[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hello, it's me, four piece Swedish pop dance sensation ABBA.

That's right, it was me at Eurovision.

But more importantly, it's me.

Your host Olivia manning for today's episode of Scholastic Hi-q the only show where knowledge rules.

We've got two fantastic returning teams with us at the top.

We've got Fairfield with Jedd, Alison Grady and Karoline, and at the bottom we've got Metro-east Lutheran with Ganyn, Grant, Dean and Peter.

For those of you who don't know how the game works, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.

Those toss up questions will be asked 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 can swoop in and steal for ten points.

There are also media questions, audio questions, lightning rounds.

We will get to all of that when we get to it.

Most importantly, right now, the interruption rule.

If I am reading a question at any point 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, the other team gets five bonus points and the option to answer the question.

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

All of that out of the way.

Are we ready to hike you?

>> Yeah, yeah.

All righty.

>> Our first toss up question.

What number of oxygen atoms in a phosphate ion is also the number of carbon atoms in butane.

Peter.

>> Four.

>> Four is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East Lutheran is a bonus is a. Its a bonus question, but it's also a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

And that goes for you two.

Fairfield.

What is the volume of a right circular cylinder whose height is ten, and whose circular base has a diameter of 12.

>> Hundred and 65 360 Pi.

>> That is correct.

What poem that declares tender is the night and ends with the question do I wake or sleep?

Was written by John Keats about the music.

Dean.

>> Uh.

>> Ode to a Nightingale.

>> Ode to a Nightingale is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east Lutheran.

What lake in southern Siberia is the world's deepest freshwater lake?

>> Baikal.

>> Baikal is correct.

What term?

Which literally means bottom of the bag in French, is used in English to identify a type of common suburban street that has no outlet.

Peter.

>> Cul de sac.

>> Cul de sac is correct.

Your bonus question.

What author wrote about Lieutenant Jimmy Cross in the title story of his collection, The Things They Carried, which is about the Vietnam War?

>> O'Brien.

>> O'Brien is correct.

What explorer whose brother Thorvald helped him colonize Vinland was sometimes called the Lucky Peter.

>> Uh.

>> Leif Ericson.

>> Leif Ericson is correct.

Your bonus question.

What German born diplomat served as both National Security Advisor and secretary of state under Richard Nixon?

>> Kissinger.

>> Kissinger.

>> Kissinger is correct.

What man is alleged by New York prosecutors to have written, deny, defend and depose on bullets he used to murder a health insurance CEO in 2024.

>> Dean Mangione.

>> Mangione is.

>> Correct.

>> Your bonus question Metro East Lutheran is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready?

That goes for you too.

Fairfield how many positive divisors does 64 have, including both one and 64 itself?

Given 64 equals two raised to the sixth power.

>> Uh, was it like?

21.

21.

21.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> Oh.

>> No.

>> I'm done.

I just said yes.

>> Six.

>> Six is incorrect.

We were looking for seven.

There are seven divisors.

Positive divisors for 64.

This is our first media question of the game.

May I please introduce you to the television?

This character is a minor character in the show Smiling Friends.

He made his first and only appearance in the Mr.

Frog episode, and was hinted at jokingly as the fifth member of the crew.

Name this character.

>> Grant.

>> It's like s'more blue s'more.

>> Boo is correct.

>> Okay.

>> That is ten points to Metro East Lutheran for getting the media question correct.

There are no bonus media questions.

It's just whatever shows up on the television, which means we are back to our toss ups.

This next toss up is a math question.

Math questions abound this episode.

So pencil and paper ready?

What is the measure of an angle whose complement measures 38 degrees?

Given complementary angles?

>> Dean 52 degrees.

>> 52 degrees is correct.

Your bonus question.

Jean-bédel Bokassa was a leader of what country?

Whose capital is Bangui and whose name reflects its location in Africa.

>> Equatorial Guinea.

>> That is incorrect.

>> Fairfield your Central African Republic.

>> Central African Republic is correct.

Our next toss up.

What man inspired the character Willie Stark in All the King's Men?

Touted his share.

>> Long.

>> Long is correct.

Your bonus question.

In Chinese mythology, legendary archer Hou Yi shot down nine of what?

Ten celestial object objects when they all appeared at once, thus saving the earth.

>> I don't know what the stars.

>> I think it's probably the moon's.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> Planets.

>> Planets is incorrect as well.

We were looking for suns.

Suns was the answer there?

No bonus points there.

Next is the toss up.

