(bright music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "Hi-Q," the show where you're either a smart fella or a fart smella.

As always, I'm your host, Olivia Manning, and today our potential fart smellas are from Bond County and Edwards County.

Representing Bond County are William, Eli, Camden, and Coleson.

And representing Edwards County are Cooper, Adriel, a completely separate Eli, and Brayden.

Here are the rules.

I will begin with a series of toss-up questions with a potential for 10 points.

The team that gets it right will then continue on to a bonus question, which only they can answer, for 20 points, but if they get it incorrect, the other team can swoop in for a potential steal of 10 points.

There will also be lightning rounds, media questions, all of that sort of thing.

Math questions that require pencil and paper.

But all of that will come when it happens.

For now, are we ready to "Hi-Q"?

(players murmur indistinctly) Let's go.

The only way to begin is by beginning.

So without further ado, our first tossup question.

In March, 2024, what country elected the leader of its banned PASTEF Party, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, as president, allowing him to govern from Dakar?

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- Bangladesh.

- Bangladesh is incorrect.

Edwards County?

(buzzer dings) Red Eli?

- Nepal?

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for Senegal.

Close.

Our next toss up question.

What insects engage in behaviors like keeping aphids for their honeydew and growing, William?

- Ants?

- Ants is correct.

Our rule, I forgot to mention, the dreaded interruption rule.

If, like William just did, you interrupt me while I am reading the question, if you get it correct, no harm, no foul.

You get your points and move on with your day.

But if you are incorrect, that is five points to the other team and your team no longer gets the option to answer the question.

So with that final rule established, and excellently portrayed by William, your bonus question, Bond County.

What country, which celebrates the Barranquilla Carnival before Lent, is the birthplace of actress Sofia Vergara and singer Shakira?

(players whispering) - Mexico?

- Mexico is incorrect.

Edwards County, the chance to steal.

- Brazil?

- Brazil is incorrect.

The answer we were looking for was Colombia.

Our next toss up.

What woman wrote about a dog who becomes a football hero in "Ribsy" and portrayed an Oregon girl known as the brave and the pest in the "Ramona" series?

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- Beverly Cleary?

- Beverly Cleary is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

In 1971, an uprising at what kind of place in Attica, New York was suppressed by state police, who killed over 40 people?

(players whispering) - A mill?

- Mill is incorrect.

Edwards County, chance to steal.

- Factory?

- Factory is incorrect.

We were looking for a prison.

A state prison in Attica, New York.

Next question, what composer, whose cello concerto in E minor made Jacqueline Du Pre famous, included the tune "Land of Hope and Glory" and his "Pomp and Circumstance"?

Camden?

- Grieg?

- Sorry?

- Grieg.

- [Olivia] That is incorrect.

Edwards County?

(buzzer dings) Red Eli?

- Beethoven?

- Beethoven is incorrect.

We were looking for Edward Elgar.

No bonus question on that.

Joseph Fourier first described what effect in which water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, and certain other gases trap some of the sun's energy?

(buzzer dings) Coleson.

- The greenhouse gas effect.

- Greenhouse gas effect is correct.

Your bonus question.

In 2021, what wide receiver led the NFL in receptions, receiving touchdowns, and receiving yards as a member of the Los Angeles Rams?

- Cooper Kupp?

- Cooper Kupp is correct.

Total of 30 points for Bond County there.

Our first media question, if you could turn your attention from me to the television in front of you.

This independent branch of the US federal government specializes in aeronautics- (buzzer dings) William?

- NASA.

- NASA is correct.

There are no bonus questions for the media.

It's just whatever's on the television.

Our next toss up.

What event, which led to Giles Corey's death by pressing, began with accusations- (buzzer dings) William?

- Salem Witch Trials.

- Salem Witch Trials is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

What country, whose highest peak is named after Arthur Conan Doyle, contains ancient Maya ruins at Caracol and is governed from Belmopan?

- Belize.

- Belize is correct.

Bond County on a roll.

Our next question.

What country contains both Gir Forest, the last wild habitat of the Asiatic lion, and a tiger reserve on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra?

Maharashtra.

Eli?

(buzzer dings) - India.

- India is correct.

Blue Eli, apologies.

We have to keep track of them somehow.

Your bonus question.

In an annual Virginia tradition suspended due to COVID, what animals swim across the channel between Chincoteague and Assateague Island?

(players whispering) - Ducks.

- Ducks is incorrect.

Edwards County, the chance to steal.

- Sharks.

- Sharks is incorrect.

We were looking for ponies.

The ponies swim across the channel.

How delightful.

Our next toss up.

What type of materials, which Lee and Kim claimed LK-99 was in 2023, have no losses from heating due to their electrical resistance being zero, Camden?

- Insulators?

- Insulators is incorrect.

Edwards County?

(buzzer dings) Cooper?

