(light music) (upbeat music) - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to HI-Q.

The only show where knowledge rules.

I'm your host, Olivia Manning, and today we have representing Marion, Emilee, Samuel Jobi and Ryan.

And on the top we have Isaiah, Liam, Mira and Thomas representing Freeburg.

Yah!

You guys get that a lot?

- No.

- All right.

Well, for those of you who do not understand how the game works, I have in my hand a series of toss up questions.

I'll ask openly to the crowd.

Either team can answer for a potential 10 points.

The team that gets the question correct will then move on to a bonus question which they and only they can answer for 20 potential points, but the other team can swoop in and steal for 10 bonus points.

There will also be math questions, media questions, the dreaded lightning round, but we will cross all those bridges when we get to them.

For now one important rule, the interruption rule.

If I'm reading out a question of any type and you interrupt me, if you get it correct, we move on with our day.

You get your points and your leg up.

If you get it wrong, you and your team are unable to answer the question.

The other team gets five bonus points and they get the chance to answer that question.

So if you interrupt me, just make sure you're right and we won't have any problems.

All right.

Are we ready to HI-Q?

Gonna need an affirmative yes.

- [all contestants] Yes.

- Awesome.

Our first tossup question of the game.

What Monarch depicted in the rainbow portrait, employed Francis Walsingham and never?

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel.

- Elizabeth I.

- Elizabeth I is correct.

Your bonus question.

Hassan Nasrallah leads what political group and militia based in Lebanon that supports Palestine and opposes Israel.

(contestants whispering) - Hezbollah?

- Hezbollah is correct.

Our next toss up.

What modern day country, home to expressionist movements called the Blue Rider and Die Brücke was where Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar?

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel.

- Germany.

- Germany is correct.

Your bonus question.

Under leaders like Osceola, what indigenous people fought three wars against the US to defend their homes in Florida?

(contestants whispering) - Seminole.

- Seminoles is correct.

What law holds up to the elastic limit, is named for an English scientist and is expressed as F=-kx.

Where K is the spring constant?

(buzzer bleeping) Isaiah.

- Tension.

- That is incorrect.

Marion?

All right, (buzzer wailing) there we go.

That sound means that we are out of time for that round.

I didn't know what any of those words meant either, so I can't blame you.

We were looking for Hooke's Law.

No bonus question there.

Our next tossup.

What Greek stole ambrosia from the gods tried to feed his son Pelops to them and was punished with an eternity just out of reach of fruit and water.

(buzzer bleeping) Ryan?

- Tantalus.

- Tantalus is correct.

Your bonus question.

The name of what type of flower appears four times in a line from Gertrude Stein's poem "Sacred Emily?"

(contestants whispering) - Rose.

- Rose is correct.

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Our next toss up.

What TV show which spawned two spinoffs featuring Isabel May as the narrator Elsa, titled "1883" and "1923" is a neo?

(buzzer bleeping) - Yellowstone.

- Yellowstone is correct.

Your bonus question.

What Queen succeeded her half brother Edward VI after wresting control of England from the supporters of Lady Jane Gray.

- Mary I.

- Mary I is correct, also known as Bloody Mary.

Our next tossup.

What city which Francis I of France, apt name, retook in the Battle of Marignano in 1515 was long ruled by the Visconti and Sforza families in northern Italy?

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel.

- Milan.

- Milan is correct.

Your bonus question.

In June, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul postponed what policy that would levy a $15 fee on cars entering lower Manhattan during the day?

(contestants whispering) - No answer.

- [Olivia] Alright, Freeburg, your chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Alright, we were looking for Congestion Pricing.

Our next toss up.

What British playwright depicted a man who uses his own hot blood to sign a contract with Mephistopheles a servant of Lucifer in "Dr.

Faustus?"

(buzzer blaring) We were looking for Marlowe.

Kit Marlowe, good friend of Shakespeare.

No bonus question there.

Our next tossup.

