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Give me a hot dog, okay?

Won't you?

I gotta go, I gotta go do a show here.

Hey.

Hi.

My name is Parker Bradshaw, and I'm your host for this evening of Scholastic Hi-Q.

The game where knowledge rules.

And boy, do we have a fantastic show lined up for you this evening.

So let's go ahead and meet our teams up top with Belleville East, we have Alex Jaxson, Ben and Julius and down below for DuQuoin we have Cade, Ben, Josie and Hayden.

Now, in case any of you are new here, though, most of you probably already know the rules of how this works.

It doesn't hurt to have a little bit of a reminder.

So in my hand is a sequence of toss up questions.

If you think the answer to them, great.

As in for a chance at some points.

If you get it right, you also get a chance at a bonus for some extra points.

However, both times the other team will also get a chance.

In case anyone's wrong, there will also be a series of some surprises.

We got lightning rounds, media questions, but we'll get to all that when we do.

The only other thing you need to know from me right now is the interruption rule.

If you choose to interrupt me, which is somewhat rude, but I'll forgive you, I promise you better be right, because if you are not, the other team immediately gets five points and the chance to steal.

So if you're going to interrupt me, you better be right.

Everyone understand?

Yeah.

Are we ready to Hi-Q?

Y'all?

Yeah, yeah.

That's what I like to hear.

All right, toss up, number one.

What governor who in 2022 bested Lee Zeldin to win reelection to an office she has held since Andrew Cuomo resigned, is a Democrat working in Albany.

Alex.

>> Kathy Hochul.

>> Kathy Hochul is correct.

Your bonus Belleville East.

A square matrix M will have an inverse if and only if.

What property of matrix M does not has a value of zero.

>> The determinant.

>> The determinant is correct.

Toss up number two.

What element in the amino acid cysteine, which forms bridges that hold together proteins like insulin, is a non-metal.

Added to rubber to vulcanize it.

Ben.

>> Sulfur.

>> Sulfur is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville.

East.

What woman who currently hosts a daytime talk show was a child actor who appeared in Firestarter and E.T.. >> Oprah Winfrey.

>> Oprah is incorrect.

Du Quoin.

>> No answer.

>> The answer we were looking for was Drew Barrymore.

I wish I had a mug right now.

All right, toss up number three.

What country was financially ruined by a failed Panamanian colony called the Darien Scheme, leading to its 1707 union with Scotland?

What was that again?

>> Scotland.

>> Scotland is correct.

Belleville East.

Your bonus.

What 20th century statesman was born with Mustafa as his entire name, took the epithet Kemal as a boy and then gained his honorific surname in 1934.

>> I delegate Alex.

>> Malcolm X.

>> That is incorrect.

DuQuoin.

>> No answer.

>> The answer we were looking for was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Toss up number four.

What poet who urged a fair youth to procreate and often addressed a dark lady wrote 154 sonnets, including shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

>> Alex William Shakespeare.

>> William Shakespeare is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville East.

What author described an international politics conference held at Darlington Hall in the remains of the day.

A novel narrated by Stevens the Butler.

>> Virginia Woolf.

>> That is incorrect.

DuQuoin >> Mary Shelley.

>> That is also incorrect.

We were looking for Kazuo Ishiguro.

Toss up number five.

What mountain?

Near which the Kantishna Gold Rush took place has a name meaning the high one in Athabascan and is also called Mount McKinley.

Ben Denali Denali is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville East.

What current geologic era is divided into.

Paleogene.

Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary periods.

>> Yeah.

>> No.

>> It's right now.

>> The Cenozoic.

>> Cenozoic is correct.

Our next question is a media question and is a video.

So please refer to the TV behind me.

This show has the intro statement by one of the main characters.

Space the Final Frontier.

What 1987 sci fi show has this intro.

>> Then star Trek.

Star Trek.

Voyager.

Voyager.

>> That is incorrect.

Does anyone want to try it?

>> Star Trek Frontiers.

>> That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for is Star Trek The Next Generation.

All right, moving on.

Our next toss up.

What quantity?

Whose product with little G and volume is buoyant.

Force can be given in kilograms per meter cubed and equals mass divided by volume.

Alex.

>> Density.

>> Density is correct.

Your bonus.

Bellville.

East.

A statue found under Rome's Appian Way in 2023 was identified as depicting Hercules via the pelt he took from what beast he killed in his first labor.

>> The Nemean Lion.

>> That is correct.

Toss up number seven.

What artist who sampled Gotye's?

Somebody that I used to know on anxiety.

Alex Doechii Doechii is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville East.

