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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hold on.
Darn it.
Yep.
Hi, I'm Parker Bradshaw.
I'm your host for this rendition of Hi-Q this evening.
The only game where knowledge rules.
We have a fantastic match lined up for you this evening, so let's go ahead and meet our teams.
Up top, we have Cisne with Corbin, Mikkie, Ryan and Cale.
And down below we have Trico with Parker, Ethan, Amy, and Didier.
If you don't know how the game works, which most of you probably do.
It doesn't hurt to have a little bit of a reminder.
In my hand is a series of toss ups, each worth ten points.
If you answer them correct, you'll have a chance to get another 20 points with a bonus.
If you miss the bonus, it's okay.
The other team will have a chance to steal the bonus for ten points.
No big deal.
There'll be a series of media questions, other tricks and treats.
It's not quite Halloween, but we're getting there.
And oh, one more thing.
The interruption rule.
The most important part.
If you really think you know the answer, you choose to interrupt me while I'm answering.
While I'm reading a question, not answering.
That's your job.
Well, you better be right.
If you are right, we move on with our day.
If you're wrong, the other chance the other team gets an immediate five points and a chance to steal.
So if you're gonna interrupt me, don't mess up.
Okay.
Everyone understand?
Great.
Are we ready to hi-q?
>> Sure.
Let's go.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
That's what I like to hear.
All right, toss.
>> Up, number one.
In 1900, Barnum Brown discovered a partial skeleton of what?
Theropod from the Cretaceous.
From the Cretaceous.
A short armed dinosaur whose name means Parker.
>> Tyrannosaurus rex.
>> That is correct.
I would have accepted T-Rex too, just in case.
Your bonus Trico.
Kim Campbell is the only woman to have held.
What National Leadership office, which she assumed upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
>> No answer.
>> Sydney.
>> Secretary of state.
>> That is incorrect.
The answer we were looking for is the Prime Minister of Canada.
Toss up number two.
What sea?
Whose southern end is marked by the Bab El-mandeb Strait borders Eritrea and.
>> Red sea?
>> Red sea is correct.
It's Mikkie.
I'll get it right next time.
You'll answer right next time.
I know.
Okay.
Bonus for you guys.
What?
Terms starting with E refers to peptides produced in the pituitary gland that are natural painkillers that act like opioids.
>> Epinephrine.
>> That's incorrect.
Trico.
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for is endorphins.
Toss up number three.
What successor of Muhammad Naguib ordered the construction of the Helwan City in Aswan High Dam and led Egypt during the Six-Day war against Israel?
>> Nasser.
>> Nasser is correct.
Your bonus.
In April 2026, a man who called himself a friendly federal assassin was arrested after trying to enter what annual event held by DC journalists.
>> State of the Union.
>> That is incorrect.
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for is white House Correspondents Dinner.
Toss up for what?
Painters lavender Mist Convergence and Number five, 1948 exemplify his American strain of Abstract Expressionism.
He accomplished via drip painting.
>> Micky Adams.
>> That is incorrect.
Anyone from Trico?
All right.
The answer we were looking for was Pollock.
Toss up number five.
Raney nickel is what type of material that lowers the reaction's activation energy without being consumed, thus speeding up a chemical reaction.
Mikey catalyst switch it again.
Catalyst is correct.
Mikkie.
Gosh.
Mikkie mouse clubhouse.
All right.
Bonus for Sicily star Carter joins protests in Garden Heights after officer 115 shoots a teenager named Khalil in what young adult novel?
>> Catcher in the Rye.
>> That is incorrect.
>> All American boys.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for is the hate u give.
Our next question is an audio question, so open your ears.
This English singer, songwriter and producer first became prominent in America through popular collaborative songs like Iggy Azalea's Fancy and Icona Pops I love it.
Later on, she found solo success after releasing certified summer classics like Break the Rules and Boom Clap.
More recently, she's reinvented her sound and helped popularize the maximalist electronic subgenre called Hyperpop.
Name this artist.
[MUSIC] >> Riding through the streets on it.
Well.
>> That is time.
The answer we're looking for is Charli XCX, and she would not be bumping that.
That none of you knew that.
