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Northampton HS vs Northwestern Lehigh HS
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49th Season of Scholastic Scrimmage: Northampton HS vs Northwestern Lehigh HS
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Hello, and welcome to the third match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
Today's match between Northampton and Northwestern Lehigh will be composed of two halves with a Lightning Round midway through each half.
At halftime, we'll pause so the students can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information, and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now, let's begin, buzzers ready.
Here's our first toss-up.
What word, which in most dialects is a homophone of a wood beam that connects two working oxen, means an egg's nutrient... Northwestern?
- Yoke.
That is correct.
It means an egg's nutrient-rich yellow protein.
For your bonus, what 19th century British poet who wrote about an elderly Greek hero who vows to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield in the poem, Ulysses?
- James Joyce?
- Incorrect, it's Alfred Lord Tennyson, is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what celestial body was discovered in 1846, based on calculations by Urbain Le Verrier to explain anomalies in the orbit of its inner neighbor Uranus?
Northwestern?
- Neptune.
- Neptune is correct.
For your bonus, George Gershwin wrote an overture named after what Western Hemisphere country whose musical traditions include the rumba and the salsa?
- Mexico.
- Incorrect.
The country of Cuba is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what 19th-century author portrayed a Spanish servant's love for a queen in Ruy Blas, and described reformed convict Jean Valjean in Les Miserables?
Northwestern.
- Victor Hugo.
- Victor Hugo is correct.
For your bonus, what present-day country, home to the 18th-century Durrani Empire, was later contested in the Great Game and lay between Persia and British India?
- Pakistan.
- Incorrect.
Afghanistan is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, known for her blue-bordered white sari, was in... Northampton.
- Mother Teresa?
- That is correct.
She was an Albanian nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity.
For your bonus, what adjective describes cells, such as animal gametes, that contain a single set of chromosomes?
- Zygotes.
- That's incorrect.
Haploid is the correct answer.
Next toss-up, what number of hydrogen atoms in ethylene is also the number of carbon atoms in butane?
Northwestern?
- Four.
- Four is correct.
For your bonus, the 2013 Newbery Medal was given to what novel by Katherine Applegate, which is told from the perspective of a gorilla who lives in a cage at a mall?
- The One And Only Ivan?
- That is correct.
Next toss-up question, what economic concept, one of the three classical factors of production with land and labor... Northwestern?
- Capital.
- Capital is correct.
It denotes the durable goods used in production.
For your bonus, Michael de Santa, Franklin Clinton, and Trevor Phillips have all appeared as player characters in what long-running open-world video game franchise?
I believe it's the best-selling franchise of all time.
It's Grand Theft Auto.
Next toss-up, what country underwent the national reorganization process, or Dirty War, and lost the Falklands War in the decade after... Northwestern?
- Argentina?
That is correct.
It was after Juan Peron's death.
For your bonus, in October 2022, an explosion partially destroyed a bridge crossing what strait to the east of the Crimean peninsula?
- The Strait of Azov.
- That's incorrect.
The Kerch Strait is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, in what process, which can occur after the breaking of the column barrier in a stellarator or a tokamak, are two atomic nuclei joined together?
Northwestern.
- Fusion.
- Be a little bit more specific.
- Nuclear fusion.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, members of what branch of the US military supposedly earned the nickname Devil Dogs for their actions at the Battle of Belleau Wood, in World War One?
- Marines.
- The United States Marine Corps is correct.
Next toss-up question, what artist, whose LHOOQ... - Duchamp?
- Northwestern.
- Duchamp.
- Marcel Duchamp is correct.
Sounds like we're a fan there, Shannon.
You knew that right away.
Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the average speed, in miles per hour, of a car that just traveled 80 miles in 75 minutes?
- 60.
60.
60 miles an hour.
- That's incorrect.
It's 64 miles per hour.
And with that, we have reached the first Lightning Round.
In a pre-match coin toss, It was determined that Northampton will get to select first between the following topics, Sweetness or American Poets.
- Sweetness.
- Sweetness.
- All right.
Northampton, your topic is Sweetness.
Name these sweet-tasting things.
Disaccharide, known as table sugar.
If you don't know, you have to say "pass."
- Glucose.
- Incorrect.
Sweet liquid in flowers that hummingbirds drink.
- Nectar.
- Correct.
Simple sugar that is the brain's main fuel.
- Glucose.
- Correct.
Bodily fluid that can be sweet in people with diabetes.
- Pass.
- Food product made by boiling sap from a maple tree.
- Syrup.
- We need more.
- Maple syrup.
- That is correct.
Sweet secretion from aphids that is harvested by some ants.
- No response.
