Scholastic HI Q| 3410
Season 3400 Episode 10 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Fairfield v. Effingham
First round match between Fairfield and Effingham
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Season 3400 Episode 10 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
First round match between Fairfield and Effingham
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi, I'm a $10 sandwich that tastes like an $8 sandwich.
Your host, Olivia manning.
Welcome to today's episode of Scholastic Hi-Q, the only show where knowledge rules.
Today we've got two fantastic teams with us on the top.
We've got Fairfield with Jedd, Allison, Grady and Caroline, and at the bottom we've got Effingham with Emerson, Harper, Elliyana and Susie.
For those of you who don't know how the game works, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
These toss up questions will be asked to the room.
Either team can buzz in to win ten points.
A team that gets a toss up question correct then moves on to a bonus round, which they can answer for 20 points.
Or if they get it wrong, the other team can buzz in for ten bonus points.
There are also math questions, media questions, lightning rounds, but we will get to all of those when we get to them.
For now, the only thing you guys need to know is the interruption rule.
If at any point I am reading out a question 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 option to answer that question.
So if you're going to interrupt me, just make sure you're right.
With all of that out of the way.
Are we ready to hike you?
Yes.
Yeah.
All righty.
Our first toss up question.
Getting right into it is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready.
What hole number is the resulting quotient?
When the square root of 48 is divided by the square root of three.
Allison four.
Sorry, four.
Four is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield.
What central text of Rabbinic Judaism contains the Mishnah, which sets down formally oral laws, and the Gemara, a body of commentary on.
The Torah.
Torah is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to steal.
>> The Bible.
>> The Bible is incorrect.
We were looking for the Talmud.
The Talmud is that piece of Jewish literature.
Our next toss up.
At what battle was Johann Rall killed while fighting Americans who had crossed the Delaware River in 1776 to attack Caroline?
>> The Revolutionary War.
>> Revolutionary War is incorrect.
Effingham.
I will restate the question at what battle was Johann Rall killed while fighting Americans who had crossed the Delaware River in 1776 to attack his army near New Jersey's capital?
Susie.
>> The Christmas battle.
>> The Christmas battle is incorrect.
We were looking for the Battle of Trenton.
The Battle of Trenton.
No bonus round there.
Moving on to our next toss up, what city is the least populous US state capital is named after a city in France and is close to the green Susie.
>> Juneau, Alaska.
>> Juneau, Alaska is incorrect.
Fairfield I will repeat the question.
What city is the least populous US state capital is named after a city in France and is close to the Green Mountains in central Vermont.
Grady Montpelier Montpelier is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield in what country did Dick Schoof become prime Minister in July 2024, while his predecessor, Mark Rutte, became secretary general of NATO.
>> Switzerland.
>> Switzerland is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to steal.
>> Sweden.
>> Sweden is incorrect.
We were looking for the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is that country.
No bonus points there.
Back to the toss ups.
What author of The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs wrote a book drawing on his time on the HMS Beagle, entitled On the Origin of Species.
Darwin is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield.
What type of stellar remnants are maintained by electron degeneracy pressure and must have masses no larger than the Chandrasekhar limit.
>> Stars.
>> Stars is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to steal.
>> Black holes.
>> Black holes is incorrect.
We were looking for white dwarves.
White dwarves?
What company whose profits financed a mystery house in San Jose, used the tagline the gun that won the West to sell its namesake Harper Winchester.
Winchester is correct.
Your bonus question.
Effingham in.
In 2004, Iraqi born Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize.
In.
What artistic profession?
Poetry.
Poetry is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to steal.
Writing.
Writing is incorrect.
We were looking for architecture.
Architecture is that profession.
Our first media question of the game.
Please turn your attention towards the television.
This character is one of the well-known background characters in the hit children's show Susie.
>> SpongeBob.
>> SpongeBob is in the correct Fairfield.
I will repeat the question.
This character is one of the well-known background characters in the hit children's show SpongeBob.
He wears brown pants up to the middle of his stomach and is a moss green.
His most well-known line is my leg, my leg.
Name this character.
Fairfield you are out of time.
This character's name, believe it or not, is Fred.
His name is Fred.
Back to our toss ups.
What mythical objects guarded by the dragon laid on which hippopotamus Hippomenes used to beat Atalanta in a race.