Not very bright.
All right, toss it.
Number six.
What?
Author of the 1915 novel, The Song of the lark, wrote about Jim Burdon's friendship with a bohemian immigrant in Nebraska in her novel Myotonia Antonia.
>> Mikkie Johnson.
>> It's incorrect, but I liked.
I liked the attempt.
Anyone from Trico?
Want to try?
>> Ethan Adams.
>> That is incorrect.
We were looking for Willa Cather.
All right, toss up number seven.
What lawyer who argued cases like Swett versus Paynter and Brown versus board for the NAACP, joined the Supreme Court in 1967 as its first black justice.
Mikkie.
>> Thurgood Marshall.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus symphony.
ER, star Anthony Edwards played a pilot who dies in a training accident in, what, 1986 film?
>> Top gun.
>> That is correct.
Oh, goose.
All right, toss up number eight.
What?
King, who served his son Pelops as a meal to the Greek gods, was punished by being made to stand in a pool of water that he could never drink.
That is time.
The answer we were looking for was Tantalus.
Toss up number nine.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the least common multiple of the two numbers?
15 and nine.
Given that their greatest common factor is three.
Corbin 45.
45 is correct.
Your bonus.
What?
Common acid base indicator that goes from colorless to pink around pH nine has a name that starts with p h.
>> Phosphorus.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico.
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for was Phenolphthalein.
Love a good titration.
All right, toss it.
Number ten.
In what game can players utilize strategies such as doubling down splitting and.
Mikey.
>> Blackjack.
>> Blackjack.
I'm just going to play a fun game where I alternate.
However, I want to say your name.
All right.
Bonus.
What?
Sailor escapes a valley of diamonds and encounters a type of bird called a rock in stories from the Arabian Nights.
>> Sinbad.
>> Sinbad is correct, Mikkie.
All right, the next question is a media question and is a video.
This character is one of Strawberry Shortcake's best friends and is named after a popular type of muffin.
>> And I really couldn't stand it.
>> Blueberry muffin.
>> Blueberry is correct.
Since it is a media question, there is no bonus tossup number 11.
What document?
Whose signers included strangers like Miles Standish was signed in 1620 to govern the Plymouth Colony and was named for a ship.
Worship.
>> The Mayflower Compact.
>> That is correct.
Bonus.
What Portuguese explorer led the first modern European seaborne expedition to India, landing at Calicut in 1498.
>> No answer.
>> Vasco da Gama.
>> Gama is correct.
Toss up number 12.
What poem?
What poet?
Who was exiled to the port of Thomas on the Black Sea by the Emperor Augustus, chronicled stories of transformations in his metamorphoses.
The answer we were looking for was Ovid or Ovid.
There's no bonus.
Silly me.
Tossup number 13.
What name is given to arachnids of genus Ixodes, which consume blood and transmit diseases such as Lyme disease and parker ticks.
Ticks is correct.
Your bonus Trico.
A J.R.R.
Tolkien lecture subtitled The Monsters and the critics, centered on what Dark Age epic, which poet Seamus Heaney translated in 1999.
>> No answer.
>> The Dark Age poem Dark.
>> Age is not correct.
It is Beowulf.
I know some English people are screaming somewhere.
Do you guys hear that?
It's time for a lightning round.
There's thunder.
Crash crash.
Bang bang.
All right.
In case you don't know how the lightning round works, each team starting with the team that is down in points, which is tricky.
Currently, you will each pick a category, and then we'll go through a series of ten rapid fire questions.
If you know the answer, great.
Answer it.
Boom.
You get some points.
If you don't know the answer, you can pass.
And if time allows, you'll be able to come back to it.
If you get it wrong, you do not get a chance to come back to it.
Okay.
All right.
Then we have our categories.
So you get to pick first.
Your four categories are dog breeds, quarterbacks cells, and European museums.
Great choices I know.
>> I don't know, I don't know.
So there's your signs or symptoms which I know you guys know all of you.
I think cells.
>> Cells.
>> Cells.
It is numeral trace.
Give these answers related to cells.
Are you ready?
Three.
Two.
One.
Large organelle that stores most of a eukaryotic cells DNA.
