[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi.

It's an unbelievably easy job, but somebody's got to do it.

I'm your host, Olivia Manning, and welcome to today's episode of Scholastic IQ, the only show where knowledge rules.

Today we've got two incredible returning teams for our second quarterfinal.

We've got Belleville East with Jax and Sean, Ben and Arahman, and at the bottom we've got Bond County with Roger, Brock, Colson and Colin.

At this point, we should know the rules.

But just in case you don't, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.

I'll ask these to the room.

Anyone that gets a toss up question right then moves on to a bonus round, which they can answer for 20 bonus points, or the other team can steal for ten bonus points.

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

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

The most important thing that you all need to remember is the interruption rule.

If at any point I'm speaking out the words of a question and you interrupt me to give an answer, if you are wrong, the other team gets five bonus points and the chance to answer that question.

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

With all that out of the way, are we ready to hike you?

Yeah.

I love an affirmative.

Our first toss up question.

What theory?

Whose namesake affects cause Gold's color predicts time dilation when close to the speed of light.

Sean.

>> Special relativity.

>> Special relativity is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East, a constant denoted k sub e appears in what law for the force between two charged particles, which is named for the same person as the SI unit of charge Coulomb's law.

Coulomb's law is correct.

Our next toss up.

What Greek god whose arrows spread a plague during the Trojan War.

>> Arahman Apollo.

>> Apollo is correct.

Your bonus question, published in 1773.

The poem to His Excellency General Washington was written by what woman, Phillis Wheatley.

Phillis Wheatley is correct.

What animal in Alice in Wonderland gives directions to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party before vanishing, leaving behind a grin and is from Cheshire.

>> Rock a cat.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question Bond County.

What surname is shared by two men named John, one of whom was Barack Obama's speechwriter, while the other directed Iron Man and created The Mandalorian.

>> Favreau.

>> Favreau is correct.

What war, in which the Battle of Towton helped Edward the Fourth seize the throne involved John.

>> Hundred Years War.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County.

I will repeat the question what war in which the Battle of Towton helped Edward the Fourth seize the throne involved the houses of Lancaster and York, which each had floral emblems.

Colin.

>> Where are the roses?

>> War of the roses is correct.

Your bonus question.

Font County.

What adjective describes fluids at a temperature and pressure beyond the point below which it's separate liquid and gas states can exist.

>> The triple point.

Sorry, the triple point.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East.

>> Super.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for super critical.

The super critical fluids.

Our next toss up.

The Declaration of Geneva is a modern revision of what text originally written in Greek that says do no harm and is an oath a raymondh Hippocratic oath.

Hippocratic oath is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

The Dry Tortugas are a portion of what chain of islands south of Miami keys.

>> I don't get it, Raymond.

Keys.

>> Keys is correct.

This is our first video.

Question of the game.

Please watch the video on the television and then I will provide you the question.

>> Listen well, all of you.

>> Coulson.

>> Uh, Maleficent.

>> That is incorrect.

This actress played the evil stepmother in Walt Disney's Cinderella and Maleficent in Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

She also played the principal on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Name this actress Angelina Jolie.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for Eleanor Audley.

Eleanor Audley is the name of that actress.

Our next toss up.

What island?

With the largest Hindu population in the Caribbean is the origin of calypso music and forms a nation led from Port of Spain with Tobago.

Colin.

>> Trinidad.

>> Trinidad is correct.

Your bonus question.

Bond County.

Walter Reuther was the longtime president of what labor union that represents manufacturing employees from firms like Ford and General Motors.

>> The Carr Labor Union.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East.

>> United auto dealers sorry, United Auto Workers.

>> United Auto Workers is correct.

What director depicted an alien nicknamed Jean jacket and the murderous chimp Gordy in his film?

Nope.

And directed the thrillers us and Get Out.

Roger.

Jordan Peele Jordan Peele is correct.

Your bonus question.

Bond County in September 2025.

What woman who holds the title Princess of Wales conducted joint events with Melania Trump during her visit to the UK?

Camilla that is incorrect.

Belleville East.

>> I told you to steal Kate.

>> Yes, that is correct.

Our next toss up.

What movement?

Whose second wave began around the publication of a Betty Friedan book about its mystique, advocates for the equality.

Sean.

>> Feminist.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question, Belleville East.

This is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

That goes for you too.

Bond County what is the largest integer value of x for which two to the x power is a three digit number?

Nine nine is correct.

In what state did David Farragut yell?

Damn the torpedoes!

