(bright music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "Hi-Q", the show where knowledge rules.

We have a brand new 33rd season and with it a new host.

You may notice that I am not renowned Canadian, Ethan Neir.

I'm instead Olivia Manning coming to you from the renowned school of Theater and Dance and ready to learn.

Today, on the inaugural episode of our new season, we have two fantastic teams.

Let's hear about them.

On the bottom we have Du Quoin with Mackenzie, Jessi, Xander, and Evette, and on the top we have Fortitude with Peter, Emma, Blake, and Layla.

Since we're all new here, I'm going to do a quick review of the rules before we get into questions.

We are going to begin with a series of toss-up questions.

Either team can buzz in and answer for 10 points.

The team who gets the question right can then move on to a bonus question where they can answer it for 20 points or the other team can steal it for 10 points.

There will also be a series of math questions and media questions, but we'll get into those later.

There will also be a lightning round.

We'll get into that later.

The biggest rule right now is the interruption rule, the foreboding interruption rule.

If you interrupt me, Olivia Manning, while I'm telling you a question, if you get the answer right, nothing happens.

You win and we move on with our day.

If you get it wrong, five points automatically goes to that other team and you cannot answer the question anymore.

The other team then gets the option.

So, remember that if you are going to interrupt me, just be right and we won't have any problems.

All right, are we ready to "Hi-Q"?

- Yeah!

- Let's go!

Our first toss-up question.

What substances whose condensation and step growth subtypes include nylon are molecules that consist of long chains of repeating?

Blake.

- What are polymers?

- You do not have to "Jeopardy" answer in, but yes, polymers is the correct answer.

That is 10 points for Team Fortitude.

Your bonus question.

George Cooper dies of a heart attack in the final season of what CBS sitcom, whose title character was played by Ian Armitage?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - What is "Peaky Blinders"?

- [Olivia] "Peaky Blinders" is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like the chance to steal?

- Yes, "Young Sheldon".

- "Young Sheldon" is correct.

That is 10 points to Du Quoin.

We are equal going into our second toss-up question.

What month in which most Europeans celebrate International Workers' Day is the month in which Americans celebrate Mother's Day and observe?

Blake again.

- May?

- May is correct.

Bonus question for Fortitude.

Tesla's gigafactories are used to make batteries containing what element whose pure form is the strongest reducing agent of any element?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Lithium.

- Lithium is correct.

Total 40 points up to Fortitude.

In what state did Tom Swazi win a 2024 election for a House seat once held by expelled Congressman George Santos representing parts of Long Island?

(buzzer beeping) Blake?

- Is that New York?

- New York is correct.

Bonus question.

What title character of a Charles Dickens novel eventually marries both Dora Spenlow and Agnes Wickfield?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - "David Copperfield"?

- "David Copperfield" is correct.

Fortitude running away with it.

What country's 1960s crisis included the attempted succession of Katanga and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba after its independence from Belgium?

(buzzer beeping) Blake?

- Is it Zimbabwe?

- Zimbabwe is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like to present an answer to the stage?

No answer from Du Quoin.

All right, the answer we were looking for was the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Next question.

What author of "In The Night Kitchen" wrote about Max being sent to bed in a wolf costume without supper in his book "Where the Wild Things Are"?

Author of "Where the Wild Things Are".

(buzzer beeping) Blake?

- Miller?

- Miller is incorrect.

Du Quoin?

All right, answer we were looking for was Maurice Sendak.

No worries.

It is time for our first media question.

May I direct your attention to the screen here?

This 2016 children's movie stars two main trolls.

Layla?

- "Trolls".

- "Trolls" is correct.

(contestants laughing) We're back to normal rules.

What country where the valley of the moon or Wadi room lies east of its port of Aqaba is south of Syria and has its capital at Amman?

(buzzer beeping) Layla?

- Oman.

- [Olivia] Oman is incorrect.

Du Quoin?

South of Syria has its capital at Amman.

(button clicking) Xander's pushing the button.

- Iran?

- Iran is incorrect.

All that work for little answers.

The correct answer was Jordan.

Apologies.

What painting in which the words, "Only 5 cents," are a part of an advertisement for Phillies cigars shows people in a diner and is by Edward?

Blake.

- What is "Nighthawks"?

- [Olivia] "Nighthawks" is in, is correct?

Sorry.

Once again, you do not have to "Jeopardy" this.

- Oh, I just like that.

(Olivia and contestants laughing) - I like the creative flare.

Your bonus question, Fortitude.

"A Manual For Grave Diggers" is one of the texts acquired by foster child, Liesel Meminger, in what Markus Zusak novel set in Nazi Germany?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) Emma?

- "The Book Thief".

- "The Book Thief" is correct.

In 2023, what country's Vox party lost most of its seat in the Cortes Generales during elections that secured Pedro Sanchez another term in Madrid?