- Conductors.

- [Olivia] I'm gonna need you to be a little bit more specific than conductors.

- Superconductors.

- Superconductors is correct.

- Great job.

- All right, your bonus question.

This is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

Remember Bond County, you have a chance to steal.

Are you ready?

What integer (laughs) what integer equals the quantity 101 squared minus 99 squared, which can be found using a difference of squares?

(players whispering) (buzzer blares) Unfortunately we are out of time.

The answer we were looking for was 400.

I'm all out of sorts today.

Apologies Bond County.

Our next tossup question, what liberal party head, whose government passed the official Languages Act enshrining bilingualism, was Canada's prime minister throughout the 1970s?

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- Trudeau.

- [Olivia] Trudeau is, ooh, we're gonna need you to be a little bit more specific.

- Pierre - Pierre Trudeau is correct.

Your bonus question.

What Duchess of Aquitaine was married to both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England during the 12th century?

(players whispering) - Eleanor?

- Eleanor of Aquitaine is correct.

Your next toss up.

What anthropologist, whose methods in the 1920s were criticized by Derek Freeman, described- (buzzer dings) William?

- Mead?

- Mead is correct.

Your bonus question.

A modern aristocrat mimics the title emperor in "Henry IV," a drama by what absurdist Italian writer of the play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"?

- Pirandello.

- Pirandello is correct.

Your second media question.

The television.

In this 3D animated television series, Skipper, Camden?

(buzzer dings) - "Penguins from Madagascar."

- Yeah, "Penguins of Madagascar," but two of the more important words there.

All right, moving on back to our toss ups.

What property is possessed by vectors whose cross product is zero and is possessed by lines in a plane with equal slopes since they never, Camden?

- Parallel.

- Parallel is correct.

Your bonus question.

What African American singer, whose 1939 recording of "Strange Fruit" protested southern lynchings, was named Lady Day?

- Billie Holiday.

- Billie Holiday is correct.

What teenage boy, who watches inter-dimensional cable TV with his sister, Summer.

(buzzer dings) William?

- Rick.

- [Olivia] That is incorrect.

(buzzer dings) - Morty.

- Edwards County?

- Morty - Morty is correct.

There were two possible names.

All right, your bonus question, Edwards County.

In the 1990s, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization made steps toward peace by signing a pair of accords, named for what European capital?

(players whispering) - Oslo?

- Oslo is correct.

Congratulations Edwards County.

Your next question.

What lake that receives the Shari River is found in the Sahel region and borders four African nations.

Eli?

- Lake Victoria.

- [Olivia] Lake Victoria is incorrect.

Edwards County, would you like me to continue the question?

- Yeah.

- All right, I'll start over.

What lake that receives the Shari River is found in the Sahel region and borders four African nations, including its namesake, governed from N'Djamena?

(buzzer dings) Adriel?

- Malawi?

- Malawi's incorrect.

Lake Chad was the lake we were looking for.

Our next toss up.

What businessman gave his name to the colony in what is now Zimbabwe, founded the diamond company, De Beers, and established a scholarship to Oxford?

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- Morgan - Morgan is incorrect.

Edwards County?

(buzzer dings) Adriel?

- Smith.

- Smith is incorrect.

We were looking for Rhodes, the Rhodes Scholars, Rhodes Scholarship.

No bonus question on that one.

What god, who pulled a sword from the tail of the eight headed dragon, Orochi, is the sibling of the moon god, William?

(buzzer dings) - Amaterasu?

- Amaterasu is incorrect.

Edwards County, I'll repeat the question.

What god, who pulled a sword from the tail of the eight headed dragon, Orochi, is the sibling of the moon god, Tsukuyomi, and the sun goddess, Amaterasu?

(buzzer dings) Brayden?

- Anubis.

- Anubis is incorrect.

We were looking for Susanoo.

No bonus question on that one.

Time for an audio question.

It's like the media question, but I don't think the TV turns on.

This famous R&B song was featured on her latest album, "SOS."

(indistinct) Brayden?

(buzzer dings) - SZA.

- SZA is correct.

Again, no bonus questions on audio.

It's just whatever comes through the speakers.

Our next tossup question.

What element, whose deficiency causes goiter, is a dark, Camden?

(buzzer dings) - Oh, wait.

- Iodine.

- Iodine is correct.

Bonus question for Bond County.

What author of the two line poem, "In a Station of the Metro," included Chinese characters in his long poem, "The Cantos."

- Ezra Pound.

- Ezra Pound is correct.

All right.

Our next round is special because it, ladies and gentlemen, is the lightning round.

(player mimics thunder) There's a sound effect usually.

(thunder booms) Duck for cover!

All right, for those of you who do not understand how the lightning round works, here's how it works.

I have in front of me four topics.