Grow on a tree in the garden of the Hesperides.
Harper.
>> Winged shoes.
>> Winged shoes is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to buzz in.
You're out of time.
Fairfield.
We were looking for golden apples.
Golden apples?
Are those objects?
No.
Bonus question there.
What compound which in the body is metabolized by catalase, decomposes under UV light into two hydroxyl radicals radicals, and has the molecular formula H2o2.
Harper.
>> Carbon dioxide.
>> Carbon dioxide is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to buzz in hydrogen dioxide.
>> Hydrogen dioxide.
>> Hydrogen dioxide is incorrect.
We were looking for hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide.
Our next toss up.
What leader who heads the party fetus tried, but failed to quash a 2025 pride festival in Budapest as the far right prime minister of Hungary.
Both teams.
You are out of time.
We were looking for Orban, Viktor Orban, no bonus question.
What city named a period of reform under Alexander Dubcek?
S slogan of socialism with a human face, before a 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Jedd Prague Prague is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield what European microstate within the Apennine Mountains is sometimes described as a most Serene Republic?
>> Monaco.
>> Monaco is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to steal.
>> Kosovo.
>> Kosovo is incorrect.
We were looking for San Marino.
Our next toss up.
What author wrote about the fictional book the 26 Malignant Gaits?
In a novel about four Chinese families who play mahjong.
The Joy Luck club.
Both teams are out of time.
We were looking for Amy Tan.
Amy Tan is that author's name.
Our first audio question of the game.
Please turn your attentions towards the speakers.
This artist is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music Grady Noachian.
Noachian is.
>> Correct.
That is ten points.
>> To Fairfield for the correct audio question.
There are no bonus audio questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the speakers.
Our next toss up.
What force has a residual form carried by pions that holds together atomic nuclei, is mediated by gluons and is more powerful than the weak force.
Allison the strong force.
Strong force is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield.
In what country did US troops leave Clark Air Base after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo?
>> Japan.
>> Japan is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to steal.
The Philippines.
The Philippines is correct.
Our next toss up.
What puzzle can be solved using the CFOP method?
Officially has its blue and green centers on opposing sides and features six Susie a Rubik's Cube.
Rubik's cube is correct.
Your bonus question Effingham.
What process developed by a German scientist is used to produce ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen?
You're out of time.
Effingham Fairfield your chance to steal.
All right.
You are out of time.
Fairfield.
We were looking for the Haber process.
Our next toss up.
What brass instrument?
Whose performers often place their hand in the bell while playing it.
Susie.
Uh.
The tuba.
Tuba is incorrect.
Fairfield.
I will repeat the question.
What brass instrument whose performers often place their hand in the bell while playing?
It is highly coiled and is often called French Caroline.
French horn French horn is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield what actress, who both wrote and performed on the show's big mouth and Dickinson, won a 2024 Emmy for playing sous chef Sydney Adamu on the bear.
Edebiri Edebiri is correct.
In what country did Muhammad Naguib lead the Free Officers Movement coup that was soon superseded by the autocratic presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser?
>> Jedd Sri Lanka.
>> Sri Lanka is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to buzz in.
Susie.
Nepal.
Nepal is incorrect.
We were looking for Egypt.
Egypt is that country.
No bonus question.
Back to toss ups.
What British author, who may have died in a bar fight, praised Helen of Troy as the face that launched a thousand ships in his play Doctor Faustus?
>> Jedd Thomas Mann.
>> That is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to buzz in Susie William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is incorrect.
We are looking for Marlowe Christopher Marlowe.
No bonus question there.
On to our first video question of the game and sort of a unique order of events.
First, we will wait for the video to finish, and then I will ask you the question, so if you can please turn your attention towards the television.
[MUSIC] >> Like sands through the hourglass.
So are the days of our lives.
[MUSIC] >> This quote is the opening to NBC's long running soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Which ancient figure originally said this?
Harper.
>> Chronos.
Sorry, Chronos.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to buzz in.
Allison.
Caesar.
Caesar is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Socrates.
Socrates of Athens said that famous quote.
About time.
Our next toss up.
What song?
Whose second verse opens?
I'm cliche.
Has a bridge that ends with the scream I told you so and is a 2024 hit by Chappell Roan Karoline.
