[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi.

I'm the unrelenting agony of an Unskippable YouTube ad, your host, Olivia Manning.

Welcome to today's episode of Scholastic Hi-q, the only show where knowledge rules.

We are back into our quarterfinals with two incredible returning teams on the top.

We've got Carterville with Maddox, Hayden, Mason and Hannah, and on the bottom, Metro-east Lutheran with Ganyn, Grant, Dean and Peter.

For those of you who don't know the rules, somehow at this point in the season, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.

I will ask these to the room.

Either team can buzz in to win ten points.

We then move on to a bonus round, which that first team can answer for 20 bonus points, or if they get it wrong, 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 those when we get to them.

For now, the only thing you all need to know, my beautiful contestants, is the interruption rule.

You are free at any point.

If you think you know the answer to interrupt me while I'm asking a question.

But be warned 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 you're right.

With all of that out of the way.

Are we ready to hike you?

>> Yeah, sure.

All righty.

>> Our first toss up question.

What state which in 2025 announced it would be the first to offer universal free pre-K childcare, is led by Michelle Lujan Grisham from Santa Fe.

>> New Mexico.

>> New Mexico is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east Lutheran Sima Qian wrote the records of the great historian.

The grand historian.

Apologies while serving what Chinese dynasties.

Emperor Wudi, who reigned from 141 to 87 BC.

>> Zhu.

>> That is incorrect.

Carterville, your chance to steal the Han.

Han is correct.

Our next toss up.

What?

Mammals include data about the color of predators in their altruistic warnings to kin live in namesake towns.

And are rodents not canines?

>> Dean Prairie dogs.

>> Prairie dogs is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east.

What Romanian born playwright depicted the Martins strange visit to the Smiths in his absurdist French language drama, the bald soprano Ionesco?

Ionesco is correct.

What novel features physician Roger Chillingworth, who is revealed to be the lost Dean?

>> The Scarlet Letter Scarlet.

>> Letter is.

>> Correct.

>> Your bonus question Metro-east what influential German art school sought to unite art, architecture and design training under the direction of founder Walter Gropius?

>> The Bauhaus.

>> Bauhaus is correct.

What West African country whose de facto national language is Krio, has its capital at Freetown and takes its name Dean Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East in 1963, what nightclub owner entered Dallas police headquarters and shot Lee Harvey Oswald, who days earlier had killed John F Kennedy?

>> Ruby.

>> Ruby is correct.

What country's independence was the subject of the blood?

Telegram was opposed by Operation Searchlight and caused Pakistan to lose its eastern lands.

>> Maddox, Bangladesh.

>> Bangladesh is correct.

Your bonus question.

Carterville.

What figure from West African folklore is married to Aso, who helps him in his quest to win all the stories in the world from the God Nyame.

>> Jacob.

>> That is incorrect.

Metro East your chance to steal Anansi.

Anansi is correct.

This is our first video.

Question of the game.

Please turn your attention towards the television.

This is one of the most famous early films directed by Georges Mélies.

It features a train arriving at a station.

At which station is the train arriving?

>> Hanna Union station.

>> That is incorrect.

Metro East.

Your chance to buzz in.

Metro East.

You are out of time.

We were looking for La Ciotat station.

The title of the film is the arrival of a train at La Sierra.

Our next toss up.

What mythological group whose ranks include Melpomeni and Terpsichore, represented fields like tragedy and dance with its nine.

>> Peter muses.

>> Muses is correct.

Your bonus question Metro East is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

And that goes for you too.

What time in the evening is exactly 150 minutes after 2:45 p.m.. Given there are 60 minutes in an hour.

>> Yeah.

>> 515 515 is correct.

What novel in which a black arrow is used by Bard the Bowman, to kill Grant.

>> The Hobbit.

>> The Hobbit is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

The Oxbow and the Titan's goblet are landscape paintings by what leading artist of the Hudson River school?

Cole Cole is correct.