>> A nucleus?
>> That's correct.
Type of cell division that produces two identical daughter cells.
[MUSIC] >> Mitosis.
>> That is correct.
[MUSIC] Whip like tail found in many bacteria.
>> Flagellum.
>> That is correct.
False.
Some cells use for movement.
[MUSIC] >> Silica.
>> That is incorrect.
[MUSIC] Lipid filled structure described by the fluid mosaic model.
[MUSIC] Pass cell membrane cellular currency with three phosphorus atoms.
>> ATP.
>> That is correct.
Acidic Organelle containing digestive enzymes.
[MUSIC] Pass process of programmed cell death contrasted with apoptosis.
[MUSIC] What was that again?
>> Apoptosis.
>> That's correct.
[MUSIC] And that is time.
So going back on the false feet some cells use for movement is Pseudopods.
The lipid filled structure described by the fluid mosaic model which I almost said was cell membrane.
And then the acidic organelle containing digestive enzymes with lysosome.
Okay.
It's your up.
Your remaining choices are dog breeds quarterbacks and European museums.
>> Dogs.
>> Let's do dogs.
Dogs.
It is dog breeds.
>> Name these breeds of dogs.
Are you ready?
Three.
321 black and white spotted dog associated with firefighters.
>> Dalmatian.
>> That is correct.
Large breed of Scooby-Doo and Marmaduke.
[MUSIC] >> Great Dane.
>> That is correct.
Breed whose name is a synonym for pugilist.
Pugilist pass mascot of the University of Washington sports team.
[MUSIC] Pass pass.
Fast breed that names an intercity bus line.
Greyhound that is correct breed featured in the Doge meme.
[MUSIC] Shiba Inu.
That is correct.
German breed primarily photographer photographed by William Wegman.
[MUSIC] >> Shepherd.
>> That is incorrect.
[MUSIC] Breed of Snoopy in peanuts.
[MUSIC] Guys.
Hey pass.
It is breed of Yale's handsome Dan and the University of Georgia's That is time.
The answer to that one was Bulldog, the breed of Snoopy and peanuts, which I'm personally offended is Beagle.
Then the German breed, primarily photographed by William Wegman, was Weimaraner.
Whoa.
And then going back some more.
Mascot of the University of Washington sports team was husky or Huskies.
And then the breed, whose name is a synonym for pugilist, is boxer.
All right.
And that's the lightning round.
Concluding back to toss ups.
We go.
Toss up number 14.
What families members include a man known by the initials CPE and a composer who married Anna Magdalena in 1721 and was named Johann Sebastian.
>> Bach.
>> Bach is correct.
Mikey is not.
Bonus question what.
Greek city state, which ended Sparta's hegemony at the Battle of Leuctra, had its elite sacred band wiped out in 3338 BC.
That is incorrect.
>> Trico Thebes Thebes is correct.
>> It doesn't help that I butchered that question.
So toss up number 15.
What biblical book in which the Lamb of God opens a scroll with seven seals.
>> Revelations.
>> Revelation is correct.
I just went blank that time.
Bonus.
What operation is an anti mutative mutate.
Hold on.
Anticommutative.
There's a typo product of two vectors that outputs a vector perpendicular to both inputs.
>> Discriminant.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico.
>> No answer.
>> The answer we're looking for is cross product.
All right.
Column number 16.
What companies intra ID provides access to its Azure Cloud platform in 365 productivity suite.
>> Microsoft.
>> That is correct.
And so was I. Your bonus in 2025.
What politician became the first prime Minister since John Howard in 2004 to win two consecutive Australian general elections?
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for was Anthony Albanese.
That one should have been easy, but probably not.
All right.
Tossup number 17.
What national leader initiated the Virgin Lands campaign, gave the secret speech against Joseph Stalin and was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev in 1964.
I'm really hoping you wouldn't make me say it.
It was Nikita Khrushchev.
Tossup 18 what city is served by Ted Stevens International Airport is on Cook Inlet, near the Chugach Mountains and is the most populous city in Alaska.
Mikkie.
>> Anchorage.
>> Anchorage is correct.
Your bonus.
