Welcome to PBS39 Scholastic Scrimmage.

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I'm your host, David Graf.

This year's Scrimmage will look a bit different due to the Covid 19 pandemic.

PBS39 is following all CDC guidelines.

That includes pre-game temperature checks, students wearing masks during the competition, and I'm socially distanced from the teams on set.

And now on to today's matchup that features Allentown Central Catholic, winners of the 2019 tournament, versus the runners-up from 2019, Northwestern Lehigh.

This match will feature two halves with a lightning round mid-way through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall to specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready for our first toss-up.

What archipelago that includes Fernandina Island is home to a sharp-beaked ground finch and many other endemic species studied by Charles Darwin?

Central Catholic.

- The Galapagos Islands.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What painting technique used by George Seurat involves using many small dots to form an image?

- Pointillism.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

It's in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers 8 and 20, given that their greatest common factor is 4?

Central Catholic.

- 40.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What British novelist with a repetitive name wrote about World War I in his series Paradise End and depicted a miserable marriage in The Good Soldier?

- JRR Tolkien?

- Tolkien.

- That's incorrect.

It's Ford Maddox Ford, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What novel in which Pierre Gringore escapes death at the Court of Miracles by wedding Esmeralda is a Victor Hugo book partly named...?

Central Catholic.

- The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

- That's correct.

Partly named for a cathedral.

For your bonus.

Soweto is a suburb of what most populous city in South Africa?

- Johannesburg?

Johannesburg.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What lake, which by volume is the US sixth largest after the Great Lakes, abuts many ski resorts along the California Nevada...?

Northwestern.

- Great Salt Lake.

- That's incorrect.

Along the California Nevada border.

Central Catholic.

- Lake Tahoe.

- That is correct.

Great place to vacation.

For your bonus.

Combining the A, B, O and RH systems, universal donors are people with what blood type generally accepted for transfusions into most patients?

- AB positive.

- Incorrect.

O negative is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What state hosted the entire men's 2021 NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament and is home to Reggie Miller's only NBA team, the Pacers?

Northwestern.

- Indiana?

- That's correct.

The NCAA is based in Indianapolis.

Makes a lot of sense.

For your bonus.

A holiday honoring author Douglas Adams is named after what everyday object, which is deemed massively useful by The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

- A towel?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What novel that depicts the reservation of Malpais and a hedonistic world state led by an upper caste called Alphas, was written by Aldous Huxley?

Northwestern.

- Brave New World.

- That's correct.

For your bonus.

Jacques Chirac succeeded what socialist, whose term in office from 1981 to 1995 made him France's longest-serving president?

- De Gaulle.

- Incorrect, it's Francois Mitterrand.

Next toss-up.

What president who approved the Rush Bagot Treaty with Britain and the Missouri Compromise presided over the Era of Good Feelings?

Central Catholic.

- Monroe.

- That's correct.

James Monroe.

The Era of Good Feelings from 1817 to 1825.

Your bonus will be in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of an angle that is supplementary to itself?

- 90 degrees.

- That's quick.

No need for a pencil paper for that.

You're correct with 90.

Next toss-up.

What economic term who's Giffen type disobeys the law of demand describes transferable items of value distinguished from non-transferable services?

The correct answer is economic goods.

Next toss-up.

What phase transition often studied using a cold finger is used to freeze dry foods and occurs when a solid changes...?

Northwestern.

- Sublimation.

- That's correct.

When a solid changes directly into a gas.

For your bonus.

The Dholavira signboards depicts symbols from what still undeciphered language of what civilization that built the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?

- The Incans.

- Incorrect.

It's the Indus Valley civilization we were looking for.

And with that, we've reached our first lightning round.

In the pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Central Catholic would get to pick from the following topics.

F in science or portraits.

- We'll do F in science.

- Northwestern, that will leave you with portraits.

Central Catholic, F in science.

Give these scientific terms starting with F. Temperature scale proposed... - Fahrenheit - Correct.

Preserve part of a formerly living thing.

- Pass.

- Appendages of locomotion longer than cilia.

- Phalanges, - Correct.

- Emission of light.

- That was incorrect.

- Oh, falanga.

Sorry about that.

Incorrect.

Emission of light after the absorption of radiation.

- Fluorescence.

- Correct.

Common name given to the adipose tissue.

- Pass.

- Element with the atomic symbol FM.

- Francium.

- Incorrect.

Collective term for a region's animal life, contrasted with flora.

- Fauna.

- Correct.

Unit of capacitance.

Unit of capacitance.

- Pass.

- Group of minerals making up most of the Earth's crust.

- Fluorides?

- Incorrect.

Mucous membrane attached to the bottom of the tongue.