A mihrab is a niche in a wall that indicates the qibla, which refers to how Muslims orient themselves during what activity.

>> Prayer.

>> Prayer is correct.

Toss up number eight.

What protagonist who goes into debt making lavish purchases from Monsieur Leroux is the title wife of the doctor charged in a novel by Gustave Flaubert.

>> Madame butterfly.

>> I cannot accept that.

DuQuoin.

Anyone want to give it a shot?

>> Okay, milady.

>> The answer we were looking for was Madame Bovary.

Toss up number nine.

What country?

Which conducted the Chagai-I nuclear test in 1998 to match the Smiling Buddha test done by India, was founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Alex.

>> Pakistan.

>> Pakistan is correct.

Your bonus.

Bellville East.

In 1216, what English king died while fighting rebellious barons and was succeeded by Henry the Third.

>> King John.

>> King John is correct.

Toss up number ten.

What title character sings the champagne aria to his servant Leporello to arrange a party for seducing women in an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

>> Ben Figaro.

>> I cannot accept that DuQuoin.

The answer we were looking for was Don Giovanni.

Our next question is again a media question.

This time it is a still image.

So please again refer to the screen behind me.

This free to play cross-platform Jose Fortnite.

Fortnite is correct and you get to finish the question.

Since it is a media question, there is no bonus.

But we got to see a picture Fortnite.

So that's pretty exciting.

All right, toss up number 11.

What D.C.

landmark, which is 2030ft long by 167ft wide, received a June 2026 renovation, but was soon Ben.

>> Pool of reflection.

>> We can accept it.

Okay.

All right.

Your bonus DuQuoin.

Johann Brahms Hungarian dances inspired the Slavonic dances.

By what?

Composer of the American String Quartet.

>> Pass.

>> Belleville East.

>> Yo-Yo Ma.

>> That is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Antonin Dvorak.

Tossup number 12.

What?

President gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, at which he told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall in 1987.

Alex.

>> Ronald Reagan.

>> Ronald Reagan is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville.

East.

In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt nominated what.

Activist to be Secretary of Labor, making her the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

>> This was FDR.

I don't get it.

>> Marilyn Monroe.

>> That's incorrect.

DuQuoin.

>> No answer.

>> No answer.

All right.

The answer we were looking for was Frances Perkins.

All right, toss up number 13, rayon.

The first artificial fabric is made from what?

Polymer?

That is comprised of beta one four linked glucose residues and cannot be digested by humans.

>> Then nylon.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from DuQuoin?

Tate.

>> Gossamer.

>> That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was cellulose.

Tossup number 14.

What author whose story collection, The Sweet The Land of Sweet Forever was posthumously published in 2025, wrote about Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

>> Alex Harper Lee.

>> Harper Lee is correct.

I love when they give me a misleading pronunciation guide.

It's so much fun.

Your bonus Belleville East the Australian Capital Territory, is completely surrounded by what Australian state, which contains the City of Sydney.

>> New South Wales.

>> New South Wales is correct.

Toss up number 15.

What pipe smoking general fled from Corregidor and promised to return to the Philippines as Supreme Allied commander in the Pacific in World War Two.

>> Alex general MacArthur.

>> That is correct.

Your bonus question.

Belleville East.

In July 2025, what states?

Former Governor Roy Cooper announced he would run for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Tom Tillis.

>> Garland.

Kentucky.

>> Kentucky.

>> Kentucky is incorrect.

DuQuoin.

>> Georgia.

>> Georgia is also incorrect.

We were looking for North Carolina.

Our next question is another media question.

This time once again an image.

So please refer to the screen behind me.

This American filmmaker is a major figure of the new Hollywood era of cinema and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time.

Jaws, E.T.

and Schindler's.

>> List Steven Spielberg.

>> Steven Spielberg is correct again, since it is a media question, there is no bonus.

But alas, we have to look at a picture, which is always fun.

At number 16, the Gilgamesh Basin is on what moon that makes its own magnetic field and is both the largest Galilean moon.

Alex Ganymede Ganymede is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville East.

The molecule epinephrine can be converted into non epinephrine by removing a methyl group which has.

How many carbon atoms?

>> Four.

>> That is incorrect.

DuQuoin.

>> One.

>> One is the answer we were looking for.

That is correct.

And that takes us in to our coveted lightning round.

>> Bom bom bom bom bom.

>> All right.

For those of you that do not know how the lightning round will work, here's how it will.

We will go through a series of rapid fire questions.

You'll get to pick your category.

We'll start with the team that is behind right now, which is currently DuQuoin.

And if you know the answer, great.

Answer it.

You'll get your points.

