Welcome to PBS's 39 Scholastic Scrimmage.

Scholastic Scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS39 and by PPL, Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital.

Now here's your host, David Graf.

- Hello and welcome to the second match of the second round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Lehighton, who had a bye in the first round due to another school's scheduling issue, and Nazareth will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half-time we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better with a question, and they'll get to introduce themselves.

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss-up question.

What word precedes medicine in the title of a Lois Erdrich novel, as well as a song in the title of a poem by J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot?

That word is love.

Next, toss-up question.

What transcendental number is half of tau appears in the formula for the volume of a sphere and is approximated by the fraction 339/108?

Nazareth.

- Pi.

- Pi is correct.

For your bonus... Before becoming president, Harry Truman entered politics in what Missouri city with help from a political machine run by Tom Pendergast?

- Jefferson City.

- That is incorrect.

Kansas City, Missouri is a correct town.

Next toss-up question, What landmark is at the summit of the Auyan-tepui, is named for an aviator and is in eastern Venezuela?

It is also the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall.

Nazareth.

- Angel Falls.

- Angel Falls is correct.

For your bonus... What essay that distinguishes between types of absurd man ends by asserting that one must imagine the title mythological figure happy?

- Sisyphus.

- The myth of Sisyphus is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What play in which Edgar disguises himself as Tom o'Bedlam centers on a ruler who divides his kingdom between his daughters Regan and Goneril?

Nazareth.

- 12th Night.

- That is incorrect.

Still some time for Lehighton but no conferring.

That play is King Lear.

Next toss-up question.

What text, rediscovered on a pillar at Susa in 1901, contains 282 laws following eye-for-an-eye principles... Nazareth.

- Hammurabi's Code.

- That is correct.

The Code of Hammurabi is correct.

For your bonus... What is the name of the British public health care system that was created in 1948 by Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan?

- Medicare.

- Incorrect.

It's the NHS, or National Health System.

Next toss-up question.

What class of molecules helps the body absorb vitamins K, A and D... - Electrolytes?

- Lehighton, that is incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Nazareth.

Iis found in adipose tissue and comes in... Nazareth.

- Lipids.

- Yes, fats or lipids is correct.

It comes in both saturated and unsaturated varieties.

For your bonus...

In Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, rude mechanicals re-enact the tragedy of what youth who has a secret romance with his neighbor Thisbe?

- John.

- Incorrect.

Pyramus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What jazz singer who sang for Chick Webb as a teenager first hit number one on the charts with a A-Tisket, A-Tasket, and was called the First Lady of Song?

That jazz singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

Next toss-up question.

What father of Louis the Pious was crowned emperor of the Romans by Leo III in AD 800 and was King of the Franks and whose name means Charles the Great?

Nazareth.

- Charlemagne.

- Charlemagne is correct.

For your bonus... What is the anatomical name of the socket in the skull within which the eye is located?

- The orbital.

- Yes, the orbital socket or orbit is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What country whose state grid corporation is the world's third largest company byrevenue is the base of Tencent, the Alibaba Group and Huawei?

Nazareth.

- China.

- China is correct.

It is home to all of those companies.

For your bonus...

The Battle of Bloody Run tried to break a siege of Detroit during what anti-British Indigenous rebellion in 1763, named for an Ottowan chief?

- Pontiac's War.

- Pontiac's War is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What bodies which grow in zones of accumulation, carve out land forms aretes and cirques, and can form widespread icesheets?

Nazareth.

- Glaciers.

- That is correct.

It was a very roundabout way to ask what a glacier is, but that is the correct answer.

For your bonus...

In July 2023, what Convention of Christian Churches voted to expel the Saddleback megachurch after it ordained a female pastor?

Excuse me.

This is a bonus for Nazareth.

It would be the Southern Baptist Convention.

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

in a pre-match coin toss, It was determined that Nazareth will get to pick between the following topics - quadrilaterals or musical instruments.

- Quadrilaterals.

- Quadrilaterals it is.

Nazareth - quadrilaterals.

Given that some answers may be repeated, what is the most general type of quadrilateral with these properties?

We're looking for a noun, unless otherwise specified.

All interior angles are right angles.

- Rectangle.

- Correct.

Exactly one pair of sides is parallel.

- Trapezoid.

- Correct.

The rotational symmetry is of order four.

- Square.

- Correct.

All side lengths are equal.

- Rhombus.

- Correct.

An adjective for one for which a circle can be drawn passing through all vertices.

- Inscribed.

- That is incorrect.

Every pair of adjacent interior angles is supplementary.

- Parallelogram.

