WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage
2: Scholastic Scrimmage: Lehighton vs. Bangor
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Hello and welcome to the second match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Hightown Area High School and Bangor Area High School.
The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half and half time will pause for students to introduce themselves.
And will get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall, specific factual information, and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers.
Ready?
Here's our first tossup question.
What woman who joined an expedition while carrying her son, John Baptiste Charbonneau, was a Shoshone.
Sacagawea.
Sacagawea is correct.
And she was a Shoshone woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark for bonus corruption in what country's state owned oil company led to Operation Carwash, which implicated former President Dilma Rousseff.
Venezuela.
Incorrect.
But you were on the right continent.
It's Brazil.
Oh.
That's correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What German born composer worked with Charles Jennings on an artwork and arts trio that included.
For unto us, a child is Born and the Hallelujah Chorus.
Messiah.
Handel is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What singer who guested on girl in Red song You Need Me Now released the album short and Sweet and says banger.
Go ahead, Sabrina Carpenter.
That is right.
And she says to switch it up like Nintendo in her number one single espresso for your bonus.
In 1999, Irish author Seamus Heaney produced a lauded translation of What epic?
About a hero who comes to the aid of Hrothgar.
You guys can't confirm this when it's a bonus, but the correct answer is Beowulf.
For the next toss up question.
What dwarf planet was visited by the Dawn spacecraft?
Is located in the asteroid belt and is named after a Roman goddess of agriculture.
Go ahead.
Hide Pluto.
That's incorrect.
Over the bankers series.
Go ahead and buzz in.
Oh, series.
Series is correct for your bonus.
What team used a controversial 1982 kickoff return, known simply as the play, to defeat rival Stanford, whose marching band was out on the field?
I don't know.
Do you know?
Stanford's rival is the University of California at Berkeley, or simply known as Cal.
Next tossup question.
What city whose baseball team drafted Ken Griffey Jr.
And Alex Rodriguez is on the Puget Sound and is home to Pike Place Market as well as the Space Needle.
The height and go ahead.
Seattle.
Seattle is correct.
It's also home to the Space Needle.
For a bonus in the genetic code, the start codon A, u, G encodes what?
Amino acid that, like cysteine, contains sulfur, which.
Is gas myosin.
That's incorrect.
Thiamin is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What man who commissioned auto greasing to design the low cost Volks and fan gear radios was the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany.
Go ahead.
Banger.
Joseph Goebbels.
Joseph Goebbels is correct.
For your bonus, the statesman Pericles lost his life.
In what type of disaster?
That devastated Athens beginning in 430 BC.
Here, on here I am.
A fire.
That is incorrect.
He lost his life in the plague of Athens.
Next toss up question.
What American painter of the Sky Above Clouds series is renowned for landscapes featuring animal skulls and flowers.
Set in the American Southwest.
You can see that artist's work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She has a museum there.
It's Georgia O'Keeffe.
Next toss up question what gospel which features the motif of the Messianic Secret, is the shortest of the synoptic Gospels.
And comes immediately after Matthew.
Go ahead.
Dagger.
Go ahead.
The gospel of Mark.
The gospel of Mark is correct for your bonus.
What noble gas that comprises about 1% of Earth's atmosphere has atomic number 1890.
No, no.
There helium near and argon?
I think so.
Argon.
Argon is correct.
Next tossup question.
What structure?
Whose small size was discovered in the Rutherford gold foil experiment consists of protons and neutrons.
Go ahead.
Hide the nucleus of an atom.
The nucleus of an atom is correct, and it's protons and neutrons at the center of an atom.
For your bonus.
Overactivity of dopamine receptors may cause the symptoms of what?
Psychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations and delusions.
Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is correct.
Next tossup question.
What book posits man is born free, but everywhere is in chains and is a treatise about collective political authority by Sean Rousseau.
Riley, you look like you were considering it.
It's the social contract.
The book.
Next tossup question.
What leader who gave the tryst with Destiny speech on the eve of his country's independence, served as the first Prime Minister of India.
Go ahead.
Banker.
Gandhi.
