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Scholastic Scrimmage: Liberty HS vs. S. Lehigh
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Hello and welcome to the eighth match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
Today's match between Liberty and Southern Lehigh will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.
At halftime, we'll pause so the students can introduce themselves and we'll ask them a question to get to know them 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.
Here's our first toss-up question.
What president was in office during the XYZ Affair, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts and served one term after succeeding George Washington?
Southern Lehigh.
- Jefferson.
- That is incorrect.
Over to Liberty.
No conferring, but this is a freebie now.
Go ahead, Liberty.
- Adams.
- John Adams is correct.
For your bonus, what river receives the Tonle Sap in Phnom Penh, empties into the South China Sea in southern Vietnam?
- Mekong.
- The Mekong River is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What wave property whose square is proportional to its intensity is a wave's maximum displacement or, equivalently, the height of its peaks?
- Southern Lehigh.
- Amplitude.
Amplitude is correct.
For your bonus: What biblical patriarch's sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth?
- Isaac.
- That is incorrect.
Noah is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What woman, whose husband wrote the elegy Adonais, whose mother wrote A Vindication Of Women's Rights, and she herself wrote the novel, the horror novel Frankenstein.
Southern Lehigh.
- Mary Shelley.
- Mary Shelley is correct.
For your bonus, what Italian American physicist lends his name to particles with half integer spins and created the first manmade nuclear chain reaction?
- Quark.
- Incorrect.
Enrico Fermi is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What item was the subject of a 1964 Great Debate that rejected the Pearson Pennant as the Red Ensign's replacement in favor of a maple leaf design?
- Southern Lehigh.
- The Canadian flag.
- That is correct.
The flag of Canada.
For your bonus, Gerald Ford became vice president after what man, a former governor of Maryland, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and resigned in 1973?
- Richard Nixon.
- That's incorrect.
Spiro Agnew is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What material forms due to compression of peat, has subtypes like anthracite... Southern Lehigh?
- Coal.
- That is correct.
And the other subtype is bituminous.
For your bonus, what five-letter term for a covered porch becomes, with the addition of o Kaulua'au, the name of the sixth largest Hawaiian island?
- Oahu.
- Incorrect.
Lanai is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What author faithfully presented a pure woman in an 1891 novel about an English dairy maid who marries Angel Clare titled Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
Thomas Hardy is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What book set at the house of Cephalus tells the story of the Ring of Ganges, describes the Allegory of the Cave and was written by Plato?
That would be The Republic.
Next toss-up question we have.
What country where the Partisans fought Nazi occupiers under Josip Tito split in the early 1990s...?
Liberty.
- Yugoslavia.
- Yugoslavia is correct.
It split into smaller countries to form such as Croatia and Serbia.
For your bonus, Richard Francis Burton distinguished himself as a Muslim to enter what city where he performed the tawaf ritual of walking around the Kaaba?
- Mecca.
- Let the captain answer.
- Mecca.
- Mecca is the correct answer.
The next toss-up is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
How many inches are equivalent to ten yards given that a yard equals three feet and a foot equals 12 inches.
Liberty.
- 360 inches.
- 360 inches is correct.
For your bonus: What element's cation is bonded to HC03, the bicarbonate anion in baking soda?
- Carbon.
- Incorrect.
Sodium is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What alliterative term for a paint made from lime or chalk can refer to a punishment given to Tom Sawyer or an attempt to cover up one's misdeeds?
Whitewashing is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Liberty will get to select first from the following topics.
You could select between Chemical Elements or Railways.
Quickly, Liberty, which topic would you like?
- Elements.
- Elements?
OK. You have Chemical Elements, Liberty, as your topic name.
Name these elements.
Every answer has an atomic symbol that starts with a vowel.
By mass, the primary component of water.
- O.
- That is correct.
And anyone can say it.
Element with atomic number 13 used to make soda cans.
- Aluminum.
- Correct.
Halogen added to salt that the thyroid needs.
- Iodine.
- Correct.
Metal whose sterling alloy is used to make utensils.
- Silver.
- Correct.
The most malleable metal.
- Pass.
- Radioactive element obtained from yellowcake.
- Uranium.
- Correct.
The third most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere.
- Oxygen.
- Incorrect.
Toxic element found below phosphorus on the periodic table.
- Bromine.
- Incorrect.
Transition metal named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
- Tin.
- Incorrect.
Noble Gas named in 2016 for a Russian physicist.
- Pass.
- OK, that was the last one in that round, so we will move over to Southern Lehigh.