Full speed ahead, Sean.

>> Alabama.

>> Alabama is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East in January 1853.

What Democratic president elect was traveling on a train?

A train through Massachusetts that derailed, killing his only living child.

>> Pearce.

>> Pearce is correct.

This next toss up is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready all around.

What must be the value of x?

If an angle measuring two x degrees is supplementary to an angle measuring three x degrees.

Sean.

18 that is incorrect.

Bond County your chance to buzz in.

Rock 3636 is correct.

Bond County your bonus question in 2025.

Owen Cooper became the youngest male actor to win a Primetime Emmy after playing accused killer Jamie in What for episode British drama.

>> House of cards.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East.

Your chance to steal.

>> Murder.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for adolescents.

Adolescents is the name of that drama.

Our next toss up.

What artistic medium was used by Imogen Cunningham and other group F 64 measures.

Members.

Apologies.

Colin.

>> Photography.

>> Photography is correct.

Your bonus question.

Bond County.

What title character unties cobbles.

Knot and races.

Mars.

Thompson.

After coming to the town of two mills in a young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli.

>> No answer.

>> Belleville East.

Your chance to steal.

>> I delegate Raymondh Mickey.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for maniac Magee.

Maniac Magee our next toss up.

What poem, which describes a yell rising from 5000 throats, is by Ernest Thayer and is about a baseball player from Mudville who strikes out.

>> Brock Casey at the bat.

>> Casey at the bat is correct.

Your bonus question Bond County.

What Soviet era composer of 15 symphonies whose work was denounced in 1948, composed the symphony number 13, Babi yar.

>> Go ahead.

>> My copy of.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East, your chance to steal.

>> Shostakovich.

>> Shostakovich is correct.

What country borders the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla has a disputed claim over Western Sahara and is home.

Sean.

>> Morocco.

>> Morocco is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

What term?

Starting with V refers to a lipid bilayer that fuses with the membrane to release its contents in exocytosis.

>> I delegate Ben.

>> Vacuole.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County your chance to steal Vesicle.

That is correct.

What leader encouraged criticism in the Hundred Flowers movement defeated Colin Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong is correct.

Your bonus question.

Between March and May 1871, a radical socialist government known as the commune ruled what city in the aftermath of a national defeat to Prussia.

>> Berlin.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East.

Your chance to steal Paris.

Paris is correct.

What composer who conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra in the 1980s wrote multiple Olympic fanfares and the Imperial march for his scores.

Coulson.

>> John Williams.

>> John Williams is correct.

Your bonus question Bond County what American realist painter depicted a boxing match in taking the count and a lecture about a bone surgery in the gross clinic.

>> Smith.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East your chance to steal Warhol.

Warhol is incorrect as well.

We were looking for Eakins.

Thomas Eakins, our next video question.

Please turn your attention towards the television.

This actress has been working in Hollywood for decades, one of her earliest roles being on Mister Rogers Neighborhood as a child.

She's done much work with Disney, playing Mulan, agent May and Marvel's agents of Shield and Fennec Shand in several Star Wars projects.

What is her name?

Both teams are out of time.

Ming-Na Wen is that actress's name.

Ming-Na Wen.

Our next toss up, the alligator.

Pear is another name for what fruit that ripens after picking.

Has bacon and Hass varieties and is the main ingredient in guacamole.

Jackson Avocado avocado is correct.

Your bonus question Belleville East What 1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is partly set on the fictional island of San Lorenzo and features a religion known as Bokononism.

>> Ice nine.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County your chance to steal.

>> Cat's cradle.

>> Cat's cradle is correct.

What author described a place where the fishing.

Where the flying fishes play.

Apologies in his poem Mandalay and portray the tiger shere Khan in his collection, The Jungle Book.

Oh, Raymond.

>> Kipling.

>> Kipling is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East Diopters are used to measure one over what distance?

Which is the distance from a lens to the point where the lens causes parallel rays to converge?

>> Distance.

Focal distance.

>> I delegate a raymondh parallax.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County, your chance to steal the foci.

Can I get a judge answer on that?

That is incorrect.

We were looking for focal length.

Unfortunately.

Focal length.

That is no point in getting us into our lightning round.

The lightning round, as we all know by now, works a little differently.

I now have in my hand for topics.

Those topics break down into ten questions that a team may have to answer in a mere 60s.

Bond County you get full choice.

Your topics to choose from are as follows.

20th century years ending in five.

The German language Poland and New Hampshire.

>> Do we want to go with yours or.

