[MUSIC] >> Hi.

I could be your lion, your witch or your wardrobe.

I'm your host, Olivia Manning, and welcome to our ultimate what's the word?

Penultimate episode of Scholastic High Q, the show where knowledge rules.

We have two fantastic teams with us here today.

Up at the top, we've got Grant, Dean, Peter and Ganyn representing Metro East.

And on the bottom we've got Clara, Max, Chase and Brayton representing Mascoutah.

Now you all know the rules.

You've been around the rodeo a few times, but just to make sure we're all on the same page, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions which I will ask to the room.

Anyone can buzz in and get their team ten points.

A team that gets a toss up question correct moves on to a bonus round, which they and they alone can answer for 20 points.

Or if they get it wrong, the other team can swoop in and steal for ten bonus points.

There will be no media questions for this semifinal episode, but there will be math questions and lightning rounds, so keep your eyes peeled for those.

The dreaded interruption rule.

You've heard it many times, but I'll sing it once again.

If at any point while I am reading out a question, you interrupt me to give an answer.

If your answer is correct, you get your points and we move on with our day.

If your answer is wrong, you lose the opportunity to answer that question, and the other team scores some nice little bonus points.

With all of that being said, are we ready to hike you?

Yes.

All right.

Our first toss up question, what force described by the Einstein field equations of general relativity gives an acceleration of gravity.

Gravity is correct.

Nice little warm up for you.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

Jenny Lake is a popular tourist attraction in what.

National park in northwestern Wyoming, which is named for a mountain.

Grand Teton Grand Teton National Park is correct.

In what 1929 event, which took place in a garage in Lincoln Park where members of Bugs Moran's gang.

Brighton.

>> The Saint Valentine's Day massacre.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah.

During World War Two, what occupied countries Nazi collaborationist government was headed by Vidkun Quisling?

>> Hungary.

>> Hungary is incorrect.

Metro East your chance to steal.

>> Norway.

>> Norway is correct.

What?

Black actress who played the title abolitionist in the 2019 film Harriet sang Defying Gravity as Ganyn.

Cynthia Erivo Cynthia Erivo is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What stage of mitosis has a B phase in which the spindle poles move apart after.

It's a phase in which the spindle pulls chromosome pairs apart.

>> Anaphase.

>> Anaphase is correct.

What quantity is the square root of a sphere's surface area over pi is the length of the longest chord of a sphere, and Peter.

>> Radius O.

>> Radius is incorrect.

Mascoutah.

I will repeat the question what quantity is the square root of a sphere's surface area over pi?

Is the length of the longest chord of a sphere and is twice a sphere's radius.

>> Max diameter.

>> Diameter is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah.

What poem which imagines the slow growth of a vegetable love and the approach of time's winged chariot, was written in the 1600s by Andrew Andrew Marvell.

>> I don't think so.

>> To my colleague.

Mistress?

>> That is correct.

Our next toss up.

Musical instruments from what country include the Tanpura, the Veena, and the 18 to 21 stringed sitar, which was Peter.

>> India?

>> India is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What man became the only U.S.

president ever sworn in by a woman?

When local district Judge Sarah T Hughes swore him in aboard Air Force 1 in 1963.

>> LBJ.

>> LBJ is correct.

What war sparked by the murder of John Sassamon pitted New England colonists against the Wampanoag and other native people, led by a namesake, chief Powhatan war.

That is incorrect.

Metro East, your chance to buzz in.

>> Sorry.

King Philip's war.

>> King Philip's war is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

What?

Buffalo based bands.

1998 song Iris begins and I'd give up Forever to touch you and features an extended, wordless bridge.

>> Goo Goo Dolls.

>> Goo Goo Dolls is correct.

What objects whose study is called Nephology can be formed from silver iodide, condensation nuclei or seeds and have nimbus and cirrus forms.

Dean.

>> Clouds.

>> Clouds is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east.

In computer science, what adjective describes a machine that emulates programs like a real machine but is hosted by another system?

>> Cloud.

>> That is incorrect.

Mascoutah your chance to steal.

>> Artificial.

>> That is incorrect.

We were looking for virtual a virtual machine.

Our next toss up.

What poem?

Whose narrator meets Francesca da Rimini and others.

>> Dean.

Divine comedy.

>> What is the title of the poem?

>> Inferno.

>> Inferno is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

The 14 tens Council of Constance resolved what conflict within Catholicism, which originated from claims that that Pope Urban VI was improperly elected.

>> Investiture?

Yeah.

>> Investiture.

Controversy.

>> That is incorrect.

Mascoutah your chance to steal.

>> The Great Schism.

>> The Great Schism is correct.

What president for whom Mark Hanna ran a front porch campaign, won two races against William Jennings Bryan before his assassination in Max.