- That is correct.

The diagonals each bisect the other.

- Parallelogram.

- Correct.

The diagonals are perpendicular.

- Rhombus.

- Incorrect.

The diagonals are each other's perpendicular bisectors.

- Square.

- Incorrect.

That was the rhombus on that one there.

Right.

Great job on a very difficult topic there.

And now we move on to Lehighton with musical instruments.

Get your pencil and a piece of paper out and get ready.

I'll have a few things to list for you for the answer here.

Musical instruments.

Given these musical instruments, identify whether they are percussion, string, wind or electronic instruments.

Note, wind includes both woodwinds and brass instruments.

The timpani.

- Percussion.

- Correct.

Acoustic guitar.

- String - Correct.

Didgeridoo.

- Wind.

- Correct.

Fiddle.

- String - Correct.

Synthesizer.

- Electrical.

- Correct.

Cor anglais.

- Percussion - Incorrect.

Glockenspiel.

- String.

- Incorrect.

Euphonium.

- Wind.

- Correct.

Balalaika.

- Percussion.

- That is incorrect.

Otamatone.

- Electrical.

- That is correct.

I don't know if they're running out of lightning topics or something, but those are both pretty involved.

But nice job by both teams.

And we'll continue on with the following toss-up question, What rate, which is used as an adjustment for real economic stats, is measured by the CPI and is the rate at which the price level of goods rises?

Nazareth.

- Consumer Price Index.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Lehighton.

Lehighton.

- Inflation.

- Inflation is correct, something we're currently experiencing now in the US economy.

For your bonus...

The naive Amelia Sedley and the cunning Becky Sharp are contrasting figures in what 1848 novel without a hero, written by William Makepeace Thackeray?

- Gone With The Wind.

- That is incorrect.

Vanity Fair is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What man, James Madison's second vice president and a Massachusetts governor, named the practice of drawing districts for political advantage?

Nazareth.

- Gerrymandering.

- Er, we... Are we OK with that?

We'll take... What's the man's name is what we're looking for.

That's the practice that was named for him.

- Gerrymand.

- Unfortunately, that is incorrect.

It's Elbridge Gerry.

Next toss-up question.

In 2022, what former finance minister, who founded the centrist party En Marche, defeated Marine Le Pen to win re-election as president of France?

Nazareth.

- Emmanuel Macron.

- Emmanuel Macron is the correct answer.

For your bonus... What term describes events that cannot both occur at the same time, such as tossing heads and tossing tails?

- Independent.

- That is incorrect.

Mutual exclusivity or disjoint would be correct answers.

Next toss-up question.

xxWhat man, who wrote On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres was a Polish scientist who published a heliocentric model of the solar system?

Nazareth.

- Copernicus.

- Nicolaus Copernicus is the correct answer.

For your bonus... What author of the novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, wrote an alternative history of World War II called The Man In The High Castle?

- John.

- That's incorrect.

Philip K Dick, And that was turned into a Netflix series a couple of years ago.

Next toss-up question.

What character who loses his new blue jacket while escaping from Mr McGregor is an animal who raids a garden in a picture book by Beatrix Potter?

Lehighton.

- Peter Rabbit.

- Peter Rabbit is correct.

I thought there must be an anniversary or something.

There was a whole display of Peter Rabbit in Barnes & Noble recently, so something must be going on around an anniversary there.

For your bonus...

In 2023, what Paris-based international agency added to the historic center of... ..added the historic center of Odessa to its World Heritage in Danger list?

- The World Protected Species Agency?

- No, unfortunately.

Good try.

UNESCO is the international agency.

And with that, we have reached half-time.

We have an excellent game under way.

Nazareth currently leads with a score of 130 to Le Highton's 45 points.

We'll take a minute to get to know the students better.

They'll give us their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following - let us know about a favorite hobby or a collection or anything like that that you might have.

So, Lehighton.

Seth, we start with you, - Seth Smith and grade 11 and baseball.

- OK. - Liam Burns, grade 11 and playing saxophone.

- Waylon Bowditch, grade 12 playing guitar.

- OK. - Natalie Blair, grade 11 and playing the piano.

- Alright.

We have a musical group there in Lehighton.

So when I was in high school, I played the trumpet and I still play the electric guitar.

So I think it's a good skill to have, having a little bit of music.

OK, Nazareth.

Patrick, go ahead.

Patrick Piccolo, grade 11, baseball.

- Alright.

Veeran Shaker, grade 11, swimming.

- Alright.

Marcel Puskas, grade ten, swimming.

Alena Gould, grade ten, playing guitar.

- Excellent.