>> The other ones, I guess.

>> 20th century years ending in five.

>> All right.

Just a reminder that you can pass.

This goes for both teams.

If you don't know an answer.

And I'll come back to it if we have time.

Give the 20th century year ending in five, such as 1915 or 1975, in which these events occurred.

Bond County your 60s begins in 321.

Japan surrenders, ending World War two.

>> 1945.

>> Correct.

Two separate assassins try to kill President Gerald Ford.

[MUSIC] 1975 correct.

The first Russian Revolution begins.

[MUSIC] 1915 incorrect.

Lyndon Johnson is sworn in for a full term as president.

1965 correct.

Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat.

1955 correct.

Adolf Hitler Rearms Germany.

>> 1935.

>> Simpson is found not guilty of murder.

>> 95 1995.

>> Correct.

The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat.

>> June 25th, 1905.

>> Incorrect.

Microsoft releases the first edition of the windows OS 1990 2005.

[MUSIC] >> I thought it was 1990 1995.

>> Incorrect.

The Scopes Monkey trial is held.

[MUSIC] >> 1965 1965.

>> That is incorrect.

You are out of questions.

Bond County.

The first Russian Revolution began in 1905.

The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.

In 1915, Microsoft released the first edition of windows in 1985, and the Scopes Monkey trial was held in 1925.

Belleville East.

Your topics once again are as follows the German language Poland and New Hampshire.

>> We would like the German language.

>> All right.

Answer the following about the German language.

Belleville East.

Your 60s begins in 321 second most populous German speaking country after Germany.

>> Austria.

>> Correct.

German word for German Deutsch.

Correct greeting meaning good day.

>> Guten tag.

>> Correct.

Accent mark consisting of two dots.

>> Umlaut.

>> Correct color indicated by the word Schwarz black.

Correct.

Jewish language chiefly derived from German.

>> Yiddish.

>> Correct.

Capital letter that resembles the German letter s o Eszett.

>> That's a b.

>> Correct English translation of the question.

Word Wo.

Where correct grammatical gender indicated by the article Das.

>> Neuter.

>> Correct.

Only African country with German as an official language.

Namibia correct.

You are out of questions.

Belleville East a fantastic lightning round all around, but unfortunately they cannot last forever.

So back to the toss ups we go.

>> It was literally.

>> What philosopher who reminded Crito to repay a rooster to.

Asclepius refused to escape his death sentence and instead drank poison hemlock.

>> Socrates.

>> Socrates is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

In August 2025, what country closed its embassy in Tehran after accusing Iran's government of organizing anti-Semitic attacks?

>> In the U.S.. >> The United States.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County.

>> Israel.

>> That is incorrect as well.

We were looking for Australia.

Australia.

Our next toss up.

What medal?

Whose sulfate salt is sold as Epsom salts is found at the center of a molecule.

Calcium.

>> Magnesium.

>> Magnesium is correct.

Your bonus question, bond County.

What 12th century Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt retook Jerusalem from the Crusaders and became the respected rival of Richard the Lionhearted.

>> Mansa Musa.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East.

>> Solid in.

>> Saladin is correct.

What man who commissioned over 2500 libraries and wrote the gospel of wealth Shawn Carnegie.

Carnegie is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

What kind of thin, wispy, high altitude clouds are indicated by the abbreviation C I and are composed of ice crystals.

>> I delegate Arahman.

>> Cirrus.

>> Cirrus is correct.

This is our next audio question.

Please turn your ears toward the speakers.

A long running franchise built around exploring varied regions.

Colin.

>> Pokemon.

>> Pokemon is correct.

Ten points to Bond County for a correctly answered audio question, but there are no bonus audio questions.

It's just whatever shows up on the speakers.

Back to our toss ups.

In what country does Amina faint and fracture her collarbone in the novel Palace Walk?

The first novel in Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy.

>> Egypt.

>> Egypt is correct.

Your bonus question Bond County what states 2025 congressional delegation includes Nick Begich, the third as its only House member and Lisa Murkowski as one of its senators.

>> Montana.

>> Rhode Island.

>> That is incorrect.

>> Steal.

I delegate a raymondh.

>> Alaska.

>> Alaska is correct.

What process has a magnetic confinement type that may use a plasma in a doughnut shaped tokamak and releases energy after atomic Jackson nuclear fusion.

That is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

Darren Criss won a Tony for playing Oliver a helper bot model three in what South Korean show that in 2025 won the Tony Award for best musical.

>> A robot.

>> Helper bot.