What song?

Which, as of October 2025, is the most streamed song on Spotify, states, I can't sleep until I feel your touch and is.

Peter.

>> Blinding Lights.

>> Blinding lights is.

>> Correct.

>> Your bonus question.

Metro East.

In children's books.

Apologies by Astrid Lindgren.

A monkey called Mr.

Nilsson lives at the Villa Villekulla in Sweden.

>> With what extremely.

>> Strong red haired girl.

>> Pippi Longstocking.

>> Pippi Longstocking is correct.

What president ran with cactus Jack, John Nance Garner as his running mate, and later had Henry Wallace and Harry Truman serve as his vice presidents.

>> Maddox, FDR.

>> FDR is correct.

Your bonus question, Carterville.

What award consists of a black base with a medal mounted in a C shaped pewter holder is named for Antoinette Perry and honors Broadway Theatre.

>> Oh no no.

>> No no no no no no no no.

>> The Tonys.

>> Tonys is correct.

>> I couldn't remember.

>> What Italian biologist whose namesake method stains neurons with silver nitrate, discovered a complex ore body that packages proteins in vesicles.

>> Dean Golgi.

>> Golgi is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east.

What optical phenomenon which occurs twice in a Fresnal Rhomb, occurs when the angle of incidence exceeds the critical angle.

>> Oh.

Internal refraction.

>> That is incorrect.

Carterville.

Your chance to steal external.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for total internal reflection.

Unfortunately.

Total internal reflection.

This is our first media question of the game.

Please turn your attention towards the television.

This character is from the well known anime Ganon.

>> Goku.

>> Goku is correct.

That is ten points for a correctly answered media question, but there are no bonus media questions.

It's just whatever shows up on the television.

Back to our toss ups.

What island was devastated by the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake is south of the island of Hokkaido and is the most populous Dean.

>> Honshu.

>> Honshu is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east what places?

Taupo system of female chastity is discussed in a Margaret Mead book about coming of age on its island of Tau.

>> Samoa.

>> Samoa is correct.

>> Nice.

>> What?

Document issued by French King Henry the fourth in 15.

Dean.

>> Uh, edict of Nantes.

>> Edict of Nantes is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

What story collection in which Jimmy Doyle eats with sophisticated foreigners in after the race is by James Joyce and named for residents of a city.

Dubliners Dubliners is correct.

What thermo thermodynamic quantity, which is a state function according to Hess's law, has a negative change for exothermic reactions and is abbreviated H. Hayden enthalpy enthalpy is correct.

Your bonus question Carterville.

In 2025, issues with Microsoft Azure revealed that an undersea internet cable had been severed in what sea which empties into the Gulf of Aden.

Red sea is correct.

What country, which is covered by a great plane called the Alföld, is the native home of the Magyar people and has its capital at Budapest.

>> Hungary.

>> Hungary is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East next token prediction is used to guess the next word in a sequence by what machine learning models that power the Gemini and ChatGPT chatbots.

>> Language LMS.

>> LMS is correct.

What war during which the Battle of Blenheim took place ended with the Treaty of Utrecht recognising the new Dean.

>> A war of the Spanish Succession.

>> War of the Spanish Succession is correct.

Your bonus question in what decade did the collapse of J. Cook's investment bank spark a major American depression that eroded support for reconstruction?

>> 60s, 1860s, 1870s.

>> 1870s is correct.

>> Good job.

>> Our next video.

Question of the game.

Please turn your attention back towards the television.

The children's show LazyTown featured many songs, but this one.

Hayden.

[MUSIC] >> Uh, we are number one.

>> We are number one is correct.

Once again, ten points for correctly answered video question but no bonus video questions.

So back to toss ups.

We go.

What system of structures whose A and B members are split by?

The Cassini division was first seen by Galileo around the sixth planet from the sun.

>> Peter Moons.

>> That is incorrect.

Carterville your chance to buzz in Mason Saturn.