If you don't know the answer, you can pass.

And if time allows, we will come back to it.

But if you get it wrong, there is no second chances here, so just pass it.

If you don't know it.

All right, your options.

DuQuoin.

American short stories.

Phobias.

Tennessee and orange.

What do you choose?

>> Phobias.

>> Phobias it is.

I always love seeing everyone's faces to the.

To all the categories.

All phobias.

What term ending in phobia describes the fear of dot dot, dot.

Are you guys ready?

Three.

Two.

One.

Spiders.

>> Arachnophobia.

>> Correct.

Heights.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Tight spaces.

>> Claustrophobia.

>> Correct.

Water.

>> Hydrophobia.

>> That is incorrect.

Fire.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

[MUSIC] >> Blood.

[MUSIC] >> Haemophobia.

>> Correct.

Gigantic things.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Cats.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Clouds.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Submerged.

Man made objects such as shipwrecks.

>> Some kind of phobia.

>> That is correct.

Going back to heights.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> Going back to fire.

Pyrophobia Pyrophobia is correct.

Going back to gigantic things.

[MUSIC] All right.

So in review we had heights, which is acrophobia.

Then water was aquaphobia, not hydrophobia.

Uh, gigantic things was megalophobia.

Cats is phobia.

Clowns was coulrophobia.

And then you got the last one as well.

Okay.

All right.

Going on up to Belleville East.

Your remaining categories to choose from are American short stories, Tennessee and Orange.

Which do you choose?

>> Orange.

>> Orange.

Great choice.

Answer the following about things related to orange or oranges.

Are you guys ready?

Three.

321 state whose Orange County contains Anaheim, California.

That is correct.

Vitamin and oranges and other citrus that prevents scurvy.

Vitamin C?

That is correct.

New York University, whose sports teams are the orange.

[MUSIC] Pass scrapings of an orange rind or peel used for flavoring zest.

Correct.

City whose L has an orange line running to Midway Airport.

>> Chicago.

>> Correct.

Empire that fought against the Orange Free State in the second Boer War.

[MUSIC] >> British.

[MUSIC] >> I can accept that.

[MUSIC] Actress who played Piper Chapman on Orange is the New Black.

[MUSIC] >> Pass.

>> European country whose national soccer team wears orange jerseys.

>> The.

Netherlands.

>> Correct.

City that hosts college football's Orange Bowl.

[MUSIC] >> Los Angeles.

>> That is incorrect.

San Francisco landmark whose color is international orange.

[MUSIC] That is time.

So the answer to that last one, the landmark, whose color is International orange, is the Golden Gate Bridge.

The city that hosts college football's Orange Bowl was Miami, Florida.

The actress, who played Piper Chapman on Orange Is the New Black was Taylor Schilling, and then the New York University, whose sports teams are the orange was Syracuse University.

All right.

And that concludes our lightning round.

So going back to our regularly scheduled toss ups, toss up number 17.

What author who wrote about an old worker named Silas in his poem The Death of the Hired Man, described paths in a yellow wood in the road not taken.

>> Jackson Frost.

>> Frost is correct.

Your bonus.

Belleville East.

In 1613, Michael I founded What dynasty, which succeeded the Rurikids after the time of troubles.

>> Two terms.

>> I delegate Alex.

>> Tutors.

>> That is incorrect.

DuQuoin.

>> No answer.

>> The answer we were looking for was the Romanovs.

All right, toss up number 18.

What country?

Whose Wadi Rum is nicknamed the Valley of the moon is home to the ruins of the ancient city of Petra.

And Alex.

>> Jordan.

>> Jordan is correct.

Your bonus.

Bellville East.

In 2024, Kelly Ortberg became CEO of what company after its share price fell in response to an incident involving a blown out door plug on a Max nine.

>> Oh, I know.

>> I delegate Alex.

>> Boeing Boeing.

>> Is correct.

Toss up number 19 what artist Sings Finishing the hat in a Stephen Sondheim musical about his pointillist painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande.

>> Julius.

>> Georges Seurat.

>> Georges Seurat is correct.

Musical theater.

Bonus question.

Belleville, East Quentin Jacobsen leaves Florida to search for Margo Roth Spiegelman in what John Green novel, whose title refers to fake place names printed on maps.

>> I delegate Alex.

>> The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

>> That is incorrect.

The.

>> Fault in Our Stars.

>> Is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was paper towns.

Toss up number 20.

What show in which Lester's body is found in the fountain of the Arconia complex is a Hulu comedy starring Steve Martin and Selena Gomez as sleuths.

>> Alex.

Only murders in the building.

>> Only murders in the building is correct.