What ritual was believed to be performed at the present day site of Al-Maghtas upon Jesus when his cousin John dipped him?

>> Peter.

>> Baptism.

>> Baptism.

Baptism is correct.

Your bonus question.

What quantity, which equals average force times the time interval over which the force acts is equal to a body's change in momentum.

>> Impulse.

Impulse.

Impulse.

>> Impulse is correct.

What city?

Whose kingdom center has a large hole at its top contains the King Abdullah Financial district and is the capital of Saudi Arabia.

>> Buzz Dean.

Riyadh is correct.

>> Your bonus question.

In 2025, what former investment banker floated plans to privatize Social Security while serving as Donald Trump's secretary of the Treasury?

You are out of time, Metro-east Lutheran Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> I don't want to say that.

So.

>> I'll.

Pass.

Oh, no.

It already ran out.

Ding dong!

>> You are out of time.

Fairfield we were looking for.

We were looking for Bessant.

Scott Bessant is his name.

Our next toss up.

In what country?

Where in 2025, police captured Fito.

The leader of Los choneros has a gang war led to disruptions in cities like Guayaquil and Quito.

>> Peter.

>> Ecuador.

>> Ecuador is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East Lutheran in what sculptural pose partly named from the Italian for against.

Does a subject appear to rest the majority of their weight on one foot?

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

Fairfield your chance to steal the thinker.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for contrapposto.

Or if you happen to speak English, counter pose.

Our next question is an audio question, so please turn your ears towards the speakers.

This game is a fast paced racing title from Nintendo that features beloved characters from a long running Jedd Mario Kart.

[MUSIC] A little more specific.

>> Mario Kart World.

>> Mario Kart World 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 on the speakers.

Our next toss up.

Haemagglutinin is a protein in what virus of family Orthomyxoviridae, whose H1n1 subtype caused the 1918 pandemic and also has swine influenza.

Influenza is correct.

Your bonus question?

What word can describe a catalyst whose phase differs from its reactants?

Or a chemical mixture with non-uniform composition?

>> Yes.

Is it heterogeneous?

>> Sure.

Stereo.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield.

Your chance to steal.

>> Heterogeneous.

>> Heterogeneous is correct.

Next toss up.

What singer behind the album, spirit in the Dark and Lady Soul sang find out what it means to me after spelling out the title in her hit Grant.

>> Aretha Franklin.

>> Aretha Franklin is.

>> Correct.

>> Your bonus question what Danish American muckraking photojournalist published a work showing terrible conditions in tenement housing called How the Other Half Lives.

>> John something.

John something.

No answer.

>> Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> It's not good.

>> No answers.

>> All right.

We were looking for Riss.

Jacob Riss is the name of that photojournalist.

What company?

Which agreed to buy the rights to Pink Floyd's music in 2024 makes Walkman music players.

And in 2025.

>> Sony.

>> Sony is.

>> Correct.

>> Your bonus question.

In July 2025, the International Criminal Court charged what country's supreme leader Haibatullah Zun akhundzada with persecuting women and girls.

>> Iran.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> Pakistan.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is in that country.

Our next toss up in math, derangements and transpositions are examples of what operation that puts a set's elements in a specific order, unlike Dean.

>> Permutation.

>> Permutation is correct.

Your bonus question what cognitive bias occurs when people consider and seek out information in a way that supports their existing beliefs?

Oh.

>> That's cool.

No answer.

>> Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> Confirmation bias.

>> Confirmation bias is correct.

>> Okay.

>> What capital of Maharashtra is home to?

The Divar slum, is the center of the Bollywood film industry and is the most populous city in Mumbai.

Mumbai is correct.

Your bonus question?

What 18th century German literary movement, whose name translates to storm and stress, emphasized emotion, individualism and inner turmoil?

>> Storm und drang.

>> That is correct.

This is our video question.

So please once again turn your attention towards the television.

This actor was originally going to play the Tin Man in MGM's The Wizard of Oz, but famously left production after having a bad reaction to the metal in the makeup.

He went on to play several rural characters, including Jed Clampett on the hit sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.

Name this actor.

You are both out of time.

We were looking for Buddy Ebsen.

Buddy Ebsen is the name of that actor.

Back to our toss ups.

What commander signalled England expects that every man will do his duty in 1805.

>> Peter Nelson.

>> Nelson is correct.

Your bonus question.

The southern terminus of the John Muir Trail is what mountain?

Which is the tallest peak in California.

>> That is correct.

What composer who wrote the score for Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky?

>> Prokofiev.