- Spain.

- Spain is correct.

Du Quoin, your bonus question.

The bulletin of the atomic scientists administers what metaphorical construct that represents the time left until a potential global catastrophe?

- The doomsday clock.

- The doomsday clock.

- The doomsday clock is correct.

Next question.

What object, the source of the Orion meteor shower has a period of about 75 years?

(buzzer beeping) Blake?

- Is it Halley's Comet?

- Halley's Comet is correct.

Your bonus question, Fortitude.

What artist of the German Renaissance included a four by four magic square in his engraving Melancholia?

Melancholia 1, sorry.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Albrecht Durer.

- Albrecht Durer is correct.

Wow!

Next question.

What state in which the Port Royal experiment gave freed people land in the Sea Islands in 1862 saw the Civil War's first battle at Fort Sumter?

Blake.

- Is that South Carolina?

- That is in fact South Carolina.

Your bonus question.

What name is shared by a king of Thrace who owned a herd of flesh-eating horses and a son of Tydeus who injures Aphrodite during the Trojan War?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Androcles.

- [Olivia] Androcles is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like to take an attempt at steal?

- Patrocles?

- Patrocles is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Diomedes.

Our next media question.

If you would turn your attention to the screen.

In the 1990s this American singer, actress, dancer and television personality made her big debut as a dancer for the show "In Living Color".

Some of her, Layla.

- Jennifer Lopez.

- Jennifer Lopez is correct.

We would have also accepted J-Lo.

Back to our toss-ups.

Split system, which has a spirit linked in the title of a Max Weber book to the Protestant ethic causes commodity fetishism according to Karl Marx?

(buzzer beeping) Blake?

- Is it capitalism?

- Capitalism is correct.

Your bonus question, Fortitude.

What country the first to proclaim Christianity as its state religion did so after Gregory the Illuminator converted its King Tiridates III?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Ethiopia.

- Ethiopia is incorrect.

Du Quoin, attempt to steal.

- Italy?

- Italy is also incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Armenia, the Kingdom of Greater Armenia.

What author of "The Story of an Hour" and the collection "Bayou Folk" depicted Robert LeBron's romance with Edna Pontellier in her novel "The Awakening"?

Author of "The Awakening".

(buzzer beeping) Blake.

- Louisa May Alcott.

- Louisa May Alcott is incorrect.

Du Quoin?

All right, the answer we were looking for was Kate Chopin.

What president whose advisors were nicknamed the Ohio Gang and included Albert Fall died in office in 1923?

Blake.

- Harding.

- Harding is correct.

Your bonus question.

What island chain extends about 1,200 miles westward from mainland Alaska towards Russia's Kamchada Peninsula?

Kamchatka Peninsula, sorry.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Defer to Layla.

- [Olivia] De Fertile Layla is incorrect.

- No, I was deferring to her for the answer.

- Oh.

- My buzzer isn't working.

Oh, now it's working.

The Aleutian Islands.

- The Aleutian Islands is correct.

Apologies.

(contestants laughing) Yes, that is correct.

The Isabella Crater is on what planet whose highest point is Maxwell Montes and is home to landforms like Sedna, planitia, and Aphrodite Terra.

(buzzer beeping) Xander.

- Venus.

- Venus is correct.

Your bonus question, Du Quoin.

What Pennsylvanian who backed independence after being accused of leaking letters by the Privy Council helped draft the Declaration of Independence?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Thomas Jefferson.

- [Olivia] Thomas Jefferson is incorrect.

Fortitude.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Benjamin Franklin?

- Benjamin Franklin is correct.

10 points for Fortitude.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you hear that rumbling in the distance?

It is because it is time for our lightning round.

Here's how the lightning round works.

You are going to be given a number of topics.

You are going to choose your topic carefully, because then you get one minute and one minute only to answer 10 questions within that category.

Now, Du Quoin as you are trailing behind you get first pick of the litter as to what category you choose.

Your categories are provinces of Canada, Patrick Mahomes, Mexico, and The "Best".

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Do you know any provinces?

Do you wanna do that?

- Mexico are the best.

- Which one do you guys want?

- Does anything sound good?

- Canada.

- All right, we'll take provinces of Canada.

- Provinces of Canada, all right.

- Name these Canadian provinces.

Your minute will start in 3, 2, 1.

Its name means New Scotland in Latin?

- New Finland?

- [Olivia] Incorrect.

Contains such cities as Ottawa and Toronto.

You are allowed to pass.

- Ontario?

- [Olivia] Ontario is correct.

Borders the state of Washington.

- British Columbia.

- [Olivia] British Columbia is correct.

Prairie province named for a daughter of Queen Victoria?

- Alberta.

- Correct.

It's only official language is French?

- Quebec.

- Quebec is correct.