A little bit more specific, please.

>> I don't.

>> Know.

I have a Saturn series.

I don't know.

>> We were looking for the rings of Saturn.

The rings of Saturn specifically.

No bonus question.

They're on to the next toss up.

What novel, whose protagonist education is funded by Philomena Guinea, depicts Esther Green and Esther Greenwood's struggle.

>> Dean The Bell Jar.

>> The Bell Jar is correct.

Thank you for saving me from my own pronunciation.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

White Plains, Utica and Yonkers are cities in what US state.

>> Alaska, isn't it?

>> Uh, I don't.

>> Know.

>> New York.

>> New York is correct.

In what opera.

Whose overture includes a march of the Swiss soldiers.

>> Dean.

William tell.

>> William Tell is.

>> Correct.

>> Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

What does the C stand for in the style sheet language?

CSS, which is used to specify the appearance of web pages.

>> Comparing.

Compare.

>> No answer.

>> Carterville.

Your chance to steal.

>> Computer.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for cascading.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

Our next toss up.

What event which was suppressed by light horse.

Harry Lee saw residents of Western Pennsylvania revolt in 1794.

>> Dean, the Whiskey Rebellion.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east what surname is shared by Fannie, who composed an Easter sonata, and her brother who wrote songs without words and the Italian symphony Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn is correct.

What country which was led during World War One by Prime Minister Robert Borden, is the world's second largest and includes such provinces as Quebec.

>> Canada.

>> Canada is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

The Hermitage Museum is in what.

Palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of Russian Tsars until 1917.

>> The Winter Palace, right.

>> Sure.

Winter Palace.

>> Winter Palace is correct.

This is our next audio question.

Please turn your ears towards the speakers.

A 2008 racing title developed and published by Nintendo that became a staple title.

>> Mario Kart Wii.

>> Mario Kart Wii is correct.

Once again, no bonus audio questions.

So back to the toss ups we go.

What university names a delayed gratification study conducted by by Walter Mischel and was the site of Philip Philip Phillip Zimbardo simulated Dean.

>> Stanford.

>> Stanford is correct.

Your bonus question Metro East.

What desert is the driest non-polar desert in the world and is in northern Chile?

>> No.

Atacama.

>> Atacama is correct.

>> I don't know, that's a terrible guess.

>> What allotrope of carbon can be made by growing it on silicon carbide crystals, or by using Scotch tape to pull off a single layer of graphite.

Dean Graphene Graphene is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east.

A translation by Edward Fitzgerald popularized what collection of poems by Omar Khayyam, whose name is Persian for a type of quatrain.

>> The Rubaiyat.

Sorry, the Rubaiyat.

>> Rubaiyat is correct.

That brings us into our lightning round.

The lightning round works a little different, which you all should know by now.

I now have in my hand four topics that break down into ten questions that one of you may have to answer in a mere 60s.

Carterville.

You get full pick for your topic.

They are as follows food science, outdoor sculptures, a cities and complete the trio.

>> Daisy.

>> We'll take a cities.

>> All right.

Just as a reminder, you can pass if you don't know an answer.

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

Identify these world cities whose English names start with the letter A. Carterville.

Your 60s begins in 321.

Capital of the Netherlands.

>> Amsterdam.

>> Correct.

Home to the headquarters of the Coca-Cola company.

>> Atlanta.

>> Correct.

Capital of Turkey.

>> Ankara.

>> Correct.

Home of the Taj Mahal pass.

Second most populous Egyptian city.

>> Alexandria.

>> Correct.

Home of the US Naval Academy.

>> Austin.

>> Incorrect.

capital of Nigeria.

[MUSIC] >> Syrian city besieged for over four years.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Belgian port and most populous city in Flanders.

Antwerp correct capital of South Australia.

>> Adelaide.

>> Correct.

Home of the Taj Mahal.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Capital of Nigeria.

>> Abuja.

>> Correct.