Our teams will be able to choose from these four topics and within those topics are 10 questions that they have to answer within 60 seconds.

Lightning round, fast as possible.

Since Edwards County is trailing behind, you get the option of choosing between all four topics.

Your topics are as follows.

Literary Families, Islands, U.S.

Houses, Groups of Five.

- Groups of Five - Groups of Five.

All righty.

(players whispering) (player coughs) (players whispering) Groups of Five.

Answer the following about groups of five people or things.

Your 60 seconds begins in three, two, one.

First of five books of the Torah.

- Pass - Pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam.

- Pass.

- Largest of the Great Lakes.

- Superior - Correct.

Five member boy band that included Justin Timberlake.

- One Direction - Incorrect.

Mathematician who proposed five postulates in the elements.

- Pythagoras?

- Incorrect.

Nation led from Wellington that is in the Five Eyes Alliance - Netherlands?

- Incorrect.

US city in which the five families ran the mafia.

- Chicago?

- Incorrect.

Psychiatrist who developed five stages of grief.

- No answer.

I mean, pass.

- [Olivia] Stoic philosopher and last of the five good emperors.

(players whispering) - Marcus Aurelius?

- Correct.

Mesoamerican civilization that believed in a cycle of five suns.

- Aztec?

- Correct.

Back to the ones you passed.

First of the five books of the Torah.

That is the end of your 60 seconds.

All right, back to ones that you missed.

First of the five books of the Torah is the book of Genesis.

Hajj is the pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam.

The five member boy band that includes Justin Timberlake is NSYNC.

Euclid was the mathematician who proposed five postulates in the elements.

The nation led from Wellington is New Zealand.

And the US city in which the five families ran the mafia is New York, New York City specifically.

The psychiatrist who developed the five stages of grief is Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

However, that is a solid 30 points for Edwards County.

Congratulations.

All right, Bond County, once again your three options are Literary Families, Islands, and U.S.

Houses.

- We're gonna do literary families.

- All right.

Name the authors who created these fictional families.

Your 60 seconds begins in three, two, one.

The title family of "The Brothers Karamazov."

- Dostoevsky.

- Correct.

The Finch family in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

- Harper Lee.

- Correct.

The Baudelaire orphans in "A series of Unfortunate Events."

- Snicket.

- Correct.

The Wingfield family in "The Glass Menagerie."

- Williams - Correct.

The Caulfield family in "The Catcher in the Rye."

- Salinger.

- [Olivia] The Pevensie children in "The Chronicles of Narnia."

- Lewis.

- Correct.

The Tyrone family in "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

- O'Neill.

- Correct.

The Darling family in "Peter Pan."

- Pass.

- [Olivia] An unnamed father and son known as the man and the boy in "The Road."

- Kerouac?

- Incorrect.

The Jong and Woo families in "The Joy Luck Club."

- Tan.

- Correct.

Back to the ones you missed.

The Darling family in "Peter Pan."

- No answer.

- All right.

That is all the questions we have in that category.

The Darling family in "Peter Pan" was written by J.M.

Barrie.

And the unnamed father and son in "The Road" is written by Cormack McCarthy.

- McCarthy.

McCarthy is the author of "The Road."

All right, congratulations on everyone during that lightning round.

We are continuing on back to our toss ups.

What composer, who referenced gossip in the title of his "Trisch-Trasch-Polka," was an Austrian who wrote many waltz's, including "The Blue Danube"?

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- Strauss.

- [Olivia] Gonna need a little bit more specific.

- Richard Strauss.

- Again?

- Richard Strauss.

- That is incorrect.

Edwards County?

(buzzer dings) Red Eli.

- Levi Strauss.

- Levi Strauss is incorrect.

Johann Strauss.

Johann Strauss II.

No bonus question on that.

What party, whose members discussed secession during the Hartford Convention, rivaled the Democratic Republicans and supported Alexander Hamilton?

Blue Eli?

- Federalists?

- Federalist is correct.

Your bonus question Bond County.

A number of US cities have banned new Dollar Stores from opening to reduce what areas, which feature limited access to affordable fresh food?

- Food desert.

- Food desert?

- Food desert is correct.

- Crazy.

Next toss up.

What city, which names a trilogy that includes Sugar Street- - Cairo.

- Cairo is correct.

Wow.

Bonus question.

The death of the childless Charles II in 1700 began what war that ended with the signing of the Peace of Utrecht?

(players whispering) - War of the Austrian Succession.

- War of the Austrian Succession is incorrect.

Edwards County?

- War of the Spanish Succession, - War of the Spanish Succession is correct.

Nice steal Edwards County.

Our next question, pencil and paper ready.

What is the third term of an arithmetic sequence whose first term is six and whose fifth term is 30?

(buzzer dings) Brayden?

- 18.

- 18 is correct.

Your bonus question, Edwards County, does not require pencil and paper, so don't have to worry about that.

