Welcome to the BBC 39 Scholastic Scrimmage.

Scholastic Scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS 39 and by people Lehigh Valley Riley Children's Hospital.

Now here's your host, David Graf.

Hello and welcome to the all star match of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's game features two teams made up of one representative from each of the final eight schools in this year's tournament.

And now introducing Team Einstein.

Hello.

I'm Viren Shaker and I'm from Nazareth.

I'm Neve Sinha and I'm representing White Hall American Alisha.

And I'm representing Silicon Valley.

I'm Max Harper, representing Parkman.

And now Tim Newton.

and go ahead.

I'm Owen Cobb, and I'm representing Suddenly High.

I'm Tim Bernard, and I'm representing Northwestern Lee.

I am John Horsburgh, and I'm representing pinochle.

I'm Nathaniel Schmidt, and I'm representing Moravian Academy.

All right.

And since the contestants are all All-Stars, they all know the rules.

They'll be the same that we used all season.

So let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first tossup question.

What material?

A type of thermoplastic polyamide was used in parachutes in World War Two and has largely replaced silk.

For use in Kevlar.

That is incorrect.

Over to Einstein.

I'll continue the question.

Replace silk for use in pantyhose.

Go to my side.

Nylon?

That is correct.

And now for your bonus.

The marriage of the sea ceremony was carried out.

In what city?

Where the blind and reko D'Angelo was a doge.

Dennis.

Dennis is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel does Roger Killingsworth suspect Minister Arthur Dimsdale a father and son.

Go ahead.

The Scarlet Letter.

The Scarlet Letter is correct.

And he suspected fathering a child with Hester Prynne.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many unique meals can be made from three appetizers, seven entrees and eight desserts?

If they much if they must have exactly one of each.

You.

61.

61, 68.

168 is correct.

Next toss up question.

What type of animal nicknamed NBA player Dennis Rodman?

A type of self-replicating computer, malware and parasites with both round Einsteins.

Worm.

Worm is correct in their parasites with both round and tapered types.

For your bonus, you May 2023.

Tom Brady agreed to buy a minority stake in what NFL team which Brady and the Patriots defeated in the Tuck rule game.

Raiders Raiders The Raiders are Las Vegas Raiders.

Las Vegas Raiders is correct.

Next tossup question What composer who wrote about the sisters draw Bella and Fjord Elegy who were tricked into falling in love with each other's lovers In his opera Cosi Fan Tutte Lutist Mozart.

Mozart is correct.

For bonus, what member of the Black Hand was a Bosnian Serb nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, just.

Like Gavrilo Princip.

Princip Princip Gavrilo Princip is the correct answer.

Next tossup question What joint where compression of the median nerve can cause numbness and pain in carpal tunnel syndrome Newtons.

Like the wrist.

The wrist is correct, and it lies between the forearm and the hand.

For your bonus, the 12 tribes of Israel are descended from the 12 sons of what biblical son of Isaac, who buys his twin Esau birthright Jacob.

Jacob is correct.

Next, tossup question.

What war ended after the Battle of August of my home state?

The Peloponnesian.

War.

The Peloponnesian War is correct for your bonus.

Condensates of integer spin particles, sometimes called the fifth state of matter, are named after Albert Einstein.

And what Indian physicist Bose?

Bose Bose is correct.

Next tossup question What Dutch artist depicted a pair of ears wielding a blade and a bird monster eating a human in the hell panel of his garden of earthly delights?

Newton's Bosch.

Romana, as Bosch is correct, for a bonus, a British earl lends his name to what group of marbles from the Acropolis, which the British Museum has long been asked to repatriate to Greece.

and yes.

Smith.

Yes.

If anything, those works are the Elgin Marbles.

Next, toss up question What desert, whose basin contains many fossilized dinosaur eggs, is formed by a rain shadow from the Himalayas and covers southern Mongolia.

Bhutan's Gobi Desert.

The Gobi Desert is correct.

For your bonus, what Mesopotamian City were the oldest known law code was produced, was built near the mouth of the Euphrates River and is home to a giant ziggurat.

Or.

Or is correct.