What would that be in a robot show from South Korea?

>> There was like, I don't know.

>> I don't go to Raymondh parasite.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County your chance to steal.

>> Kpop demon hunters.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for maybe happy ending.

Maybe Happy Ending is the title of that show.

Our next toss up in what city was Tom Bradley mayor when riots broke out in 1991, after the acquittal of police who beat Rodney King in the San Sean.

>> Los Angeles.

>> Los Angeles is correct.

Your bonus question Belleville East abnormal gait is a positive predictor for some forms of what abnormal decline in mental function whose most common form is Alzheimer's disease?

>> I don't get Jackson dementia.

>> Dementia is correct.

What author who used interviews as the basis for his autobiography of Malcolm X, fictionalized his ancestor Kunta Kinte in his novel roots?

>> Sean John Lewis.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County your chance to buzz.

In.

Colson.

>> That is incorrect as well.

We were looking for Haley.

Alex.

Haley.

No bonus question there.

What operation, which can be represented by a colon, an obelisk or a forward slanting solidus is indicated.

Sean.

>> Division.

>> Division is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East Landmark 81 is a skyscraper in what most populous city of Vietnam, which was formerly known as Saigon.

>> Ho Chi Minh City.

>> Ho Chi Minh City is correct.

Our next video question the television.

This playwright first saw success with his Broadway musical In the Heights.

He later created Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is correct.

Ten points for a correct video question.

No bonus video questions.

Back to the toss ups we go.

You guys know this.

At this point, you guys are experts at what meeting?

During which.

Arianism was condemned.

Did Constantine summon leaders of the Christian church in Sean.

>> First Nicene Council.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

The spring of nations occurred.

In what year?

In the mid 1800s, in which major populist revolutions swept central and Western Europe.

1848 1848 is correct.

What novel in which Indian widow Out-a marries reform club member Phileas Fogg, was written by Jules Verne about a trip across.

>> Benw around the world in 80 days.

>> Around the world in 80 days is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East in Hamlet.

What tedious old fool who's mistakenly stabbed to death behind an heiress is the father of Laertes and Ophelia.

>> What's the father of hamlet?

>> Claudius.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County, your chance to steal Lady Macbeth.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for Polonius.

Polonius.

Our next toss up.

What?

Non-Standard oxidation state of each oxygen atom in a hydrogen peroxide molecule minus one.

That is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County what Pacific island country whose main exports include bottled water and fish, is governed from Suva.

>> Fiji.

>> Fiji is correct.

What painting depicted on a postcard on which Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache shows a woman, Colin.

>> The Mona Lisa.

>> The Mona Lisa is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

What is the name, either full or abbreviated, of the discontinuity that separates the crust from the upper mantle.

>> The convection layer.

>> That is incorrect.

Belleville East.

Your chance to steal I delegate.

>> Jackson.

>> Lithosphere.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for the Moho discontinuity.

There is a full name there, but I'm not going to attempt it.

We're going to move on to our next toss up in 2023.

What MLB player signed a then record 700 shone.

>> Shohei Ohtani.

>> Shohei Ohtani is correct.

Your bonus question Belleville East What rhyming two word term denotes the migration of Americans of European ancestry out of urban areas after World War Two, often due to desegregation.

White flight white flight is correct in summer 2025, what company switched to Coca-Cola products in its cafes, which it offers in warehouses as the second largest US retail store?

Oh, Raymond.

Walmart, that is incorrect.

Bond County, your chance to buzz in.

Coulson.

>> Costco.

>> Costco is correct.

Your bonus question.

Bond County, the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles are currently held in what museum?

Located in the Bloomsbury district.

>> The British Museum.

>> That is correct.

What class of animals contains the orders Squamata and Testudines?

Is studded with amphibians in herpetology and includes crocodiles and snakes.

>> Jackson reptiles.

>> Reptiles is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

Cindy Birdsong replaced Florence Ballard as a member of what group?

Whose recording of stop in the Name of Love featured lead singer Diana Ross.

>> Huey Lewis and the news.

>> That is incorrect.

Bond County your chance to steal.

You are out of time.

Bond County.

We were looking for the Supremes, Diana Ross and the Supremes.

And that leads us to the end of today's episode.

Our winner today is Belleville East.

A huge round of applause for the team of Belleville East, but also for the team of Bond County for making it all the way to our quarterfinals.

Once again, I am your host, Olivia Manning, reminding you that here at Scholastic Hi-q Knowledge Rules.

Let the music play.

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