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Hello and welcome to round two of the third season of Scholastic Scrimmage here on WQLN PBS.

I'm your host, Glenn Holland.

The match will have two halves with the lightning round midway through each half.

We'll get to know the students a little better at halftime.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage is a game that requires rapid recall of specific factual information that is not an indication of academic training.

Time for our first toss up.

Buzzers ready?

Here we go.

What realm of Norse mythology created using the eyebrows of the jotunn Ymir is connected to Asgard by the Bifrost bridge and is the home of humans?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Owen.

Midgard.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

Laurie Strode has a final showdown with supernatural killer Michael Myers in a 2022 entry in what horror film series?

Halloween.

That is correct.

Toss up.

What author depicted a Babylonian thinker in his book "Zadig" and satirized mathematician Gottfried Leibniz as the optimistic Doctor Pangloss in "Candide"?

[timer beeping] That was Voltaire.

Pencil and paper ready for this tossup.

What is the quotient of nine factorial divided by seven factorial, given nine factorial equals nine times eight times seven and so on down to one.

[timer beeping] The answer there is 72.

Toss up.

What theorist, whose ideas were major basis of Jacques Lacan's writings, analyzed "Irma" in the interpretation of dreams and founded psychoanalysis?

[bell ringing] Gerald McLane, Owen.

Sigmund Freud.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What Italian author wrote about novice monk Adso of Melk, who helps William of Baskerville find a murderer in the 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose"?

[timer beeping] That is Umberto Eco.

Toss up.

What man, whose colitis forced him to resign as head of the LDP in 2020, was assassinated after being the longest-serving Japanese Prime Minister.

[bell ringing] General McLane, Peter.

Shinzo Abe.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

He 1959 African-American pinch hitter Pumpsie Green debuted against the White Sox, making what team the last in the Major Leagues to integrate?

Yankees.

GLENN: I'm sorry.

Yankees.

No, it's the Boston Red Sox.

Toss up.

What European president, who twice vetoed the UK's entry into the EEC, established the Fifth Republic and commanded free France during World War II?

[bell ringing] General McClain, Peter.

Charles de Gaulle.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What Plains state was represented in the Senate by Tom Daschle and by the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, George McGovern?

Minnesota.

No, it was South Dakota.

Toss up.

What bone, which has a tuberosity to which the patellar ligament attaches, forms a hidden joint with the femur and is commonly called the "shin bone"?

[timer beeping] That is the tibia.

Toss up.

What country, which contains the largest portion of both the Carpathian Mountains and the delta of the Danube River, is also home to Transylvania?

[bell ringing] Tidioute, Owen.

Romania.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 1877 novel by Anna Sewell is narrated by the title horse, whose many owners include Farmer Grey, Squire Gordon and London cabdriver Jerry?

We don't know.

The answer is "Black Beauty".

Toss up.

Members of what profession, such as Marin Alsop, Carlo Maria Giulini and Leopold Stakowski often use a thin baton as they lead an orchestra?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Owen.

Conductor.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

Rusting is what type of process prevented by galvanization, in which a refined metal is degraded to a more stable oxide?

Oxidization.

No, I'm looking for corrosion.

Sorry.

[bell chiming] And now it is time for our lightning round, our first one.

[upbeat music] Tidioute won the toss and you have a choice of topics.

The first lightning round, the topics are artists' tools and former country names.

Former country names.

All right, what modern-day country was formerly known as Persia?

Iran.

Correct.

Ceylon.

Pass.

Rhodesia.

Pass.

Abyssinia.

Pass.

Formosa.

Pass.

British Honduras.

Honduras.

No, Belize.

Gold Coast in Western Africa.

Somalia.

No, that is Ghana.

East Pakistan.

Bangladesh.

That is correct.

Upper Volta.

Pass.

Kampuchea, when it was ruled by Pol Pot.

Vietnam.

No, that is Cambodian.

Ceylon.

Pass.

[buzzer beeping] That is Sri Lanka.

Abyssinia, by the way is Ethiopia.