Next tossup question What English language name denotes the block that won the battle of Cerro corrupt over Francisco Solano Lopez.

To defeat Paraguay in an 1860s war.

On stones were the Triple Alliance.

The war.

The Triple Alliance is correct.

For your bonus, in October 2022, the FDA announced a shortage of the immediate release form of what brand?

A prescription drug used to treat narcolepsy and ADHD.

And the latter on Adderall.

Adderall is the correct answer.

Next tossup question What RSI unit, which is used to rate fuzes and circuit breakers equals one watt per volt or one Newtons joules.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for the Einsteins or one column Ampere.

And that fear is correct.

It's one column per second and is the AC unit for current.

Nice job for your bonus nucleus y reappear and the spindle assembles during what stage of mitosis, which is often accompanied by cytokinesis telephones.

A phase is correct.

Next tossup question What actress who played Helen shivers in I know what you did last summer and Daphne in the live action Scooby-Doo movie played Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I was just going to date me because it was my high school crush.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

We determined that the Einsteins will get to pick first from the following topics International artists or mountains?

Mountains, please.

Mountains it is.

Einsteins.

Your topic is mountains.

Name these mountains.

The world's highest.

Everest.

Correct.

The highest in South America.

Hey Konnichiwa.

Correct.

Is the tallest in Africa.

Kilimanjaro, Correct.

Shares its name with a country led from Nairobi.

Kenya.

Correct.

The world's second highest K2.

Correct.

Hawaiian Mountain, slightly higher than Mount Aloha.

Monica.

Correct.

A Colorado peak named for explorer Zebulon Pike.

That's correct.

Italian volcano that shares its name with a stuffed dish.

Vesuvius.

That's incorrect.

Mount Stromboli, Alpine Peak, whose name means white of Mount Mont Blanc.

That is correct.

The highest point in Antarctica.

Vincent.

Massive.

That is correct.

Nice job.

Einsteins.

Newtons.

That leaves you with international artists.

Given an artist name the modern day country where he or she was born.

René Magritte.

Belgium.

Correct.

Katsushika.

Hokusai.

Japan.

Correct.

Andy Warhol.

US Correct.

Konstantin Couche.

Of Romania.

Correct.

Pablo Picasso.

Spain Correct.

Claude Monet.

France Correct.

Vincent van Go.

Netherlands, Correct.

Frida Kahlo.

Mexico.

Correct.

Edvard Munch.

Norway.

Correct.

William Hogarth.

England.

That is correct.

Nice job.

Is Daniel Webster, our International Artist series.

Hogarth was a tricky one at the end.

That's I saw the gear spinning, but yes, England is correct.

All right.

We'll continue on with the following toss up question.

What US city that names a steel company that went bankrupt in 2003, shares its name with a West Bank city and is said to be Einsteins.

Bethlehem.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is correct.

And this is a national quiz tournament.

And here we are in Bethlehem, entering the Bethlehem one correctly.

Here's your bonus question.

In 1943, what U.S. city was the site of the zoot suit riots in which crowds and soldiers attacked young Latino residents?

San Francisco.

That is incorrect.

Los Angeles, California is a correct answer.

Next.

Also question Mersenne numbers are one less than what numbers which have no odd Prime Einsteins.

Quickly, quick, Prime.

Say it again.

Prime numbers.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue on for the Newtons, which have no odd prime factors and are obtained by multiplying two times itself repeatedly.

Go ahead, Newtons.

Perfect numbers.

That's also incorrect.

It's powers of two or two to the nth power.

It's a correct answer.

Next, toss up question for which country, which was an independent state from 1404 to 1409 under AU and Glinda.

Does plied Comrie advocate independence from the UK?

Einsteins Scotland.

That's incorrect.

Over to the Newtons.

The question is complete, but no confer.

Go ahead.

Wales.

Wales is correct.

For your bonus, what Chinese philosopher of the spring and autumn period advocated for filial piety in his intellects.

Confucius.

Confucius is correct.

Next toss up question What sitcom?

Which costarred Vivian Vance as landlady?

Ethel Mertz was a popular 1950 show about the wacky Mrs. Ricardo played by Lucille.