>> Good luck babe.
>> Good luck babe is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield.
What tournament held at the same time as the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is a tournament for Concacaf soccer teams that Mexico won, beating the US 2 to 1.
Fairfield, you are out of time.
Effingham your chance to steal.
The World Cup.
The World Cup is incorrect.
We were looking for the Gold Cup.
The Concacaf Gold Cup.
Our next toss up is yet another math question.
So, pencil and paper ready?
What is the largest two digit number?
That is a multiple of four.
Given that 100 itself is divisible by four.
>> Jedd 96.
>> 96 is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield.
In 2025, Bedouins clashed in Syria's Suwayda region.
Suwayda region.
Apologies with what?
Levantine religious group that broke from Shia Islam around 1015.
You are out of time.
Fairfield Effingham your chance to steal Sikhism Sikhism is incorrect.
We were looking for the Druze.
The Druze, also known as the D'orazi.
Our next round is the Lightning Round.
Get excited folks, because it is time for the Lightning Round.
I now have in my hand a series of topics.
Those topics each have ten questions.
Which one of our teams may have to answer in a mere 60s Effingham you get first choice as to your topics, they are as follows alternating A's, He's Super Bowl and the peas.
Epic authors and first ladies.
Alternating A's give these answers in which every other letter is a Effingham.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Country north of the US.
Canada.
Correct.
World's largest hot desert.
Sahara.
Correct.
First name of former US Vice President Harris Kamala.
Correct.
Capital of Cuba.
Havana.
Correct.
Central American country bisected by a canal.
>> Panama.
>> Correct.
Indian epic about the husband of Sita pass.
Latin percussion instrument, also called a rumba shaker.
Maraca correct Buddhist school whose name means great vehicle.
[MUSIC] Pass, long curved sword carried by samurai.
>> Katana.
>> Correct British pop group whose hits include cruel Summer and Venus Bananarama correct Indian epic about the husband of Sita.
[MUSIC] Skip pass again.
Buddhist school whose name means great vehicle.
[MUSIC] Nirvana.
That is incorrect.
Indian epic about the husband of Sita.
You are out of time.
Effingham.
The Indian epic is the Ramayana and the Buddhist school is the Mahayana Fairfield.
Your options are once again Super Bowl, Super Bowl MVP's, epic authors and first ladies.
>> Epic authors, epic authors.
>> Given an epic and its credited author name, the modern day country where the author was born.
Fairfield your 60s begins in three, two, one.
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
>> Italy.
>> Correct Paradise lost, John Milton.
[MUSIC] >> The UK.
>> Correct.
The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
[MUSIC] >> The US.
>> Correct.
Ruslan and Lyudmila.
Alexander.
>> Russia.
>> Correct.
The Odyssey, a modern sequel Nikos Kazantzakis.
[MUSIC] >> Greece.
>> Correct.
>> The Gaucho epic.
Martin Ferreiro, José Hernandez.
[MUSIC] >> Mexico.
>> Incorrect.
The Kalevala Elias Lönnrot.
[MUSIC] Pass the Lusiads Luis de Camoes.
[MUSIC] >> Mexico.
>> Incorrect.
The Old Norse saga.
Hymns.
Kringla Snorri Sturluson.
[MUSIC] >> Norway.
>> Incorrect.
The Shahnameh.
Ferdowsi.
[MUSIC] Pass the call of.
You're out of time.
Uh, Martin Ferrero.
Uh, written by Jose Hernandez.
Hernandez was from Argentina.
Elias Learn wrote.
Who wrote the Kalevala was from Finland.
Uh, Luis de Camoes, who wrote the Lusiads is from Portugal.
Snorri Sturluson, who wrote the Heimskringla, is from Iceland, and Ferdowsi, who wrote the Shahnameh, is from Iran.
That was a wonderful lightning round all around, but unfortunately they cannot last forever.
So back to the toss ups we go.
What Chinese dynasty, whose rule was interrupted by Wu Zetian, faced a 755 rebellion led by An Lushan and was succeeded by the song dynasty.
Susie the Qing dynasty.
The Qing dynasty is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to buzz in.
>> The Tang dynasty.
>> The Tang dynasty is correct.
Your bonus question Fairfield.