What country's capital city has had four names since its independence, including Tselinograd Amol, Nur-Sultan and its current name Astana.
>> Kazakhstan?
>> That is correct.
Is there a bonus on that?
Hold on.
No, that was the bonus tossup.
Number 19.
What TV show, which killed off agency director Leon Vance in 2026, is a procedural about crimes involving the Navy that has aired 500 plus episodes.
>> What was that Jag?
>> That's incorrect.
Anyone from trico?
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for was NCIS.
Tossup number 20.
What country?
Whose indigenous people Revere.
The Rainbow Serpent is home to a large sandstone rock called Uluru and the cities of Perth and Sydney.
>> Australia.
>> Australia is correct.
Your bonus.
Sydney.
What heritable conditions, which include Klinefelter Syndrome and down syndrome, occur when an embryo has an extra copy of one chromosome.
>> Mutation.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico.
>> No answer.
>> We were looking for a Trisomy.
The next question is also a medium question.
This one's audio, so go ahead and open your ears.
[MUSIC] Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, this 24 year old influencer and singer songwriter is known for her distinct blend of pop, R&B and amapiano, a South African drum heavy dance music style.
After her 2020 single Getting Late, she and collaborator Cooldrink discovered that it became her signature sound.
Ultimately, it was the 2023 hit song titled water that.
With the.
The dear.
>> Tyler.
>> Tyler is correct.
Since it is a media question, there is no bonus.
But you still got it right.
So there are some points.
Tossup 21.
What experiment, which was halted after objections by Christina Maslach assigned some subjects as guards and took place at Stanford.
>> Mikkie Stanford prison experiment.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
A grocery store clerk named Sammy, named Sammy resigns from his job in A&P.
A story by what author whose novels include The Witches of Eastwick.
>> Adams.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico.
>> Johnson.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was John Updike.
Tossup 22.
Pencil and paper ready?
What is the average age of three?
Siblings whose individual ages ages are two, eight, and 11 years old?
>> Mikkie.
Seven.
>> Seven is correct.
Your bonus.
The Itaipu Dam is on the Parana River between Brazil and.
What other South American country.
>> Argentina.
>> That is incorrect.
Trico.
>> Peru.
>> That is also incorrect.
We are looking for Paraguay.
Pronunciation for you.
Toss up 23 in 2026.
What website?
The flagship product of the company in Instructure was breached by hackers disrupting schools that use it to host canvas.
Canvas is correct.
Your bonus.
What living artist who helped design Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium has lived in various Western countries since he was allowed to leave China in 2015.
>> Sun Tzu.
>> That is incorrect.
>> No answer.
>> The answer we were looking for is I. Wei Wei.
Toss up 24.
What?
MLB team, which celebrates home runs with a giant Apple, moved from Shea Stadium to Citi Field in 2009 and shares a city with the Yankees.
>> Red Sox.
>> That is incorrect.
Anyone from.
Ryan.
>> Mets?
>> The Mets is correct.
That's what we're looking for.
Your bonus.
What term that starts with a. Identifies a scientific instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
>> Anemometer.
>> That is correct.
Toss up 25.
What?
Play features a band of rude mechanicals rehearsing Pyramus and Thisbe in the woods.
>> Mikkie a Midsummer Night's Dream.
>> That is correct.
What highway, which was established in 1926, went from Chicago to Santa Monica and was nicknamed the Main Street of America.
>> Route 66.
>> Route 66 is correct.
All right.
Our next question is also a media question.
This time a video.
This giant character is the most recent person to join the main crew of One Piece.
The Straw Hat Pirates and Fishman Karate to fight enemies.
Corbin.
>> Blue man.
>> Okay, man.
>> That is also incorrect.
The correct answer we were looking for is.
>> Elijah is crying somewhere.
>> That seems like he is.
>> After an eventful episode.
I'm so happy to say that with a score of 320 to 127, you are the champions of this episode.
But that does not go without thanking you for being here as well.
You guys were a hoot.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
This has been Parker with Hi-Q and our lovely teams.
I'd like to say please stay and be kind to one another and have a good night.
Now we'll dance away.
[MUSIC]
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