What disease commonly monitored using a hemoglobin A1C test can cause ketones in the urine and if uncontrolled high blood glucose levels?

(buzzer bleeping) Isaiah.

- Diabetes.

- Diabetes is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

The name of what type of location appears in the title of all five books in a Sarah J.

Mass series of fantasy novels set in a world of fairies?

(contestants whispering) - A court.

- Court is correct.

What Bohemian-born composer of "The Dumky Trio in E minor" used themes inspired by spirituals he heard while visiting Iowa in his "New World Symphony."

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel.

- DvoYák.

- DvoYák is correct.

Your bonus question.

What Alabama governor who was shot by Arthur Bremer while running for president, made the stand in the schoolhouse door to oppose integration?

- Wallace.

- Wallace is correct.

What man to whom Charles II granted land in America in exchange for debt relief, led Quakers in founding a namesake?- (buzzer bleeping) - Isaiah - William Penn.

- William Penn is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

The Sundarbans are mangrove forest that lies on what bay?

The world's largest?

(contestants whispering) - Chesapeake Bay.

- [Olivia] Chesapeake Bay is incorrect.

Marion, chance to steal.

- Bay of Bengal.

- Bay of Bengal is correct.

Nice steal Marion.

Our next toss up.

What number is sometimes called Archimedes' constant?

Is the number of radians equal to 180 degrees and is an irrational number equal to about 3.14?

(buzzer bleeping) Isaiah.

- Pi.

- Pi is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

In July, 2024 Italian police seized 42 tons of a product falsely labeled as what good, whose common varieties include one called EVOO?

- No answer.

- All right, Marion, your chance to steal.

- No answer.

- All right, we were looking for olive oil, apparently.

2024 Italy drama is crazy.

Our next tossup.

What school of psychology a focus of the book "Beyond Freedom and Dignity," included John Watson and operant conditioning researcher, BF Skinner?

(buzzer bleeping) - Mira.

- Behavioral.

- Behavioral is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

What director of the film adaptations of the "BFG" and "Ready Player One," fictionalized his upbringing in the 2022 film "The Fabelmans?"

(contestants whispering) - Steven Spielberg.

- Steven Spielberg is correct.

What 105 day war in which Simo Hayha had over 500 sniper kills ended with Finland ceding land to the USSR in 1940.

(buzzer bleeping) - Liam - The Winter War.

- Winter War is correct.

Your bonus question.

What term describes types of stored energy that can be 100% converted to kinetic energy?

- Potential energy.

- Potential energy is correct.

This next toss up question is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

What is the difference that results when calculating 3/5 minus 1/10, which requires a common denominator?

(buzzer bleeping) - 1/2.

- 1/2 is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg is not a math question, so you can put those pencil and paper down if you'd like.

Before proclaiming himself Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte held what title inspired by Republican Rome, in the French government of 1799 to 1804?

- First council.

- First council is correct.

In July, 2024, what Junior Senator from Ohio and author of the book, "Hillbilly Elegy" (buzzer bleeping) Jobi.

- JD Vance.

- JD Vance is correct.

Your bonus question.

What city at the mouth of the Swan River is the capital of Western Australia.

- Perth.

- Perth is correct.

Ooh, our next toss up.

What leader who came to power after ending China's Warring States period, sponsored the creation of the terracotta army and was China's first?

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel - Qin Shih Huandi.

- That is correct.

Your bonus question, Marion.

What class of low mass particles which are fermions that do not experience the strong force includes electrons and neutrinos.

- Pass.

- Alright, Freeburg, your chance to steal.

- Quarks?

- That is incorrect.

Another question that I truly understand none of the words of, the answer we were looking for was leptons.

Our next toss up.

The furthest planet visited by Voyager II is what body, that sometimes displays a great dark spot and is orbited by the moon's Myriad and Triton?

(buzzer bleeping) Isaiah - Jupiter.

- Jupiter is incorrect.

Marion?

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel.

- Neptune.

- Neptune is correct.

Your bonus question.