All right, General McLane, your topic is artists' tools.

Name these things used by visual artists: flat board for mixing pigments.

Easel.

GLENN: Sorry?

Pallet.

Correct.

A spinning device that pottery can be thrown on.

Pottery wheel.

Correct.

A sculptural copy made using a mold.

Cast.

Correct.

Cloth put on a studio floor to catch splatter or debris.

Drop cloth.

Correct.

Oven for firing ceramics.

Kiln.

Correct.

Plain fabric that most oil paintings are made on.

Canvas.

Correct.

Flat metal tool that is hammered to chip away at a sculpture.

Chisel.

Correct.

Fast-drying paint partly made of egg yolk.

Pass.

Impermeable gloss daubed onto finished ceramics.

Glaze.

Correct.

Dim workspace for developing photographs.

Darkroom.

Darkroom, correct.

Fast-drying paint partly made of egg is tempera.

And now back to our regular line of questioning with this toss up.

What agency, whose COINTELPRO initiative targeted civil rights groups under director J. Edgar Hoover?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Owen.

The FBI.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

"The Bringer of War" and "The Mystic" are subtitles of movements in what suite By Gustav Holst?

We don't know.

It's "The Planets".

"The Bringer of War" is Mars and "The Mystic" is Neptune.

Toss up.

The brightest events in the universe are bursts named for what form of radiation emitted by excited nuclei, which has energy higher than X-rays?

[bell ringing] Tidioute.

Gamma rays.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 17th-century poem by Andrew Marvell urges the title woman to accept a lover's "embrace" because "time's winged chariot" is "hurrying near"?

[timer beeping] That is "To His Coy Mistress".

Toss up.

What 1937 novel, whose characters include a man known as "Tea Cake" and a resident of Eatonville named Janie Crawford, is by Zora Neale Hurston?

[timer beeping] That novel is "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

Toss up.

What conflict described as a "splendid little war" by John Hay ended with US control of the Philippines and began after the sinking of the Maine?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Peter.

The Spanish-American War.

Correct, remember the Maine.

Here is your bonus.

What Italian word often used to mean a climax is used in music to mean a gradual increase in loudness.

[bell ringing] You don't need to ring but- Crescendo.

Yes, correct.

Here's your toss up.

What quantity, which is as low as possible at a mixture's eutectic point, is depressed in a solution and is zero degrees Celsius for pure water.

[bell ringing] General McLane, Owen.

Freezing point.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 19th-century author wrote about a woman who implores Confederate troops to "spare your country's flag" in his poem, "Barbara Frietchie"?

We don't know.

That is John Greenleaf Whittier.

What river, whose upper section is called Jinsha or "Gold Sands" River, flows past Wuhan and is the longest river in China and all of Asia?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Peter.

The Yangtze River.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

The conservation of what quantity often denoted by capital L can be illustrated using the example of a spinning skater?

Momentum.

GLENN: What kind?

Centripetal.

Centripetal momentum.

I needed angular momentum.

I'm sorry.

Toss up.

What singer, whose name follows "big t-shirt" in the lyrics of a namesake Armani White song, has a brother named Phineas who co-wrote her, [bell ringing] General McLane, Lena.

Billie Eilish.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

Before a 2018 correction, the name of what New York City Bridge was spelled with one Z fewer than that of its historical namesake?

Mizaro.

No, it's the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

Apparently it only had one Z initially and the namesake General [bell chiming] Verrazzano had two.

It is now halftime.

The score is General McLane with 210 points and Tidioute with 40.

Let's take a moment to get to know our contestants a little bit better.

[lively music] Hello, I'm Peter Albertie.

I'm from General McLane School District.

I'm a senior and if I had any superpower, I would like to have super intelligence.

I'm Owen McMullin.

I go to General McLane as a senior and if I could have one superpower, I'd want control over time.

I'm Lena Bookhamer.

I go to General McClain.

I'm a junior and if I could have one superpower, I would choose teleportation.

I'm Bella Williams.

