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- Hello and welcome to the third round of the 47th season of Scholastic Scrimmage, I'm your host, David Graf.

This year, Scrimmage will look a bit different due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

PBS39 is following all CDC guidelines and that includes pregame temperature checks, students wearing masks during the competition, and I'm socially distanced from the teams on set.

And now on with today's match, that features Emmaus High School vs. Northwestern Lehigh.

The 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 of specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

We'll start with our first toss-up.

What state's Research Triangle, which includes the cities of Durham, Chapel Hill... Emmaus.

- North Carolina?

- That is correct.

..and Raleigh is home to the main campus of Duke?

For your bonus, what ethnic group comprises over 90% of the population of China, making them the most populous ethnic group in the world?

Buzz in, please.

- Answer, Han?

- Han Chinese is correct.

Next toss-up.

What novel that ends with the funeral of Alyosha and depicts Dmitri's trial for patricide was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about Russian... Northwestern.

- Crime And Punishment.

- That is incorrect.

About Russian siblings.

Emmaus.

- The Brothers Karamazov?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what religion's followers perform the Offering of the Waters at the end of a Yasna service, which includes hymns that address to the creator of Ahura Mazda?

- Answer, Zoroastrianism.

- That is correct.

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

What is the second smallest positive value of X for which the sign of X equals 1, given the smallest value is 90 degrees?

The correct answer is 450 degrees.

Was anyone close?

Almost there?

Nope.

All right.

Next toss-up.

In 1861, John Merryman was jailed in what state, the site of the Battle of South Mountain and the site where a Confederate invasion was turned back at Antietam?

Northwestern.

- Virginia?

- Incorrect.

Emmaus, there's some time.

Go ahead.

- Maryland.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in 1932, what name was given to World War I veterans who marched on Washington DC demanding early payment of extra pay for their services?

- Any guesses?

- The Bonus Army is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What group of movements venerated people such as Prince Philip and John Frum and believe in the ritual arrival of material goods to Pacific islands?

Emmaus.

- Cargo cult.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Alyson Hannigan hosts what CW show on which magicians perform in front of... Oh, that's OK. Don't say anything.

It's their bonus.

Alyson Hannigan hosts what CW show on which magicians perform in front of Penn and Teller, who attempts to...?

- Penn and Teller: Fool Us.

- That is correct.

It's a great show, though, isn't it?

Yeah, she's excited.

She knew.

All right.

Next toss-up.

What type of object, after which the currency of Denmark is named, includes varieties like diadems and coronets, and is worn by the head of... Or on the head... Emmaus.

- A crown.

- Correct.

A crown is correct, it's worn on the head by monarchs.

For your bonus, which member of the Hudson River School painted The Oxbow and a series titled The Course of Empire?

- Millet?

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is Thomas Cole.

Next toss-up.

In August 2021, what politician, who lost a 2012 house race to Chris Collins, became the first female governor of New York after Andrew Cuomo resigned?

Kathy Hochul is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What city was targeted by Little Boy and is the site of a peace...?

Northwestern.

- Hiroshima?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, azeotropic mixtures are classified based on their values for what quantity, differences in which are used to separate mixtures in distillation?

- Boiling point.

- That is correct.

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

How many students are in a school if one-third of the students wear glasses and there are 160 students not wearing glasses?

Northwestern.

- 240.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about a Native American warrior who loved Minnehana?

Or Minnehaha.

- Pocahontas?

- That's incorrect.

The Song of Hiawatha is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country, whose two co-rulers include the Bishop of Urgell, has Catalonian as its official language and is in the Pyrenees between France...?

Emmaus.

- Andorra.

- That is correct.

Between France and Spain.

For your bonus, which British sculptor designed Cloud Gate, a sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park that resembles a giant bean with a mirrored surface?

- Anish Kapoor.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What poet who claimed "I have had to kill you" in a poem addressed to her father killed herself in 1963?

Emmaus.

- Plath?

- That's correct.

After the release of her novel The Bell Jar.

For your bonus, what Trojan Warrior who killed Patroclus was killed by Achilles?

- Hector.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

In April 2020, what political party chose Keir Starmer as its leader to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, who had been defeated by Boris...?

Emmaus.

- Labour?

- That is correct.

He was defeated by Boris Johnson's Conservatives.

For your bonus question, The Swan River Company, an Australian free colony, eventually became Perth, the capital of what Australian state?

- The Western Territory?

- Judges will take it.

Western territory or Western Australia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

The Davisson-Germer experiment showed diffraction of what particle, whose antimatter partner is in the positron and is shared in covalent bonds?

Northwestern.

