- Hello, and welcome to the fourth match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Emmaus and Bethlehem Catholic will be composed of two halves with a Lightning Round midway through each half.

At half time, we'll pause to 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 it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin, buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss-up question.

A Fresnel rhomb is an example of what optical device, a triangular one of which Isaac Newton used to split white light into its component colors?

Emmaus.

- Prism.

- A prism is correct.

For your bonus, what city whose Museum of Fine Arts holds dozens of John Singleton Copley works, was the site of a 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

- Answer's Chicago.

- Incorrect.

It's Boston, Massachusetts.

And there's an interesting documentary about that heist on Netflix.

Next toss-up question, what 2021 film in which the character wears stilettos...

In where characters wear stillsuits, excuse me, not stilettos, stillsuits to reclaim water, was directed by Denis Villeneuve, and stars Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides?

Becahi?

- What is Dune?

Dune is correct.

For your bonus, in 2023, Joe Biden nominated California attorney Julie Su to what cabinet position in which she would replace Marty Walsh?

She was appointed the Secretary of Labor.

Next toss-up question, what politician, nicknamed the Milk Snatcher, led the Conservative Party through the 1980s and served as Britain's first female Prime Minister?

Emmaus?

- Thatcher?

- Margaret Thatcher is correct.

She served as the first female Prime Minister of Britain.

For your bonus, what Pacific Island nation was occupied by the Spanish, starting with the 1565 landing in Cebu, years after it was named after a Spanish king?

- Answer, Philippines.

-= The Philippines is correct.

Next toss-up question, connecting the centers of the faces of a cube forms what platonic solid's triangular faces, which look like two pyramids joined at the base?

Emmaus?

- Tetrahedron.

- That is incorrect.

Bethlehem Catholic.

No conferring, we still have a little time.

Correct answer is an octahedron.

Next toss-up question, what city whose Concertgebouw was built in the 1800s, is home to the Reichs Museum and the Anne Frank house, and is also the capital of the Netherlands?

Emmaus?

- Amsterdam.

- That is correct, if you ever get to visit, it's a fun city.

I was there last year.

Your bonus, what song, whose title fact is revealed to be "she was made up by a dude" is a 2022 hit criticizing beauty standards by the singer Jax?

- Victoria's Secret.

Let the captain answer it.

- Answer, Victoria's Secret.

- Victoria's Secret is correct.

Next toss-up question, what author who included the essay My Dungeon Shook in the book The Fire Next Time, depicted teenager John Grimes in Go Tell It On the Mountain?

That author's James Baldwin.

Next toss-up question, what kingdom's parasites cause a circular rash in ringworm, itching and flaking between the toes in athlete's foot, and a variety of yeast infections?

Bethlehem Catholic.

- Fungus.

- Fungus or fungi is correct.

For your bonus, what materials, whose classes include thermotropic and lyotropic, have distinct phases often used in television displays?

The correct answer is liquid crystals.

Next toss-up question, what head of the 1728 expedition to the Kamchatka was a Danish explorer whose Great Northern Expedition for Russia found his namesake Strait off Alaska?

Emmaus.

- Bering.

- Bering is correct.

For your bonus, what musician, who directed the 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, is the drummer for The Roots?

- No answer.

- The correct answer is Questlove.

Next toss-up question, what company, which conspiracy theorists claimed was owned by Smartmatic, settled a 2021 lawsuit with Fox News and makes voting machines?

Emmaus?

- Dominion.

- Can you give me the complete name of the company?

- Dominion Voting Systems.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what 17th-century philosopher is known for his namesake wager regarding the existence of God?

- Answer, Pascal.

- That is correct.

Blaise Pascal is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first Lightning Round.

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

Bethlehem Catholic, you can pick from Scientific Equations or American Painters.

- Scientific Equations.

- Scientific Equations it is.

Bethlehem Catholic, answer the following about scientific equations.

Scientists who proposed e=MC squared.

- Einstein.

- Correct.

Object for which Johannes Kepler found three laws of motion.

- Planetary.

- Yes, we'll take that, planets or planetary bodies.

Namesake of a law about and a unit of resistance.

- Force.

- Incorrect.

Law governing restoring forces on springs.

- Inertia.

