[MUSIC] >> What's up?

Duloc?

>> I thought this was a costume party.

Guys, this is really not cool.

Welcome to hi Q, everyone's favorite game show where knowledge rules.

We have a fantastic special festive Halloween episode prepared for you all today.

So let's go ahead and get right into it.

Meet our teams and most importantly, our favorite possum.

Up top, we have Shawnee with Nick Sterling, Carlie Alexander, and down below we have Bree Central with Tatum, Ellie, Xavier, Tristan, and our best friend possum.

[MUSIC] All right.

In case anyone's new here, which I'm sure you might be, you might not be.

It's okay.

We welcome everyone.

Here.

In my hand is a series of toss up questions.

If you think you know the answer, great.

Go ahead and feel free to buzz in.

You get it right?

Awesome.

If you don't get it right, that's okay.

The other team might have a chance to get it too.

Again, everyone has a chance here.

If you do get it right, however, you also get the chance to answer a bonus.

If you get it wrong again, the other team gets a shot at it as well.

Now of course, there are going to be a few more surprises besides the costume, like a lightning round.

Math questions and media questions too.

Because I like pictures.

So does ghost.

Okay, great.

There's one more thing.

The interruption rule.

If you choose to interrupt me.

First of all, rude.

Second of all, it's okay.

I'll forgive you.

However, you better be right.

Because if you aren't right, the other team will immediately get a five point bonus.

And the chance to steal.

Everyone understand?

Sound fair to you?

Cool.

So if you interrupt me, make sure you're right.

That's all I'm saying.

All right, how about we get this hi Q started?

Are we ready, y'all?

Yeah, yeah, that's what I like to hear.

All right, toss up number one.

What artist whose summer home was the ghost Ranch in New Mexico was married to Alfred Stieglitz.

And often painted cow skulls and flowers.

Tristan.

>> Frida Kahlo.

>> That is incorrect.

>> Hathaway.

>> Okay, that was incorrect as well.

The answer we were looking for was Georgia O'Keeffe.

All right, toss up number two.

What English poet wrote about a woman painted on the wall by Frá Pandolf, who had a heart too soon made glad in his dramatic monologue.

My last duchess.

>> Xavier Frost.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Shawnee want to take a nap at it?

The answer we were looking for was Robert Browning.

All right, toss up number three.

What?

Conic section can be drawn using a loose string anchored at two pins.

Has an X, has an eccentricity between 0 and 1, and looks like an oval ellipse.

Ellipse is correct.

Possum is very proud of you.

Your bonus.

Bree central.

What Royal house ruled Britain from 1603 to 1649 and then from 1660 to 1714, after the English Restoration.

>> The House of Lords.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

>> Can I try?

Um, the Tudor household.

>> That is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for is House of Stuart.

All right, toss up number four.

What group of German people led by Thomas Müntzer and denounced as hordes by Morten.

Martin Luther fought a namesake war against upper classes in 1525.

Tristan.

>> Bavarian.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

The answer we were looking for was peasants.

Toss up number five.

What?

American composer of Chichester Psalms and the operetta Candide wrote the music for a musical about the Jets and Sharks West Side Story.

I and the possum don't take personal offense to that or anything.

The answer we were looking for was Leonard Bernstein.

It's okay.

That's okay.

Good news.

Our next question is a media question and is an audio question.

So keep those ears peeled open, whatever you want to do with them.

This California born DJ, whose stage name is Sonny John Moore, is considered a pivotal figure in the dubstep upsurge of the 20 tens.

His early works, such as Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, had a distinct industrial feel with a spacy melodic verse section heavily contrasting the distorted alien drill bass drop.

After popularizing this niche, he switched to a more mellow, futuristic sound, like on his 2015 tropical house single Where Are You Now with Justin Bieber and Diplo?

Sterling marshmallow that is incorrect.

I will finish the question where are you now with Justin Bieber and Diplo?

Name this producer.

There was only a little left breeze.

Central.

Anyone?

Xavier.

>> Martin.

Garrix.

>> That is also incorrect.

We were looking for Skrillex.

The Mello Hint was was kind of cheeky.

All right.

Again, since it was media, there was no bonus.

But also there was no right answer.

So we move on to toss up number six.