Contains the cities of Moose Jaw and Saskatoon.

- Saskatchewan.

- That is correct.

Surrounded by water and named for a son of King George III.

- Prince Edward Island.

- Correct.

Led from Winnipeg?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Northern Territories.

- Incorrect.

Easternmost province named for an island and a mainland region?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - New Finland, - Correct.

Bordered by Maine to the west and the Bay of Fundee to the south.

We are out of time.

Questions we got incorrect.

Just to go back over them.

Nova Scotia means New Scotland in Latin.

Prince Edward.

No, you got Prince Edward Island correct.

Manitoba is led from Winnipeg, and that one we just missed out on.

New Brunswick is bordered by Maine to the west and the Bay of Fundee to the south.

Very admirable performance from Du Quoin.

Fortitude, once more, your options are Patrick, Mahomes, Mexico, and The "Best".

- We are gonna go for The "Best".

- All right, name these people, places, and things involving bests.

Your 60 second starts in 3, 2, 1.

Band whose first drummer was Pete Best?

- Pass.

- In the sentence "I'm the best", best is this part of speech?

- Direct object.

- Incorrect.

Christopher Guest mockumentary about a dog competition?

- "The best place".

- Incorrect.

1984 martial arts film whose theme song declares you are the best around.

- "The Karate Kid".

- Correct.

Eight-legged steed Odin calls the best of all horses?

- Sea Biscuit?

- Incorrect.

In films the chief assistant to the gaffer or key grip?

- Pass.

- Poets who wrote about "The best-laid schemes of Mice and Men".

- John Steinbeck.

- Incorrect.

This woman sang "The Best" as well as "Total Eclipse of the Heart"?

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Electric chain store that owns Geek Squad?

- Best Buy.

- Correct.

American intellectual who wrote the play "The Best Man" and debated William F. Buckley, Jr.?

You're out of time.

Going back over those missed.

Band whose first drummer was Pete Best?

Is The Beatles.

In the sentence, "I'm the best".

Best is an adjective.

Christopher Guest mockumentary about a dog competition is "Best in Show".

Odin's eight-legged steed is called Sleipnir.

In films, the chief assistant to the gaffer is best boy or best girl.

Poet who wrote about "The best lay of schemes of mice and men," is Robert Burns.

Bonnie Tyler sang "The Best" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

And the American intellectual who wrote the play "The Best Man" is Gore Vidal.

After our lightning round, we are continuing back into toss-ups.

What book whose chapter 119 contains an acrostic poem based on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet is an Old Testament collection?

Blake.

- Psalms.

- Psalms is correct.

Your bonus question.

HCi equals ECI denotes what equation named for an Austrian that gives the probabilities of finding a electrons in certain regions of space.

- The Bohr equation?

- Sorry.

- The Bohr equation?

The Bohr equation?

- [Olivia] That is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like a chance to steal?

- Is it Schrodinger?

- [Olivia] Schrodinger is correct.

- Great job.

- Welcome to our third media question.

Like to direct your attention to the television.

This German apparel firm is the world's third largest sportswear maker.

The corporation creates and produces accessories and outfits.

- Buzz.

- Buzz.

- Sorry.

- Dang it.

- Oh, everybody tried to buzz, but nobody's winning.

- Yeah.

- We're gonna go with Jessi.

- Puma.

- Puma is correct.

Back to the toss-ups.

What French composer paid tribute to a Baroque composer in "Le Tombeau de Couperin" and composed a continuous crescendo over a steady rhythm in Bolero.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Mozart.

- Mozart.

- Do we buzz in?

- Oh, wait, was that a toss-up?

- [Olivia] That was a toss-up, yes.

- Mozart.

- Mozart is incorrect.

Du Quoin.

since you didn't buzz in, I technically am allowed to give you another chance.

All right, the answer we were looking for was Maurice Ravel.

This is a toss-up question.

What series of wars in which a group of junks were attacked in the battle of Kowloon arose partly from?

- Is that the "Boer Wars"?

- That is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like me to finish the question?

- Yes, please.

- What series of wars in which a group of junks were attacked in the Battle of Kowloon arose partly from China's crackdown on the trade of a narcotic?

No guesses?

We were looking for the opium wars.

Next toss-up.

Waves in what region of the EM spectrum are produced by cavity magnetrons in order to cause rapid dielectric heating of food in namesake ovens?

- Microwaves.

- Microwaves is correct.

Your bonus question, Fortitude.

What quantum mechanical principle holds that one cannot measure both a particle's position and its momentum with arbitrary precision?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Quantum uncertainty.

- Quantum uncertainty is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What author of "Too Late the Phalarope" described Mr. Carmichael agreeing to defend Arthur Jarvis's murderer Absalom in "Cry, the Beloved Country".

Blake.

- Oh, William Faulkner.