- Incorrect.

Chemistry law written PV = NRT.

The other team, you could write them down if you want to practice.

- Pass.

Solution measured by the HendersonHasselbalch equation that resists pH changes?

- Buffer.

- Correct.

Principle guaranteeing non-zero values for uncertainty.

- Principle of Zero.

- Incorrect.

All right, and we move over to Emmaus.

Emmaus, your topic is American Painters.

Name the American painters of these paintings.

American Gothic.

No conferring.

Just say it if you know it.

- Pass.

- Nighthawks.

- Hopper.

- Correct.

Arrangement in Grey and Black Number One, featuring his mother.

- Pass.

- Campbell's Soup Cans.

- Warhol.

- Correct.

Christina's World.

- Pass.

The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic.

- Pass.

- The Athenaeum Portrait, an unfinished work featuring George Washington.

- Pass.

- Black Iris and Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue.

- Pass.

- Number 11, 1952, also known as Blue Poles.

- Pass.

- I Saw the Figure Five in Gold.

It'll be Charles de Muth, the answer to the last one.

All right.

Moving on with our next toss-up question.

What river, whose largest tributary is the Tennessee River, is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers near Pittsburgh?

- Delaware... - Bethlehem Catholic?

- Delaware River.

- Delaware River is incorrect.

Emmaus, still a bit of time.

Emmaus, go ahead.

- Ohio.

- The Ohio River is correct.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the base ten, or decimal equivalent of base two, or binary number 11111?

- Answer, 31.

- 31 is correct.

Next toss-up question, what type of image, which is produced by a plain mirror, forms in a location where rays cannot project onto a screen, as opposed to real images?

Bethlehem Catholic.

- False image.

- Incorrect.

Emmaus?

Sarvesh, you were in before the buzzer.

- Imaginary images.

- That's incorrect.

Virtual image, or virtual images is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what Germanic people who founded an African kingdom under Geiseric, led a 455 sack of Rome, after which their name became a word for damaging properties?

- Becahi.

- Vandal?

- Say it louder?

- The Vandals.

- The Vandals is correct.

For your bonus, a vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited to be a spy in a Graham Greene novel titled Our Man In what world capital, the birthplace of poet Jose Marti?

- Madrid.

- Incorrect.

That would be Our Man In Havana.

Next toss-up question, what team starred Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling when it won the 2001 World Series?

Bethlehem Catholic.

- Arizona Diamondbacks.

- That is correct.

And they won it over the...?

- New York Yankees.

- That is very good.

We have a sports fan there in Joshua.

For your bonus, what quantity, which tends to increase with nuclear charge, is 13.6 EV for hydrogen, and is the amount of energy required to remove an electron?

Ionization energy is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what compounds, which can be reduced by Lindlar's catalyst, include acetylene or C2H2, and are hydrocarbons containing a carbon-carbon triple bond?

Emmaus?

- Alkynes?

- Alkynes is correct.

For your bonus, the European Space Agency has its main spaceport at Koru, a town in what overseas region with its most populous city in Cayenne?

- Answer, French Guiana.

- French Guiana is correct.

Next toss-up question, in what board game do players try to form bingos, which grant a 50-point bonus and put power tiles like Q and Z on triple or... Emmaus.

- Scrabble.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what character from To Kill a Mockingbird, who spends summers in Maycomb with his aunt, is fascinated by Boo Radley and was based on Truman Capote?

- Atticus?

- Incorrect.

Dill Harris is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half time.

Emmaus currently leads Bethlehem Catholic with a score of 130-45.

And now, we'll get a moment to know the students a little bit better, they'll introduce themselves with their first and last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question, if you could visit any country in the world, where would it be?

Aiden, for Emmaus, go ahead.

I'm Aiden, I'm a junior.

And I'm not sure, there are a lot of places that I think could be good to go to.

- OK, Elias?

- My name is Elias Copen.

I'm a senior, and I would like to go to Switzerland.

- All right, Survesh?

- I'm Survesh, I'm a senior, and I'd like to go to India.

- Okay.

I'm Daniel Wittmer.

- I'm a junior, and I'd like to visit Spain.

All right.

On to Bethlehem Catholic, Joshua?

- I'm Josh Brown.