>> William McKinley.

>> William McKinley is correct.

Your bonus question.

Mascoutah in 2025, what man switched to the fight and deliver ballot line after losing a Democratic nomination to become mayor of New York to Zoran Mamdani Cuomo.

Cuomo is correct.

What family of scientists names the element with atomic number 96, as well as the unit of radioactivity, and includes Nobel Prize winners.

Pierre.

>> Kyrie.

>> Kyrie is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east.

What Canadian author wrote about an imaginative red headed orphan who is mistakenly sent to the Cuthbert farm in her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables?

>> Montgomery.

>> Montgomery is correct.

Excessive bail are the first two words of what amendment to the U.S.

Constitution.

>> Eighth.

>> Eighth is correct.

Your bonus question.

The powerful magnets in electric car motors contain what.

Lanthanide metal with atomic symbol n d neodymium.

Neodymium is correct.

What country were 2025?

Power outages sparked protests that drove Christian and Ntsay from office in.

Erivo is an island off Africa's east coast Chase.

>> Madagascar.

>> Madagascar is correct.

Your bonus question.

Mascoutah what 1930 tariff sponsored by two Republican politicians, raised U.S.

import duties and sparked trade retaliation that worsened the Great Depression.

>> The Smoot-Hawley tariff.

>> That is correct.

What King, who fathered Deiphobus and 49 other sons, including Hector and Paris, was married to Peter.

>> Priam.

>> Priam is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east the Oubliette, an isolated dungeon with only a single opening, takes its name from the French verb.

Meaning to do what?

>> Escape.

>> Escape.

>> That is incorrect.

Mascoutah your chance to steal to sleep.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for two.

Forget the French verb for.

Forget our next toss up.

What type of star whose branch is left in a helium flash will the sun become in 5 billion years by developing.

>> Peter White dwarf.

White dwarf.

>> That is incorrect.

Mascoutah.

I will repeat the question.

What type of star whose branch is left in a helium flash will the sun become in 5 billion years by developing a huge radius and a namesake color chase?

>> Red giant.

>> Red giant is correct.

Your bonus question.

Mascoutah.

The sick Rose is one of the somber poems from a 1794 collection by William Blake that was titled Songs of Innocence and of what contrasting concept despair.

That is incorrect.

Metro East your chance to steal experience.

Experience is correct.

What ruler who was succeeded by his vizier.

I may have had a clubfoot was buried at a site known as KV62, and was a boy pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

>> Peter Tutankhamun.

Sorry, Tutankhamun.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What?

Mathematician's little theorem states that for any integer A and any prime number p a to the P is congruent to a modulo p.

>> From a.

>> From a is correct.

What title character is duped by two men who claim to produce cloth that cannot be seen by fools?

>> Peter the Emperor?

>> The Emperor is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east what colorfully named River, the longest in South Africa, forms the country's northern border with Namibia.

>> Orange.

>> Orange is correct.

What NFL team, which is coached by the youngest Super Bowl winning head coach Sean McVay.

>> Brighten the Los Angeles Rams?

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah in what short story by John Updike does Sammy quit his job at the title grocery store after an encounter with three girls in bathing suits?

>> Vons.

>> That is incorrect.

Metro East your chance to steal.

>> The A and p.

>> A and P is correct.

What explorer who on La Noche Triste was expelled from Tenochtitlan, led the expedition that caused Dean Cortez?

Cortez is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What was the home duchy of the 12th century noblewoman Eleanor, who married both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England.

Aquitaine Aquitaine Aquitaine is correct.

What tissue usually contains tracheids and vessel elements made up of dead cells and transport water and nutrients up from the roots.

>> Unlike xylem.

>> Xylem is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah what entity whose strength may be given in units of volts per meter or newtons per column points radially outward from a positive charge.

>> Electric field.

>> Electric field is correct.

What novel in which a woman named Rose of Sharon Breastfeeds a dying man.

>> Dean, Grapes of Wrath.

>> Grapes of Wrath is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What athlete who lit the Olympic cauldron in 2021 is a tennis player whose father is Haitian American and whose mother is from Japan.

Naomi Osaka Naomi Osaka is correct.

What country?

Whose city of Cox's Bazar is home to many Rohingya refugees, gained independence from Pakistan in 1971.

>> Bangladesh.

>> Bangladesh is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East what art term names a decorative geometric pattern of intricate, intertwining, plant like forms whose name alludes to its popularity in Islamic art?

>> Arabesque.

>> Arabesque is correct.

What liberal was Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979, and again from 1980 to 1984, but died long before his son became Peter Trudeau.

Uh, I need you to elaborate a little bit more.

>> Pierre.

>> Pierre Trudeau is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro-east.

Bonus question is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

That goes for you, too.