What country?

Whose city of Riombamba lies near the inactive volcano.

Chimborazo contains the port of Guayaquil and its capital at Quito.

Tristan.

>> Ecuador.

>> Ecuador is correct.

Your bonus.

What?

Theologian developed his namesake strain of Protestant thought in his 1536 treaty.

Institutes of the Christian religion.

>> Thomas Aquinas.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

>> Cartwright.

Martin.

Luther.

>> That is also incorrect.

We were looking for John Calvin.

Toss up number seven.

What novel in which the Golden Fleece debating society accuses Jean of trying to kill.

Finney is set at the Devon School and is.

By John Knowles.

Xavier.

>> Slaughterhouse-Five.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

Any guesses?

Any nabs?

The answer we were looking for was a separate piece.

Toss up a number eight.

Diterpenes can produce what often yellowish material that forms slowly enough to preserve small organisms and consists of fossilized tree resin.

Tristin.

>> Amber.

>> Amber is correct.

Your bonus.

Bree.

Central.

A map that belonged to Billy Bones allows.

What young narrator to find pirate gold in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.

>> Billy.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

>> I know this one.

Um, Jim Hawkins.

>> Jim Hawkins is correct.

All right.

Toss up number nine.

What Democrat who in January 2026 decided not to run for a third term as governor of Minnesota, was chosen in 2024 as Kamala Harris running mate Tristan.

>> Tim Walz.

>> Tim Walz is correct.

Your bonus prize central patriarchs named Randall and Devil Anse led what two families from West Virginia and Kentucky that engaged in a bloody post-Civil war feud.

>> Matthews versus McCoy.

>> I cannot accept that.

Shawnee.

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

The answer we were looking for was Hatfield and McCoy.

All right, toss up number ten.

What US architect Unretired to work on Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, designed the John Hancock Tower and the Louvre pyramid and was born in China.

>> Doo doo doo.

Doo doo doo doo doo.

>> The answer we were looking for was I in Pei.

All right.

Lucky thing.

Our next question is another media question.

And it is a video this time.

So please look at the screen behind me.

When this 12 year old discovers that he is the son of one of the biggest names in the Greek pantheon, Xavier.

Percy Jackson Percy Jackson is correct.

Again, since it is a media question, there is no bonus.

But we got to watch a fun video, so that's exciting.

All right, toss up number 11.

What University's football team once starred the Four Horsemen and plays in a stadium near a mural nicknamed Touchdown Jesus in South Bend, Indiana.

Xavier.

>> Indiana State University.

>> That is incorrect.

But I like the guess.

Shawnee.

All right.

The answer we were looking for was University of Notre Dame.

All right.

Toss up number 12, what?

2005 novel in which Max van den Berg hides in Liesel Memingers basement to escape the Holocaust.

Ellie.

>> The book thief.

>> The book thief.

One of my favorite books.

I'm glad you got that.

Your bonus, Bree central.

All right, stop.

Collaborate and listen.

Is one of the first lines of what, 1990 song.

The only number one hit by rapper Vanilla Ice.

>> Ice.

Ice baby.

>> Thank you.

I would have preferred it saying, but it's okay.

I'll accept it that way too.

All right, toss up number 13.

What city?

Where Rafik Hariri was assassinated in the Sabra and Shatila massacre was committed by Maronite forces, is the capital of Lebanon.

Tristan.

>> Tehran.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Shawnee?

All right.

The answer we were looking for was Beirut.

And that brings us to our lightning round.

Storm clouds bustling.

All right.

Lightning round time.

So how this is going to work is we're going to go team by team, starting with the team that is behind in points, which is currently Shawnee.

You will get to pick your category out of four, which I will list here shortly.

We will then go through a rapid fire sequence of ten questions.

If you know the answer, great.

Go ahead and say it.

We move on.

If you don't know the answer, you can pass it and come back to it if time allows.

However, if you get it wrong, you do not get a chance to come back to it.

Everyone understand?

Cool.

All right, Shawnee, here are your categories to choose from.

American battles hunting.

Very short French words, and also a fish.

What do you choose?

Shawnee.

>> Do you guys know anything about hunting?

I do, I hunt, okay, but only like.

I only like.