Ball and stars.

I love Lucy.

I Love Lucy is correct.

For your bonus question, what British author wrote about Larry Darnell Search for Enlightenment in the Razor's Edge and depicted Philip carries mutation in of human bondage.

Excuse me.

His maturation in of human bondage.

James.

James.

James.

James.

That's incorrect.

W Somerset Maugham, is it correct?

Answer Because toss up question.

What reflex has a flick form caused by light is normally triggered by irritation in the nose and causes involved.

Sneezing, Sneezing.

Is correct and causes involuntary closing of the eyelids for bonus.

In 2023, what Alabama senator announced he would place holds on all military promotions to protest military policies on abortion.

Tuberville Tommy Tuberville is correct.

Next toss up question What man who succeeded Jose de San Martin as commander after the Battle of Mapou was a Chilean independence leader of partially Irish descent.

Newton's O'Higgins.

Bernardo O'Higgins is the correct answer for your bonus.

What animal species include the rarely sighted deep sea big fin as well as a colossal one that is the most massive known invertebrate squid.

Squid squid is correct.

Next tossup question What title character who befriends Polynesia?

The parrot and the two headed Push Me Pull you is a doctor created by Hugh Lofting, who can talk to animals Einsteins.

Dr. Doolittle.

Dr. John Doolittle is correct for bonus what author of Manhattan Transfer interspersed news Excerpts with the main narrative in his U.S.A. trilogy.

Fitzgerald That's incorrect.

John Dos Passos is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half time now.

We've already introduced ourselves.

So what I'd like everyone to share is a significant item that you have something that brings back a fond memory or anything significant to you or an achievement you might have achieved so far in your life.

So we'll start with Team Einstein.

Green Go.

Ahead.

I have a swim medal at home from my first for me.

Actually.

That's right.

Remember the Nazareth team?

Almost every other is on the swim team, right?

Yeah.

Excellent.

Go ahead.

My prized possession is a chest that I received from my parents.

Cool.

I have a ukulele from the grandfather.

Nice.

I have a trophy from Scholastic Scrimmage.

There you go.

You got a trophy?

It just happens to be a championship trophy, right this year.

All right.

And on to Newton's own.

Go ahead.

I have a King silver fly trumpet.

That's really important to me.

Excellent.

Do you play trumpet or is it just collection?

I play trumpet as well, too.

I have it in years, but it's one of the things I mean to get get back into.

Are you in any of the bands in Suddenly, Yeah, I mean, jazz band and marching band and.

excellent.

The trifecta there.

Okay, over the tap.

Funny enough, I also have a silver trumpet came from my dad and I'm also in the band at Northwestern.

You have a Volkswagen guitar from my father.

Very cool.

I have a very beat up copy of David Copperfield.

It's very nice.

Daniel.

So and my possession would be actually the tie.

I have one else for my grandfather, so he's like, You remember all that he did for his family?

And also, the trumpet thing is bring back memories.

The same grandfather also passed a trumpet down to my uncle who passed away last year, now passed it down to me.

So something with trumpet players in scholastic.

Scrimmages seems to.

Be a common denominator between us.

All.

All right.

We'll continue the match for the following toss up question What toy made from soft spandex and filled with polyester consists of more than 1000 different round stuffed characters and is made by Kelly Toys Holdings.

Newtons, Beanie Babies.

That's incorrect.

I also know from my daughter they're incredibly popular among elementary students.

So if anybody's volunteered time at the elementary school, we're looking for Squishmallows.

It's a correct answer.

And that's what I.

Next awesome question.

What group of elements whose atomic radii are the smallest in each period?

Einsteins halogens.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue on four Newtons, have four valence shells of electrons.

Go ahead.

Newton's noble gases.

Noble gases is correct and they include argon and helium four your bonus 3c2 73 was the first known example of what very luminous active galactic nuclei whose name refers to their star like appearance.

In early images.

We saw.

Yeah, quasars.

Quasars is correct.

Next tossup question What European country whose overseas possessions include Madeira and the Azores.

Newton's Portugal?

Portugal is correct.

It has its own land border with Spain on the Iberian Peninsula.

