Scholastic HI Q| 3414
Season 3400 Episode 14 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> You come to me on this, the day of my daughter's wedding, and you ask me to host a game show for Knowledge High.
I'm your host father, Olivia manning.
And welcome to Scholastic HI-Q.
The only show where knowledge rules.
Today we've got two incredible teams on the top.
We've got Da Coin with Jonathan, Ben Josie and Hayden, and at the bottom we've got mosquito with Jackson, Clara Chase and Brayton.
For those of you who do not know how the game works, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.
I will ask these to the room.
Either team can buzz in for the chance 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 has a chance to steal 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.
The most important thing that you need to know, my dear contestants, 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, you get your points and we move on with our day.
If you are wrong, if 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 that out of the way.
Are we ready to HI-Q?
Alrighty, on to our first toss up.
What country is currently led by Ahmed al-Sharra, who captured the cities of Homs and Aleppo on his way to overthrowing Bashar Jackson?
Syria?
Syria is correct.
Your bonus question for Nobel Prize winners Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield helped develop what imaging technique that uses radio waves and magnetic fields to make images.
Spectroscopy that is incorrect to coin your chance to steal x rays.
That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for MRIs, magnetic resonance imaging, MRIs.
No bonus points there.
On to the next toss up.
What state would host which hosts the world's largest balloon festival is home to White Sands National Park and contains the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
>> Jackson, New Mexico.
>> New Mexico is correct.
Your bonus question politician and General Arthur Wellesley is better known as the Duke of what place?
>> Wellington.
>> Wellington is correct.
Our next toss up.
What film in which Denzel Washington plays the Super Macrinus is a 2024 sequel directed by Ridley Scott that depicts combat Brayton.
Gladiator two.
Gladiator two is correct.
Your bonus question?
What author wrote about hooligans called Droogs who speak the fictional language Nadsat.
In his novel A Clockwork Orange.
No.
>> Decoin.
Your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Burgess Anthony.
Burgess.
Our next toss up.
What material to which tension is applied via keying is a type of fabric stretched across a wooden frame.
By artists who make paintings on it.
Josie canvas.
Canvas is correct.
Your bonus question.
Decoin.
The Chateau Lake Louise is a luxurious hotel in what oldest national park in Canada, which is in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta.
>> No answer.
>> Your chance to steal.
>> Glacier lake.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Banff National Park.
Banff National Park, our next toss up.
What politician succeeded Hannibal Hamlin as vice president, and later became the first president to be impeached during his 1865 to 1869 tenure.
>> Brayton Andrew Johnson.
>> Andrew Johnson is correct.
Your bonus question?
A Swedish chemist, Svante Arrhenius, defined acids as proton donors and bases as species that form what other ion?
>> No answer.
>> To coin your chance to steal.
>> Hydroxide.
>> Hydroxide is correct.
This is our first audio question of the game.
Please turn your attention towards the speakers.
This game series is a sci fi first person shooter.
Jackson.
Halo.
Halo is correct.
That is ten points to Mesquita for a correct audio question, but there are no bonus audio questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the speakers.
Back to our toss ups.
What devices which, like Empennages, may have stick wicks on their trailing edge, cause stalls at high angles of attack and provide lift to planes Brayton engines.
That is incorrect.
Decline your chance to buzz in.
Jonathan.
>> Wings.
>> Wings is correct.
Your bonus question to coin.
What area of London provides the name of the mean time that forms the basis for coordinating Universal Time?
Greenwich Greenwich is correct.
Our next toss up.
What southern author wrote about Vardaman, who claims my mother is a fish and cash who builds Addie Bundren coffin in his novel as I, Chase Faulkner.
Faulkner is correct.
Your bonus question Mesquida.
In what southern city were four young girls murdered in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Ku Klux Klan?
>> Birmingham.
>> Birmingham is correct.
Our next toss up.
What tribe that controlled most of North Africa from A.D.
435 to 34.
Sacked Rome under King Geiseric in 455 and lends its name to acts of destruction.
Jackson.
>> Vandals.
>> Vandals is correct.
Your bonus question what French sociologist posited egoistic and anomic forms of the title act in his pioneering 1877 1897 apology study.
Suicide.
>> No answer.
>> Decline your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> We were looking for Durkheim.
Émile Durkheim is that sociologist.
Back to our toss ups.
Stephanie Kwolek discovered what?
Para Para-aramid polymer with a high tensile strength to weight ratio.
That makes it useful in bulletproof vests.
Brayton.
>> Kevlar.
>> Kevlar is correct.
Your bonus question.
What British author of the comic spy novel Our Man in Havana described the persecution of a Mexican whiskey priest in his book The Power and the glory.