What character agonizes about a bloodstain on his sock after he murders a pawn broker and a witness, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "Crime And Punishment?"

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Freeburg, chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Alright, we were looking for Rodion Raskolnikov.

I was really hoping one of you guys would say that so I didn't have to.

Our next toss up.

What novel in which nuns at the Petit-Picpas, Picpus?

I'm gonna start over.

What novel in which nuns at the Petit-Picpus convent educate Cosette, centers on the former prisoner Jean Valjean and was written by Victor Hugo?

(buzzer bleeping) Mira.

- Les Miserables.

- Les Miserables is correct.

Alright, bonus question.

What architectural style that uses lavish ornamentation with a modern industrial influence is exemplified by the Chrysler Building?

- Art Deco.

- Art deco is correct.

Our next round is the lightning round.

(lightning crackling) Make sure those umbrellas didn't get turned inside out.

It is time for the lightning round.

Lightning round works as follows.

I have in my hand four different topics, each of which have 10 questions that a team will get 60 seconds to answer.

All right, Freeburg, you guys have full choice as to which of the four topics you get to have.

Your choices are as follows: The nervous system, Numerical novels, Fictional redheads and Religious holidays.

(contestants whispering) - Religious holidays, please.

- All right, religious holidays.

Name these religious holidays.

We, meaning I, will provide the month in the appropriate calendar.

All right, your 60 seconds Freeburg begins in, three, two, one, December, commemorating the birth of Jesus.

- Christmas - [Olivia] Correct.

Nissan celebrating the Israelites escape from Egypt?

(tense music) (contestants whispering) - Passover.

- [Olivia] Correct.

Ashvin and Kartika.

The Hindu Festival of Lights.

- Diwali - [Olivia] Correct.

Kislev, candles are lit on a menorah?

- Hanukah.

- [Olivia] Correct.

March or April.

Christian celebration of the resurrection.

- Easter.

- Easter.

- [Olivia] Correct.

Tishrei, a shofar is sounded for the new year.

(tense music) - Pass.

- [Olivia] Shawwal, marking the end of Ramadan.

(tense music) - Pass.

- [Olivia] Phalguna, Hindu festival of colors.

(tense music) - Pass.

- Tishrei, Jewish Day of Atonement.

(tense music) (contestants whispering) - Pass.

(buzzer blaring) - You are out of time.

Going back to ones you missed.

Rosh Hashanah is the holiday celebrated in Tishrei.

Shofar is sign of the new year.

Shawwal, marking the end of Ramadan is Eid al-Fitr.

Phalguna, Hindu Festival of Colors is Holi.

The Jewish Day of Atonement celebrated in Tishrei is Yam Kippur and final one that we didn't reach, Farvardin, Persian New Year on the spring in Equinox is Nowruz.

Alright, wonderful job Freeburg.

Marion, your choices once again are: The nervous system, Numerical novels and Fictional redheads.

- Numerical novels.

- Numerical novels.

Not a lot of love for redheads from this team.

I am making a note of that.

Name these novels with numbers in their titles.

Your 60 seconds Marian begins in 3, 2, 1.

George Orwell book about Big Brothers dystopia - "1984."

- [Olivia] Correct.

Ray Bradbury novel about book burning.

- "Fahrenheit 451."

- [Olivia] Correct.

Charles Dickens novel set in Paris and London.

(contestants whispering) - "Tale of two Cities."

- [Olivia] Correct.

Second book in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, - "The Two Towers."

- [Olivia] Correct.

Arthur C. Clark novel that introduced the computer, Hal.

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Jay Asher novel about Hannah Baker's suicide.

- "13 Reasons Why" - [Olivia] Correct.

Adventure novel featuring Phileas Fogg?

(contestants whispering) - "Around the world in 80 days."

- [Olivia] Correct.

YA mystery by Karen M. McManus about Simon's death?

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Second Sherlock Holmes novel which introduced Mary Morstan?

- Pass.

- [Olivia] Taylor Jenkins Reid novel about a 1970s rock band.