If three fair coins are flipped simultaneously, what is the probability that exactly one of the three coins shows heads?

>> No, no it's not.

No, it's like three and eight.

No.

>> 3/8.

>> 3/8 is correct.

What TV show whose 2023 season was subtitled delicate and featured Kim Kardashian as a witch, was co-created by Ryan Murphy as a spooky FX anthology.

>> Chase American Horror Story.

>> American Horror Story is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah.

The 2025 BBC documentary The Dark Side of Paradise sparked backlash.

In what country?

Where?

Strict, where strict?

Sorry.

Lèse-majesté laws restrict criticism of King Rama the 10th.

>> Thailand.

>> Thailand is correct and that moves us into our lightning round.

For the lightning round, I have in my hand four topics.

Those four topics go down into ten questions which a team may have to answer in a mere 60s Mascoutah you get first choice as to your topic.

Your options are as follows military machines, NBA duos, penguins, and psychology experiments.

>> What do I want to do?

I. Can't do any military.

>> Military machines.

>> Military machines.

What country used these vehicles?

Mascoutah.

Your 60s begins in three, two, one.

HMS victory once commanded by Horatio Nelson.

>> The UK.

>> Correct.

Panzer four tanks and a Messerschmitt 109 fighters.

>> Germany.

>> Correct.

The Vasa now on display in Stockholm.

>> Sweden.

>> Correct.

The Vittorio Veneto ordered by Benito Mussolini's government.

>> Italy.

>> Correct.

CVV two and T-34 tanks that helped stop Operation Barbarossa.

>> Russia or the USSR.

>> USSR is correct.

Kate dive bombers and a6 M0 fighters.

Japan correct.

The frigates Chesapeake and constellation.

>> The United States.

>> Correct.

S 35 and char b1 tanks.

France correct.

Toyota trucks in a 1987 war against Libya.

[MUSIC] Chad correct converted German ships.

Yavuz and Idilli in 1914.

[MUSIC] >> Belgium.

>> That is incorrect.

We are out of.

Questions for you.

Mascoutah.

The Ottoman Empire used those converted German ships.

Metro-east your categories to choose from once again are NBA duos, penguins and psychology experiments.

>> We'll do psychology experiments.

>> All right.

Answer the following about psychology.

Psychological experiments.

Metro East.

Your 60s begins in three, two, one.

California school that hosted a prison at Stanford.

Sorry.

>> Stanford.

>> Correct.

Canine animals.

Ivan Pavlov, conditioned to salivate.

Correct.

Civil rights leader whose assassination inspired the blue eyes.

Brown eyes experiment.

>> MLK.

>> Correct.

He studied obedience at Yale in 1961.

>> Skinner.

>> Incorrect.

Fluffy dessert offered to patient children by Walter Mischel marshmallow.

Correct.

Developer of a conditioning box for rats.

>> Skinner.

>> Skinner.

Correct concept.

Solomon Asch studied in a peer pressure experiment.

>> Conformity.

>> Correct.

Toy beat up by children and Albert Bandura study.

>> Bobo doll.

>> Correct.

Baby who was made to fear a white rat by John.

>> Sorry little.

>> Albert.

Correct ability tested in babies in the visual cliff experiment.

>> No, it's the other one.

>> Uh, that's your last one.

Ability tested in babies in the visual cliff experiment.

>> It goes away.

Object.

>> Object permanence.

>> That is incorrect.

Uh, Stanley Milgram studied obedience at Yale in 1961, and that ability for the visual cliff experiment was depth perception, depth perception.

A wonderful lightning round all around.

But they can't last forever.

Only about two minutes.

So back to the toss ups we go.

What Bible character is shown in the first free standing nude male sculpture since antiquity?

Dean David David is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east the murid war saw the conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan, two regions.

In what mountain range were Georgia and Armenia are located.

>> Caucasus.

>> Caucasus is correct.

What title type of bird is asked to teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know, and is called a blithe Spirit in a poem by Percy Shelley.

>> Skylark.

>> Skylark is correct.

Your bonus question Metro East what class of peptides produced in the brain act as endogenous opioids and are responsible for so-called natural highs?

>> Dopamine.

>> Dopamine.

>> That is incorrect.

Mascoutah your chance to steal oxytocin.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for endorphins and endorphins.

This next toss up is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready all around.

What is the area in square inches of a rectangular computer monitor with a height of 20in and a width of 37in.

Brayton.

740 740 is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah in Mahayana Buddhism, what is the term for a being who vows to attain Buddhahood but postpones it to help others reach enlightenment?

We're going to give it to you.

We're going to give it to you.

Bodhisattva is correct.

Our next toss up question what country's Guardian Council, which contains six theologians, can veto bills passed by the Majlis and is partly appointed by Ayatollah Khan.