>> No answer.
>> Decline your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Greene Henry Graham Greene.
Our next toss up.
What state?
Which is home to a new NHL team named the mammoth, is nicknamed Brayton.
>> Utah.
>> Utah is correct.
Your bonus question is Cuda.
The sphincter of Oddi controls the flow of bile into what?
First section of the small intestine which precedes the jejunum and ileum.
>> Duodenum.
>> That's correct.
This is our first video question of the game.
So please introduce yourselves to the television.
This Pokemon is infamous for being weak and only Brayton.
>> Magikarp.
>> Magikarp is correct.
That is ten points to mosquito for a correct video question answered.
But once again, there are no bonus video questions.
It's just whatever shows up on the television.
Our next toss up.
What British author wrote about a plague survived by Lionel in The Last Man, and described Victor's creation of an artificial life form in Frankenstein.
>> Shelley.
Sorry, Shelley.
>> Shelley is correct.
Your bonus question.
A basket of fruit and bread spills over in what Edouard manet painting, in which two men converse while their nude female friend looks at the viewer.
>> Luncheon on the grass.
>> That is correct.
Our next toss up.
What devices which name a vaporization cutting technique, have a gas variety that includes their helium neon type and emit coherent light as a beam.
Jackson.
>> Laser.
>> Laser is correct.
Your bonus question.
What country singer released the 2025 album I'm the Problem, which produced the hit singles lies, lies, Lies and Love Somebody.
>> Zach Bryan.
>> That is incorrect to coin your chance to steal.
>> Morgan Wallen.
>> Morgan Wallen is correct.
Our next toss up.
In what sport?
Played by Mallory Swanson, Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman did the US women's national team win the 2015 and 2019 World Cup?
>> Brayton soccer.
>> Soccer is correct.
Your bonus question?
What quantum principle stating that no two fermions can share identical quantum numbers can be applied to pairs of electrons in an atom.
>> No answer.
>> Coin.
Your chance to steal.
>> The Pauli exclusion principle.
>> That is correct.
Our next toss up.
What war, which was investigated by one side's Agranat commission, began when Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal during a Jewish holiday in 1973.
>> Brayton the Yom Kippur War.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question.
Masuda Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of what company, which ended its experiments with self-driving technology under its co-founder, Travis Kalanick.
>> Tesla.
>> That is incorrect.
To coin your chance to steal BMW.
That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Uber.
Uber is that company.
Our next toss up in 2025, what federal agency, led by Lee Zeldin, reversed its long standing declaration that methane and other greenhouse gases threaten public health.
Jackson EPA EPA is correct.
Your bonus question.
An invasion of Korea known as the Imjin War, was launched by what?
Second of Japan's Great Unifiers, who was followed by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
>> Nobunaga.
Oda.
Nobunaga.
>> That is incorrect.
To coin your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
Sorry.
No answer.
>> All righty.
We were looking for Hideyoshi.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
That is the name of that great unifier.
This next question is another audio question, so please turn your ears toward the speakers once again.
This series is a Japanese anime and manga that follows a young warrior on a quest to avenge his family and cure his sister, who has been transformed into a supernatural demon slayer.
Demon Slayer is correct.
That is ten points to Makuta for a correct audio question answered.
Once again, no bonus audio questions.
So back to our toss ups.
What identifiers have reserved blocks that start with ten and 192.168, and are four part addresses used to identify devices on a network.
>> Brayton IP addresses.
>> IP addresses is correct.
Your bonus question Makuta.
What phenomenon names a a novel by Orhan Pamuk.
A type of country in a novel by Yasunari Kawabata.
And a crash in the title of a Neal Stephenson novel.
>> Snow.
>> Snow is correct.
Our next toss up.
What Englishman wrote no cross, no crown.
While jailed in the Tower of London and founded a namesake colony for for Quakers governed from Philadelphia.
>> Brayton William Penn.
>> William Penn is correct.
Your bonus question.
To dichloromethane or ch2cl2 has what property?
Because its bonds result in a separation of positive and negative charge centers.
>> Polarized.
>> That is correct.
Our next toss up.
What author whose novel in Dubious Battle depicts a strike in California, wrote about George Milton's killing of his friend Lennie in Of Mice and Men.
>> Chase Steinbeck.
>> Steinbeck is correct.
Your bonus question.
Gerlach in the High Tatras is the highest point in what mountain range of Eastern Europe, which forms a large bend in Romania.
>> The Caucasus.
>> Outside Carpathian.
>> That is correct.
Our next toss up.
What city?
Whose Bixiga neighborhood was once a hub for Italian migrants, is the most populous city in Brazil and is named after Saint Paul.
>> Josie, Rio de Janeiro.