I go to General McClain.

I'm a junior and I would choose speed.

Hi, I am Darrion Craig.

I go to Tidioute Community Charter School.

I am a junior and the superpower I would like to have is mind reading.

I'm Ayden Baylor.

I'm a senior.

I go to Tidioute Community Charter School.

If I could have any superpower it would be teleportation.

Hello, I'm Owen Henan.

I go to Tidioute Community Charter School.

I'm a senior and if I could have any superpower, it'd be teleportation.

Hey, my name is Michael and I go to Tidioute Community Charter School as a junior.

If I could have any superpower, I would choose teleportation.

And now we begin the second half.

Toss up.

What state is home to Haverford College, was represented in Congress during the Civil War by Thaddeus Stevens and is governed from Harrisburg?

[bell ringing] Tidioute, Ayden.

Pennsylvania.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What no longer extant "Gran" republic was established under the 1821 Constitution of Cucuta and contained modern Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela?

Gran Columbia.

That is correct.

Toss up.

What country's longtime dictator, who wrote "The Green Book" and overthrew King Idris I before being killed during the Arabs Spring, was Muammar Gaddafi?

[bell ringing] General McClain, Peter.

Libya.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What show that streams on Amazon Prime Video is set in Cousins Beach, stars Lola Tung as Belly, and is named after a young adult novel by Jenny Han?

[bell ringing] "The Summer I Turned Pretty".

GLENN: That is correct.

What English scientist names the total charge on a mole of electrons, the law of electromagnetic induction and a cage that blocks electric fields?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Peter.

Rockleford.

No, Tidioute.

[timer beeping] That is Michael Faraday.

Toss up.

What company, whose CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress in March?

[bell ringing] Tidioute, Darrion.

TikTok.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What epic poem, whose title character is exiled on the request of Kaikeyi, features The seventh avatar of Vishnu defeating Ravana and rescuing Sita?

We don't know.

That epic poem is "The Ramayana".

Toss up.

What first female member of the Royal Statistical Society rose to prominence during the Crimean War during which she served as a nurse to soldiers?

[timer beeping] That is Florence Nightingale, the lady with a lamp.

Toss up.

What actor who won an Oscar for "King Richard" was subsequently banned from the Academy?

[bell ringing] Tidioute, Darrion.

Will Smith.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What French-American mathematician is the namesake of a self-similar set and in 1975 coined the term "fractal"?

We don't know.

That was Benoit Mandelbrot.

Toss up.

What country produced a novel about an outlaw and 108 spirits titled "Water Margin" and a story about the monkey Son Wukong titled "Journey to the West"?

[bell ringing] Tidioute, Darrion.

Japan.

No.

General McLane.

China.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In what year on November 11th at 11:00 AM did the armistice that ended fighting in World War I take effect?

1918.

That is correct.

Toss up.

What country breached the Mannerheim Line in the Winter War against Finland and defeated a Nazi army in the Eastern Front's Battle of- [bell ringing] General McLane, Owen.

Russian.

I need the name at the time.

The Soviet Union.

That is correct.

A bonus.

What island was the birthplace of author Seamus Heaney, whose poem "Digging" describes cutting through soggy peat to plant potatoes?

Ireland.

That is correct.

Toss up.

Alex English spent a decade with what NBA team who drafted a Serbian center who won back-to-back MVPs and NBA finals MVP in 2023?

[bell ringing] General McClain, Lena.

The Nuggets, Denver Nuggets.

That's correct, the Denver Nuggets.

Here's your bonus.

What term describes pairs of substances, such as oil and water, that do not mix to form a homogeneous solution?

Heterogeneous.

No, they are immiscible.

[timer buzzing] And that means it is time for our lightning round.

[lively music] And this time General McLane has first choice of topics.

The two topics are also in a deck of cards and F in initials.

Also in a deck of cards.

All right.

Name these things that share their names with playing cards: villain played in movies by Jared Leto and Heath Ledger.

Joker.

Correct.