Alright.

And now we move on to Northwestern.

Northwestern, you have portraits.

Portraits.

Name the artist who painted these portraits and self-portraits.

The Arnolfini Wedding.

- Jan van Eyck.

- Correct.

Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear.

- Vincent van Gogh.

- Correct.

Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1 which depicted his mother.

- Picasso.

- Incorrect.

Girl with a Pearl Earring.

- Vermeer.

- Correct.

The Lansdowne portrait and the Athenaeum portrait of George Washington.

- Pass.

Mona Lisa.

- Da Vinci.

- Correct.

Self-Portrait with Torn Necklace and Hummingbird, which highlights her unibrow.

- Frida Kahlo.

- Correct.

-Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

- Pass.

- Portrait of Madam X.

- Pass.

- Las Meninas.

- Pass.

Alright.

A tough lightning round there for both teams.

And now we'll move on with the rest of the match with the following toss-up.

What sea contains the Cyclades islands, is separated from the Sea of Marmara by the Dardanelles and is an arm of the Mediterranean south of Greece?

Central Catholic.

- The Aegean Sea.

- Yep, the Aegean Sea.

Correct.

For your bonus.

What author wrote about Philip Marlowe in the detective novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye?

- Sir Arthur Conan...?

- Sir Arthur Conan-Well.

- Incorrect.

It's Raymond Chandler, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What state which moved a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from its capital in 2021 is represented by Senator Marsha Blackburn and governed...?

Central Catholic.

- Tennessee.

- Correct.

And governed from Nashville.

Your bonus.

What emperor signed the oldest recorded peace treaty after encountering Ramses II's Egyptian army in the Battle of Kadesh?

Excuse me, what empire?

Empire, not Emperor.

- Kush, I think.

- Kush.

- Incorrect, it's the Hittites, is the correct empire.

Next toss-up.

What compounds with alarm, food trail and sex subtypes, are molecules used by many insects and plants to influence...?

Northwestern.

- Pheromones.

- That's correct.

Influence other members of their species.

Your bonus.

What federal agency proposed a record $5 million fine against Jacob Wohl and John Burkman for robocalls meant to discourage Black voters in 2020?

- The FEC.

- incorrect.

It's the FCC.

The Federal Communications Commission.

Next toss-up.

What man produced the 42-line Bible and was a Mainz native who introduced movable type printing...?

Northwestern.

- Gutenberg.

- That's right.

Gutenberg.

To Europe.

He introduced it to Europe.

And your bonus.

The violent Hanson brothers are characters in what 1977 hockey comedy starring Paul Newman and named after a fast attempt on goal?

- Gold Rush?

- Slap Shot.

Next toss-up.

What novel in which a bomb injures Angela Wexler was written by...?

- The Westing Game?

- That is correct.

And for your bonus.

What political party led by Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek fought the Chinese civil war against the Communist Party?

- The Nationalists.

- That is correct.

Or the Kuomintang, the specific name of the party.

Next toss-up.

What artist whose tomb of Julius II includes the Dying Slave and a horned sculpture of Moses also sculpted Florence's enormous marble David?

Northwestern.

- Michelangelo.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus.

Naproxen, also called Aleve, and ibuprofen, also called Advil, are examples of what class of drugs that relieve inflammation but are not steroids?

- NSAIDs.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What leader who founded Prophetstown along with his brother Tenskwatawa was a Shawnee chief who was killed at the Battle of Thames in 1813?

Central Catholic.

- Tecumseh.

- That's right.

For your bonus.

A Yokozuna is a grand champion in what form of wrestling that is popular in Japan?

- Sumo wrestling?

- Sumo wrestling.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What element forms a super fluid below its lambda point, was first detected as a yellow line in the sun's spectrum...?

Northwestern.

- Helium.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

The followers of Argentine's Juan Peron embraced the original derogatory term descamisados, referring to the lack of what item?

Descamisados.

- Money?

- Shirts.

Shirts is the correct answer.

We have an excellent match under way.

Northwestern Lehigh lead with 155 points, to Allentown Central Catholic High School's 145 points.

Now, prior to the match, to aid social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves individually and tell us how they occupied themselves during quarantine.

Let's meet the contestants from Central Catholic and Northwestern Lehigh.

- My name is Nick Santos.

I'm a senior at Central Catholic High School and over quarantine I watched Breaking Bad on Netflix.

- My name is Cooper Melo.

I'm a senior at Allentown Central Catholic High School and over quarantine I studied chess.

- My name is Hunter Ramsey.

I'm a junior at Central Catholic.

During quarantine I binged a lot of TV shows with my mom.

- My name is Toby Bruhn.

I'm a sophomore at Central Catholic, and over quarantine I did a lot of cello playing.

