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

I'm your host, Glenn Holland.

The match will have two halves with a 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 and is not indicative of academic training.

Time for our first toss up.

Buzzers ready?

Let's go.

Toss up, what President was in office during the XYZ affair, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts and served- [bell dings] Cranberry, Cohen, Conner.

John Adams?

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What river which receives the Tonle Sap in Phnom Penh empties into the South China Sea in southern Vietnam.

[intriguing music] [players whispering] Yellow River?

No that's the Mekong River.

Toss up.

What wave property, whose square is proportional to its intensity is a wave's maximum displacement or equivalently, the height of its peaks?

[bell dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Amplitude?

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What biblical patriarch's sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth?

That's Noah, right?

Noah?

That is correct.

Toss up.

What woman whose husband wrote the elegy Adonais and whose mother authored "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," wrote the horror novel, "Frankenstein?"

[bell dings] Mary Shelley.

Thank you.

That is correct.

Mary Shelley was married of course to Percy Bysshe Shelly.

Your bonus.

What Italian American physicist lends his name to particles with half-integer spins and created the first manmade nuclear chain reaction?

Dominice.

No, it's Enrico Fermi.

[intriguing music] Toss up.

What item was the subject of a 1964 great debate that replaced the Pearson Penant as the Red Ensign's replacement in favor of a maple leaf design?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst, Leath.

The Canadian flag?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Gerald Ford became vice president after what man, a former governor of Maryland, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and resigned in 1973?

Nixon?

No, it was Spiro T. Agnew.

Toss up.

What material forms due to compression of peat, has subtypes like anthracite and bituminous and is a black-colored rock burned as a fossil fuel?

[bell dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Coal?

That's correct.

What five-letter term...

This is your bonus question.

What five-letter term for a covered porch becomes, with the addition of an okina, the name of the sixth largest Hawaiian island?

Patio.

Patio.

Patio?

Patio.

No, it's Lanai.

Toss up.

What author faithfully presented a pure woman in an 1891 novel about an English dairy maid who marries Angel Clare titled, "Tess of the d'Ubervilles?"

[intriguing music] [alarm buzzes] The author is Thomas Hardy.

Toss up.

What book set at the house of Cephalus tells the story of the Ring of Gyges, describes the allegory of the cave and was written by Plato?

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Cranberry, Dane.

The Republic?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Austrian composer headed the Second Viennese School and developed the 12-tone method of musical composition?

[players whispering] Beethoven?

No, that was Arnold Schoenberg.

[bell ringing] And that means it's time for our first lightning round.

[dramatic music] [electricity crackles] Mercyhurst, you won the toss so you have a choice between topics.

The two topics are... Chemical elements and railways.

[players whispering] We'll take chemical elements.

All right.

Name these elements.

Every answer has an atomic symbol that starts with a vowel.

By mass, the primary component of water.

[bell dings] Hydrogen.

Actually it's oxygen.

Element with the atomic number 13 used to make soda cans.

[bell dings] Aluminum?

That's correct.

Halogen added to salt that the thyroid needs.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Pass.

Metal whose sterling alloy is used to make utensils.

[bell dings] Silver.

Silver.

Correct.

The most malleable metal.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Gold?

Yes, that is correct.

The radioactive element obtained from yellow cake.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Pass.

The third most abundant element in earth's atmosphere.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Pass.

Toxic element found- [alarm buzzes] The third most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere, surprisingly is argon.

Cranberry.

Railways.

Name the country that contains these railways or railway lines.

The Trans-Siberian railway.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Russia?

Correct.

The Shinkansen or bullet train.

[bell dings] Japan?

Correct.

The Indian Pacific which crosses the Outback.

[bell dings] India?

That's Australia.

TGV high-speed rail serving Lyon and Marseille.

[bell dings] France?

Correct.

The Jungfrau railway which ascends the Alps.

[bell dings] Pass.

Pass?

The Haramain Railway connecting is Islam's two holiest cities.

[bell dings] Israel?

No, it's Saudi Arabia.

The Empire Builder which uses the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass.

[bell dings] Pass.

The Afrosiyob, a high-speed train between- [alarm buzzes] Between Samarkand and Tashskent.

That is Uzbekistan.

The Jungfrau is in Switzerland.

And now we're back to our regular line of competition with another toss up.

What country where the partisans fought Nazi occupiers under Josip Tito, split in the early 1990s into smaller countries such as Croatia and Serbia?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst, Leath.

Yugoslavia.

That's correct.

Here's your bonus.

Richard Francis Burton disguised himself as a Muslim to enter what city where he performed the tawaf ritual of walking around the Kaaba.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Medina?

GLENN: I need it from the captain.

Medina?

No it's Mecca.

Your next toss up.

Pencil and paper ready.

How many inches are equivalent to 10 yards given that a yard equals three feet and a foot equals three inches?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Jackson.

[intriguing music] What is 360?

I'm sorry?

360?

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What element's cation is bonded to HCO3, the bicarbonate anion in baking soda?