Southern Lehigh, your topic is Railways.
Name the country that contains these railways or rail lines.
The Trans-Siberian Railway.
- Russia.
- Correct.
The Shinkansen, or bullet train.
- Japan.
- Correct.
The Indian Pacific, which crosses the Outback.
- Australia.
- Correct.
The TGV high speed rail serving Lyon and Marseille, - France.
- Correct.
The Jungfrau Railway, which ascends the Alps.
- Switzerland?
- That is correct.
The Haramain Railway, connecting Islam's two holiest cities.
- Saudi Arabia.
- That is correct.
The Empire Builder, which uses the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass.
- USA.
- That is correct.
The Afrosiyob, a high speed train between Samarkand and Tashkent.
- Uzbekistan.
- That is correct.
The Train of the Clouds, ascending the Andes in the Salta province.
- Chile.
- That is incorrect.
The highest passenger train in the world over the Tanggula Pass.
- Peru.
- That is incorrect.
The last one was China and the one before that was Argentina.
But otherwise, you guys really know your railways.
Nice job.
OK. We continue on with the following toss-up question.
What author wrote about the death of a Native American named Chingachgook in his novel The Pioneers, which is in his series The Leather Stocking Tales?
That'd be James Fenimore Cooper.
Next toss-up question.
What type of tissue that is rich in mitochondria contains the proteins actin and myosin and is classified as smooth?
Liberty, go ahead.
- Muscle tissue.
- Muscle tissue is correct.
It can be smooth, cardiac or skeletal.
For your bonus, what British scientist's 1801 double slit experiment shows that light could display characteristics of both a wave and a particle?
- Schrodinger.
- Incorrect.
Thomas Young is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What maritime province in Canada includes Cape Breton Island and is to the southeast of New Brunswick?
It also has the Latin name, meaning New... Liberty.
- Nova Scotia.
- That's right.
And it means New Scotland.
For your bonus, what word for a kind of psychological manipulation, taken from the title of a 1944 film, was chosen by Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year in 2022?
- Gaslight.
- Gaslighting is correct.
The next toss-up question.
What man who helped lead a strike against grape growers in Delano, California, worked with Dolores Huerta...?
Liberty.
- Chavez.
- Cesar Chavez is correct.
And they formed the United Farm Workers.
For your bonus, what state whose power grid is largely disconnected from the rest of the continental United States suffered a massive blackout...?
Say it?
- Texas.
- Texas is correct.
And it was in a February 2021 ice storm.
Next toss-up question.
What team won the 1997 and the 2003 World Series, currently stars Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara and plays at Loan...?
Liberty.
- Miami Marlins.
- That is correct.
They play at LoanDepot Park in Southern Florida.
For your bonus, Lake Nasser formed in the 1960s as a result of the construction of what dam along the Nile River?
- Aswan Dam.
- Yeah, we'll take that.
Aswan High Dam is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
The holder of what position outranks the president pro tempore in the US Senate...?
Southern Lehigh.
- Speaker of the House.
- I will continue on.
That is incorrect for Liberty.
..and is first in line to assume the presidency if the president dies?
There is no conferring on that.
Are we going to let them buzz in, judges, on that?
I'm sorry.
You disqualified yourself by conferring on the toss-up.
It was the Vice President of the United States.
On to the next toss-up question.
What author who wrote about a centurion in Violeta and used magical realism in The House of the Spirits is the niece of a former leader of Chile?
The correct answer is Isabel Allende.
And with that, we've reached halftime.
We'll now have the students introduce themselves with their first, last name, grade level and the answer to the following question, if you could visit any country in the world, where would it be?
Neil, Liberty, we'll start with you.
- So I'm Neil Rana.
I'm a senior and if I were able to visit any country, I would visit Australia.
- OK. - I'm Ethan Hawks, I'm a senior, and if I could visit any country, it'd be France.
- Very cool.
- Robert Matthews, I'm a senior, and if I could visit any country, I would visit Japan.
- OK. - I'm Rowan Walters, I'm a senior, and if I could visit anywhere in the world, it would be Switzerland.
All right.
And Southern Lehigh, Kishore, we start with you over there.
- Kishore Butler, I'm in 12th grade and I would visit Italy.
- I'm Owen Cobb, I'm a senior and I'd probably visit Andorra.
- I'm Matthew, I'm a sophomore, and I'd probably visit Liechtenstein.
- I'm Ella Schindler, I'm a junior, and I would visit Japan.