That is incorrect.
Overly heightened.
So no conferring.
But it's a freebie now.
Guess another Indian prime minister.
The.
Go ahead.
My job.
It is incorrect.
Nehru is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the first lightning round and a pre-match coin toss.
It was determined that Hiten would get to pick between the following topics.
Multiples of ten or classic film quotes.
Classic film quotes.
Classic film quotes.
It is we.
Hiten.
Your topic is classic film quotes.
Given a pre 1980s film and a quote, give the missing words.
So fill in where I say blank.
The Godfather.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't blank.
Refuse.
Correct.
The Wizard of Oz.
There's no place like blank.
You're supposed to tell the cabinet.
Just say it home.
Correct.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Elementary, my dear blank.
Watson.
Correct.
Casablanca.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful, blank friendship.
Correct.
It's a wonderful life.
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
Correct.
Apocalypse now.
I love the smell of blank in the morning.
Napalm.
Correct.
Cool hand.
Luke.
What?
We've got here is a failure to blank.
Skip.
Incorrect.
Psycho.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Did he go?
Mother.
That is correct.
On the waterfront.
I could have been a blank skip.
Gone with the wind.
I'll never be blank again.
Skip.
That last one is.
I'll never be hungry again.
I'm coming with the wind.
Okay, Bangor, you have multiples of ten.
Give these multiples of ten.
Number of winks in a full night's sleep.
100.
Incorrect.
Number before Day Fiancé in a TLC reality series.
100 incorrect.
Years in a War ended by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.
100.
Incorrect.
Decimal equivalent of the Roman number X. You can say pass if you don't know.
Pass.
Number of years of solitude in a Gabriel Garcia marquez novel a thousand incorrect Downing Street address.
Number of the British Prime Minister.
100.
Incorrect.
Number of items in for score 80.
Correct.
Number of years celebrated by a golden anniversary.
100.
Incorrect.
Atomic number of the terbium.
50.
Incorrect.
All right.
And that is the end of the first lightning round.
He will not do great.
There.
Yeah.
Multiple said.
It's funny with some of the topics.
The ones that seem easy aren't necessarily easy, and some that have, like you said, multiples of ten, oh multiples of.
I thought it was powers of ten.
Yeah.
Multiples of ten.
Yeah.
My God knows 90 Day Fiance I believe.
Yeah.
90 fiance.
If I didn't know it was powers I thought it was 2010 the whole time.
Yeah, I thought it was powers of ten.
Full time.
We'll continue on with the following toss question.
What author who wrote about Kidnapers who returned their captive in the Ransom of Red chief, used twist endings in stories like The Gift of the Magi?
Oh, great.
Oh, Henry.
Oh, Henry is correct for your bonus.
Van Cliburn was the first American to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
For what musical instrument?
Piano.
Piano is correct.
Next toss up question.
What regnal name was shared by the English king who overthrew Roger Mortimer and won the battle of 1346?
The Battle of Creasy and his son, known as the Black Prince.
That is Edward.
Next toss up question.
What country?
Which is home to underground aqueducts at the cannot of gazebo contains Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Persian Empire.
Persepolis.
Excuse me.
Iran.
Iran is correct.
For your bonus, what bestselling drug?
A GLP one agonist used for diabetes and weight loss treatment, is now making over $3 billion a month for Novo Nordisk.
Ozempic.
Ozempic is correct.
Next tossup question.
What character whose alter egos include Joe Cool and a World War one flying ace who rivals the Red Baron.
Banker.
Snoopy.
Snoopy is correct, and he's Charlie Brown's pet beagle in peanuts.
And for your bonus, Doctor Bernard Rhea notices that a disease has entered the Algerian city of overand in what?
Novel by Albert Camus.
That disease is the plague.
Oh, I was asking about the plague, not the novel.
It's always the plague.
Yeah, that was a confusing question.
But they're asking about what?
Disease?
Okay.
All right.
Sounds like that sounded like a novel.
Okay.
Next tossup question.
What quantity is time dependent in hectic and thick isotropic fluids, is measured in units of poise and corresponds to a fluid's resistance to flow.
