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- Hello and welcome to 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.

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, which features Southern Lehigh vs. Whitehall.

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.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

We'll start with this first toss-up.

What band, which honored Andy Kaufman in the song Man on the Moon, is led by Michael Stipe and released Everybody Hurts and Losing My Religion?

Southern Lehigh.

- R.E.M.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what river, that shares its name with a country governed from Nimaea, is the longest river in West Africa?

Niamey, excuse me, is governed from Niamey, and it's the longest river in West Africa.

The correct answer is Niger.

Next toss-up: emeralds contain aluminum, curium and what metal, the lightest alkaline earth metal, which is used in x ray machines and has the atomic symbol Be?

Southern Lehigh.

- Beryllium.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what two word Latin phrase is used in economic writing to mean the other variables besides the ones discussed are held equal?

- Et cetera.

- That is incorrect.

It's ceteris paribus.

Next toss-up.

What country signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty with the US in 1903, established a zone surrounding a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific?

Southern Lehigh?

- Panama?

- That's correct.

And for your bonus, the first American author to win a Nobel Prize in literature was what novelist, who wrote Main Street?

The correct answer is Sinclair Lewis.

Next toss-up: what Australian state contains a rainforest called the Tarkine, was once called Van Diemen's Land and has a capital at Hobart?

It's also an island.

Whitehall.

- Tasmania.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, it's a math, so pencil and paper ready.

If a student has three test scores of 80, 80 and 85, what score does he need on a fourth test to have a mean average of 85?

- 95.

- Say it again.

- 95.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What video game series in which the Happy Home Academy judges houses and players pay bells to Tom Nook, includes the 2020 Switch game...?

- Animal Crossing.

- Say it again.

- Animal Crossing.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting went to the staff of what city's newspaper The Sun for work on its city's mayor, Catherine Pugh?

- New York.

- Incorrect.

Baltimore, Maryland, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: Berenger sees a rhinoceros run through the town square in a work by what Romanian born theater of the absurd playwright, who wrote The Bald Soprano?

Ionesco is the correct answer we were looking for.

Next toss-up: in 1640, what country's Philippine Dynasty ended with the ascension of the House of Braganza's Joao IV after 49 years in the Iberian Union with Spain?

Whitehall.

- Portugal.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, according to Gay-Lussac's Law, what quantity increases proportionally with a gas's temperature, assuming volume is kept constant?

The correct answer is pressure.

Next toss-up:.

what state, that is home to the Coastguard Academy, which is in New London, is also home to Yale University and is governed from Hartford?

Whitehall.

- Connecticut.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, there are two answers required: which two countries settled their borders in 1237 when Henry III and Alexander II signed the Treaty of York?

- Macedonia and England.

- Incorrect, it's England and Scotland.

Next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the length of each side of a square whose perimeter is numerically equal to its area?

Whitehall.

- Four.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, the ancient region of Colchis was primarily found in what modern day nation in the Caucasus Mountains, whose capital is Tbilisi?

Tell your captain the answer, please.

- Latvia.

- Incorrect.

Georgia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: in 2019 what NFL team included single season reception record setter Michael Thomas, who caught many of those passes from quarterback Drew Brees?

Whitehall.

- The New Orleans Saints?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, the Oligochaets, which include earthworms, are in an order within what phylum of segmented worms that also include leeches?

- Invertebrates.

- Go ahead and tell your captain.

- Invertebrates.

- Incorrect.

It's Annelids, what we're looking for.

The correct answer is Annelids.

Next toss-up: what country, led by Muhammadu Buhari, is, along with Libya and Angola, Africa's largest petroleum producer and is the most populous country in Africa?

Southern Lehigh.

- Nigeria.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, active fighting in which conflict was ended with an armistice signed in the village of Panmunjom in 1953, leading to the creation of the DMZ?

- The Korean War.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up: what US architect, who designed the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Louvre Pyramid, was born in China?

The correct answer is IM Pei.

Fun fact, he also designed Steve Jobs's apartment in New York City.

And with that, we're on to the first lightning round.