Syrian city besieged for over four years.

[MUSIC] >> As one.

Sorry.

>> As one that is incorrect.

Home of the Taj Mahal.

You're out of time.

Carterville Agra is the home of the Taj Mahal.

Annapolis, Maryland is home of the US Naval Academy and Aleppo.

Was that Syrian city besieged for over four years?

Metro-east Lutheran.

Once again, your topics are as follows.

Food science, outdoor sculptures and complete the trio.

>> We'll do outdoor sculptures.

>> All right.

Answer the following about outdoor sculptures.

Metro-east.

Your 60s begins in 321 South Dakota monument with colossal presidential sculptures.

Correct.

Brazilian home city of Christ the Redeemer.

>> Rio de Janeiro.

>> Correct.

Animal depicted in two statues outside the New York Public Library.

>> Lion.

>> Correct.

Charging animal in a bronze Wall Street statue.

>> Bull.

>> Correct.

Constantine Brancusis home country where he built infinity column.

Correct.

Popular nickname for Chicago's Cloud Gate.

>> The bean.

>> Correct.

Sculptor of La Grande Vitesse who also pioneered mobiles.

>> Calder.

>> Fruit balanced on a spoon bridge in Minneapolis.

Pass animal depicted in Louise Bourgeois.

Maman.

>> Spider.

>> Correct.

Sculptor of the Minuteman and the Lincoln Memorial.

Pass title.

Fruit balanced on a spoon bridge in Minneapolis.

[MUSIC] >> Apple.

>> Incorrect.

Sculptor of the Minuteman and the Lincoln Memorial.

>> No idea.

>> Remington.

>> Incorrect or out of questions.

Metro East Lutheran.

That's title fruit balanced on a spoonbridge in Minneapolis is a cherry spoonbridge and cherry and French.

Daniel Chester French was the sculpture of the Minuteman and the Lincoln Memorial, a wonderful lighting round all around, but unfortunately they can only last a give or take 100 and 20s.

So back to our toss ups.

We go.

What?

Founder of the De Beers mining company promoted a railroad from Cape Town to Cairo and named both pre 18 pre 1980 apologies.

Zimbabwe and a scholarship to Oxford.

Cecil Rhodes Cecil Rhodes is correct.

Your bonus question Metro East what American general who moved cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to support George Washington's siege of Boston, later became the first Secretary of war?

>> Knox.

>> Knox is correct.

What other stories?

The five orange pips and the Red-Headed League.

>> Dean Doyle.

>> Doyle is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What chronic skin condition often linked to allergies causes itchy, inflamed patches and is often contrasted with psoriasis.

>> Eczema?

>> Eczema is correct.

What mineral is the main component of plaster of Paris?

Of plaster of Paris?

Apologies.

And drywall consists of calcium sulfate dihydrate and defines a two on the Mohs hardness scale.

Peter.

>> Gypsum.

>> Gypsum is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East in September 2025.

What former FBI director was indicted for making a false statement after Donald Trump demanded that he be prosecuted?

>> Is it Comey Giuliani?

>> Comey Comey Comey is correct.

In what Arab country where Iran attacked a US military base in June 2025, did Israel attempt to kill Maddox?

>> Qatar.

>> Qatar is correct.

Your bonus question, Carterville.

What German philosopher described Dasein the state of human beings always being enmeshed with the world in his landmark 1927 book Being and Time.

>> Kant.

>> Sorry.

>> Kant.

>> That is incorrect.

Metro-east.

Lutheran.

Your chance to steal Heidegger.

Heidegger is correct.

What artist was inspired by the suicide of car of Carlos Casagemas to paint La vie and the old guitarist.

Two works from Grand Picasso.

Picasso is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

Helmuth weildling surrendered near the end of what World War Two battle during which Adolf Hitler killed himself as the Red Army captured his capital.

>> Berlin.

>> Correct.