- Hi, I'm Joe Russo.

I'm a senior at Northwestern Lehigh and over quarantine I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender.

- My name is Raimi Cannon.

I'm a senior at Northwestern Lehigh.

And over quarantine I watched an absurd amount of kids' cartoons.

- My name is Jackson Moyes.

I'm a senior at Northwestern Lehigh, and over quarantine I watched a lot of movies and television.

- Hello, my name is Tim Bernard.

I am a sophomore at Northwestern Lehigh, and over quarantine I spent a lot of time with my family and my new dog.

- Welcome back.

We'll begin the second half with the following toss-up.

What musical, whose songs include What's The Buzz and I Don't Know How To Love Him is Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera version of the Gospels?

Central Catholic.

- Jesus Christ Superstar.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What numbers, such as 6 and 28, are equal to the sums of their proper positive divisors?

- Perfect numbers.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What rebellion, whose key figures included James Connolly and Patrick Pearse, was an anti-British revolt in Dublin named for a Christian holiday?

Central Catholic.

- Easter Rising.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What six-letter word refers to the quality of the sound an instrument makes which, for example, allows one to distinguish among woodwinds?

- Timbre?

Timbre.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What organelle has a contractile type that is used to provide turgor pressure and a central type that occupies most of the volume of a plant cell?

Northwestern.

- Vacuole.

- That's correct.

Vacuole is correct.

For your bonus.

What author won a Pulitzer Prize for a novel about a man named Swede Levov who owns a glove factory, 1997's American Pastoral?

1997.

- Smith?

- Philip Roth is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What insect with scientific name Vespa mandarinia has been described as an invasive species whose sting can be fatal, prompting its murder nickname?

Northwestern.

- Murder hornets.

- That's correct.

Murder hornets.

And for your bonus.

In a 1906 speech, Theodore Roosevelt used what term to refer to Progressive Era investigative journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Jacob Riis.

Excuse me...

Yes, Jacob Riis.

- Muckrakers?

- That's correct, muckrakers.

Next toss-up.

What composer, whose last opera was the comic Falstaff, includes the chorus Gloria all'Egitto in an opera about a doomed princess Aida?

Northwestern.

- Handel - incorrect.

Over to Central Catholic.

Central Catholic.

- Tchaikovsky.

- Incorrect.

Giuseppe Verdi is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What poem compared God to a ship's pilot in Crossing The Bar and praised troops who rode into the Valley of Death in The Charge Of The Light Brigade?

Alfred Lord Tennyson is a correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What commander whose generals were called the Diadochi defeated Persians at the Battle of Issus and Gaugamela and was a great king of Macedon?

Northwestern.

- Alexander the Great.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

San Ignacio is one of the most populous cities in what Central American country that was once known as British Honduras?

- Belize.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

In what process which forms named after Gustav Mie and CV Raman are moving particles redirected in collisions with other particles in their paths?

The correct answer is scattering.

Next toss-up.

What composer of a Cuban overture often worked with his brother Ira and used a clarinet glissando...?

Northwestern.

- George Gershwin.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus.

What former governor of California served as Supreme Court Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969?

- Warren?

- That's correct, Earl Warren.

Next toss-up.

What language added a glottal stop to its 'okina, to its alphabet, has just five letters and has spoken mostly in the 50th state?

Central Catholic.

- Hawaiian?

- Hawaiian language, correct.

Your toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the quotient of a 16 factorial divided by a 14 factorial, given 16 factorial is 16 times every smaller positive integer?

Go ahead, tell your captain the answer.

- 240.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What bodies may travel along a Hayashi track as they form molecular clouds before they begin producing energy by fusing hydrogen in their cores?

Northwestern.

- Stars.

- That's correct.

For your bonus.

Since 2018, what country has been led by the former cricket star Imran Khan and his populist PTI party?

- Austria?

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is Pakistan.

And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.

Northwestern, you'll get to choose between the categories CAU or nines.

- Right, we will go with CAU.

- Alright, CAU.

That means, Central Catholic, you'll have nines.

Northwestern, CAU.

Give these terms beginning with the letters C, A and U.

White vegetable related to broccoli.

- Cauliflower.

- Correct.

And anybody can answer.

Past tense of catch.

- Caught.

- Correct.

A metal pot for cooking over a fire.

- Kettle.

- Incorrect.

Alternative to a presidential primary used in Iowa.

- Caucus.

- Correct.

Something that produces an effect.

- Cause.

- Correct.

To burn the skin to stop a wound from bleeding.

- Cauterize.

- Correct.

A yellow flag at a NASCAR race that indicates danger.

- Caution.

- Correct.

Adjective for a chemical that is highly corrosive.