In the pre-match warm up, we determined via coin toss that Whitehall would get to pick the first topic.

Whitehall, you can choose between Charles Darwin and US islands.

Which would you like?

Quickly, quickly, Nathan.

- Charles Darwin, - Whitehall, your topic is Charles Darwin.

Answer the following about Charles Darwin.

He claimed this natural process drives evolution.

- Natural selection - Correct.

The ship on which he sailed the world.

- HMS Beagle.

- Correct.

He wrote a book on these ecosystems made of coral.

- Coral reefs.

- Correct.

He wrote a book.

On The Origin Of blank.

- Species.

- Correct.

Darwin's finches lived on this archipelago.

- Galapagos Islands.

- Correct.

He studied these crustaceans, that attach to ships' hulls.

- Barnacles.

- Correct.

Darwin's critics cited this Frenchman's theory of acquired characteristics.

- Pass.

- In 1858, he co-wrote an article on the evolution of this man... ..on evolution with this man.

- Pass.

- Word completing the title of a book on human evolution, The blank Of Man.

- Progress.

- Incorrect.

The man called Darwin's Bulldog for his support of Darwin.

- Pass.

- And that is the end of your lightning round.

All right, Southern Lehigh, you have US islands.

Given one or more islands, name the state.

Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.

- Alaska.

- Correct.

Padre Island, the world's largest barrier island, in the Gulf of Mexico.

- Pass.

- Catalina Island, which is near Long Beach.

- New York.

- Incorrect.

Martha's Vineyard.

- Massachusetts.

- Correct.

Isle Royale in the Great Lakes.

- Michigan.

- Correct.

San Juan Island, which is in the strait of San Juan de Fuca.

- Arizona.

- Incorrect.

Dry Tortugas.

- Pass.

- Mount Desert Island, which is part of the Acadia National Park.

- Washington - Incorrect.

Hilton Head Island.

- Connecticut.

- Incorrect.

And that's the end of your lightning round, and for the answers on our lightning round questions, so you can also take a shot at them, please check out PBS39's social media channels.

All right, we'll move on with the next toss-up in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

If a circle has a circumference of eight, what is the measure of a central angle that is subtended by an arc whose length is two?

Whitehall.

- 90 degrees?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in the Old Testament, which son of Jesse succeeded Saul as King of Israel?

In the Old Testament, which son of Jesse succeeded Saul as King of Israel?

- David.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up: in 1905, Max Weber's book described the Protestant ethic influence on what economic system, characterized by private ownership and free markets?

Southern Lehigh?

- Capitalism?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, if a seesaw is not moving and is in rotational equilibrium, then its center of mass must lie above what point with a seven letter name?

- Fulcrum?

- That's also correct.

Next toss-up: what party included Lord Melbourne, merged with the Peelites and Radicals to form the Liberal Party and was a long time rival of the Tories?

Southern Lehigh.

- Whigs.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what Nez Perce leader declared I will fight no more forever as he surrendered to Nelson Miles in 1877?

The correct answer is Chief Joseph.

Next toss-up: what type of structure, which consists of a cell of a unit cell extended over a three dimensional lattice is a type of high ordered solid such as a diamond?

Whitehall.

- A crystal.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, the orphan Homer Wells grows up under the mentorship of Dr Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules, a novel by what author of A Prayer For Owen Meany?

Correct answer is John Irving.

Next toss-up: which country, which contains the Olmec site of La Venta in its state of Tabasco, also includes the States Quintana Roo, Sinaloa...?

Southern Lehigh, - Mexico.

- That's correct.

And for your bonus, what name is shared by a port city in Ontario that is home to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the capital of Bermuda?

The correct answer is Hamilton, also home to one of Canada's professional football teams.

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

We have a really tight match under way.

Southern Lehigh has 130 points and Whitehall has 150 points.

Now, prior to the match, to aid in social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves individually on video.

Let's meet the contestants now from Southern Lehigh and Whitehall.

- I'm Ellie.

I'm a sophomore at Southern Lehigh High School.