In 2005, Baltimore's airport was named after what attorney who argued Brown v Board of Education and was the first black Supreme Court justice Peter Marshall.

Marshall is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east in VSEPR theory.

What?

Molecular geometry is possessed by triatomic molecules that are not linear?

>> Bent.

>> Bent is correct.

In what state did a genocide of native people follow a discovery at Sutter's Mill that lured Peter?

>> HMM.

California.

>> California is.

>> Your bonus question.

What island?

A popular duty free shopping destination, often known as China's Hawaii, forms China's southernmost province.

>> Oh, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Are you sure?

>> Chance to steal.

>> Hainan.

>> Hainan is correct.

>> For knowledge.

>> This next toss up is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready all around.

What is the degree of the polynomial formed by multiplying the quantity three x squared plus two x times the quantity x cubed plus six six.

That is incorrect.

Carterville your chance to buzz in.

>> Mason fifth.

>> Fifth is correct.

Your bonus question.

Carterville.

What author of the 1962 novel Another Country wrote about David, who has a relationship with the title Italian Man in his novel Giovanni's Room.

>> Oh, wow, is it James Christian Smith?

>> That is incorrect.

Metro-east your chance to buzz in or your chance to steal.

Apologies.

>> Baldwin.

>> Baldwin is correct.

What politician charged in 2024 with receiving illegal travel benefits from Turkey ended his 2025 re-election campaign for mayor of New York City?

Maddox.

>> Eric Adams.

>> Eric Adams is correct.

Your bonus question.

Carterville.

What dimensionless quantity equals circumference divided by pitch for a screw or equivalently, the screws output force divided by the input force?

>> No.

Do we have any idea?

D'oh!

>> That is incorrect.

Metro-east your chance to steal.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for mechanical advantage.

Mechanical advantage.

Our next toss up.

What country?

Whose?

Lucayan National Park is home to a large underwater cave system.

Includes the island of New Providence and is led from Nassau Dean.

>> Uh, Bahamas.

>> Bahamas is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East in August 2025.

What WNBA team became the subject of controversy?

Controversy.

Apologies.

After the Mohegan Tribe began exploring a sale.

>> And WNBA team.

WNBA team.

Mercury.

Mercury.

>> That is incorrect.

Carterville, your chance to steal.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

The Connecticut sun.

The Connecticut sun.

No.

WNBA heads in the crowd.

On to our next toss up.

Which is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready all around.

What?

Two digit, two digit number?

The only one that is both a perfect cube and a perfect square is the sixth power of two.

>> Dean 6464.

>> Is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

What author wrote about four men stranded in a dinghy after a shipwreck in his 1898 story The Open Boat?

>> Crane.

>> Crane is.

>> Correct.

Maggie.

>> What author detailed his experience taking mescaline in the doors of perception?

Dean Huxley Huxley is correct.

Soma your bonus question.

Metro East.

In September 2001, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge became the first head of what cabinet department created after the nine over 11 attacks.

>> I would assume so.

Homeland security.

>> Homeland security is correct.

What director.

Cast Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert in the conversation and adapted a Mario Puzo book into the film, The Godfather.

Peter.

>> Coppola.

>> Coppola is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East people with Jacobs syndrome have an extra copy of what smallest chromosome, which is not found in all humans.

Y y is correct.

Your next toss up.

What phenomena?

Whose solitary type includes Solitons have transverse types whose propagation is perpendicular Dean waves.

Waves is correct.

Your bonus question.

In 2025, two Chinese ships collided while chasing a boat.

From what country with which China disputes the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea?

>> Taiwan.

I don't know, they kind of don't like either, you know, Vietnam.

>> That is incorrect.

Carterville, your chance to steal the Philippines.

Philippines is correct.

>> Yes.

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

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 Carterville for being here all the way in the quarterfinals of Scholastic Hi-q.

Once again, I am your host, Olivia Manning, reminding you that here knowledge rules.

Let the music play.

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