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of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This year's Scrimmage will look a little 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 today's matchup, that features Moravian Academy vs Bethlehem Catholic.

The match will feature two halves with a lightning round mid-way through each half.

At half-time, we'll 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.

On to our first toss-up.

What genre of musical works include Edward Elgar's Pomp And Circumstance and the Stars And Stripes Forever by their namesake King John Philip Sousa?

- Becahi.

- Marches.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what general led the defeat of Spartacus's revolt and died in 53BC.

at Carrhae after forming the first triumvirate with Pompey and Julius Caesar?

- Octavius.

- Incorrect.

Crassus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What abolitionist who was the running mate of Victoria Woodhull in 1870 escaped from slavery in Maryland?

Moravian.

- Frederick Douglass.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, most modern research telescopes are what general type of telescope created by Isaac Newton, which relies on mirrors rather than lenses?

- Optical telescopes.

- Incorrect.

Reflecting telescopes is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What novel by Upton Sinclair, which helped... Moravian.

- The Jungle.

- That is correct.

..which helped inspire the Pure Food and Drug Act?

We were saying with the judges that is the only Upton Sinclair novel we've also read.

All right, and on to your bonus.

The so-called shadow docket is sometimes used by what group, whose current members include Stephen Breyer?

- The Supreme Court.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What physicist, who shared a Nobel Prize with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger, depicted particle interactions in his namesake... Moravian.

- Feynman.

- That's correct.

..in his namesake diagrams?

Feynman diagrams.

For your bonus, what dictator of Chile took power in a 1973 coup and remained in power until stepping down in 1990?

- Augusto Pinochet.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What general, who chaired America's Promise and led the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993, was the first... Moravian.

- Colin Powell.

- That's correct.

He was the first African-American secretary of state.

For your bonus, what German physicist, who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves, is the namesake of a unit of frequency?

- Hertz.

- That's correct.

Heinrich Hertz is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In what book by Plato, in which Tharassacas offers a - excuse me - Thrasymachus offers a definition of justice, describes an ideal city state ruled.... Moravian.

- Republic.

- That is correct.

The Republic.

For your bonus, what state is home to the financial... ..the fictional town of Forks.

the setting of the Twilight films?

- Washington.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What Chinese city is the origin of hot, dry noodles, is the capital city of Hubei province... Moravian.

- Qiang.

- Incorrect.

I'll finish for Bethlehem Catholic.

..and saw the first identified cases of COVID.

Bethlehem.

- Wuhan.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great shares her name with what island in the South Atlantic, where Napoleon spent his final years in exile?

Helena.

Judges?

Yes, St Helena is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What principle, which explains the lift of airplane wings... Moravian.

- Bernouilli's Principle.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what geological period from 145 to 66 million years ago is named for its abundant chalk deposits?

- Carboniferous.

- That's incorrect.

It's the Cretaceous period, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What title character is protected by the bodyguard Domovoi Roy Butler and abducted the Elf police officer Holly Short in a young adult book by Eoin Colfer?

Moravian.

- Artemis Fowl.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what peasant who serves as Don Quixote's squire rides a donkey called Dapple and often quotes Spanish proverbs?

- Sancho.

- Sancho Panza is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What world leader who leads the En Marche party and defeated Marine... Moravian.

- Macron?

- That's correct.

He defeated Marine Le Pen in a 2017 runoff election.

For your bonus, what seer was the daughter of Priam, cursed to have her prophecies never be believed?

- The Oracle at Delphi.

- Incorrect.

Cassandra's the correct answer.

I heard someone say it starts with C. Someone was close over there.

Next toss-up.

What disaster, whose clean-up made use of bio-robots, caused thousands of cancer deaths... Moravian.

- The Bhopal gas disaster.

- Incorrect.

I'll finish for Bethlehem Catholic.

..after a 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant?

Becahi.

- Chernobyl.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what vice president under Gerald Ford also served as governor of New York and was the grandson of an oil billionaire?

- Rockefeller.

- That is correct.

Nelson Rockefeller is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What taxometric class that includes invertebrates such as cuttlefish and squid has a name that comes from the Greek words for head and... Becahi.

- Cephalopod.

- That's correct.

..for head and foot?

for your bonus, the 2020 wildfires in California led to highly elevated levels of what volatile organic compound, a carcinogen with the molecular formula C6H6?

- Carbon hexane.

- Incorrect.

Benzene is the correct answer.

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

In the pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Bethlehem Catholic will pick first from the topics of trees or deserts.

- Deserts.

- Deserts.

That means, Moravian, you'll have trees.

