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Season 3500 Episode 1 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Metro-East Lutheran v. Fairfield
First round match between Metro-East Lutheran and Fairfield High Schools
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First round match between Metro-East Lutheran and Fairfield High Schools
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Lack of brain rot for now, and a never ending four part series about who knows who and freight trains.
Hi, I'm your host for this evening, Parker Bradshaw.
And boy, do we have a fantastic game of Hi-Q lined up for you.
The only game where knowledge rules.
Now let's go ahead and meet our teams up top with Metro-east Lutheran.
We have Josh, Dean, Grant and Mike.
And down below we have Fairfield with Ellanie, Karoline, Jack and Gideon.
Now, for those who are new, though most of us probably know the rules.
It doesn't hurt.
For a little reminder, in my hand is a series of toss ups which either team can buzz in for the chance at ten points.
If you answer correctly, you will also get a bonus question, which you can receive an additional 20 points for answering correctly.
If you get the bonus incorrect, the other team will have a chance to steal for ten points.
There will be a series of other things that come along lightning rounds, math questions, yada yada, but we'll get there when we get there.
The only other rule you need to know is the interruption rule.
If you choose to buzz in before I'm done speaking, you better have the right answer.
If you don't, unfortunately, the other team will get a five point bonus immediately and the chance to steal.
Is that understood?
All right, y'all, are we ready to Scholastic Hi-Q?
Here we go.
Toss up number one.
What agreement which would cause a giant sucking sound of job losses, according to Ross Perot was a 1994 trade deal by Mexico dean NAFTA.
That is correct.
Your bonus in the original monopoly.
What property for spaces past a railroad space cost $400 to buy.
Boardwalk.
Boardwalk is correct.
Toss up number two.
What hormone has its levels elevated in graves?
Disease helps regulate body temperature and weight and is produced by a namesake gland in the neck.
Jack.
Thyroid.
That is correct.
Your bonus.
Fairfield.
What?
Phylum of multicellular animals.
My bad.
Whose adults display radial symmetry contains sea urchins and starfish.
Mollusks.
That's incorrect.
Metro.
>> East echidna Dermato.
>> I can accept that.
That is correct.
Toss up number three.
What country?
Whose former emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died in 2026, is home to the news channel Al Jazeera and hosted the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
What was that again?
>> Qatar?
>> Yes, that is correct.
Your bonus.
What ten letter word refers to the 27 complaints against Britain outlined by the Continental Congress in the Declaration of Independence.
>> Grievances?
>> That is correct.
Toss up number four.
What novella in which a man named slim gives a puppy to a mentally disabled grant of mice and men?
That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro East.
What?
Captain who smokes seaweed cigars commands the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
>> Nemo.
>> That is correct.
Toss up number five.
What quantity, which equals Planck's constant over the de Broglie wavelength is denoted lowercase p and equals the product of mass and velocity.
>> Dean.
Momentum.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro.
East.
In Java.
What punctuation mark indicates the end of a statement.
I don't know.
>> Question mark.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> Semicolon.
>> That is correct.
Our next question is a media question.
So please refer to the television behind me.
This American singer dancer Grant Michael Jackson.
That is correct.
Since it is a media question, we do not have any bonuses.
So we'll just continue to the next toss up.
What country?
Which names a disease that decimated bananas in the 1950s, was invaded in Operation just Cause to arrest Manuel Noriega near a canal in Panama?
That is correct.
Your bonus.
What?
1990s Cartoon Network title characters were created when chemical X was accidentally mixed with sugar, spice and everything.
>> Nice Powerpuff girls.
>> Powerpuff girls is correct.
Toss up number seven.
What novelist depicted a vivisector who creates beast folk in the island of Doctor Moreau?
>> Dean Wells.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
What river known as the Solimoes is in upper regions.
Meets the Rio Negro at the city of Manaus.
>> Amazon.
>> That is correct.
Toss up number eight.
What composer of the opera Treemonisha and the works.
>> Dean Scott Joplin.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus the Super-Kamiokande Observatory was used to study the oscillation of what class of uncharged leptons, which come in three flavors.
>> Neutrinos.
Neutrinos.
>> That is correct.
Toss up number nine.
What?
Poker hand, also known as a tight or a boat, shares its name with a sitcom about the Tanner family.
Gideon.
>> Full house.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Fairfield.
What Corporation?
Which dissolved in March 2026 after Congress cut off its funding, was the largest funding source for NPR and PBS stations.