- "Daisy Jones and the Six."

- [Olivia] Correct.

Arthur C. Clark novel that introduced the computer, Hal?

- Pass.

- YA mystery by Karen M. McManus about Simon's death.

- "One of us is lying."

- Correct.

Second Sherlock Holmes novel- (buzzer blaring) We are out of time.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the Arthur C. Clark novel that introduced Hal.

The second Sherlock Holmes novel which introduced Mary Morstan is The Sign of Four.

"The Sign of the Four" and those are the ones you missed.

Alright, wonderful lightning round, all around.

Unfortunately they cannot last forever.

So back to the toss ups we go.

What city whose oldest building is the Al Fahidi Fort has a Tom Wright designed hotel called the Burj Al Arab on a manmade island and is in the UAE?

(buzzer bleeping) Liam.

- Dubai.

- Dubai is correct.

Your bonus question.

What 19th century philosopher who collaborated with his wife Harriet Taylor to write "The Subjection of Women," was a utilitarian?

- Voltaire.

- [Olivia] Voltaire is incorrect.

Marion, chance to steal.

(contestants whispering) - Pass.

- Alright, we were looking for John Stewart Mill.

No bonus points that round.

What riots whose participants included Marsha P. Johnson occurred at a Greenwich Village bar in 1969.

(buzzer bleeping) - Jobi.

- Stonewall.

- Stonewall is correct.

Your bonus question.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford" begins by describing the weather with what seven word phrase, which is now emblematic of cliched first lines.

- "It was a dark and stormy night."

- "It was a dark and stormy night."

indeed is correct.

Our next toss up.

What cabinet member who was criticized for not visiting East Palestine after a 2023 disaster is the first gay man to be Secretary of Transportation.

(buzzer bleeping) - Pete Buttigieg.

- Buttigieg is correct.

Your bonus question.

Interactions between groups without a common language spur the creation of what simple shared languages which may involve into more complete creoles - Pass.

- All right, Freeburg, chance to steal.

- Partial.

- That is incorrect.

We were looking for pigeon languages, pigeons.

Our next tossup.

What poet claimed that God is served by those who only stand and wait in the sonnet on his blindness and described Eve's temptation in "Paradise Lost?"

(buzzer bleeping) Samuel - Beckett.

- [Olivia] Beckett is incorrect.

Freeburg?

(buzzer bleeping) - Vera.

- Hemingway.

- Hemingway is incorrect.

We were looking for John Milton.

Milton is the name of that author.

No bonus points there.

Our next toss up.

What quantity which is zero by definition for inertial frames, is the second time derivative of displacement and is the rate of change of velocity.

(buzzer bleeping) Jobi.

- Acceleration.

- Acceleration is correct.

Your bonus question, Marion.

What singer followed up her 2023 album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess," with the hit single.

"Good Luck, Babe!"

- Chappell Rone - Chappell Rone is correct.

Our next tossup.

What city was the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom was once home to a pharos or large lighthouse and?- (buzzer bleeping) Samuel - Alexandria.

- Alexandria is correct.

Your bonus question.

What character in a Tennessee Williams play moves into her sister Stella's home in New Orleans, where she suffers a nervous breakdown?

(contestants whispering) - Blanche Dubois.

- Blanche Dubois is correct of "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Our next toss up.

In what country did a train crash on its way to Rawalpin in 2023, the same year its former President Imran Khan was arrested in Lahore.

(buzzer bleeping) Liam - Pakistan.

- Pakistan is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

What term describes molecules such as glutathione and vitamin E that's scavenge and neutralize free radicals?

(contestants whispering) - No answer.

- [Olivia] Alright, Marion, your chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Alright, we were looking for antioxidants.

What game whose champions include Nigel Richards, was invented by Alfred Butts and features a 15 x 15 board on which tiles are placed to form words.

(buzzer bleeping) Mira.

- Scrabble.