- William Faulkner is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like me to repeat the question?

What author of "Too Late the Phalarope" described Mr. Carmichael agreeing to defend Arthur Jarvis's murderer Absalom in "Cry, the Beloved Country".

(buzzer beeping) Xander.

- Fisher.

- Fisher is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Alan Paton.

What man took control of the New York Central Railroad in 1867 was nicknamed Commodore and founded a namesake university in Nashville.

Xander.

- Vanderbilt.

- Vanderbilt is correct.

Your bonus question Du Quoin.

3 August, 2023 papers suggest that a factor named for what cell fragments appear to reduce signs of aging in the brain?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Stem cells?

- Stem cells is incorrect.

Fortitude.

- Neurons?

(alarm beeping) - We are out of time, and neurons is incorrect.

We were looking for platelets.

The more you know.

Our next media question, the television.

Famously coining the tagline, just do it, this.

- Nike.

- Nike is correct.

Congratulations, Evette.

You were quicker than the television.

What state where Peter Welch succeeded former senate pro tem Patrick Leahy in 2023 is also represented by former Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders state.

(buzzer buzzing) We are out of time.

The answer we were looking for was Vermont.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) Next toss-up.

What scientist wrote "The Power of Movement in Plants, "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs", "The Descent of Man", and "The Voyage of the Beagle"?

(buzzer beeping) Blake.

- Charles Darwin.

- Charles Darwin is correct.

Your bonus question, Fortitude.

In 1969, Warren Berger replaced what man as chief justice of the United States?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Mueller.

- Mueller is incorrect.

Du Quoin, would you like a chance to steal?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Sure.

- Marshall.

- Marshall is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Earl Warren.

Next question.

What country whose city of Iacuto was the site of a major 1824 battle, contains the ruins of Cusco, which lies southeast of Machu Picchu?

(buzzer beeping) Jessi.

- He buzzed first.

- And or Xander.

- We're gonna go.

- I was buzzing.

Give it to her.

- Jessi.

- Peru.

- Peru is correct.

Your bonus question, Du Quoin.

Grasses account for most of the plants that use what pathway of carbon fixation that utilizes bundled sheath cells to maximize efficiency?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Ventricular.

- Ventricular is incorrect.

Fortitude?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Neurons?

- Neurons is incorrect.

We were looking for C4, carbon fixation.

- Oh.

- Or the Hatch Slack Pathway.

Our next question, what actor who played a coma survivor in "28 Days Later" is an Irishman who won an Oscar for playing the father of the atomic bomb in 2023's?

- Buzz.

- Buzz.

- Cillian Murphy.

- Cillian Murphy is correct.

Your bonus in question, Du Quoin.

In November, 2023, former President Moussa Dadis Camara was briefly broken out of jail in one African country's capital city Conakry?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Ethiopia.

- Ethiopia is incorrect.

That's a hot guess this episode.

Fortitude?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Let's go with Lesotho.

- Lesotho is incorrect.

We were looking for Guinea, the Republic of Guinea.

Our next question.

In what country were protestors led by Father Gopan were shot on 1905's Bloody Sunday did the February revolution of 19, Blake?

- Ireland.

- Ireland is incorrect.

Du Quoin, I will repeat the question for you.

In what country were protestors led by Father Gapon were shot on 1905's Bloody Sunday did the February revolution of 1917 topple Czar Nicholas II?

(buzzer beeping) - Russia.

- Russia is correct.

Your bonus question, Du Quoin.

The Roman era Alcantara Bridge was built over what longest river of the Iberian Peninsula, which flows through Lisbon?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) (buzzer buzzing) Du Quoin is out of time.

Fortitude, would you like an option to steal?

- It's Portugal.

- Portugal is incorrect.

We were looking for the name of the river, which is the Tagus River.

No bonus points on that round.

Our next media question, the television.

This California native musician has gained fame for her dance pop and electro pop sound.

Layla.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - JoJo Siwa.

- JoJo Siwa is incorrect.

- Kesha?

- Kesha is correct.

Those points are going to Du Quoin.

Next toss-up.

This is a math question.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is one possible value of the sign of x, if cosine of X is 3/5 given sine squared plus cosine squared equals one?

(buzzer beeping) Blake.

- Is it 4/5?

- 4/5 is correct.

- Okay.

- All right, your bonus question is not a math question.

This is also the last question of the game.

CFCs were banned, because of their role in depleting the stratospheric concentrations of what allotrope of oxygen.

- Ozone.

- The ozone is correct.

(bell ringing) Do you hear that gang?

That means we are out of time for this episode of "Hi-Q".

Let's look at the scores.

At the bottom, we have Du Quoin with 215 points and the winner of today's episode, Fortitude, with a whopping 310 points.

This is your host, Olivia Manning, signing off for tonight.

Goodbye, good evening and good night.

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