- Electrons.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what law of physics, which has a similar form to Newton's law of gravitation, gives the electrostatic force between two charged particles?

- Coulomb's Law?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

In what 2016 film that features the song You're Welcome... Northwestern.

- Moana.

- That is correct.

Stars Dwayne Johnson as well.

For your bonus, what video game company was sued in 2021 by the California Department of Fair Labor, Employment and Housing over its alleged frat boy culture?

- Activision.

- That is correct, Activision Blizzard is the correct company.

And with that, we have reached our first lightning round.

In our pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Emmaus will get to pick between the following topics.

Primary Instruments or P-R-E-D. - All right, P-R-E-D. - P-R-E-D, so that means Northwestern, you'll have Primary Instruments.

Emmaus.

P-R-E-D. Give these words that begin with the letters P-R-E-D. To foretell.

- Predict.

- Correct.

Morning time just before daylight.

- Predawn.

- Correct.

A phrase that contains a sentence's main verb.

- Predicate.

- Correct.

To occur before something in history.

- Predate.

- Correct.

A prior holder of an office.

- Predecessor.

- Correct.

Condition of high blood sugar that often... - Prediabetes.

- Correct.

Determined in advance, as in fate.

- Predetermined.

- Er, that's incorrect.

A strong habit or tendency towards something.

- Predisposition.

- That is incorrect.

Oh, OK. We will accept that.

An animal that hunts prey.

- Predator.

- Correct.

Simplified or already broken down, as with information.

- Pass.

- All right, and that is the end of your lightning round.

Nice job, Emmaus.

That leaves Northwestern with Primary Instruments.

Northwestern, name the primary instruments played by these jazz musicians.

Answers may be repeated.

John Coltrane.

- Trumpet.

- Incorrect.

Miles Davis.

- Trumpet.

- Correct.

Ella Fitzgerald.

- Saxophone.

- Incorrect.

Charlie Parker, who was nicknamed Bird.

- Piano.

- Incorrect.

Artie Shaw, whose instrument is made of ebony.

- Piano.

- Incorrect.

Duke Ellington.

- Saxophone.

- Incorrect.

Buddy Rich.

- Saxophone.

- Incorrect.

Wynton Marsalis.

- Tuba.

- Incorrect.

Glenn Miller.

- Trombone.

- That is correct!

Dave Brubeck.

- Saxophone.

- Incorrect.

Northwestern, that is a tough category if you're not a fan of jazz.

We'll continue the match with the following toss-up.

What party, which staged the Hartford Convention during the War of 1812... Emmaus.

- The Federalist Party.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty is based on what 1910 E.M. Forster novel, which begin as... which begins as Helen Schlegel visits the Wilcox family at the title house?

- The Little House on the Prairie.

- Incorrect.

Howards End is the house.

Next toss-up.

What creatures from Norse myth whose numbers include the Sons of Ivaldi and the rivals Brokkr and Eitri, were ugly... Emmaus.

- Dwarf?

- That is correct.

Ugly beings gifted at sniffing.

For your bonus, what name is given to the vandals who violently resisted industrialization and the automization of mills and factories in early 19th-century England?

- I don't know.

Chartists?

- Incorrect.

Luddites is what we were looking for.

Next toss-up.

What book, whose protagonist briefly loses a bell through a hole in his robe, is a Chris Van Allsburg story about a train journey... Northwestern.

- The Polar Express.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the zone of avoidance is a region of low visibility caused by what system whose satellites include Magellanic clouds?

- GPS?

- Incorrect.

Milky Way is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What shapes such as the Menger sponge and the Sierpinski triangle... Northwestern.

- Fractals.

- That is correct, or self-similar shapes.

For your bonus, what national park near Zion in Utah has many structures known as hoodoos and is named for its series of natural amphitheaters?

- Arches?

- Incorrect, it's Bryce Canyon National Park.

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

Emmaus has 230 points to Northwestern Lehigh's 100 points.

Now, prior to the match, to aid in social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves individually and tell us about their favorite musical artist or band.

Now let's meet the contestants from Emmaus and Northwestern.

- My name is Jackson.

I'm a senior at Northwestern Lehigh and my favorite band is Led Zeppelin.

- Hello, my name is Tim.

I am a sophomore at Northwestern Lehigh, and I would say that my favorite band is probably Queen.

- My name is Raimi.

I'm a senior at Northwestern Lehigh High School, and my favorite music group is probably Mother Mother.

- My name is Joe, I'm a senior at Northwestern Lehigh and my favorite band is probably 21 Pilots.

- My name is Thomas.