2020 song title used separately by Sam Smith and Megan Thee Stallion.

Queen.

No, that's Diamonds.

Literary character who says "off with their heads".

King.

No, it's the Queen of Hearts.

Surname of man named Rodney who was beaten by LAPD in 1991.

King.

Correct.

Number of Russian composers of the "mighty handful".

Pass.

Tennis serve not touched by an opponent.

Ace.

Correct.

Outlet for plugging in a phone line.

Pass.

Number of samurai in Akira Kurosawa's film.

Seven.

Correct.

Nursery rhyme character who stole the tarts and took them clean away.

Pass.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky- [timer beeping] Sorry, that is the knave of hearts you're looking for, the jack.

Tidioute, your lightning round topic is F in initials.

For what word does the letter F stand in these abbreviations?

NFL, a sports league.

Football.

Correct.

UFO, a spaceship.

Flying.

Correct.

FCC, a federal agency.

Federal.

Correct.

My mistake.

JFK, the 35th president.

Fitzgerald.

Correct.

SPF, classification of sunscreen.

Pass.

FDA, a government agency.

Flight.

No, it's food.

AFV, a class of military equipment.

Pass.

FAQ, a list of questions.

Frequently.

Correct.

BFG, a character created by Roald Dahl.

Friendly.

Correct, friendly.

RAF, a British military branch.

Force.

Correct.

SPF, a classification of sunscreen.

Pass.

SPF is factor, sun protection factor.

AFV, it is armored fighting vehicle.

So we are back to our regular competition with this tossup.

What animals, sometimes called chelonians, have a shell made of bone or cartilage and include species such as the leatherback and terrapins?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Isabella.

Turtle.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In 1843, Daniel M'Naghten tried to assassinate what British Prime Minister whose first name inspired a nickname for British police officers as bobbies.

[timer beeping] That is Robert Peele.

Robert for bobbies.

Toss up.

What man who lost the rights to his book "If I Did It" to the Goldman family, is a former football player who was acquitted of killing his ex-wife.

OJ Simpson.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

Tok Pisin is one of over 800 languages spoken on what country, in what country, whose capital is Port Moresby?

Australia.

No, it's Papua New Guinea, so I guess it is on what country.

Here is your toss up.

What Shakespearean comedy depicts Sir John Falstaff's inept attempts to seduce Mistresses Ford and Page, the couple's title happily married women?

[timer beeping] That Shakespearean comedy is "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

Toss up.

What man who appointed Alex Padilla to the Senate survived Larry Elder's attempt in a 2021 recall election to replace him as governor of California?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Peter.

Gavin Newsom.

Correct.

Here is your bonus.

What Greek god was having an affair with Aphrodite when they were caught in a net by her husband, Hephaestus?

Ares.

That is correct.

Toss up.

What material follows "lost" in the name of a technique for casting bronze statues and is used to depict celebrities at the museum Madame Tussauds?

[bell ringing] Tidioute, Darrion Wax.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In the 2023 case Allen v. Milligan, the Supreme Court upheld section 2 of what 1965 law requiring Alabama to redraw its congressional district map.

[timer beeping] That was the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Pencil and paper ready for this tossup.

If the logarithm of X equals two, what is the value of the logarithm of the cube of X, given that X equals 100?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Peter.

Five.

No.

Tidioute?

[timer beeping] The answer is six.

Toss up.

What four-letter name of the protagonist of "The Call of the Wild" is also a word for an adult antelope or dear, as well as a slang word for a dollar?

[bell ringing] General McLane, Owen.

Buck.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What South American Country lost almost 70% of its population in the War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay?

Paraguay.

That is correct.

[bell chiming] And that is the end of our contest.

[lively music] Tidioute, your score is 150.

Great job during the matchup.

Good luck with the rest of your academic year.

Congratulations to General McLane.

With a score of 360, you'll be potentially moving on.

Since we have three semi-final games, the two highest scores of those games will be moving on to the championship game.

I'm Glenn Holland.

Please join us again for the rest of our competition.

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