Really glad they gave me a pronunciation guide for Hulu.

I needed that.

Your bonus.

Belleville East Hiram Johnson was the vice presidential nominee of what?

Third party that received the second most electoral votes in the 1912 presidential election.

>> I delegate Alex.

>> The Bull Moose Party.

>> I can accept that the Bull Moose Party.

It is.

All right.

Our next question is another media question.

And this time it is a video.

So once again refer your gaze to the TV.

This pair is known for their heckling in The Muppet Show from their box seats.

>> Alex Astoria and Statler.

>> I don't know if I can accept that.

I cannot accept that DuQuoin.

Anyone want to take a shot at it?

Any Muppet fans?

Clearly not.

The answer we were looking for was Statler and Waldorf.

>> I got his wife.

>> Which is good to know too.

All right, we're turning back to toss ups.

Toss up 21.

What country?

Where?

The assassination of George L e Gaitan began.

The La Violencia Civil War was home to the Cali and Medellin Cocaine cartels.

>> Alex.

Columbia.

>> Columbia is correct.

Your bonus.

Bellville.

East.

David Robinson, a graduate of the US Naval Academy nicknamed the Admiral, played his entire NBA career for what?

>> Team delegate Alex.

>> San Antonio Spurs.

>> San Antonio.

Spurs.

Is correct.

Tossup 22 what country?

Which is the subject of a satirical essay by Horace Minor about Nacirema customs, is home to the Yaqui Pueblo and Navajo peoples.

>> Jackson, United States.

>> United States is correct.

Your bonus.

What word for a kind of people who the speaker is waiting for in a poem by Constantine Cavafy comes from a Greek term for non-Greek people.

>> Outsiders.

>> That is incorrect, but I like the guess the coin infidel.

It's also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was barbarians.

Toss up 23.

What biblical prophet who tells God to speak for your servant is listening is the son of Hannah who anoints Saul and David as kings of Israel.

Ben.

>> Peter.

>> That is incorrect.

Anyone from DuQuoin?

Doechii John that is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was.

Samuel.

Toss up.

24 what man who led the expedition of the thousand that conquered Sicily and Naples was a red shirt whose militia supported Italian unification.

That is time.

The answer we were looking for was Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Toss up number 25.

What group of figures who turned the Pierides into magpies includes Clio and Terpsichore, and is made up of nine goddesses who represent the arts.

>> Ben the muses.

>> Muses is correct.

Your bonus.

Bellville East.

What European kingdom was ruled by the Aviz dynasty, which was founded by John the First from 1385 to 1580.

>> England.

>> I cannot accept that.

DuQuoin >> The Anglo-Saxons.

>> I also cannot accept that the answer we were looking for was Portugal.

All right.

Our next question is another media question.

Once again, it is an image.

So please refer to the screen behind me.

This American singer.

>> Alex Michael Jackson.

>> Michael Jackson, that is the quickest one of those has gone by.

And once again, there's no bonus.

But you got a fun picture.

All right, toss up number 26.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What number?

Equal to Sixscore is the degree measure of Ben one.

>> 21.

>> 20 is correct.

Wow.

Okay.

Your bonus.

Belleville East.

What physical quantities?

Conservation explains Kepler's second law and is demonstrated when a figure skater pulls in their arms to speed up their spin.

>> Angular momentum.

>> Angular momentum.

>> Angular momentum is correct.

Toss up 27.

What missionary whose second expedition reached Lake Nyasa and mapped the Zambezi River, also named Victoria Falls, and was sought by Henry Stanley.

The answer we were looking for was David Livingstone.

But I could also accept Doctor Livingstone, I presume, as the note implies.

task number 28.

What three letter word, which in the name of a PS5 launch title precedes Snax identifies the only Pokemon type of Burmy, Pinsir and Caterpie Ben.

>> Bug.

>> Bug is correct.

Caterpie.

By the way, my bad.

Your bonus.

Belleville.

East.

What Englishman described a fleet foot on the sill of shade in his poem to an Athlete Dying Young, which appears in his collection A Shropshire Lad.

>> Housman.

>> Housman is correct.

And that seems like that's all the time we have for this evening.

All right.

It comes down to the moment.

The winner.

I have to announce it.

It's time.

Okay.

It is a great pleasure to announce that Belleville East, you are the winners of tonight's match of Hi-q.

But we want to thank DuQuoin for coming out and having a good time with us, too.

All right.

This has been this rendition of Scholastic Hi-q.

Thank you for tuning in.

And as your host, Parker.

Have a good evening.

And remember to be kind to one another and share the love.

All right.

Have a good night, y'all.

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