[intriguing music] [players whispering] Just guess one.

[alarm buzzes] That element is sodium.

Toss up.

What alliterative term for a paint made from lime or chalk can refer to a punishment given to Tom Sawyer or an attempt to cover up one's misdeeds?

[intriguing music] [alarm buzzes] That is whitewash.

Toss up.

What author wrote about the death of a Native American named Chingachgook in his novel "The Pioneers," which is in his series, "The Leatherstocking Tales?"

[intriguing music] [alarm buzzes] Author is James Fenimore Cooper.

Toss up.

What type of tissue that is rich in mitochondria contains the proteins actin and myosin and is classified as smooth, cardiac or skeletal.

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Leath.

Muscle?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Which British scientist's 1801 double-slit experiment showed that light could display characteristics of both a wave and a particle?

[bell dings] Schrodinger?

No, it's Thomas Young.

Toss up.

what maritime province in Canada includes Cape Breton Island to the southeast of New Brunswick and has a Latin name meaning New Scotland?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Leath.

That would be Nova Scotia.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What word for a kind of psychological manipulation taken from the title of a 1944 film was chosen as Miriam Webster's word of the year for 2022?

[bell dings] Gaslight?

The term is gas lighting, but yes.

Taken from the movie "Gaslight."

Toss up.

What man who helped lead a strike against grape growers in Delano, California worked with Dolores Huerta to fund the United Farm Workers?

[intriguing music] [alarm buzzes] That was Cesar Chavez.

Toss up.

What team won the 1997 and 2003 World Series currently stars Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara and plays at LoanDepot Park in south Florida?

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Jackson.

Would that be the Rays?

No.

Cranberry?

[bell dings] Conner?

Marlins?

That is the Miami Marlins.

You're right.

So here is your bonus.

Lake Nasser formed in the 1960s as a result of the construction of what dam along the Nile River?

[intriguing music] [players whispering] Lake Victoria Dam?

No, it was the Aswan Dam, meaning High Dam.

[alarm bell ringing] It is now halftime.

The score is Mercyhurst Prep with 95 points and Cranberry with 85.

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

[dramatic music] My name is Jordan, I'm a junior at Cranberry High School and my favorite subject is French.

My name is Dane, I'm a junior at Cranberry High School and my favorite subject is math.

My name is Kayla, I'm a junior at Cranberry High School and my favorite subject is history.

My name is Conner.

I'm a sophomore at Cranberry High School and my favorite subject is Spanish.

Hi, my name is Jackson Kovachevski, I'm a sophomore at Mercyhurst Prep and my favorite subject is probably math.

Hi, my name is Olivia Cosco.

I'm a junior at Mercyhurst Prep and my favorite subject is English.

Hello, I'm Leath, I'm a sophomore at Mercyhurst and my favorite subject is social studies.

My name is Kaylie, I'm a sophomore at Mercyhurst Prep and my favorite subject is science.

We are back for the second half.

Buzzers ready.

Here comes the first toss up.

The holder of what position outranks the president pro tempore in the US Senate and is first in line to assume the presidency if the president dies- [bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Olivia.

Vice president?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 1944 law provides benefits including college tuition and subsidized loans to returning World War II Veterans?

[intriguing music] [players whispering] [bell dings] Social Security?

That is the GI Bill.

Toss up.

What author who wrote about a centenarian in "Violeta" and used magical realism in "The House of the Spirits" is the niece of a former leader of Chile?

[intriguing music] [alarm buzzes] That is Isabel Allende.

[intriguing music] Toss up.

What 2023 film which ends with the title preteen girl played by Abby Ryder Fortson getting her period, is an adaptation of a Judy Bloom novel?

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Olivia.

Red?

No, it's incorrect.

Cranberry?

[intriguing music] The film is "Are you there God?

It's me, Margaret."

Toss up.

What English king, during whose reign the transatlantic slave trade was banned in the British Empire, ruled during the American War of Independence?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Jackson.

Henry VIII?

No, it's incorrect.

Cranberry?

[bell dings] Dane?

William?

No, it was George III.

You'll see him in "Hamilton."

[players whispering] Toss up.

What European country, whose green line buffer zone separates its Turkish and Greek regions, is governed from Nicosia and is a Mediterranean island?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Leath.

That would be the island of... Cypress.

Yes, that is correct.

Here is your bonus question.

What term, which originally named the Soviet agency in charge of forced labor camps, is also used in English for the camps themselves?

Gulag.

[bell dings] Gulag?

That is correct.

Toss up.

What country's current insurgencies include the southern Naxalite conflict as well as fighting in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, far east of Delhi?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Leath.

India.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

A vulpine creature declares that unreachable fruit must be sour in what fable attributed to Aesop?

[bell dings] The fable of "The Fox and the Stork?"

No, I'm sorry.

It's "The Fox and the Grapes."

[bell ringing] And that means it is time for our second lightning round.

[dramatic music] [electricity crackles] This time Cranberry has choice between two topics.

The topics are NFL duos and Chicago.

