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Carbondale v. Mt. Vernon
First Round Match between Carbondale and Mt. Vernon High Schools
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] >> Who's your friend who likes to play?
Well, that's bing bong, Bing bong.
Welcome to another episode of Hi-Q.
And boy, do we have a great game lined up for you tonight.
So let's go ahead and meet our teams.
Up top we have Mount Vernon who we have Ernie, Athanasius, Rylan Asher, and then down below we have Carbondale with Nitin, Nathan, Alex and Dante.
If you're new around here, which most of you might be may not be, but it doesn't hurt to have a few reminders.
Here's how this will work.
In my hand, I have a series of toss up, toss up questions worth 20 points each.
If you think you know the answer, go ahead and buzz in.
You get it right?
Great.
If you don't, the other.
The other team will have a chance to steal.
If you get it right.
However, you will also be granted the opportunity for a bonus.
The bonus is worth ten points.
If you don't get it, get that right.
The other team will also have a chance to steal that as well.
We're pretty equal around here.
Besides that, there's going to be a few fun little kind of surprises along the way.
We got media questions, lightning rounds, but we'll get into those when we get there.
The only other thing you need to know for right now is the interruption rule.
If you choose to interrupt me, which is somewhat rude, but it's okay as long as you're right, you get your points.
Then we move on with our day.
If you're wrong, the other team immediately gets a five point advantage and they get the chance to steal as well as well as the end of the question.
Okay.
Understood.
All right.
Are we ready to Hi-Q, y'all?
Yes.
Great.
All right.
Toss up number one.
What molecule?
A derivative of squalene that has 27 carbon atoms has bad LDL and good HDL cholesterol.
What was that?
Cholesterol.
Cholesterol is correct.
Carbondale your bonus in 2026.
The rare red flanked bluetail was spotted around what major East Coast river into which 200 million gallons of sewage spilled in January.
>> The.
Charles.
>> That is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> The Hudson.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was the Potomac toss up number two.
What man who copied a drawing by Henry Pelham to create an engraving of the Boston Massacre, warned of a British advance during his midnight ride.
>> Of Paul Revere.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Carbondale.
What 18th century war began after several European countries refused to honor their agreements under the pragmatic sanction.
>> 30 Years war.
>> That is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> French and Indian war.
>> It is also incorrect.
We were looking for the war of the Austrian Succession.
Tossup number three.
What instrument?
Whose classical style performers included Mason Williams.
Developed from the Spanish vihuela and traditionally has six strings.
Alex.
>> Guitar.
>> Guitar is correct.
Your bonus.
Carbondale.
In the fourth chapter of Second Kings, Elijah helps an indebted widow multiply a small jar of.
What valuable substance.
>> Gold.
>> That is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> Oil.
>> That is correct.
Olive oil is what we're looking for.
I can accept oil.
All right, toss up number four.
What character?
With a yearly income of £10,000 from his Derbyshire estate of Pemberley marries Lizzie Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Athanasius.
>> John.
>> That is incorrect.
Anyone from Carbondale?
Alex Smith that is also incorrect.
I know some coaches are very upset right now.
The answer we were looking for was Mr.
Darcy, toss up number five.
What King received Eljigideis proposal for a Mongol alliance won the siege of Damietta on the Seventh Crusade and was a canonized king of France.
>> Nathan Charles.
>> That is incorrect.
Anyone from Mount Vernon want to take a nap at it?
Athanasius.
>> Charlemagne.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Louis, the ninth of France.
Our next question is a media question.
It is an audio question.
So keep those ears open.
This Mononymous South Korean singer first debuted in 2016 as a vibrant haired ingenue in the K-pop girl group Blackpink, alongside three Jisoo, Jennie and Lisa.
Lisa Nithin.
>> Rosé.
>> What was that again?
>> Rosé?
>> That is correct.
Rosé is correct.
And since it is a bonus question, not a bonus question.
Since it is a media question, there is no bonus.
But we had some fun listening to music, so.
All right, toss up number six.
What structure?
Under which the left recurrent laryngeal nerve loops is the largest blood vessel.
And the one in which blood leaves the heart.
>> The aorta.
>> The aorta is correct.
Your bonus.
Mount Vernon in 1968.
What man assassinated Robert F Kennedy, citing Kennedy's support for Israel as the reason.
>> Now I do.
>> Carbondale.
>> Smith.
>> That is also incorrect.
We were looking for Sauron.
Sauron.
Toss up number seven.
What novel?
In which a meal of Graceling is eaten shortly before Marvel kills Rue was the first Suzanne Collins book.
>> Ernie The Hunger Games.
>> The Hunger Games is correct.
Your bonus Mount Vernon pencil and paper ready.