>> Hunting.

>> Hunting?

Is that what the team agrees on you?

>> Yeah.

Hunting.

>> All right.

Hunting.

It is hunting.

Answer the following.

About hunting.

Are you ready?

Three.

321.

Activity paired with hunting as pre-agricultural human food source poaching.

That is incorrect.

Peruvian empire depicted in the play The Royal Hunt of the sun pass.

Greek goddess of the hunt.

>> Artemis.

>> Correct.

Author of the 1984 novel The Hunt for Red October.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> 16th century Dutch painter of the hunters in the Snow Pass.

1924.

Story by Richard Connell about hunting humans.

[MUSIC] >> Um, dangerous.

>> Dangerous game.

[MUSIC] >> We cannot accept that clothing color required for hunters in most states.

>> Camouflage green.

[MUSIC] >> That is incorrect.

Composer of the Hunt Quartet in Jupiter Symphony.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Mighty hunter before the Lord in the Old Testament.

All right.

That is time.

So the answer to that one was Nimrod.

And then going back activity paired with hunting as Pre-agricultural human food source is gathering.

Peruvian empire depicted in the play The Royal Hunt of the sun was the Incan Empire.

The author of the 1984 novel The Hunt for Red October was Tom Clancy.

16th century Dutch painter for the hunters of the snow was Pieter Bruegel.

The 1924 story by Richard Connell about hunting humans was the most dangerous game I could not accept without the most dangerous and then clothing color required for hunters in most states is orange.

I actually did not know that.

And the composer of the Hunt Quartet and Jupiter Symphony was Mozart.

Okay.

All right, on down we go to Team Possum, aka central.

Your remaining categories are American battles, very short French words, and also a fish.

What do you pick?

>> I will go with the, uh, the battles.

>> American battles?

Yes, please.

Absolutely.

All right.

American battles.

Given the battle and year name, the present day country where U.S.

troops fought.

Okay.

Ready?

Three.

Two.

One.

Veracruz, 1847.

[MUSIC] >> Mexico.

>> Correct.

Fallujah, 2004.

>> Iraq.

>> Correct.

Normandy, 1944.

>> France.

>> Correct.

The Thames, 1813.

[MUSIC] >> Britain.

>> Incorrect.

Tripoli.

1804.

>> Italy.

>> Incorrect.

Highway of death 19912 answers.

Acceptable.

[MUSIC] >> Afghanistan.

[MUSIC] >> I cannot accept that.

Um.

Kabul, 2021.

[MUSIC] >> Syria.

[MUSIC] >> That is incorrect.

Leyte golf, 1944.

[MUSIC] >> The Philippines.

>> Correct.

San Juan Hill, 1898.

[MUSIC] >> Panama.

>> Incorrect.

And Guadalcanal 19421943.

[MUSIC] It's time.

The answer to that one was the Solomon Islands.

And then going back the Thames 1813 was Canada.

Tripoli, 1804 was Libya.

The Highway of death, 1991.

I could have accepted Kuwait or Iraq.

Um.

What else?

Oh, Kabul 2021 was Afghanistan, and then San Juan Hill was Cuba.

Okay.

All right.

That takes us back into our toss ups.

Unfortunately, that means we get to continue.

Okay, toss up number 14.

What object?

whose effective charge is symbolized.

Zeff was shown in the Rutherford gold foil experiment to lie at the center of an atom nucleus.

I can accept nucleus.

Your bonus central.

What UN agency's missions include recognizing intangible cultural heritages such as dance styles and world heritage sites like Stonehenge.

>> Unesco.

>> Unesco is correct.

All right, toss up.

Number 15.

Montana's Fort Peck Dam is on what river nicknamed the Big Muddy, which flows through Kansas City and is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.

Tristan.

>> The Missouri River.

>> The Missouri is correct.

Your bonus B central.

What country was effectively led by modernizing President Porfirio Diaz and from 1876 to 1910, when Diaz was deposed at the start of a revolution.

>> Mexico?

>> Mexico is correct.

All right.

Our next question is, once again, a media question.

And this time it is a video as well.

So please turn your gaze to the TV.

This 1968 cartoon, produced by Hanna-Barbera production, featured 11 racers, each with their own theme and gimmick, that raced on different tracks all over North America.