For your bonus, in the early 1950s, the National Party implemented what system of racial oppression that was opposed by groups such as the African National Congress.

Apartheid Apartheid apartheid is correct.

Next tossup question What decades long war attempted to prop up the communist sour revolution against the Mujahadeen until Mikhail Gorbachev?

Putin's Soviet-Afghan war?

Yes, the Soviet-Afghan war, the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is the correct answer.

For your bonus.

What character who guides the narrator through the spheres of heaven In his poem Paradise So was based on a real woman who was loved by Dante Beatrice.

Beatrice.

Beatrice is correct.

Next tossup question What novel in which a ghost haunts 124 Bluestone Road, the home of Einstein's.

Beloved.

Beloved is correct.

And it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1908, in 1988, for Toni Morrison.

For your bonus, New Haven, Connecticut, is on the northern shore of what title Estuary, whose southern shore belongs to New York.

Yale.

Joe the Yes, sure we're looking for is the Long Island Sound.

And now the next tossup is in math, pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many yards are in three miles, given that one mile is equal to 5280 feet.

Newton's 5280 yards.

Yes, correct.

That is correct.

Look, a little bit of a trick question there from the quiz makers for your bonus.

In 2023, Argentina and Egypt, among others, were invited to join what block of developing countries known by an acronym that includes Brazil and Russia.

BRICS BRICS is correct.

Next, the toss up question What president who brokered the SALT two nuclear agreement and Stein's Nixon.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue on for Newton's nuclear agreement at the camp and the Camp David Accords lost reelection in 1980 amid the Iran hostage crisis.

Carter Jimmy Carter is correct.

For your bonus.

The Tryst with Destiny speech was given just before independence, by which first Prime Minister of India.

Nehru.

Nehru is correct.

Next tossup question In what country were Anthony Rota resigned as speaker after honoring a former Nazi was chic leader Hardeep Newton's Canada?

Canada is correct for your bonus.

What poem that describes the title vessel as the Eagle of the Sea is by Oliver Wendell Holmes, senior and pays tribute to the USS Constitution Old Ironsides.

Old Ironsides is correct.

Next tossup question What language was used to describe a blood soaked cross in the poem The Dream of the Rood, and to portray a meat hall attack by Grendel in Beowulf.

Newton's old English.

Old English is correct.

For your bonus, Putrajaya is the administrative center of what Southeast Asian country whose states include Sarawak and Sabah.

I think Malaysia, Malaysia.

Malaysia is correct.

And with that we have reached the second Lightning Round Newtons.

You'll get to pick between the following topics types of taxes or the state of New Mexico to Mexico.

We'll take New Mexico.

And New Mexico.

It is.

Either.

Newtons.

Your topic is New Mexico.

Answer the following about New Mexico, its capital.

Santa Fe.

Correct caverns that include the big room chamber.

Carlsbad, Correct.

New Mexico Outlaw, who was killed at age 21 in Fort Sumner.

Billy the Kid.

Correct.

National Laboratory that helped develop the atomic bomb.

Or Los Alamos?

That's correct.

Breaking Bad, setting the state's most populous city, a.k.a.

incorrect name given to the northwest corner of its border.

Four Corners.

Correct town where residents spotted a UFO in 1947.

Roswell.

Correct.

Democrat who has been its governor since 2019, Grissom That is correct.

Michelle Grissom, female artist from New Mexico who painted many flowers and animal skulls.

O'Keefe Correct.

Military missile range named for its soil.

CASTLE Bravo.

That's incorrect.

The White Sands Missile Range is correct.

One almost swept the category there, and three were close.

All right.

Nine Einsteins, you were left with types of taxes.

What type of tax is based on one salary and other work?

Earning income tax.

Correct.

Is used in place of value added tax in the US and is paid whenever a good is purchase.

So tax.

Correct disincentivizes production of greenhouse gases.

And carbon tax.

You.

I heard you first, but hey, this is the all star game.

We heard the right answer for Max.

We'll give it to you.

It's carbon tax is an ad valorem tax based on value of real estate.

Property tax.

Correct.

Is charged on non-essential goods or a monopoly game square syntax.