What is the fifth term of the arithmetic sequence, whose first term is three and whose fourth term is negative six?
>> Negative nine.
>> Negative nine is correct.
All right.
Toss up number eight.
What man whose body titles a Stephen Vincent Benet poem in which it's a mouldering in the grave, was an abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
>> John Brown.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Carbondale.
What actor co-stars with Rose Byrne on the Apple TV series platonic and won comedy Emmy Emmys in 2025 for writing, directing and starring in the studio.
>> Yes.
>> Smith.
>> That is also incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> Henry.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for is Seth Rogen.
I love these generic names.
I love when people throw those out.
All right, toss up number nine.
What?
Former president of Brazil was banned from seeking office until 2030 after making false claims about his 2022 defeat against Lula da Silva.
>> Ernie Velasquez.
>> That is incorrect.
Anyone from Carbondale?
>> Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
>> The answer we were looking for was Bolsonaro.
All right, toss up number ten.
What layer?
Whose asthenosphere sits below the Mora.
Give me one second.
More heroic chick discontinuity.
Holy moly.
This.
You should see the.
The pronunciation guide on this discontinuity is a large layer of the earth above the outer core and below the crust.
>> The mantle.
>> Yes.
Correct.
Thank you.
You saved me from that one.
Your bonus, Mount Vernon Jean Perrin, used Brownian motion to make the first modern estimate of what?
Scientific constant?
That equals the number of particles in one mole.
>> Avogadro's number?
>> That is correct.
Avogadro's.
All right.
Our next question is also a media question.
This time it's a video.
Please refer to the screen behind me.
Scooby Doo and his best friend shaggy, are a part of a group who solve cases of monsters and ghouls, causing havoc to the public.
What is the group's name?
>> Alex Mystery, Inc.. >> That is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
Oh, okay.
That actually we are going to accept that Inc.. I have the mystery gang written, so we are going to accept Inc.
for you guys.
All right.
So Carbondale, it is your guys's point.
Don't worry.
All right.
Next question.
Toss up 11.
What monarch called 1992 in annus horribilis, wed a Greek born noble named Mountbatten and in 2022 celebrated a Platinum Jubilee as Britain's Queen.
>> Elizabeth II.
>> That is correct.
Elizabeth the second.
Your bonus Mount Vernon.
What landmark in Rome contains an oculus in the middle of the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.
>> Coliseum.
>> That is incorrect.
Carbondale.
>> Okay.
>> The answer we were looking for was pantheon.
All right.
Toss up number 12.
What?
Author of the 1950 novel World Enough and Time wrote about populist Governor Willie Stark, who was modeled on Huey Long in All the King's Men?
The answer we were looking for was Robert Penn Warren.
Next toss up.
Toss up number 13.
What tissue named from the Greek word for bark contains sieve tube cells that transport nutrients in plants, often alongside the water carrying xylem.
>> And phloem.
>> Phloem is correct.
Your bonus.
Mount Vernon.
What?
National capital is located along the Rideau River, near the city of Gatineau.
>> Rio de Janeiro.
>> That's incorrect.
Carbondale.
>> Paris.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Ottawa, Canada.
Toss up number 14.
In what?
Public square was a Goddess of democracy statue erected during protests in 1989 that were violently crushed by the Chinese government.
Asher.
What was that again, Tiananmen Square?
That is correct.
Your bonus, Mount Vernon.
A Dutch mathematician names what law of optics, which relates to indices of refraction to the signs of two angles.
>> Euler.
>> That is incorrect.
Carbondale.
>> Yes.
Yes.
>> Yes.
>> Van der Waal.
>> That's also incorrect.
We were looking for Snell's law of refraction.
Toss up number 15.
What province is home to the bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island is the most populous of Canada's maritime provinces and is led from Halifax.
>> Nova Scotia.
>> Nova Scotia is correct.
Your bonus Mount Vernon.
What impoverished student convinces that convinces that himself.
He has.
That makes no sense that him himself.
He has the moral right to murder a. I'll start over.
What impoverished student convinces that himself.
He has the moral right to murder a pawnbroker and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
>> Smith.
>> That is incorrect.
Carbondale.
>> Vladimir.
>> That is also incorrect.
We were looking for Rodion Raskolnikov.
All right.
The next question is also a media question.
And it is a still image.
So you will refer to the screen behind me.
This character is the extraterrestrial rock body partner who shares a name, Nathan.
Rocky is correct.
Again, since it is a media question, there is no bonus.
But you get your points and we got to see a fun picture.
All right.
Tossup number 16.
What poem in which Maricha turns into a golden golden deer to distract Lakshmana from the pursuit of Sita is a Sanskrit epic about an exiled prince.