>> That is incorrect.
Your chance to buzz in.
>> Brayton, Brasilia.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Sao Paulo.
No bonus question there.
On to our next toss up.
What country, whose independence was recognized by the Treaty of Cordoba began fighting Spain after the Grito de Dolores, issued by Miguel Hidalgo.
>> Jonathan, Portugal.
>> That is incorrect.
Your chance to buzz in chase.
>> Mexico.
>> Mexico is correct.
Your bonus question to Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean after sailing down what?
West coast River, which meets the Willamette River at Portland.
>> Columbia.
>> That is correct.
Our next toss up.
What insects of genus of genus?
Apologies.
Tibicen have males with abdominal Tymbals that produce loud mating sounds and have a brood 13 that hatches every 17 years.
Chase.
>> No answer.
>> Coin.
Your chance to buzz in, Ben.
>> Locusts.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for cicadas.
Cicadas?
Are those insects?
No bonus question there.
What country?
Whose flag and coat of arms both depict a soapstone bird was once called Rhodesia and is an African country governed Brayton Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is correct.
Your bonus question.
Gambling dominates the economy.
The economy of what?
Special administrative region that was handed over from Portugal to China in 1999.
>> Macau.
>> Macau is correct.
Our next toss up.
What veteran of Campalidino, who was exiled by the black Guelphs, wrote La Vita Nuova about his love for Beatrice.
>> Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question.
What religion founded in Jamaica by by poor black communities, believes in Africa as a spiritual homeland and follows the Ital diet.
>> Rastafarian Rastafarianism.
>> That is correct.
That correct bonus question gets us into this episode's Lightning Round.
The Lightning Round works a little differently than most questions I now have in my hand a series of topics.
Those topics each break down into ten questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.
Do you have full choice on your topics?
They are as follows.
The Great Gatsby Short Q&A.
Counting in foreign languages and emotions.
>> Great Gatsby.
>> Answer the following about the novel.
The Great Gatsby, to coin your 60s begins in three, two, one jazz age decade when the book was written.
>> The Roaring 20s.
>> Correct.
The book's author.
>> Scott Fitzgerald.
>> Correct.
The book's narrator, who is Daisy's second cousin once removed.
>> Nick Carraway.
>> Gatsby's first name.
>> Jay.
>> Correct color of the dock light that symbolizes Gatsby's dreams.
>> Green.
>> Correct.
University that the narrator and Tom Buchanan attended Oxford.
Incorrect sport that Jordan Baker excels at.
>> Golf.
>> Correct.
Three word term for the huge dumping ground near the Wilsons home.
>> Valley of ashes.
>> Correct.
Specific place in Gatsby's estate where Gatsby dies.
>> Correct.
Gatsby's gangster associate who fixed the World Series.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Gatsby's gangster associate who fixed the World Series.
[MUSIC] >> Meyer Wolfshiem.
>> That is correct.
You are out of questions to coin, the narrator and Tom Buchanan both attended Yale University.
Other than that fantastic lightning round once again.
Your topics are as follows.
Short Q&A counting in foreign languages and emotions.
>> Emotions.
>> Name these people, places or things that share their name with emotions or emotional states.
Your 60s begins in three, two, one.
Its pursuit is often grouped with life and liberty.
>> Happiness.
>> Correct species of Oscar who lives in a trash can on Sesame Street.
>> Grouch.
>> Correct.
Last name of Courtney who married Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
Correct with Serena, the name of the commander's wife in The Handmaid's Tale.
[MUSIC] Pass party, whose subjects is unaware of its planning.
>> Surprise.
>> Correct.
Scraped or grated skin of a citrus fruit such as orange or lemon zest.
Correct.
Saint in the title of a 2003 Metallica album.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Bill Clinton's optimistic Arkansas hometown.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> HBO series starring Zendaya as Rue Bennett.
Euphoria.
Correct.
North Carolina Cape that names a classic 1962 thriller film.
[MUSIC] Pass with Serena, the name of the commander's wife in The Handmaid's Tale.
[MUSIC] Pass Saint in the title of a 2003 Metallica.
You are out of Time to Joy is Serena.
Joy is the name of the commander's wife in Handmaid's Tale, so that answer was Joy.
Saint anger is the title of the 2003 Metallica album We Were Looking for anger.
Hope Arkansas is Bill Clinton's optimistic Arkansas hometown, and Cape Fear is that North Carolina cape that names a classic 1962 thriller film a fantastic lightning round all around.
Unfortunately, they can only last for about 100 and 20s.
So back to our toss ups we go.
What composer, whose Third Symphony is nicknamed the Organ Symphony, wrote movements like Fossils and the Swan for the Carnival of the animals.