- Great answers.
All right.
We'll continue on with the second half with the following toss-up question.
What 2023 film, which ends with the title pre-teen girl played by Abby Ryder Fortson getting her period, is an adaptation of a Judy Blume novel?
Liberty.
- Turning Red.
- That is incorrect.
The correct answer is... We can still go over to Southern Lehigh.
You still have a little chance.
No conferring.
It is a toss-up.
- Everything Everywhere All At Once.
- It is also incorrect.
The correct answer, the film is, Are You There God?
It's Me, Margaret.
Next toss-up question.
What English king, during whose reign the Trans Atlantic slave trade was banned in the British Empire, ruled during the American War of Independence?
Southern Lehigh.
- King George III.
- George III is correct.
For your bonus: What painting in which a garment shaped like a brain sits behind God and the first human is at the center of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?
- Divine Comedy.
- That is incorrect.
The Creation of Adam is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What European country whose green line buffer zone separates its Turkish and Greek regions is governed... Southern Lehigh?
- Cyprus.
- Cyprus is correct.
Is governed from Nicosia and is a Mediterranean island.
For your bonus, since the death of Elizabeth II, the only reigning queen in Europe is Margrethe II, who has ruled what nation since 1972?
- Liechtenstein.
- That is incorrect.
The country is Denmark.
And I actually got to see and walk through the palace area when I was in Copenhagen earlier this year.
They're very open.
It's interesting.
They're open and not quite so followed after like the British would be after their monarchs and patriarchs.
OK, onto the next toss-up question.
What country's current insurgencies include the Southern Naxalites conflict, as well as fighting in the Arunachal Pradesh and the Assam, far east of Delhi?
Southern Lehigh.
- India.
- India is correct.
For your bonus, a vulpine creature declares the unreachable fruit must be sour in what fable attributed to Aesop?
- A fox.
- That is incorrect.
We need the actual title.
It's The Fox And The Grapes, is the correct title.
Next toss-up question.
What animals, some of which engage in lunge feeding, in which they catch prey with hair-like baleen, are cetaceans that have both blue and sperm...?
Liberty.
- Whales.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what alliterative term denotes a quantity abbreviated K that gives the maximum possible stable population of a species in a given habitat?
- Growth capacity.
- Say it again, captain?
- Growth capacity.
- That's incorrect.
It's the carrying capacity, is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What military installation was surrendered by Major Robert Anderson after a bombardment in South Carolina in 1861 that helped trigger...?
Liberty?
- Fort Sumter.
- That is correct.
It helped trigger the Civil War.
For your bonus, in October 2022, what right wing populist leader succeeded Mario Draghi to become the first female prime minister of Italy?
- Mussolini.
- That is incorrect.
Giorgia Meloni is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What country, whose island of Surtsey emerged from the ocean in 1963, primarily uses geothermal energy and has its capital at Reykjavik.
Southern Lehigh?
- Iceland.
- Iceland is correct.
For your bonus, what French dramatist wrote about the wealthy Orgon, whose wife, Elmire, fends off the advances of the title con artist in the 1664 play Tartuffe?
- Louis.
- Incorrect.
Moliere is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What acid secreted by parietal cells was once known as muriatic acid?
Liberty.
- Pyruvic acid.
- That is correct.
And it's the main component of stomach acid.
For your bonus, an amphoteric compound such as water is one capable of accepting or donating what species?
- Electrons.
- That is incorrect.
It would be a proton, or H+, or a hydrogen ion, would be the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
Members of what art movement included Englishman Alfred Sisley and American Mary Cassatt, as well as Frenchmen Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet?
Southern Lehigh.
- Impressionism.
- Impressionism is correct.
For your bonus: Tyre and Sidon were the leading cities in what ancient civilization of the Eastern Mediterranean that created the first known alphabet?
- Phoenicia.
- Phoenicia is correct.
And with that, we're on to the second lightning round.
Southern Lehigh, you'll get to pick between the following topics, NFL Duos or Chicago.
- NFL Duos.
NFL Duos it is.
Southern Lehigh, NFL Duos is your topic.
Name the NFL team that features these wide receiver/quarterback combinations during the 2022 NFL season.
AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts.
- Eagles.
- Correct.
Cooper Kupp and Matthew Stafford.
- Rams.
- Correct.
Ja'Marr Chase and Joe Burrow.
- Bengals.
- Correct.
Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen.
- Bills.
- Correct.
Jaylen Waddle and Tua Tagovailoa.
- Miami.