I'm a senior at Emmaus High School, and my favorite musical artist is Kendrick Lamar.

- Hi, my name is Ari.

I'm a senior at Emmaus High School and my favorite music group is The Used.

- My name is Thomas.

I'm a junior at Emmaus High School and my favorite musical group is Hall and Oates.

- Hello, my name is Eric.

I'm a junior at Emmaus High School, and my favorite composer is Beethoven.

- Welcome back.

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

What first Central American country to legalize same sex marriage, which did so in 2020, has no standing army and is governed from San Jose?

Emmaus.

- Costa Rica.

- That is correct, and I did not know they have no standing army.

That was new to me.

For your bonus, a pair of vagabonds named Vladimir and Estragon have two encounters with a slave called Lucky in what play by Samuel Beckett?

- Waiting for Godot?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What poet protested the Peterloo Massacre in The Masque of Anarchy and described "the lone and level sand" surrounding the fallen statue of the Ozymandias?

Emmaus.

- Shelley.

- That's correct, Percy Shelley is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what name is given to the dark-skinned Marian apparition, now a national symbol of Mexico, that Juan Diego witnessed in 1531 near Mexico City?

- Oh, I'm going to guess that.

La Llorona.

That is incorrect, it's Our Lady of Guadalupe, and her national shrine in the United States is actually located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, right nearby.

Next toss-up.

What statesman who published the Ems Dispatch, a version of a conversation that was edited between Prussia and France to provoke a war with France, delivered the "blood and iron" speech and led the unification of Germany?

Emmaus.

- Otto von Bismarck.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what term refers to irregular motion of a fluid in eddies, which is contrasted with laminar flow and occurs at high...?

Tell your captain.

- Turbulence.

- Turbulence.

That's correct.

Turbulent flow is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What technique, whose results may be analyzed using a factor known as Rf, separates components of a mixture based on polarity and has a TLC form?

Chromatography is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What composer of a third symphony once dedicated to Napoleon and nicknamed Eroica set Friedrich Schiller's Ode To Joy in his Ninth Symphony?

Northwestern.

- Beethoven.

- That's correct.

Ludwig van Beethoven.

For your bonus, what Czech-born politician became the first female Secretary of State under Bill Clinton?

- Smith.

- Incorrect, Madeleine Albright is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Which man, who defeated Maxentinius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, moved his Roman imperial government to Byzantium?

Emmaus.

- Emperor Constantine.

Do we need to be more specific?

- That's fine.

Emperor Constantine I or Constantine the Great.

You are correct.

For your bonus, what metabolic process in which its namesake particles lose energy through a series of redox reactions is accompanied by oxidative phosphorylation?

- ATP synthesis.

- ATP synthesis?

- Incorrect, it's ETC or electron transport chain is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

The marginal zone separates the white and red pulp of what abdominal lymphatic organ that sometimes swells in mononucleosis and that filters red...?

Emmaus.

- Lymph nodes.

- Incorrect.

I'll finish for Northwestern.

And that filters red blood cells.

Go ahead.

- Liver.

- Incorrect.

It's the spleen.

You ever get mono, you have an enlarged spleen.

You have to watch out for it for a while.

Next toss-up.

What book, which comes after Proverbs in Christian Bibles, says that there is "a time to be born and a time to die", and laments that "all is vanity"?

It's the book of Ecclesiastes.

during a 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the world in a Lockheed plane during which she...?

Emmaus.

- Amelia Earhart.

- That is correct, and she actually landed here for a time in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, believe it or not, where the old Lehigh Valley Airport was.

For your bonus, lightning strikes can create charged versions of what green Minecraft enemies, which...?

Emmaus?

- Creepers.

- Creepers is correct.

They silently approach players and explode.

Next toss-up.

What phylum's members, which include lampreys, birds and humans, all have a primitive spinal column known as... Emmaus.

- Chordata?

Or... - That's correct.

That's correct.

Yep, known as a notochord.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

Be sure to include negative numbers...

Being sure to include negative numbers, how many integers have a square that is strictly less than ten?

- Six?

- Incorrect, it's seven integers.

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

Northwestern, you will get to pick between the topics of 1939 or Famous Nicknames.

- We will go with Famous Nicknames.

- Northwestern is going to pick Famous Nicknames, that means, Emmaus, you will have 1939.

Identify the people who had these nicknames.

President nicknamed Ike.

- Eisenhower.

- Correct.

Boxer nicknamed The Greatest.

- Ali.

- Correct.

- Gangster nickname Scarface.

- Al Capone.

- Correct.

Inventor known as the Wizard of Menlo Park.

- Tesla?