So when they need another person on the Nazareth team, do they just go down to the pool, and be like, "Alright, who's next for Scrimmage?"

It's great to hear from everybody.

And now we'll continue the match with the following toss-up question.

What company, which introduced the x86 architecture and is phasing out its Celeron and Pentium devices, supplies Dell and HP's computer chips.

Nazareth.

- Intel.

- Intel is correct.

I don't know if this is a big deal, but I always remember the Pentium Inside when I was younger.

Big back then, but now long phased out.

For your bonus... Sumio Iijima is often credited with discovering what cylindrical allotrope of carbon known as CNTs, it's notable for its high conductivity and strength?

- Carbon nanotubes.

- Carbon nanotubes is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What home country of author Alice Munro was led in the 20th century by such prime ministers as Lester Pearson and is governed from Ottawa?

Nazareth.

- Canada.

- Canada is correct.

For your bonus... Reoccurring character Nathan Zuckerman appears in the novels of what Jewish-American author who wrote Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain?

- Hemingway.

- Incorrect.

Philip Roth is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What planet, whose atmosphere has clouds made of sulfuric acid, is home... Nazareth.

- Venus.

- That is correct.

And it is the second planet from the sun.

For your bonus... Marpsi was a progressive political party in what country whose first prime minister was David Ben-Gurion?

- The Congo.

- Incorrect.

Israel is the country.

Next toss-up question.

What composer, whose opera La Cenerentola adapts the story of Cinderella, depicted a hero who shoots an apple off his son's head in William Tell?

That would be Gioachino Rossini is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What title character confronts 300 wolves in the Pyrenees with help from his servant Friday and is stranded on an island in a novel by Daniel Defoe?

Robinson Crusoe is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What kind of structures in early America included the Middlesex one ending in Boston and another dubbed Clinton's Ditch in New York... Nazareth.

- Canals.

- That is correct.

And Erie would have completed the question.

For your bonus... What Soviet author drew on his experiences as a political prisoner to conduct an experiment in literary investigation titled The Gulag Archipelago?

- Volkanovski.

- Incorrect.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What city contains the Vigeland Installation, Frogner Park,, hosts the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize and is the capital of Norway?

Nazareth.

- Stockholm.

- That is incorrect.

We'll go over to Lehighton.

- Oslo.

- Go ahead.

Buz in again.

Go ahead.

- Oslo.

- Oslo is correct, Seth.

For your bonus... What flowers in a in a certain Giverny garden were depicted in approximately 250 paintings by Claude Monet?

- Roses.

- That's incorrect.

Water lilies is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What sculptor created The Big Sail, a monumental sculpture on the campus of MIT, and many hanging kinetic sculptures that were dubbed mobiles?

I'll go into any modern art museum and inevitably they have an Alexander Calder mobile hanging.

Next toss-up question.

What element, which is the second lightest chalcogen, ordinarily exists as a yellow solid and forms compounds... Lehighton.

- Sulfur.

- Sulfur is correct.

It forms compounds that smell like rotten eggs.

For your bonus... What term for an Ancient Greek heavy infantry unit also names the bones found in human fingers and toes?

- Phalanges.

- Close.

Phalanxes is the correct answer.

Will we take that?

Oh, all right.

Yeah.

Judges looking in at phalanges.

We'll take it.

Nice job, Lehighton.

Phalanxes or phalanges.

And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.

In this lightning round, Lehighton, you will get to pick between the following topics - A, R, M, or B, E, N. Not much to go on.

One or the other.

- We'll take A, R, M. - A, R, M. Alright.

Lehighton, your topic is A, R, M. Give these terms beginning with the consecutive letters A, R, M. End of the world.

- Armageddon.

- Correct.

Area directly under the shoulder joint.

- Armpit.

- Correct.

Formal agreement to end combat.

- Armistice.

- Correct.

Large naval fleet such as one sent by Spain against England.

- Armada.

- Correct.

Country in the Caucasus whose capital is Yerevan.

- Armenia.

- Correct.

Mammal that rolls up into a ball when threatened.

- Armadillo.

- Correct.

Location where weapons are stored.

- Armory.

- Correct.

Lluxury fashion house known for its suits.

- Armani.

- Correct.

A standing clothes closet.

- Armoire.

- Correct.

Surname of astronaut Neil and cyclist Lance.

- Armstrong.

- That is correct.

I think you guys swept the category.

Great job.

So, Nazareth, that leaves you with B, E, N. Give these letters that begin... Give these answers that begin with the consecutive letters B, E, N. Seat for two or more people often found in parks.

- Bench.