Sorry, Prokofiev.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question.

What type of mean is found by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of every entry in a given data set.

>> Harmonic.

>> That is correct.

That brings us into our lightning round.

The Lightning round works like this.

I now have in my hand four topics.

Each of those topics have ten questions which a team may have to answer in a mere 60s Fairfield you get full choice on what topic you'd like to choose from.

They are as follows.

Highest points parts of an automobile, silent T and classic sports nicknames silent T. Silent T. Give these words that end with a silent T your 60s Fairfield begins in three, two, one lawn game with mallets and wickets.

Croquet correct all you can eat.

Self-serve restaurant.

>> Buffet.

>> Correct.

Deck of cards used in fortune telling.

>> Tarot.

>> Correct verb meaning to carom or deflect off a solid surface.

Ricochet correct five letter term for an artist's first appearance.

>> Debut.

>> Correct a dedicated personal servant.

[MUSIC] Pass thick comforter on a bed duvet.

Correct.

Craft using yarn and namesake hooks.

>> Crochet.

>> Correct.

Art firm whose Sacchetti method was developed by Enrico Cochetti.

>> Pass.

>> Type of horse drawn carriage that is the origin of the term taxicab.

[MUSIC] >> CAS.

>> A dedicated personal servant.

[MUSIC] Pass art form whose Sacchetti method was developed by Enrico Cecchetti.

[MUSIC] You are out of time.

Fairfield, a valet is a dedicated personal servant.

Ballet is that art form with the Sacchetti method, and a Cabriolet is the type of horse drawn carriage that is the origin of the term taxicab.

Metro East Lutheran your topics are once again highest points, parts of an automobile and classic sports nicknames.

>> Classic sports nicknames.

>> All right.

>> Name the retired or deceased athletes who have these nicknames given a sport and their year of birth.

Your 60s Metro East Lutheran begins in three, two, one.

Boxing's iron mark.

Iron Mike, 1968.

Baseball's the Sultan of Swat, 1895.

Correct.

Basketball's His Airness 1963.

Pass hockey's the Great One, 1961.

Correct.

Golf's lefty 1970.

Pass football's Coach Prime 1967 John Sanders.

Correct.

Basketball's Black Mamba 1978.

>> Kobe Bryant.

>> Correct.

Football's the Juice 1947.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Baseball's Mr.. October 1946.

>> Reggie Jackson.

>> Correct.

Boxing's The Brown Bomber 1914.

>> Um Lewis.

>> Correct.

Basketball's his Airness 1963.

[MUSIC] Pass Golf's Lefty, 1970.

>> John Daly.

>> Incorrect.

Football's the juice 1947.

[MUSIC] >> Uh.

[MUSIC] What's his name?

[MUSIC] >> You are out of time.

Metro-east Lutheran.

Michael Jordan was basketball's his airness.

Phil Mickelson was golf's lefty, and O.J.

Simpson was football's the juice.

That was a wonderful lightning round all around, but unfortunately, they cannot last forever.

So back to the toss ups we go.

What events?

Whose name comes from the Japanese words for harbor and wave can be caused by tsunami?

Tsunami is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east Lutheran.

In what Edith Wharton novel does Newland Archer end up marrying?

May Welland despite falling in love with her cousin Ellen Olenska.

>> Olenska.

Age of innocence.

>> Correct.

What author wrote about Pecola Breedlove's desire to look?

>> Morrison.

>> Morrison is correct.

Your bonus question what emperor was the namesake of a donation that purported to give the Pope power over Rome, until Lorenzo Valla proved the document was a forgery?

>> No.

>> You were out of time.

Metro East Lutheran Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for Constantine.

Constantine is the name of that emperor.

Our next toss up.

What Frenchman?

The main author of the declaration of the Rights of Man, was nicknamed Hero of Two Worlds for fighting in the American Dean.

>> Lafayette.

>> Lafayette is correct.

Your bonus question in orchestras, the Kettledrum, which typically has a diameter of 33in, is better known by what name?

>> Tympany.

>> Tympany is correct.

Our next question, if you will please turn your attention towards the television.

This.

British Grady.

>> Charli XCX.

>> Charli XCX is correct.

Back to our toss ups.

What class of animals whose members have appendages such as Chelicerae and breathe through book lungs, contains eight legged scorpions and spiders.

>> Arachnids.

>> Arachnids is correct.

Your bonus question Fairfield.

What scientist who applied antiseptic techniques during surgery by using carbolic acid is the namesake of a brand of mouthwash.

>> Listerine.