That's incorrect.

Luxury tax is imposed by government on imported.

Goods, tariffs.

Correct targets, The profits of sale of stocks, bonds and other assets.

Investment tax.

That's incorrect.

Capital gains correct answer is levied on cigarets alcohol and other prices.

Lower demand.

Center and.

Tax.

That is correct.

Was historically 1/10 of earnings paid to a church type.

That is correct.

Was levied by government under Islamic law of non-Muslim citizens.

To me.

That's incorrect.

It's jizya.

And that was after the fact anyway.

All right.

This wraps up the year.

Here is the final quarter of the match in what Colony founded in 1587 by John White was the words, quote, Einsteins, Roanoke.

That's right.

In the words Croatoan was found carved in a tree trunk after Elizabeth mysteriously disappeared.

For your bonus, what woman whom John Winthrop tried for heresy in 1637 during the end to minimum controversy, settled in Rhode Island.

So Hutchinson?

Hutchinson is correct.

Next toss up question What figure, also known as a Caray or the Maiden, was the cause for time eaters grief when she was Newtons.

Preserving name for Stephanie is correct, and it was when she was kidnaped by Hades.

For your bonus, what Bay Area Jam Band, whose highest charting song is Touch of Gray, was fronted by guitarist Jerry Garcia and has fans nicknamed Deadheads Grateful Dead.

The Grateful Dead is correct.

Next tossup question What is the surname of the nonsense poet who wrote The Owl and the Pussycat eight and the first name of the Shakespearean king who disinherited Cordelia Newton's Lear?

That is correct.

For both Edward Lear and King Lear, for your bonus, what quantity, which must exceed one for a sonic boom to occur is the ratio between an object's speed and the speed of sound remark.

Mark.

Mark is correct.

Next tossup question What city?

Which is home to the Henry Phillips Zoo and Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacob's One house is the seat of Dane County and the capital of Wisconsin.

Newton's Madison.

Madison, Wisconsin is correct for your bonus lyric, Van, Beethoven's a raucous symphony is given what number, which is also the number of flats in the key E-flat major.

Three.

Three is correct.

The next toss up is in math, pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the sum of the fractions?

7/8 plus 9/10.

Given that the least common multiple of eight and ten is 40 Newtons, go ahead.

71 over 40.

71 over 40 is correct.

And for your bonus, in 1981, what Arizona judge was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to become the first female justice, the United States Supreme Court.

Senator Dale O'Connor.

Sandra Day O'Connor is correct.

It's a toss up question.

What woman who wrote the federal assault weapons ban died in September 2023.

Einstein.

Feinstein Dianne Feinstein is correct for your bonus.

What equation named after two American chemists says the age of a solution equals the solitudes peak, plus the logarithm of its base to acid ratio.

After South Africa was discovered.

Henderson Hasselbeck Henderson Hasselbeck Equation is correct.

Next tossup question What author series extraordinaire Three Voyages began with five weeks in a balloon and included the 1864 French novel Journey to the Center Einsteins.

Verne Jules Verne is correct and that includes Journey to the Center of the Earth.

For a bonus.

What poet described a place where the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep in his 1751 poem, Elegy, written in a country churchyard on Williams, is incorrect.

Thomas Gray That's a correct answer.

The next toss up question What Cramer These craftsman constructed the well-preserved lady blunt the red varnish soil, which is played by Itzhak Perlman and many other violins and stones.

Stravinsky.

That's incorrect over the Newtons.

Go ahead.

Newton's Stradivari is.

Yeah, we'll give it to you.

You got a very Antonio Stradivari is the correct answer.

Well, great match.

None of the score really matters.

But Newtons.

Congratulations is the score of 420.

You champions of the all Star Match Einsteins.

Great match as well.

Always fun doing this one.

I thank you so much for tuning in.

We would like to thank not only our producer, Kate Refsnyder, but also the president of PBS 39, Tim Fallon.

Our entire control room, including the director, Javier Diaz, all of our judges.

They helped us out this year.

And thank you for tuning in and we'll see you next year for the Golden Jubilee, the 50th season.

Of Scholastic Scrimmage.