- I'm Marley and I'm a senior at Southern Lehigh High School.

- I'm Kishore.

I'm a sophomore at Southern Lehigh High School.

- I'm Charleston and I'm a senior at Southern Lehigh High School.

- I'm Daniel and I'm a senior at Whitehall High School.

- I'm Neiv and I'm a freshman at Whitehall High School.

- I'm Nathan and I'm a junior at Whitehall High School.

- I'm Zachary and I'm a junior at Whitehall High School.

- Welcome back.

We'll start the second half with the following toss-up: what novel, in which Jody Starks becomes the Mayor of Eatonville, Florida, centers on a woman named Jane Crawford and is by Zora Neale Hurston?

Southern Lehigh - Their Eyes Were Watching God.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what adjective names the set of punitive laws, including the Quartering Act and Boston Port Act, passed by Parliament following the Boston Tea Party?

- Intolerable Acts.

- intolerable is correct.

Next toss-up: what disease, caused by the destruction of beta cells in the islets of Langerhans, is marked by high blood glucose and is managed with insulin?

Whitehall.

- Diabetes.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Walter and Lewis Alvarez proposed that an asteroid caused the extinction of dinosaurs after discovering a clay-rich layer of what dense metal?

- Iron.

- Incorrect.

Iridium is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what instrument is featured in a B minor concerto by Anton Dvorak and an E minor concert by Edward Elgar and has a name meaning little big viol?

Whitehall.

- The violin.

- Incorrect.

Southern Lehigh?

- The cello.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, actor Joe Manganiello is married to what Colombian-born actress, who is a judge on America's Got Talent and played Gloria on Modern Family?

- Sofia Vergara.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up: what poet, who wrote I do not hope to turn again in Ash Wednesday, depicted women talking of Michelangelo in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?

TS Eliot is the correct answer.

Next toss-up:.

what company, which acquired Warner Media in 2018, includes most of the Baby Bells, is headquartered in Dallas and is the world's largest telecom?

Whitehall.

- Disney.

- Incorrect.

Southern Lehigh?

AT&T is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what beings, who included the three brothers who forged Zeus's thunderbolts and Polyphemus, who ate much of Odysseus's crew, are one-eyed giants?

Whitehall.

- Cyclopses.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what 20th century Roman sculptor made abstract representations of avians in flight in his series Birds in Space?

Constantin Brancusi.

And you can see some of his work at the Philadelphia Modern Art Museum.

Next toss-up.

What poem about a sailor in which a spirit from the land of mist and snow avenges the death of an albatross was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

The correct answer is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Next toss-up.

What city, where Nathan Hale was hanged for espionage, did George Washington evacuate in 1776 after battles at Long Island and Harlem Heights?

Whitehall.

- New York City?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Ernst Chladni is considered the father of what branch of physics, that deals with the propagation of mechanics... ..excuse me, the propagation of mechanical waves, especially sound waves?

- Quantum.

- Incorrect.

Acoustics was the answer we were looking for.

Next toss-up: what type of triangle has exactly one axis of symmetry and has a name meaning same legs in Greek because it has two...?

Whitehall.

- Isosceles?

- That's correct.

An isosceles triangle.

For your bonus, what was the regnal name of the tenth century Holy Roman Emperor who won the Battle of Lechfeld and was nicknamed the Great?

- Pope John?

- You did get in before the buzzer.

Say what you said.

- Pope John.

- That's incorrect.

Otto is the correct answer.

And with that, we are on to our final lightning round of the day.

Southern Lehigh, you get to pick from sports trophies or super.

- We'll take super.

- Super, so that means, Whitehall, you'll be left with sports trophies.

Southern Lehigh, your topic is super.

Given these words, give these words that begin with the prefix super.

Related to the unexplained phenomena such as ghosts.

- Supernatural.

- Correct.

The explosion of a massive star.

- Supernova.

- Correct.

Concept paired with man in George Bernard Shaw's play title.

- Pass.

- A building's resident janitor or a school district administrator.

- Superintendent.

- Correct.

Aspect of the Freudian psyche shaped by societal rules.