Rylane.
>> Gilgamesh.
>> That is incorrect.
Carbondale.
Dante.
>> The Bhagavad Gita.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Ramayana.
Yeah.
All right.
And it seems like we finally made it to the lightning round.
Bum bum bum.
All right, so for the lightning round it works a little differently.
We will go team by team, starting with the team who is behind in points which right now is Carbondale.
You will each get to pick a category out of four.
And then we will go through a series of rapid fire questions.
There's going to be ten of them.
If you know the answer, great answer it.
You get your points.
If you don't know the answer, you can pass.
And if time allows, we will come back to it and you can have another chance to answer it.
If you get it wrong, you do not get to come back to it.
There's not a second chance.
Everyone understand?
All right, Carbondale, starting with you, I'm going to read off your choices, and then you tell me which one you guys want.
We have Italian musical terms.
Long and short, sediment and fictional places.
What do you choose?
>> Control.
I don't know.
>> I'd say long and short.
>> Or.
>> Long and short.
>> Long and short it is.
Give these answers that begin with either the word long or the word short.
Are you ready?
>> Yeah.
>> Three.
Two.
One.
New York landmass containing the Hamptons.
>> Long Island.
>> Correct path, allowing for faster travel than usual routes.
>> Shortcut.
>> Correct.
Mascot of the University of Texas at Austin.
Sports teams.
Correct.
Eugene O'Neill.
Play about the Tyrone family.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
[MUSIC] >> Unleavened cookie made with flour, sugar and butter.
[MUSIC] >> Shortbread.
>> Correct weapon type that included claymores and Roman Spathas longsword.
Correct.
Geographic coordinate contrasted with latitude.
>> Longitude.
>> Correct.
Figure skating event performed before the free skate.
[MUSIC] Pass English Government Assembly lasting from 1640 to 1660.
[MUSIC] Pass railroad next to Pennsylvania Avenue in monopoly.
[MUSIC] >> Short stop.
>> That is incorrect.
Going back.
Eugene O'Neill.
Play about the Tyrone family.
>> A long day's journey into the night.
>> That is correct.
>> Okay.
>> All right.
Going back to the two that was passed and then the one that was missed.
Figure skating event performed before.
The free skate is a short program in English government Assembly lasting from 1640 to 1660 was long Parliament.
And lastly, the railroad next to Pennsylvania Avenue is the short line.
All right.
Going on up to Mount Vernon.
Your remaining categories are Italian musical terms, sediment and fictional places.
What do you choose?
>> Fictional places.
>> Fictional places.
It is.
Name the novelist who created these fictional locations.
Are you ready?
Three.
Two.
One.
Dairy main in it.
>> Stephen King.
>> Correct.
[MUSIC] Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels.
>> Jon Snow.
>> That is incorrect.
Middlemarch and Middlemarch.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
[MUSIC] >> The Caribbean country of San Lorenzo and cat's cradle.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
>> Wessex and far from the madding crowd.
[MUSIC] >> Pass.
[MUSIC] >> Costaguana in Nostromo.
[MUSIC] Pass the title.
Island.
Country of Utopia.
[MUSIC] Pass the state of Winnemac in its capital city.
Zenith in Babbitt.
[MUSIC] Pass Idaville in the Encyclopedia Brown books.
[MUSIC] >> Henry.
>> That is incorrect.
The plateau of Hinchagara.
[MUSIC] That is time anyways.
All right, going back.
So first Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels with Jonathan Swift, Middlemarch and Middlemarch was George Eliot, the Caribbean country of San Lorenzo and Cat's Cradle was Vonnegut.
The Wessex and far from the madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy.
The Costaguana and Nostromo was Joseph Conrad.
The title island country of Utopia was Thomas More.
The state of Winnemac in its capital city, Zenith in Babbitt was Harry Sinclair, Lewis Idaville.
The Encyclopedia Brown books was Sobol.
And then we did not get to the last one.
Alrighty y'all, that concludes our lightning round.
And so we return back to our regularly scheduled toss ups.
Toss up number 17.
What novel?
In which a captain of the King's archers named Phoebus is loved by Esmeralda was written by Victor Hugo.
>> Nathan the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
>> That is correct.
Your bonus.
Carbondale.
The Latin Quarter, which is home to the Sorbonne, is in what region of Paris?
So named as it lies south of the Seine River.
>> Sued the sun.
>> That is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> Southern.
>> That's also incorrect.
We were looking for left Bank.
All right, toss up number 18.
Pencil and paper.
Ready.
What fraction of a high school student body are not sophomores?
If there are 100 sophomores.
Out of 350 total students.
Nathan.
>> 2/7.