- Zero-calorie natural sweetener extracted from a namesake plant genus.
- Stevia.
- That is correct.
Sweet, brown sauce created by heat-inducted chemical reaction.
- Molasses.
- Incorrect.
Artificial sweetener named for an amino acid that people with PKU avoid.
And that is the end of that.
A little fun fact where they had on there, the bodily fluid that can be sweet in people with diabetes is their urine.
And the fact was that tasting urine was once used to detect diabetes.
I have no idea who would actually taste the urine.
Northwestern, that leaves you with American Poets.
Name the authors of these lines of poetry.
"Quoth the Raven, nevermore."
- Edgar Allan Poe.
- Correct.
"On the deck my captain lies, falling cold and dead."
- Walt Whitman?
- That is correct.
"Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride "of Paul Revere."
- Pass.
- "Because I could not stop for death..." - Emily Dickinson.
- Correct.
"Anyone lived in a pretty haole town."
- Pass.
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."
- Pass.
- "What happens to a dream deferred?"
- Robert Frost.
- Incorrect.
"I have eaten the plums.
"They were in the ice box."
- Frost.
- Incorrect.
"Every woman adores a fascist."
- Sylvia Plath.
- That is correct.
"Richard Corey, one calm summer night, "went home and put a bullet through his head."
And that was Edwin Arlington Robinson.
We'll continue on with the following toss-up question.
What statistical quantity represented by the line inside the box in a box plot is found... Northwestern.
- Median.
- That is correct, and it's found by putting a data set in order and finding the middle value.
For your bonus, DNA test conducted in 1998 revealed that Thomas Jefferson likely had six children with what woman who he enslaved at Monticello?
- Sara?
- That's incorrect.
Sally Hemings is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what vessel, owned by Juan de la Cosa, was the largest of three ships in Christopher Columbus' first voyage... - Northwestern.
- Santa Maria.
- The Santa maria was correct.
It was named after the Mother of Jesus.
For your bonus, Planck's Constant divided by momentum gives the De Broglie value of what quantity, which is about 400-700 nanometers for visible light?
- Wavelength.
- Wavelength is correct.
Next toss-up question, what show featured Luke Kirby as a controversial performer Lenny Bruce, streamed on Amazon Prime, and starred Rachel Brosnahan as the title comic?
Northwestern.
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what major river of Eastern Europe flows through Kiev before emptying into the Black Sea?
- The Rhine River.
- Incorrect.
It's the Dnipro River.
Next toss-up, what current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's first ambassador to the U.N. earlier spent six years... Northwestern.
- Nikki Haley.
- That's right.
She spent six years as governor of South Carolina.
For your bonus, Epaminondas came from what Boeotian city state that became the dominant power in Greece after defeating Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C.?
- Athens.
- Incorrect.
Thebes is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what adjective can refer to major and minor keys with the same letter name to lines of longitude, or to lines in the same plain... Northwestern?
- Parallel - That is correct.
In the same plane that don't intersect, was the end of that question.
For your bonus, heated limestone is used to make clinker, a key ingredient in what material that binds together gravel and sand in concrete?
- Cement.
- Cement is correct.
And it's too bad, Northampton, you didn't get that for bonus, being the Concrete Kids.
Next toss-up question, what character mutters "puppy biscuit" to himself as he imagines himself as a lawyer, a hydroplane pilot... - Walter Mitty.
- Northampton, go ahead.
- Walter Mitty.
- Walter Mitty is correct.
For your bonus, what author who wrote about a man who writes letters to famous people in his novel, Herzog, wrote the picaresque novel The Adventures of Augie Marsh?
- No response.
- Saul Bellow is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what mammalian order that includes marmots and capybaras has members whose incisors never stopped growing?
Northwestern.
- Rodents.
- Rodents is correct, and they also include rats and mice in that order.
For your bonus, what name was coined by Benjamin Russell in 1817 to refer to the apparent mood of national harmony during James Monroe's presidency?
- The Era of Good Feelings.
- The Era of Good Feelings is correct.
And with that, we've reached halftime, Northampton, excuse me, Northwestern Lehigh currently leads with a score of 210-35.
Now we'll get to know the students a little bit better by having them introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question, if you could visit any country in the world, where would it be?
Northampton, Brady, we start with you.
- My name is Brady Davis Lazar.
I'm a freshman, and I would visit Norway.
- Great.
- My name is Anna Hersch.
I'm a senior, and I would visit Ukraine.
- My name is Kathryn Esser, I'm also a senior, and I would most like to visit Germany.
- My name is Reece McCarry, and I would also visit Germany.
- Excellent, and on to Northwestern Lehigh.
Jesse, go ahead.