Bethlehem Catholic.

Deserts.

What desert is the largest in Africa?

- Sahara.

- Correct.

Is named for the continent at the South Pole?

- Antarctica.

- Yes, correct.

Is the name of the peninsula that includes Yemen?

- Arabian.

- Correct.

Covers much of southern Mongolia?

- Gobi.

- Correct.

Covers most of Botswana?

- Sahara.

- Incorrect.

Is the world's driest non-polar desert and is centered in northern Chile?

- Andes.

- Incorrect.

Is home to Death Valley?

- Mojave.

- Correct.

Is named for the Mexican state west of Chihuahua?

- Monterey.

- Incorrect.

is in northern Arizona and named for its bright colors?

- Serero.

- Incorrect.

is the site of Beersheba in Israel?

And that is the end of that topic.

We now move on to trees for Moravian.

Moravian.

Trees.

Answer the following about trees.

Elongated stem of a tree?

- Trunk.

- Correct.

Adjective for trees that shed their leaves?

- Deciduous.

- Correct.

Buoyant material made from the bark of a type of oak?

- Pass.

Tree providing most of a koala's diet?

- Eucalyptus.

- Correct.

Clade of plants with enclosed seeds, including most trees?

- Angiosperms.

- Correct.

Tree name that can be preceded by Fraser or Douglas?

- Fir.

- Correct.

Uppermost layer of a forest formed by tree crown?

- Canopy.

- Correct.

Biome, also called the boreal forest?

- Taiga.

- Correct Tree that aspirin is derived from?

- Cedar.

- Incorrect.

Method of dating trees, using the rings?

- Dendrochronology.

- That is correct.

Do we have a dendrochronologist there?

- We do not, no!

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

In what open world game series can a player fight the Mystic Dawn cult and become the hero of Kvatch... Becahi.

- Elder Scrolls.

- That's correct.

They're in the entry which precedes Skyrim.

For your bonus, what city, one of the ten most populous cities in the United States, is served by airports named for William P Hobby and George HW Bush?

- Houston.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What monarch, who founded the Royal Academy of the Arts, may have suffered from porphyria or... Moravian.

- George III.

- That is correct.

..or dementia, and he ruled Britain during the American Revolution?

For your bonus, what type of graduated glass tube with a stopcock on one end is often used during titration?

- Burette.

- Burette is correct.

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

What is the measure in degrees of the third angle of a triangle whose other two angles measure 62 degrees and 45 degrees?

Moravian.

- 73.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what ancient Greek dramatist wrote about parents who decided to kill their own children in his play Iphigenia - excuse me - in his play Iphigenia In Aulis And Medea?

- Euripides - Euripides is correct.

Next toss-up.

What author wrote 54 novels in the Extraordinary Voyages series, including one about Phileas Fogg's circumnavigation around the world in 80 days?

Moravian.

- Jules Verne.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in August 2021, thousands of Afghan refugees were temporarily flown to what country on the Arabian Peninsula that is home to Al Jazeera?

- United Arab Emirates.

- Incorrect.

Qatar is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In what state in which Hurricane Henry made landfall in 2021 is led by Governor Dan McKee and is a New England state governed from Providence?

Moravian.

- Rhode Island.

- That's right.

Providence should give it away there for everybody.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready in terms of pi.

what is the volume of a cylinder with a height of ten centimeters and a radius of five centimeters?

- 250 pi?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What acid, which is combined in nitric acid in aqua regina... Moravian.

- Hydrochloric acid.

- That is correct.

..as a strong binary acid produced in the stomach?

I don't have to read the molecular form.

You have it already for your bonus, what name was shared by Robert Scott's 1901 Arctic expedition and the companion ship to the HMS Resolution on James Cook's final Pacific voyage?

- Discovery.

- That is correct.

Excellent match under way.

Moravian has 290 points to Bethlehem Catholic's 120.

And now, prior to the match, to aid with social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves and tell us what they plan to study in college.

And now let's meet our contestants.

Hi, my name is Aidan.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic High School.

I plan on majoring in history at Boston College.

Hi, my name is Evan.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic.

I plan on majoring in biological science.

Hi, I'm Noah.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic, and I plan to pursue a career in finance.

Hi, my name is Brett.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic, and I plan on pursuing audio engineering technology at a four year college.

Hi, I'm Yiyi.

I'm a senior at Moravian Academy and I plan on studying scientology.

Hi, my name is Samit.

I'm a senior at Moravian Academy, and in college I plan on studying alchemy.

Hi, I'm Divik.