I'm a senior, and I'd like to visit New Zealand.

- Cool.

- I'm Jeremy Fire, I'm a senior, and I would visit Italy.

- All right.

- I'm Rhys Santiago, a junior, and I like to visit Japan.

- Excellent.

I'm Aidan Sell, I'm a senior, and I'd like to visit Australia.

- Very cool.

Just so you know, when I was in college, I actually studied abroad in Japan through Temple University.

They have Asia's largest branch campus of any North American university located right in the center of Tokyo.

So check it out when you get into college, it's a neat program.

All right, we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

What composer of a Scottish symphony was inspired to write Fingal's Cave by his trips to Scotland, and wrote an overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream?

Felix Mendelssohn is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what author, whose story Big Two Hearted River features his reoccurring character Nick Adams, wrote about Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises?

Emmaus.

- Hemingway.

- Ernest Hemingway is correct.

For your bonus, Death Valley is an example of what effect in which an area on the leeward side of a mountain experiences very little precipitation?

- Answer, drought.

- Incorrect.

It's known as the rain shadow effect.

Next toss-up question, what city, whose Nazi occupiers governed from the Hotel Majestic, celebrated its August 1944 handover to the Allies by ringing the bells at Notre Dame?

Emmaus.

- Paris.

- Paris is correct.

For your bonus, from 1975 to 2017, the largest class of US aircraft carriers was named after what admiral who led the US Pacific fleet in World War Two.

-Answer, Nimitz.

- Nimitz is correct, named after Chester William Nimitz.

Next toss-up question, what 11-letter term can refer to Arabic or anaerobic processes that store energy from breaking down glucose in ATP, or... Bethlehem Catholic.

- Fermentation.

- Say that again.

- Fermentation.

- That is incorrect.

...or to the act of breathing.

Emmaus.

- Respiration.

- Respiration is correct.

For your bonus, American minimalist composer John Adams worked with director Paul Sellars on an opera about what US president's trip to China?

- Answer, Nixon.

- Richard Nixon is correct.

Next toss-up question, what Apostle was martyred in Ethiopia, hosted a dinner for Jesus at his house, was once a tax collector, and is the namesake of the first gospel?

Emmaus.

- Matthew.

- Matthew is correct.

For your bonus, what lake, which intermittently receives the water of Lake Managua, is the largest lake in Central America?

- Answer, Lake Victoria.

- That's incorrect.

It's Lake Nicaragua, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what country, whose persecution of the Rohingya people saw the world's largest refugee camp, was led by Aung San Suu Kyi until a 2021 coup?

Emmaus.

- Myanmar.

- Myanmar or Burma is correct.

For your bonus, what seven-letter adjective describes an organism's level in a food chain?

- Answer, trophic.

-Trophic is correct.

Next toss-up question, what painting technique, used to paint A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte... Emmaus?

- Pointillism.

- That is correct.

It's by Seurat, and involves many small dots of color.

For your bonus, in what European city in 1497 did Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola and his followers burn art and books in a bonfire of the vanities?

- Answer, Venice?

- Close, but incorrect.

It's Florence.

Next toss-up question, what novel, whose protagonist works for the merchant Kamaswami, before becoming an enlightened ferryman, was written by Hermann Hesse about Buddhism?

Emmaus.

- Siddhartha.

- Siddartha is correct.

For your bonus, what six-letter verb can mean either to read carefully or to look over casually?

Peruse is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what god, who was tricked into swallowing the omphalos stone by his wife Rhea, was overthrown along with his fellow titans by his youngest son, Zeus?

Emmaus.

- Cronus.

- Cronus is correct.

For your bonus, the 2023 failure of Silicon Valley Bank followed what type of event in which many depositors seek to withdraw their money simultaneously?

- Answer, run.

- Could you be more specific?

- Bank run.

- A bank run is correct.

And with that, we've reached our second Lightning Round.

Emmaus, you'll get to pick between the following topics, Animal Adjectives or Sweden.

- Animal Adjectives, please.

- Animal Adjectives it is.

Emmaus, Animal Adjectives is your topic.

Name the animal referenced by these adjectives.

For example, for canine, we're looking for the answer dog.

Bovine.

- Cow.

- Correct.