Viscosity.
Viscosity is correct.
For your bonus, what general and former French war hero was sentenced to life in prison for presiding over the collaborationist Vichy regime during World War two?
Do you know?
No.
I don't know of any of you in France.
No.
The correct answer is Honoré Philippe Tan.
And we've reached halftime.
We have a great game underway.
Heightened currently leads with a score of 100 to Bangor 75.
And now we'll take a moment to have each student introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question.
What is your favorite book that you had to read or you were assigned in school?
The heightened Corbin.
Go ahead, Corbin Klein I'm a junior.
My favorite book would have been Romeo and Juliet.
Okay, dead, Jed Junior of Mice and Men.
Okay.
And Danner junior.
To Kill a mockingbird.
All right.
Henry.
Henry.
Deaver, Junior and the outsiders.
Okay.
And over to Bangor.
Shane.
Go ahead.
Shane Campbell, junior, also the outsider.
Okay.
Evan Volk, senior from 1984.
Okay.
Riley Duckworth, junior.
They give her, Andrew Scheer, freshman.
The London Eye semester.
All right.
Excellent.
And we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.
What author depicted a murderous chess playing robot in moccasins, master, and described Peyton Farquhar as execution in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
That's an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Bangor.
Go ahead, Ambrose Pierce Ambrose Bierce is correct for your bonus.
What conic section can be made by graphing a relation of inverse proportions, such as y equals one over x?
A hyperbola is a correct answer.
Oh, next toss up question what peninsula?
Which rivers include the Duro and Tagus is bordered on the north by the Pyrenees and contains the countries of Spain and Portugal.
Go ahead.
Bangor, Iberia.
Yes.
Iberia or the Iberian Peninsula is correct for your bonus.
What region?
Whose name comes from the Maasai for endless plains, is an ecosystem in Tanzania and Kenya that features an annual Great Migration year to Savannah.
It can be Savannah.
Savannah.
That's incorrect.
The region is the Serengeti region of the Serengeti.
Okay, next tossup question.
What letter can refer to atomic subshells that can hold six electrons each?
And is the atomic symbol of a light giving nonmetal used in many matches?
That letter is P for phosphorus on the tip of matches.
Next tossup question what composer nicknamed the Red priest wrote the contest between harmony and invention, whose first four violin concertos are called the Four Seasons.
Go ahead, the Baldi Antonio Vivaldi is correct for your bonus.
What 17th century Italian artist sculpted the fountain of the Four Rivers and the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
We.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Incorrect.
It's Bernini is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What name was shared by the clergyman from Nursia, who wrote a widely used rule for monks, and by the Pope, who succeeded John Paul the Second in 2005.
Benedict is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
Left untreated infections by what virus?
Which uses GP 120 envelope glycoproteins to attach to CD4 positive helper T cells ultimately develops into Aids, HIV.
HIV is correct for your bonus.
What state was devastated by the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, which affected cities like Whittier and Prince William Sound?
Where on the Prince William Sound?
California.
Incorrect.
It's the state of Alaska.
It's a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What novel?
Which ends as the title character smile astounds?
Govinda was written by Hermann Hesse about an Indian ascetic influenced by the Buddha.
That novel is Siddartha.
The next toss up question in what case did the Supreme Court cite dull?
Studies by Kenneth and Mamie Clark overturn Plessy versus Ferguson and banned segregation in public schools?
Brown v board go ahead Brown v Board of Education.
Brown versus the Board of Brown versus Board of Education is correct in what for your bonus in what 2024 sequel?
Does a newly introduced character take over Riley's sense of self?
While Riley attends a hockey camp?
Inside out to Inside Out to is correct.
Next toss up question what country?
Whose opposition leader a Crim Imamoglu, was arrested in March 2025 and is led by the Justice and Development Party.
Georgia.
No.
I'll get to you on for the Haydn.
The leader of the Justice and Development Party is Erdogan.
Kenya.
That's incorrect.
Turkey is correct.
Answer.
Next tossup.
What?