- My name is Jesse Kinsman.
I'm a senior, and I'd like to visit Spain.
- I am Tim Bernard.
I'm a senior, and I'd like to visit Australia.
- Dan Smolinski, I'm a senior, and I would love to visit Greece.
- I'm Shannon Green, I'm a junior, and I would like to visit Spain.
- Very cool.
You know, we've been asking this throughout the entire first round, and Germany comes up more often than I thought.
It is a very cool country.
I got to visit there twice so far this year.
I was in Hamburg, Germany, and also in Cologne.
It's a beautiful country, but you can also see why a lot of Germans settle here in Pennsylvania, because frequently as I'm moving around the country, I remark how close it actually looks, like Pennsylvania, if you're going west off 78, it's pretty amazing.
All right.
We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.
What party, which supported the American system of high tariffs and a national bank, was led by Henry Clay and opposed the... Northwestern.
Federalists?
- That is incorrect.
I'll finish the question for Northampton.
...and opposed the Democrats in the 1840s.
Brady.
- National Republicans.
- That is incorrect.
The Whig Party is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what instrument played by both Allen Virtuosi and Wynton Marsalis is a cylindrical relative of the clarinet and is a high-pitched brass instrument?
It's the trumpet.
Next tossup question, what last name is shared by Diogenes Club co-founder Mycroft, and his brother, who lived... Northampton?
- Holmes?
- Holmes is correct.
He lived at 221B Baker Street.
For your bonus, the same where every member liberum veto was a legislature of what Commonwealth comprised of Lithuania and what other present-day country?
- Latvia?
- Incorrect.
Poland is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what computer devices, which can scan codes or which can send codes, and have designs including Dvorak layout, may have a home row... Northwestern?
- Keyboard.
- A keyboard is correct.
They may have a home row containing the letters A and L. For your bonus, what Mexican flowering plant with red and green foliage is named for a secretary of war who served under the first US minister to Mexico?
- Poinsettia.
- The poinsettia is correct, named for Joel Roberts Poinsett.
For the next tossup question, what amendment that provides the primary reasoning for the Brown versus Board decision... Northwestern.
- 14th Amendment.
- The 14th Amendment is correct.
For your bonus, what peninsula, which is separated from Singapore by the Strait of Johor, contains the southernmost portion of Thailand?
- Siamese Peninsula.
- Incorrect.
The Malay Peninsula is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what Japanese artist who performed Cut Piece is shown in an Annie Leibovitz photo being embraced by her nude husband, John Lennon, of the Beatles?
Northampton.
- Yoko Ono.
- Yoko Ono is correct.
For your bonus, William Shockley and Walter Schottky confusingly both name types of what circuit devices which ideally allow currents to flow in only one direction?
- No response.
- There would be a diode.
Next toss-up question, what holiday, commemorated by a Walk for Freedom led by its grandmother, Opal Lee, became a federal holiday in 2021 and celebrate... Northwestern.
- Juneteenth.
That is correct.
And it celebrates emancipation.
For your bonus, a mythical canine called the Shah represented what god who married Nephthys and fought for power with his nephew, Horace?
- Set.
- Set is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what Greek god, who fathered Erichthonius on Gaia, was thrown off Mount Olympus by his mother, Hera, but returned and became the gods' blacksmith?
Northwestern.
- Hephaestus.
- Hephaestus is correct.
For your bonus, what man who overcame a severe stutter became king following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936, and was the father of Elizabeth II?
- George VI.
- George VI correct.
Next tossup question, what author described Major Ossai using a stapler for torture in the Anthills of the Savannah, and depicted Okonkwo hanging himself in Things Fall Apart.
Northwestern.
- Chinua Achebe.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, in an anonymous medieval romance, what Arthurian knight is given a year and a day to seek out the Green Chapel after he beheads the Green Knight?
- Lancelot.
- Incorrect, Sir Gawain is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round.
Northwestern, you'll get to pick from the following topics, Indigenous American Words, or Four-Letter Acronyms.
- We'll take Acronyms.
- Acronyms, OK. Northwestern, Four-Letter Acronyms.
Give the usual four-letter acronym for these organizations and businesses.
Note, you can say just the acronym, you don't have to say what each letter means in the acronym.
A main US space agency.
- NASA.
- Correct.
Federal agency that checks workplace safety.
- OSHA.
- Correct.
Military alliance joined by Finland in 2023.
- NATO.
- Correct.
Federal organization founded in 1979 that responds to natural disasters.
- FEMA.
- Correct.
Sports broadcaster based in Bristol, Connecticut.
- ESPN.
- Correct.
13-member group of nations with major oil reserves.