- Correct.

Jacob's youngest son in the Old Testament.

Ben... Ni... - Benjamin.

- Benjamin is correct.

Papal name of the pope who abdicated in 2013.

- Benedict.

- Correct.

Region of eastern India, north of a namesake bay.

- Bengal.

- Correct.

Hydrocarbon found in petroleum with formula C6H6.

- Pass.

Japanese single portion takeaway meal.

- Bento.

- Correct.

African country between Togo and Nigeria.

- Benin.

- Correct.

Harmless, like a non-cancerous tumor.

- Benign.

- Correct.

1959 epic religious film starring Charlton Heston.

- Ben-Hur.

- Correct.

Libyan seaport where US diplomats... - Benghazi.

- ..were attacked in 20... - Benghazi.

- Benghazi is correct.

Great lightning rounds for both teams With those rather random topics of A, R, M and B, E, N. Now we'll conclude the match with the following toss-up to start the final quarter.

What film, whose title object is the real life Antikythera mechanism is the fifth about a whip-wielding archaeologist played by Harrison Ford?

- Indiana Jones.

- That is... Will we take that We need more.

the actual... the full film name.

- And The Dial Of Time.

- That is unfortunately incorrect.

Over to Lehighton.

- The Golden Compass.

- That is also incorrect.

Do you know it now?

- Dial Of Destiny - THe Dial Of Destiny it is.

But unfortunately, we can't give it to you.

Next toss-up.

what country was led by Liaquat Ali Khan and Muhammad Ali Jinnah after its split apart from India during the process of partition... Nazareth.

- Pakistan.

- Pakistan is correct.

And it was during the process of partition in 1947.

For your bonus... What American explorer led an expedition across the south-west portion of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806 and is a namesake of a mountain in Colorado?

I'll go to the captain.

- Pike.

- Pike is correct for Zebulon Pike.

Next toss-up question.

What story in which a cab ride after a ball leads to poverty for Mademoiselle Loisel was written by Guy eu Maupassant about the loss of borrowed jewelry?

Nazareth.

- Diamond Necklace.

- The Diamond Necklace is correct, or The Necklace was also acceptable.

For your bonus... What Italian-American family's prominent auto racers include Indy car champion Michael and the 1978 Formula 1 world champion Mario?

- Ferrari.

- That is incorrect.

It's the Andretti family.

And they actually are based out of Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

So you guys may live right near them.

Next, toss-up question.

What river, which is formed by the Coosa and the Tallapoosa Rivers, flows under the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and shares its name with a state?

- Mississippi.

- Lehighton.

- Mississippi.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Nazareth.

Go ahead.

- Missouri.

- That is also incorrect.

It's the Alabama River is the correct answer.

Next, toss-up.

In what battle known as Operation Detachment did US troops take Mount Suribachi as shown in Joe Rosenthal's photograph of soldiers raising a flag?

Nazareth.

- Battle of Iwo Jima.

- The Battle of Iwo Jima is correct.

For your bonus... What hard to apply in practice...

While hard to apply in practice, what thermodynamic cycle named for a French scientist is the most efficient heat engine between two reservoirs?

- Bernoulli engine.

- That is incorrect.

It would be a Carnot cycle would be the correct answer.

The next toss-up question.

What novel, in which Mr Carmichael takes Absalom's case pro deo and Stephen Kumalo attempts to fix his village in South Africa, is by Alan Paton?

The correct answer is Cry, The Beloved Country.

Next toss-up question.

What musical, which includes the songs Dancing Through Life and Defying Gravity, focuses on the relationship... - Wicked.

- Lehighton.

- Wicked.

- Wicked is correct.

For your bonus... What mythical figures who were given wings by Demeter to help find Persephone lure sailors to their deaths with enchanting songs?

- Sirens.

- Sirens is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What compound known in antiquity as the spirit of Saturn is the simplest ketone and is a common organic solvent found in most nail polish removers?

Nazareth.

- Acetone.

- Acetone is correct.

For your bonus...

Which Italian city named a meat sauce containing white wine, milk, onion, celery and carrot, used in tagliatelle and lasagne?

- Bolognese.

- Yeah, Bologna or bolognese is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What man, whose supporters clashed near Ezeiza Airport, was succeeded by his third wife, Isabel, as president of Argentina and was married to Evita?

And with that, we've reached the end of the match.

The answer to that question was Juan Peron.

Lehighton, unfortunately, with 135 points, it's the end of the road.

Thank you for joining us this season.

Nazareth, with 275 points, You're on to the third round.

And thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week when Northwestern Lehigh faces off against Emmaus.