In college I hope to study astrology.

Hi, I'm Eric Jackson.

I'm a senior at Moravian Academy, and in college I plan on studying philosophy.

And we're back.

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

What senator, nicknamed the Little Giant, articulated his Freeport doctrine on slavery... Moravian.

- Stephen Douglas.

- That's correct.

..during his 1858 debate with Abraham Lincoln?

For your bonus, the phrase Oh, my glob is often said by what princess from Adventure Time who resembles a purple cloud and is known by the name of her home dimension?

- Lumpy Space Princess.

- That is correct.

I literally have no idea what I said in that question, but I'm glad you understood it.

Next toss-up.

What term that is used for an association of 53 nations, mostly former British colonies, is used... Moravian.

- OPEC.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for Becahi.

..is used in the official name of the State of Pennsylvania?

- Becahi.

- Commonwealth of Nations.

Yes, Commonwealth or Commonwealth of Nations is correct.

And for your bonus, what highest point of Turkey, which is visible from neighboring Armenia, was supposedly the resting spot of Noah's Ark?

- Kurdistan.

- Incorrect.

Mount Ararat is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What composer who had an opera house built in Bayreuth wrote the operas Tristan And Isolde and Lohengrin, as well as the 15-hour Ring Cycle?

Moravian.

- Wagner.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what 19th century British poet claimed "heaven lies above us in our infancy" in his ode Intimations Of Immortality?

- Tennyson.

- Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author of the essay collection Notes Of A Native Son wrote... Moravian.

- Richard Wright.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for Becahi.

..Notes Of A Native Son wrote about a teenager from Harlem named John Grimes in his Go Tell It On The Mountain?

James Baldwin is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What monarch, who launched the massacre of Novograd, used the Oprichniks, became the first tsar of Russia in 1547 and... Moravian.

- Ivan the Terrible.

- That is correct.

..and he murdered his own son?

For your bonus, the Treaty of Shimonoseki ended what conflict in which the Meiji Emperor's forces defeated the troops of the Dowager Empress Cixi?

- Boxer Rebellion.

- Incorrect.

It is the first Sino-Japanese War.

All right, on to the next toss-up.

What island, whose country of - excuse me... What island, whose county of Armagh is part of its historical Ulster region and contains a namesake... Moravian.

- Ireland?

- That is correct.

..a namesake northern region that is part of the United Kingdom?

For your bonus, what Philadelphia-based painter depicted anatomists in his paintings the Gross Clinic and the Agnew Clinic?

- Eakins.

- That is correct.

Thomas Eakins is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Hashimoto's and Graves diseases or disorders of what butterfly shaped gland that makes calcitonin and is stimulated by TSH, and... Moravian.

- Thyroid.

- That's correct.

..and is enlarged in the goiter?

For your bonus, the city of Iqaluit is on what Island, which is the largest in Canada - Baffin.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What quarterback ask to run the play Jet Chip Wasp in Super Bowl 54, a long pass to Tyreek Hill... Becahi.

- Patrick Mahomes.

- That is correct.

..who sparked a comeback for the Kansas City Chiefs.

For your bonus, about 150 species of vipers are named for what heat-sensing organ in their heads?

- Neck.

- Incorrect.

Pits.

Next toss-up.

What state is home to the US Air Force Academy, as well... Becahi.

- Colorado.

- That is correct.

..as well as the state university campus based in Boulder, which is about 25 miles northwest of Denver.

For your bonus, what author wrote about the siege of Torquilstone Castle in a novel about a disinherited medieval knight titled Ivanhoe?

- Tolkien.

- Incorrect.

Sir Walter Scott is the correct answer.

On to the next toss-up.

What country where the Plague is set in Oran was the birth country of Albert Camus?

Moravian.

- Algeria.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Brown vs Board overturned what 1896 Supreme Court case about segregated trains that gave rise to the doctrine of separate but equal?

- Plessy vs Ferguson.

- That is correct.

And with that, we're on to our second lightning round.

Moravian, you'll get to pick between national soccer teams or maps.

- Maps.

- Maps.

That means, Becahi, you'll be left with national soccer teams.

Moravian for maps.

Answer the following about maps.

Term for a collection of maps?

- Atlas.

- Correct Term for map maker?

- Cartographer.

- Correct.

Transit system nicknamed the tube with an iconic map?

- The London Underground.

- Correct.

Government Organization, whose World Factbook includes maps?

- National Geographic.

- Incorrect.

Line that joins points of equal elevation?

- Topographical map.

- Incorrect.

Any method of flattening the globe's surface into two dimensions?