- OPEC.
- Correct.
PAC 12 school whose teams are the Bruins?
- UCLA.
- Correct.
Largest British bank which was founded in Hong Kong.
- Pass.
- Protestant group founded by George Williams that operates sports programs.
- NCAA?
- Incorrect.
Nonprofit that runs the Voting Rights Project.
- Pass.
- That would be the ACLU.
Northampton, you have Indigenous American Words.
Give these words that originated in the languages of native people of the new world.
Soft shoe or slipper made from animal hide.
- Moccasins.
- Correct.
Dome shelter made of blocks of snow.
- Igloo.
- Correct.
Thick roll of smoking tobacco.
- No response.
- North America's largest marsupial.
- Bear?
- Incorrect.
Bat excrement prized as fertilizer.
- No response.
- Sweet food made from cacao.
- Chocolate.
- Correct.
- An edible gourd, such as a pumpkin or zucchini.
- Squash?
- Correct.
A loose blanket-like garment worn over the torso with a simple hole for the head.
- Smock.
- Incorrect.
A revered symbol found on a pole.
- Totem.
- Correct.
Primary ingredient in guacamole.
- Avocado.
- Correct.
We'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.
What fashion house, which is led by CEO Leena Nair, produced the 255 handbag and the Number Five fragrance?
Northampton.
- Chanel.
That is correct, and is named after its French founder, Coco.
Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.
If a single card is randomly chosen from a standard 52-card deck, what is the probability that it displays an even number?
Time is up.
There's a 5-in-13 chance.
Next toss-up question, what organelle releases cytochrome to begin apoptosis is the site of the electron transport chain, and is called the powerhouse of the cell?
Northwestern.
- The mitochondria - Mitochondrion is correct.
For your bonus, which French artist depicted men signaling to a distant boat after surviving a shipwreck in the raft of the Medusa?
- Gericault?
- We're going to take Gericault, Gericault, we'll take that pronunciation.
That is correct.
Next toss-up question, what event, which caused the formation of the Elephant's Foot and turned Pripyat into a ghost town?
Northwestern.
- Chernobyl.
- That is correct, and occurred in Ukraine in 1986 at a power plant.
For your bonus, what title character poisons herself with arsenic after having unsatisfying affairs and becomes indebted in a novel by Gustave Flaubert?
- Madame Bovary.
Do we need more specific on that, or we go with Madame Bovary.
We're good with that.
Emma Bovary, or Madame Bovary is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what country, which is home to most speakers of the Walloon language, has a northern Dutch-speaking region of Flanders that surround... Northwestern?
- Belgium?
- That is correct.
And the area Flanders surrounds Brussels.
For your bonus, the world's smallest inhabited island is one of the Thousand Islands, an archipelago located in what river on the US-Canadian border?
- Saint Lawrence River.
- The Saint Lawrence River is correct.
Next toss-up question, what NFL team whose stadium hosts the NFL Combine set an NFL record in 2022 by blowing a 33-point halftime lead and... Northwestern?
- The Colts.
- The Colts is correct.
They play in the state of Indiana.
For your bonus, what conditions that can be detected by EKGs are irregularities in heartbeat, and include tachycardia and atrial fibrillation?
- Arrhythmias.
- Arrhythmias is correct.
Next toss-up question, what monarch's confidantes, included Munshi, Abdul Karim, and John Brown following the 1861 death of her husband, Prince Albert, at Windsor Castle?
Northwestern.
- Queen Victoria.
- Queen Victoria is correct.
For your bonus, in what US city were five police officers charged with murder after the January 2023 killing of Tyree Nichols?
- Nashville.
Incorrect.
Memphis, Tennessee is the correct answer.
The next toss-up is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the only solution to the equation?
X squared plus 6x plus nine equals zero.
Given that the left hand... Northampton?
- Three, X is equal to three.
- That is incorrect.
Northwestern, I'll continue the question.
...given that the left-hand side is a perfect square.
Northwestern.
- Negative three.
- Negative three is correct.
For your bonus, in 2022, professional sports teams in Washington, D.C. unveiled pink uniforms in reference to what flower abundant in the city?
That is a bonus for Northwestern.
Nothing?
Kathryn, do you know?
- The cherry blossom?
- Cherry blossoms is correct.
Unfortunately, no credit for that, but you did have the right answer.
Next toss-up question, what author of the... Oh, and with that, we have reached the end of the game.
Congratulations to Northwestern Lehigh, with a score of 415.
You will move on to the second round.
Northampton, tough match today.
You were against one of our finalists from a few years back.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
And thank you for tuning in.
We'll see you next week when Emmaus faces off against Bethlehem Catholic.
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