>> Snap!
>> That is incorrect.
Metro East.
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Okay, toss up number ten.
Atoms with small differences in electronegativity form what bonds using pairs of electrons that are shared and not transferred.
>> Dean covalent.
>> That is correct.
Your bone is metro-east.
What?
King was overthrown, convicted of treason, and beheaded during the English civil wars.
>> Civil wars, John Church, Charles II, Charles the Second.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> George.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Charles, the first of England.
Our next question is also a media question.
Please look at the screen.
These two droids from the series, Star Wars, have been fan favorites since their introduction.
>> Gideon, C-3po, and R2-d2.
>> That is correct.
Again, it is a media question, so there is no bonus.
So we will move on to the next toss up.
Toss up 11.
What man rests his hands on the high arms of a chair in a large grant?
Abraham Lincoln, that is correct.
Your bonus.
The youngest player to hit a World Series home run.
Andrew Jones did so as a member of what NL team that once played at Fulton County Stadium.
>> Nationals.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> Red Sox.
>> That is also incorrect.
We could have accepted Atlanta or Braves either one.
>> Okay.
>> Toss up number 12.
What novel?
Which depicts a trip to meet reclusive author Peter Van Houten in Amsterdam, was written by John Green about cancer patient Hazel.
>> Dodge.
Fault in our stars.
That is correct.
>> Your bonus.
Metro East.
Professor Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes both appear to die at Reichenbach Falls in what.
1893 story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
>> Called The Last Mystery.
Yes.
The last mystery.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> Um.
The the.
I can't come up with anything.
>> That's okay.
The answer we were looking for is the final problem.
Toss up number 13.
What event?
In which Governor William Phips oversaw a court of oyer and Terminer resulted in the execution of 20 people in Massachusetts in 1692.
>> Salem witch trials.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the smallest positive, even integer that is both one more than a multiple of five and two more than a multiple of six.
>> 21.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> 19.
>> 32.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for is.
26.
>> Okay.
>> Toss up.
14.
What teacher of Theophrastus and founder of the Peripatetic School, discussed his first philosophy in the metaphysics and studied under Plato.
>> Aristotle?
>> Aristotle is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro.
East.
What.
Titan fed her husband, Cronus, a stone wrapped in the clothes of a baby to prevent him from swallowing her youngest son, Zeus.
>> Rhea.
>> That is correct.
Toss up number 15.
What phenomenon is linked to visible signs of disorder in broken windows theory?
>> Crime?
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro East.
What author described eyes.
I dare not meet in dreams.
In his 1925 poem The Hollow Men, which claims the world will end not with a bang but a whimper.
Eliot, that is correct.
The next question is also a media question.
It is an audio question.
[MUSIC] This California native entered the indie music scene at age 20 with a three song EP titled killer, released in the summer of 2020.
Her sophomore album Punisher was nominated.
Grant Phoebe Bridgers Phoebe Bridgers is correct.
Toss up number 16 what author whose novella Leaf Storm was the first appearance of the town Macondo.
>> Dean Garcia Marquez.
>> That is correct.
Oh, you get your bonus.
The 1939 battles of the Bzura and the Vistula took place.
In what nation?
That fell to Germany in just 18 days.
>> Poland?
>> That is.
>> Correct.
>> Toss up number 17.
What?
Landmass, whose Orcadas base is administered by Argentina, contains the McMurdo station and another Deane Antarctica.
That is correct.
Your bonus Metro East.
What peninsula is to the west of the states of Sinaloa and Sonora, and is home to the resort town of Cabo San Lucas.
>> It has to be eastern Yucatan.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield?
>> I don't think so.
>> Florida.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was the Baja California Peninsula, and it looks like we have a lightning round next.
Bom bom bom bom.
All right.
For those who don't know how a lightning round works, each team will take turns.
We'll start with the team who is behind, which is Fairfield.
In this scenario, you will get to pick from four categories and you'll get about ten rapid fire questions if you know the answer.
Go ahead and say it.
Ding ding ding.
If you don't know the answer, you can pass it and have the chance to come back to it if time allows.
If you get it wrong, you will not have a chance to come back to it.
Okay.
All right, Fairfield, here are your four categories to choose from.
Books of the Old Testament.
Third most populous cities, animals and pop music starts with X.
>> This one might be good.
Can we hear our options again?
Yes.
You may.
>> Books of the Old Testament.
Third most populous cities.