- Pass.

- 11 letter adjective describing a person or object as shallow.

- Superficial.

- Correct.

There were 716 of these at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

- Superdelegates.

- Correct.

A material with no electrical resistance.

- Pass.

- An unscientific belief, especially concerning luck.

- Superstition.

- Correct.

67 votes in the Senate.

- Supermajority.

- Sorry.

Got it in.

That was correct, but it was right after the buzzer.

Whitehall, that means you have sports trophies.

Listen carefully to the rules on this one.

Name the sport in which these trophies are awarded.

Note that the answers may be repeated.

And we're looking for the sports, not the league.

The name of the sport, not the league.

Stanley Cup.

- Hockey.

- Correct.

Heisman Trophy.

- Football.

- Correct.

The Green Jacket, given at Augusta National.

- Golf.

- Correct.

The Golden Glove Award.

- Soccer.

- The Concacaf Gold Cup.

- Soccer.

- Correct.

Grey Cup.

- Soccer.

- Incorrect.

The Larry O'Brien Trophy.

- Basketball.

- Correct.

The Davis Cup.

- Baseball.

- Incorrect.

The Commissioner's Trophy and The Warren C. Giles Trophy.

- Football.

- Incorrect.

The.

Harley J. Earl Trophy and previously the Sprint Cup.

- Cross-country.

- That is incorrect.

It's a tough round, but you guys did a nice job.

And just to verify for the answer, you said the Golden Glove award.

I want to check back to see if they said baseball or not.

Did they get the correct answer on that?

They did not.

OK. OK, it's soccer.

Yeah, Gold Glove is awarded for baseball.

OK.

So the score's correct, and g toss-up.

Teams, ready?

What book in which Merriman helps seventh son of a seventh son Will Stanton become Seeker for the Lights is the namesake of a sequence by Susan Cooper?

The Dark Is Rising.

Next toss-up: what man denounced his predecessor's cult of personality in a secret speech he gave after taking power in the Soviet Union upon Joseph Stalin's death?

Whitehall.

- Gorbachev.

- Incorrect.

Southern Lehigh?

- Nikita Khrushchev.

- That is correct.

For your bonus: the songs Let's Stay Together and What's Love Got to Do With It?

appeared on the album Private Dancer by what singer?

- Al Green.

- That's incorrect.

The correct answer is Tina Turner.

Next toss-up: what compound, which contains a porphyrin-like ring coordinated to magnesium, absorbs light energy in photosystem II in plants and is a green pigment?

Southern Lehigh.

- Chlorophyll?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 1965 what Asian city state led by Lee Kuan Yew received independence unwillingly when it was expelled from Malaysia?

- Brunei.

- Incorrect.

Singapore is the answer we were looking for.

Next toss-up: what city, home to St Stephen's Basilica, was formed by an 1873 merger of two cities separated by the Danube and is the capital of Hungary?

Whitehall.

- Budapest.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what composer of the difficult piano piece Gaspard De La Nuit was also the writer of Bolero?

- Romanoff.

- Incorrect.

Maurice Ravel is the answer we were looking for.

Next toss-up: what painter depicted a philosopher drinking hemlock in The Death of Socrates and showed a stabbed revolutionary in a bathtub in The Death Of Marat?

The painter is Jacques-Louis David.

Next toss-up.

What city, where the Shumshu Okin were deposed by an Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal, in 1647 B.C.

was later ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, who built the Hanging Gardens?

Whitehall.

- Babylon.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 2017, Donald Trump appointed what former surgeon and presidential candidate to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

- Ben Carson?

- That's correct.

I actually saw him speak about a decade ago at my sister in law's graduation.

Next toss-up: what quantity, whose gravitational form is mgh... And that is the end of the match.

We had an extremely close match.

Really, really great one for the opening round.

The final score is Whitehall with 255, Southern Lehigh with 240.

Southern Lehigh, thank you very much.

Once again, really great match.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Whitehall, congratulations, You'll be moving on to the next round.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week, when Jim Thorpe faces off against Pen Argyl.

Thank you, all.