Inequality implies that the semi perimeter is greater than the largest side length in non-degenerate examples of a namesake polygon.
Triangle inequality is a correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round Bangor.
You get to pick between the following topics women writers or scientific units.
Scientific units.
Scientific units.
It is Bangor.
Your topic is scientific units given a quantity name, its base or derived Si unit time.
It's 1/60 of a minute second correct work or energy.
Newton.
Incorrect.
Amount of substance equal to about six times ten to the 23rd.
Particles.
Gram.
Incorrect.
Mass.
Gram.
Incorrect.
Frequency.
Decimal.
You know, you can just say it hurts.
Correct.
Electric resistance.
Joules.
Incorrect.
Pressure equal to one Newton per square meter.
See?
That is incorrect.
Magnetic field strength equal to 10,000 gauss.
Pass luminous intensity, which is a base unit.
Pass solid angle measure.
Its abbreviation is S r. Pass.
That would be a square radiant would be acceptable for that one.
Okay, Haydn, you have woman writers name the female American authors who wrote these works, and we only need a last name.
Just so you know, for this topic, the novel Little Women skip the poem.
I heard a fly buzz when I died.
Skip the novel To Kill a mockingbird.
Lee.
Correct the novel.
Beloved.
Skip the autobiography.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, correct the poem.
Daddy.
Skip the novel.
Their eyes were watching God skip the short story A Good Man is Hard to find.
Skip the novel The Awakening.
Skip the horror novel The Haunting of Hill House.
Skip.
Oh man, we have to brush up on our female authors.
Lehighton.
Okay, we continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question what English author describe the downfall of Bank of banker Nicholas Bulstrode in his 1872 novel Middlemarch, which she published under a male pseudonym?
The female authors continue to get us here is George Eliot is a pseudonym she wrote under next tossup question.
What language, which is romanized by the Hepburn system, is written with a combination of two syllables called katakana.
How do you hear a god finger?
Japanese.
Japanese is correct for your bonus.
What island, which is north of Hokkaido, was formerly divided between Russia and Japan and is now the largest Russian island by area.
I can't do that.
No, I don't like that quote.
I don't remember what it's called.
You know what it looks like a little.
Sakhalin Island is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What territory is home to?
Mount Logan is governed from Whitehorse, is the westernmost territory in Canada, and was the site of an 1890s gold rush.
Yukon.
Go ahead.
Lehighton, Yukon Yukon Territory is correct.
Your bonuses in math pencil and paper ready?
What positive integer is the square root of 5625?
Given that it must have a unit units digit of five.
2525 is incorrect.
It's 75.
It's the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What man depicted murders committed by Sarlacc in Death and the compass wrote the story collection.
Texians was blind and hailed from Argentina.
The author's Jorge Luis Borges is a correct answer.
Next toss up question what country, whose mythical creatures include the Berenger and the Bunyip, is the source of myths about the Rainbow Serpent told by the aborigines in Bangor, Australia.
Australia is correct.
So Theano, Uralla and Medusa, or what kind of monsters who have snakes for hair and turn their victims into stone?
Gorgons.
Gorgons is correct.
Next toss up question.
What man who resigned as guardian in 1298 after losing the Battle of Falkirk, led the Scottish to victory over Edward the First at the Battle of Stirling.
That person is William Wallace.
Next toss up question what poet described a glade where peace comes from?
Dropping slow in the lake Isle of Innisfree and wrote things Fall Apart in his poem The Second Coming.
William Butler William Butler Yeats is the person we're looking for.
Next toss up question Pottsville formed from the teachings of what material that develops from regolith and pedo genesis, contains decaying humus and supports plant growth.
There fungi.
That is incorrect.
Italy.
Haiti.
Go ahead.
Collagen is also incorrect.
Soil is the answer we're looking for.
And with that, we've reached the end of a match.
We have another great one to start the second one, but unfortunately Bangor with 125 points.
Not quite enough.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
We.
Haydn, congratulations you are on to the second round.
I thank you for tuning in.
We will see you next week when Northern Lehigh High School faces off against Northampton Area High School.
Thank you.
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