What is the show's name?

Tristan.

>> Route 66.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from Shawnee?

Want to take a guess at it?

The answer we were looking for was wacky races.

All right, moving on.

Tossup number 16.

What battle?

Where William Prescott resisted attacks from Thomas Gage's British forces in 1775 was actually fought outside Boston on Breed's Hill.

Xavier.

>> Bunker Hill.

>> Bunker Hill is correct.

Your bonus.

Barrie.

Central.

What gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation is named after the Greek word for to smell, referring to its distinctive odor.

>> Sulfur.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

The answer we were looking for was ozone.

I would have also guessed sulfur.

Tossup number 17.

The Caloris basin is on what planet which was examined by NASA's Messenger and Mariner ten missions and is the smallest planet in the solar system.

Tristan.

>> Mercury.

>> Mercury is correct.

Your bonus be central.

What poet who died in World War One wrote the lines.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

>> T.S.

Eliot.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

The answer we were looking for was Alfred Joyce Kilmer.

Toss up.

18.

What film?

In which a lightning bolt is used to provide the 1.21GW needed to power a Delorean was released.

>> Back to the future.

>> Back to the future is correct.

Your bonus.

Shawnee.

What Russian ruler.

The first to use the title of Tsar killed his son and heir in in 1581.

>> How can I try?

Ivan the Terrible?

>> That is correct.

Tossup 19 what state contains the Diomede Islands is south of the Chukchi Sea.

>> Tristan the Bering Strait.

>> Bering Strait is correct.

Your bonus three central.

In what major U.S.

city do the Allegheny River and Monongahela.

Let me try that again.

Monongahela River converge to form the Ohio River.

Shawnee.

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

The answer we were looking for was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Toss up 20.

What property names?

Both Non-accelerating reference frames and Newton's first law, and is a tendency of an object to resist changes in its motion.

Elie.

>> Inertia.

>> Inertia is correct.

Your bonus Precentral.

What scientists work with pea plants in the 1850s and 1860s led to his recognition as the father of modern genetics.

Mendel Mendel is correct.

Our next question is another media question.

This time it is still image.

So once again, the TV is going to be your best friend.

This American half hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001.

It was created and hosted Xavier.

>> Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

>> Mister Rogers Neighborhood is correct, and since it is a media question, there is no bonus.

But we got to see a cool picture.

And it's Mister Rogers.

Come on.

All right, toss up 21.

What explorer?

Whose ship the Victoria was taken over by Juan Sebastian Elcano coined the name Pacific Ocean during his circumnavigation attempt.

>> Tristan Juan Ponce de Leon.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

The answer we were looking for was Ferdinand Magellan.

Moving on.

Toss up number 22.

What quantity?

Which decreases by about 2% for each 1% increase in unemployment under Okun's law measures the value of a country's goods and services.

Xavier.

>> Gross domestic product.

That is correct.

>> Could have accepted GDP, but you went for bonus for a little extra credit.

You won't get extra credit, but I like the attempt.

Your bonus Precentral.

What?

Painting by J.M.W.

Turner evokes its three tidal phenomena in a depiction of a locomotive crossing a bridge.

>> The locomotive crossing the Delaware.

>> That is not correct, unfortunately.

But I liked the attempt.

Shawnee.

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

The answer we were looking for was rain, steam and speed.

The Great Western Railway.

Tossup 23.

What woman who was last seen by her son in law, Tommasco Cioni, was likely abducted by a masked man in 2026 and is the mother of an NBC news host.

>> Tristan Jane Doe.

>> That is incorrect.

Shawnee.

>> I don't.

>> Remember.

>> The answer we were looking for was Nancy Guthrie or long.

Either one could be accepted.

All right.

[MUSIC] And that seems like that's all the time we have for today.

What an exciting, Halloween filled episode.

And I'm so, so happy to congratulate Breese Central and the possum as the winners of this night's rendition of Hi-Q.

But I want to thank Shawnee for joining us today as well.

This has been another episode of Scholastic Hi-Q.

The game where knowledge rules.

And this is your host, Parker, signing off and reminding you, please be kind to one another and go have some Halloween fun.

[MUSIC]