Animals in pop music and starts with X.
>> Animals.
>> Animals.
In pop music it is.
You're going to give the animals that complete these song lyrics.
Are you ready?
Three.
Two.
One.
The Beatles I am the blank.
Goo goo goo goo goo.
[MUSIC] >> Yes.
>> Elvis Presley, you ain't nothing but a hound.
>> Blank dog dog.
>> That is correct.
[MUSIC] Elvis, what does the blank say?
>> Fox.
>> That is correct.
[MUSIC] Elton John.
We were hopping and bopping to the blank rock crocodile.
That is correct.
Owl city, if 10 million blank lit up the world as I fell asleep.
>> Fireflies.
>> That is correct.
Beyonce.
Blank fly into the night of the dark black night.
[MUSIC] Yes.
[MUSIC] The Baha men who let the blank out dogs.
That is correct.
Duran Duran.
All running inside.
And I'm hungry like the blank wolves.
[MUSIC] Yeah, we'll take that.
And then, Prince, this is what it sounds like when blank cry doves.
Correct.
[MUSIC] Harry Chapin and the blanks in the.
That is time.
Going back a the Beatles I am the blank.
Goo goo goo goo was walrus.
The Beyonce blank.
Fly into the light of the dark black night that is Blackbird.
And then lastly, the Harry Chapin and the blanks in the cradle and the silver spoon was cat.
All righty.
Up to Metro East.
Your options left are books of the Old Testament, third most populous cities and starts with X.
>> We'll do books of the Old Testament books.
>> Of the Old Testament.
It is.
You're going to name these books of the Bible traditionally placed within the Old Testament.
Are you ready?
Three.
321 book that opens in the beginning.
>> Genesis.
>> That is correct book in which Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt.
Exodus book whose little prophet is swallowed by a whale.
>> Jonah.
>> That is correct.
Book that advises the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
>> Proverbs.
>> That is correct.
Book whose title woman saves the Jews from Ammon's plot?
>> Esther.
>> That is correct.
Book with 150 chapters.
>> Psalms.
>> That is correct.
Book whose title leaders include Gideon, Deborah and Samson.
>> Judges.
>> That is correct.
Book that contains two.
Two censuses of the Israelites.
>> Second, Samuel.
>> That is incorrect.
Book whose title prophet is cast into a den of lions.
>> Daniel.
>> That is correct.
And book that opens to everything there is a season.
[MUSIC] >> Ecclesiastes.
>> That is correct.
[MUSIC] >> Okay.
>> And that is all of them.
Good job.
The only one that was missed was going back to the book that contains two censuses of the Israelites.
Was The Book of Numbers or Bamidbar.
All right.
And that wraps up our lightning round.
Back to toss ups.
Toss up number 18.
In 2020, the FDA approved a video game as treatment for what condition?
Whose symptoms often include fidgeting, for which a common ADHD.
That is correct ADHD.
Your bonus.
Fairfield Krishna gives a summary of Hindu belief to Arjuna during a pause in battle in what 700 verse text.
That is part of the larger epic Maha Mahabharata.
>> I don't know, John.
>> That is incorrect.
>> Bhagavad Gita.
That is correct.
>> And I butchered that epic, so that probably didn't help.
Toss up number 19.
What man who promised nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat declared, we shall fight on the beaches as British Prime Minister during World War Two.
>> Winston Churchill.
>> That is.
>> Correct.
>> Bonus.
Pencil and paper.
Ready.
How many prime numbers are there?
Between 8 and 22.
Inclusive.
>> Four.
Four is correct.
>> Toss up 20.
What character who is hired by Miss Fairfax to educate Adele Dean.
>> Jane Eyre.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro East.
Multiple news outlets attributed.
What restaurant chain's 2024 chapter 11 bankruptcy to its endless shrimp promotion.
>> Oh, Red lobster.
That is correct.
>> And man, do they have good cheddar Bay biscuits.
Our next question is a media question and it is still this variety sketch comedy family television.
>> Josh, Muppets.
>> We can accept that The Muppet Show is what we're looking for.
All right.
Toss up 21.
What NFL team, which in 2026, drafted tight end Max Klare and Alabama QB Ty Simpson, won Super Bowl 55 in 2021 after trading for Matthew Stafford.
>> Jack the Los Angeles Rams.
>> That is correct.
>> Your bonus Fairfield.
What painter of a nocturne in black and gold depicted model Joanna Hiffernan in his painting Symphony in White.
