning reminding you that here at Haiku Knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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