- Correct.
DK Metcalf and Geno Smith.
- Seattle.
- Correct.
Courtland Sutton and Russell Wilson.
- Denver Broncos.
- Correct.
Treylon Burks and Ryan Tannehill.
- Tennessee Titans.
- Correct.
Amon-Ra St Brown and Jared Goff.
- Lions.
- That's correct.
Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott.
- Cowboys.
- That is correct.
We have a true NFL fan over there.
Nice job!
Liberty, hopefully you are as lucky with your knowledge here in Chicago.
Answer the following about the city of Chicago.
It is the most populous city in this state.
- Illinois.
- Correct.
The Great Lake in which it lies on?
- Michigan.
- That is correct.
University of Chicago law professor elected President in 2008.
- Barack Obama.
- That is correct.
NFL team that plays at Soldier Field.
- Bears.
- Correct.
Skyscraper that was once the world's tallest building, - Sears.
- That is correct.
Or Willis Tower's also acceptable.
1861 disaster sometime blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
- Fire.
Correct.
Democrat elected the city's mayor in 2023.
- Pass.
- Chicago airport named for a 1942 battle.
- O'Hare.
- Unfortunately, I heard O'Hare before the correct answer of Midway.
Particle accelerator in the Chicago suburbs.
- Fermi Accelerator.
- That is correct.
Hull House co-founder and the first US woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Pass.
- That was the last one.
Jane Addams was the correct answer to that.
So, Liberty, you do know a pretty good deal about Chicago.
OK. We continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.
What poem which includes the line, "I will show you fear "in a handful of dust" in a section titled The Burial of the Dead is by TS Eliot?
Southern Lehigh.
- The Waste Land.
- The Waste Land is correct.
For your bonus, what Englishman claimed that the laurel withers quicker than the rose in To An Athlete Dying Young, a poem from his 1896 collection, A Shropshire Lad?
- John Austin.
- That is incorrect.
The correct answer is AE Housman.
Next toss-up question.
In 2022, what singer became the first to simultaneously hold every slot in the Billboard Top 10, including... Southern Lehigh?
- Taylor Swift.
- Taylor Swift is correct.
and it included a song from her album Midnights.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the volume of a right circular cylinder whose height is five and whose base has a radius of four?
- 80 Pi.
Oh, unfortunately, the buzzer went off right before you answered, but 80 Pi was correct, but unfortunately no credit for the answer.
Next toss-up question.
What public space north of the Areopagus Hill was a market and political gathering place in ancient Athens that now names a fear of open spaces?
Southern Lehigh.
- The Agora.
- Agora is correct.
For your bonus: By capturing Vicksburg and Port Hudson in 1863, Union forces gained control of what waterway that divided the Confederacy?
- Mississippi.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What polygons have shapes that depend only on sidelength, not angles, can be categorized as scalene and have...?
Liberty.
- Triangles.
- Triangles are correct.
And have angles that sum to 180 degrees.
For your bonus, what country to the southwest of Honduras is the only Central American country with no coastline on the Caribbean Sea?
- El Salvador.
- El Salvador is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What novel in which Justin scares the bully Julian was written by RJ Palacio and centers on Auggie Pullman, a boy with... Southern Lehigh.
- Wonder.
Wonder is correct, and he has a craniofacial condition.
For your bonus, what poetic structure is called heroic if it's used in iambic pentameter and generally consists of a pair of rhyming lines?
- Couplets.
- Couplets is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What jazz musician composed the songs A Night in Tunisia and Salt Peanuts, played... Liberty - Dizzy Gillespie.
- Dizzy Gillespie is correct.
And he played a trumpet with an upward bent bell.
For your bonus, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest occurred during the reign of what paramount leader who led China throughout the 1980s?
- Jiang Zemin.
- Incorrect.
Deng Xiaoping is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What state whose Paternal Rights in Education Act, known to its critics as the Don't Say Gay law, is... Southern Lehigh.
- Florida.
- Florida is correct.
And it's led by Governor Ron DeSantis.
For your bonus, what nine-letter name is given to the mixture of proteins and DNA that make up eukaryotic chromosome?
And with that, we've reached the end of a really excellent match.
Southern Lehigh eked it out right at the end with a score of 250 to Liberty's 230 points.
Congratulations to both teams.
I think that was one of the best ones that we had in the first round.
Southern Lehigh, we will see you in the second round.
Liberty, good luck with the rest of your school year.
Thank you for tuning in.
We'll see you next week.
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