In probability theory, the normal distribution is sometimes named after what?
German mathematician.
Leibnitz.
Sorry.
Leibnitz.
That is incorrect.
Effingham your chance to steal.
Effingham, you are also out of time.
We were looking for Gauss.
Gauss is the name of that mathematician.
Our next toss up.
What river?
Which forms from the Lualaba River at Boyoma Falls, separates Brazzaville and Kinshasa.
Kinshasa.
>> The Congo.
>> Congo is correct.
Your bonus question.
Fairfield.
What sandstone formation in Australia's Northern Territory lies east of Kata Tjua and is sacred to the Aboriginal people.
>> Uluru.
Sorry.
Uluru.
>> That is correct.
Michael Collins stayed in the command module during what mission featuring the Eagle spacecraft, during which Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
Susie Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 is correct.
Your bonus question.
Effingham what 1976 novel, subtitled The Saga of an American Family, depicts an 18th century slave named Kunta Kinte.
Uncle Tom's tavern.
That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> Roots.
>> Sorry.
>> Roots.
>> Roots is correct.
Our next media question.
I've already introduced you to the television.
This is one of the main characters in the show.
Regular show.
>> Rigby.
>> Rigby is correct.
That is ten points to Fairfield.
There are no bonus media questions.
So back to our toss ups.
We go.
What psychologist wrote the utopian novel Walden two and studied reinforcement and operant conditioning as a behaviorist.
Allison.
Sorry, Thoreau.
That is incorrect.
Correct.
Effingham I will repeat the question.
What psychologist wrote the utopian novel Walden two and studied reinforcement and operant conditioning as a behaviorist using his namesake box Susie.
Schrodinger's cat is incorrect.
We were looking for Skinner.
Skinner.
Box is that term?
No bonus question there.
What country?
Whose first post-war president was Karl Renner was governed by the Fatherland Front until Germany annexed it during the Anschluss.
Susie, Poland.
Poland is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to buzz in.
Jedd.
>> France.
>> France is incorrect.
We were looking for Austria.
Austria is the name of that country.
Our next toss up.
What poet described one clear call in crossing the bar, and depicted the title group entering the Valley of Death in the charge of the Light Brigade.
>> Jedd Alfred Tennyson.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question.
Fairfield what privateer captained the Golden Hind during a 1577 to 1580 circumnavigation of the globe.
>> Drake.
>> Drake is correct.
What self-dual platonic solid, also referred to as a three simplex, is a pyramid with six edges and four equilateral triangles as its faces.
Both teams are out of time.
We were looking for the tetrahedron that the tetrahedron is the name of that solid.
Zach Gallen was the 2025 Opening Day starting pitcher for what MLB team, which lost to the Texas Rangers in the 2023 World Series and plays in Phoenix Harper.
>> Diamondbacks.
>> Diamondbacks is correct.
Your bonus question?
Effingham two American scientists conducted what?
1887 experiment that used an infrared interferometer in a in an attempt to detect a phase shift due to the so-called ether.
Effingham.
You are out of time.
Fairfield your chance to steal.
Rutherford.
That is incorrect.
We were looking for the Michelson-Morley experiment.
Michelson-Morley.
Our next audio question.
Turn your ears towards the speakers.
This game is a 3D platformer developed by Jedd.
>> The Legend of Super Mario Odyssey.
>> Super Mario Odyssey is incorrect.
[MUSIC] Um, this.
I will repeat the question.
This game is a 3D platformer developed by Nintendo that takes players on an intergalactic adventure through a series of small, gravity defying planets in Susie Super Mario Galaxy.
Super Mario Galaxy is correct.
[MUSIC] Our next toss up.
What Thracian born man escaped from Murmillo training at Capua and was defeated by Marcus Licinius Crassus after leading a slave revolt against Rome.
Harper.
>> Hannibal.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield your chance to buzz in.
>> Allison, Philip.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Spartacus.
Spartacus is the name of that man.
That ding dong means that we are out of time for today's episode of Scholastic Hi-Q.
Our winner today is Fairfield.
A huge round of applause for the team of Fairfield, but a round of applause too, for the team of Effingham for being here for this wonderful episode of Scholastic Hi-Q.
Once again, I am Olivia manning, reminding you that here at Scholastic Hi-Q Knowledge rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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