- Projection - Correct.

Nickelodeon Explorer with a map and a talking backpack?

- Dora the Explorer.

- Correct.

Representation of the cardinal directions named for a flower?

- Fleur de Lis.

- Incorrect.

Map within another map?

- Pass.

- Indie band led by Karen O with the hit Maps?

- Coldplay.

- Incorrect.

One of my favorite bands.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

All right.

Bethlehem Catholic.

That leaves you with national soccer teams.

Given the name of a national football team, name the country the team represents.

The Socceroos?

- Australia.

- Correct.

Die Mannschaft, meaning the team?

- Germany.

- Correct.

Le Bleus, meaning the Blues?

- France.

- Correct.

The pharaohs?

- Egypt.

- Correct.

El Tri?

- Spain.

- Incorrect.

The All Whites as opposed to the rugby team the All Blacks?

- New Zealand.

- Correct.

Albiceleste, meaning the white and sky blue?

- Greece.

- Incorrect.

Selacao, meaning the team?

Selecao - excuse me - meaning the team?

- Italy.

- Incorrect.

Blagult, meaning the blue and yellow?

- Ukraine.

- Incorrect.

Strakarnir okkar, meaning our boys?

That one was Iceland.

Had a great run in the Euro Championship a couple of years ago.

All right, and we'll continue on with the match with this following toss-up.

What dynasty lost northern China to the Jin Dynasty, beginning its southern period, and was later conquered by the Mongol-led... Moravian.

- Song.

- That is correct.

..by the Yuan Dynasty?

For your bonus, Felix Del Rey is credited with discovering what virus that can infect and kill bacteria?

What viruses?

Plural.

- Bacteriophages.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What home country of the sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore is home to a granite and bronze monument called Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square?

Moravian.

- England.

- That is correct.

England or the United Kingdom.

For your bonus, what Jewish holiday which people eat triangular pastries called hamantaschen celebrates the biblical story of Esther?

- Rosh Hashanah.

- Incorrect.

Purim is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What character meets Aristotle's ghost in Glubbdubdrib after leaving the flying island of Laputa in a Jonathan Swift novel... Moravian.

- Gulliver.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" are the final words of what character in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire?

- Blanche Dubois.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What conic section inspired the names of the most common class of galaxy and, according to Kepler's... Moravian.

- Ellipse.

- That is correct.

..is the shape of planetary orbits?

For your bonus, the NBA's top shot digital cards use what blockchain based technology that provides tradable digital receipts of ownership?

- Ledger.

- Incorrect.

It's NFTs or nonfungible tokens, which do use the ledger to verify their authenticity.

All right, on to the next toss-up.

What concept for which Robert Sternberg proposed triadic or three form theory can be measured on tests such as the Stanford-Binet IQ test?

Moravian.

- Intelligence?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Albert Sidney Johnston was killed in what 1862 battle in which Ulysses S Grant's Union Army defeated a bloody... ..defeated a bloody Confederate attack in Tennessee?

- Battle of Shiloh.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

In what state did Randy Feenstra defeat far-right incumbent Steven King in a 2020 primary election?

Moravian.

- Iowa.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what name is shared by a Native American language in the Pacific Northwest, a species of salmon and downslope winds in the Rocky Mountains?

- Lakota.

- Incorrect.

Chinook is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country, home to most of the world's Moru and Dinka people, Is Africa's most recent country to gain independence and is governed... Moravian.

- South Sudan?

- That's correct.

..is governed from Juba?

For your bonus, what transverse body waves, which cannot travel through the Earth's liquid outer core, arrive at seismic stations after P waves?

- S waves.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

The olecranon process and the antecuberal fossa process lie on opposite sides of which joints... ..the antecubital fossa - excuse me - lie at the opposite point of which joint at which the ulna forms a hinge with the humerus in the arm?

Becahi.

- Elbow.

- Correct.

What ten movement suite by Modest Mussorgsky was inspired by a set of artworks by Victor Hartman?

- The New World Symphony.

- Incorrect.

Pictures At An Exhibition is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author portrayed Eustacia's dreary life on Egdon Heath in The Return Of The Native and depicted a Wessex milkmaid in Tess Of The D'Urbervilles?

Moravian, go ahead.

You got in before the buzzer.

- Hardy.

- That's correct.

Thomas Hardy is the correct answer.

No bonus after that.

Excellent game.

Moravian, you're on to the final with a score of 550 points.

Bethlehem Catholic, good luck with the rest of your school year.

Thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when we conclude the fourth round with Parkland versus Emmaus.

Thank you.