- Scrabble is correct thanks to Mr. Butts.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

Leonore masquerades as the title prison guard to save her husband Florestan in what opera?

The only one by Ludwig von Beethoven.

- "The Marriage of Figaro."

- [Olivia] "Marriage of Figaro" is incorrect.

Marion?

- No answer.

- The answer we were looking for was "Fidelio."

Believe "Marriage of Figaro" is Mozart.

So, close but no cigar.

Our next tossup.

What insects known to use hot balls to kill Japanese hornets have been afflicted by colony collapse disorder and are important pollinators?

(buzzer bleeping) Liam - Bees.

- Bees is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

The country of Zimbabwe was formed from what predecessor state, which declared an independence from Britain in 1965 under Prime Minister Ian Smith.

- Rhodesia - Rhodesia is correct.

Alright, next tossup.

What family whose patriarch Abdulaziz fought the Rashidis, owns the largest oil company in the world and controls the holy cities, Mecca and Medina?

(buzzer bleeping) Liam.

- The Saudis.

- The Saudis is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg, is a math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

This answer must be given as a percentage, not a decimal.

What percentage of a pizza remains uneaten if five of its eight equal slices have been eaten?

(pencils scratching) - 62.5.

- [Olivia] That is incorrect.

Marion, chance to steal.

(pencils scratching) (buzzer blaring) You are out of time Marion.

The answer we were looking for was 37.5%.

I believe you might have given the percentage of eaten pizza.

I was looking for uneaten pizza.

Our next tossup question.

In what novel does physician Roger Chillingworth observe a mark?

(buzzer bleeping) - Samuel - "The Scarlet Letter."

- "The Scarlet Letter" is correct.

Your bonus question.

What Indian poet was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature, largely for the English translation of his book "Geethanjali"?

- No answer.

- [Olivia] Freeburg?

- No answer.

- All right, I was really hoping somebody would get this right.

The answer we were looking for was Rabindranath Tagore.

Our next tossup question.

What quantity for which an analyte can be determined via titration is the amount of solute in a solution and can be measured in moles per liter?

(buzzer bleeping) Jobi.

- Molarity - Molarity is correct?

Yes, correct.

Yes, molarity is correct.

Your bonus question, Marion.

The US justified the Iraq war by claiming that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling military items known by what phrase, abbreviated WMD?

(contestants whispering) - Weapons of mass destruction.

- Weapons of mass destruction is correct.

What street whose Federal Hall hosted George Washington's inauguration is home to Goldman Sachs and is the hub of New York City's finance?

(buzzer bleeping) - Wall Street.

- Wall Street is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

What adjective can describe an isotope that existed when Earth first formed or to the soup of chemicals from which early life emerged?

- Primordial - Primordial is correct.

What NLB team employs Steven Kwan and Jose Ramirez plays at Progressive Field?

(buzzer bleeping) Isaiah.

- The Cleveland Guardians.

- The Cleveland Guardians is correct.

Your bonus question, Freeburg.

What jazz trumpeter and longtime director of "Jazz at Lincoln Center" composed the jazz oratorio "Blood on the Fields"?

- No answer.

- [Olivia] All right, Marion chance to steal.

- No answer.

- Alright, we were looking for Wynton Marsalis.

What Western state is home to Mount Mazama and the volcano Mount Scott, both of which are in Crater Lake National Park and is governed?

(buzzer bleeping) Liam.

- Washington.

- [Olivia] Washington is incorrect.

Marion, would you like me to repeat the question?

What western state is home to Mount Mazama and the volcano Mount Scott, both of which are in Crater Lake National Park and is governed from Salem.

(buzzer bleeping) - Emilee.

- Oregon.

- Oregon is correct.

Your bonus question, Marion.

Spanish verbs like lavarse and llamarse are examples of what kind of verb, whose subject and object are the same.

- Reflexive.

- Reflexive is correct.

(bell chiming) That buzz means that we are at the end of our episode today.

Special congratulations to our winner, Marion.

Here at Scholastic HQ, knowledge rules.

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