- Incorrect.

And anyone can shout out the answer.

Author nicknamed Pa.. Papa.

Author nicknamed Papa.

- Pass.

- Trumpeter nicknamed Satchmo.

- Louis Armstrong.

- Correct.

American painter nicknamed Jack the Dripper.

- Jackson Pollock.

- That is correct.

General nicknamed Old Blood and Guts.

- Stonewall Jackson.

- Incorrect.

Opera singer nicknamed La Divina.

- (INDISTINCT) - Incorrect.

Rapper nicknamed The Based God.

- Lil Baby?

- That is incorrect.

Emmaus, that leaves you with 1939.

Answer the following about the year 1939.

Country invaded by Germany to start World War II.

- Poland.

- Correct.

Film starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara.

- Gone With The Wind.

- Correct.

Dictator who ruled Spain starting in 1939.

- Pass.

- Pius XII took this position in 1939.

- The Pope.

- Correct.

John Steinbeck novel about the Joad family.

- The Grapes of Wrath.

- That's correct.

Assassin of JFK, born in 1939.

- Lee Harvey Oswald.

- Correct.

Founder of physioanaly... Of psychoanalytics, who died in 1939.

- Freud.

- Correct.

Singer nicknamed Lady Day, who recorded Strange Fruit.

- Pass.

- African-American contralto who performed at the Lincoln Memorial.

- Pass.

- Poet who wrote September 1st, 1939.

- Pass.

- And that is the end of that lightning round.

That category got tricky, especially at the end.

with the following toss-up question.

Which playwright, who wrote about the Antrobus family in The Skin Of Our Teeth also wrote a play set in Grover's Corner called Our Town?

Emmaus.

- Uh... - Quickly.

Quickly, quickly.

Too late, you're too late.

Northwestern?

- Tennessee Williams.

- Thornton Wilder is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What president's speechwriter... What president's speechwriter David Frum coined the term "axis of evil", which this president used to refer to Iran and then Iraq soon after the 9/11 attacks?

Emmaus.

- Bush.

- Which one?

- Bush the younger.

- Yes, we'll take Bush the younger.

George W. Bush, Bush the younger or Bush 43 are all acceptable.

For your bonus, what coffee chain, which trademarked the brand Frappuccino... Emmaus.

- Starbucks?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What color, with a hue formed from an iron cyanide complex called Prussian... Emmaus.

- Blue.

- That is correct.

Is also the color of sapphires.

For your bonus, what historical English-language term for the coast of northern Africa is also used to refer to Muslim pirates from the region?

- Berbers?

- Yep, Barbary or Berbers are correct.

Next toss-up.

What objects, which are the protagonists of a 2011 animated version of Romeo and Juliet, often wear...?

Emmaus.

- Lawn gnome?

- Yes, lawn or garden gnomes is acceptable.

For your bonus, what strong acid, once called oil of vitriol, can be produced by the lead chambers process or the contact process?

- I have no clue.

I can't name a single acid, to be completely honest.

- Name any acid.

Go for it.

- I don't know any!

- Sulfuric acid is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What style of painting with analytic and synthetic phases was co-founded by George Braque and the artist...?

Emmaus.

- Cubism.

- That is correct.

We were also going to mention Pablo Picasso, of course.

For your bonus, what author includes the poems The Snowman and The Emperor of Ice Cream in his 1923 collection Harmonium?

- Shel Silverstein.

- Incorrect.

Wallace Stevens is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What rebellion in which men shot at Inspector John Neville was put down by Light Horse Harry Lee and George Washington and opposed attacks...?

Northwestern.

- French and Indian War.

- Incorrect.

I'll complete the question for Emmaus.

And opposed a tax on alcohol.

Emmaus.

- The Whiskey Rebellion.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, French fishermen are involved in a 2021 dispute with the government of what British Crown Dependency, an island in the English Channel?

- Isle of Man?

Oh... Guernsey.

- Incorrect.

It's Jersey, and they're in a debate about how many fish are actually being taken out of the water at one time.

Next toss-up.

What river, which flows past the cities Santarem and Iquitos, merges with the Rio Negro at Manaus and is the longest river in South...?

Emmaus.

- The Amazon.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in what phenomena are two alleles for the same gene both expressed without blending in an organism phenotype, as in the AB blood type?

- Co-dominance?

- That is correct.

And with that, we have reached the end of the match.

Emmaus, excellent job, you're on to the fourth round with 455 points.

Northwestern Lehigh, 155 points.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

We'll see you back next year.

Emmaus, you're on to the next round, and we'll see you next week.

Thank you for tuning in.