>> What's the scientist's name?

>> Lister.

>> Lister is correct.

Our next toss up.

What author wrote about the Templar Brian De Bois-Guilbert, who lusts after the healer Rebecca and fights a Saxon knight in his novel Ivanhoe.

>> Scott.

>> Scott is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east Lutheran.

What strain of Protestantism traces its founding to John Knox, a priest who studied under John Calvin and brought the Reformation to Scotland.

>> Presbyterianism.

>> That is correct.

What team managed for the entire 1970s by Earl Weaver was led in the 1980s and 1990s by Cal Ripken, Jr.

>> And now plays the Marlins.

>> Sorry.

>> The Mariners.

>> Sorry.

>> The Seattle Mariners.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield I will repeat the question.

What team managed for the entire 1970s by Earl Weaver was led in the 1980s and 1990s by Cal Ripken, Jr.

And now plays at Camden Yards in Maryland.

Allison.

>> The Orioles.

>> The Orioles is correct.

Your bonus question?

>> Fairfield.

>> Stan Getz and Gilberto helped popularize what style of Brazilian jazz music with their standard The Girl from Ipanema.

>> Samba.

>> That is incorrect.

Metro-east Lutheran.

Your chance to steal bossa nova.

Bossa nova is correct.

What state, whose largest university was integrated by James Meredith, was the site of freedom Summer and is where Medgar Evers was shot in Jackson.

>> Mississippi.

>> Mississippi is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east Lutheran.

What university, which was founded in 1209, was attended by poet John Milton and economist John Maynard.

Maynard.

>> Oxford.

>> Oxford is incorrect.

Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> The other one.

>> Princeton.

>> Princeton is incorrect.

We were looking for Cambridge, the University of Cambridge.

Our next toss up.

What title character, who is called“Mealy”by Mr.

Grimwig, is adopted by Mr.

Brownlow after being saved from Fagin's gang in a novel.

>> Oliver Twist.

>> Oliver Twist is correct.

Your bonus question.

What British poet compared love to refined gold in a valediction forbidding mourning and told death to be not proud in his 10th Holy Sonnet?

Donne Donne is correct.

Our next audio question please turn your ears towards the speakers.

This game is a crossover fighting title developed by Nintendo Jedd.

>> Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate.

>> That is correct.

>> Nice job.

>> Our next toss up.

What state whose western border forms part of the Mason-Dixon line is called Dean.

>> Pennsylvania.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield I will repeat the question.

What state whose western border forms part of the Mason-Dixon line is called the Blue Hen state consists of three counties and is led from Dover.

>> Delaware.

>> Delaware is correct.

Your bonus question Fairfield what 2024 Netflix miniseries co-starred Jessica Gunning as Martha, a woman who becomes frighteningly, frighteningly obsessed with London bartender Donny Donne.

>> Baby reindeer.

>> Baby reindeer is correct.

Our next toss up.

What activist led a march to Sacramento from the great farms of Delano during a strike that he led?

>> Chavez.

>> Chavez is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east Lutheran.

In feudal Japan, samurai hoping to preserve honor after a disgrace committed what form of ritual suicide that involved cutting open the abdomen?

>> Seppuku.

>> Seppuku is correct.

What play which ends as the servant Firs is abandoned.

>> The cherry orchard.

>> Cherry Orchard is correct.

Your bonus question.

The term Arbor Vitae refers to the branching white matter in what part of the brain that is important in coordinating movement.

>> Is that the.

Prefrontal cortex.

Sure.

>> Prefrontal.

Prefrontal cortex.

>> That is incorrect.

Fairfield your chance to steal this.

>> Cerebrum.

>> That is incorrect.

We are looking for the cerebellum.

The cerebellum.

Our next toss up question.

What devices whose dye sensitized type contains a thin layer of titanium dioxide.

Use silicon to convert photons from sunlight into electricity.

>> Solar cells.

>> Solar cells is correct.

Your bonus question in 2025, what?

South Dakota senator succeeded Mitch McConnell to become leader of the Senate Republican caucus.

>> So.

You.

No answer.

>> Fairfield your chance to steal.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for Thune, John Thune.

That ding dong means that we are out of time for today's episode of Scholastic IQ.

Our winner today is Metro-east Lutheran.

A huge round of applause for the team of Metro-east Lutheran, but also for the team of Fairfield for being here for this incredible episode of Scholastic Hi-q.

I once again am Olivia manning reminding you that here at Scholastic IQ Knowledge Rules.

Let the music play.

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