- Caustic.

- Correct.

A waterproof sealant used in construction.

- Caulk.

- A Spanish term for a warlord or military or political leader.

Say that again.

- Pass.

Alright, pretty good round on that.

is nines.

Answer the following about the number nine.

Baseball games have nine of these.

- Divisions.

- Correct?

Italian poet who wrote about the ninth circle of hell in Inferno.

- Dante.

- Correct.

F9 is a film in this franchise.

- Fast And Furious.

- Correct.

The ninth president had...

This ninth president had the shortest term.

- Harrison.

- Correct.

Which one?

- William Henry Harrison.

- Correct.

In Greek myth, the nine daughters of Mnemosyne.

- Muses.

- Correct.

Quarterback who wore the number nine for the Saints in 2020.

- Drew Brees.

- Correct.

Author of Nine Princes In Amber, the first of his Chronicle Of Amber books.

- Pass.

Halogen with the atomic number nine.

- Florian.

- Correct.

Band with the song All The Small Things and album Nine.

- Blink-182.

- Correct.

Mineral that is nine on the Mohs hardness scale.

Mineral that is nine on the Mohs hardness scale.

- Corundum.

- That is correct.

Nice job, Central Catholic, on the lightning round.

And now we will begin the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What country whose King Peter II was overthrown by the Nazis was liberated by partisans led by Josip Tito?

Central Catholic.

- Yugoslavia.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

Michael I was the last king of what European country whose dictator Ion Antonescu allied it from Nazi Germany in World War II?

- Romania.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

Recent controversial examples of what structures include the Sardar Sarovar in India, the Belo Monte in Brazil and the Three Gorges in China?

Sardar Sarovar in India.

Hydroelectric dams.

Next toss-up.

What process generates earthquakes in the Wadati-Benioff zones and occurs at convergent boundaries where one tectonic plate... Northwestern.

- Subduction?

- That's correct.

Sinks below another.

For your bonus.

What mausoleum was built for a deceased wife of Emperor Shah Jahan?

- The Taj Mahal?

- Go ahead and tell your captain.

- Taj Mahal.

- Taj Mahal is correct.

Next toss-up.

What Mesoamerican people collected stories about Hunahpu and Xbalanque who defeated the Lord Xibalba in a ball game in the Popol Vuh?

In the Popol Vuh.

Northwestern.

- Mayans.

- That's correct.

For your bonus.

Queen Victoria had remnants of the HMS Resolute made into a variety of what object, which is now prominently used in the White House?

- Desk.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What author, who wrote about the suicide of Seymour Glass in A Perfect Day For Bananafish, depicted Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye?

Central Catholic.

- Salinger.

- That's correct.

JD Salinger.

For your bonus.

What term denotes anaerobic processes that partially oxidize carbon compounds as happens in making wine and yoghurt?

- Fermentation.

- Fermentation.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What Yale graduate who activates a sun blocker in an episode in which he is shot by Maggie...?

Central Catholic.

- Mr Burns.

- That's correct.

Mr Burns from The Simpsons.

For your bonus.

What singer's only studio album, Grace, includes his cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah?

- Buble.

- Incorrect.

I think it's the best version.

It's by Jeff Buckley.

That was what we were looking for.

Next toss-up.

What quantity can be found by the Rule of Sarrus or by expansion of minors, exists only for a square matrix and is often abbreviated DET?

Northwestern.

- Derivative?

- No.

Central Catholic?

Go ahead.

- Determinant?

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

In what story by Nikolai Gogol does a civil servant lose the title body part which temporarily takes on a life of its own?

The hand?

- Incorrect.

It's the nose.

Next toss-up.

What word can refer to a measurement of land as in the national geodetic one, or an act of polling people as done by companies such as Gallup?

Central Catholic.

- Survey?

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What term introduced by the ancient Greeks refers to an argument with three parts, a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion?

- A tragedy.

- Syllogism is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What modern city, formerly called Hanseong, was once the capital of Baekje and Joseon kingdoms and has since 1948 been the capital of South Korea?

Northwestern.

- Seoul.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What compound, the simplest alcohol, has the molecular formula.

CH3OH?

- Methanol.

- That is correct.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the area...?

Cooper.

- 60.

- He did get in before the buzzer, but it is incorrect.

It was 5.2 square inches, is the correct answer.

Really great match between two teams that we were expecting, both that were finalists in 2019.

The final score is Northwestern Lehigh as champions with 365 points to Allentown Central Catholic High School's 360.

Allentown Central Catholic, thank you so much for joining us.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Northwestern Lehigh, we'll see you in the next round and thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week, when we start the third round of the 2021 Scholastic Scrimmage season.

Thank you.