>> Iran.

>> Iran is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah, the shepherd of Santiago, searches for his personal legend in what 1988 novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho.

>> No answer.

>> Metro East.

Your chance to steal the Alchemist.

The Alchemist is correct.

What second largest estuary in the US is southeast of Canada's Vancouver Island, and is a sound whose shores are home.

>> Peter Puget.

>> Puget sound is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

In September 2025, Brendan Carr, the head of what federal agency issued a threat to ABC and Disney about Jimmy Kimmel Live!

>> FCC.

>> FCC is correct.

What city hosted an 1848 Unification Parliament was the site of all post 1355 elections of Holy Roman emperors and is in southwestern Germany.

Brighton.

>> Munich.

>> Munich is incorrect.

Metro East.

Dean.

>> Frankfurt.

>> Frankfurt is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro.

East in South Carolina.

Eliza Lucas Pinckney pioneered the growing of what cash crop which was used to make blue dye.

>> Indigo.

>> Indigo is correct.

What process?

Which names cells, such as Bénard cells made of circulating fluid is a mode of heat transfer contrasted with radiation and conduction chase convection.

Convection is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah is a math question, so pencil and paper ready.

That goes for you too.

What is the perimeter of a right triangle whose two legs have lengths of 12 and 16 respectively?

4848 is correct.

What author depicted her family's struggle with malaria while living in a Kansas cabin?

>> Dean Laura Ingalls Wilder.

>> Ingalls Wilder is correct.

Your bonus question Metro East what Egyptian god of chaos and violence murdered his brother Osiris and thus became the arch enemy of Osiris.

Son Horus.

>> Set.

>> Set is correct.

What institution whose executives include a woman Donald Trump accused of fraud.

Alisa Cook is led by seven governors and sets monetary policy.

>> The Federal Reserve.

>> Federal Reserve is correct.

Your bonus question Mascoutah what artist whose America Windows features a menorah depicted a green man staring at a ghost, a goat, sorry.

Near Vitebsk, Belarus, in Ay and the village.

>> Chagall.

>> Chagall is correct.

Next toss up is yet another math question.

So pencil and paper ready all around.

What is the 42nd odd positive integer?

Given the first odd positive integer is one and the second is three.

Dean.

8383 is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East.

What element was given?

A name by Antoine Lavoisier that meant acid former because he thought it was present in all acids.

>> Sulfur.

Hydrogen.

Hydrogen.

Nitrogen.

Sulfur.

>> Sulfur.

>> Sulfur is incorrect.

Mascoutah.

>> Arsenic.

>> Arsenic is incorrect.

We were looking for.

Believe it or not, oxygen.

Oxygen.

Our next toss up.

What country?

Whose full name describes it as an Oriental republic, lies north of the Rio de la Plata and has its capital in Montevideo.

>> Uruguay.

>> Uruguay is correct.

Your bonus question, Mascoutah what?

Author of the story A Worn Path, wrote about Laurel Han's return to New Orleans in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Optimist's Daughter.

>> No answer.

>> Metro East.

Your chance to steal.

>> No answer.

>> All right.

We were looking for Welty.

Eudora Welty.

Our next toss up.

What object?

Which was made from gopher wood and was 300.

>> Peter the Ark.

>> Um, we're gonna need a little bit more specificity.

>> Noah's ark.

>> Noah's ark is correct.

Your bonus question.

Metro East Boat and Life Goes On are tracks on what 2023 Ed Sheeran album which followed Equals.

>> Divide.

>> Or something?

I don't know.

>> Probably.

>> Divide.

>> Divide, divide is incorrect.

Mascoutah your chance to steal.

>> Add.

>> Add is incorrect.

We were looking for subtract.

We almost got there.

Almost got there guys.

Our next toss up question.

What people who Mao Zedong stated.

Hold up half the sky.

>> Women women.

>> Women is correct.

Your bonus question.

Mascoutah what 21st century event was memorialized by composer John Adams in his Pulitzer Prize winning work on the Transmigration of Souls?

>> 0911.

That's the best.

>> September 11th attacks.

>> 911 is correct.

Our next toss up question.

What field?

Whose virtue type was revived by GEM Dean.

>> Ethics.

>> Ethics is correct.

Your bonus question Metro-east.

What city at the mouth of the Rhine River is the second most populous city in the Netherlands.

>> Is it or is it?

Is it Rotterdam?

>> Rotterdam?

>> Rotterdam is correct.

What?

Just kidding.

That ding dong means that we are done with our penultimate episode of Scholastic IQ.

Our winner today is Metro East.

Huge congratulations to the team of Metro East, but also the team of Mascoutah for getting so far in our wonderful season of Scholastic Hi-q.

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

I'll see you at the finals.

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