What fundamental interaction, which is carried by gluons, holds together the protons and neutrons in an atoms nucleus?

- Cytoplasm?

- Incorrect.

Bond County?

- The weak nuclear force.

- The weak nuclear force is incorrect.

We were looking for the strong nuclear force.

So close and yet so far.

Our next media question.

Once again, the television.

This Seattle born actress got her lead role playing the title, Camden?

(buzzer dings) - Dove Cameron.

- Dove Cameron is correct.

Again, no bonus questions there.

Back to the toss ups.

We're moving fast.

What novel, which describes how 96 humans are produced from one egg via Bokanovsky's process, William?

- "Brave New World."

- "Brave New World" is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

Since 2021, what country has cracked down on alleged monopolistic practices by companies such as Tencent and Alibaba?

(players whispering) - China?

- China is correct.

Our next toss up.

What state's 2022 gubernatorial election, the closest of the year, saw former TV anchor, Kari Lake, defeated by Katie Hobbs, who took office in Phoenix?

- Arizona?

- Arizona is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

What Whig politician, often considered Britain's first Prime Minister, resigned in 1742 after 20 years in office?

(players whispering) - Grenville.

- Grenville?

- [Olivia] Grenville is incorrect.

Edwards County, the chance to steal.

- Johnson?

- Johnson is incorrect.

We were looking for Robert Walpole.

Next toss up.

What war, during which we treating troops used the Highway of Death and set many oil fires- Eli, Blue Eli.

- The Gulf War.

- The Gulf War is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

What author, who wrote the alternative history novel, "The Plot Against America," depicted fictional writer Nathan Zuckerman in many of his books?

- Green.

- Green is incorrect.

Edwards County, the chance to steal.

- Mark Twain.

- Mark Twain is incorrect but a valiant effort.

We were looking for Philip Roth.

(players whispering) What religion, whose concept of Miri Piri combines temporal and spiritual authority, regards the Adi Granth as a holy text and was once led by gurus?

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- Sikhism - Sikhism is correct.

Your bonus question, Bond County.

In 2024, Kenya called on Tanzania to stop issuing hunting licenses for what large animals to curb cross border poaching in Amboseli Wildlife Park?

- Rhino.

- Rhino is incorrect.

Edwards County, you have a chance to steal.

(players whispering) - Hippo.

- Hippo is incorrect.

We were looking for elephants.

They're protecting the African elephants.

(players whispering) What novel, whose protagonist writes to her sister, Nettie, and becomes Shug Avery's lover, centers on a girl named Celie and is by Alice Walker.

(buzzer dings) Camden?

- "Beloved."

- "Beloved" is incorrect.

Edwards County the chance to steal.

Just kidding.

You're not stealing anything.

This is a toss up.

Chance to claim what's rightfully yours.

(buzzer blares) We were looking for "The Color Purple."

Our next media question.

The television.

The namesake of this brand is a live streaming video service.

Coleson?

- Twitch.

- Twitch is correct.

Razor sharp on that one.

- Thank you.

- What actress, who appeared in "ET" and has her own daytime talk show, co-starred with Adam Sandler in both "The Wedding Singer" and "50 First Dates."

(buzzer dings) Red Eli?

- Sofia Vergara.

- Sofia Vergara is incorrect.

Good callback, though.

Bond County.

Camden?

(buzzer dings) - Oprah Winfrey.

- Oprah Winfrey is incorrect.

We were looking for Drew Barrymore.

You guys aren't rom-com fans?

No bonus question on that one.

Our next toss up.

What man, who called the English "mad as March hares" in "The Daily Telegraph Affair," dismissed Otto von Bismarck and was the last German- Adriel?

- Wilhelm the Second.

- Once again.

- Wilhelm the Second.

- Wilhelm the Second is correct.

Your bonus question, Edwards County.

What Nobel laureate included stories of music and nightfall in his 2009 book, "Nocturnes," and wrote about the Butler Stevens in, "The Remains of the Day"?

(players whispering) - Johnson.

- Is incorrect.

Bond County, chance to steal.

- Ishiguro.

- Ishiguro is correct.

Kazuo Ishiguro.

What state, which contains the eastern portion of the Ouachita Mountains shares its name with a river that flows through Pine Bluff and Little Rock?

(buzzer dings) Red Eli?

- Arkansas.

- Arkansas is correct.

Your bonus question, Edwards County.

In what type of fraction does the numerator exceed the denominator?

- Improper.

- Improper fractions is correct.

(doorbell dings) (Olivia gasps) You hear that?

That means that our time for this episode of "Hi-Q" is up.

Trailing behind, we've got Edwards County with a nice 135 points.

And the winner of today's episode, Bond County, with a whopping 430 points.

Congratulations to everyone involved, and as always, knowledge rules.

Goodnight, everybody.

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