NFL duos.

NFL duos?

Yes.

NFL duos.

Alright.

Name the NFL team that featured these wide-receiver-quarterback duos during the 2022 season.

A.J.

Brown and Jalen Hurts.

Philadelphia Eagles.

Correct.

Cooper Kupp and Matthew Stafford.

Los Angeles Rams.

Correct.

Ja'Marr Chase and Joe Burrow.

Cincinnati Bengals Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen.

Buffalo Bills Correct.

Jaylen Waddle and Tua Tagovailoa.

Miami Dolphins.

Correct.

DK Metcalf and Geno Smith.

Seattle Seahawks.

Correct.

Courtland Sutton at Russell Wilson.

Denver Broncos.

Correct.

Treylon Burks and Ryan Tannehill.

Tennessee Titans.

Correct.

Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jared Goff.

Detroit Lions.

Correct.

CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott.

Dallas Cowboys.

Correct.

Now, you chose your choice of topics extremely well.

[players chuckling] And that means that Mercyhurst, we will continue with the lightning round.

Your topic is Chicago.

Answer the following about Chicago.

It is the most populous city in this state.

Illinois.

Correct.

The great Lake on which it lies.

Michigan.

Correct.

University of Chicago Law school professor, elected president in 2008.

Obama.

Barack Obama.

Correct.

NFL team that plays at Soldier Field.

Bears.

The Bears.

Correct.

Skyscraper that was once the world's tallest building.

Sears Tower.

I'm sorry?

Sears Tower.

That is correct.

The Willis Tower now.

1871 disaster sometimes blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow.

The Chicago fire.

That's correct.

Democrat elected the city's mayor in 2023.

[exciting music] Pass.

Chicago Airport named for a 1942 battle.

O'Hare.

No, that's Midway.

Particle accelerator in the Chicago suburbs.

CERN?

I'm sorry?

CERN?

No, it's the Fermilab.

Hull House co-founder and the first US woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

[alarm buzzes] That is Jane Adams.

The current mayor of Chicago is Brandon Johnson.

And we are back to regular competition with this toss up.

What animals, some of which engage in lunge feeding in which they catch prey with hair-like baleen, are cetaceans- [bell dings] Whales Mercyhurst.

Leath.

Whales.

Correct.

Here is your bonus.

What alliterative term denotes a quantity, abbreviated K, that gives the maximum possible stable population of a species in any given habitat?

[intriguing music] [players whispering] [alarm buzzes] Now the term is carrying capacity.

Toss up.

What military installation was surrendered by Major Robert Anderson after bombardment in South Carolina in 1861 that helped trigger the Civil War?

[bell dings] Cranberry.

Conner.

That'd be Fort Sumpter?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In October, 2022, what right-wing populous leader succeeded Mario Draghi to become the first female prime minister of Italy?

[intriguing music] [players whispering] Think of an Italy name.

I dunno.

[alarm buzzes] That's Georgia Meloni.

Toss up.

What country, whose island of Surtsey emerged from the ocean in 1963, primarily uses geothermal energy and has its capital at Reykjavik?

[bell dings] Mercyhurst.

Leath.

Iceland.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What French dramatist wrote about the wealthy Orgon whose wife Elmire fends off the advances of the title con artist in the 1664 play "Tartuffe?"

[players whispering] [intriguing music] [bell dings] Hugo.

No, the dramatist is Moliere.

Toss up.

What acid selected by parietal cells was once known as muriatic acid, is the main component of stomach acid, and has- [bell dings] Cranberry.

Dane.

Hy... Hydrochloric acid?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

An amphoteric compound such as water is one capable of accepting or donating what species?

What?

Mammals.

Mammals?

No, it's proton.

Proton or hydrogen ion.

Toss up.

Members of what art movement included Englishman Alfred Sicily, the American Mary Cassatt as well as Frenchman Pierre-August Renoir and Claude Monet?

[bell dings] Cranberry.

Dane.

Impressionism?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Tyre and Sidon were leading cities in what Ancient civilization of the Eastern Mediterranean that created the first known alphabet?

Phoenicians?

I think so, yeah.

Phoenicians?

That is correct.

Here is your next toss up.

What poem, which includes the line, "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," in a section titled "The Burial of the Dead," is by T.S.

Elliot?

[intriguing music] [bell dings] Cranberry.

Kayla.

"The Wasteland?"

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Englishman claimed that the Laurel "Withers quicker than the rose," in "To an Athlete Dying Young," a poem from his 1896 collection, "A Shropshire Lad."

[intriguing music] [players whispering] I don't know.

I don't know.

Guess.

I don't know.

Ernest Hemingway.

[alarm buzzes] No.

It is A.E.

Houseman.

[bell ringing] And that is the conclusion of our contest.

[dramatic music] Mercyhurst Prep, your score is 205.

Great job during the match and good luck with the rest of your academic year.

Congratulations to Cranberry with the score of 235.

You will be moving on.

I'm Glenn Holland.

Please join us again for the rest of our competition.

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