>> That is incorrect, Ernie.
>> Five.
Seven.
>> Five seven is correct.
Your bonus.
Mount Vernon.
Trees are connected.
Acyclic.
examples of what structures that consist of vertices connected by edges.
>> Prism.
>> That's incorrect.
Carbondale.
>> Growth.
>> What was that?
One more.
>> Time.
Graph.
>> Graph is correct.
All righty.
Toss up number 19.
What advocacy group, which was co-founded by Ingrid Newkirk, has controversially linked drinking milk to autism and opposes fur and animal testing.
>> Dante PETA.
>> Peta is correct.
Your bonus.
Carbondale.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan hailed from what West African country whose first post-independence leader was Kwame Nkrumah.
>> Of.
>> Ghana.
>> Ghana is.
>> Correct.
>> Toss up.
Number 20.
At what battle?
Where Union forces fought to cross Burnside's bridge.
Did George McClellan's forces halt Robert E Lee's invasion of Maryland in 1862?
Nathan.
>> Antietam.
>> Antietam is correct.
Your bonus Carbondale what author won two Pulitzer Prizes in a four year span for his novel The Underground Railroad and the Nickel Boys, which won in 2020.
>> Smith.
>> Smith.
>> Smith is incorrect.
Unfortunately, Mount Vernon.
>> Hemingway.
>> That is also incorrect.
We were looking for Colson Whitehead.
All right.
Our next question is also a media question.
Once again it is audio.
So keep those ears open.
This four member electronic dance group has a knack for making unique, energetic tracks by pitch shifting samples, layering synths, and utilizing vocoders to fine tune their techno pop and progressive house aesthetic.
Two of their most famous songs are Over Time and the single Take Me Home, featuring Bebe Rexha, a song about feeling lost and alone that made an appearance for the end credits of Pixar's Finding Dory.
Name this EDM group.
>> Daft punk.
>> That is incorrect.
Anyone from Carbondale want to try Dante The Chainsmokers?
That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for is cash.
Cash?
All right, toss up.
21 what country governed since 2003 by President Ilham Aliyev, disputes Nagorno Karabakh.
Let me try that again.
Nagorno Karabakh in its Caucasus.
Caucasus neighbor Armenia and is led by Baku Nathan Azerbaijan.
That is correct.
Could have gotten that a little sooner to save me from that.
Your bonus.
Carbondale.
What composer who set a James Agee text in Knoxville summer of 19 15th May be best known for the Adagio for strings.
>> Smith.
>> That is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> Vivaldi.
>> That is also incorrect.
The answer we were looking for was Samuel Barber.
All right, toss up.
22.
What poem dedicated to Carl Solomon describes angel headed hipsters, laments the madness of the best minds of my generation.
Nathan Howl howl is correct.
Your bonus question.
Carbondale what US president was in office when the 21st amendment took place.
Repealing prohibition.
>> Three seconds.
>> Hoover.
>> Hoover is incorrect.
Mount Vernon.
>> Coolidge.
>> Coolidge is also incorrect.
We were looking for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Toss up 23.
What city is home to the presidential.
Malacanang Palace lies just south of Quezon City on Luzon Island and is the capital of the Philippines.
Nithin Manila Manila is correct.
Your bonus carbonyl.
What force is governed by Amontons law and has a maximum strength equal to a namesake coefficient times the size of the normal force.
>> Friction.
>> Friction is correct.
Toss up 24.
What protected objects?
Name a box used to perform reactions in the absence of air, and are often made of latex or nitrile to Nithin gloves.
Gloves is.
>> Correct.
>> Your bonus.
Carbondale.
The Torres Strait separates Australia from what large island, which is divided between Indonesia and a country governed by Port Moresby.
>> A 100 country guinea.
>> Can you be a little more specific?
>> New Guinea.
>> New Guinea is correct.
>> All right.
>> Toss up 25.
So sorry.
So dry.
What composer who originally dedicated his Third Symphony to Napoleon, wrote a pastoral symphony and was a German composer who lost his hearing.
>> Beethoven.
>> Beethoven is correct.
Your bonus, Mount Vernon.
What?
King of Mycenae and husband of Clytemnestra.
Feuds with Achilles over a woman named Briseis during the Trojan War.
>> Agamemnon.
>> Agamemnon is correct.
The Odyssey was a timely movie, and that is all the time we have for today.
After a fierce match up, I'm very excited to announce that Carbondale you are the winners of tonight's Hi-Q match the score of 280 to 170.
But of course, thank you, Mount Vernon, for joining us tonight.
This has been our evening of Hi-Q.
Thank you for tuning in.
And this is your host saying be kind to one another and have a great night.
[MUSIC]
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