- Avian.

- Bird.

- Correct.

- Ursine.

- Bear.

- Correct.

Equine.

- Horse.

- Correct.

Porcine.

- Pig.

- Correct.

Vulpine.

- Rodent.

- Incorrect.

Aquiline.

- Fish.

- Incorrect.

Cervine.

- Pass.

- Cygnine.

- Swan.

- Correct.

Corvine.

- Sheep?

- Incorrect, for that last one, crows, ravens, magpies, jackdaws or rooks were all acceptable.

Bethlehem Catholic, there's a chance to rack up some points.

Your topic is Sweden.

Answer the following about Sweden and Swedes.

Sweden's capital.

- Malema.

- Incorrect.

Its flag is a yellow cross on a field of this primary color.

- Blue?

- Correct.

Swedish furniture company founded by Ingvar Kamprad.

- IKEA.

- Correct.

- Country connected by the Oresund Bridge to Malmo.

- Norway.

- Incorrect.

Swedish father of modern taxonomy.

- Pass.

- Namesake of a unit equal to ten to the negative ten meters.

- Deca.

- Say it again.

- Deca.

- Incorrect.

Swedish King who died in 1632 at the Battle of Lutsen.

- Pass.

- Director of The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries.

- Pass.

- Swedish currency.

- Euro.

- Incorrect.

Playwright... And that is the end of that Lightning Round.

We continue on with the following toss-up question, what logarithmic scale was devised by a professor at Caltech in 1935 for use in California, and assigns magnitudes of up to 9.5 to measure earthquakes?

Emmaus.

- Richter.

- The Richter scale is correct.

For your bonus, what playwright depicted Regina withholding her husband's medication and watching him die in The Little Foxes, and also wrote The Children's Hour?

- Ibsen?

- Incorrect.

Lillian Hellman is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what country's government killed the Mirabal sisters, and carried out the Parsley Massacre under Rafael Trujillo, who derided its neighbor, Haiti?

- Dominican Republic.

- The Dominican Republic is correct.

For your bonus, in which modern US state was the short-lived Republic of Fredonia created in 1826, by settlers rebelling against Mexican rule?

- Arizona.

- Incorrect.

Texas is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what object, the intended destination of an OceanGate submersible that was destroyed in June 2023... Emmaus.

- The Titanic.

That is correct, with sunk on its first voyage in 1912 by an iceberg.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the sum of the sin of 60 degrees, plus the cosine of 30 degrees, both of which have the same value?

- Square root of three.

- Square root of three is correct.

Next toss-up question, what object can be square-rigged, have types such as spinnakers and jibs, and are typically attached to the masts of a boat to propel them using wind?

Emmaus.

- Sails.

- A sail or sails is correct.

For your bonus, Sandor Marai's 1942 novel Embers was written in what Eastern European language, which is also used by the Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz?

- Hungarian.

- Hungarian is correct.

Nice educated guess there.

Next toss-up question, in 1957, what state's National Guard was federalized by Dwight Eisenhower?

Emmaus.

- Arkansas.

- That is correct.

It was to help nine Black students attend Central High School in Little Rock.

For your bonus, what term refers to conditions often triggered by damage to Broca's area, or Wernicke's area, that result in an inability to understand or process speech?

- Aphasia.

- Aphasia is the correct condition.

Next toss-up question, what character who has five marriages described a knight's discovery that women desire sovereignty is one of Geoffrey Chaucer, or is in one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

- That would be the Wife of Bath.

That is a correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what city contains the Khedivial Opera House, is northeast of Giza, is the most populous city in the Arab world, and is the capital of Egypt?

- Cairo.

- Cairo is correct.

For your bonus, in 2022, what school in the nation's capital, a member of the Atlantic 10 conference, announced that it would retire its Colonials nickname?

- Georgetown.

- That's incorrect.

George Washington University is the school.

Next toss-up question is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the greatest common factor of... And we could not get done with that math question.

Well, Bethlehem Catholic, you ran up against a very excellent Emmaus team.

Emmaus, you win with 355 points, to Bethlehem Catholic, 60.

Bethlehem Catholic, good luck with the rest of your school year, Emmaus, we'll see you in the second round.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when Freedom faces off against Panther Valley.