Number one.
>> Yeah, I think you're right.
>> Just.
Johnson is incorrect.
Metro.
East.
Whistler.
That is correct.
Toss up.
22.
What animal examples of which included the German.
Clever.
Hans has.
Breeds.
Dean.
Horse.
That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro.
East.
What alkane.
With molecular formula C3H8 is often used as a fuel for gas powered barbecues.
Propane.
Propane is correct.
Toss up.
23.
What constant is half of tau d pi?
That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro East in Japan in 1703, Kira Yoshinaka was killed in revenge by 47 men.
Described by what term for a samurai without a master?
>> No answer.
Fairfield.
Ronan.
>> Ronan is correct.
Toss up 24.
What Arab country expelled Palestinian refugees during Black September.
Ceded the West Bank in 1988.
>> Dean Jordan.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro.
East.
Brick.
Maggie and Big Daddy are characters in.
What.
Play by Tennessee Williams.
>> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
>> That is correct.
Toss up 25.
What musician who played taxi driver Wally in Marty Supreme toured throughout 2025 in support of his album Don't Tap the Glass and Chromakopia Grant.
Tala creator.
That is correct.
Your bonus question what is the name for the often humorous transposition of initial sounds in two words, such as jelly beans becoming belly jeans?
>> Spoonerism.
>> That is correct.
Our next question is a media question and it is another video.
The song I'll Be There For You by the Rembrandts was used as the theme music.
For what?
Friends?
That is correct.
Again, it's a media question, so no bonus.
Toss up 26.
In what state did Phil Weiser win a 2026 gubernatorial primary over current Senator Michael Bennet to succeed the term limited Jared Polis in Denver.
>> Colorado?
>> Colorado is correct.
Bonus what wealthy Romans supposedly had molten gold poured down his throat by a Parthian army after the Battle of Carrhae.
>> Crassus?
>> That is correct.
Tossup 27.
What case?
Whose plaintiff's real name was Norma McCorvey.
>> Dean Roe v Wade.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
What asteroid named for an epithet of Athena was the second to be discovered after Ceres, even though it is smaller than Vesta.
Pallas Pallas is correct.
Tossup 28.
Pencil and paper.
Ready.
What expression in simplified radical form is equivalent to the square root of 28?
Given 28 is divisible by seven.
>> Dene two.
Root seven.
>> Correct.
Bonus.
Erno Dohnanyi.
And Béla Bartok were all composers.
Of what ethnicity?
>> Hungarian.
>> Hungarian is correct.
Toss up 29.
What author of the book Roughing It wrote Mark Twain.
Mark Twain is correct.
We'll get through these fast.
Your bonus what last name is shared by the Indian novelist who wrote The God of Small Things and the central family on the HBO show succession?
Roy, that is correct.
Toss up number 30.
What country were the Sohan River flows through the city of Rawalpindi is an Islamic country whose cities include Karachi.
>> Pakistan.
>> Pakistan is.
>> Correct.
>> Your bonus.
Metro East.
During what president's term in office was the Tenure of Office Act passed over his veto, limiting his ability to remove cabinet members.
Sure.
>> Jackson.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> FDR.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Andrew Johnson.
>> Yeah.
>> Our next question is also a media question.
It's another audio question.
This is an English alternative band.
>> Florence and the machine.
>> Florence.
And the machine is correct.
It's always that one.
Everyone knows that one.
All right, toss up 31.
What device is named?
The constant K found in Hooke's law.
>> The springs.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus question, Metro-east.
The real life 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Laura is the subject of what American composers.
1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer.
>> What am I doing?
Atoms.
>> That is.
>> Correct.
Atoms.
>> Toss up 32.
What?
Ancient city.
The location of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon.
That is correct.
Your bonus.
Metro East.
What?
P block metal that has the most stable isotopes is used in alloys such as Wood's metal and babbits metal and is mined from cassiterite.
>> Aluminum.
>> That is incorrect.
Fairfield.
>> Gold.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for is tin.
>> Oh.
>> Okay.
>> And that seems like that's all the time we have tonight with a very, very, very, very excellent performance tonight.
I am so happy to congratulate Metro-east Lutheran as our winners of this match of Hi-q.
But I would also like a round of applause for Fairfield for heading out tonight.
Alrighty.
Thank you all for joining us for this match of Hi-q.
From your host.
Please be kind to each other and have a good night.
[MUSIC]
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