>> Sorry, sir.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question to Gertrude Stein detailed her years living in Paris in an autobiography.
Of what other woman?
Stein's lover and life partner.
>> Justine.
>> No answer.
>> Your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> All right.
We were looking for Alice Toklas.
The autobiography of Alice B Toklas.
Our next toss up.
Dobson.
Units measure concentrations of what?
Molecule?
Destroyed by CFCs and concentrated in a Jonathan ozone.
Ozone is correct.
Your bonus question to Coyne.
Dean Kamen invented what brand of self-balancing two wheeled personal transportation devices.
>> Hoverboard.
>> That is incorrect.
Your chance to steal a moped.
That is incorrect as well.
We were looking for Segway Segways.
Our next toss up.
What?
Confederacy, which signed the Treaty of Fort Stanwix with Britain, was composed of indigenous northeastern nations like the Oneida and Mohawk Brayton.
>> Iroquois.
>> Iroquois is correct.
Your bonus question, Masuda.
What symphony?
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
His 41st and final symphony is named for a Roman deity.
>> Jupiter.
>> That is correct.
Our next toss up is a math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
How many identical sectors does a circle have?
If each sector has a central angle measuring 20 degrees.
Ben.
>> 18.
>> 18 is correct.
Your bonus question to coin.
In 1698, Peter the Great enacted a 60 ruble tax.
On what symbols of Russia's lack of modernity which inspectors were sent to destroy with scissors.
>> No answer.
>> Ascuta.
Your chance to steal beards.
Beards is correct.
Our next toss up.
What world leader names the largest stadium in the world?
A cricket venue in his home state of Gujarat that he has visited as Prime Minister of India.
>> Brayton Modi.
>> Modi is correct.
Your bonus question.
A bitter woman undermines her family in Cousin Bette, a novel by what 19th century author who betrayed French society in his series The Human Comedy.
>> Oh.
No.
>> No answer.
>> Decline your chance to steal.
>> No, sir.
>> All right.
We were looking for Balzac.
Honoré de Balzac.
Our next toss up.
What?
Fashion house, which originally made luggage trunks, makes Speedy and Alma bag designs decorated with a checkerboard pattern.
And the letters LV.
>> Louis.
Louis Vuitton.
>> Louis Vuitton is correct.
Your bonus question is another math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
And that goes for you two to coin.
What is the value of two raised to the fourth power, two raised to the fourth power plus two raised to the fifth power all divided by two to the third power.
>> Six.
>> Six is correct.
Our next toss up is another math question.
So pencil and paper ready?
My goodness.
What is the area of a rectangle whose width is six and whose height is twice the width?
Gotham.
>> 72.
>> 72 is correct.
Your bonus question to coin the Hagia Sophia is a cathedral that later served as both a mosque and a museum.
In what former capital city?
>> No answer.
>> Regardless, that is incorrect.
Your chance to steal Istanbul.
Istanbul is correct.
Not Constantinople.
Our next toss up.
What man who is called morose by his nephew Fred shows kindness to Bob Cratchit.
>> Scrooge.
>> Scrooge is correct.
Your bonus question.
The title character meets Charles Drouet, has an affair with George Hurstwood, and becomes a famous actress.
In what novel by Theodore Dreiser.
>> No answer.
>> Decline.
Your chance to steal.
>> No answer.
>> We were looking for Sister Carrie.
Sister Carrie.
Is that novel our next toss up?
What?
Five letter word describes a plasma wind that produces auroras and comes from the corona, and can also refer to eclipses that are not lunar.
Jonathan.
>> Solar.
>> Solar is correct.
Your bonus question to coin.
In what country did Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki on the island of Flores erupt twice in 2025?
>> Hawaii.
>> That is incorrect.
Your chance to steal.
>> Philippines.
>> Philippines is incorrect.
We were looking for Indonesia.
Indonesia is that country.
Our next toss up.
What situation?
Which can be natural for public utilities that have high fixed costs, exists when a single firm controls the entire supply.
>> Jackson monopoly.
>> Monopoly is correct.
Your bonus question.
A function has what property?
If its graph is the same after being rotated 180 degrees around the origin as in the function f of x equals negative x. Even that is incorrect.
To coin your chance to steal.
>> Odd.
>> Odd is correct.
Our next toss up.
Just kidding.
That ding dong means that we are out of time for today's episode of Scholastic HI-Q.
Our winners today are.
Masuda.
A huge round of applause for the team of mosquito, but also the team of Decoin for being here for this amazing episode of HI-Q.
Once again, I am your host, Olivia manning, reminding you that here at Scholastic HI-Q Knowledge Rules.
Let the music play.
[MUSIC]
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